I can’t stand seeing my father struggling with windows…I tried to make him switch, but he has old piracy blood in him and just want Windows things and pirated software, some which do not have any alternatives on Linux.

Also, he’s getting old and he always talks about he don’t want to relearn a whole system. But everytime we see each other and talk about computers he trash talks how bad windows is…

Maybe that’s just something he needs… And boring distros are going to make him depressed? Dunno

Sorry for the story time, but you switching fully to linux made me think of my Dad in hope sometimes he will also take the steps to get out of there 😅!

I’ve found it can be easier to manage what you have installed, since you can just look at that list and go “oh, why do I still have xyz installed, idek what that does anymore”

While it sounds sexy and attractive… Not sure the amount of time needed to configure your NixOS is worthwhile. (Except if you have time to spare and want that learning experience !)

Just put everyhting In your personal notes and you have a similar “feature”?

Because they don’t fix a 5 years old bug about LVMs? instead they write a post on how to drop support for it?

Right now you have to do some sketchy bug/workaround to make it work with LVM…

So yeah drop calamares, hello new installer :)

That’s great ! Is there any chance we will switch to Agama instead of Calamares? Cause instead of fixing the LVM installation issue they just drop the support…

Okay, these days the big players are going on a piracy crusade… Nintendo, Sports League, YouTube, Streaming sites, ebooks…

Piracy got bigger these last few years, so they have to do something I guess… Sad days incoming !

No idea if there’s any working fork or any solution directly related to Spotify.

However, keep in mind that Spowlo downloads from YouTube music and while I was also an advocate of MeTube (yt-dlp frontend), I recently found out that even though you ask for the best quality It downloads some sketchy mp3 64/128kbps upscaled shit. Maybe those having a premium account it’s different, dunno…

So I suggest you give Soulseek a try, specially Nicotine+. There you find high quality mp3’s (320kbps range) and a lot of FLAC quality if that’s something you’re into !

If you still can’t find what you’re looking for, give rutracker.org a try :)

Else, either self-host MeTube or play arround with yt-dlp.

+1 ! Need to work on my morning Lemmy scrolling… Grumpy as fuck and not being nice to people sucks :// !

Yeah ! Except in the dev/code realm… They seem very aggressive to each other, specially if you whisper something like: Rust is safer than C !

I don’t really get it, but I find It very pleasant to read when passionate people write a whole essay I don’t even understand 1/10 of what they are writing… However, there seems some heated negativity in that community !

EU is making a new law which makes your IP the same as (something similar to) your social security number.

If that’s true, then even VPNs won’t help. Not sure how they will implement such a thing, but it’s obviously to protect the children !

There’s also the I2P network, which is similar to TOR but with torrenting in mind and other nice tools and utilities ! However, it’s slower, has less traffic/seeder and don’t even bother to try and find some older movies/music or hidden gems.

It’s getting better and some applications, like qbittorrent, are adding the i2p network. In the near future, when they have protected the children, I2P will be the place to be for a free and open Internet. However, you will probably be tagged as criminal…

Probably something to do with money? Just a guess 🤷‍♂️

There are some functions that do not work in the Office365 web Excel ! So that’s also not a solution if they need it for work ://.

I’m not expert in sed or awk. I always have to Google. For me though, it’s generally that you can do a great deal in just one line of awk or sed.

Same here ! I recently used a one liner awk piped into sed, piped into another command to find duplicated lines and merge both files.

Writing a python script would have taken an unknown amount of time !

True ! But there is a resurgence of ROMs. Squeezing any precent as low as possible is their goal, killing open-source/alternatives as much as they can !

I really hope hardware/software alternatives in the phone market get some funds to get away from the big tech monopoly.

And on it goes until we are overmedicated zombies.

Isn’t that already happening ? I mean look arround you, people get stuffed with things to keep you functional enough and moving without a though. Just like Zombies…

Pharmaceuticals are not here to heal you, but to keep you alive long enough to pay your bills and make them richer !

Hope one day we all have balls to become more like Luigi.

Don’t know either, other than they can’t stand the thruth for a good reason? :/ We have been using iptables for years and now we have to relearn everything?

Debian as a server is fine and probably the best ! However as a daily drive OS I don’t think it’s the best choice.

I have always seen Debian as server distro and that’s probably what they meant ?

I have debian as my server distro since the beginning of my Linux journey (NEVER failed me !) However I can’t see how Debian as daily drive is a good idea. Sure they try to catch up with testing repo for those who wan’t a more up to date distro, but it’s seems harder to keep up when something breaks along the way.

That’s where Arch and derivatives shine, if something goes wrong it’s fixed in a few days.

This is exactly why proprietary stuff sucks !

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But I’m glad you’re holding to that old iPod without throwing it away ! 👍

Schrödinger’s SVG?

I have also observed this behavior, but only when the file is new and the only seeder is the uploader.

Hower I’m kinda curious to test it out. Any idea if there’s some way to script qbittorrent to somehow mimic this behavior?

Download until 99,0% completed with 100% of download speed, then reduce to 0.1% of my download speed until finished?