I heard you can get spaghetti from trees in some places

I've yet to play it, but I've only heard good things! Looking to purchase it next time it goes on sale

I might be completely wrong here, but I don't believe that the GDPR requires that the user themselves can delete the information. I imagine that as long as instance owners / admins delete user data upon the user's request to do so, that they'd be operating within GDPR standards.

But again, I probably don't know enough about GDPR to be commenting on it :P

Shit - swimming, healing, integration, teamwork

Second Fedora workstation. Spent almost an entire year distro hopping to find a distro that worked out the box with my laptops touch screen. Fedora has been the one - super polished too!

Open sourcing drivers would definitely go miles in helping to improve Linux's optimization and power efficiency as a whole. Unfortunately, though, until the majority of software is written to be bespoke to Linux, we're always going to be at a disadvantage. One day...

You do realize that the heat death of the universe would only likely take place in literally trillions and trillions and trillions of years time? Climate change is happening now.

I really enjoyed both the Ori games, Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps. The dev studio more or less got scrapped, but the two games they put out are honestly my favourite platformer games ever made. The music, combat, platforming, story and artwork are all so well done!

Do you have any actual examples?

Yeah, the person who initially recommended me the game told me to not even watch the trailer. I watched it anyway, but the point he was making was to enjoy the game the first time, as you won't get that same experience again.

I guess you could say the same applies to every story game, but from what I've heard, it applies so much more so to Outer Wilds. Wish me luck on my adventure, I look forward to it!

Not sure if you meant pihole or not, but if you did, I thought I'd just mention that a pihole doesn't remove ads on YouTube due to the fact that the ads and the videos are served from the same server. You block the ads, you block the videos. Made me quite sad after I set my one up.

Unless you didn't mean pihole, in which case do enlighten me as to what a pinhole is :))

You're right in saying that. I might be wrong, but I'm fairly sure Parkinson's Law of Data Processing is the name for this concept?

Obviously my opinion, but infinity for lemmy has worked really great for me so far on Android!

You mention waste, and actually that's another interesting point. It's no secret that Linux words wonders on older hardware, precisely due to its high level of optimization and low storage space requirement. Therefore, it could be argued that using Linux and other FOSS would quite literally reduce the amount of e-waste produced each year, since people would be able to use the same computer for longer.

Ah, that's quite interesting. You really do learn something new every day!

Yes, massively. At least with current data, I don't imagine it would even be possible to measure this on a large scale, especially given the variation in what a computer is actually trying to do. I think it's made even harder by the fact that software is often targetted at Windows or OSX rather than Linux, so even benchmarking software is near impossible unless you're writing software which is able to leverage the specific unique features of Linux which make it more opimized.

I've used freedns.afraid.org.

You can run up to 5 domains on there free of charge. On their about-us page, they state that all the money generated from premium users goes back into the company. Their domains are all public, and are "donated" (not sure if that's the word) by many generous people. Their site says they're currently getting around 7 billion dns requests a month.

The website was started by a hobbiest developer who wanted "to create a safe environment where other programmers could share domain names with one another at no cost".

I'm not sure that it really counts as FOSS, but it provides a way for anyone to use a domain free of charge without having to own any server infrastructure themselves.

https://freedns.afraid.org/about-us/

Edit: also just realized this post is 3 years old, sorry for being a bit late to the party! I hope this helps someone else :)

That's good to hear!

May I ask, what exactly is a shared ground connection? I've not heard that term before.

Yes, I probably should have rephrased that as "are often more efficient" rather than implying that this is always the case. I do think, and I mentioned this somewhere else, though, that it's quite a hard comparison to make. I'd probably make the argument that if the driver itself was the issue, making the driver open-source would likely (and that's a "likely" going off an assumption which I can't back up) be more efficient.

Generally speaking, my point does still apply for fully open-source software which has been developed specifically for Linux. Unfortunately, we won't be seeing much mainstream Linux-bespoke software for a while, at least not until the year of the Linux desktop finally arrives.

I completely agree with what you're saying, though.