Apt my beloved Ɛ>

Something something year of the Linux car

Yuck

Ive got incredible news for you

I started on sway and moved to swayfx, out of curiosity what are some of the things i3 provided that sway lacks?

God I can’t wait until Servo is viable

That’s a signal client, not server. While I think there are reimplementations of the signal server that you can theoretically nude, you’ll be bound to only communicating with people also connecting through that server (ie no federation)

I hadn’t heard about wafrn, seems neat. But I can’t help but hurt from the irony of a federated social platform having a discord community…

I’ve heard of some methods to bypass it, but unfortunately to test them I’d need to run a real proctored exam, or have our academic technology group set up a “pentesting” one that I can abuse for this software we pay for a license to. Assuming that didn’t land us on Respondus’ bad side and jeapordize our license, it would at best be a waste of time and resources since we couldn’t guarantee students that it wouldn’t get patched or flag them for cheating in the future. The obvious answer is for us as an institution to use better software (or adopt better assessment methods) but software this invasive by nature is generally not going to be open to running on platforms like Linux. And use of proctoring software is unfortunately enshrined in our faculty’s contracts.

And yeah, on the individual level, students themselves can’t really toy with getting it to run in a VM without risking failing an exam. Shit sucks.

I’m writing a Lemmy comment, not my thesis. Sorry my casual and lazy word choice upset you for not being grammatically correct.

As someone who’s worked for several years in higher ed IT and used Linux during my studies, this’ll only get you most of the way there. Unfortunately some proctoring software (Respondus Lockdown Browser comes to mind) can be incredibly invasive, and to my knowledge will refuses to run in a VM.

Instructors also have a tendency of not disclosing during registration whether or not they use these proctoring softwares.

I’m lucky enough that by the time I was all-in on Linux, I wasn’t taking courses that used that exam model, but it’s why I make sure that the helpdesk at my current institution offers loaner devices to students who either have computers incapable of running the proctoring software, or who simply don’t want that kind of software on their own machine. It’s a pain in the ass to work with, but apparently it’s enshrined in our faculty’s union contract.

Ah my bad, despite having been coerced into a transportation economy that forces us to purchase multi-thousand dollar machines, I forgot to consider if we’re asking too much of automotive manufacturers when we request to not pay a premium for comfort that literally costs them nothing since they already sold it to us.

This is such a weird hill to die on for someone who claims to be pro-consumer

No offense but what world are you living in where you can just install custom firmware on iPhones and Samsungs? I’d love to live in that world but those are two of the worst manufacturers for cfw support

Ran it through chatgpt, all it told me to sleep with a AA battery under my tongue

Isn’t mull discontinued? Work on it is continuing as IronFox

You’re looking for fastfetch: https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch

I mean, Linux mobile is the only viable path forward, despite its poor present state

That in no way mean we ought to reward people who actively foster it

No, also why would we excuse it if it were?