I use Windows at work. It’s not a personal computer. It’s a computer controlled by microsoft, capital, etc.

In my personal life I prefer freedom and control.

Oh man. I hate this corny phrase. Stop shilling for “ownership”. Braindead capitalist ideology.

I am deeply curious about learning about Cuba

So go visit.

I was anti-piracy in the past.

Hopefully you realize the error of your ways and the vast damage done by the violent control of free information. The hegemonic narrative around “ownership” serves capitalism, not humanity.

There’s absolutely nothing “positive” about Cuba joining a genocidal empire just so they can broadcast commercials.

It’s uncountable.

What could the US or American companies do to stop them?

The empire is literally bombing and starving the planet for the sake of capitalism and its MIC.

They’re already murdering cubans for nothing.

Deny basic human needs to an entire population? Starve even more people to death?

Yeah, most likely.

cop killers

You say that like it’s a bad thing.

USA not only grants asylum to genocidal pedos. It puts them in the highest offices.

Giving the CIA too much credit. Those losers got all their collaborators murked because they were communicating through public websites.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/29/us_spy_catastrophe_reported_in/

They’re not the best or smartest. They’re just the most brainwashed and most violent. Willing to destroy the planet for their gross god (usa).

A few years ago I was torrenting a large collection of games without a VPN. It wasn’t subtle at all. My internet connection kept getting slower and slower. I had to repeatedly restart the download for it to finish.

Afterwards my internet was totally busted. I called my ISP to complain. They walked me through some debugging but I could tell it was bullshit. Suddenly my internet started working. After I got off the phone, I got an automated text from the ISP that my internet had been reactivated.

So yeah. They can/will block your internet for downloading stuff. Use a VPN.

Don’t forget Dispatcharr for IPTV.

https://github.com/Dispatcharr/Dispatcharr

For streaming… Are you talking about IPTV? You could check the german playlist from IPTV.org.

In my experience many of those links are probably dead but, if you search around, you can probably get a decent set of channels.

https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv/blob/master/PLAYLISTS.md

Gnome is soooo annoying. You can’t customize anything without “tweaks” that barely work.

I definitely prefer the customization of KDE.

I usually see people discussing distros but I feel like picking the right DE makes much bigger impact.

Yeah I often wonder about this too. I think that the package manager is another major factor. But I think I might be happy with any distro running KDE. I’ve gotta get outside my Debian bubble to see.

No thanks.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/nolympics

Third Kodi fan here. Definitely the most bang for your buck.

(But if you just want tv and movies then Jellyfin is probably easier to setup.)

Since no one else has said it… Pixelorama is somewhat focused on making pixel art and animations, but it’s great at what it does.

the text editor when I try to resize text, it just ruins it and gets blurry sometimes.

I dunno what you’re doing but… When you resize text, you usually want to select the text and increase the font size. Sometimes you can render to vector and resize that. But if you resize the text as pixels, then it’ll probably look bad. Generally I try not to render text to pixels or do that last if necessary.

Are you using a VPN?

It’s always been sketchy for me but it almost never works when I use VPN.

I’m still getting used to the idea of no “panel” (tasks bar),

I’m using Debian/Plasma and I have a task bar. Maybe it’s optional or depends on environment?

Now you’re making me think I should get rid of my task bar…