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  • KDE's Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI

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  • Does anyone know if there are any plans to port this to raspberry pi?

  • 'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises

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  • The main point is that the disk controller gets exponentially more complicated as capacity increases and that the problem isnt with space for the nand chips bit that the controller would be too power hungry or expensive to manufacture for disks bigger than around 4tb.

  • 'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises

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  • Microsoft to remove the Location History feature in Windows

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  • The Amount of Ads you see won't change, just their relevance to you.

  • [UFO 50] Divers is so much fun

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  • I love that one too! Though my fave is Avianos. I'd love to see a UFO 50 more where they do some follow ups of some of these. Or open up modding or something.

  • Tiling Distro Suggestions

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  • If you like fedora as a base, you can install the Gnome version of fedora and install the Pop Shell. It has autotiling that you can turn on and off while you get used to it if you want. Its what I run on Nobara and it works perfectly fine for me.

    https://support.system76.com/articles/pop-shell/

  • Why are so many leaders in tech evil?

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  • My thought is that these people think that their smarter than everyone else therefore they are justified doing anything they do. On the other hand, anyone with a billion dollars got it by making a whole lot of other people poorer. And they ate neither actually geniuses nor benevolent in any other way.

    The Phillip Morris CEO makes money by hooking people onto something that isn't good for them. Tech CEOs are very seldom any different. Anyone who says otherwise usually has a financial interest in making you believe them.

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    Elon Musk's misleading election claims have accrued 1.2 billion views on X, new analysis says

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  • I read the article but it doesn't mention how they are counting a "view". Obviously most people on Twitter see his posts but there are so many bots on Twitter at this point, how many of those views were just that?

  • The Revenge of the Home Page: As social networks become less reliable distributors of the news, consumers of digital journalism are seeking out an older form of online real estate.

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  • Indeed they are, but every single site wants my email and birthday before I can view content now. I don't knock them for trying to make money from ads but I don't need them selling my email address on the side too.

  • How to move from Windows to Linux?

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  • Maybe not that much more complicated, but it does give a less experienced user a lot more opportunities to make a mistake that could result in data loss or just a computer that suddenly decides not to boot Linux anymore since a Windows update broke grub.

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    Bear Depression Rule

  • How to move from Windows to Linux?

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  • The most important thing to do is backup your data to an external drive. Unless you are planning on dual booting (much more complicated) you will be wiping out the entire drive that has windows on it when you install Linux.

    This guide goes through the whole installation process.

  • Bronze? Loser!

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  • Mine is usually sheer horror at the prospect of getting that far and screwing up on an international stage. Secondhand anxiety is in the red zone.

  • CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed

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  • You're absolutely right. Everyone will be very worried and talk about the importance of security in the enterprise and yada yada yada until a cool new AI spreadsheet software comes out and everybody forgets to even check if their firewall is turned on.

    But with that being said, if you have been looking for a good time to ask for cybersecuity funding at your org, see if you can't lock down 5 years worth of budget while everyone is aware of the risk to their businesses.

  • A little bit of patriotism - as a treat

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  • Id say its more like a brother that I know could be doing better for himself but is instead repeatedly screwing up.

  • Anyone knows of a good software for managing files for 3D printing?

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  • Octoprint is what I use. Slicing is probably the thing it woukd be least good at but all the rest is good. And theres an api to write plugins for if youre into that sort of thing.

  • Is social media fuelling political polarisation?

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  • I agree with you.

    And youre right that the article doesnt focus on the algorithmic hate factory which to me is the main difference between social media and traditional media. For instance, and this is just anecdotal, my grandma who had nothing besides an analog telephone and broadcast tv became just as polarized and angry as someone with social media just by reading and watching Fox news (and eventually OAN and Newsmax) all day. I cant imagine that Facebook would have made it any worse.

    The algorithm is probably accelerating the polarization pipeline, but i guess my point was that social media isnt necessarily doing anything new or distinct. Its doing the same thing Rush Limbaugh was doing on the radio 25 years ago, its just on a new frontier.

    The 24 hour news cycle was already throwing sensational controversial stories up and speculating wildly if not outright lying about to hold on to eyeballs. The longer you watch, the more commercials you see. Etc etc.

    I would love to see a study of social media vs traditional media to see whether the mean time to full polarization changes and if so, how significantly.

    Good Ted talk!

  • Is social media fuelling political polarisation?

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  • Nope not really. People were already mad but its a lot easier to get mad publicly on the internet than in person. But Im sure the same people could get just as angry watching biased news channels but they cant start arguments with anyone in that context.

    And also, don't forget Betteridges Law of Headlines.

  • Linux in the military

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  • I haven't done any work for the military but i can say that all the legacy systems I've worked on were because the specific software they need was written only for Windows 98 and the developer or company that created it is long gone. Keeping it going is a chore but switching to literally anything else is out of the question.

    I could see for military applications that having the known quantity of a working piece of software that isn't changing anymore and can be swapped as an entire unit is an advantage, especially if it doesn't touch the internet in any capacity. But eventually you run out of people who know what to do if any changes need to be made.

  • Android @lemmy.world
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    Does anyone know if theres a way to use 3rd party keyboards on the front screen of the 2023 Motorola Razr?

  • homelab @lemmy.ml
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    Intel ARC GPU in XCPNG Passthrough

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Trouble with Handbrake, PopOS and Accelerated AV1

  • Android @lemdro.id
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    Interested in Hardware Features we want to see

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Youtube Adblock Reckoning as a service problem?

  • Unpopular Opinion @lemmy.world
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    Memory Foam Shoes are Terrible