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zbecker, 7 months ago

@dumptruckdan @ZeroCool @Moc

Out of curiosity, how so?

zbecker, 9 months ago

@Amity_Noceda @AbsolutelyNotCats

This is why I love NixOS so much.

zbecker, 9 months ago

@mexicancartel

Yeah mastodon does that by default and I am too lazy to remove them...

zbecker, 9 months ago

@XeryBlox most people who pirate a lot have automated setups that auto download every. The software stack that's commonly used is *Arr.

Sonarr for TV, Radarr for movies and lidarr for music.

There are also no ads when you go to the trackers directly via the API. Same for usenet indexers

zbecker, 9 months ago

@helmet91 @Xylight

I have only really used upstream distros (specifically what I've used is debian, open suse, Arch, Gentoo, and nixOS). I've never had audio issues, except when I first started using Gentoo, as I was missing some compile flags.

That being said I only started using Linux 3 years ago.

zbecker, 9 months ago

@spez @unionagainstdhmo

My understanding is that with Pearson stuff the professors often setup the HW through it, so unfortunately this is often not possible.

zbecker, 9 months ago

@histic @ShittyRedditWasBetter

At the university I am going to they require a book for every course, and a plan on how they're going to use it.

What's great is that I've all my professors right back. All of my professors include a book that is fairly old and include some verbage in the syllabus about how they "reserve the right to assign reading assignments" i.e. book quizzes, but they actually never have assigned them previously and don't even have material made up.

I'm guessing the reason for this policy is because the university has an opt-out (you have to re-opt out every semester, and you have to check some professors lock their own material) $150 paywall to get online access to your books. The only way I can see this as worth it is if your taking like 6 classes and all of them use books written in the last 5 years or so...

zbecker, 10 months ago

@kmkz_ninja @OrnateLuna

I know people who use linux mint (or other distros that aim at user friendliness) who literally never have to touch the command line. This claim that you need to use the command line was true 5 years ago, but today it is largely false.

I am in a Linux User Group and I am literally the only person who uses a tiling window manager (I use hyprland) instead of DEs like kde, gnome, cinnamon, etc.

zbecker, 10 months ago

@orcrist @lambda

There definitely is a problem that flatpak is trying to solve. That problem is dependency hell.

This most often (or rather most famously) occurs with python packaging. Sometimes you can have one package that requires a version that is incompatible with another version that another package requires. That's why people use python venv these days (or just use pipx).

IMO a better way of solving this is with nix. With nix, it doesn't require a container, it just builds in isolation.

Thing is, this will probably end up a VHS vs Beta Max.

zbecker, 10 months ago

@lambda @BeigeAgenda

Imo a better alternative to flatpak is the nix package manager, but as I said to the other guy this'll most likely end up a VHS/betamax situation.

Both things are trying to solve dependency hell in different ways. Flatpak just builds and runs everything in a container, where as nix sets up virtual environments and builds things in isolation with per package dependency trees in an effort to make builds entirely reproducible (to the point that no matter what system you compile on, you will get the same hash).

Edit: as the other guy said, just use your systems package manager unless it doesn't exist in the repo and you can't be bothered to package it yourself. It's the standard recommended method.

zbecker, 10 months ago

@lambda it's not a Lemmy server, it's a mastodon server. I assume it has something to do with that.

zbecker, 10 months ago

@lambda a lot of people do nix-env -ia nameOfPackage. I would recommend doing it properly with a file, and you just direct that command to the file (I would probably setup an alias). It gives you that declarative nature that nix is known for.

zbecker, 10 months ago

@lambda they should if you use the single user command. The command that does it for the whole system requires root access, something you don't have on the deck.

zbecker, 10 months ago

@lambda

Oh I didn't know, I just remembered reading that it utilizes an immutable filesystem and thought that it also doesn't give root access as well. That's good to hear though.

zbecker, 10 months ago

@lambda

Oh, good on valve for making that easy to undo, albeit until you update.

zbecker, 10 months ago

@QuazarOmega @zeerooth

I don't understand why people do that. I am currently a cs student and I found that I spent more time using chatGPT than just doing things properly

zbecker, 10 months ago

@hackris @Hovenko a lot of people use bottles. The official package is on flatpak.

zbecker, 10 months ago

@dipshit @droans

NixOS also does this, but I am not sure how it compares to ansible as I have never used ansible.

zbecker, 10 months ago

@WldFyre @CCatMan

Each user is roughly $200/year for Facebook Iirc.

zbecker, 10 months ago

@somedaysoon @z3rOR0ne

With Samsung these days, it's usually impossible to root without some sort of exploit on US models unfortunately.

zbecker, 10 months ago

@CapraObscura @ZeroHora

They'll last until either: the school stops using gsuite or some other company comes up with something even trendier to market that is cheap enough to justify a grant.

zbecker, 10 months ago

@CapraObscura @sin_free_for_00_days

I think steam deck is usually considered linux.

Benefits to proton after all make it out to linux. ChromeOS and Android are more debatable, although Google does submit a lot of code upstream to the kernel.

zbecker, 10 months ago

@z3rOR0ne @somedaysoon

I don't do Android development, but I would imagine rooting makes it easier to test things, as you wouldn't have to rely on ADB all the time.

zbecker, 10 months ago

@Rootiest

Huh, I am not surprised at all

zbecker, 10 months ago

@CapraObscura @lemann

No, the #steam deck is just an attempt to secure their longevity if #Microsoft tries to kick them from #windows.

The steam deck is also a way to get people to buy more games.

zbecker, 10 months ago

@CapraObscura

I am not saying that it is likely. But Microsoft is trying to push their own store fronts quite heavily.

Besides, valve has been trying to push linux for a long time. Remember the steam machines?

Being the best OS for gaming gives Microsoft a lot of power.

zbecker, 10 months ago

@CapraObscura @EatMyDick

It has those windows portables (I am blanking on the company name) but those also have way worse battery life.

zbecker, 10 months ago

@mypasswordis1234 @dataprolet

Some people like systemd boot.

zbecker, 10 months ago

@Anid_Vid @Outsider9042

I mean, I have never had to distrohop to solve a problem. Granted, I have had to boot off a flash drive to fix issues on more than one occasion.

As the other guy said, #NixOS is great. It requires some learning however.

zbecker, 10 months ago

@razieltakato @pyromaniac_donkey yeah, if you read the news posts you won't have issues.

Breaking changes are also fewer and farther between these days.

zbecker, 11 months ago

@Rooki @ghariksforge

I mean, python is named after Monty Python.

zbecker, 11 months ago

@fedcon @mancy

I just let my family and friends use my #jellyfin server and if there's something they want to let me know.

I can't imagine the electricity cost for 5 PB of storage though, God damn.

zbecker, 11 months ago

@HughJanus @snowbell

Piracy is more often then not a symptom of the problem rather than a problem itself.

For example, game piracy was much more common prior to steam as it was just much much more convenient to pirate at that time.

zbecker, 11 months ago

@damnthefilibuster @Kushia

You can get a hold of them via #eBay. Every now and then a business upgrades and floods the market.

One of these days I want to buy a whole bunch of them and build a #Beowulf cluster.

zbecker, 11 months ago

@cyberpunk007 @dinckelman

Out of curiosity, what features are you missing from #jellyfin?

zbecker, 11 months ago

@cyberpunk007

I agree with you.

It works better for me though, especially because I never paid for plex pass, so I don't have access to hardware accelerated transcoding on plex.

UI though, has never really been all that big of an issue for me. If I can navigate quickly, I am good.

I can say with certainty though that the plex roku app is way better than jellyfins.

zbecker, 11 months ago

@Chev @produnis

As the other guy said, because they are way cheaper. I use them for media storage.

For 20tb of hard drive storage, you could expect to spend ~$400 (probably less these days), but the same price will get you a 5th that on ssds (maybe more these days)

If you are streaming video, hard drive read speeds are good enough.

zbecker, 11 months ago

@midas @bronzing

Out of curiosity why not? this is what I have been doing forever.

zbecker, 11 months ago

@yoichi @4onTheFloor

I use YouTube revanced simply because of sponsorblock and return youtube dislike.

Those features don't come with premium.

zbecker, 11 months ago

@republicofRAD @SpaceToast

I specifically enjoy NixOS but I wouldn't recommend it to beginners as the documentation isn't great and the distro works differently from all other distros.

I would recommend linux mint.

zbecker, 11 months ago

@ShootBANGdang @Selmafudd

yeah, once one person comments it suddenly gets bumped to the front of active on lemmy...

zbecker, 11 months ago

@JackBruhhh @rei

#electron does consume quite a bit more ram than it should.

Either way, I don't really have much of a problem with it.

zbecker, 11 months ago

@davidgro @AgreeableLandscape

Are you using hot or active? If you're using active it is because someone posted a comment, as it works via most recent comment instead of post date

zbecker, 11 months ago

@Perhyte

oh that might be the case that it is new to the server. I didn't even think about that.