AVincentInSpace

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AVincentInSpace,

I hate that I had to check your history to see if you were joking

^judging^ ^by^ ^lots^ ^of^ ^comments^ ^in^ ^!196^ ^I’m^ ^going^ ^yes^

AVincentInSpace, (edited )

systemd-boot is GRUB but without customization and fewer supported features (LLVM root etc). What more is there to say?

rEFInd is (as the name implies) an EFI bootloader that, on every boot, scans all attached storage devices for a bootable partition and presents all those found in a boot menu with a quite nice graphical theme

AVincentInSpace,

laughs in rEFInd

also systemd-boot is just worse GRUB, CMV

AVincentInSpace,

bc no streaming service works otherwise and if my family catches me pirating I am dunzo

AVincentInSpace,

Again, just because Valve hasn’t screwed us over yet is no excuse for assuming they never will.

AVincentInSpace, (edited )

Yeah? And what would that achieve? What the hell are gamers gonna do?

For God’s sake, we couldn’t even keep a protest going on Reddit because people were afraid of the sunk costs. People give Valve money.

AVincentInSpace,

Very good point. Just because Valve hasn’t screwed us over yet is no excuse for assuming they never will.

AVincentInSpace, (edited )

truly I must bow to your superior intellect. iphones have so many more features, like not being able to sideload apps, not being able to use a terminal or actual filesystem, not being able to install browsers that aren’t reskins of safari, not being able to use apps that would totally work on my device because Steve jobs thought they looked bad with a different screen size, and strawman arguments about what android was like 10 years ago. iOS is clearly superior and I’m gonna sell my phone today

AVincentInSpace,

ah whatever, have fun with your straw man.

AVincentInSpace, (edited )

“Android bad, they hate us for being right” --iOS users after pointing out the flaws in a satirical meme

AVincentInSpace,

for the love of–

they are sheep. how much more heavy handed is it possible to make a metaphor

AVincentInSpace,

sorry, wait, back up, did you manage to install a desktop Linux environment on a TV

AVincentInSpace,

Maybe they meant your account is 915 days old as of this year?

AVincentInSpace,

when building literally any Rust project from source*

AVincentInSpace, (edited )

Right? Some of us like doing curl | tar xz to download and decompress in a single step, saving time and the hassle of installation

AVincentInSpace, (edited )

Ext4 is a filesystem. That is the part of the kernel that actually stores and retrieves the files on disk. What program are you using to browse files? It’s a bit hard to tell from this screenshot what program it’s a screenshot of, but it looks like Nautilus (the default file browser in GNOME). Is that it?

AVincentInSpace,

You have openh264 installed already which should cover your bases. Since it quite clearly isn’t I’m not sure what to suggest. What file manager is this that’s having issues?

AVincentInSpace, (edited )

Looks like that video is encoded H.264, which according to Google is one of the codecs that Debian only makes available via third party repository.

Here are instructions from debian.org for installing the codec by manually downloading and installing a single package file:

wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs

And here are instructions from a third party explaining how to tell apt how to install them so they can be kept up to date (be sure you read the warning on the debian.org page about why they don’t tell you to do that before you do it):

debiantutorials.com/how-to-install-ffmpeg-with-h-…

Depending on how exactly your file manager works, installing the codec may or may not be sufficient to display thumbnails. If not, there are probably instructions specific to your file manager for installing the appropriate plugin.

AVincentInSpace, (edited )

ffprobe is included in the ffmpeg package. For future reference you can find what package contains a file by doing dpkg-query -S /bin/ffprobe (note that the path you give it is relative to /usr)

AVincentInSpace,

Which one are your files encoded with?

(You can check this by running ffprobe on the file.)

AVincentInSpace,

It means that if I want access to something that has been texted to you, I don’t exactly need to be a government in order to get it.

AVincentInSpace,

It means that if I want access to something that has been texted to you, I don’t exactly need to be a government in order to get it.

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