

Spellcheck on my phone often tries to spellcheck my usernames and passwords, but I can’t work out how to turn it off.
Spellcheck on my phone often tries to spellcheck my usernames and passwords, but I can’t work out how to turn it off.
I didn’t. And apparently you can’t without trying to short-circuit the motherboard. I just assumed, and assumed wrong.
I just tried to distro-hop and found my BIOS had been locked with a password. Assuming I didn’t set a password that I subsequently forgot (and that isn’t one of the many I have memorized), I figured this might have something to do with the age of the laptop (I have a HP 4540s). If certificate expiration is already affecting people then this might be it.
EDIT: I just forgot I set a password, and it took me 2 days to realize that I was stupid enough to have set the password that I used for everything when I was 12 years old.
I’d test their ability to admit that their gut instinct is wrong, their ability to empathize with the marginalized, and their ability (and willingness) to navigate the limitations of the presidency when congress is bought.
I’m not gonna bother thinking up a test for each of those things.
As I understand it the TPM is for people who have physical access. It prevents them from cloning your disk.
I think with an adequately long password (or an adequately resource-intensive encryption algorithm) you can secure your disk enough to prevent unauthorized access. But the TPM would prevent them from removing your hard-drive and shunting it into a super-computer (so all password attempts wouldn’t need to be on the crummy 10-year old laptop CPU) so a TPM + password is more secure.
When someone says “thank you”, the AI has to process that, even though it doesn’t really need to. It’s a small thing, but it adds up with millions of users.
Me too, me too.
The “generative” AI debate.
Most of the criticisms are misleading and hyperbolic (if not straight up counter-productive), and it has zero real use cases other than making the internet useless by filling it with thousands of scam websites. I guess it could also be used to give you a TLDR of things. Either way though nothing we do or say is going to change things since the technology is already out there.
Most of the conspiracy theorists (and similar personality types) gravitate to Linux.
They’re not the same, but they both suck and they have the same foreign policy.
Everything, and at the same time nothing.
Oh I see, when you go straight to the Epic Games Store page it doesn’t have a download for Linux and doesn’t even say Linux is supported.
But that link says Red Hat Linux 8 or Rocky Linux 8, so OP should probably use Fedora or Rocky. Rocky’s a bit of a no-name though so forum support might be lacking.
I thought you need to launch it through the Epic Games launcher, and that does not support Linux?
I think the issue is that too many people think they can social-media post their way back to the Biden-era. Although in this particular Lemmy instance there’s also the pro-Russia stuff (that’s a different beast, and I don’t know where it comes from).
There’s no solution to our political crisis that doesn’t involve touching grass.
I don’t recommend Bazzite. I’m far from an expert (I’ve only used Mint), but I see a lot of people recommending Bazzite. You should definitely test on Bazzite, but it’s immutable and so that’ll probably cause a lot of issues. I’d recommend strongly against Bazzite for gamedev.
I think basically any major distro will work (Ubuntu, Mint, OpenSUSE, Arch). You’ll probably need to run the software in bottles, so if it supports bottles then it should work for your needs. Only go with Arch if you’re willing to sign up for some extra work.
Be sure to make backups. That way it won’t matter if you brick your OS.
EDIT: It supports Linux, I was on the wrong page. It explicitly supports Red Hat (Fedora) and Rocky Linux, OpenSUSE is similar to them, so go with one of those three I guess.
EDIT 2: They recommend Ubuntu. Test on Ubuntu and Rocky. I’d go with Rocky just because I hate Ubuntu (on an emotional level, I don’t think they’re evil or anything).
So basically they still require arbitrary code execution as a starting point.
Another guy shared this link from Secureblue that goes into thumbnail generation, which can be done programmatically and has been documented in the past as an avenue for infection in Nautilus.
Oh damn, so just viewing a file in your file manager is enough to get infected in an insecure desktop environment, as thumbnails can be generated programmatically? If I clicked a bad link that would 100% infect my system.
I’m not worried too much about screen-capture. I’m worried first and foremost about triggering any arbitrary code execution and thumbnail generation on a file would definitely do it.
Have you considered that the EU might have lied to Trump?
That might not be so much down to how serious people are but rather just how good Linux has gotten lately (especially for games). Although I do think people are more serious now.
Different policies, same people.
Come to think of it, spellcheck wasn’t the issue. It was auto-correcting my username and passwords.