Man, I remember watching this guy about ten years ago. Great channel!

Yeah, but in my experience it isn’t great. Salix is a lot nicer.

Of course, your mileage may vary. There are definitely still a lot of true slackers out there!

Since the XNU kernel is part Mach, part OSFMK, and part FreeBSD, all NeXT machines and all Macs made since the 2000s run BSD.

KDE Liquid is also a thing.

Syncthing. It’s not so much a backup as redundancy, though.

I have machines in the network that rarely get powered on, however, so I could possibly consider them offline backups.

Well, it started out as a basic windowing system for DOS, so…

There’s your problem. Just keep the laugh track on and it stays funny.

Same deal with Friends and also a fair amount of standup.

No email provider will go to court for you for €3.99 per month.

From the start of the article:

Key Takeaways

• Proton Mail shared payment data with FBI through Swiss authorities via legal treaty
• Credit card payments eliminate anonymity despite encrypted email content remaining secure
• Third known disclosure reveals pattern of Swiss legal compliance over privacy promises

No, that bit’s funny. I mean the running joke about Linux audio being bad.

You know, I don’t get this joke. I have been using Linux and BSD since 2019, and the only incident I ever had was with sndio(7), and that was because I decided to switch to the -current branch of OpenBSD without heeding the warnings.

Apart from that, whether I was using ALSA, PulseAudio, PipeWire, JACK, or OSS (on FreeBSD), I always had a perfect experience.

Viewer? Probably just Quick Look. It’s built into the Files app.

If you want to edit, just use Apple Photos. Everything is in there anyway.

Fandom sucks. Here are two tools you will find useful:

• Indie Wiki Buddy - This automatically redirects you away from Fandom and to an external wiki (e.g. Minecraft Wiki, Tardis Wiki, etc.)
• Breezewiki - This is a private and sans-bullshit frontend for Fandom, written in Racket and created by Cadence Ember (they are also the creator of CloudTube, Bibliogram, and the YouTube Annotation Archive, among other contributions). Indie Wiki Buddy can redirect to Breezewiki if an indie equivalent doesn’t exist.

Tox is interesting, though potentially less secure than Briar as they rolled their own encryption and have not been audited (afaik).

Neither do I. I use Mullvad Browser, which is based on Firefox.

Brave has its own content blocking system, which is on-par with uBO and better than uBO Lite. I tested it myself a while back, and Cover Your Tracks, Fingerprint.com, and CreepJS indicated that it was incredibly difficult to fingerprint: moreso than Librewolf, but slightly less so than Tor/Mullvad.

That said, however, PrivacyTests.org indicates that Librewolf blocks more tracking technologies than Brave, so it’s possible things have changed since I last experimented with browsers other than Tor and Mullvad.

Well, it does do a fantastic job of removing ads and reducing fingerprinting.

They are a provider as well as a client now.

GuixSD wasn’t an option on Tiermaker, but I have used it. I personally found it hardier than NixOS, but the libre-only package selection was quite restrictive and the lack of the non-free iwlwifi driver prevented me from installing it on any of my boxes other than my 2007 MacBook. I know this is the point, but it’s still annoying.

Like 9front and Haiku, I hope to daily-drive it someday; but at the moment it is sadly quite unsuitable for my hardware, workflow, and use-case.

For me, it’s the combination of its American base, its lack of disk encryption in the installer, the fact that I’ve never managed to get a usable installation, and the fact that Mageia (another Mandriva derivative) and Salix (a Slackware-based distro with a similar UX) are objectively better.

If you are happy with PCLOS, however, godspeed.

I used to run it on my Raspberry Pi 5 without complaint.

Some stuff did take a while to compile, but the trick is to do other things — like make some tea, go for a walk, or watch TV — instead of staring at the terminal the whole time (I am 100% serious; this is not sarcasm).

Idk, autism?