Running on a 2016 intel processor with an old Nvidia 2070. I can watch about 3 streams on different devices at the same time.

nix-shell -p neofetch --run neofetch

checks the HL3 calendar

soon™

A pugnant earthy mix of fear, nostalgia, sloth, and an open acceptance of corporate skullduggery.

I read that as ministries, and i’d be down either way :)

Wait until corporate america figures this out, outrnext big blockbusters: cmd, taskmgr and devmgmt

Bots turn down from 10 to 3

Trolls turn down from 11 to 4 (depending on the instance)

Downvotes don’t mean anything and your comments can’t generally be buried.

Mods/Admins are generally far less petty

Most instances are more open about things that are posted, even if the inhabitants of that instance are less accepting of it.

Every instance has it’s own ettiquite, be sure to read the stuff in the welcome.

They want a safe place to vent. I’m split on whether they leave it open so that guys can read/understand or whether they just like kicking out guys that try to defend themselves. Probably a bit of each. Good for them :)

You mean besides the fact that the IDF has been selling ICE software specifically to compromise android phone and now they’re forbidding their own forces from using Android…

That’s not much of a stretch IMO, but you do you.

I can get a data sim card and put it in a laptop right now. It’s just an inconvenient form factor.

If all I needed was five hours worth of battery would be a great fit.

Both post-market and nix are great options if you want to run a really old phone, but neither one can last even half a day.

Can’t crossfade, developers won’t add the features the server doesn’t support it. I get a random crashes at least once a session. Search sucks because I don’t feel like wiring up elastic. Doesn’t stream large lists, browse to P? With 5000 artists and 20K tracks? Forever.

The beta is a little smoother but doesn’t address any of my issues with it.

Symphonium is 100 times better, never crashes, solves lists/streaming by downloading the lists and handling them locally.

Everyone has their own preferences, many of the loudest pretend Linux is sport betting, it’s not.

What you care about is:

• how well does it support your hardware
• how well does it support your use case
• how open is the community around the distro to new users

The core OS’s have pretty good support and open minded communities.

Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint

Then you have distros that try to cater more to specific needs, like Bazzite focuses on steam and video drivers staying 100% ready out of the box. That’s not to say that current Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and Mint can’t install and just work, but it’s not their primary focus.

Debian was old and rigid about non-free software Ubuntu forked and allowed free, and their community blossomed. Ubuntu made marketing decisions with Amazon and some other stuff that wierded people out Mint formed the community started heading over there. Ubuntu tried to start doing snap package manager which people hated, so Mint got stronger. Debian finally said ohh fine you can have non-free software, no mint and Debian are both strong and well liked with pretty good support and communities. Fedora is from the old Redhat lineage and is a strong contender with an ancient community and lots of support. Mint, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu still all have strong communities and lots of support. They’re a great place to start. Bazzite is a Fedora port that focuses on Gaming and Video driver support.
There is some stink in the air about Fedora dropping 32 bit support, if that happens Both Fedora and Bazzite will have a very hard time supporting games. As long as Fedora keeps 32 bit support, Bazzite is the best for getting your games running out of the box.

Video editing can be challenging. Divinci Resolve is pretty good, but the free version has harsh limits. KDEnlive is free and ok, but it really lacks authoring features.

Watching streams is easy

Streaming live video is messier. OBS still works a treat, but you don’t have Nvidia background removal, and most of the other removal options in Linux are anemic.

I mean it’s not just that. Probably not even mostly that. Security is really not great on Android far beyond the AI. I’ve been running Android for years and probably won’t change until Linux with LUKS is a reasonable alternative, But from a hardware level on through to the software, there are so many holes in the OS and ways to access privileged information. Even the top end of the Samsung line is largely rootable at this point, not without concessions, mind you, but as far as an enemy getting a phone and gaining access, or the company itself getting your data even without AI, I’d probably be concerned enough for ANY military org not to allow them to be used.

Apple has a hell of a lot of issues, might even be overly friendly with Israel, but from a security standpoint, it’s probably safer for secrets than android at the moment.

I really just want an encrypted portable linux device with a cellular modem. I don’t even care if it can SMS or VOLTE, I just need it to run a secure chat client, support Bluetooth headphones and last all day on a charge.

We need the disclosures now to slow the pace of the bullshit taking over, but it will not be stopped.

I mean, fuck, at this point if they’re using photoshop to extend a background, it’s AI. It’ll just end up becoming the California this contains items known to cause cancer logo all over again. It’s still the right thing to call it out, but everything, in short order, will require the label.

So why the fuck are they fighting to not do it? I’ll be a couple of billable hours and everyone and their brother will either disclose that they’re doing it or lie about it and we can move on with life.

I was wondering how long before they dropped that other shoe.

I bought Plexpass when it was $70. Got my money out of it. The centralized login, ssl, caching and proxy are probably worth paying something for.

That said, I’ve mostly walked away from them over privacy concerns and an utter refusal to add community-requested features while removing actively used features.

I just want my AHK stuff to work again. They’re dragging us kicking and screeming into un-avoidable security that breaks software that noone is up for fixing.

Sounds like a steve jobs reality distortion field.

Yup, Adobe and Microsoft def a no-go. Especially Outlook.

For MS, the o365 web apps work as fine as they do on windows. Outlook is nearly at parity with the windows app. (I think they’re slowly making the windows apps web under the hood)

Adobe has to be pre creativecloud

You can run a windows VM, then use remote-desktop but it completely defeats the purpose unless you’re just trying to edge into privacy.

there are to many options and preferences

What you need isn’t what everyone needs. I suspect you’ll have a very hard time finding massive numbers of windows users who only need a terminal.

I sincerely hope that you don’t need one distribution for games and another for developers, Having to reboot to play games is why we’ve had such bad penetration for years.

Every distro needs to be able to handle all the video cards from the last decade. Lutris and Steam need to run really well everywhere or we’ll take forever to get proper market penetration.