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  • SomeLemmyUser@discuss.tchncs.detoLinux@lemmy.ml•Alright fine I admit it, I want to learn Linux
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    6 days ago

    For testing try the live USB sticks Just flash them to an empty stick with programs like etcher, then power dowb and select the stick in your bios (usually reachable by hammering f1, f2 or Del while starting

    (Remember that performance will be much better when installing it for real compared tusing running it from a stick though)

    Dual boot will work and is not that hard to setup, but you should back up all your data before trying it.

    Also when dual booting to avoid duplicates etc I have all my documents and stuff on a USB stick, so I don’t have a version in my win and a version iny linux. Cloud works as well

  • SomeLemmyUser@discuss.tchncs.detoLinux@lemmy.ml•Alright fine I admit it, I want to learn Linux
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    6 days ago

    Yes, ez one (if you have installed operating systems before and know how to paste an error passage into google ) -4hours and your done start to finish. (Given you have standard hardware and don’t want to set up something crazy like dual boot with raid and nas)

    Moderate complexity if you have never done anything like that, plan 2-6 evenings to get it fully working with everything you need

    Also: consider your scopes. For most cases Linux will just work, you just have to get used to some different interfaces.

    BUT: some things will not run under linux no matter how hard you try --> google if stuff you can’t live without will work

    (for me I still have a dual boot windows for playing league of legends and running my vive wireless adapter, as those will not run under Linux.

    For games use protonDB

    I may be oldschool, but for people not comfortable around terminals I would suggest Debian KDE as it never breaks and the transition from windows is easy. You can do everything from GUI (clicky button interfaces)

    For the installation of steam you might need a terminal, but there are good guides online (and you really dont need to be a wizard for that) from where you can just copy paste (when searching just add your distro e.g. “install steam Debian”, and once you’ve got that running you can just run every game from within steam.

    Since Steam has done a lot of work with proton, most games just run under Linux. In steam: Install–>play

    For nearly all games not directly running, you can just force them to run with proton. It will say: “Game not compatible” in steam, you just click the gear icon on the right to open settings, go to “compatibilty” and tick “force use of compatibility layer” and select the newest proton from the drop down

    The button where steam previously said “not compatible” magically turns into the blue “install” button we all know and love. And nearly all games run with only minor inconveniences (like showing keyboard hotkeys even when playing with a gamepad) or no issues at all.

    You need to be aware that some games using kernel level anticheat (e.g. league of legends, valorant) can not and will never run on Linux, if the developers of the games don’t add the possibility.

    EDIT: for programs not related to gaming its often easier to use an alternative, if the program is not available for Linux. Most times its also more privacy foccused, open source and free

    Adobe light room --> darktable

    Microsoft office --> libre office

    Adobe Premiere pro --> davinci resolve/shotcut

    Paint/Photoshop --> gimp/davinci/dark table

    Edge --> firfox

    Notepad --> Kate

    Fraps/relive/shadowPlay --> OBS

    Etc. Pp.

  • SomeLemmyUser@discuss.tchncs.detoSocialism@beehaw.org•Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters
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    2 months ago

    Isnt that obvious? Get rid of (massive) inequality. Like sure, if you work more or harder than someone else (regarding to your possibilities) or had to put in years of unpaid training/studying to get to that point you should maybe get a little more, and if you choose more free time even when you could do more you should maybe earn a little less, but people owning more than a whole town could earn in their lifetime? People hardly working at all and just profiting of other people working because they inherited a company or stocks from their grandfather being richer then a hard working normal person? That’s just ridiculous! Its unfair, it fosters fascism, monopolies and poverty for the society. We have the Democratic state literally to make rules which foster a society which is best for the people. We should start using its power and simply make rules to prevent this.

    There are enough resources for everyone in the world to live a life in honor and welfare, the problem is just how we distribute those recources

  • SomeLemmyUser@discuss.tchncs.detoSocialism@beehaw.org•Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters
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    2 months ago

    While the US is certanly going the Propaganda and facism Route, I dont think free speevh is too blame. In a system where everyone is rather equal, and each voice gets heard an equal amount, free speech leads to better outcomes, as most people are good willing if not mislead, and less people trying to mislead, than trying to foster truth.

    The problem is, that you have one man who dictates twitter, amazon, google, etc. Pp.and can decide what gets hear, what information rises to the top etc because they inherited a lot of money from their colonialist fathers or just were lucky.

    Such few people with so few interest who have free speech and control which arguments are heard and which not for everyone else are the problem.

    Its not free speech which isn’t working, its the huge inequality which dooms all chancen on fair discourse.

  • SomeLemmyUser@discuss.tchncs.detoSocialism@beehaw.org•Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters
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    2 months ago

    I was talking more in general about turning to the American playbook, deporting Gaza protesters who are often are from precarious countries not strictly theese concrete 4. But deporting a trans person to proto-facist america is also not that nice. We also just deported a left protester to right extremist/ proto-facist Hungary and although a court literally ruled she can not be deported because she will face inhumane prison conditions and psychological torture, the Ausländerbehörde pulled through with it before the court could reached this decision.

  • SomeLemmyUser@discuss.tchncs.detoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Smart devices and their hubs
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    2 months ago

    Most smart home devices are actually not that smart. They are simply a switch with wifi, which logs in to your local wifi and shouts “HERE I AM, I HAVE TWO MODES, YOU CANSWITCH BETWEEN THOSE” into the ether.

    Reasons to have a hub are:

    1. Not having to open the website of every single device or send a command from the command line if you want to use it, but rather have one place which registerss all devices and bundles them up to serve you in a nice web interface or app.

    2. Have more advanced/intercinnected functions (not only: send “up” to the blinds device but send “up” to the blinds device, if the time device says its later then 8:00 and the daylight sensor device senses dalight.

    3. Some hubs have security features, like claiming the device and establishing a password, so not everyone in you WiFi can do everything.

    4. Good ones act like a protective layer from you to the outside internet (esps and most smart home devices are simple devices, which are rather unsecure and where you don’t know which code is running (your Chinese security camera might not only send pictures to you but also to China, and you would not knowbif its connected to the internet directly). So you can only allow connections to the hub, and if you have an open source hub like HomeAssistant, you could be rather certain stuff like this will not happen as easily.

    5. Do all the heavy lifting with more CPU power (user and password login, updates, scripts, voice recognition if you want stuff like this, keeping date and time recently updated, merge (in the case of HomeAssitant) different protocols (like iqtt, phillipsHUE, ZigBee, etc. Pp.) Into one coherent system.

    Some other things also, and that being said: it is literally the device controlling your entire house and privacy, so get one you trust, preferable an open source one where you don’t have to accept agbs to give up all rights to Samsung or so.

  • SomeLemmyUser@discuss.tchncs.detoSocialism@beehaw.org•Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters
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    3 months ago

    Well kinda yes and kinda no. The US constitution speaks of “the people” which is not defined legally, while some interpret this as “all people in the world”, some interpret it as “all people with significant connection to the US” and some “all people of the political community, e.g. citizens”

    While certainly better then Germany’s version with “all Germans have the right…” Which is clearly more restrictive, its is not as clear cut in the US either - thus maga supporters label immigrants or dissidents as “aliens” which are in their interpretation not part of “the people”

    https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/vol126_the_people_in_the_constitution.pdf

    While I am certainly in favor of the first definition of “the people” you clearly don’t interpret it that way in the fourth amendment (see US military in basically every war):

    “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

    Also

    " When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.

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