James R Kirk
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James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•A BILL To prohibit the delivery of opioids by means of the dark web, and for other purposes.English5·3 days agoThis bill creates a task force “The purpose of the task force shall be to detect, disrupt, and dismantle illicit marketplaces.”
Rick Moranis, I’m speaking directly to you because I know in my heart you are using Lemmy.
hi it’s me rick thank you for continuing to believe in me it’s children like you that keep the christmas magic alive
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Is it really doom scrolling if it's just true?English3·6 days agoExactly, otherwise it’s just, well, scrolling.
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•Finally making the move to Linux, and I have questions before I get started.English23·9 days agoJust to be safe you may want to copy important files to a cloud storage AND usb drive before formatting the drive.
Also don’t overthink this and there is nothing wrong with Kubuntu, but Kinoite is going to be very similar and a little more resistant to n00b tinkering mistakes.
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•Linux Mint a PITA to install on Win 11English1·10 days agoTrue, I edited my comment. I personally recommend the USB method (or if you have easy access to the internals- just swapping out an SSD).
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Is slrpnk.net down for everyone else too?English41·10 days agoIt got cloudy
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto Open Source@lemmy.ml•The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open SourcedEnglish21·10 days agoFirst of all, you are on feddit.nl and cannot speak for"Lemmy". That said- if anything, “Lemmy” users should be supporting independent journalism like 404 Media.
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto Open Source@lemmy.ml•The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open SourcedEnglish2·10 days agoIt’s to prevent scraping/harvesting by AI: https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-address/
They do not ask for a phone number.
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•Linux Mint a PITA to install on Win 11English3·10 days agoIt takes some doing, but you can live boot windows from a USB drive for those rare instances you need it. You can also just install it to a VM inside Linux (also not easy). But honestly these days the times where you’ll NEED Windows are few and far between (and getting fewer and farther).
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Now that PewDiePie is on his Linux/engineering arc, could he help boost the Fediverse?English59·10 days agoNot liking someone is not a good reason to root against decentralized platforms, IMO. The entire point of decentralization is that nobody gets to control the experience and who is/isn’t allowed to participate.
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Now that PewDiePie is on his Linux/engineering arc, could he help boost the Fediverse?English146·10 days agoUnless he joins fedia.io you don’t really get a say in what he does… kind of the entire point behind decentralization…
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto Fediverse@lemmy.world•How will we deal with all the broken images?English7·11 days agoIt’s also an avenue for attacks.
The growth of the network*
There are many platforms in the Fediverse. The fact that the network can survive the collapse of one platform is a strength of decentralization. The Lemmy/mbin/piefed universe can only ever be exactly as big as we, the users, want it to be.
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•Pete Hegseth orders Navy to strip name of gay rights icon Harvey Milk from ship in time for Pride MonthEnglish302·12 days agoAh yes, famous coward Harvey Milk /s
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•latest stats for fedora atomic spinsEnglish51·14 days agoBazzite is a custom image of Kinoite, but I’m not surprised it’s taking off, it’s great.
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James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•Loretta Swit, Emmy-winner who played Maj. Houlihan on pioneering series 'M.A.S.H.,' has died at 87English271·15 days agoWe salute you, Loretta.
M*A*S*H is a very good show, it’s aged (a little too) well and the jokes still land to this day. Highly recommended.
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•What have you been using for cloud backups?English4·16 days agoUnless I’m misunderstanding it looks like they do work with rclone https://rclone.org/protondrive/
This is great, I just cross-posted it to [email protected] hopefully someone can post it to Reddit. It’s really nice to see a intro to the concept of the fediverse that doesn’t get bogged down with technical details.