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  • I’m surprised and happy that SUSE is still doing well. I have fond memories of using SUSE in the enterprise especially around their “perfect guest” campaign for using it in virtualized environments. I thought they had very well-baked integration with large Windows networks—things just worked out of the box that didn’t with RHEL. I’m sure a lot has changed in the last decade but I appreciated their cooperative stance in the enterprise.



  • panicnow@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlWhy don’t you like Apple?
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    5 months ago

    I’m not an Apple apologist, but I feel there are some things Apple does that are privacy focused.

    • The ability to E2EE encrypt iCloud is a very simple privacy feature that is accessible to the technical and non-technical alike.
    • Private relay provides a double VPN architecture that doesn’t cause constant captcha hell and again just works for non-technical people.
    • Hide my email, while not being perfect, is a pretty straightforward method to make throwaway email addresses.

    The things I hate about Apple are generally not privacy related.

    • They are a mega-corporation that stifles innovation
    • They don’t allow other browsers
    • They are puritanical about what is allowed in the App store





  • I have Server 2022 with a GUI installed on my laptop because it lets me use all the server features, play Windows games that use DRM and not spend time messing around with getting linux to run on a laptop. I have Linux on the laptop, but running inside VMs.

    I still don’t want copilot installed. I can confirm it is installed on my Windows Server 2022 laptop. I don’t see any entry points on the desktop or start menu. I haven’t checked Edge yet.

    I wonder if copilot is released to all update channels or if it is only on a subset?




  • It could be they are collecting and hiding the data, but what they publicly disclose they have certainly varies. My de-google-fication really started when I used google takeout (like the OP here). Excluding things I wanted backed up (e.g. photos), Google still had more than a GB of textual data (this was 7 years ago or so—my memory may be wrong). I use Apple a lot so I went to their “takeout” page. They had a few MB of data pretty much all of which I considered innocuous. I don’t think they are equivalent.

    I do agree Facebook probably collects as much data as Google, but I gave that up long ago.



  • panicnow@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml6÷2(1+2)
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    11 months ago

    This is a very nice piece that had so much information I did not know. Toward the top of the article I was wishing for footnotes, references or something that would indicate it was not just your opinion, but as I got further into the piece you provided so many great references. I thought the calculator manuals were particularly accessible and convincing. Thanks for a great read!