justinh_tx@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Can someone explain me what actually is going on about the politics drama and public perception of lemmy?English
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1 year agoIt all comes back to the definition of “privacy” and whether it is reasonable to expect that information, once posted to a publicly accessible forum, can be considered “private”.
Is it even reasonable to expect information that isn’t transmitted via some method which features end-to-end encryption to remain private?
Maybe I’m just old-school, but I’ve lived my life by the philosophy: “if it is private, don’t post it” Frankly, this should be the first thing we teach kids about the internet, IMHO.
I have a Dell G15 5520 as my daily driver. It’s a 12th gen intel core i5-12500H with nvidia RTX 3050. I never even let it boot Windows. Booted straight off an Ubuntu USB and wiped the drive. Aside from some quibbles with Ubuntu itself (I hate that by default Firefox is a snap from the snap store), everything basically worked out of the box. The only real hurdle to jump is enabling the proprietary nvidia driver.
Dell has at times offered their laptops with Linux preinstalled. I’m not certain they have a current offering, but just about all of their models are well supported.