Sure it is. So you won’t mind when I replace $1000 of your money with $1000 of Monopoly money.
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And they created legitimate value via the user-friendliness of their apps.
What?! WTF talks like this? This reads like it was written by a marketroid.
People aren’t defending those things. They’re pointing out how these replacements are so much worse.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit users hate NordVPN. Are their criticisms legit?English
4·6 days agoThey removed support for port forwarding. If not for that, I probably would’ve gone with them.
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Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•In 2022, the American Medical Association called for a permanent end to Daylight Savings Time, citing negative effects on health
182·7 days agoDaylight Saving Time (not Savings). Most people get this wrong and I’m not sure why.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instantEnglish
111·7 days agoNaw, Alexey Grigorev is a real person, with a GiHub and everything, and he wrote a blog post about this very incident. The person writing the article just fucked up the name.
I’m surprised that you jumped to that conclusion without doing a 5-minute web search.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."English
2·10 days agoYou can also download some LLMs and run them locally.
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Technology@lemmy.world•California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setupEnglish
3·12 days agoPeople already hate him this much, and he wants to run for president. Because Democrats didn’t lose badly enough last time.
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Technology@lemmy.world•California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setupEnglish
1·12 days agoShould we outlaw electricity because it might be used in some way to make nukes?
No, because there are lots of good uses for electricity. What is the good use of this bill?
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Why isn't there a Windows community? Is Linux winning?
2·14 days agoBy the same token, Mastodon has a lot more posts about Linux than Windows.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Why isn't there a Windows community? Is Linux winning?
2·14 days agoWhy are so many reddit subs so hostile? It isn’t just a problem with their Linux forums; it’s the entire site.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Why isn't there a Windows community? Is Linux winning?
3·14 days agoI had to start using it again for work. It’s improved. It has a Unix terminal now. Still annoying as fuck in a lot of ways, and the community sucks. A lot of stuff that you can get for free on Linux costs money, and even though some Linux software should work in theory, in practice it does not.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Why isn't there a Windows community? Is Linux winning?
2·14 days agoI’m a former Mac cultist, but in my defense it was my first experience with computers.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Why isn't there a Windows community? Is Linux winning?
5·14 days agoThere are folks who are passionate about Windows, but those folks are also highly unlikely to use something like Lemmy.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Why isn't there a Windows community? Is Linux winning?
1·14 days agoIt’s more than that. Linux needs community for support.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Why isn't there a Windows community? Is Linux winning?
1·14 days agoI used to know a kid who was a hardcore Windows stan. He wasn’t terribly bright. He had a business idea for a company called “Hackers For Hire” where he would come to your house and show you how to download commercial software for free.
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Technology@lemmy.world•President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systemsEnglish
1·15 days agoI hate when I get nagged by pickle artists.
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Fucking basedEnglish
1·16 days agoProton.
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Fucking basedEnglish
1·16 days agoI wonder if they actually cut it off. I’ve never tested it. Having a VPN is a good idea just from a privacy standpoint, though. The benefits for torrenting and getting around region locks are just a bonus.



KDE has this built in. Alt + F1 IIRC.