They’re 100% free in the sense that they don’t ship closed code, ever. That is the goal to attain. However, we’re not there yet. For that, hardware needs to be open. Hardware can’t be as easily be made by a group of volunteers as software. Like at all. To solve this ‘transient’ state, all popular distros allow adding some sort of ‘nonfree’ repo so that, you know, shit can work. For instance, you are free to install Debian and not enable the nonfree repo, which is not enabled by default. You are also free to wonder later why your webcam doesn’t work, you can’t print, your bluetooth headset won’t pair and your fancy gaming GPU outputs 10 FPS @800x600.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anywayEnglish
48·2 days agoExactly, dude is just proving them right that all men are self-important assholes. It’s like a woman going on /r/redpill and telling them they’re just angry, ugly geeks. Not helping. That being said I can’t help but think trying to create a safe space on a public space is never going to really work. I’d see more something like a private matrix space, or even properly authenticated IRC (that’s where I have my safe space about my addiction).
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Elon Musk suggests AI will make work ‘optional’ and money irrelevant
12·2 days agoCoz in his utopia he literally has all the money so it doesn’t matter anymore to the rest of us? I mean, it’s the same guy who just negotiated a $1TB pay package. “Oh money doesn’t matter, don’t worry guys”.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•There should be a "last used combination" faucet handle for sinks so you don't have to balance hot and cold everytime during winter
19·2 days agoIndeed :). That’s what these are.

northernlights@lemmy.todayto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Probably a dumb question, but: do I need to do anything to my media drive when swapping from Windows?
5·3 days agoSo it’s gonna be ntfs so it’s a matter of handling the permissions in fstab. Because it’s not gonna link your user ids from the NTFS files and map them automatically to your UNIX users. So there are options in fstab for that. Easy to look up. For instance maybe your user is ‘user’ so you’re gonna tell fstab to assign everything in a ntfs to partition to ‘user’. Except maybe you have media files served by plex media server running under user ‘plexmediaserver’. This kind of things.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's something which you pay more than "it's worth" for the sake of good quality/experience?
21·4 days agoToilet paper. Having a happy GF and a happy daughter is important.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Cloudflare went down today and took half of the internet with it. How does one company have that much impact? Do you think that's concerning?
11·4 days agoI find it at least concerning for CloudFlare’s change control process. Apparently some new traffic analysis config took half the web? Maybe test things a little more?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Robotics Company Builds Straight-Up TerminatorEnglish
2·4 days agoI mean in this instance, if you look at the thumbnail of the author and then follow his link, he looks not a day over 16.
northernlights@lemmy.todayto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Why did Montreal need to prove that it's a real place? What happened to the people who called it Montimaginary
1·4 days agoRoyal. There’s literally a “Mont Royal” in the middle of the city.
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World News@lemmy.world•In a first, Taiwan to distribute security handbook to all households as China threat risesEnglish
1·4 days agoYeah it’s a bit weird how something so terrible - freaking possible imminent military invasion - is presented in such a cute way.
You can do both gtk and qt with python though.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV StickEnglish
1·5 days agoHopefully nobody tellsl them about plex
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Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV StickEnglish
1·5 days agoGF used to have one, they were $200 in California apparently
Bribes. The answer is most likely bribes.
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•The CEO of the company I work at admitted he doesn't see the benefits of AI
6·11 days agoI’m looking for a job in cybersecurity after being laid off and I had a round of interviews where nobody said ‘AI’. I’m liking that company.
Or setting proper mail support on everything so you get an email with full output whenever something fails. Ubuntu’s postfix doc is really good.

That’s true. For privacy, you need anonymity, and that safe space I use is truly anonymous but as such it as its downsides. As much as we’d love to meet, or organize ourselves into a job seeking network because boy do many of us need it, or simply game online together… we can’t do any of that.