No, I’m not arguing that we should be users of Microsoft. You’re still not understanding what I’m saying. I don’t use Microsoft’s services, including their free ones. Software that happens to be hosted on GitHub is not Microsoft’s software.

You can do whatever you want as an individual. But as a political actor, you should be participating in organised boycotts, such as BDS’s boycott of Microsoft. BDS’s boycott is already fairly wide-sweeping, going as far as to ask people to e.g. stop playing Minecraft and Skyrim, even if they already own the game. Avoiding using Microsoft’s products like this is effective because, even if you’ve already bought the game, you lend Microsoft more cultural capital by proliferating their products.

BDS has not, on the other hand, called for a boycott of all software that happens to have a GitHub repo. If you think they should do that, take it up with BDS. If BDS called for such a boycott, it would get much more momentum behind it.

As it currently stands, you are boycotting all software that has a GitHub repo on your own. This is not going to have any effect. You are going to be hard-pressed to get people to join your boycott. What kernel do you use? The Linux kernel has a GitHub mirror. The majority of FOSS projects where collaboration occurs off of GitHub still have a read-only GitHub mirror. Is your boycott suggesting that everybody should be using OpenBSD? That’s going to be a very hard sell.

BDS has achieved huge victories because it offers targeted boycotts that the average consumer is perfectly capable of doing, and it has a mass movement behind it. There are also grassroots boycotts that have been organised outside of BDS, such as the Starbucks and McDonald’s boycotts, but again, these caught on because they had the backing of people active in the movement and were willing to organise said boycotts. You’re a random Lemmy user who, if you are serious about organising a boycott, you’re in the entirely wrong place to do so. You won’t achieve anything doing what you’re currently doing.

You’re welcome to make whatever consumer decisions you want, but don’t confuse that for political organising.

I’ve never experienced that tbh but I use WASD, occasionally mouse scrolling as in when the screen moves when your cursor is near the edge of the screen. Unless you mean that kind of mouse scrolling causes the bug, in which case it doesn’t seem to happen for me. Glad there’s a fix though

Games mostly work. If they have a native Linux version they work (and more games have a native Linux version than you may expect). For Windows-only games, there’s a compatibility layer called Proton (which is a gaming-focused fork of a more general compatibility layer called Wine) that lets you run Windows executables on Linux. IME most Windows games run flawlessly with Proton. You can check games on https://www.protondb.com/ to see how well they run on Proton.

Rimworld has a native Linux version, and I’ve not had any problems with Rimworld mods from Steam workshop on Linux. Never tried modding Skyrim so can’t say on that.

I’m also opposed to “using [Microsoft’s] free stuff”; I’m arguing that using software that happens to use GH isn’t using MS’s stuff at all.

I don’t see a reason to avoid using software hosted on GH. I moved off GH when MS bought it, and all that entailed was no longer hosting my own software on GH, and using alternative FOSS git forges. That still has a similar effect, and when a critical mass of devs move off GH, the rest will follow suit. The main draw of GH is that everything’s on there; when that’s no longer true, it will no longer be the main git forge. Especially once Forgejo adds ActivityPub integration; I imagine that’ll speed the process along a lot.

A lone user boycotting all software hosted on GH is realistically not going to make any devs move their projects off GH. You may say that it doesn’t have to be a lone user, but I think you’ll be hard pressed to get a whole movement of people refusing to use any software hosted on GH.

I also think the boundaries of your boycott are just too ambiguous. What if you download the software from somewhere other than GH, and it just has a GH repo? Is that ok with you? Is it that you just don’t want to touch MS’s servers? What about software where the GH repo is just a read-only mirror, and the main collaboration/development happens elsewhere, like a GitLab or Forgejo instance? I would rather struggle to see an argument for refusing to use software in either of those cases.

You only need to overwrite the drive with random data once. Then, as long as every OS install uses FDE, there’s no need to repeat the process.

The reasons why you do the full disk wipe are:

1. To hide the size of the encrypted data by making encrypted data indistinguishable from empty space
2. To erase unencrypted data previously stored on the drive

Both of which only need to be dealt with once, so long as you don’t write unencrypted data to the drive after doing the wipe.

A lot of Linux distros are set it and forget it these days. Nvidia can be finicky though, so i suggest a distro that installs proprietary nvidia drivers for you—I think Linux Mint and Bazzite do that, though I’m not personally familiar with either.

The other thing is music prod which I am not familiar with. I’ve heard that there’s a lack of Linux software for music prod but hopefully some other users who know more can explain what the situation is like on Linux these days.

Steam won’t pose a problem. Steam does something called Proton, a compatibility layer allowing Linux users to run Windows game, and the vast majority of Windows games run flawlessly with Proton. Similarly, you shouldn’t have to worry about losing saves, as Steam Cloud should save and transfer them all automatically.

Palestinians living in '48 borders will have “Israeli” IP addresses. I know it’s an apartheid state but it’s not gotten to the point where they hand out different IP addresses based on ethnicity lol. Jewish settlers compose a majority in '48 borders now but Palestinians are still a significant minority in '48 borders. Not to mention that, like you said, Israel controls internet access in the OPT—for instance, a lot of the esims people have been buying for Gazans are “Israeli”.

And a lot of native speakers just straight up use incorrect grammar. eg loads of native English speakers say things like “could of”, use “then” instead of “than”, use punctuation incorrectly, do incorrect sentence structure, etc.

I don’t mean to be prescriptive about language. Of course it evolves based on usage. But in any formal environment, such as an academic environment, there are still certain defined and canonised English grammar rules that you would be penalised for breaking, and most learners want to learn those rules even if most casual speakers don’t follow them.

I learnt French through textbooks and then once I had a good grasp of grammar, reading French children’s literature with a dictionary. I don’t know if that’s the “best” way, but it worked.

Fwiw I mostly learnt English by just reading English books and not having a clue what was going on for a couple years but eventually got it. However I was a young child when I did that, so my ability to learn new languages was much better. I could probably do the same as an adult, but it would take me a lot longer. Don’t underestimate the brain’s ability to learn even without direct “teaching” like a textbook gives you.

That’s cool, but this would end up blocking Palestinians who live in “Israel” as well. I imagine it might also capture the West Bank too, but even aside from that, there’s a lot of Palestinians living in '48 Palestine too. A good Palestinian friend of mine has an “Israeli” phone number for instance, and if she was connecting from back home it would appear as an “Israeli” IP address.

I also have Pixel 8a and have no issues with the camera. I’m by no means a photographer though and I don’t think I have much of an eye for that sort of thing, but it works perfectly fine for my purposes, ie snapping a photo of anything interesting I see in my daily life, or if I want to show something to my friends by taking a picture of it. iirc the FOSS options don’t give as high quality of a result as Google’s proprietary camera app but all I need is photos to be legible so it’s more than sufficient for me. If photo quality is very important to you then maybe you could use Google’s camera app with sandboxed google play? I’ve never tried doing that before so I dunno if it works.

(you may want to post this to !privacy@lemmy.ml or a similar community… I suppose GOS uses the Linux kernel technically but I think this community is for desktop Linux lol)

GOS is really nice. It’s very seamless and user-friendly, whilst still being very unbloated and minimal. You still have everything you’d expect to have on a phone but the environment is nicely minimal and lets you only install the software you want.

I’ve been using GOS as my exclusive mobile OS for many years, never had any technical problems with it.

You can use bluetooth headphones or usb-c headphones. Including the bluetooth headphones google sells. Afaik they are still just bluetooth headphones.

How easy is to transfer data from GrapheneOS to debian and the other way round?

Easy: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Media_Transfer_Protocol

Alpine with a cronjob to apk -U upgrade or auto-updating Debian Stable

I know that? I’m just saying that MS categorised it as such. It would be strange to include the part about MS’s responses if MS also found that the vulnerability was not what the researchers claimed it was.

MS said they fixed it and categorised it as a “moderate severity vulnerability” so presumably they did in fact gain root access to the container

i dont use it

fair enough

it will block or black-list them soon enough

Paypal is bad, but I’ve not heard of it blocking accounts just for people being queer. That seems like it would lose them a lot of customers—not because of backlash, but because a lot of people are queer.

And? That doesn’t mean you can’t send them money on it.

If they have a ko-fi then just use the web ui to donate…

You can still send them money even if they can’t sell their games. e.g. they could have a ko-fi or paypal or something. As for finding new stuff, I suppose it’d have to be word of mouth unfortunately.

Sorry not sure I understand. Are you saying you don’t know who the authors are? You could look up the name of the game and find usernames and give them a message. I imagine most of them are on social media somewhere, or have email addresses, etc.