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I never particularly cared for the Unity desktop. The first few times I tried it, there were hardware incompatibilities, slow performance, and crashing. Gnome3 is a complicated mess. I prefer to keep it simple. XFCE is fine for me.

I keep trying other distros, and then coming back to Debian unstable XFCE. Linux Mint Debian Edition is ok. At work I did lots of Enterprise Redhat, but I’m glad I don’t have to use it after I retired.

I believe that Firefox has a mechanism where millions of users all have the same fingerprint, which makes the whole concept of browser fingerprinting useless.

My Librewolf gets strong protection from tracking and it’s fingerprint is common with millions (so not uniquely identifiable).

I could not find confirmation that biometrics are only stored on the device. In fact, I did see that iOS does at least part of the biometrics in it’s iCloud keychain.

It seems that Passkeys generally require a biometric scan of some kind. I would prefer a level of privacy where I am not providing images of my face or fingerprints to unknown agencies on the cloud.

Massive surveillance programs won’t stop crime. Instead it will be used to persecute target demographic groups.

The article compares Photography, (which despite being “created” by nature is copyrightable), to AI art. The difference between AI art and photography is that AI art is derivative of other artists and generalized into a Model. Nature is not derivative of other photography. Derivative work has special exemptions in copyright law which prevents it from being subject to copyright.

Developers would be foolish not to begin transition plans off of Unity. The next Unity LTS version will still require the runtime fee.

Hardly a U-Turn. If a developer uses Unity’s next release LTS version, then they would still be subject to the runtime fees. So developers still must migrate off Unity, but have a little more time to do so.

Sure. Seems like a fine way to prepare beans.

LibreWolf should be on the list.

Chrome, and it’s relatives like Edge, are no longer an option, so I use Firefox.

That’s why I’m here. All the corporate owned social media are blatantly far-right fascists. Everywhere else is just thick with Nazis and racists.

I do prefer to use a headphone jack when my phone is the source of music for my amplified sound system and large room speakers.

I was just trying (and failing) to imagine a distribution and development framework which was limited to those entities which agreed with a set of social parameters.

Fascists always use “protecting children” as the rationale for implementing mechanisms of social control. Their willingness to allow school shootings shows that they really don’t care about protecting children at all.

Do these numbers include kbin?

Ubuntu is massively overrated. It’s a bloated distro owned by a greedy corporation.

That’s alot of effort to go from one horrible programming language to another horrible programming language.