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swap SSD to test run Linux?

That's the best, safest way. By the way, you can do the same thing from a flash drive too, if it has enough space to hold the system. I don't mean as a live temporary system, I mean you can just point the installer to a second flash drive as the install disk and it won't care.

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in this thread, as a twist on the more common meme "is this AI" or the more accusatory variant "this is AI", we doubt human intelligence instead

I'm disheartened by comments stating "whats the point?" just because it's hyper realistic. I do prefer less realistic art too, but the amount of dedication it must've taken this person to develop these skills and then the work on each painting, it speaks volumes beyond just being a replacement for a picture... You'd hang it on a wall and tell every visitor "this is a painting" and then each and every one of them would go NOOO

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With FOSS, what is to stop scammers from hiding malware or worse in their programs?

Not so much what's preventing, but how hard it is to get away with it.

Whatever closed-source software is doing on your system, there is no way to know to begin with, what it is that it is doing. You can only look at the outer effects it has, but you can't examine it much. So even if a closed system is doing all sorts of things, as long as it's stealthy enough, there would be no consequences at all.

This is the very opposite is what you get with FOSS, not to mention the difference on how software is developed, built, distributed and managed in unix systems compared to proprietary ones.

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I think it's neither. Mullvad and Tor are a bit more extreme in their defaults, but LibreWolf is not as vanilla as your average browser. I think a welcome screen explaining the address bar controls for toggling data storage and disabling fingerprinting protection on broken trusted sites would make it much more practical.

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I think you really miss the point. It's as if your suggestion that romanization methods have imperfections dismisses the actual reasons why people will refuse to make the effort to learn how to pronounce a name from a language other than their own, which go far beyond whether or not the spelling "makes sense".

The comic gives a very concrete example of that. It wouldn't matter if the letters exactly mapped to a perfect pronunciation, the mere fact it does not roll of the tongue, i.e. "sounds foreign", coupled with the underlying xenophobia+racism combo is what's at work there.

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Do y'all have any music or playlists you find particularly helpful when trying get work tasks done? (The computer kind of work)

It's been a few years I've only listened to music without any vocals in it. My favorite is tuning to SomaFM's ambient-music stations like Synphaera, Deep Space One, Space Station and, if you are really into the slowest kind of ambient music, Drone Zone. Soma has many instrumental stations with specific genres like Fluid for instrumental trap.