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solomonschuler@lemmy.zipto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why isint lemmy more popular?
0·4 months ago"Because I fucking hate my privacy, and Lemmy and other FOSS media platforms is like veggies on my dinner plate – I don’t want it.
I want people to know when I get my first boner, when I inevitably kick the bucket, and when i announce I got a new position (while users on the platform give context that I was hard the entire interview process). Because why celebrate with family and friends when I got the whole internets asshole comments to read and respond to."
This is my delusional interpretation of why users don’t join Lemmy.
solomonschuler@lemmy.zipto
memes@lemmy.world•don't expect consistency in an inconsistent world
0·4 months agoOh trust me everything is predictable… At least in the US it is. Just look at openAI, they can somehow continue to manipulate the stock market in their favor by simply saying something related to “AI advancements”
No, just no. x is the variable for depth, y is the variable for width, and z is height. I learned that from multivariable calculus, no other convention is better.
Fuck you for showing me this, I’m now going to gauge my eyes out.
What does a Jewish president have to do with fascism?
solomonschuler@lemmy.zipto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Best WhatsApp alternative for my mother who dislikes its design?
0·4 months agoI’ve been using delta chat for about a year now and I will say I really do like it compared to signal.
For one thing, email encryption (yes the fucking bedbug of the internet) is being used here, it’s decentralized, and just recently (on android) they’ve added phone calling functionality… fucking phone calling functionality on email encryption.
I’ll say signal isn’t any safer (in terms of privacy and security) than WhatsApp, and i had a revelation that all centralized messaging services aren’t any better than WhatsApp even the proclaimed privacy focused ones. I have two reasons for this: 1.) They have the option to flick a switch and monetize their entire platform, that includes selling data to data brokers and other individuals. 2.) Because it is centralized it’s easier for hackers to breach and easier for governments to get user data.
I’m not saying that signal is monetizing their platform, but compared to their decentralized counterparts, they have the option to do so. Delta chat requires building a new messaging service from the ground up, if they wanted to monetize.
My only complaint is, since it is on email encryption, I can’t receive SMS messages, so everyone would have to transition to delta chat (atleast if you plan to use a chatmail) to get the same network as before. You can also create an account using your personal email and send messages via email.
solomonschuler@lemmy.zipto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If dark matter doesn't emit, absorb, or reflect light, what happens when light hits it?
0·4 months agoDark matter isn’t matter, I know shitty name to call something “matter” that isn’t matter, Dark matter is a force. The most common example where dark matter shows up is in astronomy, where galaxy positions aren’t where we calculated them to be, hence there is some external force that is being applied, that we don’t know and haven’t found a way to take into account. I guess we call it “dark matter” instead of “dark force” is because for a force to be applied there must be some mass. Still i think it’s illogical to assume that dark matter is a matter, because we don’t know what force is exerting on it. For all we know it could be the accumulation of other galaxies applying a force on the observed galaxy that we’re simply not taking into account.
solomonschuler@lemmy.zipto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Is there a software for Linux to make "Windows to Go" external SSD like you can with Rufus on windows?
0·4 months agoIf the proprietary CAD software is only offered on windows, You could always go with wine and install the application through that. Wine works well with most windows applications, only a few of them like proton drive is a bastard to install.
solomonschuler@lemmy.zipto
Linux@lemmy.ml•What are the options if my country makes VPN's illegal?
0·4 months agoTo clarify, as in setting a 1 billion dollar defense budget to traffic people into their head and tail relays in tor. But no government has had their head further up their ass to do such a batshit crazy thing.
I’ve personally started using KDE plasma shell version of fedora, its as close to being windows (in terms of technical functionality) without actually being windows. On top of this you have the fedora community, and in a time where access of information has gone to shit, you can be rest assured that someone will get to your question or you’ll find an answer to a question you may have on fedora.
solomonschuler@lemmy.zipto
Games@lemmy.world•Gaming Laptop with Linux Preinstalled and 32GB+ RAM?English
0·4 months agoI would say I’m fine supporting Microsoft by buying their laptops, I just don’t want it to be surveiled and capitalized off of through spyware in the OS. I suggest going used instead of new, reason being, you can get really good specs that makes the license practically free. My current laptop is a thinkpad E14, the previous owner loaded it with 40 GB of ram and a 1tb ssd with a ryzen 7 7730. I paid $400 for that machine. If you don’t mind going used with slightly older specs, maybe a haircrack or two, the payout is worth it.
I got a thinkpad E14 off of eBay for $400. There was a slight haircrack in the hinge, but it came with 40gb of ram 1tb ssd and amd ryzen 7730u I believe. I always recommend looking on eBay first, it’s likely you can find a $1000+ laptop for $400 like I did.
Yea, I had a server with a nvidia GPU that was orginially on windows. I went with ubuntu, and the installed nvidia driver (when ubuntu asked to install any drivers) gave a horrendous aspect ratio that didn’t fill up the entire screen. I had to uninstall the driver to get it to work.
Came from windows laptop that I got about a year ago, before then I was running unironically chrome os. I liked chrome os for it’s Linux features. So when I did go from my Chromebook to a windows, it wasn’t as fun. I also didn’t like all the spyware on windows, and this was the time when I was removing myself from the internet as if I didn’t exist, So it was inevitable I would switch.
The only reason why I haven’t switched earlier is because I am a university student (currently in electrical engineering) and I was concerned that I would be given an exotic application that my laptop cannot support on Linux. Then I learned the majority of students have macbooks, so if it doesn’t work for me it doesn’t work for them too. That’s when I made the conscious decision to switch from windows to Linux.
Currently trying out fedora workstation, it is like the Mac os of Linux operating systems (and that’s a compliment).
I’ve been using fedora workstation for about a month now, you really can’t go wrong with it. It’s great for laptop, there are also ways to customize it to work with a desktop. I am running it on amd CPU/GPU, so i don’t know how well it works with nvidia and Intel, I know some distributions do a really poor job managing the drivers. I don’t use CAD, but I have done FPGA design and programming (C/C++) and it works great. Haven’t done much gaming, all I have is minecraft installed, I could imagine you can install steam on there as well. Hope this helps.
solomonschuler@lemmy.zipto
News@lemmy.world•Health Secretary RFK Jr. says there's 'not sufficient' proof to show Tylenol causes autism
0·5 months agoIt seems we are progressively moving back to an era where people will kill there children because they believe the devil is what’s causing them to have a seizure. Except now we have plenty of evidence that is not the case, and is being silenced.
solomonschuler@lemmy.zipto
News@lemmy.world•Health Secretary RFK Jr. says there's 'not sufficient' proof to show Tylenol causes autism
0·5 months agoThere’s not sufficient proof?!?! No, there is no proof that Tylenol causes autism. Autism is a genetic disorder, you can’t relate the two as a cause-effect relationship. That statement is more shitty and delusional if you smash someone in the head with a metal bat it causes autism, or on a related note, the devil is what causes people to seize (as in the seizure disorder).
You seriously can’t go wrong with the lenovo thinkpads on eBay. I Got a thinkpad E14 ryzen 7 (7th gen), 48gb ram, 1tb ssd for $400 on ebay with a small hair crack on the hinge.
At the end of the day, a laptop is a laptop, and the cost difference between a $2000 brand new laptop and a $400 used laptop there really is no argument/justification to be made to buy a $2000 laptop in less-intensive tasks. Here’s a better instance of your money: find a $400 laptop with semi-good performance (ryzen 3 or intel equivalent) put $1600 to a gaming computer and setup a virtual environment with a radeon or rtx gpu at your fingertips.

Enough that the dinosaurs would be jealous of the crater I indented in my eyeholes!