That’s a possibility but it seems odd. I seem to recall that not all of them were as obvious to enable encryption as Bazzite (and probably Fedora). I think that that setting was if you chose to customize the storage settings.

Haha, no doubt. I seem to recall that the Windows code was leaked a few years ago too?

Interesting, thanks!

Thanks! If I’m reading that second link correctly, they rank “Babbel” with a higher score than LingQ and Rosetta Stone?

They require the least amount of minutes using them to achieve the highest scores in standardized language tests.

What’s the source of this info?

Yeah, I was thinking along similar lines when I first learned about Malus a couple days ago. Fine, so they get a “free” copy of open-source software that they can use without restrictions. What happens as time goes by and their “free” copy no longer receives any updates, fixes, improvements? I guess they can keep repeating the process every time a new version is released, but the whole thing seems counterproductive for anyone trying this.

I think that the technology may have evolved a lot since the early days of photogrammetry, or perhaps making a 3D model of a face is easier than a large object like in your example. Also, how do you suppose they got 3D scans of Picasso’s and Warhol’s faces for those perfect, life-like rubber faces on that video? They were both dead decades before the development of 3D scanning and photogrammetry.

Finally, here are some examples of photo to 3D model applications that appear to only need one photo:

• https://facegen.com/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tETtRwCnLyg
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VahuZjIL5ME

Caveat that this only applies to USB chargers. If you find some random non-USB, old-school type charger (like the ones with the round connectors) that fits your device, don’t plug it in until you’re sure that the voltage and polarity are correct.

Interesting, thanks. Maybe it’s something with the entire Ubuntu branch.

That’s odd. Maybe it’s a limitation with Ubuntu or their downstream distros. I’m now positive that all 3 of those distros I listed gave me the option to encrypt the disk during installation. This was in the last 3 months or so.

In my recent experience, I’m pretty sure all distros I tried (Debian, Bazzite, openSUSE) had a simple checkbox to do full disk encryption.

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@[email protected] @[email protected] Wait, that wiktionary explanation seems weird too. I always thought of homie as being a derivative of “homeboy” or “homegirl”. I could be wrong, but I definitely started hearing homie after those two and have always thought that they were connected. In fact, the wiktionary page for homeboy lists homie as a related term, so to me it seems like the two pages are contradicting each other.

The impression I have is that Germans are bigger users of the Fediverse in general than other countries, as in statistically overrepresented. Mastodon is originally a German project. Germans also created a Fediverse application for buying and selling second-hand items, Flohmarkt (Flea Market). Some other posts here have mentioned that Germans are culturally/historically more interested in privacy than many others, which may help explain the interest in the Fediverse. Finally, Lemmy is also an European project, so it makes sense that there would be more Europeans here, and Germany is the largest European economy and the most populous Western-European nation. Those are all probably factors contributing to this.

I came here to mention Pimsleur as a good option too. You can get them as audio books through sites like Audible for much less than that, but I don’t know if it’s the same amount of modules per course as if you get it directly from Pimsleur.

I’ve seen people recommend Michel Thomas’ products too, and have seen others compare Paul Noble’s audiobooks positively to those. I’ve tried both and find them a pretty interesting approach.

This one was also recommended by someone on Lemmy a few weeks back: https://www.languagetransfer.org/ - I don’t know anything about it other than that (and that it’s free?)

Millions of users, no. That only happens with either massive marketing and/or sheer luck to become the popular thing.

Niche communities, yes, if the software is tweaked a little. We already have niche communities. Now it’s just a question of making sure that the people who are interested in those topics and subscribed become more aware of posts in those communities. In other words, just a different algorithm for the main feed. Lemmy and Piefed have already tried adding new algorithms, but they didn’t seem to do the job (at least Lemmy’s new algorithm - I haven’t tried Piefed’s yet). Oh, and those new algorithms that would promote posts in niche communities to have more even standing with posts in large, general communities would need to become the default or at least widely adopted by users in order to have the intended effect.

Yes, this is the kind of counter-example I was thinking of as well, as opposed to rent-seeking.

Got it, thanks. I agree that those two things are pretty different from each other.

There’s a pretty wide range of things that are considered passive income. The examples you listed are some of them, and I agree that they are or can be exploitative, but there are many (particularly the ones where someone benefits from monetizing their own creations) that I wouldn’t.

Edit: I’m not trying to give you a hard time. I was trying to better understand what you were saying.

I think that for us to evaluate this one you would have to give an example of a similar act (singer/songwriter/performer) who is not overrated or even underrated in your opinion.