Not really possible, because how a desktop feels or what can be configured it’s hard to show on a website. Especially how you can visually adapt it. And what you can configure in general. Running it from a live USB takes like 5 minutes.

For example KDE is also very close to Windows, but can also be configured to behave more like a Mac. Visually most desktop environment can be themed. Cinnamon just got additions to be able to theme gnome apps globally I think? If you want to use a central dock like a Mac and have running apps at the top, that’s just a master of setting that up on KDE.

So then delete the row. OP, you control the spreadsheet, right?

I can’t speak for others, but I personally appreciate the info anyway. Because I wouldn’t trust a VPN company that’s been around for like 3 months. And it allows you to judge a track record with context.

Mine are of course also on a VLan but with no Internet access unless they need it for everyday operation (like a radio, or the amplifier that can play Spotify).

We don’t use the manufacturer apps at all. Everything is integrated into (fully local) home assistant. No need to open a specific app to operate a switch, or a light. Everything in one place. Trivial and incredibly clear. Things that can be are of course automated.

Just because it’s a “smart” service doesn’t mean it has to connect to the Internet or a server or the manufacturer. If it does neither, it can’t be turned off by them.

All my devices run local-only protocols. Nothing leaves my house. The devices that would be proprietary were reflashed to tasmota (fully open source, local only). Others are either Zigbee or Shelly. While Shelly has a cloud connection, it’s fully optional and disabled by default (including automatic updates). The hardware is also supported by tasmota, and reflashing is always just 5 minutes of effort away.

There is absolutely nothing that any manufacturer has to do to keep my stuff working. I have to do a little something (keep my tiny server on, basically). But more importantly there is nothing any manufacturer can do to stop my stuff from working.

While it’s fantastic software, it’s probably a relative cannon to shoot at his problem. Maybe there’s a way around this, but I’ve found the necessary management, curation and bookkeeping that was necessary for it too be useful to be just way too much to be worth it. I mean it’s fun for some, including me to a degree, but not too this extent.

Even setting aside the fact that the term community if already in use in the context of Lemmy or the fediverse in general: I really don’t agree that you’re choosing a community. For the vast majority of things it makes no difference what instance you’re on. That’s the whole point. While I made a conscious choice for my instance, the selection was almost completely irrelevant for 99.9% of my interactions.

You probably shouldn’t pick one whose ideology goes completely against yours, and you probably shouldn’t pick one that’s heavily defederated (for whatever reason), but that’s about it.

They being said, if they have “special interests” and are coming here to mostly talk abouta specific topic, choosing a fitting instance is at least a good idea and may have more impact.

It hasn’t even been that long, but there was a couple that started building their own homestead in Spain or Portugal (I think) on YouTube. They had laid out the foundation and layout, gotten a mini excavator. They had already built it renovated a sorry of workspace.

I can’t for the life of me find it anymore. Searched on YouTube obviously, tried finding it in other ways. Tried more generic search terms (maybe it wasn’t in Spain/Portugal after all), It doesn’t seem to exist.

UnRaid doesn’t provide anything I am interested in, at all. Currently running TrueNAS for main storage and proxmox for virtualization, both ZFS based. If TrueNAS ever enshittifies, I’d run some bare metal Linux with ZFS. My workstations also run ZFS as the file system, making backups trivial. VM snapshots and backups of any system are trivial and take seconds (including network transfers).

I never understood why I’d even consider UnRaid for anything.

I’ve been using TrackerControl, using basically the same idea and concept, and been very happy with it. Having app-level control over what gets blocked is very convenient.

The only downside to this approach is that you can’t use a real VPN anymore, as android only allows one at a time.

Brodie uploaded a video yesterday that should answer that question for you.

I had a blast with it. It’s also the only game in a very long time where I actually missed “the world” after I had completed it. It was the most immersive experience in gaming I had in about a decade. Performance issues have long been solved, if that was still a concern.

Revanced actually is the official YouTube client, just modified on the users device before installation.

The title makes it seem like this is a fancy new invention. Cases have been doing this for a very long time. At least splitting the airflow is the PSU is at least common, possibly the norm. And having separated drives isn’t exactly new either? I don’t get it…

Yup. All correct. There’s laws that deal with so that. The point is just that no matter what you do, no matter how horrible a person you are, you still have your human rights.

This is actually essential. Stripping people of their fundamental rights is in their playbook.

No, they still get human rights. Battery that’s how that works. They are universal. If they believe in them or support them is irrelevant. I don’t like it either, but that’s literally the foundation of the whole thing.

Of course I have. Specifically RadioParadise(.com) is great for this, which I’ve listened to through winamp’s shoutcast as well (multiple decades ago). I’ve even been a supporter for all those decades at this point. But it’s a very far cry away from the personalized (discovery) playlists. The efficiency diffference for discovering music is orders of magnitude: I find maybe 1-3 songs a month compared to 5+ in a week for discovery playlists (somtimes less, usually more). You can even skip songs you don’t like on there, but that still doesn’t make up for it being universal and not personalized.

It’s nice as a palate cleanser, or when I don’t wanna put effort into selecting what to play. But I’d lose my mind listening to it for truly extended periods of time. The music is great, and the (human) selection is superb, but just by the nature of personal taste, I only like around 30% of the music I’d say.

Finally booted up no man’s sky, after owning it for actual years (picked up for I think 10€ at most at the time). There’s recently been an update, reminding me that it exists. It’s maybe a bit grindy, but over all I’ve had quite a bit of fun in the 50 or so hours I’ve put in so far.

I also get that, that’s why I up-voted every reply from you. I actually love seeing such completely different perceptions of the same situation. And I also just want to explain my reasoning and how I got there. Which is why my replies tend to be so long.

I’m aware it has no concept of artistic quality. But I also don’t care about the quality of music, especially if perceived by some journalist. I only care if I like music. Some of it is intricately composed, masterfully performed. Some is pop, or generic/simple house.

I have discovered entire genres with the algorithms you seem to think only give narrowing recommendations. Some people probably listened to those and something I liked.

Let me repeat again: I have discovered many, many artists for me that I literally would have no realistic chance of every hearing about in any other way. Ever!

As I said in my other reply, different people like different things. I don’t want an adventure. I want the passive experience. I do other things while listening to music (work, read, tinker, …). I almost always have some music playing, but rarely do I just listen to music (it does happen though). I’ll pick styles depending on mood or task, it’s like the rails that keep me on track while working (as an example). If I’m not listening to music, I lose focus.

I simply can’t do that with an article or other medium that requires my primary attention. I don’t feel a sense of fulfillment either, but increasingly annoyed that reading this thing about music is taking more and more time. Believe me when I tell you, it’s not for me.