To give you an idea, it's basically the "Linux Mint" of Debian but with custom tools like ElementaryOS has to make things even easier. So, it's really easy to use but stable as hell. Matter of fact, if something that normally breaks on Debian, the maintainer has repos with fixed versions. An example I've already noticed was with OBS Studio. The interface is kind of like XFCE but the panel is on the left side and a searchable app menu. Uses only 300-400MB of RAM after login and startup. The creator has a few really good YouTube videos on it.
I made a script that uses FFMPEG called "StreamPi" to make it easier to stream for people that can't run OBS Studio because of the OpenGL requirements. https://www.bitchute.com/video....
Its called Blender, though it's "Python" and not "BASH." Matter of fact, a most of Linux programs have a headless mode. https://docs.blender.org/manua....
We privacy enthusiasts have been so hopeful about what may happen to Facebook's user count that if you all want to be in denial and think they're the only ones stealing you're data, fine. We will take what we can get. We know we're playing a long game. Just know, you always have a third option. There's no such thing as "less of the evils" when it comes to capitalism and computers. You just have to get out of your comfort zone and start looking. And if my uBlock/NoScripts is telling the truth, you don't need Google, you don't need Amazon, and we Linux users definitely don't need Micro$oft. Besides, I wouldn't trust anything Germany says about privacy anymore; they've really been screwing with that concept in the last few years.
About as long as it takes to install an entire Linux distribution such as "Linux Mint" without updating as it goes? Ummm..k. "A" for effort good buddy.
If you're a Windows user, sometimes the system will switch back to the default ISP's DNS for certain programs (Edge browser *cough cough*) and not just p2p/torrent stuff because, and like we Linux users keep trying to say, they are evil, assuming that all the ads and tracking doesn't give you away or if Micro$oft itself made a deal to throttle on behalf of the ad related conpitition. How else can Cortana give Micro$oft their untainted data fix if your lying to her or get you to use Bing instead of Google? Skype instead of literally anything else? Payed subscriptions instead of free and open source cross platform tools? I even have people telling me their Windows system is warning them that Firefox is an insecure web browser because they clearly want them to use IE or Edge. Classic web browser war bs, but they go much further than that now and you don't get a much of a choice these days. I guess I'm saying it could actually be your Windows 10 system being a dick instead of the ISP. Linux users will not wave it in your face like you think if you switched unless you picked pure Ubuntu (they're partners of sorts). Using WSL isn't going to help. Also, using ping isn't going to help either because it only rates the response time and not the amount of data transferred which is what the ISP is going to look at. It might not hurt to check anyway because maybe it's the just servers acting up.
But as an orange colored hipster version of Kim Jung with a shitty comb-over and a neck beard. Speech bubble: "Go 'way! 'Bate'n!" Pick any female guest that's ever been on The View and give her a thick nose ring and shave half of her head. Speech bubble: "All men are evil! Lana Del Rey is #1. Why am I still single?" Place a generic smart phone between them, each holding a side of it instead of directly holding hands because otherwise that would be sexual assault. The tabs on the cell phone's screen are open to reveal Facebook, Tindr, and Instagram are running; it's symbolic because they always are no matter what you do. Both dating profiles say "bisexual" not because they actually are, but in protest for gay/transgender rights as brainwashed and guilt-tripped by their ethics professor. Each are peeing in the same urinal and wearing #blacklivesmatter tee shirts while standing on the Rebel flag. And if you look really carefully, like you're finding Waldo, you can see Putin pointing and laughing his ass off when he's not too busy snap chatting or tweeting his "friends" during protests like every young person all over the world does now. Bumbling moron playing Pokemon Go gets hit by a car. Cop gets blamed for it and it just makes them all a little worse with more excuses for surveillance and "probable cause" while tricking normal citizens into thinking it's for their protection as opposed to passive and active biometrics collection vulnerable to God knows who while the top counties around the world fall apart. This is why aliens don't visit or at least don't let us know about it. "We're here because of Elvis, cheeseburgers, and fuel. After that, we're getting the hell out of here." It might not be the world as a whole in taking account of our history, but that's where we are right now and what evidence we will leave behind if we got wiped out tomorrow.
They are only redefining the "cookie" and calling it something else. The Internet decided that its version of "plain toothpaste" wasn't enough and added "whitening," if you catch my meaning. Also, Google isn't the only one with "bubble" technology. Hard drives are getting larger and cheaper and they have the resources to store info on every person leaking an "ip/mac address/canvas/OS" digital fingerprint. When my website was active (too expensive; hosts holding hostage), I honored the "Do Not Track" option and had a dummy cookie option for browsers that didn't support it but for those that didn't do either one, I could get your IP (censored most of it), your operating system, your device, screen resolutions, where you came in from, what you interacted, how long on each page, and where you left to. And the relevant part, if you were a returning viewer. That was with free and open source tools (Piwik); I'd hate to think what others like Google and Facebook are doing. I would also assume that they're depending on mobile users with smart phones and with applications that contain Google or Facebook libraries. More and more applications are including them by default all the time and don't think for a second there isn't any back scratching going on with your personal browsing, text messages, photos, etc.
It will be like a prion disease such as (https://www.cdc.gov/prions/index.html), but utilized in a way that's similar to CRISPR gene editing (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609722/crispr-in-2018-coming-to-a-human-near-you/) except it'll rain from the sky during a meteor shower from the debris of an asteroid with a hyperbolic trajectory (https://www.space.com/38580-interstellar-object-spotted-comet-asteroid-mystery.html) or the worse case scenario is that it directly hits Earth and wipes us all out except for the prions to start this mess all over again. Even we earthlings can land probes on comets (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta). Think of it as the alien equivalent of our golden records on Voyager 1 and 2 (https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/) but with genetic information that says "this is what we are" by species mutation. However, the odds of us being genetically similar enough to be susceptible to their prion is hopefully unlikely. I've often wondered if Mad Cow and similar diseases are just an alien Voyager failure. We may have come close; notice how the cow is number 9 on this list (https://www.thedodo.com/animals-you-had-no-idea-were-so-closely-related-to-humans-1172946617.html). But for now, we can just monitor the fruit flies (https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/03feb_fruitfly) as an inadvertent, invasion "litmus paper." A prion "disease" has a better chance of surviving a long space journey than even the robotic invasion theory does. Besides, we humans are a base-10 species (https://www.thoughtco.com/definition-of-base-10-2312365), so they'll have have to be close enough and long enough to learn our mathematics (1-10, symbols, and axioms) to hack our systems anyway. And if AI develops further, it'll act as a temporary firewall and hopefully log enough to know flag an alert. At any rate, if it is robotic, and they figure and Google or Facebook, they'll know to attack Windows first followed by about 2.2 billion people on their shit-list. But, my money is on "random chance prion" because I doubt they use anything close to our file formats. The only reason we can "crack" any of them is because we know what patterns to look for, most of which would be uniquely human. The risk of long journey mechanical failure is too high anyway; it would be better and cheaper to drop genetic material on passing asteroids and let random chance do the work.
...Just kidding. You know they're only doing that to keep gov offices from switching to Linux and make those idiotic enough to switch back to Windows to have to upgrade. LibreOffice is your friend.
Buy one and get a hard drive. Then grab Noobs or BerryBoot and unpack it onto the SD card. When you turn it in, you will have a lot of operating system install options. Pick OpenELEC. This will basically to the Raspberry Pi into a Kodi box. With the hard drive, you can just add episodes as needed. No reason to pay and risk privacy for PBS shows. Matter of fact, I'm pretty show Kodi has a few PBS addons. Free and open source is the way to go. It also should have parental controls in the settings or password protection for things at the very least so if they turn it on while you're not around, you don't have to worry.
Besides, you can use Unity in Windows 10, so adaptablity to a new interface is a poor excuse if Microcrap is willing to allow it and WSL. People use Linux all the time and don't even realize it.
All they need is XFCE, MATE, or Zorin. Hell, they could use IceWM if push comes to shove. Unity and GNOME3, however popular, are just a drop in the bucket when listing available desktop environments and it's not like you can't run more than one or absolutelty have to use the default that came with the distro.
You can get all of Wikipedia for ~60GB, I think. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik.... So, a bunch of Twitter text files might not be as large as you think. It's the JS that does the carding part and I doubt they're screen shooting them all.
I clearly would love to see Linux being used as a desktop and not in another damn server, phone (except Librem 5), if you want to call Android "Linux," but the hardware to make owning a traditional desktop/laptop as a brand new, young owner is too expensive. You absolutely have to target a younger audience if you want to make this work. You're not going to get a 13 year old to use Arch or care about systemd or libre kernels and you're not going to get an experienced 50 year old to use Ubuntu. If it's not peer pressured on a Facefarm/Instacrap ad, give it up. If the Linux Foundation actually cared about desktops, they wouldn't focus on servers, allowed Micro$oft to join, or use MacOS for presentations. LF and Ubuntu only care about money and M$ will cut the chord and patent troll eventually. When you have a system as versatile as Linux but Window$ 10, iPhones, and Xbox's are everywhere, we would have to completely focus all of our attention towards marketing rather than developing and hoping our awesome FOSS software speaks for themselves. The closest we've come to actively informing the public about Linux is IBM's Linux commercial in 2001. If we could raise $5 million, we could make a 30 second ad during the Super Bowl. Just saying. Not exactly our "clientele," but it would be more than what we're doing now. The main hurdle right now is HARD INSTALL. Stop using VirtualBox and WSL people; you're making Linux look like an "fun little emulator" or an adult Atari/Vtech computer for when you're bored.
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To give you an idea, it's basically the "Linux Mint" of Debian but with custom tools like ElementaryOS has to make things even easier. So, it's really easy to use but stable as hell. Matter of fact, if something that normally breaks on Debian, the maintainer has repos with fixed versions. An example I've already noticed was with OBS Studio. The interface is kind of like XFCE but the panel is on the left side and a searchable app menu. Uses only 300-400MB of RAM after login and startup. The creator has a few really good YouTube videos on it.
Before you know it, Ubuntu people will be like "What up my GNU/Linux?" And the rest of us will be like, "Hey! That's our word!"
I made a script that uses FFMPEG called "StreamPi" to make it easier to stream for people that can't run OBS Studio because of the OpenGL requirements. https://www.bitchute.com/video....
Its called Blender, though it's "Python" and not "BASH." Matter of fact, a most of Linux programs have a headless mode. https://docs.blender.org/manua....
...So, they're both wrong.
We privacy enthusiasts have been so hopeful about what may happen to Facebook's user count that if you all want to be in denial and think they're the only ones stealing you're data, fine. We will take what we can get. We know we're playing a long game. Just know, you always have a third option. There's no such thing as "less of the evils" when it comes to capitalism and computers. You just have to get out of your comfort zone and start looking. And if my uBlock/NoScripts is telling the truth, you don't need Google, you don't need Amazon, and we Linux users definitely don't need Micro$oft. Besides, I wouldn't trust anything Germany says about privacy anymore; they've really been screwing with that concept in the last few years.
About as long as it takes to install an entire Linux distribution such as "Linux Mint" without updating as it goes? Ummm..k. "A" for effort good buddy.
If you're a Windows user, sometimes the system will switch back to the default ISP's DNS for certain programs (Edge browser *cough cough*) and not just p2p/torrent stuff because, and like we Linux users keep trying to say, they are evil, assuming that all the ads and tracking doesn't give you away or if Micro$oft itself made a deal to throttle on behalf of the ad related conpitition. How else can Cortana give Micro$oft their untainted data fix if your lying to her or get you to use Bing instead of Google? Skype instead of literally anything else? Payed subscriptions instead of free and open source cross platform tools? I even have people telling me their Windows system is warning them that Firefox is an insecure web browser because they clearly want them to use IE or Edge. Classic web browser war bs, but they go much further than that now and you don't get a much of a choice these days. I guess I'm saying it could actually be your Windows 10 system being a dick instead of the ISP. Linux users will not wave it in your face like you think if you switched unless you picked pure Ubuntu (they're partners of sorts). Using WSL isn't going to help. Also, using ping isn't going to help either because it only rates the response time and not the amount of data transferred which is what the ISP is going to look at. It might not hurt to check anyway because maybe it's the just servers acting up.
https://www.bitchute.com/video...
But as an orange colored hipster version of Kim Jung with a shitty comb-over and a neck beard. Speech bubble: "Go 'way! 'Bate'n!" Pick any female guest that's ever been on The View and give her a thick nose ring and shave half of her head. Speech bubble: "All men are evil! Lana Del Rey is #1. Why am I still single?" Place a generic smart phone between them, each holding a side of it instead of directly holding hands because otherwise that would be sexual assault. The tabs on the cell phone's screen are open to reveal Facebook, Tindr, and Instagram are running; it's symbolic because they always are no matter what you do. Both dating profiles say "bisexual" not because they actually are, but in protest for gay/transgender rights as brainwashed and guilt-tripped by their ethics professor. Each are peeing in the same urinal and wearing #blacklivesmatter tee shirts while standing on the Rebel flag. And if you look really carefully, like you're finding Waldo, you can see Putin pointing and laughing his ass off when he's not too busy snap chatting or tweeting his "friends" during protests like every young person all over the world does now. Bumbling moron playing Pokemon Go gets hit by a car. Cop gets blamed for it and it just makes them all a little worse with more excuses for surveillance and "probable cause" while tricking normal citizens into thinking it's for their protection as opposed to passive and active biometrics collection vulnerable to God knows who while the top counties around the world fall apart. This is why aliens don't visit or at least don't let us know about it. "We're here because of Elvis, cheeseburgers, and fuel. After that, we're getting the hell out of here." It might not be the world as a whole in taking account of our history, but that's where we are right now and what evidence we will leave behind if we got wiped out tomorrow.
They are only redefining the "cookie" and calling it something else. The Internet decided that its version of "plain toothpaste" wasn't enough and added "whitening," if you catch my meaning. Also, Google isn't the only one with "bubble" technology. Hard drives are getting larger and cheaper and they have the resources to store info on every person leaking an "ip/mac address/canvas/OS" digital fingerprint. When my website was active (too expensive; hosts holding hostage), I honored the "Do Not Track" option and had a dummy cookie option for browsers that didn't support it but for those that didn't do either one, I could get your IP (censored most of it), your operating system, your device, screen resolutions, where you came in from, what you interacted, how long on each page, and where you left to. And the relevant part, if you were a returning viewer. That was with free and open source tools (Piwik); I'd hate to think what others like Google and Facebook are doing. I would also assume that they're depending on mobile users with smart phones and with applications that contain Google or Facebook libraries. More and more applications are including them by default all the time and don't think for a second there isn't any back scratching going on with your personal browsing, text messages, photos, etc.
Anyone else keep mentally doing this when seeing these headlines?
Yep. Assembler language is hard to crack.
"So fam when are they going to push updates? Where's the Ethernet port? Ohhhhh...I think it runs on WiFi and large SD cards." Friend: "Turnt."
https://github.com/Ybalrid/Fre...
It will be like a prion disease such as (https://www.cdc.gov/prions/index.html), but utilized in a way that's similar to CRISPR gene editing (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609722/crispr-in-2018-coming-to-a-human-near-you/) except it'll rain from the sky during a meteor shower from the debris of an asteroid with a hyperbolic trajectory (https://www.space.com/38580-interstellar-object-spotted-comet-asteroid-mystery.html) or the worse case scenario is that it directly hits Earth and wipes us all out except for the prions to start this mess all over again. Even we earthlings can land probes on comets (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta). Think of it as the alien equivalent of our golden records on Voyager 1 and 2 (https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/) but with genetic information that says "this is what we are" by species mutation. However, the odds of us being genetically similar enough to be susceptible to their prion is hopefully unlikely. I've often wondered if Mad Cow and similar diseases are just an alien Voyager failure. We may have come close; notice how the cow is number 9 on this list (https://www.thedodo.com/animals-you-had-no-idea-were-so-closely-related-to-humans-1172946617.html). But for now, we can just monitor the fruit flies (https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/03feb_fruitfly) as an inadvertent, invasion "litmus paper." A prion "disease" has a better chance of surviving a long space journey than even the robotic invasion theory does. Besides, we humans are a base-10 species (https://www.thoughtco.com/definition-of-base-10-2312365), so they'll have have to be close enough and long enough to learn our mathematics (1-10, symbols, and axioms) to hack our systems anyway. And if AI develops further, it'll act as a temporary firewall and hopefully log enough to know flag an alert. At any rate, if it is robotic, and they figure and Google or Facebook, they'll know to attack Windows first followed by about 2.2 billion people on their shit-list. But, my money is on "random chance prion" because I doubt they use anything close to our file formats. The only reason we can "crack" any of them is because we know what patterns to look for, most of which would be uniquely human. The risk of long journey mechanical failure is too high anyway; it would be better and cheaper to drop genetic material on passing asteroids and let random chance do the work.
...Just kidding. You know they're only doing that to keep gov offices from switching to Linux and make those idiotic enough to switch back to Windows to have to upgrade. LibreOffice is your friend.
Buy one and get a hard drive. Then grab Noobs or BerryBoot and unpack it onto the SD card. When you turn it in, you will have a lot of operating system install options. Pick OpenELEC. This will basically to the Raspberry Pi into a Kodi box. With the hard drive, you can just add episodes as needed. No reason to pay and risk privacy for PBS shows. Matter of fact, I'm pretty show Kodi has a few PBS addons. Free and open source is the way to go. It also should have parental controls in the settings or password protection for things at the very least so if they turn it on while you're not around, you don't have to worry.
George Lucas gets paid every time a company uses the word "droid," TV ads or whatever.
Besides, you can use Unity in Windows 10, so adaptablity to a new interface is a poor excuse if Microcrap is willing to allow it and WSL. People use Linux all the time and don't even realize it.
All they need is XFCE, MATE, or Zorin. Hell, they could use IceWM if push comes to shove. Unity and GNOME3, however popular, are just a drop in the bucket when listing available desktop environments and it's not like you can't run more than one or absolutelty have to use the default that came with the distro.
Well that sucks :(
You can get all of Wikipedia for ~60GB, I think. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik.... So, a bunch of Twitter text files might not be as large as you think. It's the JS that does the carding part and I doubt they're screen shooting them all.
Now needs to fork Thunderbird. We could call it Palehorse since it still uses Native American labeling and horses were used for mail delivery.
I clearly would love to see Linux being used as a desktop and not in another damn server, phone (except Librem 5), if you want to call Android "Linux," but the hardware to make owning a traditional desktop/laptop as a brand new, young owner is too expensive. You absolutely have to target a younger audience if you want to make this work. You're not going to get a 13 year old to use Arch or care about systemd or libre kernels and you're not going to get an experienced 50 year old to use Ubuntu. If it's not peer pressured on a Facefarm/Instacrap ad, give it up. If the Linux Foundation actually cared about desktops, they wouldn't focus on servers, allowed Micro$oft to join, or use MacOS for presentations. LF and Ubuntu only care about money and M$ will cut the chord and patent troll eventually. When you have a system as versatile as Linux but Window$ 10, iPhones, and Xbox's are everywhere, we would have to completely focus all of our attention towards marketing rather than developing and hoping our awesome FOSS software speaks for themselves. The closest we've come to actively informing the public about Linux is IBM's Linux commercial in 2001. If we could raise $5 million, we could make a 30 second ad during the Super Bowl. Just saying. Not exactly our "clientele," but it would be more than what we're doing now. The main hurdle right now is HARD INSTALL. Stop using VirtualBox and WSL people; you're making Linux look like an "fun little emulator" or an adult Atari/Vtech computer for when you're bored.