So piracy is legal now. We can use piracy data to train our brain models. No one can say it’s not innovative nor transformative.

It’s way better at driving cars.

We are advancing humanity!

Was the Ventoy binary blob issue resolved and it’s cool again?

That one is infuriating. Having a good client is so key to adoption… And Element is still really, really bad. Yes, it has almost all the features, but refusing multi-account is so so so annoying, and being Electron garbage is horrible. They have so much funding it’s ridiculous.

XMPP is another case where adoption has mostly failed exactly because there are no “flagship” clients that do it all.

That’s why DeltaChat looks so good. The official clients work great everywhere, and they can do it all!

Album art shows up for me no problem on VLC

Old reliable VLC for all media.

No one will shed a single tear for you, greedy bastards.

dot one

Website changed, but it is still out there.

Edit: syntax

Okay, yeah, that is definitely concerning.

There are no ads on my Kindle.

After the feature of being able to send EPUB files to Kindle through email and them being automatically converted… I have not felt I was missing anything by using standard Kindle software.

So I’d suggest, unless you really really need some obscure feature, Calibre+Kindle is nowadays perfectly fine, and maybe you shouldn’t risk bricking your device.

This thingie fails miserably when trying to listen to covers, alternate versions and the like. Most times it just plays a different version. And I hate that.

I’m not so sure it was an organized attack or rather a 12 year old kid who found out a stupid way of accomplishing a stupid thing.

I don’t know if there were other things done, but those 2 words I’ve read are more like 2 words a non-native kid would use rather than a far right manifesto, AFAIK, 😅

I bricked a (very annoying) router trying to update its packages, so I am really looking forward for a sane package management system instead of the absolute manual mess it was before (and seems like still is).

Definitely firewall things. Do you connect your personal phone to your work’s Wi-Fi? I would really not.

KDE Connect masterrace represent!

Is there any benefit to that aside from cleanliness?

Most “normal” programs use some “abstraction” libraries, so the programmer doesn’t need to know which platform it is running on. This “platform” is important because it is the layer that actually talks to things like your SSD, RAM, GPU, etc.

Videogames, tho, are very very specific programs that really benefit from very optimized code, so some of these “abstraction” libraries simply will be worked on for a specific operative system.

Thankfully, the people from the WINE project and lots of work from Valve themselves have made it possible to “trick” these libraries into thinking they are talking to Windows. It’s not perfect, tho, so some stuff is still not working, but you’d be surprised how much we’ve got already. Check out the ProtonDB project.

You can not torrent the videos if you are scared of that, it’s a toggle.

I find it funny when people around me think I am a computer expert and I just tried to read this and couldn’t comprehend sh*t.