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Fractal-Next is really usable for me at least. (The times I've tried it) The only thing that is hindering it for me is the missing SSO-Support, but as soon as my MR is merged, it has SSO-Support

It is good for the freedom of the user, that the user it is able to access everything in the TrustZone.

I tried to get rid of it (Rooted SM-A515F), but it is always reinstalling after a few seconds.

Does anyone have an idea on how to get rid of it? I tried to delete it from /system/priv-app/GameOptimizingServices or something like that, but it is still reinstalling, but "find /| grep GameOptimizingService.apk" does not yield any results.

That's the problem with the GDPR. Excellent idea, but badly executed. Something like the DNT-Header should have been in the law, saying that the user only wants the really necessary cookies.

A streaming service without DRM

The worst thing about smartphones (In my case android) is how closed they are.

Rooting is getting more difficult, bootloaders are getting more and more unlockable, SafetyNet and this new Play Integrity API are simply user-hostile.

There is absolutely no real rational reason to deny root access. Sure, non-technical people could mess something up, but if you make rooting just a combination of putting it in e.g. the fastboot mode and then running a single command to get root access. (Factory-State: No root-access), nobody would accidentally mess up the phone.

MS Teams:

What makes it bad: First of all, it uses Electron, thus it is laggy and wastes too much resources. Maybe it is just a pet peeve of mine, but I hate, if an application does not look native on my GNOME Desktop and does not follow any HIG.

Another factor is the proprietary nature of MS Teams. If it was open, there would probably be some other client/some way to have a real native client.

My preferred alternative would either be Jitsi or Matrix, although both have just electron clients they atleast attempt to have a usable GUI. (Except this one thing in Element: The search button is next to the "Start Videocall"-Button)

I can't replace it, as my university uses it.

Already down xD: An error occurred during a connection to 127.0.0.1.

Does anyone know how good Epiphany (GNOME Web) is from a privacy/security POV compared to Firefox/Chromium?

> The only thing that matter is : a computer is a general purpose machine and must stay a "general purpose" machine.

Fully agreed. This is the most important point. No company or vendor should prevent me from running the software I want, in the way I want, be it modified for my own purposes or not.

Sure, if you only look onto the security side it may be more secure if you can only run approved software, but it is in no circumstances okay to reduce the freedom of a user on his/her private machine. (In a business setting it makes sense to only allow software approved by the IT-Department)

In a new session https://gitlab.com or e.g. https://gitlab.com/ase/ase don't show me a cookie banner.

A lot of websites don't show cookie banners (DuckDuckGo, GitHub, HN, gitlab, etc.). Sure, the law has some minor mistakes, but it is the fault of the websites. If they didn't track the user, they wouldn't have to display a banner.

Given Google made 17 Billion dollar in Q1 2021 [0] in Europe/Africa/Middle East, I would say that around 2 Billion dollar would be more appropriate.

Facebook made 6.5 Billion dollar in Q1 2021 [1] in Europe, so maybe around 1-1.5 Billion dollar.

[0] https://businessquant.com/google-revenue-by-region (Didn't find a better source or one that lists the revenue for France only)

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/223279/facebooks-quarter...

Edit: I tested the banners:

Facebook: "More Options" -> "Allow only essential cookies" (1 click more than necessary)

Google: "Anpassen" -> Switch off "Suchanpassung" -> Switch off "Youtube-Verlauf" -> Switch off "Personalisierte Werbung" -> "Bestätigen" and then there are 3 seconds of delay with progress bar. (4 clicks more than necessary + delay). This delay does not occur, if I simply press "Accept all"

This fine is ridiculously small, it simply won't hurt these companies.

SEO is so annoying, I recently searched "Is XYZ healthy?", then just some blogs/lifestyle magazines/whatever showed up, just written in an absolutely verbose manner. I would have expected Yes/No, not 4 paragraphs introduction, some about the advantages, some about the disadvantages and so on.

LaTeX by itself may be less productive than Word, but it has (at least for me) several advantages that make it for me more productive:

- The standard unix tools (E.g. grep) do work really well with LaTeX, if I have to find something. I would now know how to find a string in like 30-40 .doc(x) files

- Works with git

- Programmatically generating LaTeX is really simple as it is just text (I use this e.g. in my Vala Project. Sure for other language there are libraries to generate .docx files, but LaTeX works for me here better, as I generate dozens of diagrams and so on)

- FLOSS and fully documented

- Documentation is far better (E.g. How do I do X? The results for Word are often spam-like)

We should add blockchain to the linux kernel ;D

Has the cmd on windows an equivalent to .bashrc? If yes - TIL

I added "fortune | cowsay -f tux| lolcat" to my ~/.bashrc. It is always nice to see some often inspirational or thought-provoking quote if I open a terminal window.

Well it is fine like this. I wish the entire web would be similar to HN in terms of information density and resource usage.

This site looks like one I would "design": Just HTML with a bit of CSS (Standard-Stylesheet should be good enough /s)

> but the government will decree what is and is not allowed speech

Do you mean "free speech"? Here in germany have free speech, except for denying the holocaust (And this makes really sense, as this is simply wrong)

> human right

This should be the goal. In the days of the internet, mass surveillance, nearly eradicated privacy we need a right to have and use strong encryption without any backdoors.

> There is [...] a prohibition of state authorities to keep vulnerabilities a secret.

This is another great thing. It is simply unethical to hoard vulnerabilities, as this will eventually backfire[0]

> On top that all future security legislation will be subject to an evaluation by a panel of independent experts who have to look into issues with any potential restrictions on freedom.

I really hope this will be people from the CCC.

[0]: https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/28/nsa_backdoor_wyden/

And you can often have only one JVM installed. (Maybe not the average user after the JRE was killed, but at least theoretically it is possible)

I think it is already about such basic, intuitive things like the order of buttons, is it [OK][Cancel] or [Cancel][OK]?

Will pressing Alt+F4 close the entire window? (See MS Teams, if you open the settings dialog and and to close it).

You can find probably dozens of such examples

I would give soo much for a native GTK MS Teams client

Musescore? Wireshark? Transmission? TeXStudio?

> Code once, deploy on Windows, macOS, and Linux

This is a major pain point of electron. Sure you can save some costs, as you only have to write one GUI, but the result is always really bad.

The only electron application that is even remotely usable is VSCodium. MS Teams is a slow dumpsterfire and a mess of UI (Why do they even implement own "Close Window" buttons?)

Furthermore it is simply annoying if an application does not look like the rest of my desktop