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Must fight temptation to buy an overpriced raspberry pi in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Mini PC with N200 and NVMe SSD uses around 7W when idling.

For a minimally higher power consumption you can have up to 32 GB of memory, more powerful CPU, and decent GPU for video transcoding purposes.

The Current System of Online Advertising has Been Ruled Illegal by The Belgian Court of Appeal. Advertising itself is Still Allowed, but not in a Way That Secretly Tracks Everyone’s Behavior. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

GDPR is regarding personal data, which includes cookies as well as any other fingerprinting. Even though browser fingerprinting does not persist any data on a device itself, explicit consent must be gathered before it's used for processing (i.e. tracking) purposes.

Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. in c/[email protected]
Gnome's new video player, Showtime, gets merged into the main branch. The new video player will replace Totem on Gnome 49. in c/[email protected]
Top virologists sound the alarm on bird flu and plead with world leaders to prepare for another pandemic in c/[email protected]
Requirements in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What's more surprising to me, it seems to me that actual human users are also posting on that forum.

U.S. Companies Honed Their Surveillance Tech in Israel. Now It’s Coming Home. in c/privacy
Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Wayfire is a Wayland compositor inspired by Compiz: https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire