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IrritableOcelot@beehaw.orgto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Recommendations for after installing Linux (Mint) coming from Windows for best practices for a casual user ?
3·2 months agoTheres no equivalent to Windows Defender on Linux, because it’s like 14 tools in one, and Linux by nature is a lot more modular. If you want something whcch scans files for malware, the tool of choice would be ClamAV. By default it only scans files which you manually tell it to, but you can set it up to automatically scan any file when it’s downloaded. It’s a lot less sophisticated than Defender, but there’s also just not as much malware for Linux (yet), and if you stick to installing software through the package manager and never giving other files execution permission, you should be fine.
IrritableOcelot@beehaw.orgto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Recommendations for after installing Linux (Mint) coming from Windows for best practices for a casual user ?
1·2 months agoI would also add that the more you modify the system (PPAs, packages not installed via the package manager, nonstandard partition layouts) decreases the stability of your system and makes it harder to get back to your current system state if something goes wrong. I like to think about it like balancing a tower of blocks as a kid. Mint is the first block, and is very stable, but each additional block makes the system less and less stable. Mint itself is really stable, but if you do weird stuff the Mint devs can’t do anything about it, which puts you in a bad position until you really know what you’re doing.
The Snap store is intentionally left out by Mint, because they don’t like how Ubuntu manages it. This means that even though the Ubuntu version Mint is based on supports Snap, there’s no guarantee that snaps will work with the same stability which .deb/apt and flatpak packages will, because it hasn’t been tested in Mint. I would advise against using it.
IrritableOcelot@beehaw.orgto
Gaming@beehaw.org•The artist whose designs were used in Bungie’s Marathon without permission says the dispute ‘has been resolved to my satisfaction’ [VGC]
7·2 months agoI think what sem is talking about is that Bungie first made “Marathon” in 1994. The new game is a pretty much unrelated game, reusing the name.
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•Pebble Watch Software Is Now 100% Open Source
1·2 months agoYes it’s placed flat, I’m not sure if it’s supposed to turn off but it certainly doesn’t.
IrritableOcelot@beehaw.orgto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Pebble Watch Software Is Now 100% Open Source
2·2 months agoI do love my bangle.js 2. i was feeling some nostalgia for my Pebble Time 2, so I pulled it out to try it with the new app, but then I remembered that I hadn’t updated anything on my Bangle in ages (dont generally have chrome enabled ony phone) and the updates made everything so much smoother. No reason to switch back to pebble, especially in its current state.
My only complaint is that there is no way for the watch to tell if it’s on your wrist, and the heart rate monitor and screen can’t be woken up separately. So it can be annoying at night, when unless it’s fully shut off the HRM and screen will light up the room every 10min.
IrritableOcelot@beehaw.orgto
Technology@beehaw.org•Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs confirms that legislative work on mandating RSS channels' maintenance on government bodies is underway
5·2 months agoAbsolutely! I’m certainly not going to insist that things should only be published on RSS feeds! Anything is better than the authoritative source for evacuation warnings being a Twitter account. Every platform has its place, I’m just a big fan of always starting with an RSS feed for announcements as the “root source”, then pushing changes to the feed to all other platforms.
IrritableOcelot@beehaw.orgto
Technology@beehaw.org•Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs confirms that legislative work on mandating RSS channels' maintenance on government bodies is underway
7·2 months agoNot really. RSS feeds are better for announcements in my opinion, as there’s no account associated, and the ways of viewing them are even more flexible and simple than the Fedi infrastructure.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Orion Browser for Linux (Webkit-based) Alpha available by end of year "if all goes well"
2·3 months agoIf it’s WebKit-based, it is still using one of those four engines owned by large companies…the engine isn’t the selling point. As I read it, Orion is to Safari as Brave is to Chrome.
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners
1·3 months agoSame for me…wierd.
IrritableOcelot@beehaw.orgto
Linux@lemmy.ml•What are the options if my country makes VPN's illegal?
2·3 months ago+1 ro this. The obfuscation tunnels traffic through the QUIC protocol used by https/3. Basically, it’s almost impossible to block QUIC without sabotaging the web. This is opposed to traditional VPN connections, which send encrypted (usually AES) packets over UDP, which is much easier to tell is a VPN.
IrritableOcelot@beehaw.orgto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Valve's new Steam Machine and Steam Frame and implications for Linux
14·3 months agoI know what you asked about is the Machine and Frame, but I’m super excited about the controller. I love my old steam controller I got on fire sale, but its an extremely flawed device. If they can polish that to the standard of the Deck, I’m so in, especially since you know it’ll work well on Linux with no firmware BS.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Friendly tiling setup for a laptop? (tiling window manager?)
5·3 months agoHonestly? I have more or less the same use case, and I use Gnome or KDE and just use super+left/right to do the half-screen windows, and super+page up/page dn to switch between workspaces for fullscreen windows.
Is is the most optimal TWM experience? No. But is is fast to set up, easily usable, and requires no keyboard shortcut configuration? Yes.
IrritableOcelot@beehaw.orgto
Technology@beehaw.org•China freezes chip chemistry to slash defects by 99 per cent
7·3 months agoMy god the headline of the Fudzilla article is misleading.
Yes, they froze the samples of polymer, but the actual change to the technique is to increase the post-emulsion bake!
Oops, that’s right!
Only after 20 years. Light will take 10y to make it from earth to the mirror, and 10y to travel back.
Well, first of all China does make lithography equipment (for instance, Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment, who are currently at 28 nm). There are a couple of others iirc, and they typically got started by licensing lithography technology from Japanese companies and then building on it.
The issue is mostly one of economics – fabs want higher-resolution lithography as soon as possible, and they only buy it once, which means that the first company to develop new litho technologies takes the lions share of the revenue. If you’re second to the technology, or are more than half a dozen nodes behind like SMEE is, theres not a lot of demand because there are fabs full of litho machines from when that node was new, and theres not as much demand for them anymore.
The issue with a new company making leading edge nodes is the incredible R&D and development cost involved. Nikon, Canon, and ASML shared the market when they all started developing EUV tech, and it took ASML 15+ years to develop it! Canon and Nikon teamed up, spent tens of billions of dollars on R&D, and dropped out once they realized they couldn’t beat ASML to market because there wouldn’t be enough market left for them to make their money back.
If you want to learn more about the history of the semiconductor industry, I recommend the Asianometry YouTube channel!
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•We gotta be more encouragingEnglish
12·3 months agoKnowing how to write a good study is a matter of experience more than intelligence.
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Gaming@beehaw.org•Halo community lead wears PlayStation t-shirt to announce: ‘Halo is on PlayStation going forward’ [VGC]
2·3 months agoYup, and the price of the Xbox Ally is ridiculous, as expected!
Most likely an adapter issue, some failure in communicating the possible resolutions through the HDMI/DP conversion.
Can you find a flex io HDMI port on eBay? Just make sure you get the right version of the flex io card. That’s the most “supported” way to deal with ports, but it’s more expensive than a simple adapter cord.