If US uses FOSS software in its operations (it does, everyone does) it has a vested interest in keeping these projects alive.
Also many of the sponsored projects help people circumvent authoritarian government overreach, which is something that until recently has been considered “good” for the US. The more freely information can flow the harder it is for authoritarian regimes to exert control.
Ahh yes, consolidation and centralization, core pillars of the FOSS movement.
gestures vaguely in a direction
Ehh, people, you know?
Yay for team blank screen… I think?
In your head, do you say System D or System’d?
Feels like he’d be better served as a UI/UX consultant for some of the bigger distros, have impact with more staying power
Domains are cheap, buy one and then you can jump between whatever services aren’t caught up in the outrage of the moment.
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Speak with your money.
This is tough to do when there’s often not a functional alternative. Buying old motherboard stock and a non-HDR monitor isn’t going to teach manufactures people want Linux support, they’ll just think you are saving money / don’t care about new features.
Without some sort of clear ‘Linux Certified’ system they can compare sales against, no hardware manufacturer is going to be able to recognize the 0.1% sales increase stemming from the time random internet volunteers fixed the open source implementation of their display drivers.
Seconded, move the games to the NVME if you notice slow load times or textures not rendering quickly enough.
I get the joke, but also I was shocked to see in the article:
Thunderbird for Android runs on mobile devices running Android 5 and above.
Who out there is still running Lollipop?! That came out over a decade ago. You can’t even get Thunderbird through the Play Store because Google Play Services dropped support for 5.1 back in July. I have so many questions.
I know little about Proton Pass, but how confident are you they don’t also use a proprietary SDK with their open source apps?
Your warning I heed
Running as root is risky
Time for firewalls
This beta OS Looks minimal, simple, fast Maybe I’ll try it
Mmm, GPLv3 killing devices.
Unpaid Linux ambassadors? Isn’t that just Lemmy?
Honestly I don’t know, but it seems to me like extracting every single frame of a video as a lossless PNG is only really something that’s necessary if you’re trying to archive something or do frame by frame restoration. Either way, it is something that you hopefully aren’t doing every day, so why not just let it run overnight & move on?
Otherwise ask yourself if you can settle with just extracting a single clip/section, or what’s actually wrong with lossy jpeg with a low -qscale:v (high quality) - start around 5 and work down until you visually can’t see any difference
Use it? The US invented it. The US has historically funded it as part of their human rights initiatives. Like I said:
Given the nature of the Tor network, it’s likely any “official” use within the US government would probably involve things like communicating with people working undercover / informants, etc., and not be something broadly discussed.