merthyr1831

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merthyr1831,

Asahi Lina is a Vtuber on youtuber who streams her progress on improving GPU drivers for the apple silicon stack. 3D acceleration is coming along well last I checked!

Not sure on encode/decode but I know for a fact that there are already users who daily drive Linux on M1 hardware, like Linus Torvalds so maybe encode and decode are good enough for basic use!

merthyr1831,

Manjaro has already been supporting apple silicon for a while to be fair. Fedora is just big news since it’s a popular stable distro, and Manjaro has been a little bit controversial with their poor communication and buggy changes for ARM.

That being said, RISC-V is coming along super fast atm. Won’t be long until we’re seeing ARM under competition at the price/performance level.

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It’s kinda wholesome ngl

Can we block entire instances?

There are a couple of instances that are clearly misaligned with my values, but they’re very active, so a lot of the communities keep popping up in my feed. I’ve been blocking the communities, but it would be pretty cool if I could just block the entire instance. I know an instance can defederate from another instance. Is...

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Am I dumb because I’m on Sync and you can filter entire communities? Seems like other clients could easily follow suit.

Curious and Unknowledgable

Linux is interesting to me, but I’ve never dipped my toes into it because it seems really intimidating (and a lot of loud people act pretty snobbish about it towards non-Linux users, making it seem even more intimidating to get into; I’d rather not be bullied for my choices in software or my ignorance in others)....

merthyr1831,

I used a virtual machine to try out different linux systems until I found one I liked.

You might like Zorin, Mint, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, or Pop!OS. They’re all very easy to set up and feels a lot like an easier and faster windows installer nowadays.

merthyr1831,

Windows requirements: sprawling list of unsupported hardware based on an arbitrary requirment for a security chip that doesn’t actually improve security at all

Linux: CPU (optional)

merthyr1831,

CPU vendors are usually pretty seamless to swap on Winblows, other than the fact that Windows will possibly whine that you’ve modified your system too much and need a new license 🤓

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Most of the unsupported CPUs are based on their TPM support. Windows can boot on much older CPUs if you bypass TPM.

That being said, Windows already chugs on current gen hardware depending on your usecase so I’m not gonna recommend you try it lmao.

merthyr1831,

Yup. though for GPU drivers you’ll need to cleanly reinstall them if you downloaded them separately from windows update (which is a requirement for most gaming GPU users)

At least on linux its [insert distro command here] and it’ll have your new drivers up and running for you without bloatware

merthyr1831,

Changes nothing after what Madison has said about her experience working for them. LTT has had ethics and journalistic issues for most of its life, but it’s come clear that it’s deeper and more sinister than even I had imagined.

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Yup. Most of their journalistic problems are self-imposed by Linus and his demand for super expensive equipment for no purpose but cloutchasing/content farming.

The obsession with an 8K editing workflow and hosting their own poorly-managed content server has already led to staff losing hours of work multiple times (though it indeed made them some ✨content✨).

I can only imagine how stressful it is working as an editor for a man who completely replaces your hardware and workflow on the whims of whatever tech trend is popular on twitter.

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Only downside to Qb (which i still use despite this) is that the web interface is completely inaccessible from a mobile phone. Makes remotely managing torrents when I don’t have my laptop handy a real pain.

merthyr1831,

brilliant!! thank you

merthyr1831,

dangerous games being played on the linux sublemmy this friday

merthyr1831,

this is the most alive of all the fediverse projects. Not without its problems, but I have absolutely no reason to use reddit anymore.

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Mastodon has imo dogshit discoverability. For Lemmy it feels like posts across the federated instances are all elegantly aggregated onto my front page. I can also easily subscribe to subs on other instances.

On Mastodon the client has to work around the backend to do simple stuff like aggregate the posts of multiple instances. Most stuff in the federated feed is pretty much random and the local feed is restricted to your account’s instance.

User discoverability is also awful. If I dont have a user’s exact name and instance it’s nigh impossible to find them outside of my own instance. Searching lemmy is much more effective when it comes to external instances.

Mastodon is trying too hard to be a twitter clone in some ways I feel. If it had instance subscriptions a hit like how lemmy lets you subscribe to subs it would be way more useful. Right now it feels like everyone is shouting into the void.

merthyr1831,

I use Manjaro but I might switch when CosmicDE launches on Pop!, especially if they get graphics switching working nicely on Wayland.

merthyr1831,

Nah, it’s more of a “when it’s ready” type thing. You can see updates on their blog but by the looks, it’ll be another 6 months or so before a real release candidate is ready.

merthyr1831,

“Enterprise” linux just feels like something RH invented for their own brand.

You can get LTS releases of a bunch of distros already, and some even offer similar levels of enterprise support (SUSE comes to mind).

I’ve seen orgs run their own distro/spin or something like Zorin or Ubuntu if they don’t want RHEL.

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No point using RHEL or related distros like Fedora after this news. You’re potentially investing in the managed decline of a company that simply doesn’t bother with supporting anyone who isn’t paying them big bucks.

If you wanted a stable desktop Linux with LTS releases and a mature third party software stack you’re better off with literally any other Ubuntu, SUSE, or Debian-based distro. Paying money to the latter will likely benefit the wider linux ecosystem more than paying RH that same money, too

merthyr1831,

Elon is racing him to see who can collapse a thousand-year social media platform the fastest

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Comes off as a meme but when I look at Youtube and search for Linux almost every top video beyond the handful of general Linux channels (eg. DistroTube) are all Kali Linux tutorials.

merthyr1831,

if youre gonna write linux malware at least distribute it as a flatpak ffs

merthyr1831,

Gaming laptops will have marginally worse battery life when properly configured. But in general you’ll get better battery life on Linux in my experience.

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GNL (GNU isn’t Linux) / Linux

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oh well better late than never to migrate i spose

EDIT: nvm looks like dbzer0 has like 0 moderation (users just uploading gore to random subs and other shit) so can’t blame lemmy world admin from having to defed. Shame.

EDIT EDIT: oh its just anti piracy, i thought it was a defed !

merthyr1831,

All of this was apparent since Afghanistan at the very least. Probably says a lot more about the US and NATO trying to justify maintaining itself after the USSR collapsed than it does about Russia.

merthyr1831,

that’s one way to look at it, but if not for WINE and proton we’d not have had the renaissance of desktop Linux that’s well under way :)

merthyr1831,

Being a flutter dev (and shameless fanboy) I will suggest people try:

appflowy - a FOSS near-clone to Notion.

spotube - FOSS music streaming using the spotify API for metadata and youtube for music playing/downloading. Completely free of ads and works surprisingly well as long as the music you like is mirrored to YouTube.

honourable mentions:

Plex, Nextcloud, Radarr, Sonarr, qbittorrent. Not your usual apps for these kinds of threads but they’re absolutely top-tier for linux home servers.

merthyr1831,

I’m with you that we need some deprogramming when it comes to how we’re far too complacent with the privacy-ignoring and humanity-disrespecting behaviour of Microsoft. But at least personally I was always someone who accepted it with gritted teeth because the alternatives sounded like a downgrade in other ways.

Now that Linux is faster, smoother, more user friendly and compatible than ever, it made the decision to delete my Windows partition much less daunting.

And now if Linux does give me headaches (it’s not a perfect experience!) I’m much less likely to immediately give in and reinstall Windows because I’m now accustomed to the aspects that I didn’t realise were so important to me before.

merthyr1831,

Yup, it’s Flutter so it’s easy to port to other platforms. There’s Mac, Windows and iOS builds too!

merthyr1831,

It’s not a drop in replacement for spotify, of course. It just uses Spotify’s public API for fetching playlists and routes them through Youtube to play the audio of music videos hosted there, but as a free option it’s one of my faves :).

If you want podcasts or certain spotify-only remixes you’ll still need spotify.

Microsoft now has implemented "compare with Bing chat" button when you visit Google Bard in Edge (reddthat.com)

When you visit the Google’s chatbot bard’s website in Microsoft Bing. A New Button pops up besides the search bar which lets you compare bard results with Bing chat’s. I have no idea why they implemented this, well maybe to show off the their chatbot is better than bard or something?

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This will probably work for a lot of people, since as much as we hate this kind of marketing the products are genuinely competitive and many people will just pick the better solution.

If you ignore the improvement to Edge and Bing(AI) now it’s out of spite of this polarising marketing, but just be aware that you’re not the majority that this advertising is aimed at.

I just started using Linux... any great tips?

I just installed Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (Cinnamon) on an empty laptop a couple days ago and have been experimenting a lot. I’m coming from being a Windows user since I was just a little kid playing old DOS games on my grandpa’s Win-98 PC back in around 2000. My daily driver is currently running Windows 10 but I am pretty adamant...

merthyr1831,

regarding WINE, there’s tools like Bottles that make managing WINE easier. Steam in general configures WINE for you which meant in my experience you never need to mess with WINE directly, which is nice.

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Nope! Still actively developed. I did check the website and git repo just to be sure and both are updated.

merthyr1831,

Proton up is great for edge cases, but had a few issues with GE proton causing wine prefix folders to corrupt themselves so I tend to avoid anything but (official) Proton experimental, which usually receives upstream patches eventually!

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Social media accounts.

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I mean apart from the fact it’s not sourced or whatever, it’s standard practice for these tech companies to run a massive loss for years while basically giving their product away for free (which is why you can use openAI with minimal if any costs, even at scale).

Once everyone’s using your product over competitors who couldn’t afford to outlast your own venture capitalists, you can turn the price up and rake in cash since you’re the biggest player in the market.

It’s just Uber’s business model.

merthyr1831,

msn messenger was the closest you ever got to discord. bbm was the equivalent of the exclusive in-group you get with apple iMessage users nowadays. both were pretty fun but pretty primitive!

merthyr1831,

I watched a talk, “fun with email” by Dylan Beattie, and his personal advice was “dont bother self hosting unless you’re using it for contacting other self hosted users”.

Without the dedicated IT support and clout of a large company he said you’re gonna spend more time asking other servers to whitelist you than you’re gonna actually spend using your email.

Is that something you can corroborate?

Jackett's manual search is so, so good (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

To be clear, this is just a joke, and I don’t look down on direct downloading. It absolutely has its place, and sometimes I do it myself if it’s just faster to download a file directly. Torrenting is just so much more convenient, though, especially when using Jackett’s manual search.

merthyr1831,

Honestly I had the same experience with qbittorrent’s plugins. Many are outdated and broken i think.

It’s much easier to use sonarr and radarr, with prowlarr for managing torrent mirrors.

merthyr1831,

You may get mixed results with it. I certainly didn’t get much out of it.

You might wanna try jackett or sonarr and radarr, which are more fully featured solutions.

merthyr1831,

Are torrent search engines built into clients an older feature nowadays? I remember uTorrent having it years ago but as a qbittorrent user I tried the search plugins and they were pretty much all broken and outdated, especially as many only worked for a single tracker.

I went with sonarr and radarr for the full beans

merthyr1831,

workers rise up in wales, kill soldiers, make big red flag, liked cheese and bread

merthyr1831,

When Cosmic becomes stable I’d 100% use it over my Manjaro GNOME setup. this slaps

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Wasn’t it discontinued?

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I meant Vanced 🥹 Gonna learn how to use revanced asap!

Note app recommendation to replace notion

Hey, I’m looking for a note app to replace notion. The main features I’m looking for are the ability to have different notebooks (or folders), the ability to have notes available offline(something I recently realized notion does not do), the ability so search in notes for words or phrases, and preferably a sync feature to...

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Appflowy is a FOSS alternative to Notion if you want something closer to home

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