Jure Repinc
Digital and software freedom/rights advocate from Slovenia, Europe. Also a member of the Pirate party. You can find me on Mastodon: @JRepin@mstdn.io
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Those sociopaths burning the planet and pumping out all the water are completely out of touch with reality. They would rather destroy the planet for some Annoying Idiocy .
Jure Repinc@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft just paused Windows 11 24H2 update for many PCs due to crashes and freezesEnglish181·9 months agoCrashing is the smallest problem. All that sypware, ads and artificial idiocy they are embedding in the bloated excuse of an OS is way worse than any crash. I am so glad I switched to GNU/Linux (openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma desktop, after seeing how well gaming works on Steam Deck I also switched to GNU/Linux for gaming) and it is so so much nicer to have an OS that is fast, stable and actually respects basic human rights like privacy and freedom.
Jure Repinc@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.zip•Google accused of shadow campaigns redirecting antitrust scrutiny to MicrosoftEnglish0·9 months agoIt takes one to know one. Not much difference, if any, between Microsoft nad Google, and the rest of GAFAM/BigTech.
It’s way past time that UN bans Israel from their institutions and puts heavy sanctions on them for their genocide and other crimes against humanity.
Jure Repinc@lemmy.mlto News@lemmy.world•Over 200,000 subscribers flee 'Washington Post' after Bezos blocks Harris endorsementEnglish0·9 months agoIt would hurt this sociopath Bezos a lot more if people also canceled Amazon services en mass
Jure Repinc@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.world•Israel bans UN aid agency UNRWA from operating in IsraelEnglish221·9 months agoIt’s way past time that UN bans Israel from their institutions and puts heavy sanctions on them for their genocide and other crimes against humanity.
Jure Repinc@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows RecallEnglish35·9 months agoThese GAFAM/BigTech corporations really are in a tough and fierce competition of which one is the shittiest and most privacy-invading don’t they. Ensittification overdrive mode in all of them.
It takes one to know one. Not much difference, if any, between Microsoft nad Google, and the rest of GAFAM/BigTech.
Jure Repinc@lemmy.mlOPto Hardware@lemmy.ml•AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Comes with 120W TDP, 5.20 GHz Boost, All Specs LeakedEnglish0·9 months agoTo early to tell, we will have to wait for it to be released and benchmarked by Phoronix. But judging based on previous Zen5 CPUs and becnhmarks on GNU/Linux it should be very good. But let’s wait and see and also it will depend on how much it will cost and how much each one is willing to spend.
Jure Repinc@lemmy.mlOPto Linux Gaming@lemmy.ml•Why openSUSE is the perfect OS for handheldsEnglish2·9 months agoAgree with this. Also they extensively use OpenQA CI and testing framework and it is what makes the rolling release openSUSE Tumbleweed the most stable rolling release distribution I have used since they can quickly catch an updated package that would cause problems and halt it being introduced. And even if something problematic would get through they really have excellent integration of BTRFS snapshoting with zypper and GRUB and system in general so you can easily boot from the last known working snapshot before the problematic update. And I would also say they have the best integration of KDE Plasma and KDE software of any distro out there. so yeah for these reasons I also consider openSUSE the bets GNU/Linux distribution out there.
Jure Repinc@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.zip•Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web StoreEnglish0·9 months agoBest to switch to Firefox anyways, or even better privacy enhanced LibreWolf
This project is a custom and independent version of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy, security and user freedom. LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. This is achieved through our privacy and security oriented settings and patches. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM.
Jure Repinc@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.world•Netanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians and cut off aid to those left insideEnglish391·9 months agoAnd instead of the heaviest of sanctions imposed on genocidal Israel, some countries are even sending them more weapons. Leaders of all should imprisoned for war crimes and helping with warcrimes and crimes against humanity.
Jure Repinc@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Ubuntu turns 20: 'Oracular Oriole' shows this old bird's still got plenty of flightEnglish84·9 months agoBetter to use Kubuntu edition, much better desktop and less crap that is nowdays in Ubuntu.
I hope not. Had very bad experience with these and toxicity they enabled on Xitter and one of the main reasons why I left it for mastodon quite early. I would much more like to see if they focused on making it possible to also migrate posts when you change an instance/server.
Oh how I wish those TV manufacturers would get rid of HDMI and replace it with DisplyPort. HDMI mafia does not allow opensource implementations of HDMI specification and so not all latest features of it can be supported by graphics card drivers on GNU/Linux. Death to HDMI!
Jure Repinc@lemmy.mlOPto Technology@lemmy.ml•Surveillance Watch – an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliationsEnglish4·11 months agoIt’s the heavy graphics used which looks like it uses WebGL and this is disabled in LibreWolf since it can easily be used for fingerprinting a user. It would be great if they could not use such heavy graphics if WebGL is not supported and just used simple static image or something like that. Well it would be great in general not just for privacy reasons.
Jure Repinc@lemmy.mlto Linux@programming.dev•[Level1Linux] Is Gaming On The Ryzen 9 9950X Better On Linux Than On Windows?English51·11 months agoFrom my experince AMD drivers are pretty close, I’d even say slightly better on GNU/Linux, definitely more stable and consistent. For Nvidia, yeah they are bad at supporting GNU/Linux. Improved a lot through the years but still not there. For Intel, well not exactly an option for gaming, at least not the integrated GPUs I have used so far, but still better than in Windows in a similar way as in AMD case.
P.S. Another great thing with libre/opensource GNU/Linux drivers: When you report a bug with Mesa3D drivers the bug is quite quickly fixed, especially when you can provide them with backtrace and/or Vulkan/OpenGL API trace. Doing a bisect of source code commits amd identifying the commit that introduced a regression also help a great deal. Good luck doing the same with closed/Windows drivers: you can wait for years and no fix.
Jure Repinc@lemmy.mlto Linux@programming.dev•[Level1Linux] Is Gaming On The Ryzen 9 9950X Better On Linux Than On Windows?English4·11 months agoIt’s totaly messed up in general and has been for a long time. They try to hack it for the new CPU model and stab you in the back for older CPUs, I’d say it is FUBAR.
Jure Repinc@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•We found the Missing Performance: Zen 5 Tested with SMT DisabledEnglish35·11 months agoOr they just found out that Windows process scheduler is still broken beyond repair. If you look at the benchmarks on GNU/Linux performance is all there. For example see Phoronix benchmark
Well and behind it is stealing other peoples’ work (posts and comments, moderation and administration) and selling them as yours. The oldest capitalist criminal trick in the book: privatization AKA primitive accumulation AKA enclosure of the commons.