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  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Concerned message from CEO of Telegram about privacy and censorship
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    5 days ago

    They aren’t encrypted, hence why I never said they were.

    you did, just with different words. without encryption and with centralized servers how would this claim of yours be the case?

    If it’s a private group they don’t know what’s happening.

    you know, trust and safety teams aren’t looking at the content with the apps when they look for harmful content. they have access to better moderation tools with access to the database, where the messages are readable to them because of the lack of end to end encryption.

  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Plan for Windows 10 EOL and discounted old laptops
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    12 days ago

    Because Windows updates take long and cause downtime. Also forcing reboots is not great (though I dont know if they just do that if there was a real vulnerability, that would be fine)

    and also the fear that whatever will break. I often hear that people are afraid of temporarily broken drivers, but also windows updates often reset (unknown!) settings, things like audio device IDs that matter for pro audio software and systemwide audio effects (think device specific EQ and filters).

    but on linux the system updates your software too, which is then again, if you are doing something professionally on the system, you are almost guaranteed from time to time to come across bugs that are in the way

    But I guess Windows updates are more stable than typical Linux updates, more tests etc.

    It’s weird because it’s true even though the filesystem and updates are much better organised on Linux. I mean the weird part being that windows is that stable even with the chaos it does in its system files.

  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Plan for Windows 10 EOL and discounted old laptops
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    13 days ago

    What? Linux mint is based on Ubuntu because that is supposed to be the great distro.

    mint is supposed to undo shit decisions of ubuntu

    LMDE was reported to work way less well than regular Mint. But for sure that is a good path onwards.

    I don’t get it either, LMDE is treated as a testing project by mint

    Distros apply updates, and users should not need to press buttons and wait all the time.

    distros should let the user be able to defer updates, but make them effortless to install. people complain about forced windows updates all the time and for good reasons.

    did you see how kde plasma 6 does it nowadays? its on the shutdown button. that is the way.

  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Plan for Windows 10 EOL and discounted old laptops
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    13 days ago

    There’s a “Cinnamon on Wayland (Experimental)” session for that. And also, installing a new DE.

    why would you recommend an experimental DE to a newbie? it breaks in 2 weeks and all you hear is “linux from shit”. not even directly, but through a friend of a friend, because they won’t ask for your help again.

    when I was looking at the viability of installing mint for common people, one of my criteria was to have kde plasma, because it’s user friendly and evolves relatively quickly, in a good way. a common theme I was reading that yeah it is possible to install it manually, but it’s less stable. I think I cannot afford the burden of taking upon the yech support for people and fixing an unsupported DE when it breaks, because it is complex software, with many moving parts that if the distro does not focus on always packaging correctly, if they don’t test it but only rely on users to report issues, then that won’t work reliably. If I want kde, I need a distro that takes it seriously and allows it as a default DE.