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Top comment from the linked page:

"Looks like the book only included the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Those two amendments were not specifically excluded. This is rage bait. "

https://lemmy.world/comment/10079708

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  • TeddE ,
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    Not free, but I've found great value with purelymail.com. Cost is $10/year or there's a calculator for advanced pricing (basically AWS costs forwarded).

    If you provide your own domain, you can have unlimited email addresses. If you use a provided domain, there's no predefined limit, but abuse will be stressed by the developer.

    If you lose the master account's password the admin cannot reset it for you, which indicates a strong commitment to privacy.

    Because it's paid, no activity requirements, phone number requirements, or invitations.

    It has one of the best terms of service pages I've ever read.

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    Reliable public transport with a robust interstate passenger railway system coupled with a well designed intracity bus system, along with well maintained biking paths everywhere else would go a long way to getting bad drivers off the road.

    We can't get bad drivers off the road when basic everyday living requires driving. There are cost effective alternatives in use across the world. America just has to learn to accept good ideas that others have pioneered.

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    Could public transit be considered to reduce the need for everyone to drive?

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    I respect boxcars, but does the world need more trolls and troll accessories?

    TeddE ,
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    It'll never happen if we all agree it'll never happen. I like taking about them, as it's my way of making it more likely to happen

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    No argument from me. I'm probably insane. But I'm not under oath, or doing a job, or undertaking a responsibility; I'm just me, talking to strangers in a public chat room. Why should I limit myself to the practical? Is there a rule against expressing dreams in this room?

    And I agree, even if I convinced everyone overnight, and we had the willpower to do it, I'm still proposing infrastructure changes that I may not see finished in my life, but building for the next generation is still noble to me, in my insanity.

    Better Live ISO Booter than Ventoy?

    So over the years (decade?) I've used Ventoy a lot. For those not aware, it is basically a live USB that you can add other ISOs to to boot into those. Usually overkill but incredibly useful for those days when you need diagnostics, a simple terminal, and then to install something what you actually want....

    TeddE , (edited )
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    Disclaimer:
    I don't use Fedora, but have friends who do. So I tried to include sources, below. 😅

    How would I install NVIDIA drivers?

    https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

    _Does Wayland work with NVIDIA?*

    (I don't know)

    A lot of distros are moving to Wayland. How would I ensure I stay on an Xorg session?

    GNOME now defaults to Wayland. Instructions to use xOrg instead:
    https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/configuring-xorg-as-default-gnome-session/

    I expect other desktop environments will similarly have mechanisms switch, at least during a transition period.

    I enjoy modding Bethesda games. Does Mod Organizer work fully on Linux?

    Your mileage may vary, but it looks likely:
    https://github.com/rockerbacon/modorganizer2-linux-installer

    I've had difficulties running my steam games through proton on my laptop. Does proton work with Fedora?

    I suspect it will. Steam has been pouring money into making it's catalog Linux ready,
    https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/gaming/proton/

    With said difficulties with proton, would installing Steam as a flatpak work or will it cause issues?

    In principle it ought to, but there appears to be an issue with it currently.
    https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/gaming/proton/

    Can you really not play any games with anti-cheat?

    Anti cheat software generally works by looking for irregularities that detect if there's any program besides Windows that's intercepting system calls. It is unfortunately by exactly this mechanism that allows Proton to work (as Windows isn't present).

    TeddE , (edited )
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    Let's start simple: You should consider hoping from Linux Mint to LMDE if you haven't already.

    As a user, you have no obligation to participate in the politics between the Ubuntu and the Mint Development team, but if you've followed the controversy and agree that Ubuntu is being a bully, this would be a small yet material way to show support.

    what am I missing?

    Every Linux distribution has a purpose - a reason its author thought it was worth the effort of creating it. Some are grand, others are silly, etc. When you explore distros, you're telling the community which ideas resonate with you. Popular ideas will replicate, unpopular ideas will be abandoned.

    Also, switching distributions makes it harder for business to 'capture' the Linux demographic. The mere act of switching occasionally means that tools to import/export/manage your data stay relevant. This literally fights enshitification.

    Finally, and this is a matter of personal taste, but I like trying different versions of Linux for the same reason I try different flavors of ice cream: It's fun; and even if now and then I get a bad flavor, I feel enriched by the experience.

    (Edit: it's to its)

    Can I pre-install Ubuntu on an SSD?

    Ths might be a silly question, but asking those is how i learn sometimes. I'm trying to install my first Linux distro to set up a Plex server and one of the few things I know is you need a wired internet connection. My intended server location is across the house from my router, and there isnt much room there to set up...

    TeddE ,
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    Yes, at the beginning of the pandemic it was discovered that Plex Inc had been tracking, reporting home, and selling user watching habits to advertisers. Basically the exact thing many Plex users were trying to get away from.

    This inspired many developers (who were otherwise stuck at home due to said pandemic) to fork Emby and thus Jellyfin was born.

    TeddE ,
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    Anyone here experiment with Funkwhale? Wondering if it’s a practical choice to make a personal library available in a personal cloud.

    TeddE ,
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    Yes. Absolutely 100%. Canonical has a pretty solid track record of acting like a corporation.

    Can’t speak for @StarkillerX42, but I was happy with Ubuntu when they first started - they took the best of open-source, put it in a nice package and then put money into improving it. It’s just over the years they’ve drifted away from that and slowly have been replacing stuff with their own in-house stuff. At this point, they’re sorta Microsoft light. Maybe harmless today, but only because they want to look better than the competition.

    If that alone weren’t sufficient reason to be skeptically pessimistic, enshitification is trending, all corporations seem to feel that now is the time to turn the screws. Can’t blame a guy for expecting bad news generally in this environment.

    TeddE ,
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    Counterpoint: tech literacy is irresponsibly low for a modern developed world that now requires it for everyday operation.

    TeddE ,
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    I think Ubuntu is a for-profit company. I think System76 is a for-profit company. As a rule, companies tend to respect other companies in ways they don’t respect people.

    I think it’s more likely that System76 will rebase to Debian than Ubuntu kick them off, but if Ubuntu really starts pulling out the brass tacks, I don’t think System76 will show any loyalty.

    In other words, I think Ubuntu benefits from counting all the Pop!_OS users as part of the Ubuntu family (at least statistics wise), that they’d be killing a golden goose by trying to evict them, even though they’d obviously prefer them to use Snaps.

    TeddE ,
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    There isn’t a turnkey solution I know of, but if you can have a tool save voicemails into a folder, you could probably have a script generate text files based on a Speech To Text (STT) solution:

    fosspost.org/open-source-speech-recognition/

    TeddE ,
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    Ahh, so this isn’t a processing issue it’s a data access issue.

    Frankly, if you can’t access the raw data of your voicemail inbox, probably no third party developer can too. This means that the only way to implement such a tool would to be to work with the voicemail provider. If they’re a for-profit company, they probably have no incentive to make the data available unless there’s a big moneybag involved somewhere in the exchange. That’s probably why no such tool exists.

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    Many phone/cell providers provide a method to send voicemails to a third party, if you setup call forwarding (busy or unanswered, don’t set unconditional) for reference, this page covers how to do that for T-Mobile

    www.t-mobile.com/…/self-service-short-codes

    The new voicemail provider may allow you to save messages better, or might offer transcoding themselves.

    freeappsforme.com/free-voicemail-apps/

    (I would have included this all earlier, if I thought of it earlier 😅)

    TeddE ,
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    I recommend using Transwiz to zip up your user profile, you can move the .trans.zip file to a neutral location (external drive, network storage, etc). Of course if you have valuable information stored outside the C:\Users folder, back it up as well. Now you should have a system you can safely mangle, destroy and rebuild without worrying about user data. Once you’ve built your new setup, extract the zip folder into /home/[your_name] or ~ and you’re all set.

    Met a nice lady at the grocery store

    Today at the grocery store a sweet older lady approached me and asked if I knew anything about computers. I said yes I do, and she produced a mouse saying that her son set up Linux mint for her and she was wondering if the mouse was compatible. It needed kernel version 2.6 or newer so I said that the mouse should work, guessing...

    TeddE ,
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    With the exception of a handful of titles, this is a quickly evaporating problem, due to Valve pouring millions of dollars into the development of the Steam Deck (motivated by wanting to separate themselves from being dependent on their computer Xbox/Microsoft).

    Valve recently passed 11,000 playable or verified titles for the Deck, and since the Deck is Linux, that means 11,000 playable games in Linux (with priority on the most played games)

    TeddE ,
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    Wow, first time I’ve seen GarudaOS recommended by someone who’s not me. Awesome distro, daily driver on my gaming rig.

    TeddE ,
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    Is the implication here that the average pirate has statistically different entertainment preferences than the general population? That it’s pirates fault that investors choose an established safe brand over novel, compelling, yet risky storytelling? I find myself skeptical.

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    I’ve got a Raspberry Pi running Portainer on DietPi OS hosting a Discord bot, ACME certificate manager, reverse proxy; a second DietPi pi hosting Sonarr and Radarr and an automatic ripping machine; a pi NAS ruining open media vault; and my Linux gaming system also has Portainer running Jellyfin.

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