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just_another_person,

I think you just mean “declarative”. Highly configurable is literally any distro. I’d say NixOS is actually LESS configurable by design, but that is sort of the point: a repeatable image based on a template no matter what.

I feel like the Steam Deck is the best proof of Gabe Newell's quote that "piracy is a service issue."

They could have easily crammed the Steam Deck full of stuff to make it hard to use for piracy - locking down everything, making it usable only to play games you legitimately own, force you to go through who knows what hoops in order to play games on it. That’s what Nintendo or Apple or most other companies do....

just_another_person,

This is like…the most resistant path. Steam had Remote Play 5 years ago.

just_another_person,

Interesting take, for sure. I agree to some point. I also think Gabe just knows the audience, and he knows how much people would have rebelled against the very idea of this device if it came from Steam (not Valve), and excluded users. This would have been a completely failed product had the initial reviews been something like “Just a Switch knockoff”.

Instead, this has garnered Steam as a platform with an entire group of adoring fans, some of whom used to be critics. I guarantee they added a ton of business to Steam as a platform just because a lot of users would buy, say, GTA5 on Steam again during a sale for $9 versus jumping through the tiny hoops to make a bootleg copy run.

They did a fantastic job in parallelism getting Proton to an easy to use product (for free, mind you), and reinventing the portable PC game. Many may not know that was an entire segment of handheld PC devices on the market for years before Deck hit, and Steam’s team hit all the right spots to completely blow them away, and not only make them irrelevant, but also lure in new adoptees to Steam as a platform. Brilliant execution and moves.

How to get into those super secret iptv services?

I have heard that there iptv services which are really private and don’t advertise openly and provide really great services. I don;t remember but i saw it here/reddit that they are available on private trackers’ forums. I am on Avistaz, bakabt, torrentleech and few others not worth mentioning. I would like to learn more...

just_another_person,

Nobody is ever going to tell you, that’s why they are super secret.

just_another_person,

Depends on the package manager. Check options for whatever you’re running.

just_another_person,

It’s a cache folder. Created by the distro. They labelled it as such because it’s cache, and can be considered ephemeral. It won’t do any permanent damage to anything unless you’ve accidentally been using it for something else.

just_another_person,

Could have fooled me, because it’s certainly the default for things like brew, flatpak, mpm, and pip. Looks like npm and maven use it on certain Debian based distros as well. I’m betting more of the immutable distros use that directory as well vs something in /var/cache.

When a Torrent disappears from 1337x, how do you find out what happened?

Yesterday there was a controversial movie torrent that was getting 1000s of downloads and was on the “popular this week” page, and today it’s just gone. I went to the uploader’s account page and it’s not there either. Just like it never existed....

just_another_person,

Wow…TIL

Questions regarding Old-new Hard drives

Hi, I seek your help once again. I’m in the need of upgrading my storage now and I found what I consider to be a good deal via Amazon on an older gen enterprise WD drive that supposedly hasn’t been used, but I’ll let the power on hours tell me the truth. The price is about 16usd/TB and I’m wondering if this is a bad idea...

just_another_person,

Reviews, mostly. Don’t buy from new accounts without older AND recent reviews. If this is supposed to be a new product, check the warranty on the drive with the manufacturer before hooking it up, and if something seems fishy, send it right back for a refund. That’s about all I got.

Preparing to move from Ubuntu to Fedora

Hi! I’m seeking some advice and sanity check on hopping from Ubuntu to Fedora on my personal PC. I’ve been using Ubuntu LTS for almost two years now, switched from Windows and never looked back. But I cannot say I know Linux well. I use my PC for browsing, some gaming with Steam (I have AMD GPU), occasional video editing,...

just_another_person,

This has been solved for the most part: github.com/popey/unsnap

The few system snaps for things like Gnome updates shouldn’t impact performance.

just_another_person,

There’s honestly not a lot of practical uses for it when you have the option of just running a Linux Distro anyway. It’s mostly to keep people who NEED to run Linux for work in Windows as an OS. Otherwise, I’ve found no purpose for it. Neat I guess? Useful, no.

just_another_person, (edited )

I’m assuming you don’t want a full disk encryption solution, but you can also use LUKS to just create an encrypted mount of any supported filesystem. You don’t need any type of standalone program to encrypt your things for you.

Question about ram usage in Unraid

I am about to setup Unraid for the first time, have got the USB and Lisence ready, but watching a bunch of videoes before I dip my feet in. I read and heard that Unraid runs only on the ram, which brings me to the question: My server only has 16GB of ram, whilst my desktop has 48GB of ram, so should I transfer some of my...

just_another_person,

Ram usage in this case would be localized to data “in-transit”, meaning there is an in-memory buffer that is eventually cleared and written to disk in seconds. Unless you have some crazy equipment that can transmit 20Gb/s, don’t worry about.

just_another_person,

You’d have an easier path just modding the existing keyboard to something more like you want. You’re likely not going to fit any other keyboard in your machine for a long list of reasons.

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    just_another_person, (edited )

    If multiple distributions are having the same issue, that means it’s a combo driver and pipe wire issue. A lot of newer laptops have terrible speakers that are paired with Nahimic in Windows to sound a bit less shitty, then have the gain jerked up to insane levels.

    If you’re 100% sure this about speakers missing, you need to get a newer kernel running and see if they get detected, and if not, start tracking the devices through dmesg and ls* device utils to find where it’s at. You wouldn’t be the only one having this issue if it’s what you think it is.

    Edit: Arch Wiki says they have everything working, and link to an issue with the bass speakers not working: wiki.archlinux.org/…/ASUS_ROG_Zephyrus_G16_(2023)…

    Is there any way I can make an old XMMS plugin work in any modern player?

    Long story short, I learned there is an XMMS release of a plugin I use in Winamp for music playback (mp3PRO). Sadly, I recoded most of my music to mp3PRO back in the day, and now I’m stuck using Winamp, even on Linux. I like the player, wouldn’t change it, but I wanted to switch to something native, like Audacious or Qmms....

    just_another_person,

    It’s going to wav…it’s lossless.

    just_another_person,

    Yeah, they don’t have a clear mission statement to explain the delta of “why does this exist, and what problems does it solve”.

    just_another_person,

    The major parts of any distro are just bootloader, kernel, init, shell, and package system. The filesystem isn’t “part” of the distro, it’s just an abstraction layer to work with data on the drive, and should be considered independent of the packaged distribution itself.

    With the above, you can run the basics of Linux on a device. The DE is not needed, and included packages and libraries are at the discretion of the maintainers. The included choices of all the above is the only thing that differentiates each distro.

    If it helps in your understanding at all, back in the day, in order to install something like Slackware, you had to build each layer of these things manually like so: format and partition disk from disk in DOS, copy bootloader to newly partitioned HDD, boot to single user mode, compile kernel, add entries to bootloader, reboot from disk to Linux kernel, open TTY, set user and shell, reboot again, compile DE, set init level and basic services, reboot to DE, and then you had a Desktop.

    just_another_person,

    Well, bootloader first, then kernel, then init.

    just_another_person,

    Most shows like this are decent in their first season, and that’s why they get a second. Keeping it interesting is the problem, and all the Walking Dead shows pretty much fail there.

    just_another_person, (edited )

    Thankfully, Samsung endpoints should be pretty well covered by blocklists, so I’d say most if not all.

    SmartTV OS’s record everything you do on the device and create massive databases of metrics about user habits which they then use to target you with ads, and also sell back to companies like Netflix, Discovery, Paramount…etc.

    just_another_person,

    If you connect that TV to the Internet at all, expect no privacy. Samsung TVs were used to spy on people for years by spy agencies simply because they are prolific, and have things like microphones and other sensors all over them. Samsung themselves has to admit in discovery that they use said sensors to monitor users, and that’s aside from all the data the OS collects. If you do hook it up to the internet, get a pihole on your network and a Blocklist for SmartTVs.

    just_another_person,

    VLC has pretty solid normalization settings.

    Thinkpads RE: Repairability/upgradability

    I need to upgrade my laptop and one of the things I’m looking for is repairability/upgradability. I’ve been told thinkpads are good in this respect, how true is that? In terms of replacing batteries and memory, at least. I’m also looking at the frameworks, but those black friday deals are looking alright at lenovo....

    just_another_person, (edited )

    Correct. In the mission statement, Framework says they won’t be doing random sales, and prefer to keep prices consistent so customers know they are always getting the lowest price. I’m signed for an AMD 16", but those outlet prices are crazy good, so bought one of the 13" Intels as well to play with 😂

    just_another_person,

    Honestly, this used to be the case, but the past couple of years Lenovo is going back to their old ways of sub-par upgradability, and sub-sub-par support across models for Linux. I believe the P-series is the current most compatible line.

    You might want to consider getting a slightly older refurb you KNOW is very compatible versus a newer one, because it’s a crapshoot. Make sure to avoid any models with soldered memory (they specify on their site), and if you’re buying a modern AMD model, do some research and make sure they haven’t crippled any features in the BIOS.

    If you’re not completely sold on Lenovo, look at getting a Framework laptop. It’s the most upgradable and repairable laptop of any kind out there.they also just started an outlet online store where they are selling last-gen models at deep discounts that you could upgrade to current Gen when the time comes.

    Good luck!

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