I use it for the encryption and IP hiding just to make casual surveillance more difficult, more than trying to be 100% anonymous. If I can’t use a site with Tor, I’ll add an exception for it if it’s something I really need. Otherwise, I find an alternative for whatever I was trying to do, and I don’t really care.

Same.

I agree. I had frequent problems when I used it, which could take days to figure out, and even then might only be solved by a full reinstall. Linux has had significantly fewer problems for me, and those problems are solved much more easily. My bf is a huge Windows fan, but it seems like he’s struggling with some problem he can’t figure out every other month. Half a drive left as unallocated space instead of being included in a partition, causing constant “disk full” messages, was the most recent issue. On top of bad updates. I don’t bother suggesting he switch, because I know he’s happy with it, but Windowt definitely isn’t problem-free.

It used to be common.

I though Mastodon had a search engine.

There is no safety without the guarantee of privacy. One is fundamental to the other.

I use it for translations regularly, and also tts. It works well.

I agree completely. The healthiest our online ecosystem has ever been was when parents were required, and empowered, to make decisions for their own children about appropriate internet usage.

I haven’t used Lightroom, so I can’t comment on how similar they are either. But there are enough good options that hopefully anyone switching can find one that meets their needs. :)

I’ve only used Nemo in Linux, but I can’t think of anything Windows file explorer can do that it can’t.

ART, a fork of RawTherapee, is also very good.

I can definitely see how people could find it while looking for porn. I don’t understand how people can do this stuff out in the open with no consequences .

File-sharing and online chat seem like basic internet activities to me.

I don’t know about that.

I spot most of it while looking for out-of-print books about growing orchids on the typical file-sharing networks. The term “blue orchid” seems to be frequently used in file names of things that are in no way related to gardening. The eMule network is especially bad.

When I was looking into messaging clients a couple years ago, to figure out what I wanted to use, I checked out a public user directory for the Tox messaging network and it was maybe 90% people openly trying to find, or offering, custom made CP. On the open internet, not an onion page or anything.

Then maybe last year, I joined openSUSE’s official Matrix channels, and some random person (who, to be clear, did not seem connected to the distro) invited me to join a room called openSUSE Child Porn, with a room logo that appeared to be an actual photo of a small girl being violated by a grown man.

I hope to god these are all cops, because I have no idea how there can be so many pedos just openly doing their thing without being caught.

It definitely seems weird how easy it is to stumble upon CP online, and how open people are about sharing it, with no effort made, in many instances, to hide what they’re doing. I’ve often wondered how much of the stuff is spread by pedo rings and how much is shared by cops trying to see how many people they can catch with it.

No email or text is especially secure, so using this form of communication with someone on a different provider doesn’t expose a person to any unexpected risk. But messaging programs vary wildly in what they expose and how they handle data. Anyone using such a network would have only as much privacy as that provided by the least private service, which is currently nothing. That’s the opposite of what I would want out of a communication software, personally.

I think if you were using a very secure messenger, and talking to someone using a very insecure messenger, that could be a problem.

With Ollama, all you have do is copy an extra folder of ROCm files. Not hard at all.

With an AMD RX 6800 + 32gb DDR4, I can run up to a 34b model at an acceptable speed.

All laptops are supposed to be formatted and have the necessary software freshly installed before being assigned to someone. Either it wasn’t wiped by accident, or the person whose job it was found the CP and left it, hoping my dad would report it. He deleted it, though, because was afraid he’d be blamed.