Mereo is a sociologist who is also a nerd. He believes in open-source software.

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This post does not belong here. This is not a post about technology.

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Voyager. It's an Apollo like client.

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They will just enable it by default later when the heat passes. They always do. You no longer own Windows.

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In the '90s and early 2000s, Microsoft's business model was the classic one of selling products to customers. Today, it's all about the cloud, advertising, and AI, where the product is the user.

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Google Search uses a regular search algorithm. Google AI overview will be a product that feeds from Google search.

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Rationality is out of the window. Ideology is the new religion. They don't want to become "socialists" even though they don't know what it truly means.

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In my opinion, it depends. If a distro has BTRFS configured to automatically take a snapshot when upgrading (like OpenSuse Tumbleweed), then BTRFS.

If not, for a beginner, ext4 + timeshift to take snapshots of your system in case an upgrade goes wrong will be fine.

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I disagree. My partition is ext4, but Timeshift saved my ass when an upgrade went wrong. I just had to restore the system from a previous snapshot taken before the upgrade.

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Are you talking about ext4 or BTRFS?

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Yes. It's all about transparency. I can see exactly what KDE is exporting, so I'm willing to help KDE. I cannot say the same for closed source software.

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If you look at the data that KDE exports, there's nothing that directly identifies you. That's why I'm willing to help KDE. Like I said in my other post. It's all about transparency.

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