I haven’t tried anything other than KDE plasma, but Niri looked interesting. CachyOS has Limine as a boot manager option, and I liked it

The distro has a lot of desktop environment options in general

https://wiki.cachyos.org/installation/desktop_environments/

CachyOS is pretty popular right now :)

Each instance is run by a different team, often based in different countries and jurisdictions. Day to day, the main differences will be around content policies (moderation, how openly federated it is)

It’s like picking between different email providers, just that all have more or less the same features.

We have these guides too

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/detailed-overview

Even

Some muppets always trying to ice-skate uphill. Or well, ice-skate in general.

Based on the registration applications, I think getting banned is a lot less common than people think. Most people are checking out the fediverse because of other problems on reddit, whether its the ads, bots, monetization related changes, hateful content, privacy concerns, manipulation, trump related concerns, etc

We do get the occasional “I’m here because I got banned”, but the vast majority is “I’m curious about what this place is like”.

Now isn’t hard evidence on its own, but I’d also bet that when the first category joins, they’re often looking for a place to vent about their ban. When the second category joins, they rarely announce their newness.

If there is room, then its easy enough to just say “Excuse me” and scoot past

I read this post as being the case where there isn’t enough room

Certain fingerprint readers and touchscreens

ex. Goodix

It’s not the fault of Linux, it’s the hardware manufacturers. Still, you need to consider it before buying the device

I think this is a microphone with noise isolation, rather than noise cancelation from speakers.

I think the disagreement or misunderstanding comes from the premise

If we had a different world where it was impossible to lie or hide anything, then a lot of our current problems would be gone. Meanwhile a lot of new problems might come up

In this world, if you can’t enforce that everyone stays completely open and honest, then it is in everyone’s best interest to keep certain pieces of information private

We do, but it’s a lot easier to have a personal device that you can bring into lectures and labs, and then take home with you.

With some classes, it is expected that you have a personal device. There are laptops that you can borrow, but again you need to go in to borrow and return it each day and download/upload your files each time.

IMO what we need is a student society Linux user group that advocates for classes to drop bad software and confirms that a particular class is ok. This would help non-linux users too since some of the windows-macos-only software is straight up spyware.

I do not and so I shouldn’t be one to judge

Is it data that could be recovered if needed? That’s where my concern is coming from. Not being able to back it up to fix OS issues might mean that you can’t back it up at all

username: otter password: the name of my favorite rock

I also have 2FA set up, let me know if you need that one

That sounds like a problem that you should deal with even if you stay on Windows 😄 Maybe I just enjoy organizing things

I had the same problem when I was in university. My concern with dual booting was if something went wrong, such as a bad windows update borking the bootloader. I didn’t have easy access to a second device and I couldn’t afford downtime during the term. There are also issues around clock sync or bios updates, and if you NEED windows for one course then its a pain to switch back and forth all day. Finally there are the unknown unknowns, I was new to Linux at the time and didn’t know what could go wrong.

I made do with WSL and switched over when I graduated. Looking back, I probably could have switched much sooner, but I get the concern

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-spirit

Its an umbrella term that is more common in North America

Two-spirit (also known as two spirit or occasionally twospirited,[a] or abbreviated as 2S,[b] especially in Canada) is a contemporary pan-Indian umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe Native people who fulfill a traditional third-gender (or other gender-variant) social role in their communities.[2][3][4][5]

I meant in the case of the capybara

This crowd naming situation ended up on the same name as that one

I think this is still in line with the other commenters, since the main point was to go through a doctor for it. The doctor could figure out if stimulants would help, as opposed to other underlying issues like anemia

the ship was named the RRS Sir David Attenborough

Well that is a fun coincidence

Isn’t this pretty normal? World leaders give ceremonial gifts all the time, and its usually to the office rather than the individual

In Canada’s case

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-recep-tayyip-erdogan-nato-summit-gun-9.7264610

According to Global Affairs Canada, “all official gifts are handled in accordance with applicable Canadian laws, security requirements and government policies.”

Carney said the RCMP deactivated the revolver, meaning it is no longer able to fire live ammunition.

“The next thing that went through my mind is this is something for the war museum or a CAF museum or something like that,” Carney said. “It’s interesting and it relates to NATO and the bigger picture,” Carney said.

“We’re going to find the best home for it.”

Well fix as in, don’t give the LLM access to private repos in the first place.

But that would require Microsoft to admit that they were wrong