Unless I’m missing the joke, I think you’re in the wrong place. Also, IDK.

Skimming the article, it appears they attacked a particular client that is popular in Korea.

I could be completely wrong, but I know they have a tagging system in place. The tags presumably come from metadata providers (they give basic information about the song, like who wrote it and when it was made, as well as pictures for album covers and such). After that they can pretty easily look for similarities, eg. two items both tagged funny. If you were concerned that they upload your listening history somewhere to come up with recommendations, they do not.

I believe zfs has deduplication built in if you want a separate backup partition. Not sure about its reliability though. Personally I just have a script that keeps a backup and an oldbackup, and they are both fairly small. I keep a file in my home dir called excluded for things like linux ISOs that don’t need backed up.

Damn, federation is crazy. Over here you’re the only comment lol.

Duck tape? Could also try pinching the piece with needle nose pliers right at the bend.

Frequently software developed for one is commonly used on the other, such as openssh, iirc.

Boot to BIOS. That should show you either CPU arch. or an exact model that you can check on Intel’s website. It may be an issue entirely unrelated to the architecture.

3. Take it or leave it.

I wouldn’t switch to mint from debian. Freebsd could be worth trying, but I would play with it in a VM first. I am not knowledgeable about BSD’s, but there are others if you were unaware. They have similar names but I think netBSD and freebsd exist. FYI, BSD isn’t linux if you were unaware. Your phrasing suggested that you might think it is so I wanted to let you know.

Newer kernels are great if you need bleeding edge hardware or filesystems, but for your use case I really think debian is the way to go.

I would like to suggest you throw Fedora into the mix, or even opensuse if you want to try an rpm based distro. Opensuse has a leap flavor which is stable like debian. Fedora is fairly stable, but has regular releases (2 a year) so you also get more current software.

Sorry to throw more options into the mix, but those are fairly simple and mainstream options (fedora is more mainstream fyi) but they are worth considering.

Not that this isn’t interesting, but how is it linux related?

For people who prefer to read: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Passim_P2P_Metadata

Github is microsoft.

You could buy a cheap vps and host your stuff there with basic html that you could learn as you go if you don’t know already. I think their are pre made licenses that you could put on there to stop ai training. You could also hide pages on it full of garbage data for anyone who ignores the license to get bad results.

Respond with “I think it is a scam. The website seems pretty sketchy.”

Also proxitok

I’m a big fan of Debian stable for school / work laptops. Older packages aren’t great, but if you aren’t someone who needs the newest libreoffice version or something, it works fine. Updates will basically never break it apart from major releases (which you have a few years before you have to worry about, although you can upgrade sooner).

I’m not a windows user, but I’ve heard windows enterprise has a lot of the annoyances enabled. Also linux, but I’m guessing there’s a reason you don’t use that already.

Are you saying you DON’T want to protect the children??? You monster! /s

Edit: “Are you saying 9/11 didn’t change everything, because 9/11 changed everything” --Peter Griffin (I may have the quote wrong, but it was something like that)

Not who you asked, but there are plenty. GPT4all is pretty good. You could check out locallama on Lemmy for more.

Keep in mind, most people would be coming from windows where installing software is going to some website, hoping it isn’t a fake malware site, running their exe with admin privileges, and clicking next through a bunch of eulas until it finally is done. By comparison even the worst software centers are an improvement.