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Yes, this needs to be repeated loudly and at every opportunity. Aaron Swartz was murdered. He paid the highest possible price for his principles by being murdered by the US government on behalf of Elsevier. In a just world, the people responsible for this wouldn’t just have their reputations ruined; they would be in prison.

There are some people that I consider true heroes, and Aaron Swartz is among the foremost. Rest in peace.

Thank you for your work :)

Again, that’s fine? You said Gitea has no future because there’s no company trying to sell premium features behind it. A merch shop and donations aren’t remotely similar to the relationship between Canonical and Ubuntu, and aren’t commercializing the project or making its fundamental purpose profit-driven.

I’ll be honest, I didn’t think about that kind of sponsorship. In my comment I was thinking of something more like the sponsor relationship between Red Hat and Fedora. However… this thread started with you saying Gitea has no future because

It seems to be FLOSS without a company trying to sell premium features behind it.

Which it definitely does, and is. Gitea also does have sponsors in the same sense as Debian that you mentioned, though not giants like Google or HP.

I also think that saying small projects necessarily stagnate and die is wrong, though, as my other examples show.

Well, when I wrote that I expected that I would keep it short, but I ended up basically writing everything that was lost all over again… such is life. I’ll edit to clarify

Yeah man, Debian has no future. Food ain’t free, someone get them a robust monetisation scheme, a corporate sponsor! Otherwise they’ll stagnate. No idea how they managed to hold on for 30 years without any of that, the poor fellows. /s

I actually wrote two long ass responses to this but lemmy bugs caused both of them to be deleted before I could hit send. Good thing, actually, because I can summarize them in a paragraph. EDIT: well nvm, I ended up typing an equally long one all over again…

Lichess, Stockfish, Tachiyomi, and in the world of Linux, Debian; all these are proudly open-source, proudly non-commercial, going nowhere any time soon, and no corporate daddy. To commercialize itself or seek a profit motive would be completely against lichess’ purpose, and it’s the darling of the chess community - not likely to disappear one fine day, is it now?

Sure, open-source projects can monetize and there’s nothing wrong with that - that’s down to the ethos of each individual project. But for so many of these projects, doing exactly what you’re suggesting would be completely antithetical to their culture and ethos, even their purpose of existing!

I’m just so tired of this “only corporations and self-interested motives will get us anywhere” attitude. It’s so fundamentally blind, so disrespectful to the ingenuity of the human spirit and its desire to strive for the common good. The fact is, many strong and robust projects which have contributed to the good of humankind and are more than just “decent” exist, for no other reason than someone simply wanting to write something cool, or make the world a better place. And they will continue on for a long time, for those same reasons.

I did not expect to read some nonsense that sounds like it came out of a 90’s era Microsoft executive’s mouth (complete with “food is not free”, my god) on lemmy. I expected to read it even less on the piracy community. Steve Ballmer, is that you?

I just finished reading a manga that was translated by random people from a certain anonymous cloverleaf website, for no other reason than they wanted to - not for money, not even to have their names attached to the damn thing, because they’re identified only as “anon”.

The view of the world put forth in this comment denies that what I just experienced is even possible, sticks its fingers in its ears and tries its best to ignore some of humanity’s best work (because acknowledging it would be fatal to the central hypothesis). All to insist that selfishness is the best way forward and that we need the powerful and mighty, the vagaries of money, to give us lemmings purpose in life. It is just such a profoundly sad, empty way of looking at life, I genuinely don’t know what to say…

you can always browse it thru a privacy-friendly frontend that scrapes the site, like libreddit or teddit. This way you get any answers or whatever you might want, no ads or bloat, and reddit inc doesn’t benefit

Yeah, I feel the same. The consequences weren’t even all that extreme. And more importantly, it’s really not his fault that Epic set up the group that way, and the grown men malding and screaming at a child like melodramatic pissbabies are truly a clownshow. I laughed out loud at the “Lock it. Lock it now.” guy - how can one sniff their own farts to such a degree?

oh, it happens all the time lol

a great recent-ish example is the time some kid PR’ed a dumb readme edit to an Unreal Engine repo which was used only for making people sign a TOS before getting access to the engine’s source code, which led to… this.

No problem, I should be thanking you actually because I only found about this after seeing your comment and decided to look up the list to check if it works well with uBO

Honestly, using uBO (which is really the only blocker anyone should be using) I never see those popups anyway. And that list apparently causes unintended connections to google servers (warning, there’s some drama in this issue between the ublock dev and the list’s dev, but gorhill comes off more reasonable here.)

So really, just turn on most of the filter lists in uBO settings as per your need and you should be good to go.

ayy the only 2 extensions i need for happy living. that plus firefox configured for privacy and anti-tracking

though I’m less of a fan for unimportant geeky reasons

are the reasons snap by any chance? i’d call that a fairly important reason i’m typing this from mint and not vanilla ubuntu

ps. sorry for necro

heh, thanks but really all the credit should go to the wikipedians and others who put all this information on the open web. i’ve learned a lot just by reading technical info online, even though i’m barely a programmer at all and know much less than i’d like

yes to the first. to the second, yes and no both.

to outrageously oversimplify, a disk partition, or partition for short, is simply a separate region on a storage disk (which can be anything, whether it be your computer’s hard drive, a USB drive, an SSD etc).

you can shrink, expand, delete and create partitions according to your will (as long as you have enough space on your disk). space on the disk not belonging to any partition is called unallocated space.

it is necessary to have your disk structured into multiple such partitions ¹ to install multiple operating systems on a single disk (in fact, most OSes use multiple separate partitions on the disk by themselves² ).

dual booting is simply when you have multiple operating systems running on the same computer. if you’re going to have both of them installed on a single disk, then sure, you’d need to create separate partition(s) for the new OS.

and by “you” i don’t mean you manually do it. for practical purposes, basically all the linux distros these days have an automated installer which can detect what OSes (such as windows) are already on the disk, and will automatically create the required partitions in the unallocated space available, and install the OS in those (when it asks you about where to install to, just select the option named something like “Install alongside Windows”). there’s really no need to dick with the partitions manually as a beginner when your distro’s installer will take care of that for you, except maybe if you want to create space for linux to install itself to³.

so, the answers are:

1 - yes, creating a new disk partition and dual-booting are two separate things.

2 - could you install for dual boot without creating a partition in the process? not really, as fundamentally operating systems, whether windows, linux or anything else, need to be installed to partition(s) on a disk. it’s just that the OS’ installer usually does all the partitioning for you

2.1 - could you dual-boot without manually creating a partition, or touching partitions in any way? sure. if you’re installing an OS to a separate disk for example, you could let the installer simply overwrite, repartition, and install to that disk and run both OSes off separate disks on the same computer.

if you’re installing both OSes on the same disk, then you can also usually let the installer take care of installing linux alongside windows without a problem. the only thing is that if you don’t have enough space as you’d like for the linux install, you may have to resize your windows partition yourself to create more.

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notes:

(this is all stuff you don’t really have to care about right now! (though you may want to read no. 3 later on, when you’re actually installing linux on your main system.) it might confuse you more than helping, and it really isn’t required for you to understand, but read on if you’re interested)

1:

here is an example disk layout on a disk that has both windows and linux installed. to learn about the structure of your own disk (if you want to), on Windows you can fire up the preinstalled utility Disk Management and have a look.

2:

a modern Linux installation, for example, usually has the following on your disk:

• an EFI system partition (contains stuff required for the computer to boot the OS partition)
• a main partition where the actual OS and data is
• optionally, a swap partition
• some people also prefer to keep a separate partition for their /home/ directory (the folder that contains all your user account’s data, separate from the OS and the programs installed on it), which is useful (among other things) to install a different Linux variant on the OS partition, while keeping all of their user data and seamlessly using it with the new installation.

a standard Windows installation also has multiple separate partitions on your disk (apologies for not finding a better source but this details them well enough).

3:

the only scenario in which you might have to touch the partitions yourself is if your disk doesn’t have enough unallocated space to comfortably use a linux install. (as a comparatively lightweight OS, even the very heaviest variants of linux shouldn’t go over 4GB in terms of space strictly needed for installation, but you also need some actual storage space to have your files and stuff in lol).

in such a scenario, you could shrink your main windows partition if there’s enough space (Explorer should tell you how much free space you have). for example, if your windows partition is 300GB but it’s only occupying 200GB of space, you could shrink the windows partition down to 250GB, leaving 50GB of unallocated space on the disk for linux partitions.

to do this using the preinstalled Disk Management utility on Windows, right click the Windows partition you want to shrink (whether C:/, D:/ etc.), select Shrink, and follow the instructions. please be sure to select the right amount of space to shrink it by according to what you want, and confirm again that it’s correct.

please exercise care, as messing up your disk partitions could royally screw up your OS. what you’re doing here can’t really hurt anything, but make sure to follow the instructions carefully. if possible, back up all your important data before attempting this.

once you’ve got what you think is the adequate balance of Windows and unallocated (soon to be Linux) space for your needs, boot into the distro from your usb and let the installer take care of the rest.