Tbf …this is a common problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

Unless you really need that version, you’ll want to install 26 when it comes out next April (upgrade should be very seamless).

Don’t get too hung up on it. It was an fyi not a “stop what you’re doing you newb!”

We need people to test the latest, bleeding edge. So you’re helping with that! But since you’re new to Linux I wanted to make sure you knew what you were getting yourself into.

It’s not that odd numbers are less stable. It’s more that they aren’t supported for long term. Many of the lessons learned are pushed to the next version though so either way you’re doing good.

I’m not a PC gamer so for me stamina and longevity matter more to me than bleeding edge technology.

Just in case you didn’t know, odd numbered Ubuntu versions (in your case 25) are considered short term releases and won’t be maintained beyond a year or two.

Unless you really need that version, you’ll want to install 26 when it comes out next April (upgrade should be very seamless).

Even numbered versions are supported long term, often for several years.

The question I often ask clients who think this way is "How much would it cost if it did fail? Let’s say this happened today. What would be the cost to replace it NOW and not only that but make sure people who are working can still do so with the interruption?

Now how much would it cost to schedule the interruption and manage the fall out in a way that is controllable?

For some, the catastrophic failure points to “hey I fixed the thing!” And the incentives for that kind of person are different from the person whose job is to mitigate risk.

It sounds like your boss is the former. In which case it’s going to be fun when it fails.

For those of you who want a simplified ELI5 on how AI works:

Pretend I’m going to write a sentence. Statistically, most sentences start with the word “I”. What word typically follows “I”? Looking at Lemmy, I’ll pick “use” since that gives me the most options. Now what word typically follows the word “use” but also follows the phrase “I use”? With some math, I see “Arch” is statistically popular so I’ll add that to my sentence.

Scale this out for every combination of words and sentences and you suddenly have AI.

It’s just math. All the way down.

Which, honestly, is the better way to go. Treat your compute resources like cattle, not pets.

I don’t think Lemmy would count as social media but that said, you can easily create a dummy account that just, for example, posts pictures of moths or beans or bread or whatever.

It’s almost like old school Google front page.

I think there is a feature request to allow communities to subscribe to other communities so that their posts and comments are synced.

Honestly this is the best suggestion especially if you can mount your windows partition read only. You get the benefits of Linux while still having access to your files.

For most folks, the biggest hurdle is getting compatible apps. Once you find the apps you need, moving over is just a backup and restore away.

DNSSEC always causes errors on my pihole set up and end up disabling it. The upstream is DoH though (via dnscrypt) so it’s technically DNSSEC but without the clients seeing the authentication. That’s enough for me.

At some point, I fully expect apps and websites to begin resolving DNS directly instead of relying on the OS to provide resolution services. At that point our options will be to wholesale block IP addresses at the router.

There is a point of diminishing returns. Like most things, you have to evaluate what you are willing to live with and let go.

I know someone who only browses incognito because they don’t want cookies tracking them. They log into everything every day. Which, imo, is worse because those cookies are still tracking you but you now have to log in everyday.

But for them they like the control.

I’ve moved most of my incidental link on my phone clicking to Firefox Focus (thanks to URL Checker) which has upped my privacy. I wouldn’t have made that change without the prompt that URL Checker provides though.

I use a VPN outside of my house and I use pihole at home. I am tempted to switch my DNS to unbound but the juice doesn’t seem to be worth the squeeze. We’ll see the next time I need to rebuild my pi.

I agree. This thread is for actual advice. rm -rf / belongs in a joke thread.

Best Buy will accept most electronics for recycling.

Yippie kayak other buckets!

There are two "Firefox"s:

1. Firefox, the code base.
2. Firefox, the compiled binary of that code base.

The codebase remains open source under the MPL while the binary explicitly, by Mozilla’s own admission, is not. They are source available.

From the very brief skim I did of your post, it looks like we’re on the same page. I had a few people who don’t understand open source licenses come at me in my Lemmy replies when this was first unfolding. Ultimately it’s on them to understand their agreements.

Even remembering IP addresses isn’t a great because services can change IP addresses at any point.

As others have mentioned DNS, by its design, is decentralized…to a point. If you run your own DNS, you can’t be an authority to .com addresses for example. Even that sentence has caveats.

Generally speaking you can run your own DNS that uses root DNS servers. MPAA and others have attempted to get those servers to stop pirate domains from being resolvable but they’ve essentially said “fuck off”.

IMO, that’s going to be the last battleground, at which point pirating will have no choice but to move to tor and/or to I2P.

A gentle reminder that the Firefox Binary is no longer open source. It is source-available. You license the binary under their own proprietary Terms of Use, which explicitly grants Mozilla to use your data in a manner they seem fit to “operate Firefox”.

They say they are using your data for research purposes but they also say they can modify the license at any time.

I’m used to journaling by topic but Logseq wants you to journal by date. So you start by journalling on the date saying you’re working on x and then you link to x and then put details there.

It’s a bit round about it you’re not used to it.