AI increasingly needs data centers which in turn need many community resources. As a result, costs of power, water, and everything related computers is vastly increasing in costs. Are you happy to pay the AI tax?
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Windows may be blocking downloads of the installation files outside their official tools. Is this another means of preventing the setup of Windows 11 without a Microsoft account?
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Some reports suggest that KDE Plasma will soon require SystemD, but that is not correct. Here we talk about where this idea came from and why it is incorrect.
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We look at managing music and talk about how MP3 players use tags to display music info. We will talk about specific tags and organizing music.
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The tables are turning on Flock and AI is mainstreaming into many popular services. We will look at these and several other stories related to privacy, technology, and security.
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We look at the January 2026 updates to Linux Mint including what is in the works for the next release.
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Discord will limit all accounts until they are confident of your age, while the rest of the world is trying it's hardest to collect every bit of information about you as it can. Will you keep using these services or can you take a stand?
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Discord will limit all accounts until they are confident of your age, while the rest of the world is trying it's hardest to collect every bit of information about you as it can. Also, one police department turned off the flock cameras after abuse from the company.
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Today we look at the breach in 7Zip and how that could be avoided. Linux provides often better means of installing software, but with some warnings.
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