narc0tic_bird

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narc0tic_bird,

I like that Linus is so strict on not breaking user space because this obviously aids with compatibility and it’s probably a big part of why rolling releases work.

But I sure hope Linus’ eventual successor won’t be toxic and…cringe. It’s hard to take someone serious when he’s raging this much.

narc0tic_bird,

Good point, didn’t even realize this was from 2012.

narc0tic_bird,

Some .deb packages actually include their repository and they can then be updated via the package manager. An example for this is the Vivaldi .deb.

Me vs my ISP

So I was looking into getting port forwarding set up and I realized just how closed-off the internet has gotten since the early days. It’s concerning. It used to be you would buy your own router and connect it to the internet, and that router would control port-forwarding and what-have-you....

narc0tic_bird,

Here in Germany I get a “real” (non-shared) IPv4 address and a /48 IPv6 subnet I think. With Telekom at least. Vodafone is another story. I think the user must be able to use their own router because of some EU law.

narc0tic_bird,

Not sure, but maybe you can snapshot these subvolumes independently?

narc0tic_bird,

Not sure how it provides better anonymity when all your activity is linked to your account. Should this account somehow be linked to you, a malicious actor would know everything you (potentially ever) downloaded.

narc0tic_bird,

Music purchased from the iTunes Store is DRM free though. I think they actually upgraded purchases made prior to this change to DRM free versions (called iTunes Plus or something).

narc0tic_bird,

Not sure I’d recommend getting anything resembling a computer with 4 GB RAM and 64 GB storage nowadays, but it’ll certainly still work.

I’d probably start with a minimal Debian installation (or Arch if you prefer being on the bleeding edge I guess) and then add GNOME desktop and whatever else I need afterwards. I don’t recommend checking the box that says “GNOME” in the Debian installer, as that installs a whole bunch of packages you’ll probably never use, and disk space is at a premium here.

Performance should be doable as long as you don’t multitask a lot, but don’t expect any wonders as 2 physical cores really isn’t a lot these days.

narc0tic_bird,

Maybe for you. Kernel 6.6, Nvidia driver 545 (also tried 535), RTX 3080, GNOME or KDE Plasma, two WQHD 165 Hz monitors. Got flickers in certain applications (for example Steam or some Electron apps), apparently related to how long they need to draw.

Along with Baldur’s Gate Vulkan API halving FPS compared to Windows/AMD on Linux, or getting black models in DX11 (DXVK), certain games straight up flickering or showing other glitches.

YMMV of course, but I find it hard to believe people have literally zero issues unless they have a very limited use case for their system.

I switched to AMD for Linux and while it’s not perfect either, it’s so much better.

narc0tic_bird,

Hard to find raw numbers backed by good sources.

If you filter the Steam Hardware Survey for December 2023 by Linux, you can see Arch has a market share of 7.85% (excluding SteamOS on the Deck, which is technically based on Arch and has 40.53%) while Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS - a specific Ubuntu version - already has 7.04% on its own.

But that’s also just Steam users. Ubuntu is one of the few Linux distributions that OEMs ship preinstalled and officially support on some of their devices (Dell for example). Another example is Fedora iirc, which Lenovo ships or at least used to ship as an option on some of their ThinkPad notebooks.

I’d assume the Arch community on Reddit is bigger than the Ubuntu community as it’s geared towards tech-savvy people. Going by Reddit community size wouldn’t make much sense though. Even if you add up the member count of the r/windows, r/windows10 and r/windows11 community (which doesn’t make a lot of sense as most users are probably not unique), it’s only like 3-4x the members of r/archlinux, which doesn’t translate to market share whatsoever.

I don’t really have hard numbers, sorry. Should’ve checked first. I guess I just assumed because of the OEM support and being relatively easy to install and maintain for the average guy (in comparison) that it was the leading Linux desktop distro in terms of marketshare. I’m still assuming this is the case for the reasons stated, but can’t tell you with 100% certainty.

narc0tic_bird,

I don’t even want to hate on Snap, I just think Flatpak is probably superior in almost every way and it’s probably not great that there are three competing formats for “applications with dependencies included”. It was supposed to be “package your app to this format, dear developer, so everyone can use it no matter the distro they use”, now it’s a bit more complicated. Frustrating, as this means developers without that many resources will only offer some formats and whichever you (or your distro) prefers might not be available.

I know that you can get every format to work on every distro (AppImages are just single binaries you can execute), but each has their own first class citizen.

By the way, the unofficial Steam Flatpak has been working well for me under Fedora 39 KDE Spin, but an official one would be great to have.

narc0tic_bird,

Hence I picked the word “format”.

narc0tic_bird,

Yes and no. Last time I checked, Ubuntu was the most used desktop Linux OS, and it obviously uses Snap (and has Flatpak disabled by default).

narc0tic_bird,

The newest iPod nano does have Bluetooth. Not sure if 16 GB counts as “less space than a nomad” though.

narc0tic_bird,

Serviceable, but still not great quality most of the time.

narc0tic_bird,

Their long-term support variant (called LTSC) is supported until 2032.

narc0tic_bird,

I mean they can’t exactly ignore the law, can they?

I’m not sure how newsworthy this whole topic is, but apparently it sets some people off, so it generates clicks if nothing else.

RARBG like 4K rips, any group making similar sized movies?

Sorry if this was asnwered before, but couldn’t find it. I can’t seem to find any groups that usually release really small sized 4k rips like rarbg used to do. Movies went from ~5GB to ~20GB, and I really can’t tell that much difference in quality that justifies 4x the size....

narc0tic_bird,

They were HEVC irrc, but 5 GB for 1.5 hours will hurt the quality quite a lot.

Can anyone share their experience with Asahi as a Daily Driver?

hi, I’ve been pretty happy with macOS recently on my m1 MacBook, really only because I’ve been paying for software from awesome devs who make great apps (plenty are open source, so most I use are not paid) and I’ve found my productivity increase like a lot....

narc0tic_bird,

If you find that macOS and the software for it lead to good productivity, I’d advise against ditching it solely for having to allow unsigned applications to run. It’s a few clicks once per app.

I didn’t use Asahi myself. I’d imagine it works for quite a few people, but I personally wouldn’t use it as a daily driver, because the community support is much smaller compared to popular distributions. I’d get a non-Apple computer for using Linux. You could just try it out though, obviously.

narc0tic_bird,

Reminiscent of Intel’s 14nm+++ process.

narc0tic_bird,

This. Instead of making commits time-based (for example once per hour or once per day), make them purpose-based (say, add a database migration in one commit, and change the color of a button in another one). This also makes it easy to cherry-pick or otherwise backport specific changes to different program versions gor example.

OpenVPN network interface for qBittorrent

I want to run only qBittorrent through my VPN but with my current setup, I have a namespace for OpenVPN and qBittorrent runs entirely through it. The issue with that is that Sonarr and Radarr can’t access it. Because of that, I would like to switch my setup to use a network interface instead. What would be the best way to do...

narc0tic_bird,

You run a gluetun container and a qBittorrent container on which you set the “network mode” to the gluetun container. Then you put your *arr software and the gluetun container in the same (virtual) network so they can communicate internally. All containers using gluetun as their “network mode” have their ports available on the gluetun container. You can also put the qBittorrent container in your virtual internal network but then you have to make sure that the network is marked as internal to avoid traffic leaking.

Sharing RealDebrid Account with Family?

Recently discovered the wonders of the stremio + real debrid + torrentio, works wonders on the newly bought Nvidia Shield Pro. However, I would like for the rest of the family to experinece the same, and completely get rid of all other streaming services. But… as the pirate I am, I started thinking about workarounds for only...

narc0tic_bird,

Just try it I guess. The worst that can happen is the Debrid service deletes your account.

narc0tic_bird,

No. Yes. Probably not for most use cases.

narc0tic_bird,

You need to provide more context in order get a proper answer.

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