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anothermember, to linux in What's your favourite RSS reader for Linux?

Just Thunderbird is fine for me, has all the features I want and I already get my email there (but even if I didn’t I’d struggle to find an RSS reader with its features).

anothermember, to linux in What's your current favorite distro that isn't Arch, Debian or Fedora?

OpenSUSE, it’s what I’d be using if Fedora didn’t exist.

anothermember, (edited ) to linux in What's your favorite music player on Linux?

It just adds another layer of abstraction when my file manager works just fine. I think it started back in the iPod days, and now you have a generation of people who don’t know how to manage files.

anothermember, to linux in What's your favorite music player on Linux?

VLC because it works with everything and it doesn’t try to organise my music collection for me.

anothermember, to linux in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?

That didn’t exist when I tried TW, but that’s something I’ll at least try out on a second machine at some point.

anothermember, to linux in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?

One that might be controversial: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I still have a lot of respect for this distro and I really wanted to like it but it’s just not for me. It’s the fact that major updates could occur any day of the week, which could be time-consuming to install or they could change the features of the OS. It always presented a dilemma of whether to hold back updates which might include holding back critical updates.

So rolling distros aren’t for me, everyone expects to run in to some occasional issues with Arch, but TW puts a lot of emphasis on testing and reliability, so I thought it might be for me. But the reality is I much prefer the release cycle and philosophy of Fedora, I think that strikes the best balance.

anothermember, to privacy in Question about phones: Am I overreacting?

I find they’re a pain to use and I only have one out of social pressure, and privacy or not I’m constantly confused on why they’re so popular.

I just use a throwaway account and have the rule of not putting in any data that I don’t want to be read - which is barely anything any way because I do all my computing on my Linux laptop. I figure if they’re collecting location data and recording me then they’re just associating it with “random guy x” because I’ve never given it anything else. I should look in to one of the de-Googled Android distributions but I have so little interest and energy in anything to do with it, if it could be made totally private I would still rarely use it.

anothermember, to linux in Vivaldi Is Available on Flathub – Brno Hat

It’s the best Chromium browser, but unfortunately still a Chromium browser. Pleased to see it in Flathub though.

anothermember, (edited ) to fuck_cars in Anti-ULEZ extremists blow up a ULEZ camera using an IED

It’s a perfectly reasonable anti-pollution measure that a few idiots have randomly latched on to and decided to be against.

anothermember, to linux in What's with all these hip filesystems and how are they different?

I suppose it depends on how much stuff you have, doing a full back up of my home every week is too time consuming to be practical but takes a couple of minutes with this method.

Keeping multiple past snapshots is overkill for me but I do it because I can, more-or-less. It would be useful if I accidentally delete a file and only remember it months later.

anothermember, to linux in What's with all these hip filesystems and how are they different?

The real power for btrfs for me is incremental backups; you can take a snapshot of your home partition and send it to a backup device, then you can take a second snapshot a week later and just send the differences between them. I do my weekly backups like this. You can keep many multiple snapshots to roll back if needs be since only the differences between snapshots take up space. This is the tutorial that got me started.

anothermember, to piracy in Sony is going to remove certain purchased titles from user libraries

Not within Lemmy, but if you were on, for example, a federated Mastodon instance it’s perfectly possible to boost that comment that would appear like a retweet to Mastodon users.

anothermember, (edited ) to linux in what caused you to get into Linux?

It started as a dislike of Windows 98 for me, extremely unreliable and buggy OS. I didn’t switch immediately but that was what got me looking for the alternatives, having fully made the switch around the time of Windows XP. Windows only seems to have got worse since then, stories of advertising, forced updates, etc., I’m glad I never had to deal with that.

anothermember, to linux in Selecting the New Face of openSUSE is Underway

Is there a reason given why they can’t use their current logo?

anothermember, to piracy in Louis Rossman/FUTO's YouTube app, GrayJay, now supports Sponsorblock... and shames you if you use it

The point is that YouTubers pay for that with their own reputation, if I followed a YouTuber that promoted exploitative companies I would stop following that YouTuber - why would you want to watch their content anyway?

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