2027 = The Year of the RISC-V Desktop?

I see a lot of people freaking out about this, but adding this as an optional field was the right call.

This way, distros can choose for themselves whether or not they want to use it during account creation.

Whipper snappers… my birthday on Steam is Jan 1st, 1900.

To be clear, I still think the law is dumb and poorly thought-out, but not because it increases surveillance or compromises privacy. It’s just so ridiculously broad and completely ignores the fact that majority of internet queries are server-to-server and aren’t even seen by any user.

What I really don’t get is why there’s no specification of content sensitivity. Isn’t that the entire point of this? Like if the software never accesses any age-restricted data, then it should be categorically excluded from this requirement.

It really feels like the writers of this law never considered the fact that “software” means anything beyond apps from iOS or Android.

Yeah this is a way better alternative and no more invasive than a “I’m over 18” checkbox, it’s just done once on a OS user account rather than on every site.

I think all the age verification bullshit happening elsewhere is making people jump to angry conclusions rather than actually read the law.

EDIT: JFC the straw man arguments on this one are insane. I feel like people are intentionally misunderstanding how this functionality works because they’ve decided to be mad about it in advance.

Yeah, I only didn’t mention this because it’s theoretically possible for Tailscale to discontinue support for that and break compatibility in the clients if they decided they want you using their stuff.

There are self-hosted overlay networks. They may be harder to set up, but you prevent your infrastructure from being reliant on the ticking timebomb that is VC money. I’ve heard about:

• Nebula
• Netbird

But I’m sure there are others.

It’s no secret to regular readers of this newsletter that I’m still an avid Plex user. Despite the numerous privacy concerns, price increases, and recent (confusing) primary domain redirect from plex.tv to watch.plex.tv, I still find the transition to Jellyfin a hard sell given its fragmentation and smattering of third-party clients that are all good* but not really great (oh, and hello to the Lemmy readers who always roast me for this take)*.

Alright, I’ll spare you then. <3

This is a seriously cool plugin though, and I legitimately loved Plexamp. Plex’s decent really sucks for this community.

We are the swarm.

I honestly don’t know where people are getting these Wayland issues. I’m on EndeavorOS with an RTX 3080ti and multiple monitors and it has worked flawlessly for ~2 years now.

Thank you, kernel level anti-cheat, for breaking my toxic addiction to LoL.

My displays are even more stable than Windows now. Wayland allows me to throw around applications to different workspaces and monitors that would have literally crashed if I ALT-TABed on Windows.

Fair enough, though Linux Mint also didn’t really know for sure what that partition was (other than assuming Windows because it was probably NTFS).

Disk partitioning is always a risk if you don’t know what you’re doing (and sometimes even when you do) which is why it’s always good to have backups!

I wouldn’t blame Windows for this one. In this case, this is likely because the Windows partition table wasn’t updated when you changed your C: partition, so Windows legitimately thought there was filesystem corruption because the size didn’t match its partition table.

You should always used the currently installed OS to free up space first, so it’s aware of the change. Then run the installer and install to the free space you made.

Or better yet, use separate physical drives for different OSes.

You say that as if it’s an excuse. No program should ever overwrite an existing filesystem without explicit consent from the user.

Better than Windows just straight up overwriting your Linux boot partition on an update.

Start making room for GitHub.

Don’t podcasts and RSS still rely heavily on XML?

Yes, but having both in place can help mitigate lateral movement risk.

What the fuck are they at changing that.

Ads. These are sponsored results, and they want them to show up first. Sure, you bought to OS (probably), but…