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pinchcramp , 2 days ago

I don’t have anything useful to say but that sounds fixing dystopian.

pinchcramp , 1 month ago

Not the person you asked, but you can find ready made block lists for YouTube Shorts. For example: github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts

pinchcramp , 1 month ago

You are welcome. You can find various lists for your content blocker on filterlists.com (click the (i) button and then subscribe).

pinchcramp , 1 month ago

I don’t think that’s something that needs to be fixed. Your phone (and probably your computer) can randomize its MAC address every time it connects to a new WiFi to make it harder to track you.

pinchcramp , 1 month ago

Do you ever visit a website and feel like you have to put on a condom or else you get something nasty?

An ad blocker, that’s the condom.

pinchcramp , 1 month ago

I’m sorry to hear that you’re having a hard time getting the software running. I understand that this can be very frustrating.

As others have said, making yourself the owner of everything can cause numerous issues in the long run and there’s a reason why most distributions DON’T make you root.

Why are you using Linux in the first place? I think sonarr and jackett both run on Windows as well.

Don’t let the frustration get the best of you. If you really want to run those tools yourself, then dive into it (and all the technical issues that are part of it), but if you only want to have access to the functionality, you might want to look into a service that takes care of all the technical burden.

Good luck

pinchcramp OP , 1 month ago

I think the biggest difference is dynamic (river) vs manual tiling (sway). Other than that, I feel sway is much more mature and there’s a proper community surrounding it that had written scripts and tools that work with sway. Many of which you are probably gonna use with river as well (swaylock, swaybg, swayidle).

One thing that’s pretty cool about river (at least in theory) is that the tiling algorithm is not part of the compositor itself. Instead, you can run any river tiling program and have that part be completely custom if you wish. Also configuration is done via commands instead of a config language (you usually run a bash script at start).

From what I remember, the vision of Isaac Freund (main developer) is, that river will become more of a tiling compositor base, that others can then use to create their own distributions. I heard that in some talk he gave. You should be able to find that on YouTube.

However, there’s still a long way to go.

In it’s current state, river reminds me of spectrwm. Very simple, with some cool, but ultimately non-essential, ideas that you probably won’t find anywhere else.

pinchcramp OP , 1 month ago

You’re welcome. I’ve been using it as my daily driver for over a year now and it works for that, but don’t expect any bells and whistles.

pinchcramp OP , 1 month ago

Oh thank you for that link. I knew I’ve heard him take about his plans in some talk he gave, but didn’t know he write them down.

I am on the same page as you. River works for me well enough, but the vision is what keeps me excited.

What exactly was the problem with not being able to configure CSD/SSD? I’ve not run into any issues but that has probably more to do with the applications I run.

pinchcramp , 1 month ago

This should be possible since version 3.1: support.audacityteam.org/…/audacity-3.1

pinchcramp , 1 month ago

Ah, I think that isn’t possible. You would have to split the track and then use the smart clips feature. Or you use a different tool like someone else mentioned.

pinchcramp , 2 months ago

Given these trends, what might a post-piracy world entail?

Assuming you are right with this:

For media: Buy in or consume less. If piracy will really become less prevalent you don’t really have much choice, do you? I don’t think everyone has to live like I do, but my media consumption in the past few years has shrunk more and more (for various reasons) and maybe that’s something other people may gravitate towards as well. Life has a lot to offer beyond screens.

For software it’s trickier. Maybe you find an open source project that suits your needs or maybe there’s a competitor that hasn’t (yet) enshittified their product. Unfortunately, if you really need a specific piece of software I think you might just be SOL 🤷‍♂️

Just my two cents

pinchcramp , 3 months ago

Thank you so much for writing this up. I really appreciate the detailed post.

Most medical and political professionals have a bias for the circumcision ritual.

I think it’s important to point out that this bias is mostly cultural. In many countries where ritual infant circumcision is the exception instead of the norm, medical personnel do not have a bias towards RIC.

Foreskin restoration is legit (even if it may sound crazy like regrowing limbs). I know we collectively dislike Reddit on here, but the subreddit /r/foreskin_restoration has a really supportive and welcoming community and a lot of resources about how to get started (check their wiki).

pinchcramp , 3 months ago

Many men lose sensation over the course of their life. Circumcised men seem to be affected by this much more severeley (anecdotal experience).

I’m in my mid thirties, circumcised at birth, and feel virtually nothing on my glans. Any form of intimacy that involves my dick is more of a chore than anything else. And no, the problem is not that I wank too often or have some unhealthy porn consumption (pretty much non-existent).

Do you think it’s okay to burn a clitoris if the girl hasn’t had sex before? Can we blind babies because they will never know what they have lost?

Can we violate anyone’s bodily autonomy as long as they will not remember what life was like before the violation?

pinchcramp , 3 months ago

I see you already have a solution but someone else might find this interesting: keyd is a pretty powerful keyboard remapping utility that works everywhere (X11, Wayland and VTs). Think QMK but done on the OS.

pinchcramp , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

While you make many valid points, I think it’s not reasonable to assume that OP could have avoided all the struggles they had, if they just had informed himself prior to installing. Especially since many of them problems described were probably caused by an unfortunate combination of software/driver issues, a specific hardware setup and certain user expectations.

I doubt that watching tech YouTubers or similar would have helped much.

pinchcramp , 4 months ago

Another river user here. I like river, but I wouldn’t recommend it (for someone who’s never used a tiler). It feels a bit bare bones and there’s not that much development going on (still active, but not frequent updates).

Both Sway and Hyprland are probably good picks. You can always switch to a different one, if your first choice doesn’t satisfy you.

pinchcramp , 6 months ago

The ease of buying a quality laptop without having to worry about if it will run well with my OS.

I’ve been using MacOS for about 8 years at work and I never really taken to it. It’s fine and I can do my work but I won’t use it if I hadn’t to (unless the only alternative was Windows). But one thing I really like about Macs is that you can buy one and you won’t have any headaches with battery life, software compatibility etc. You get decent hardware (let’s ignore the whole 8GB on an M3 = 16GB on other machine debacle) and know that it will work decently well with 3rd party software/hardware and if something breaks you can just bring into an Apple store.

While there are dedicated Linux sellers (System76, Tuxedo Computeres, Starlabs), I’m hesitant to spend 2k on a computer just to find out that the build quality is subpar, the battery life sucks or that customer support will just ignore my requests (read some bad experiences on the Starlabs subreddit).

pinchcramp , 6 months ago

Official Release Page for those who don’t want to read the Phoronix article: gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/…/1.0.0

It’s great to see that Pipewire has reached this milestone. Personally I’ve been using it since 0.3.35 for very basic audio needs and it’s been a very smooth transition. After installation I never had to tinker with it anymore. “It just works”^TM^

pinchcramp , 6 months ago

Vanilla OS is moving to Debian with version 2. I don’tthink they have a KDE version, though.

pinchcramp , 6 months ago

Ah, that’s good to know. Thanks for the info!

pinchcramp , 6 months ago

Firefox now supports a setting (in Preferences → Privacy & Security) to enable Global Privacy Control. With this opt-in feature, Firefox informs the websites that the user doesn’t want their data to be shared or sold.

This sounds like Do Not Track revisited. The only difference that I can find (only skimmed the website) is, that there seems to be some legal support for this in the state of California.

Now you can exercise your legal privacy rights in one step via Global Privacy Control (GPC), required under the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA).

I wonder:

1. How does this differ from DNT?
2. Does this this have any real chance to take off? From what I’ve heard, DNT has been rather counterproductive as it can be used to fingerprint users.

pinchcramp , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

A fart is an ephemeral, gaseous configuration of molecules as they pass through a specific orifice in a specific direction. In short, a fart is not the gas itself.

pinchcramp , 8 months ago

I think with a topic like this, you can’t NOT spark a huge discussion. I hope you still got some useful answers out of it :)

pinchcramp , 8 months ago

How do middle-click-to-paste and middle-click-to-scroll conflict? In Firefox I can click-to-paste if the cursor is over an input field and click-to-scroll anywhere else. Never had any problem with this behavior.

pinchcramp , 8 months ago

That’s not something I thought about. Good thing that you can disable the feature then

pinchcramp , 8 months ago

Only if thunder is followed by putrid stench :D

pinchcramp , 8 months ago

Volcanos, Mother Earth’s buttholes

pinchcramp , 8 months ago

Oh, this sounds interesting. I’ll have to give this a try.

pinchcramp , 8 months ago

What does https://archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.8.html#_query_options_apply_to_em_q_em_a_id_qo_a say about the file in question?

pinchcramp , 9 months ago

if you’re willing to use proprietary drivers it works, but it has some hiccups

Do you know if nvidia still has issues with Wayland or are nvidia and MAD on par nowadays in that area?

pinchcramp , 9 months ago

Sounds like currently AMD is a safer bet if one was in the market for a new card.

Thanks for your answer.

pinchcramp , 9 months ago

Why wait a few years and not avoid it completely? I doubt there’s any reliable data that confirms a significant loss in sales if they launched without Denuvo and its ilk. DRM is at best useless and at worst “harms” customers.

pinchcramp , 9 months ago

… there is probably some benefit.

I was not thinking about the business side but rather about what the customer gets out of it. What bothers me about DRM systems is that they cause problems that you don’t have with pirated game, which is the opposite of how it should be. I don’t want to struggle to get a game running, when the pirated version does not caus those problems. That being said, I haven’t bought any large AAA title in years and my experience is from 7+ years ago. Maybe things have changed but I kinda doubt it.

pinchcramp , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I guess pirates don’t result in additional costs for the developer from dealing with support tickets or other forms of customer care 🤷

pinchcramp , 10 months ago

Ooh, that makes sense. I’m not too familiar with key resellers, so I was just guessing. But you explanation makes more sense. Thank you

pinchcramp , 10 months ago

You should technically be able to run the exe with proton (assuming, you’re talking about Windows games). Maybe Steam does some extra work like setting certain environment variables (see github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton#runtime-config-op… for a list).

Or you could just run non-steam games through Steam

pinchcramp , 10 months ago

GPG is probably the most commonly used one. If you want something with a slightly less awkward command line interface, you could try sequoia-pgp.

pinchcramp , 10 months ago

I’ve never worked on a larger C project, so I’m not the best judge, but I would recommend 21st Century C by Ben Klemens. It was very accessible and gave me a pretty good understanding of how the language worked and how to use modern versions of it.

pinchcramp , 10 months ago

For me personally, I only keep things I find worth rewatching, so about 50% I delete after. Same with e-books. Games I don’t really pirate (or only pirate them to see if I can run them on my computer). Usually I buy them on Steam and that’s good enough, even though sometimes you lose access to them. I tend to not go back to older games.

pinchcramp , 10 months ago

Thank you for taking the time and writing out such a detailed response 🙏

pinchcramp , 10 months ago

Agreed, I’ve been commenting on several posts over at !macrophotography just to encourage people to keep posting their images.

pinchcramp , 10 months ago

Found this in the source code, lol

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/8f56bd61-c32f-4f5e-8802-8facb28758dc.png

pinchcramp , 10 months ago

You’re not wrong but i don’t think this has anything to do with being free. If companies want to track you, they will (except for those whosr business model is privacy maybe). Regardless of how much you pay them.

pinchcramp , 10 months ago

Is the screenshot you posted from Ubuntu or Pop!_OS? Because partition 4 is a swap partition.

But I agree with mudeth, having a system partition and a dedicated /home one is a decent setup.

pinchcramp , 10 months ago

It was a cool movie with amazing scenes and it made A New Hope make more sense (explained why the death star had a design flaw.) But I found all the characters really forgettable and it just didn’t give me a satisfying emotional payoff.

Rogue One SpoilerAll the main characters just died and I didn’t really care 🤷‍♂️