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Yeah they delayed the 10.9 release to work on their CI pipeline, and it seems to be paying off beautifully.

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That wasn't my experience at all, but my guild was made up of grown ups with actual lives IRL. Sure we were pretty casual by most standards, but raiding was fun and toxicity was shut down instantly.

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As a frenchman who always found quatre-vingt weird but never bothered to find out why, thanks :)

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If they use semantic versioning, incrementing the last number means it's only a bugfix release, so the API shouldn't change. But as they say in their funding post, 10.10.0 will include API changes.

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Works great on my laptop. It takes automatic snapshots before and after running the package manager, no problem so far.

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Come on that's not fair, it's very good* at drawing album covers and video game assets, which gives more time to artists to go work for Starbucks or Amazon instead of doing something they actually enjoy.

* passable actually, but much cheaper.

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It's a pretty popular GIF taken from the 2007 movie Hot Fuzz.

loutr ,
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Wireguard, like all VPNs, definitely does E2E encryption. What would be the point of an unencrypted VPN?

All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week (arstechnica.com)

Below is a look at the most exasperating news from streaming services from this week. The scale of this article demonstrates how fast and frequently disappointing streaming news arises. Coincidentally, as we wrote this article, another price hike was announced....

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That's the spirit! If you know your way around Linux admin, docker and such, don't hesitate to dive into jellyseerr + *arr + Jellyfin, it was much simpler to set up than I expected. Once everything's up and running, the experience is far superior to any commercial streaming service.

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As it seems nobody's linked it yet, have you read Jellyfin's hardware selection page? They go into great details about which HW features are required/desired.

In my case I'm running it on a NUC with an i3 8109U + 16GB RAM, it runs great with 2 or 3 transcoding jobs at once. Media are stored on 5400-RPM HDDs.

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Because having each piece of software do it itself would be not only chaos but a massive security concern.

Not really, the main point is that (most) apps don't know where they are on the screen, whether they're minimized, on the active workspace, ... and they don't care either. That's the responsibility of the window manager.

The app tells the display server "I need a window to display these pixels" and that's it. And the window manager, well, manages these windows.

On the topic of security, X11 doesn't handle security at all, that's one of the main issues. So any graphical app can read the other windows' pixels, grab everything you type, everything you copy, ... OTOH Wayland isolates apps so they can't do that by default. Apps that really need to (screenshot apps, ...) can use "portals" to ask for these permissions.

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Yep that's also the WM's job.

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I've owned all of Nintendo's portable consoles (except for the 3DS), a Wii and I currently have a Switch. I have like a thousand euros worth of games on it, all bought through the store.

But I'm tired of this relentless fuckery, and when my daughter's old enough to use the Switch, I will hack my switch and pirate the games I haven't already bought.

Same with streaming, for years I paid for 3 or 4 services, but I'm tired of those fuckers nickel and diming me, and making me jump through hoops to play my paid for content on Linux, so I canceled everything and now run jellyseerr+Jellyfin which is a much better experience.

However I haven't pirated a single PC game in like 20 years, because Valve and Steam are awesome and the prices are fair. Same with Spotify, though Ek is a tool so I'm starting to look for (legal) alternatives.

What I'm getting at is, I don't mind paying for my entertainment, but when I start feeling like a cash cow for fucking assholes you better believe I will sail the high seas.

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It's an old P2P app focused on music, it's been like 20 years since I last used it but at the time you could find pretty much anything no matter how obscure.

loutr ,
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Back in 2008 or so, for a few patches WoW actually ran better under linux than windows because of some bug.

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Yeah, at this point you're paying because it's a collector item, or to support the artist, not for the actual content of the package.

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I buy mine from the merch stand at the artist's show, they usually go for 20€-30€, even the limited edition ones.

Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition via anti-cheat software (www.pcgamer.com)

Wow it finally happened. So glad I switched to steam running on linux mint last week. I refused to install helldivers because it wanted to install some no holds barred god level permissions anti-cheat software. Windows 11 was the last straw for me. Good times.....

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Under linux EAC runs as your normal user, so it can't install system-wide malware but it can read/write your personal data. If you create a dedicated user for gaming you should be safe from this kind of stuff.

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Its originator said he created the term because he was tired of being called transphobic.

Yep, definitely the only sane response to being called transphobic because he couldn't keep his shitty opinions to himself.

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https://www.brusselstimes.com/855280/self-braking-cars-all-new-cars-to-be-fitted-with-speed-limiting-technology

loutr ,
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Yeah I've been wishing for something like this for a long time. Actual conversation I once had:

"Drugs are illegal because it's bad for you! We're protecting you against your bad choices!"

"OK then, it's illegal to go faster than 130km/h everywhere in France, why don't you protect me and others against my bad decisions and forbid selling cars that go higher than that?"

Mumbles something about personal freedom

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The debate is as old as Linux itself, and well documented.

loutr ,
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My guess is he threw a tantrum and yelled at his lawyers to do something about it, and it's the best they came up with.

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Yes ! It's been like 20 years since I last used KDE, but I'll install this once it's available in the arch repo, and maybe make it my daily driver if all goes well. I like GNOME but I like tweaking my DE and I'm sick of extensions breaking every other release.

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This is what its like working in childcare. Kids do stuff like this all the time.

@196

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My 5yo started asking a lot of questions about war all of a sudden. The Ukraine war had just started so I figured a bunch of kids saw it on the news with their parents. Turns out these dumb fucks were watching Squid Games with them, so they started playing out executions during recess... Between that and the little boy who was lighting girls' hair on fire because "girls should cover their head", she didn't stay too long in this school.

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I'm convinced there was more to it. Otherwise they'd have worked with the app devs to find a mutually beneficial solution. Instead they just acted like massive, deaf assholes through all the drama, blackout...

Of course, it's totally possible they're also insanely stupid, arrogant assholes.

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Grayjay is pretty cool too.

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I use the Android and Android TV apps. They're fine overall, but have a few usability issues. Main problem is the lack of offline mode. You can download stuff to your device but then have to hunt down the file and manually play it like a caveman.

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They should only be able to read/write to your download and media directories anyway.

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Yes, it's pretty amazing. Bought a NUC like 2 weeks ago after getting my first Prime videos ad, already downloaded about 1.5TB of stuff, both just released and from a few decades ago.

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After making this comment I looked for alternative clients. I came across Findroid, it's a little rough around the edges but the core functionality is here, and downloading/offline mode seem to work fine!

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I don't think so, in my understanding it will try to overwrite the existing file. But I'm far from an expert, check the wiki they're bound to have a solution for you.

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In this case the problem is MS, they could (or already) do the same thing with Firefox.

So the real fix is not using Windows.

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They added AES encryption to the spec 20 years ago. It's pretty-well supported AFAIK.

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Who the fuck gets "behind the wheel in the metaverse"?

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They need to make up reasons why their god is being such a piece of shit.

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"why not Jerusalem?"

That wasn't the allies, zionism predates the holocaust by decades, it's the literal promised land from their stupid fucking religion.

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