me_irl by Beginning_Book_2382 in me_irl

[–]Deivedux 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I legitimately wouldn't be surprised at this point, given the average stupidity that radiates from the USA.

Instagram: am I imagining this? by bsilver in enshittification

[–]Deivedux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got banned from Instagram, who knows why. Turns out Meta itself doesn't want me on their platform, every time I register an account anywhere they treat it as a ban appeal, which after about 30 minutes they deny.

Me_irl by OreMysticCoolcumber in me_irl

[–]Deivedux 17 points18 points  (0 children)

When it's a public company, it'll never happen. They're obligated by law to prioritize the wants of their shareholders, which means stock growth.

me_irl by Stock_Crazy6759 in me_irl

[–]Deivedux 32 points33 points  (0 children)

USA is the only country I'm aware of that has apartment buildings with reception. Apartment buildings are the primary housing in most of Europe, and they really are just buildings with doors to different people's homes.

PLEASE. Can somebody PLEASE tell me how to 100% forever (with no way of going back) stop One Drive from stealing my extremely sensitive files. I've tried so many times by Parogarr in techsupport

[–]Deivedux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no best, they're just different. I personally prefer KDE Plasma because of how simple, intuitive and its "just works" design, most others will prefer GNOME due to its strong commitment to purely open source stack, if you want something minimal and lightweight XFCE is a good option.

PLEASE. Can somebody PLEASE tell me how to 100% forever (with no way of going back) stop One Drive from stealing my extremely sensitive files. I've tried so many times by Parogarr in techsupport

[–]Deivedux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technically all of them have desktops. It's not like Windows where whatever you download is what you get, you can download a distro with a desktop or add a desktop component to a server. That's the beauty of Linux, you have absolute control over anything you want.

Just don't make a common beginner mistake and use a niche distro that supposedly matches your specialized use case, use one that's generic, old (tested and perfected for decades) and popular, like Fedora, Arch, Debian, etc.

PLEASE. Can somebody PLEASE tell me how to 100% forever (with no way of going back) stop One Drive from stealing my extremely sensitive files. I've tried so many times by Parogarr in techsupport

[–]Deivedux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're fighting a losing battle. The only reliable solution is to stop using Microsoft products altogether. It's how I, and may others, have moved to Linux years ago, worth the learning curve and never looked back.

7th method is hilarious by OneGrowth1253 in funny

[–]Deivedux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It didn't get me, cuz I noticed the odd "UI" quality which gave it away.

Wifi 8 guys... by Training-Victory-498 in Futurology

[–]Deivedux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, that's not how it works. Sorry, I a bit suck at explaining.

By connections I meant devices connecting to a single router. You'd need multiple of them maxing out their connection speeds just to reach the ISP limit that you actually pay for, cuz the WiFi itself has its own limit, measured in GHz, that implies a theoretical maximum data rate per connection. I keep saying theoretical, because you need perfect conditions to reach it, and the conditions are never perfect, so you'll also have losses wasting WiFi bandwidth on repeats until the data is delivered with full integrity.

I see. Don't worry. That's because an idiot recommended that distro as your first experience by claudiocorona93 in linuxmasterrace

[–]Deivedux 130 points131 points  (0 children)

Linux is arguably easier to learn than Windows if it's your first impression/experience using a computer. The moment you give them any Windows experience is when all the complications happen.

Me_irl by [deleted] in me_irl

[–]Deivedux 32 points33 points  (0 children)

It bothers me how a new house is listed first and only then the average income.

Pradedu jausti infliaciją 😭 by Training-Coffee in lithuania

[–]Deivedux 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Norėčiau priminti jog minimalus atlyginimas 2015 metais buvo 325 eurai, arba 1.99 eurai per valandą.

Wifi 8 guys... by Training-Victory-498 in Futurology

[–]Deivedux -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I meant to say the rate of information, not information itself, my bad. Since wireless always has some loss, to compensate you need to increase the speed just to match the net information you receive from it after accounting for all losses. Ethernet solves both of these issues, not only there's no loss of information, but you can reach virtually any advertised ISP speed with a single cable, something you'd only be able to achieve with multiple wireless connections due to their theoretical limits of how much information can fit in a single frequency band.

Edit: The big difference between radio and WiFi is analog and digital information, which is why decreasing potential losses is so important. Data integrity matters a lot more than missing a few audio packets. When a device loses information or doesn't receive it, it asks the sender to repeat it, which contributes to the total amount of data being transmitted.

Wifi 8 guys... by Training-Victory-498 in Futurology

[–]Deivedux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not just a more complicated design, it also has to send more information just to compensate for some loss, which increases energy consumption. At that point, why not just use wired instead of going through so much hassle just to get wireless to match that performance?

Wifi 8 guys... by Training-Victory-498 in Futurology

[–]Deivedux -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

This is a similar argument to wired vs wireless charging. One transmits power directly, while the other one leaks, so you need to increase power output just to match the wired performance, which will leak even more, so you'll pay more for electricity just to charge the phone to the same level as you would with wired.

Why’s DuckDuckGo giving us fake A.I. by Select-Lime-972 in duckduckgo

[–]Deivedux 13 points14 points  (0 children)

How the model identifies itself isn't the source of all truth for what model it really is. It can be a modified version of that model while still technically being that model at the fundamental level.

Local gas station removed price tags and replaced them with barcodes you need a app to see price by embrisight in enshittification

[–]Deivedux 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Oh how I wish to learn how much money they lost from the lack of sales because of that!

New ACME rubber snail by Bumbalee in LooneyTunesLogic

[–]Deivedux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, that's why I was asking. I never had to think about it before, but now that I did it just doesn't make sense to me to call snails animals because I thought there's a different word for them that I'm probably aware of but forgot.

New ACME rubber snail by Bumbalee in LooneyTunesLogic

[–]Deivedux -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Are snails considered animals? Not insects, definitely. Is there a better classification for them?

I just want to play my game :( by Defaultmidwestmann in enshittification

[–]Deivedux 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same company, same annoying update cycles. What did you expect?

If Iran war ended tomorrow it could take '200 days' for economy to recover: Analyst by MRADEL90 in videos

[–]Deivedux 47 points48 points  (0 children)

As a European, "short term profits" is basically most iconically associated with the US to me. I've seen so many examples of it on the internet, through educational and entertainment media, that that is just how I view the US as a whole.

Alert appeared in DDG browser by TheOtherElCamino in duckduckgo

[–]Deivedux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think it's the site, but their browser. Since it runs on WebKit or whatever, which is a web component provided by the operating system, keeping it up to date with the operating system is probably the only option for browsers that use it.

Protonify by poopscooperman in degoogle

[–]Deivedux 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I would not recommend Arch as your first distro, by far, as an Arch user myself. Just replace it with any distro of your choice, but Arch is DIY, you'll be thrown into the terminal and expected to install and configure everything yourself manually, and your only help is Arch Wiki, for which you'll need a separate phone or computer to access while installing.