Chewy7324

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Chewy7324,

The term “open source” generally refers to the definition by the Open Source Initiative.

opensource.org/osd/

Not allowing publishing of modified source code is in violation with the criteria of open source.

Chewy7324,

That’s also how I often access YT. Libreddit is already selfhosted in the local network (+ wireguard on clients) and I’ll look into hosting something for YT.

Sadly most people want to keep their recommendations and the UI, so they’ll stay on the official site.

Piracy is Preservation (feddit.de)

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Chewy7324,

Seeding definitely helps preserve media. My comment meant to say that many people pirate media without seeding like ddl, usenet or leeching on public trackers. E.g. because they don’t have good upload or not enough storage.

Chewy7324,

While I agree that piracy can be preservation of media, it’s most often not the case.

Streaming torrents directly or through real-debrid doesn’t help preserve media at all. Leeching only without keeping torrents alive also doesn’t keep media accessible.

Some people might store media for a few decades and then reupload, but most people never create new torrents.

I’d say the pirates who help preserve media are a small subset of pirates.

Chewy7324,

You’re right, piracy is often the only way to archive media. Many releases aren’t available on BluRay in all regions. It’s thanks to those people who go through the trouble and rip media.

I meant to comment above on how not all piracy helps preserve media.

Chewy7324,

All people have their priorities. For most people on this community it’s probably being free of cost but for some freedom is also important.

I also don’t recommend against using software that’s not perfect according to my personal philosophy, but I think it’s important to point out any advantages and disadvanages so that anyone can decide for themselves. As I said, most people on here won’t care about the difference between source available and open source.

it’s mostly about transparency

Good point. If they’d use the term source available I’d have nothing to say. The reason I’m so pedantic is because increasingly businesses try to gain good publicity by calling their software open source while using Business Source License and similar, which are source available licenses.

I’ll definitly follow this project and look where it’s going.

Chewy7324,

Forcing all derivatives work to be non-commercial is incompatible with being open source.

opensource.org/osd/

Though I agree that they can already prevent usage of their app name with trademark laws.

Chewy7324,

Some people (including me) care about software freedom. The ability to fork and redistribute software while continuing to publish any changes to the code is great.

Not using an open source license but a source available license is not something that I like to see, but it’s their right to do so. There’re enough open source YouTube frontends like NewPipe and LibreTube.

PS: What I really don’t like is them using the term open source. Open source is a well known term that’s well defined. Source available describes exactly what this app is without implying the freedoms associated with open source.

opensource.org/osd/

Chewy7324,

It’s more about the ability for such apps to exist. Other apps include Tachiyomi (manga reader) and similar apps that are not allowed because of the app stores terms of service.

Hopefully Apple will soon be forced to allow such apps to exist outside of their store. Freedom to install what I want is a main reason I switched back from an iPhone to a Pixel with GrapheneOS.

Chewy7324,

Thanks for the link. I’m surprised it survived Apple’s review process as I thought such apps weren’t allowed. Now I have a private YouTube altednative to recommend.

Tachiyomi relies on installing sources as additional apks because otherwise they’d have to update the app daily. This is not allowed on Play/App Store.

YouTube ReVanced and other patched apps are also great and not obviously not possible on iOS bexlcause of restrictions.

Chewy7324,

Many apps are designed with bitmap icons (png, jpg) instead if svg, so fractional scaling requires manual changes.

Also, frameworks like GTK don’t have enough development resources to quickly make changes to support anything besides integer scaling. It’s difficult to change to fractions if everything assumes integers.

PS: “making stuff show up bigger on a screen” works already, it’s just not perfect. Windows is as far as I know the only OS coming close to doing scaling perfectly. Except Android and similar OS that were designed with fractional scaling in mind.

Chewy7324,

The other half of the developers have 13" 2160p displays that are sharp either way – but don’t notice the battery life hit.

Iirc there’s ongoing work for proper fractional scaling protocol, so it might get fixed for KDE/QT applications at some point.

Chewy7324,

From how many people talk about real-debrid I would’ve thought it’d see more usage. But I also prefer having media stored by me instead of streaming. With Jellyfin it’s easier to access with multiple devices.

Chewy7324,

One or two years ago Mozilla hired the main developer of K-9 Mail. The dev previously raised enough donations to work on K-9 Mail for a while and modernize it after not having an official release for years.

Where to get Minecraft for Arch Linux from?

Arrrr my fellow pirates. Since I’m very unexperienced with the seas I ask for you guys, where can I get Minecraft from for Arch Linux. It’s not because I’m not willing to pay 20€ but because Microsoft is a giant bitch and I’m not willing to put money in their mouth(especially after they changed their privacy policy).

Chewy7324,

A friend of mine still used PolyMC since they didn’t hear about the drama. Now they know and switched to Prism Launcher.

It’s the same with people still using MultiMC, since many people just don’t know Prism Launcher has more active development. Or they don’t care.

Chewy7324,

Yes, but each package manager has it’s (dis-)advantages. It’s great to have flatpak and docker to be able to run software on almost all distros, but the OS still needs a way to update.

Almost all immutable distros use multiple package manager.

  • Fedora Silverblue: rpm-ostree + flatpak (+ toolbox)
  • OpenSUSE MicroOS: zypper with snapshots (transactional-update) + flatpak (+ distrobox)
  • NixOS is unique since it only uses the Nix package manager
  • immutable Ubuntu will probably only use snap for OS + apps.

All those OS support distrobox and docker additionally.

Chewy7324,

Yes. Searching for “DL” for dual language in the title works well for finding multilingual releases with english and german audio.

Chewy7324,

No, since bandwidth isn’t free. It’s necessary to pay for usenet like it’s necessary to pay an ISP and a VPN provider. Their services cost them money.

Chewy7324,

Depending on your OS it should prevent screen recording. Maybe screen recording works depending on the DRM level.

The DRM prevents you from directly downloading the files. Similarly Spotify requires DRM so it’s impossible to download songs.

Obviously if it’s on your device there’re ways to circumvent DRM, either by recording or having the right keys.

Most of the time it’s the rightholders who demand copy prevention, even if it doesn’t prevent copies but annoys customers if it fails.

Chewy7324, (edited )

I know there’re tools to record songs on Spotify that automatically splits and tags them. It just isn’t as good as downloading directly from Deezer etc.

Yeah, DRM annoys paying customers but doesn’t stop copies to appear online.

Chewy7324,

Yes, I’m surprised it is so bad considering btrfs was close to the other fs on most benchmarks.

Chewy7324, (edited )

I recommend against setup scripts for window managers, because it makes it difficult to change components without understanding the consequences. In my opinion it’s better to copy each config file manually, which makes it easier to later suit it to your needs.

It’s more work to get a good starting configuration, but it pays off over the years of using it. Nothing prevents you from copy parts of someone elses config to quickly get started.

Edit: LARBS been around for a many years so it’s a good choice, since it’s likely to be maintained for years to come.

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