Honestly, it’s an OpSec nightmare for any military.

More and more of your personnel’s personal vehicles outfitted with multiple cameras, microphones, and wireless modems capable of transmitting that data to who-knows-where.

No military should be allowing such cars anywhere near their operations.

Infected torrents have been found there

*laughs in Linux*

At this point, I have to assume they’re doing it on purpose.

Eh, list has its place, and I’ll still use it sometimes.

List shows you more files on one screen, and it can show details of the files like filesize and last modified date without having to click on each file to get that.

Well, my fifty cent chromebook doesn’t have a touch screen, so I wouldn’t know.

But I’m using Graphite OS on it, a lightweight Linux variant with a specially tailored kernel to work on old Chromebook hardware, including drivers for all the weird stuff. Everything it has works, even the little special feature buttons and stuff. No longer an actively maintained project, unfortunately, but it works well enough for now. I’d love to see someone revive it with support for more modern Linux kernels. (Unfortunately, I can’t update the kernel without losing some of the special modifications that make it work more efficiently on a chromebook and include chromebook-specific hardware drivers.)

I guess the other main limitation is that the thing’s only internal storage is a whopping 16GB. But Graphite and all the apps I need still fit with ~8GB to spare. And it has an SD card slot, so I can easily add external storage.

And Ubuntu is … also there.

Currently happy with Linux on the old-ass Chromebook I bought for a whopping fifty cents. Works great. Does everything I need it to. Am laughing at Microsoft depreciating old hardware and laughing at new hardware prices.

Might eventually upgrade to a laptop that has a touch screen… But only if it’s under $5.

… I don’t think those are the kind of thoughts she’s having.

Supposedly, sure. I don’t think they really make much of a difference, though.

No reports of civilian deaths as of the publishing of this story.

That’s pretty impressive, actually. And reassuring. Hopefully it stays that way.

how much energy is devoted to stuff like advertising

And stores and businesses leaving the lights on inside, even at night when the place is closed and nobody is there. And lighting up their entire giant parking lot all night as well, all night every night, even though they’re only open during hours of darkness for a few hours each day.

I know it’s not that much energy in the grand scheme of things, especially now that everything is LED. But still, their complete disregard for energy savings – such that they can’t be bothered to install a simple timer circuit – irritates me.

(I suspect that they’re also leaving the HVAC running at full capacity overnight as well. That might be a more significant waste of energy.)

Everybody else with these giant folders is fucking crazy.

Hey, man. Sometimes I’m dealing with images a lot, and it helps to have image thumbnails big enough to see clearly.

(And even the mini-thumbnails inside a folder’s thumbnail are visible enough to be helpful, giving me a quick sense of what’s in that folder.)

“we just copied all of your private keys and documents into our cloud and hid them”

And then deleted the originals on your computer so that your only copy is in our cloud.

Oops! Your cloud storage is full! Now pay us $25/mo or you will not be able to access your cloud storage.

How so? I want KDE to remember that certain programs should only open on certain screens

KDE has been able to do this for a long time.

System Settings --> Window Management --> Window Rules

Or, right click on the title bar of the window --> more options --> configure special window settings

From there, you can create a rule that forces a certain program to open its window at a certain location. And you can specify that location to be on the screen you want it to be on. Specifically set a rule for “Position”, enter the screen coordinates where you want it to go, and select “Apply Initially”.

(If the application isn’t behaving under that rule, try adding the “Ignore requested geometry” rule as well.)

But I would hate it with passion if my landlord would place his stuff into my flat.

Well, that depends… How valuable is his stuff?

Gnome is easily the least customizable DE in the entire Linux ecosystem.

And I’m sure their devs are hard at work coming up with ways to make it even less customizable in the future.

Wouldn’t most of these big corporations have also filed for European patents?

That also depends on Europe’s leaders not being beholden to the same international oligarchs who pull Trump’s strings.

… and?

She is definitely having some thoughts about those hands…