You get that level of precision in a standard "double" floating point number. So that's basically the normal level of precision you get without trying.

That's a view I have for many things. The desire and possibility of, getting more money always distorts and corrupts. It makes pretty much everything worse by rewarding deception, externalised waste, and exploitation.

I just focus on not making it worse myself.

Yeah. Timeshift is good. Fortunately, it is part of the default Mint install, and the Mint 'getting started' instructions say to set it up.

I personally needed Timeshift on my second week of using Mint. What happened was that I was that I saw some setting somewhere for linking a google calendar to the calendar app or something like that; and I thought "I don't really want to see any mention of Google anywhere in the OS, even in a setting that I can just not use"; so I uninstalled the thing that lets you link those accounts... what I didn't realise is that uninstalling that also uninstalled a heap of critical parts of the Gnome desktop. So after restarting, I had no desktop or anything.

Fortunately, Timeshift is super easy to use, and I fixed it in a few minutes. Easy to break, easy to fix.

DM tip: the real trap is that the players put themselves in danger by spending too much time searching for traps. (Perhaps a routine patrol overtakes the party due to wasted time; or perhaps there is literally a timed trap or whatever.)

My understanding is that the 'all' feed only shows posts that come from accounts followed by people on your instance. You can follow anyone from any federated instance; and when you do, their posts will appear in your personal feed, and also in the 'all' feed for everyone on your instance. People are aren't followed by anyone on your instance won't show up in the 'all' section.

I appreciate all the comments and links, everyone. Thanks a heap. I feel like I've got a much stronger and up-to-date understanding of what's available now.

While checking out various links, I've found this detailed comparison provided by GoCrypt. It includes comparisons of features, encryption methods, and a couple of performance metrics. So that's valuable information for decision making. I found the CryFS comparison page useful too, but that felt more about highlighting the advantages of their tool rather than a thorougher comparison of different tools.

Yeah, Cryptomator does sound like a good option. But I personally found the comment from the developer at the bottom to be a bit off-putting. I don't like when people needlessly trash-talk other options.

If you value privacy higher than availability and integrity, this certainly is a point for CryFS. With Cryptomator, we strive for the best of all three primary security targets [...] [...] I personally dislike snakeoil statements on their website like “the security of CryFS has been proven”. While I don’t see a problem with the cryptography, I prefer to keep some distance from phrases used by all those “military grade security” bogus companies.

He seems to belittle the importance of a key advantage of CryFS, and then goes on to accuse them of being 'snakeoil statements' because CryFS said their security was 'proven' in a masters thesis. I'm sure that 'proven' is not a great choice of word here, but I don't think CryFS was trying to trick anyone. They're just saying that the tool has been thoroughly analysed in a masters thesis and found to be secure.

One of the 'advantages' being touted for Cryptomator is that it is more 'stable' than CryFS. But the claim of stability coimes from CryFS saying their software is in beta while Cryptomator says theirs is complete. The way I see it, that's not really a measure of stability; it's a measure of caution from the developers. Stability and reliability are not things you can just claim, or base on whether or not something is called 'beta'. It's about testing, and analysing. So, in that context of CryFS expressing caution, to say their masters thesis statement is a 'snake oil statement', I think is disingenuous.

(Note: I've given an in-depth explanation of something that really isn't a big deal. What the developer said is not that bad. I just wanted to articulate why I found it off putting.)

I guess it's mostly because it way written by CryFS people - but that does make CryFS sound pretty good; with the main downside being that it is less mature than some other tools. And it gives useful info on the others regardless.

I agree; but please take my comment in the context of Microsoft's guide - which doesn't tell users how to do any of things that you've mentioned. My point is that the underlying purpose of the guide is not so much about how to install linux, but how you might try linux while still keeping Windows.

I wouldn't count on it... From Microsoft's point of view, dual booting works as long as you install Windows first - which probably suits them just fine.

I did a Mint install a few weeks ago, and I'd say that if you want to preserve some existing OS (i.e. dual boot), then it isn't super easy. You have to tell it what new partitions you want - and therefore you have to know something about what partitions you should have. The good news is that you don't actually need any swap or home partition. You can just put it all on one partition - but I don't think it's obvious what to do.

On the other hand, if you aren't trying to preserve something you already have, you can tell the installer to just go with all the defaults, and then you don't have to know anything about it.

Note: Microsoft's guide doesn't mention any of that detail. It basically just says to follow the instructions of the installer.

The thing is, I don't think a guide is really needed to install Linux. Most of it is pretty straight-forward. (The only tricky bit that comes to mind is making the USB that you've put your distro on bootable. That probably isn't obvious; and it might not be obvious how to get your computer to boot from a USB anyway if you've never done it before.)

Anyway, the way I see it, Microsoft's guide is more about how you can use Linux while still having Windows. If someone is searching for "how do I install Linux?" Microsoft would obviously prefer the answer to involve something that preserves Windows. First preference: WSL, second preference: Virtual Machine, third preference: dual-boot. And after that, you're on your own.

I use to follow /r/degoogle on reddit... but it felt like pretty much every discussion was people shitting on every alternative, and implying that all measures are totally pointless unless you stop interacting with any form of computer for the rest of your life. It's just so weird having people say there there's no point switching from Chrome to Firefox because google is the default search engine on Firefox. I got to the point where I really did believe there was some deliberate destabilization going on, to weaken the community. (And it worked. I unsubscribed; and I'm sure it struggled to keep anyone who actually had anything useful to say.)

Anyway... I wouldn't be surprised if /r/RedditAlternatives was similar to that.

Mozilla's Firefox is essentially the only competitor to Google's Chrome. So to say that Mozilla is pro-google is kind of weird. Almost every other browser uses Chrome's engine, and thus is enforcing Google's view of the internet. Firefox and Safari are the only significant holdouts. (And Safari is obviously backed by one of the largest companies in the world, with its own reasons.)

No? The code for the model can be open-source - and that's pretty valuable. The training data can be made openly available too - and that's perhaps even more valuable. And the post-training weights for the model can be made open too.

Each of those things is very meaningful and useful. If those things are open, then the AI can be used and adjusted for different contexts. It can be run offline; it can be retrained or tweaked. It can be embedded into other software. etc. It is definitely meaningful to open source that stuff.

This is a reason why I'm not on any private tracker. When there are 200 seeds all with better connection than me, then my ratio isn't going anywhere. It creates this weird dynamic where you're sometimes wishing people would stop seeding stuff; and that is clearly counter-productive.