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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

To cut a long story short, it's 2.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (5 children)

So, I'm 17 and my Dad is an Apple fanboy. He started using Macs back in the '90s, and he's always been using their stuff. Over the years, he's managed to get my mum and her parents to ditch Android, and his parents to move on from their RAZRs. Now that everyone has iPhones, I have no hand-me-down routes. I have asked to get an Android, using my own money that I earned, but he always brings up the same arguments:

"Androids are inherently less secure than iPhones"

"We all use iPhones"

"Apple's proprietary ecosystem just works"

"I had an Android once. Once."

"Are you just trying to stop the Find My tracking? What if I need to find you?"

That last one could easily be misinterpreted. It's an emergency thing; he's not spying or anything. Don't worry.

I have an old Android in a drawer somewhere, but it's running 4.4, it isn't supported by any ROMs, and the battery barely lasts half an hour, so there's no point in trying to get it to work.

I'll also be going to university this year, so I should be able to get a cheap Pixel on eBay and flash GrapheneOS onto it soon enough.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (10 children)

I don't want an iPhone, and it's a long story as to why I'm stuck with one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

And Putinism. It was, after all, the TLD for the Soviet Union.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago

It wasn't my dumb idea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I use ProtonVPN 24/7, and it hasn't changed anything. It's a firmware thing, I think.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I will as soon as the opportunity presents itself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I prefer WikiLess, tbh. Also, Metastem uses .su, which was the TLD for the Soviet Union.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

My situation is complicated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wait, really? Why is it in such a state‽

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I've been seeing a few posts lately that, while interesting and beautiful, are not weirdcore.

Since this community rarely has any activity, I've left a few of them up; but for ****'s sake, please post actual weirdcore art.

Just so everyone knows what to do, I'll flood the community with a few images from r/weirdcore.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I have a MacBook (specifically a MacBook2,1 A1181) from 2007. I am currently dual-booting Mac OS X 10.6 and crunchbang++ 12 on it, but I feel that there could be something better. Here are the specs:

  • CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T7400 (2) @ 2.167 GHz
  • Architecture: x86_64-v1 (but with 32-bit BIOS, so 64-bit Linux won't work)
  • Microarchitecture: Merom
  • GPU: Intel GMA 950
  • RAM: 3 GB
  • Disk: 140 GB HDD

This is not supposed to be a daily driver by any stretch. I have newer and more powerful machines than this, but I would still like to have something on it that means I can use it if need be.

As well as crunchbang++, I have also run Debian, Devuan, SparkyLinux, GNU Guix, Puppy Linux, Slackware, and Haiku in the past. I have tried to install several flavours of BSD, but it was too difficult to get dual-booting to work properly.

Despite the CPU being 64-bit, the distro MUST be 32-bit. This is because of the MacBook's BIOS, which prevents 64-bit bootloaders from working.

Not that it matters, as I can do this after installation, but I would be looking to run something like Enlightenment, Trinity, or spectrwm. I tried going CLI-only with Guix, but it wasn't the best experience.

Feel free to also recommend software that will run on a potato like this.

Thanks!

EDIT: Two users have told me how to get 64-bit Linux running on this machine. Debian apparently ships with 32-bit GRUB on the ISO, and there's a CLI tool to patch ISOs to make them work.

 
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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
  • OS: FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE
  • Theming: Catppuccin Mocha (Mauve)
  • Icons: Obsidian Purple
  • Wallpaper: [LINK]

  • Browser: Hardened Firefox
  • Shell: Zsh
  • Terminal: Alacritty
 
 

I'm going to be doing a clean install of Arch Linux on an old ThinkPad tomorrow morning, and I'd like some suggestions for a window manager, desktop environment, or Wayland compositor.

It can have a learning curve, but I would like it to not have too steep a learning curve (I have been using i3 for a while, and I have just come from LeftWM which I configured to have i3 keybinds). Also, in order to make it fairly obvious to my peers that I'm using Linux, I'd like it to look nothing like Windows or macOS.

Preferably something light (at least out of the box). When I was using LeftWM, my RAM usage was often around 200MB. I recently did a system analysis and I have 8GB of RAM, but my CPU will hold me back. It's an Intel Core 2 Duo of the Penryn microarchitecture (x86_64-v1).

Any suggestions?

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