Yes.

No, you’re not understanding it correctly. The issue is that kernel-level DRM is a terrible thing on Windows, the fact that it doesn’t work on Linux is also a side effect.

What kind of name is Lachlan?!

Brand protection partners is a much friendlier way to say bloodsucking lawyers.

This was driving me absolutely crazy until I read the last paragraph! Adding an email alias is absolutely a 30 second fix, I’m sorry you had to work with such a shitty IT department.

AliExpress will somehow find a way to ship you a mat that doesn’t work after waiting 2 months for it to arrive.

Cool, can’t wait to ignore this game because Ubisoft makes it.

Inscription! FTL faster than light! Dicey dungeons!

YES

You just have to get them to support a free image viewer that also supports HEIC, not impossible.

Here’s $0 kid, buy yourself a better operating system. All the others come with HEIC support.

Does your voice calling work ok in Firefox? My video calls start off ok but always seem to drop out after a short bit. I wonder if it’s Firefox or my 30 privacy and security extensions lol

It sucks, it doesn’t work properly in Firefox, so I have keep it open in a Chromium window too. This morning I saw new messages in my Chromium but not in Firefox until I reloaded the page. I wonder what other information it’s keeping from me.

I love KDE. It’s got easy to use power user features and is very robust.

Possibly, but that’s a much smaller project being run by 1 guy. Linux has a lot more people and reviews involved.

Well it’s clear whose side God is on.

My first thought is that this was to make Linux palatable to western regulations, like how companies can’t use Kaspersky anymore. Stupid if I’m right because it’s not like the fsb is going to sneak spyware into Linux.

Edit: Linus commented on this and I was right: https://lemmy.world/comment/13034386

Google is not killing uBlock Origin. It’s changing how Chrome works. uBlock Origin will continue to work in my Firefox and other browsers.

Eww extremely embarrassing that they used Windows.

FreeFileSync detects moves and changes quickly without rereading the whole file. The first time you sync it will read every file to hash them first, this takes a long time but subsequent syncs will be fast.