Is there a particular reason for downloading from streaming services? If not and lossless is important to you, it might be easier to use something like Soulseek (via Nicotine) and get flac files. There are some projects like SockSeek that can automate downloads (I used it when it was called sldl to convert my YouTube playlists into a local flac music library).
Shit, guess I need to switch to an even more niche distro so I can sit on a high horse and feel smug about being a unique and special edgelord. Internet memes are for peasants!
I found this to be an interesting article on what happened to the data he released to media. Some history of how MSM suddenly dropped the hot potato after a point which I do wonder would be in part why it went out of mainstream consciousness so fast.
https://libroot.org/posts/what-happened-to-the-snowden-archive
Learn basic desktop Linux? Mint. Learn how Linux works and really interested in more of the ins and outs? Arch (Artix if you want systemdless) Learn how Linux works in great depth and are very committed? Gentoo.
I’ve been on Arch or Arch based systems for 13+ years now. It used to be an incredibly annoying joke. I mostly saw it used to mock Arch users. But since Arch is more accepted now it seems to have morphed into a (mostly) funny meme. I never ever said it until this year though lol.
(I use Artix, btw)
Can’t help with this exactly but just wanted to point out that DDG has chosen to censor search results. The results they were censoring was, granted, for good reasons. But the issue is that if the founders are making personal choices on what should and shouldn’t be shown in search results, you can’t know what else they may be censoring or what they’ll decide to censor in the future.
I’m so glad my kids have zero interest in that trash (because we’ve educated them on how trash it is)
Or don’t use wi-fi at all and stick with Ethernet.
And it isn’t even just LG. This is a problem for any brand of modern TV with ACR. Even then, internet connected TVs don’t need ACR to be spying on you in other ways.
Not paranoid, sane and careful for today’s world.
Love how people talk about stuff like 16TB being hardly anything and here we are struggling on 4TB cause storage has always been expensive in this country and is currently almost completely unaffordable.
Things like Pokemon Go has already been doing that
And New Zealand
I can’t stand the whole Karen thing and would agree with you on the sexism there. But in this case, the article uses “her” and so in the fun little pretend story, using a feminine name makes sense. The same as if the teacher were male you could say, “I thought you had nothing to hide Dave”
I’ve used a combination of a 12 plug adapter + mechanical timers on my aquariums. You just don’t plug into every socket, skip one between each timer, alternate on sides like a checker board and the bulk of the timers don’t matter. One power adapter I found even had larger spacings on one side for this purpose.
They have not. I checked again recently. And they’re still somewhat hostile towards the idea of UnifiedPush
Yes, but there were three gotchas that make it difficult to use for our purposes - one is that you have to have your phone on and connected if you want to use the same account on another device. Given I use my phone as much like a dumb phone as possible and turn data off when I don’t need it (aka most of the time) it’s impractical to use. We kinda got around this by having different accounts for different devices bit it left you guessing which account to contact someone on because you don’t know if they’re on their phone, laptop, PC, etc.
It uses a a chunk of battery and the devs seem completely disinterested in UnifiedPush.
A lesser but helpful feature that’s lacking is web chat. It’s a lot easier to get family and friends sold on alternate chat clients if they can try it out using a web browser they already have instead of installing yet another app.
I’ve been daily using Linux for more than 13 years at this point but I too am concerned at the direction some things are going in. I’m on Artix and happy there for the time being. But I definitely have started keeping an eye on BSD so its always in my back pocket if the need arises. We now have a laptop with GhostBSD on it so we can get and stay familiarised with it. But our biggest issue at the moment is gaming and Steam (yes, I could not use Steam but I’m happy with it and like using it).
It feels like it sucks so much that finally after years of encouraging others to switch to Linux that its finally starting to become more mainstream but its right at a time when mega corps are also sinking their claws in so deeply that its finally having a really negative effect on the ecosystem (their claws have been in for years but the community has mostly kept them at bay, apart from freaking systemd, for the most part up until now).
Also depressing that people are uneducated on the long controversial history of corporations sticking their greedy noses into the FOSS space to the detriment of all, and not understanding why this stuff is so very important for the future of Linux and FOSS generally.