Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned by Dariusmiles2123 in c/[email protected]
[-] Dariusmiles2123 32 points 1 month ago

When I read this, I’m glad I ain’t using windows anymore.

If it was turned off by default, it would be different as people would be consciously choosing. But turned on by default should be illegal.

As some people are saying, a lot of this isn’t gonna be legal in some countries.

I watched Nvidia's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run cold by Dariusmiles2123 in c/[email protected]
[-] Dariusmiles2123 31 points 1 month ago

The article is really interesting and all your comments too.

For now I have a negative bias towards AI as I only see its downsides, but I can see that not everyone thinks like me and it’s great to share knowledge and understanding.

Key misinformation “superspreaders” on Twitter: Older women by Dariusmiles2123 in c/[email protected]
[-] Dariusmiles2123 46 points 1 month ago

I can clearly see this around me.

Not only women, but also elder men, who are really educated but lose their lucidity in front of fake news on the web. I guess it’s also because they come from a time where you were not swimming in fake news.

And sometimes, even if they think it might be fake news, they just send it to you to get your opinion on it.

iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' by Dariusmiles2123 in c/[email protected]
[-] Dariusmiles2123 42 points 2 months ago

Good news I guess as I’ll never again buy a new computer which can’t be upgraded in the long term.

It ain’t my vision anymore and I hope more and more consumers think about buying second hand or buying upgradeable computers.

Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract by Dariusmiles2123 in c/[email protected]
[-] Dariusmiles2123 49 points 2 months ago

Happy to be almost degoogled when I read such things.

If only it was easy to get rid of YouTube..

I’m happy to see this community is bigger than the Reddit equivalent by Dariusmiles2123 in c/[email protected]
[-] Dariusmiles2123 29 points 3 months ago

I didn’t know that and then it would make me happy to know that Lemmy is beating Reddit at something, but I still think we’re far away from having open source phones we could use every day in every situation.

Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets by Dariusmiles2123 in c/[email protected]
[-] Dariusmiles2123 32 points 3 months ago

While I’m not blaming you, what you’re saying is really the problem in our society.

Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets by Dariusmiles2123 in c/[email protected]
[-] Dariusmiles2123 51 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I love what fairphone and some other companies are doing.

Still some of their earphones got a 1/10 reparability on ifixit, so I’d really check how reparaible these ones are.

Avast ordered to stop selling browsing data from its browsing privacy apps. Identifiable data included job searches, map directions, "cosplay erotica." by Dariusmiles2123 in c/[email protected]
[-] Dariusmiles2123 29 points 4 months ago

And to think I was recommending Avast to everyone when I was still a teenager.

I should’ve known as « if it’s free, it means you’re the product », but I was naive.

And even when you’re paying, some companies are still selling your data apparently.

Mozilla’s ”Platform Tilt” Shows How Firefox Is Harmed by Apple, Microsoft by Dariusmiles2123 in c/[email protected]
[-] Dariusmiles2123 40 points 5 months ago

It’s good that these bad practices are being talked about.

I hope Firefox remains big enough to keep being an actor in the web landscape.

The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier. by Dariusmiles2123 in c/[email protected]
[-] Dariusmiles2123 31 points 8 months ago

In Switzerland there was apparently some kind of loophole in the tax system which allowed you to register your pickup truck as a company vehicle (and pay less) even when you don’t have any company or if you are just working as a hairdresser..

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Has anyone managed to backup an iPhone with iTunes and bottle or wine? (self.linux)
submitted 9 months ago by Dariusmiles2123 to c/[email protected]
14 comments fedilink

Hey everyone!

Sadly, I’m forced to have an iPhone because of work. It’s a good device but I hate the philosophy behind it.

Right now I have a windows 10 vm to run iTunes and backup that phone.

It takes around 30gb on my Surface Go 1 with a 128gb ssd.

If I could use bottles or wine to backup my iPhone, it would save me some space and help me fully get rid of windows.

Sadly, last time I tried none of these worked. I think I managed to install iTunes, but then it crashed and sent me some weird messages.

So has anyone managed to backup an iPhone with these programs?

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Clonezilla , how to have smaller files ? (self.linux)
submitted 9 months ago by Dariusmiles2123 to c/[email protected]
6 comments fedilink

Hi everyone,

I’m really happy to be successfully using Clonezilla which is a great tool (but not easy without a tutorial) to create backups of my Fedora and Lubuntu installations on my 3 computers.

However I have a problem while cloning my 2012 MacBook Pro.

Clonezilla create individual files which are bigger than the 50 gb limit my kDrive (swiss equivalent to Google drive) allows me to have.

With my Surface Go 1 the individual files are way smaller although the overall size of the backup is approximately the same.

How can I change that so that I can put my backups on the cloud?

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Export a Gnome Boxes VM and make it "real" (self.linux)
submitted 10 months ago by Dariusmiles2123 to c/[email protected]
8 comments fedilink

Hi everyone!

I'm a happy Gnome user on Fedora 38 on my Surface Go 1. Still, as I'm not an experienced Linux user, I'd want to discover some other distros and some other DE like KDE.

I'm planning on installing a distro with KDE on Gnome Boxes, but I wanted to know if there was a way to export it and make it a real OS (no VM) at one point.

To get to the point where I had my perfect workstation installation, it took me quite some time and I wouldn't want to waste my time creating my perfect VM and not make it real at one point.

I don't know if it could be done by cloning my virtual disk with Clonezilla for instance.

I'm sorry if my question ain't clear, it's just that I may not have the right vocabulary to talk about such things.

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Can’t boot Clonezilla on Surface Go 1 (self.linux)
submitted 10 months ago by Dariusmiles2123 to c/[email protected]
10 comments fedilink

Hi everyone,

I have a Surface Go 1 with 128 gb hooked up to a usb-c screen.

I’ve installed Fedora 38 on it and I’m really happy with the whole setup. So much so that I wanted to be able to reproduce it on all my computers.

The problem is I can’t get the machine to boot from a Usb-a with usb-c adaptor or from a usb-c stick.

I’ve tried everything. I can access the uefi settings and disable secure boot and change the boot order. At first I thought it was because I was using an usb-c adapter but buying a usc-c stick didn’t change a thing.

In the past the only way I was able to boot from usb was to break my system, install windows again and go to windows recovery. I don’t want to do that again as I would want to clone my system.

For now, I’ve resorted to cloning my girlfriend’s 2012 MacBook Pro with Fedora on it, but since it’s not my daily driver, it’s not where I’m creating my perfect setup.

If anyone can help me, I’d be really grateful.

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Disk image with Clonezilla question (self.linux)
submitted 10 months ago by Dariusmiles2123 to c/[email protected]
10 comments fedilink

Hi everyone,

I’ve just used Clonezilla for the first time to clone a 500gb ssd with only 83gb being used.

Since only 83gb were used, could I clone that system on a computer with only 128gb? Or does it need to have at least 500gb of space even if most of it wasn’t used on my original system?

Clonezilla seems really practical but isn’t so accessible and I haven’t found an answer to that question online 😇

I’m using Fedora 38 but I don’t think it really matters.

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Fedora really needs a backup tool (self.fedora)
submitted 10 months ago by Dariusmiles2123 to c/[email protected]
8 comments fedilink

Hi everyone,

I’m a happy Fedora 38 user on my Surface Go 1.

In fact I’m so happy with it that I just wanted to clone the whole thing with Clonezilla and put it on my girlfriend’s MacBook Pro which has reached end of life support for MacOs.

Sadly on the Surface Go it’s almost impossible to boot from an USB drive (had to rely on windows recovery to do it the first time, might be usb-a to usb-c adaptor related) and I’ll really have to do a clean install on her Mac.

For such situations, I find it crazy that you don’t have an effective graphic tool to fo an easy backup. Especially because Fedora is so great for everything else.

You could say, use Timeshift, but it would mean doing some alterations I’m not at ease with as I don’t want to end up destroying the system I’m trying to backup and clone.

Does anyone know if it’s on the developers roadmap?

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Installing Fedora on a 2012 MacBook Pro (self.fedora)
submitted 11 months ago by Dariusmiles2123 to c/[email protected]
10 comments fedilink

Hi everyone,

My girlfriend has a 2012 MacBook Pro and she can’t macOS updates anymore because it’s Applecrap.

So I’ll dualboot Fedora and MacOS. We’ll keep macOS just for a few exceptions like iPhone backup.

I already have a Fedora installation on my Surface Go 1 and I took a lot of time setting it up perfectly. Is there any way to « clone » that installation on the MacBook so that I don’t have to go through everything again?

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My GF Macbook Pro has reached end of life support (self.apple_enthusiast)
submitted 11 months ago by Dariusmiles2123 to c/[email protected]
36 comments fedilink

Hi everyone,

My girlfriend has MacBook Pro from 2012 which has already been upgraded with more Ram and an SSD.

From what I understand, her OS (Catalina) has reached end of life in 2022 and doesn’t get any support from Apple anymore.

As that machine works perfectly, what should she do?

I hate Apple products (even if it’s painful for me to say that they’re good) and I’m a Linux enthusiast, so I’d tell her to install Fedora Asahi, but I wanted to know if the Apple enthusiast crowd had a better idea.

My girlfriend isn’t geeky at all (despite her geeky glasses) and she would want to stay in the safe environment provided by an Apple OS. But we also don’t want to replace that powerful machine as we hate programmed obsoletism.

Indian Defence Ministry set to replace windows with home-grown "Maya OS" by Dariusmiles2123 in c/[email protected]
[-] Dariusmiles2123 28 points 11 months ago

I’m just talking about keeping your data and those of your citizens away from Apple and Microsoft.

I don’t know enough about the nazi gold, but whatever your country is, I’m sure it has a dark history too. Still this is in no way related to the original post.

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First time on the Nürbürgring (i.imgur.com)
submitted 11 months ago by Dariusmiles2123 to c/[email protected]
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