It does not.

The GUI just relegates all commands to the CLI tools under the hood.

GUI doesn’t matter. AMD will always be simpler right now. Nvidia still has all kinds of issues. I think what you want to know is which distro has the fewest issues with Nvidia drivers? Just a guess.

Fedora - faster point releases and closer to modern kernels Debian - slow release, but stable Ubuntu - two releases per year, but sticks to older more stable kernel versions Arch - roll your own. Mostly for the very experienced.

Understanding WHY one distro may not work well on your hardware is key though. The above definitions should help with that, but understand that any derivative of one Ubuntu point release will behave exactly as all others out of the box. Meaning anything based on 24.03 will work with the same hardware out of the box because of the kernel version. Switching to a different distro base may yield different results.

Anyone making too much of a big deal about any of these is either over-opinionated and wrong, or absolutely full of shit and doesn’t know what they are talking about. You need what works best for you, and your hardware. If it runs well from a livecd, just go with it.

I think your trouble just stems from inexperience, and not knowing exactly what you needed or where you were heading aside from being off Windows.

You also seem intent on Mint (Ubuntu), which sort of locks you into a specific path.

Recommended specifications from developers are highly subjective, so it would be kind of pointless to really create a database of what “works” because it’s different for who is writing the reviews/reports. If there was a database of what was reported solely from the developer, I guess you’d at least know what it was tested on for the best experience, but that doesn’t mean someone else would rather just get it to play on the lowest settings and experience just to have it work.

Won’t stop them from doing this BS.

Set your desktop resolution to whatever you’re setting gamescope to, then see if it works properly. Turn off DLSS as well.

Edit: look here to see if you find anything useful: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope/issues/1145

It’s setting the full screen size as the target area for input, not the resolution you’re setting. Reduce your desktop resolution to the resolution you want to play at first if you’re going that route. This is a known issue with a long list of problems leading up to this particular display of symptoms. Easier to just change your resolution before you play a lower resolution.

Only under very specific circumstances.

That’s not how you do that.

Check a GPU monitor like ‘nvtop’ and ensure the card is engaged. Also check ‘nvidia-smi’ and ensure your driver is properly loaded and ready to work.

I’ve said this before around here, but y’all REALLY need to stop recommending immutable distros to people who are new and just trying to figure stuff out. It’s confusing as hell for them, and counterproductive overall. Why don’t you just say “Use Fedora” if you have a suggestion.

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Cliffhanger? Other upvotes because they know what I’m talking about. No cliffhanger.

Think about all the positional sensots in your phone. Then think about what it knows before going into this bag…then after.

Time elapsed, steps taken, speed, direction faced, phone orientation…it can tell you almost exactly where you are without GPS.

This would put an undue burden on all citizens to have one or the others’ platform in order to be in public, which would be illegal on a ton of fronts.

It’s bullshit. Whoever said that is absolutely paranoid.

Not really since in this specific context it’s only working with live feeds. I was more talking about the technoweenies finding low-hanging fruit in the Deepfake world to make life more miserable or annoying to people. Scammers, YouTubers, teenage family members…ALL will be annoying everyone using this specific tool any day now.

No.

Fuck you for bringing that bullshit up though.

Ugh. God…dammit. Now we all have to suffer through months or years of this dumb shit.

Can you elaborate more? Do you want controlled lookups, or just one of the public ad-removing providers?

You’re looking for something hyper specific. I’d say check in the forums like the other comments said. Else actually debug and check that the file you mean to exist actually exists on VM boot. You have a chicken and egg scenario, and the first step is logs.

/etc/skel is highly distribution specific.

Are you sure your VM even pulls from it automatically versus needing some sort of manual action?

It’s not clear who you are referring to. Privacy nuts seem to hate every browser that exists at the moment. I even see people pissed an Librewolf for one thing or another.

Fact of the matter is that the browser is less the problem, and the contents they consume are, yet people are unwilling to just stop interacting with the sites that cause their concerns. There’s no way to win with everyone.

Yeah, I got the sarcasm. Just saying that wasn’t my point at all.

Well I would have just said Chromium then, but that’s not what I said.

People have been up in arms for every new “flavor of the month” browser that boasts better security, or some new privacy thing, and Firefox not offering it. Also, the freakout about Mozilla enabling “ad-tracking” was wildly misunderstood and overblown by the privacy nuts, but started a slew of these “WELLFFDIDTHISTHINGBLETRRGGHWAAAHHHHHHH”

It’s all overblown in my opinion.

Your phone can still track plenty of info it can upload when it gets a network connection again if that’s the concern.

I played it on Steam Deck. No issues at all. I did remap a few things to be easier, but that’s subjective. Overall the game is great if you like sandbox stuff.

There are no privacy-focused VPS providers that I’m aware of. You need accounts to operate any based in the US , and the provider is required to provide data stored by customers on request as a matter of law. I’ve not heard of any global providers who do not do the same either though.

This document is just using something that was a known issue with the desktop app of Signal for years. Doesn’t have any impact on Signal itself, or the mobile apps. Their position was essentially that the desktop filesystem should be encrypted and secured to be ACTUALLY secure. They fixed it after users got pissed off.

Here’s an article from 2018 about it: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/signal-desktop-leaves-message-decryption-key-in-plain-sight/

Here’s an article after they fixed it: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/signal-downplays-encryption-key-flaw-fixes-it-after-x-drama/

Depends on what you’re trying to get it to do. There are plenty of offline models that can run through code, but their effectiveness is only as good as their training.

The entire functional nature of code-aware AI models requires large amounts of data to be trained on, so it’s own existence is not privacy friendly, technically.

Maybe have a run through LM Studio and try a bunch of different things out

Most of the cars will still try to connect to open Wifi when available to upload data.

Nope. Easy answer.

SimpleX still has devices as users, you just don’t see it. If you’re just talking about some random PTT voice chat or something, I haven’t seen anything.

You can’t have e2e encrypted anything without identifying information about unique users. Nothing reasonably secure anyway.

Analysis Paralysis. Chill out. Privacy is not as important as your mental health.

Just skimmed through, but you may have been able to notice a lot of this is already known or shared in various forms from others writing on the subject.

You may enjoy reading stuff from DJ (Daniel J Bernstein).

Pretty sure your talking about picoTTS, which is the default Android voice. Pretty easy to implement.

There’s also Piper, which was made by the current Home Assistant Voice engineer, and previous Rhasspy engineer. Super easy to use.

There’s actually a ton out there that vary in ease of use.

I can’t tell if your only asking about Android, or just comparing the Google TTS on Android to something closer to what you want.

That’s not what the original comment references though

No. 2FA as a functional protocol requires internet. No way around that considering the secured source needs to send updates to the app you referenced down to subsecond.

Maybe you’re thinking of TOTP which does have a very small window where offline keys could work?

Not trying to be nitpicky, but 2FA only works over internet. Separating these two things has nothing to do with connectivity. Splitting them just give you security through obscurity in most cases because if something like bitwarden were to be compromised, there is almost certainly an overlap that could somehow get you access to other services protected by 2FA.