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Those are inflated American prices. Whatever I said is probably much cheaper where you’re at. Might be worth it to go ahead and switch back to windows now before you are in a position where you need to do so quickly in order to complete some task or assignment. Look at the massgrave instructions for 21h2 iot ltsc, it’ll make your life easier.

It may be worthwhile to switch to windows or buy another computer if you can afford it. There’s a super cheap and decent mac option for students if you can scrounge up $500. If your present computer can handle the workload you could even put windows on it for school and use a $100 old laptop to run linux for your personal stuff.

Hi! I have used autocad since way back in the text entry box days. I have used linux for the same period of time and have used two dozen different cad packages many free/libre and a fair amount closed and for pay. If your school is teaching you how to use autocad, drown your principles and use autocad. The goal of going to school is to learn and you will have the easiest time understanding the lesson if you’re using the tool they are teaching you with. There is no value to making it harder on yourself. As other replies have stated: file support is gonna be hit or miss and when you start doing actual design work people are gonna expect you to be able to open their unique dwgs that have geometry breaking errors on everything but honest to god autocad. You might be able to get away with web or vdi or a vm, but my honest advice having used all of those in the past is to bite the bullet and dual boot or maintain a windows or mac system. You dont wanna find out that you’re beyond what remote, web or vm setups can do when it’s midnight the day before something is due. Just be normal.

The document lockstep gets its name from is legitimate as far as I can tell and several “trusted” fact checking websites corroborate this. Searching blue beam brings you straight to the weird Canadian guy who espouses its’ Wikipedia article. The Franklin credit scandal (the series of events the idea of project monarch is commonly associated with) has its own Wikipedia article. I’m not gonna “spar” with you. Reply however you like, you will absolutely have the last word. The point of this reply is to show how weasely and dishonest you are being. That kind of behavior just drives people who are being exposed to the real continuing horrors of our institutions through entertainment further away from you and attracts observers to you who feel more comfortable dismissing claims as opposed to investigating them. Consider possibly not being such a fucking redditor in the future.

No, states dance with free software to make the vendors they came to the ball with jealous, not because they intend to take homely ol’ free software home when the music stops. It’s actively against their interests to adopt open source standards in a multipolar world where the literal easiest and most common supply chain attack is against open source repos. You wouldn’t want the eu to be the new shepherds of android anyway, they’d just be another giant power trying to control how development goes. Those same giant powers are all busy putting different kinds of age verification in their systems.

The MIT License And its Future Thanks for the correction, it was early and I’m not very smart. The same hardware support problems exist for many SBCs in addition to the majority of phones like you pointed out. It’s a big pain in the butt. The linux phone alternatives aren’t very mature, you’re right. I’d argue that to the extent that working on a free/libre/whatever phone system is a smart thing to do it’s probably best to focus on those alternatives as opposed to trying to reform android. Tbh it seems beyond saving.

Could that happen? No. A massive amount of android development comes from employees paid by google to do it. What amount of resources should be siphoned away from linux/gnu stuff to support android developers? None. Is it possible though? No. Android is a proprietary binary blob core (idr if kernel is the right term) with a bunch of open source stuff wrapped around it. For gnu, that part would have to be rewritten and that’s too big a job to take on. Should it happen? Again, no. There are already plenty of alternatives to google branded android. Just use those. Even if you were to wave a wand and make the android custodians according to your will, play services, the thing google is restricting, is still googles thing.

It is idealistic utopian thinking because the nations in question have a long history of using free software alternatives as bargaining chips with the contractors they’re actually chasing as opposed to seriously committing to free software use, not because of my expectations.

Iirc you can’t in gnome. You can create a color management profile that doesn’t do anything though but depending on what you’re trying to accomplish that might not be useful. I’m saying the following as a literal lifelong linux user who has had to learn about color management and set it up in multiple environments: you will most likely be happier doing whatever you’re doing on a mac.

Universities often have requirements for student computers in order to use their online or distance learning software and anti cheat/anti llm stuff. Your first step is gonna be to figure out what that is so you can choose an operating system. The most sleek, trimmed down, hackerman version of windows 10 or linux isn’t gonna cut it if you can’t do your classes on it. The next thing to accept is giving over control of your device to the university. It is often a requirement, separate but intertwined with their educational software, that you allow them to install at the very least a dns shim but often much much more in order for your device to be recognized as a student computer that’s allowed to access university resources. Recognizing the above three points, *you can’t have what you’re asking for*. You can’t have a “safe device” that’s “not monitoring you” when someone else is the administrator. And in the case of university students, your schools it department is the administrator *or you can’t access school resources*. Your real, honest to god best bet is to have a separate device. It doesn’t even seem like a very good computer, just buy one you want and use it to look at porn instead of the one the university paid for.

Systemd: good for health, bad for education

You shouldn’t do either. You’re setting up a server and a gaming computer. Arch is about as out in the weeds as I would go to accomplish those goals. Both applications are focused on stability and reliability and compiling from source for lfs has a bunch of hidden gotchas that make doing anything a hassle. Not compiling from source also ends up causing you a pile of heartache when the binary you get doesn’t include support for a library you’re using or the version is incompatible or any number of other screw ups that can happen. If you have a spare computer and just wanna see if you can do it or learn how it works then lfs is the way to go but if you actually want to provide some service or game then don’t switch.

Yeah but people who want to sell support and their own unique coreutils are interested in that. Also not interested in a rust rewrite of coreutils but the same ppl whose material interests are served by mit licensing get to replace senior devs with fresh off the bus/out of college juniors and ai when they target rust so that’s happening too.

You can just make a publicly readable s3 bucket and pay a nickel if it comes down to it.

I agree that the action is very consequential, the pipeline in particular was an unexpected shock with real tangible effects. I only was saying that the overwhelming majority of anti euro stuff is rhetoric, not that the actions weren’t important. It was worth saying that most of what is done against Europe is rhetoric because a subsequent American regime could walk those positions back (not that any smart leader of a European state would trust them). Specifically if in the future one of the pressures that could be urging European nations to move to Microsoft alternatives were to disappear, it would be common sense to use the ms alternative program as a bargaining chip to get what the state actually wants: to not change anything and not have to retrain everyone.

I kind of agree with you but the whole point of the eurozone and eu was to elevate the interests held in common across the region to avoid balkanization and competition between constituent states. Once the us is aligned against that construction the cheese stands alone and European crack up is inevitable. Of course American anti euro aktion has overwhelmingly been in word instead of deed, despite your handful of good examples. It’s very likely that European politicians will follow their unique european polities and place the interests of their individual nations over the interests of their region.

Doubtful. Us hostility to Europe is overwhelmingly in rhetoric rather than deed and on the off chance that tech independence is a European ambition (to the extent that a European identity, let alone European governing body survives prolonged American hostile deeds) the smart play is to use an open software test case to figure out what your requirements are then get a contractor like Microsoft to fulfill them even if that means making a spinoff company. Even if the idea of some kind of libre Europe wasn’t idealistic utopian thinking, its actual existence would be just another elephant on the open source dance floor to be avoided, not a powerful ally to be celebrated.

Afaik it is, but it only started in 2024…

Every euro country or agency that has done or announced this has simply used it to extract concessions from Microsoft and either stayed with or switched back to windows.

As a longtime and current debian user, lol if you think it hasn’t been infiltrated or that any network of developers spread over the globe could resist infiltration let alone the open source “community”. A large portion of the maintainers of popular open source projects are en the employ of some company or other explicitly because of their maintainer role. Even if some hypothetical distributed global network of developers could resist infiltration, the maintainers of our open source software cannot. The building blocks of android are maintained by developers who are employed by google. Google was compliant with prism four years before Apple (the exact amount of time it would take for a sealed case to wind its way through appeals). If the fact of apples compliance with the laws of its jurisdiction worry you, the fact that people don’t get targeted or convicted off of information from properly configured icloud accounts or locked Apple devices should counteract that worry. The fact that other generally held to be trustworthy companies like mullvad are compliant with the laws of their jurisdiction should make it clear that legal compliance doesn’t necessarily mean a company or service isn’t trustworthy. I would also like to point out that for the purposes of us law, entities outside the jurisdiction of the us are subject to a freer surveillance apparatus which need not be hampered by what some judge is willing to sign off on and doesn’t need to comply with its subjects rights as defined under us law. An apple in Mexico would be able to offer fewer protections to its us customers than one incorporated in the us.

Do you think it’s possible for companies or individuals to not comply with court ordered surveillance and search warrants? That’s what prism is, nsa driven data collection ordered by the court system. Further, on its own and absent any other evidence, the timeline of prism entry *corroborates* my statement that ios is second to graphene. Apple is not a good company, there are no good companies. Apple is a company selling security and privacy amongst other things. You have to buy security and privacy because you can’t go out into the backyard, fell a phone tree, carefully choose the section with the strongest, straightest traces and shape it into an optimally private and secure device in the shed using your grandfathers antique phoneworking bench and strap driven phone lathe.

NASA collected ancient herminudic texts and combined the antediluvian wisdom within with cutting edge materials science and technology to produce a device that could reverse the events of the last few seconds within a 1m radius at phenomenal energy cost, scrubbing the mission in the process. The soviets welded the capsule shut.

Yeah I guess if you’re constantly slamming your penis in the car door than having a button that turns back time would be one approach.

It can be made very good from a security and privacy perspective. If you know you know I guess.

Anyone telling you the list isn’t graphene -> ios -> good custom android -> aosp-> google stock -> samsung stock is lying to you.

Good luck. If that gets enough heat off you that you can wait on putting a computer together it’s probably a good idea to target good deals on old Xeon workstations or tower servers instead of using consumer hardware.

How much you looking to spend?

You live in America and consider yourself middle class. You have been targeted by an individual before and want to feel safe and secure. Buy a gun and become licensed to carry it concealed.

It works for at least some of them, because I just did it with a uupdump.

It’s the choice of actually surveilled people and the mentally ill.

No, you can’t participate in the yelling out your thoughts at max volume system privately. Social media is public. What you post or reply to is public. Even unexpected metadata about your interactions is public. You can’t use social media without being social and sociality is by definition not anonymous. Anonymity is antisocial. You can’t stick your hand in the hand grinding machine safely. It’s meant to grind hands that are stuck in it. If you’re scared, go to church.

It’s under settings > Apple account (the bubble with your name if you’re signed in) > age range for apps. The first time you click it you’re asked to go ahead or update your birthday in the account first. Inside you can pick to always, never or ask first before sharing your age range with some app and it says you can see what apps have asked for your age range.

Extant information is safer than just uploading an id (which is what the laws want). No one needs to know your birthdate or identity if your account is 18 years old. No one needs to know your birthdate or identity if you have a cc on file (you gotta be an adult to have a credit card and therefore to have credit card on file). This is the best possible solution, where there isn’t a requirement to upload a scan of a government issued id.

Sleeper old car for privacy: the gmt800-cateye full size Chevrolet/gmc pickups or suvs. You’d think they would be terrible for it because they often have onstar, but that version of onstar uses a 2g connection that literally isn’t in service anymore!