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danielquinn, to linux in What's your favourite RSS reader for Linux?
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I quite like Thunderbird for this.

danielquinn, to linux in (Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?
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Ubuntu. They’ve managed the worst of both worlds: like Debian, everything is old (though admittedly not as old), but unlike Debian, everything is broken/buggy/flakey. It’s the old-and-busted distro that I’m routinely told is “the only Linux we support”.

danielquinn, to opensource in What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it
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It’s an interesting idea, but the differences between copyright and contract law present quite a hurdle.

Either you release something publicly, licensing it under certain conditions (you can use it this way, but not that), or you cut a contract with a 3rd party for them to use it a certain way – something that only makes sense in a context where the wider public doesn’t already have those rights, otherwise a contract would be unnecessary.

You see it in some Free software projects: they’re licensed under something aggressive like the AGPL, but for a few you can buy a proprietary license. This of course limits community participation though, as to contribute, you must agree to these terms. I think React does something like this, forcing you to sign a contract to submit a patch.

He points out a number of problems that I’d like to see solved, so I’d love to hear his ideas, so long as they’re similar in spirit to the goals of the FSF.

danielquinn, to linux in Docker team is considering distributing Docker Desktop as a Flatpak and Snap
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What exactly is the appeal of Docker Desktop on Linux? I can run docker just fine without it, so what’s it doing for me?

danielquinn, to linux in When Windows 10 dies, I am going to jump ship over to Linux. Which version would you recommend for someone with zero prior experience with Linux? **Edit: Linux Mint it shall be.**
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Wait, when is Windows 10 hitting end of life? If Windows 11 doesn’t support devices without aTPM, that’s a huge swath of insecure machines.

danielquinn, to linux in Screenshot tool for GNOME + Wayland
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Oops, sorry I didn’t notice that part. I’ve never seen anything like that to be honest. It kinda violates the whole “do only one thing and do it well” UNIX ethos. As a decent work-around, you can just open the resulting images in Gimp?

danielquinn, (edited ) to linux in Screenshot tool for GNOME + Wayland
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GNOME has one built in. Just hit the “print screen” button and it should appear.

danielquinn, to piracy in PDF Piracy
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The easiest way to confirm this would be:

  1. Find out how to list the metadata from a PDF.
  2. List the metadata from a known-to-have-stuff-you-don’t-want PDF.
  3. “Print” the new PDF from the old one
  4. List the metadata from the new PDF.
danielquinn, to piracy in which software would i use on linux to capture video from disney plus for personal use?
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I’ll give that a try, thanks!

danielquinn, to piracy in which software would i use on linux to capture video from disney plus for personal use?
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Yeah that’s what I figured, but I have no idea how to adjust the frame rate when extracting the audio stream :-(

danielquinn, to piracy in which software would i use on linux to capture video from disney plus for personal use?
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I always wondered about this. I have the same TV series as local MP4 files: one with English audio, and another with Greek. I thought I could just extract the audio tracks and use them to build an MKV file with multiple audio, but it always ended up with an audio sync error. One track would always be in sync at the beginning, but 20min in could be out of sync by as much as 5seconds.

How do people build multi-audio files if the audio tracks aren’t part of the original source?

danielquinn, to linux in Is DNS Bloat too?
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danielquinn, to linux in Linux Boomers
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Great, do whatever you want. Just shut the fuck up about it, nobody cares.

You should really take your own advice on this one. That “article” was juvenile.

danielquinn, to piracy in I made a thing to make playing YouTube videos locally from your browser easier
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It’s a powerful video player in Linuxland.

danielquinn, to piracy in Apps that shouldn't be Subscriptions
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Oh! Good to know. I guess that’s there to prevent people from reaping 2 years worth of development for a 1 year fee. That still seems reasonable to me.

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