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01189998819991197253, in Linux empowered coffee, a must have.
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kakes, in Audacity 3.4 Released with Music Workflows, New Exporter, and More

Did they ever fix that issue from a while back where they started collecting personal data on users?

engadget.com/audacity-privacy-policy-spyware-accu…

Raffster,

That is the real question. Would like to recommend the program to people again.

aBundleOfFerrets,

Tenacity is a fork designed to address those concerns, and it is mostly beyond fork growing pains at this point

Raffster,

Oh very cool. Thanks a lot.

pastermil,

Growing pains?

aBundleOfFerrets,

Tearing branding and telemetry and build deployment stuff and crap out of forked software is a lot of work that takes some time

pastermil,

I see. Makes sense now.

otter,

There was a Lemmy post with a video about how things have changed, which I even commented on, but I can’t find anymore.

What I remember was that yes they did address most of the concerns. There were some issues still (unrelated to data collection iirc), and there’s one other fork that’s being maintained if you don’t want that

Edit: I think the was the video, I don’t want to watch it again but I’ll link my TLDW if I find it: m.youtube.com/watch?v=QfmDn1IaDmY

phx, in How to choose a computer/laptop/device that is better compatible with linux? Are there certain things to look out for when shopping?

AMD or Intel Graphics. Intel networking, Atheros, or a chipset that is known to be friendly with Linux.

CPU support is fairly diverse.

Sound is fairly well supported but with some devices can be a surprise, as are touchpads. Touchscreen and webcams are generally a bit more dubious.

With desktops, I very rarely have issues but it’s also easier to pick my own hardware. For laptops, I usually don’t buy something that’s new to market unless the component models are known to work. If it’s been around for a bit I can usually Google comments by somebody else who’s got one and tried to run Linux on it.

hitagi, in 3rd party discord client?

ArchWiki has a list: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Discord#Third-party_clie…

Ripcord is really unique and it’s still my favorite third party client. Abaddon might be worth trying. Unfortunately, most other third party clients are wrappers.

noodlejetski,

Ripcord has been pretty great, but it hasn’t been updated in a long time.

Mandy,

yeah, i wonder why they stopped

Mandy,

tried out abaddon but it tells me it couldnt fetch the build number which increases chances of being flagged their github has one related issue with no solution

Kidplayer_666,

How the hell does arch wiki have so much stuff? It’s nuts!

Yttra,

Someone somewhere had a problem, wanted it solved, and wrote it down, probably.

Get enough stubborn "someone"s with their own problems to solve, and I guess eventually you’ll end up with the Arch wiki lol

Mandy,

here we go, looks interesting, ill try it out

scumola, in I'm ditching htop for btop, look how cool it is

btop doesn’t update all of the characters for me after a while if I leave it open for a long time, and eventually it stops updating altogether.

SteveTech, in Anyone have experience with Intel Arc GPUs?

It was pretty much plug and play for me, I don’t really play much but it’s worked for any game I’ve thrown at it (although there was some artifacting in CS2). I’ve also done some AI stuff with it and haven’t had any issues.

JokeDeity, in A Nautilus Sucks Donkeyballs Linux Rant

I don’t even use Linux, but isn’t copying and deleting files to simply move them, like super bad in the long run for data integrity?

OsrsNeedsF2P,

Yes, which is why Nautilus doesn’t do that, and OP is doing something weird

ParanoidFactoid,
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Select a group of folders and try it yourself!

jack,

How?

Diplomjodler, in How to start app via tiles (Metro-look)

BRB, gotta wash out my eyes with bleach now.

DaGeek247,
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Meh, i hate the design too, but i can absolutely support someone looking into making their linux install more personal.

flashgnash,

It sucks when forced on you by Microsoft but when the suffering is entirely self inflicted it’s way more fun

DaGeek247,
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Heck, that's practically the unofficial linux motto.

treadful, in What has been your experience with Flatpak?
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None. I have no reason to. Prefer integrated distro packages than some bloated isolated package ball.

jack,

Dependencies are deduplicated/reused (no bloat) and there are no and won’t be any dependency issues

possiblylinux127, in Plasma Bigscreen

Use kodi

youngGoku,

I couldn’t get any kodi extensions working… Do people still use this?

possiblylinux127,

Yes, it my primary way of getting TV on my TV. I use jellyfin for other platforms but kodi is nice because you can control it with your phone and it has a nice TV guide

flashgnash,

Kodi is kinda klunky and old fashioned imo

possiblylinux127,

You can change the skin. I use osmc which is has a much nicer skin by default

DrRatso, in What has been your experience with Flatpak?

Don’t like them, they are annoying to deal with - CLI naming is odd, files are stored unintuitively and if your whole system is not on flatpak, chances are the sizes are going to be absurd. One of the main reasons I wen’t with Arch is Pacman + AUR, never have to install a flatpak, because the package management is so good.

Kusimulkku,

I don’t think the size thing is much of an issue these days outside of say IoT or very old computers. Absurd for say a single calculator app to be weighing like a gig or however much Gnome runtime is, but even in that situation it’s not much of an actual problem imo. And once you install anything else using that same runtime, you in a way halved the size of that app.

Kusimulkku, in What has been your experience with Flatpak?

It’s been great. I can get updated stuff on top of stable point release distro without mixing repos. Offers nice features like sandbox and forcing everything under .var for easy transfer to another machine.

There’s some small issues. For some apps fonts look weird but it’s fixable. Firefox is so sandboxed that KeepAssXC and KDE Connect/plasme browser integration has harder time with it. Managed to fix XC. Sometimes there’s issues with permissions. Well most those things were issues with permissions as in with the sandbox. But I think those issues will be settled at some point.

d3Xt3r, in Shoutout to fwupd for updating device firmware

I used it at work recently to update my work-provided HP Thunderbolt dock, and it resolved an issue where the external monitors would fail to activate after resuming from standby. I never got an update notification when I was using my Windows laptop so I was oblivious to it; it was only thanks to connecting it to my Linux laptop and fwupd, that I found out there was an update, which subsequently resolved the issue.

I love it when stuff like this happens and Linux saves the day. =) (and I get to show off to my Windows heathens colleagues.)

imgel, in 10 REASONS why Linux Mint is the desktop OS to beat in 2023

Lmao

QuazarOmega, in OBS live translations?

Since you’ve got two packaged only as debs, it may be worth trying to install them under an Ubuntu container made with Distrobox

Mandy,

distrobox feels overtly complicated, like, id rather have one system and one system only you know?

QuazarOmega,

I understand that, it’s definitely more of a headache than having a native package, but it is the next best thing you can do aside from waiting for the dev or someone else to package it for your distro of choice (you might be more lucky if you’re on an Arch based system, I’m sure an AUR package will be made if it hasn’t been done already).
The distrobox setup itself isn’t really that crazy either, once you have everything ready you’ll be able to run OBS as if it was installed on your host system since you can export the programs in your containers to have a desktop entry in your DE.

Now I was trying to get all that up and running, but I’m facing issues in the installation of the plugin and I don’t know what’s causing that exactly, it may be a mismatch in the distro I chose and which one the package was actually made for, I’ll report back if I find a solution, in the meantime here’s what I did:


<span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;">## Creating the container
</span><span style="color:#323232;">distrobox create 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    --image quay.io/toolbx-images/ubuntu-toolbox:latest 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    --name toolbox-ubuntu 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    --home ~/.local/share/box-homes/Toolbox-Ubuntu
</span><span style="color:#323232;">distrobox enter toolbox-ubuntu
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;">## Installing OBS Studio
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo apt update </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">&</span><span style="color:#323232;">amp;</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">&</span><span style="color:#323232;">amp</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">; </span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo apt upgrade
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo apt install obs-studio
</span><span style="color:#323232;">qtwayland5 </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># to be able to launch OBS on my KDE Wayland
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;">## Trying to install the plugin
</span><span style="color:#62a35c;">cd
</span><span style="color:#323232;">curl -O https://github.com/occ-ai/obs-localvocal/releases/download/0.0.5/obs-localvocal-0.0.5-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo apt install ./obs-localvocal-0.0.5-x86_64-linux-gnu.deb </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># gives error, maybe not compatible with latest Ubuntu?
</span>
Mandy,

looking further into localvocal, its just captions and not translations, not like i got it working on a buntu variant either, currently trying to rip my hairs out with sayonari, it seems to support many languages, but the website for some reason is japanese only

i even followed tutorials but it just isnt working

QuazarOmega, (edited )

Ah oops. Well, that second one looks very promising, I just saw the English setup video on it, but unfortunately it’s missing the OBS part so idk

Mandy,

i got the japanese one working, the REALLY stupid part about it was it needs chrome, im not talking chromium, it LITERALLY needs chrome to work, guess it uses some internal apis or something only chrome has

QuazarOmega,

Yikes, that’s a strange requirement, but oh well, at least you got it working!
For reference, what guide did you end up following?

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