mindfulhack

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by mindfulhack 6y ago
Can you give examples of which apps you noticed it working for? and what desktop environment/distro? I will most certainly test.
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
Linux Mint Cinnamon has this feature, with package `nemo-preview`. It even plays back actual video when spacebar'ing on an MKV file, something I can't do in macOS!
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
But has it added pop-up per-app (and then per domain/port/ip) block/allow functionality in the Linux DE GUI yet? Thanks to your whole team for the awesome work.
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
A big one I will sorely miss as I transition to Linux (and it's the only one I can think of right now), is the ability to rename and move around files while they are open! OK here's another, very related: the ability to have apps
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
This makes me feel a lot better in light of NVIDIA' recent ARM acquisition. I really don't see Intel in my future. Linux needs AMD.
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
Firstly, let's make it clear that we are now talking about broad concepts and not necessarily how it applies to the example of this situation at hand. Under many jurisdictions' consumer laws, advertised features or promises by the
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
Actually, in my country the consumer culture is extremely different to America. Consumers are not left high and dry if a manufacturer screws them over or was incompetent (such as design defects). Remedies are on sliding scales commensurate
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
This is infuriating. I spent over $5000 on a 16-inch MBP in only January this year. If I'm a lawyer, CEO, or a human rights journalist (or just anyone) who professionally needs a reasonably secure device as the normal expectation, how
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
I wish society were more sex-positive, stopped considering matters of sexuality or sexual activity to be so controversial, and stopped responding to them with such moral outrage to the point that your personal sexual activity could be consi
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
I think it's an insightful observation. All humans are subject to being corrupted in by power. It's explained by our biology. Until our biology is no longer a meaningful problem, we need systems that hold those in power accountabl
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
It also may be because of what I observe as 'masculine thinking' vs. 'feminine thinking'. It appears to be drawn biologically from the genetic male sex and 'male brain' vs. genetic female sex and 'female b
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
But who says legitimate whistleblowers have specific rules under which they must do it? (E.g. they must only enter into employment or servitude with zero suspicion of employer or zero intent to leak information of any wrongdoing observed? I
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
This is probably off-topic but on a very broad level, from a privacy point of view I think it is important to separate 'service provider' (controlling the instance of your data) from 'software' developer / 'h
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
It wouldn't be hard for someone to resell SIMs (even pre-activated SIMs for a premium) to have less data on you recorded at time of said secondary transaction?
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
My apologies, I meant ONLYOFFICE, not WPS Office. I got them mixed up. 'ONLYOFFICE' is FOSS and the one I meant to recommend!
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
Wouldn't it be better to financially incentivise doing this, than simply force it? That way, leadership positions can be an equation of balancing financial benefit from government incentives against financial loss from having a low qua
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
Do you have a link (or links) that corroborates this?
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
I really hope so. I'm even willing to give up the Apple trackpad if something else comes that lines everything else up. I tried so hard a couple of weeks ago to find something non-Apple that ticked all the boxes, and was shocked my exi
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
At my end, that's what I have to start testing on my 2019 MBP as I plan a transition to bare metal Linux fully on it, using the tools at https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux . (Will take several months.) I&#x2
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
Everyone in the Linux space, from what I regularly read and hear, says that NVIDIA GPUs are notorious and a bad idea for using Linux. They're saying go with AMD. (As well as Ryzen instead of Intel for CPUs, where possible.) The only op
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
Yes, I'm after 15"+ too.
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
I'm a user on a 2019 16-inch MBP (MacBookPro16,1) who hopes to move to Linux as my base OS on this hardware full-time over the next 12 months. ( https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux ) This is because I honestly
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
OK, thanks for the education. That makes sense. Didn't know that. I do not live in CA. But where should we draw the line and balance the scales of helping or promoting human health (including education, which can save lives), restricti
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
Education or information is not control or nannying. Decision != informed decision. I think any regulation that at minimum benefits consumers when it's hardly anything for corporations to add to their existing labelling is good for soc
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
Hope I don't get downvoted, but I like to entertain plausible but low probability ideas because my creative mind goes there: What if some outages like this are the US government performing security attack testing to test infrastructure
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
If I were offering a free (as in price) alternative to MS Office, I'd first recommend WPS Office over LibreOffice, even though it's closed-source. It has a much better interface out of the box. But I'd use something to block
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
To me, what matters most is privacy and freedom. -> Open-source transparency of code, data, and all that happens with it. (Including the ability to fully control and see what's happening in your system at the network level, like Ope
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
I'll reply with my own doubt myself: There's a possibility the leaked files are tampered from the original code anyway, i.e. backdoors were removed before being initially leaked. Rationale being that Microsoft / government wa
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
Likely you're right, but let's see if anything can become plausibly demonstrable after obsessive scrutiny. Like many situations in life, it may depend on whether someone determined / resourceful enough wants to do this. There
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
My immediate thought is whether researchers or investigative journalists will find cold hard US government backdoors. This is potentially big.

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