Yeah I mean some form of asymmetric encryption/validation would work but it stops the real reason why Google wants to implement this.

Can I ask what you found terrible? Ive been getting into some FOSS contributions (for my own weird bugs) this year and I’d like to start addressing some of the issues people come across when they try out Linux

So they found Google guilty of monopolistic practices then agreed to do nothing about it.

Sounds about right.

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They make faraday cages for phones these days.

Yeah sounds like missing drivers, pretty sure the latest nvidia driver is 580.xx but Mint might have an older version that’s stable.

IIRC you should be able to install the drivers with the ‘Driver manager’ program

Another point to add to this, I don’t care what Google’s verification of an app entails. There’s tonnes of malware on the app store, their word means nothing about security of the end user.

It’s mostly the account name and computer name, something like

user@computer $

OP might have a good reason (e.g network setup different/real name visible) or is just security/privacy conscious, but you’d be unlikely to dox yourself from a screenshot like this if you’re not a power user.

Mint is quite a friendly distro, definitely a great first choice and one I’d recommend. However if you find it not to your liking but still want to try Linux; fedora is another good no nonsense distro that would be suitable for you.

Honestly Googles products are terrible these days. I have been pretty lax about my privacy but after so much enshittification I switched my services to something that works and doesn’t harvest my data for the privilege.

When they kill off Graphene/Custom ROMs I’ll switch to a linux phone or brickphone.

Glad to know giving the thing you just fixed up a quick slap of encouragement is allowed for aviation mechanics.

LtG has been pretty on point with its modelling compared to real life data since its publication.

BUT LtG wasn’t a prediction for the end of the world, it was/is a model of interconnected metrics about our society at large and to illustrate two points:

1. You cannot have infinite growth in a finite system.

2. Society has to maintain a harmony of these metrics to prevent itself from collapsing.

Basically what happened after its publication, a bunch of economists attacked it with their can openers. Some whackjobs claimed the club of rome was an illuminati front, a few scientists recalibrated the model with updated data, showing evidence in its favour and the world moved on ignoring it and the myriad of other climate warnings

PBRT, Writing my own emulators, engines and games made me appreciate computer science so much so that I found webdev to be monotonous and boring enough to leave the industry.

Whaddup my dudes! Same era, first computer I used had 10GB of HDD and 64MB RAM, still have a backup of the files somewhere…

Google and Microsoft have to be dragged kicking and squealing into proper policy that actually damages their business models.

They have been completely silent on these age verification checks, in Aus this is being implemented by an un-elected government official whose career was largely working for Microsoft for the past 20 years.

This is all about data mining.

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Shit dawg all you had to say is citation needed.

Thornton, A., 2019. Gender equality in STEM is possible

Case in point, men and women are almost 50/50 in STEM careers around Eastern Europe due to the USSRs policies pushing more women into these careers.

People don’t realise that these norms they hold as dogma are so short-lived and subject to change that opposition only shows them unable to comprehend history past their lived experience.

It’s ashame they have to drag us down with them.

Shh

@BaroqueInMind@piefed.social

See what I meant when I expected the Australian government to do something over those protests? I guess it did make me feel good about myself after all

Pretty sure I had Embrace Extend Extinguish as my ‘status’ when microsoft inevitably introduced that linkedin style social media bullshit to a git server.

Plenty of good alternatives out there, or roll your own!