The end-of-year contest from Tech Won’t Save Us to let YOU choose the worst person in the tech industry is back

Personally, I’m not brand loyal to any particular OS. There are good things about a lot of different operating systems, and I even have good things to say about ChromeOS. It just depends on what a user needs from an operating system.

Most Windows-only users I am acquainted with seem to want a device that mostly “just works” out of the box, whereas Linux requires a nonzero amount of tinkering for most distributions. I’ve never encountered a machine for sale with Linux pre-installed outside of niche small businesses selling pre-built PCs.

Windows users seem to want to just buy, have, and use a computer, whereas Linux users seem to enjoy problem solving and tinkering for fun. These two groups of people seem as if they’re very fundamentally different in what they want from a machine, so a user who solely uses Windows moving over to Linux never made much sense to me.

Why did you switch, and what was your process like? What made you choose Linux for your primary computing device, rather than macOS for example?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/55081750

DRAM shortages may lead to the return of 4GB RAM smartphones and microSD slots by 2026, with flagship devices seeing a slowdown in RAM upgrades.

Archive: https://archive.ph/k8LHw

Video tutorial of Creative Generalist channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JztSbwWZzsw

Not as convenient as the Gimp patch but still a detailed step-by-step tutorial for Photoshop Style Settings, Hotkeys and User Interface for Krita beginners.

Other useful links:

Introduction to Krita coming from Photoshop

Smart Patch Tool

How to Use Lasso and Other Selection Tools in Krita

Color Adjustment Curves

How to Use Layer Styles in Krita

"It wasn’t because Biden voters shifted to Trump—but because so many of them stayed home."

We must not repeat this same mistake again. Remember to always vote in every election and consider volunteering to knock on doors. It can make a difference. There are elections that are decided with just a small number of votes.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40055131

OG title: We need to talk... about the Proton ecosystem

Ecosystem is a trap. It lures you in with the promise of convenience, only to lock you inside a walled garden. Like Google and Apple. They start with a good product, but then force you to use the whole suite to get the full experience. This is dangerous.

Ecosystems are concentrating all of your data and your digital life in the hands of a single entity. An entity that grows so large and powerful that it will start making compromises against your rights only to find more ways to profit or protect their business. The larger the ecosystem, the bigger data harvester it becomes. It becomes a bigger target for hackers and the more products it offers the more data it has to give to the surveillance state.

We know that the big tech does this, because their only moral value is the shareholder value. [4] But when a private company starts quacking like a duck in the steps of the big tech, it should worry us the same way. That company is Proton. The maker of the most renowned privacy products that have always been meant as ethical alternatives to the big tech.

Today, Proton resembles more and more the ecosystems of Google and Apple than it does its noble origins of fighting the big tech. This is a problem. It’s a problem for your privacy and it’s a problem for the whole community. But you probably never of heard of this perspective, because none of this is talked about enough. There is a reason for this.

You see, most content on Proton you’ll find, is coming from sources that are sponsored or affiliated with Proton. And I know how lucrative Proton’s deals are, because Proton even tried to pay me. Of course, I refused their offer, because taking their money would incentivize me not to recommend against Proton products. I am uniquely positioned to give you a nuanced critique of Proton and how to solve this problem.

Some good points to be said. I find the overall argument a bit weak as it is mainly one of user erorr of sorts. Btw THO has some pretty good back log of videos on privacy; check out their stuff on burners phones and anonymizing yourself at a protest.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen slop as the 2025 Word of the Year. We define slop as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” All that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English language came through again.

Long before LibsofTikTok and Elon Musk called on parents to cancel Netflix, cartoons were already on the tail end of their queer renaissance.

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The original was posted on /r/sbcgaming by /u/danilouruk on 2025-12-16 01:19:54+00:00.

I have a boss who tells us weekly that everything we do should start with AI. Researching? Ask ChatGPT first. Writing an email or a document? Get ChatGPT to do it.

They send me documents they "put together" that are clearly ChatGPT generated, with no shame. They tell us that if we aren't doing these things, our careers will be dead. And their boss is bought in to AI just as much, and so on.

I feel like I am living in a nightmare.

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday that the FBI disrupted a "massive and horrific terror plot" by an anti-government extremist group allegedly planning a series of bombings against multiple targets in Orange County and Los Angeles, California, beginning on New Year's Eve.

Bondi said the plot by the so-called "Turtle Island Liberation Front," which she described in the announcement as a "far-left, pro-Palestine, anti-government and anti-capitalist group," also "planned to target ICE agents and vehicles."

Additional charges are expected to be filed against the suspects, Essayli said.

The FBI on Friday “intercepted a scheme by members of a violent extremist group we believe determined to detonate explosives at multiple businesses on New Year's Eve," according to Davis.

The four people arrested, whom Davis said were "members of a radical faction of the Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), a violent homegrown anti-government group," allegedly planned to plant backpacks containing improvised explosive devices "to be detonated at multiple locations in Southern California targeting U.S. companies."

Carroll and other participants are alleged to have formed a Signal chat known as the "Order of the Black Lotus," which Carroll deemed a "radical" faction of the TILF, and ultimately used it to discuss their bombing plot, according to the complaint.

In their Operation Midnight Sun planning book, the group is alleged to have gone into meticulous detail, arranging how they would split into teams and plant backpacks with IEDs along their "assigned buildings," the complaint says. An "off ground team member" would be assigned to monitor police scanners in the event law enforcement was alerted or responding to their

In a search of Carroll's residence, according to the complaint, investigators uncovered posters and materials associated with TILF, including one reading "DEATH TO ICE," and another reading "DEATH TO AMERICA, LONG LIVE TURTLE ISLAND & PALESTINE."

FBI Director Kash Patel also posted Monday that a fifth person "believed to be linked" to the Turtle Island Liberation Front had been arrested by the FBI in New Orleans for "allegedly planning a separate violent attack."