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  • I’ve just tried it, and although the idea is interesting it doesn’t seem to be working as intended.

    I’m pretty sure all of these are FOSS, and thy were tagged as proprietary:

    • AnkiDroid
    • Moonlight
    • KDE Connect
    • KeePassDX
    • Lichess
    • MPV

    And these are also FOSS but were flagged as ‘Unknown’:

    • MGit
    • NetworkTools
    • Simple Audio Converter
    • Termux
    • Yet Another Call Blocker

    And there are others I’m not entirely sure if theyre FOSS or hybrid, that were also flagged as proprietary.

    Also not a fan of needing to subscribe to give feedback (like pointing out FOSS alternatives or false positives).



  • If you update once or twice a week, chances are there are literally hundreds of packages to upgrade every time. There’s no chance someone will look into every single one of these packages to verify what could potentially ‘break’ their system or not. They just upgrade the whole thing and THEN, if something breaks, they work around it.

    As someone who uses CachyOS daily as my main distro, I wouldn’t install it on a device for someone that doesn’t want to do some maintenance from time to time. Maybe I wouldn’t go as far to say that it is UNSTABLE, but point release distros such as Mint or Debian are definitely more stable and require much less maintenance. Rolling release distros are, naturally, much riskier.


  • I love how even modern Linux distros run so damn well on what’s considered today ‘outdated’ hardware.

    I love Linux Mint btw! I think you did a great choice! Even though it’s known as the beginner friendly distro, I think it’s just a damn great distro for pretty much anyone, experienced or newbies. Fantastic choice!






  • If I had to guess, most of these ‘books’ are some kink bullshit. Ever since I looked for the rankings in the Kindle section, it was flooded by books with men or women stripping on the cover and some random erotic titles. Among them some rare exceptions (and most of these were some cheap self-help stuff).

    That being said, I wouldn’t be surprised this is what’s being actually affected. I can’t see the actual data or content of the article though, because it requires me to subscribe and I definitely won’t.



  • To be fair, people need to set their priorities straight. Even though these are marketed as ‘gaming’ hardware, are they actually?

    I have an RTX 4060 8GB VRAM that seems to have people hating all over it, but I don’t see the point, currently, to buy another GPU. It runs smoothly enough every single game I’ve attempted to run it, including stuff like Alan Wake 2. There’s also the fact that most AAA games that demand a strong hardware are barely worth playing.

    But as long as ‘gamers’ keep fixating on the idea that gaming can only be enjoyable when they own the best hardware to run things on 4k, 120fps, almost zero input delay, and whatever the fuck else the market sells as essential for a ‘true gaming experience’, that’s what you get: extremely overpriced hardware, that will never feel enough.





  • I think people tend to be naive about Steam.

    I mean, I DO think that Steam is miles better than Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo/Epic and I would say they’re probably one of the biggest responsibles to make Linux that much more popular (both for consumer and for devs) in the latest years.

    But I don’t know what’s gonna happen to Steam after Gabe Newell leaves. I think there’s a huge risk for a dramatic shift in Valve / Steam monetization and culture. Things are fine now, but that’s still a corporation, and shareholders will want to get the last drop out of it just as these shitheads do to everything else.