👍 We agree.

https://www.xda-developers.com/features-windows-needs-steal-from-linux/

Ever since I have been on Brave, this kind of thing doesn't happen to me as the shields usually catch this. Still if you have this problem a change in search habits can mitigate this problem.

https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-edge-scareware-blocker/

Where do we hear lines of BS that state they are for your own good? It's not that Linux doesn't do this they do, such as x11 being soon deprecated in GTK 5 (GNOME). On Linux that software isn't usually gone, but you may have to take extra steps to keep using it. That is until the demand is gone and it is no longer updated.

https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-deprecating-windows-features-good-thing/

On the subject of "Digital Archiving"

I used to do that early-on - but I have been around since 5 1/4" Floppy drives - then 3 1/2" - then CR-R - then iOmega Zip - then Orbit - then DVD-R then various memory formats and external drive interfaces (Firewire, etc...)

I finally just decided that eventually, the thing I am storing data on may not be accessible by the thing I may or may not have available to read the archive from.

Even this could be mitigated by using the most basic Android tablets and long term storing in Mylar, etc... But I have even found THOSE devices that were justva few years old in the move to the new house - that are now dead dead dead - Could I rip them apart and maybe clip the correct power to the battery leads? maybe?

Another trooperisim: Books define wealth. The more books in your library - meaningful books, not Harlequin romance novels - but real books - the wealthier one is. I regret getting rid of books I had no room to keep. I regret their exile to boxes in the garage, to suffering lingering torment from silverfish and moisture, before their inevitable condemnation to a donation bin in exchange for a paltry tax deduction.

The few surviving artifacts of historical antiquity tell us that messages pressed, chiseled, or etched into durable materials are vastly superior to papyrus/paper, paint, or cloth.

Old films, negatives, even photographs have self-destructed due to chemical composition, age, storage...

Digital archives of any form or format are much less likely to survive any test of time far beyond the next few generations.

That said, if one were trying to just store the entire digitized Library of Congress, or even exabytes of general information in some archive - I think those archives would indeed serve the purpose of safeguarding our intellectual heritage, and likely serve as essential troves of information "in the immediate post-event need" - but a considerable amount of planning and contingency architecture would be needed to fully realize such a library of posterity.

https://t.me/trooper_chat/49859

While Void is not a user friendly distro. Adding more Distros with the ability to run on Apple Silicon is a big deal as it means being able to ditch the rotten apple.

https://linuxiac.com/void-linux-february-iso-adds-apple-silicon-support/

We do not agree with everything on the list but the idea of getting away from Google is the same.

https://itsfoss.com/leaving-google-ecosystem/

This has been a long time coming and needed. If you don't know what HDR is modern TVs and monitors are equipped with this to increase the range of colors that can be displayed. GNOME has been sorely lacking on this feature as Plasma has at least been integrating it in bits and pieces.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-48-HDR

Something we often don't think about. Most of our use cases will just involve ext4 for our filesystem but when should you use something else?

https://www.howtogeek.com/filesystems-on-linux-when-should-you-not-use-ext4/

If you have problems seeing your screen icons due to vision issues consider a dock or adjusting your fractional scaling.

https://www.ubuntupit.com/best-linux-docks-to-make-your-desktop-beautiful/

If you use VLC player and encounter issues with "seek bar", "seeking with FF" or using the "Chapter buttons" causing VLC to Crash. disable "Hardware-accelerated decoding". Close and relaunch VLC and you should now be able to "seek" again. There is a bug that has not been worked around in the latest Intel video codecs. HTH
MrDeploarable

On Linux we generally smirk at these complaints as one of the things we have is the power of choice. The freedom to choose how our system looks and functions is entirely up to us.

https://www.xda-developers.com/design-flaws-windows-11-microsoft-still-hasnt-fixed/

if you are looking for a much simpler self hosted cloud experience than Nextcloud.

https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-casaos/