unwarlikeExtortion

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[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

They shouldn't.

Most include features such as a (subpar) news feed and weather.

These things are nice, but there's no need for a launcher to have them. They can, and should be done by other, dedicated apps. Someone mentioned widgets, but the launcher doesn't talk to the widget's app via Internet... it talks to it via IPC (inter-process communication). Ergo, no Internet permission needed.

Same with keyboards. They give you access to stuff like "ID this song", "get user-created themes" or "better swiping and handwriting recognition", all the while doing god-knows-what with your data.

It's basically a ruse. Give the users something thst needs the Internet permission, even if optional, so you can sensibly request it. Wheb you do, you get the unlimited, impossible-to-control permission (revokable only via ADB), allowing any and all Internet traffic.

As they say, "with power comes responsibility". This is a lot of power. And most apps in the Play Store don't give much confidence in their devs' data responsibility.

You can try looking at Settings to disable Internet access, but YMMV depending on the exact flavour of Android.

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

No. He radied them and locked up most. Then he found out they were useful, and let them go back to work. Understandably, they left the US after their "warmest welcome party". In other words, they deported themselves. He didn't.

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 31 points 5 days ago

Step 1 of Nazi mass murder: ✓

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

It is a bit confusing.

Minecraft is a digital simulation of a physical (albeit blocky) world.

If we treat minecraft as a physical world (one simulated, but that's beside the point), we can claim that it's a (simulated) physical simulation.

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

When Alt-right turns into "default center", then yes, you have Fascism.

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml -1 points 6 days ago

He may very well be the personality to cause the Epstein files be released.

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

No. It's a perfectly valid complaint, just pointed in the wrong direction perhaps.

About Cinammon: it isn't customizable because that isn't really why it exists. Its purpose is to have a lightweight, evocative-of-Windows desktop environment.

If you'd like a heavily customizable DE, the default choice is (KDE) Plasma. You can install it on Mint without a problem. There are plenty of guides, and this one seems a bit more concise than the other few I've checked.

My recommendation if you do check it out, however, is to use the "desktop" package (as opposed to the guide's "standard"). You'll just be missing out on KDE apps such as their text editor, but you already have one that works, and you can always install it manually.

Cinnamon is made by the Mint devs for Mint the distro. Plasma is made as a uber-featured DE for anyone. Which doesn't make Plasma any better, it's just that their goals are different.

Cinnamon values simplicity and low resource use, while plasma prefers complexity and customizability (which causes a bit of bloat).

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

That is green gas. It isn't green "natural" gas, because "natural" is exclusively the fossil fuel stuff. Stupid naming, probably some 19th century marketing thatfor some reason stuck.

Edit: 19th, not 18th.

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 week ago (4 children)

"Natural gas" can never be green because it is specifically fossil-fuel gas.

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Honor Charlie Krik by doing what he requested - RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For some reason Mint hates flatpaks by claiming they're giant, when they really aren't.

Most of the "size" comes from core dependencies, which do take up space. However, Flatpak comes as part of Mint, and the few dependecies not included do take some space. But definitely not what Mint Store reports.

I'd write it up to Synaptic package manager being a bit lazy and just downloading the entire list of dependencies and running with it, instead of checkig what the flatpak package manager will actually download.

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

The only "way" free speech goes is... Leaving the US as we speak.

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