Mandrake -> Whatever came on the Linux Magazine CD -> Backtrack -> Arch

According to the Arch Wiki, it’s the driver recommended by NVIDIA and, anecdotally, I was having issues in Wayland and with gamescope/HDR until I switched to the nvidia-open drivers.

You don’t need to do any of this.

If your drive is not encrypted, then this won’t save you. It takes time to overwrite files and if your computer were the target of any adversary, they would simply unplug it immediately and then image it.

If your drive is encrypted, then you can just overwrite the headers that contain the key slots. This would take hundredths of a second.

yay -S nvidia-open

Load it and it fingerprints your browser. You can add a signature to that fingerprint.

Make whatever changes you want to make to resist fingerprinting and reload the page. If it displays your signature then it has identified you, if not then your changes worked.

Ideally, every page refresh would generate a new unique fingerprint so the page can’t link you to the last time you loaded the page (which is what tracking is, essentially)

The site also displays all of the data that it can see, for advanced users

I learned how to make a dual boot machine first.

My friend wanted to get me to install it, but he had a 2nd machine to run Windows on. So we figured out how to dual boot.

And then we learned how to fix windows boot issues 😮‍💨

We mostly did it for the challenge. Those Linux Magazine CDs with new distros and software were a monthly challenge of “How can I install this and also not destroy my ability to play Diablo?”

I definitely have lost at least one install to getting stuck in vim, flailing the keyboard and writing garbage data into a critical config file before rebooting.

Modern Linux is amazing in comparison, you can use it for essentially any task and it still has a capacity for customization that is astonishing.

The early days were interesting if you like getting lost in the terminal and figuring things out without a search engine. Lots of trial and error, finding documentation, reading documentation, etc.

It was interesting, but be glad you have access to modern Linux. There’s more to explore, better documentation, and the capabilities that you can pull in are still astonishing.

Hmm, I did not know that. Thanks

There’s one (at least) of them in every special interest group.

There are digital stenography tools that cryptographically hide data in the least significant bits of a media file.

That’s a more robust way of hiding communication on monitored channels

OP is a newbie and is externalizing his lack of knowledge.

A 747 would seem like a death trap if a toddler were given control but there, as here, it isn’t the plane that’s the problem.

Coming from Windows, Linux (especially when only talking about GUI environments) seems to not tell you anything about your problems. Eventually you learn how to find the relevant logs and the problems seem less arbitrary.

The most annoying thing about the Linux community is dealing with non-Linux users who learned everything they know about Linux from social media memes.

Social division kills.

Very true

Dehumanizing the other is only the beginning.

It can be read either way.

It’s also simple enough in structure to be generated slop and the OP could just be an automated account.

It’s hard to say what is true, but on the face of it we should all be able to agree that it would be a bigoted opinion to express literally, out loud and in public.

(Like the OP is doing)

People believe it because they’re bombarded with memes (like this one) on social media that push them towards believing it, and sometimes reposting it.

I completely understand the meme.

I just think the underlying assumptions that the joke is built on are misandrist. In addition, the implication that the loneliness epidemic isn’t real or is largely caused by men (or women in the reverse of this meme) is causing real damage.

You can’t talk about loneliness online without toxic people (“incel”/“femcel”) using these kind of “jokes” to be bigots and people who’re not steeped in online culture read this as “men are lonely because they objectify women and are have no empathy”

It’s not against the community rules, but it’s a joke built on bigotry and I think it’s toxic.

To the average person not caught up in culture war issues, the OP looks like the exact mirror of “women need to lower their standards and be okay with being my therapist/mom/girlfriend, while I change nothing about myself”. That’s a disgusting take, as is saying that men are lonely because they objectify women and have no empathy.

On their face they’re both shitty misogynist/misandrist viewpoints.

It’s bigotry and sharing bigoted memes is wrong, regardless of which ‘side’ is being targeted.

In addition, the underlying message in both of these viewpoints is an attempt to frame the real loneliness epidemic as something that is fabricated by ‘the other side’ and not a real issue with real victims.

There’s not a male loneliness epidemic.

There’s a loneliness epidemic.

https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-social-connection-advisory.pdf

“Joking” by trying to turn this into men vs women is pretty gross.

He thought you’d never ask

Ah, thanks, I didn’t notice. I’m adblocked and piholed to the teeth.

https://leasticoulddo.com/archive

For the curious