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It’s not crypto mining, because crypto mining is basically worthless on consumer hardware now. What it does is run its own ads and pay you for enduring them and being spied upon by them in its own cryptocurrency.
It’s not crypto mining, because crypto mining is basically worthless on consumer hardware now. What it does is run its own ads and pay you for enduring them and being spied upon by them in its own cryptocurrency.
Pop os, but don’t install brave, it’s bullshit cryptocurrency spyware.
If a corporation puts their crimes inside a computer, they can get away with it for years before anybody figures out how to do anything about it.
Hell yeah we can even put the bicycles on the trains
The path forward is trains.
People who want to do phrenology now tend to hide it in an “AI algorithm”
Yes they are
XP released in 2001, only stopped getting support in 2014, and got an emergency security patch as recently as 2019. Expecting computers to last more than 3 years isn’t new.
I predict that so many people will run 10 past EOL that Microsoft will be forced to extend it like they did for XP and 7.
“It’s great right up until it breaks.” is a perfect summary
I get the same warning popup behavior closing the tab with the mouse or with ctrl-w
I used Manjaro for a while. Twice I had updates break stuff so thoroughly that I had to reinstall the OS entirely. The second time, I installed Pop OS instead and it’s been smooth sailing since.
I like Gnome with Pop OS’s tiling
Doesn’t your browser warn you about closing a tab with an active text input field in it? I get an “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popup.
Hey remember when Microsoft got sued under the Sherman antitrust act over doing this exact thing but got off on a technicality
The profit motive is antithetical to software freedom
And it won’t snitch on you to the fuzz either
firefox and a torrent client