Sounds like someone purchased, or otherwise gained access to, T-Mobile’s targeted customer advertising and marketing profile data.
Or, the kind of information that data harvesting applications gather, and then sell to data brokers.
I wonder if they have a grudge against T-Mobile, this is an early stage of a larger plan, or if it’s just for the lulz?
IMO Ubuntu or Mint first.
Eventually they’ll learn the way of either Fedora or Arch for their workstations, and Debian for their servers, but that does take a little time getting used to Linux as a whole.
I think in this scenario OOP is better off just helping his friend get Linux set up, as requested.
But, by and large, I agree with your stance on Mac computers.
They typically just work, the build quality is usually phenomenal, and most importantly, no Microsoft.
I can’t imagine the levels of pain I would be in if I had to provide tech support for my elderly parents Microsoft Windows experience. Thank God they use all Apple products.
Do not use Cosmic for this brand new user.
It’s still beta, and I assume your goal is to have them keep using Linux.
Ubuntu or Mint for new users.
I vote Mint, but either works.
No one goes to bat this hard for someone they don’t support.
Maybe the rest of the people here don’t know about Ethan’s long history of being a vile and detestable human being, but I have a good idea.
And no, I’ll never feel bad for, or side with, the pro-genocidal and open pedophile that is Ethan Klein.
To anyone else reading this, Google anything I’ve said, the receipts are available for everyone to verify.
Hello Ethan, I didn’t know you were on Lemmy.
Got to say, I’m not a fan, you seem pretty psychotic.
Although I guess you could be a h3 fan, but that might actually be even more disturbing.
Edit: I’m surprised so many people here are pro-Ethan when his biggest, and most vocal, issues are that Israel isn’t committing genocide, anyone who says they are is a Hamas agent, and that Palestinians are sub-humans.
He’s also an inveterate liar, racist, and has an entire account dedicated to making pedophile jokes on Reddit, about himself being a pedophile.
That’s my point, I don’t use LLMs for those operations, and I’m aware of their faults, but that doesn’t mean they’re useless.
So yeah, I look forward to the AI bubble popping, but I’m still going to use LLMs for type of tasks they’re actually suited for.
I don’t think many people on Lemmy are under the the spell of AI hype, but plenty of people here are knowledgeable enough to know when, and when not, to leverage this useful, but dangerously overhyped and oversold, piece of technology.
Ask the model to confirm the answer and it will correct itself, at least when I’ve tried that.
I’m sure there’s a mathematical or programmatic logic as to why, but seeing as I don’t need LLM’s to count letters or invent new types of pseudoscience, I’m not overly interested in it.
Regardless, I look forward to the bubble popping.
For people who can spare $100-$200, I recommend buying an old ThinkPad or Dell business class laptop off eBay. Install Windows, update it, and stick it in your closet.
Because yes, sometimes you just need a Windows machine. VMs will cover most one off Windows requirements, but nothing beats a bare metal install.
Obviously this is not a solution for gaming, just the odd piece of Windows only software you need to run, or hardware you need to interface with that doesn’t have Linux drivers.
There’s still way too many niche communities on Reddit that just haven’t taken off on Lemmy e.g. alternative and non-team sports.
There’s a ViolentMonkey script that can automatically delete all of your Reddit comments. I just run that every few days.
It’s not ideal, but it’s the best that I can do if I value access to those communities, which I do.
Goddammit.
This is is actually the most rational and practical advice here.
Pack it people, we’re done here.
It’s a QEMU specific vulnerability.
I skimmed most of the article, glad to see it’s been patched.
It looks like the attack vector requires access to a VM on the host machine i.e. public cloud/VPS.
So maybe not a huge risk exclusively for self hosted configurations?
I guess it depends on your needs, but given that they are CS students, they may want newer updates than Debian Stable provides.
I know snap is shit, but Ubuntu is still one of the default recommends for new users, but yes, my preference is Mint for new users.