There are so many bad defaults to deal with. For instance I can remove Google Photos and try to communicate with Signal, but when I need to use a group chat which is still in WhatsApp then any photos posted there are probably being auto-uploaded on the recipient’s phone.

Na don’t worry, I raised an issue and the developer confirmed it was a bug, so you did everything right, no need to post the link twice!

I guess it’s still true if you want to get that perfect Arch install, but I’d imagine most people still saying that now had a bad experience many years ago and are unaware of how simple and smooth it can be nowadays.

I was about to say “what article?” because this is just an image post, but then I opened this in the web ui and apparently there’s a linked post that my client isn’t showing!

Exactly, this feels like one of those things you see in politics where someone claims that because one group is slightly bad then they’re just as bad as the incredibly bad obviously evil alternative. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good, and don’t get the doomers drag you down to their level!

CEO being an idiot but not the end of the world that everyone seems to think

Exactly. As I posted on a different thread I’m no fan of Apple but they’re probably one of the few companies with the balls and the sway to tell governments to fuck off, but I’m already worried how many other companies have already rolled over and how many more will if more governments start demanding this shit.

Today me, tomorrow you. Other countries are itching to enforce the same shit, don’t let it happen to you!

I use whatever the machine gives me when I type vi, I assume it’s usually vim

No I meant that it’s reasonable for Debian to have waited a while even though other distros have already dropped support

!cybersecuritymemes@lemmy.world

I’ve tried KDE Plasma Mobile on an old Surface Pro and it seemed to work better than Gnome

Well yeah, isn’t long term support and stability Debian’s whole thing?

Literally my first experience after installing dark reader is that it can’t darken its own add-on page! Seems to be good for other pages so I’ll give it a go for now.

I always found that to be quite hit and miss. Works for plenty but often gives a flash of white before it kicks in and makes enough pages unreadable that I’d rather not bother at all! I’ll give it another go and see if it’s improved though.

What setup do you have that actually sets a dark background everywhere? In my experience there are always plenty of programs and web pages that stay white.

For example, Bluesky. They have an open protocol and (I think) you can easily transfer data between instances. If they start fucking people around, you can just jump to another ATProto app.

I’ve never touched bluesky but everyone on Lemmy seems to be constantly saying that there are no other instances

Where’s the Linux? Is this “Windows Bad” memes?

Saw one earlier today where the “community support” person opened with “please make sure you have applied all Windows updates”. Given that it was a web page issue and I was on my phone I didn’t mark this reply as helpful.

I’ve got a different model but as others have said the linux-surface kernel is key, and their GitHub page has detailed compatibility info and installation instructions. I picked Fedora having never used it before because it was well-supported and I’ve got no complaints.

More critical than distro is desktop environment. A few people were recommending Gnome but they must be a bit out of date now as I didn’t have a great experience; incompatible extensions, missing gestures, and generally a worse feel than Windows! I’ve just installed KDE Plasma Mobile and it’s great, feels more like Android and has way more features.

The linux-surface installation instructions will walk you through this, but I’d just download the Fedora Plasma Mobile spin, put it on a USB drive, boot it to check you like it (though expect that a few things might not work properly until you install the linux-surface kernel), install it (you can dual-boot with Windows if you think you might need it or just replace the whole OS if you’re concerned about space), and then install the kernel.

Happy to try and answer any more questions about installing!