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And another thing! It used to be you didn't need a telly-phone number to sign up for a website! Email was all we needed. And it worked! by glaber in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

[-] glaber@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Anonimity != privacy

Lots of PCs are poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today by glaber in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] glaber@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you are going to play games you might as well go and try Bazzite instead! It's built on a Fedora base with some good additions:

It's atomic: this basically means that everytime yov boot your computer you'll have the choice of booting onto the newest version of your system, or the one before. If you fuck up anything it's as easy as reverting to the last version where things were alright!
It comes with a bunch of preloaded drivers and compatibility layers: makes compatibility with modern games and software as good as you can get it without having to tinker heaps. It's pretty seamless.
The installer includes many programs by default. Just tick a few boxes and you can choose to have Spotify, OBS, Discord or Darktable automatically installed in your computer

As for the documented support you can probably go a long way with the Arch, Gentoo and Fedora wikis. Other than that I'm afraid it's gonna be relying on forums and Reddit. I've never irreversably broken my Fedora system for what is worth, and I don't consider myself that tech savvy!

Game support is also really good these days. Anything that you can play via Steam will basically run. And performance is better for some games on Linux these days! Itch.io also has good support I think. You should be able to run most things that don't use shady anti-cheat, but forget about League of Legends, Valorant or Fortnite.

I'm not sure what you mean by Linux version! But Fedora (and Bazzite) belong to their own "branch" of Linux, apart from Debian and Arch. Their philosophy is a balance between rock-solid stability (Debian) vs bleeding-edge software (Arch) that many people, including me, think hits the sweet spot quite well!

If there's anything I missed or you are curious feel free to ask more questions :)

Lots of PCs are poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today by glaber in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] glaber@lemm.ee 24 points 1 month ago

The days of "chanting magic spells at computer" being synonymous with the Linux experience are far gone. I recommend you just make a Fedora installer and take it for a spin on the live test system! You don't need to commit to it to just try it

Mozilla will become an ad company by glaber in c/technology@hexbear.net

[-] glaber@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Does this include Fedora?

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Question about donating to open source (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by glaber@lemm.ee to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Hello, I started donating to my favourite open-source projects a couple years ago, but stopped about 6 months ago for different reasons and wanted to get back into it.

I wanted to ask if anyone here has a set system or process they follow when donating

How much money do you donate? A set amount, whatever you feel like, a percentage of your earnings?
When do you donate? Whenever you remember, on the first of the month, Thursdays?
Do you have a minimum donation amount?
How do you decide what projects to support? Do you forego donations if you've contributed in other ways? Do you keep a list?
Do you donate to all equally or do you have some sort of ranking? Is it by amount of use, subjective preference, something else?
What platforms do you prefer using? Liberapay, Opencollective, Patreon, ko-fi, Paypal, Monero, actual post?

So far the system I've devised for myself would go something like:

put 2 % of all my earnings, whatever they are, in a separate account
every quarter (on the first of January, April, July and October) donate the full amount of money in the account (with a minimum of 5 €, so as not to lose a big amount in fees)
keep a ranked list of projects that I've used or deemed important or promising in the last three months (projects I donated to recently go to the bottom of the list), things at the top get more money than things at the bottom
prioritise Liberapay since it's open-source itself