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foreverastudent

@foreverastudent@fosstodon.org

Advocate of Linux, open source software/hardware, and the free internet.

Enjoyer of Japanese media, and East Asian culture/history.

As well as a myriad of other geeky things!

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Stark9837, to plex
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Due to the nature of and the popularity in the and communities, it often seems as if most people assume that they are or on our side. As Plex approaches profitability, we will need to wait and see what the stereotypical and expected greed from executives will lead to. This story might not end well. You either die the hero or see yourself become the villain.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/29/streaming-media-company-plex-raises-new-funds-as-it-nears-profitability/

foreverastudent,
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@Stark9837

The writing's been on the wall for a while, it's just a matter of when really. I struggle to imagine how them taking off in the streaming world, though. At least how they would like to.

me, to mastodon
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For those, like me, who want their own space here and prefer self-hosting, I suggest considering snac2. I'm having a great experience with it, and it's easy to install and configure.

foreverastudent,
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@me

and are also pretty great extremely lightweight Fedi software. Just wanted to add more options.

mntmn, to random
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watched @geerlingguy's MNT Reform review today in the mnt hq with my colleagues @theawesomerandomness and @holo_memory. thank you for this very well made and balanced review, it had a bunch of edge-of-seat moments for us :D and i'm motivated to polish some of those last rough edges.

a comment on price: the base model with a311d is "only" 1199 EUR in our shop. theoretically you can plug in your own SSD for 50 bucks. we'll probably also lower SSD prices further as we have new sources.

foreverastudent,
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@mntmn @geerlingguy @theawesomerandomness @holo_memory

The next looks really nice, but I assume it'll lack the trackball and mech keyboard options?

foreverastudent,
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@mntmn

Ohhhhh, awesome! A shame about the trackball though. I want the original so badly, I just worry about actually being able to take it anywhere in a bag. Sadly, this might be more practical even if the turbonerd in me wants the chonker.

foreverastudent, to random
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Any cool cats got some interesting chats I can check out? I wanna explore it, as I heavily overlooked it in favor of Matrix when looking at decentralized chat options.

jacqueline, to random
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what’s the goss on hyprland? is it good or fucked?

foreverastudent, (edited )
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@jacqueline

I like it quite a bit. A lot of good options and certain things are here that just don't work on stock wayland. It's been rock solid for me, even with an Nvidia Optimus laptop. I am running Nixos so that might have something to do with the stability, but I haven't run Hyprland on any other distro so I'm not too sure on that.

frameworkcomputer, to random
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Framework Laptop 16 can play games.

Framework 16 playing pong on side led lights.

foreverastudent,
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@frameworkcomputer

IT WILL NEVER DIE!!!!

thelinuxcast, to Anime
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The intro for Kaguya-Sama: Love is War is like the anime version of the James Bond intros.

foreverastudent,
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@thelinuxcast

Well you were the last person I expected to watch anime in the Linux sphere.

foreverastudent,
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@thelinuxcast

Oh, okay! Well I hope you enjoy it, it's a pretty off the walls show. For a first timer I think Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is an amazing starting point if you want something else or if Kaguya doesn't click. The English dub is great if you're not too fond of watching subbed content.

jacqueline, to random
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of course, the really hard part of making a Product is not making everyone mad by fucking it up.

foreverastudent,
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@jacqueline

YOU GOT THIS!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxGRhd_iWuE

jacqueline, to random
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hey check this out https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara

foreverastudent,
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@jacqueline

This seems so cool! I wish this was around when I was looking for a dedicated music player, but I might buy it in the future just to support the open hardware movement. If I could have something like this that supports self-hosted services (Jellyfin, Navidrome, Audiobookshelf, etc.), I'd be in heaven.

gabek, to iOS

I was going to wait to talk about this until I could actually release it, but it’s becoming unlikely that will happen.

A few months ago I built an and app for watching streams natively on your phone and tv. You could browse the directory, or add your own private servers that aren’t listed publicly. It would send you push notifications when your favorite streams went live and it all worked pretty well.

Apple has been unable to understand how the “rights” work in this case. I can’t get them to understand that people opt into the directory, and the Owncast project owns and runs the directory. Instead they see it as me “using content without rights” and “accessing a catalog without proper rights”. They asked me to provide the paperwork detailing the agreement I have with every Owncast server. Clearly that’s impossible. The number of servers that want to be public on the directory change every day, I couldn’t send them new documentation every day. I tried to explain that the directory is kind of like a search engine and the application is like a browser. A browser doesn’t have explicit rights to every webpage ever made, as that would be ridiculous. I also tried to compare it to a podcast client. A podcast client can play back any podcast without asking for permission, and there are tons of podcast directories.

They’ll approve the application if I don’t use the directory and don’t have any Owncast servers directly available from the application, however. But I’m not willing to do that as that kind of defeats the point of the convenience.

I contacted a handful of attorneys, and I was willing to fight this. I hoped if I could get an attorney to draft a document that explains, in legal terms, something that Apple’s legal team would understand it could be cleared up. But I haven’t been able to have a meaningful conversation with any of them, as none of them understand what I’m doing or aren’t interested in working with a non-corporate entity.

So I think this is dead, killed by Apple. I tried to build something cool for you all, as a side project, to make viewing Owncast streams more convenient. It’s just not going to happen and I feel bad about it.

Screenshot from the Owncasts iOS application showing the stream detail.
Screenshot from the Owncasts iOS application showing the stream detail menu.
Screenshot from the Owncasts iOS application showing an offline stream.
Screenshot from the Owncasts iOS application showing an in-app action.
Screenshot from the Owncasts iOS application showing the landscape full screen player.

foreverastudent,
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@gabek

Wow, wow, wow. This REALLY blows. I'm kinda speechless. Even if I don't use Apple, I always thought one of the biggest things missing was clients for different devices. While it's awesome to hear about mobile development and things being in the works, this has to be the most disheartening way possible.

I really hope you can get something figured out, this is a really sad situation that reminds me of just how tough the battle for open networks and online spaces will be.

mntmn, to random
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someone is getting two MNT Reforms!

foreverastudent,
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@mntmn

The envy these MNT pictures fill me with, man

BrodieOnLinux, to random
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I shouldn't need to explain this but just because I have crypto donation links, that doesn't mean I'm a crypto bro. Who am I to stop people giving me money even if that money is magical internet money

foreverastudent,
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@BrodieOnLinux

I hate how cryptobros have tanked the public perception of a technology that was genuinely made with good intentions. It really fucking blows.

jacqueline, to random
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something’s cooking!!

foreverastudent, (edited )
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@jacqueline

The batteries are so cute! This is the second time I've seen cool batteries, where do you people get them?

jacqueline, to random
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added a two button control style for people who can’t fuck with capacitive inputs :)

navigating through the menus of a gay ipod looking thing, but using only the volume buttons

foreverastudent,
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@jacqueline

Is there a page or site where I can read what this is and what it can do? It seems neat.

linmob, to random
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I have not tried it out, but NeoSurf (https://github.com/CobaltBSD/neosurf ) might be worth a look for everyone who follows/followed (https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/visurf/) looking for a lightweight browser.

foreverastudent,
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@linmob I've been monitoring it for a while, but sadly there's no Nix package yet. I'm interested to see how it'll stack up to qutebrowser, which has been my daily driver for some months now.

foreverastudent,
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@linmob Oh, a tad disappointing but it is young. I'll wait it out and see how it develops.

jacqueline, to random
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👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

foreverastudent,
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@jacqueline

What are you gonna use it for?

foreverastudent,
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@jacqueline Put it in your laptop? Are you upgrading an MNT you already own? If so, sick!

foreverastudent,
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@jacqueline

Awesome!!! How has your experience been so far? What sort of load do you use it for daily? It's hard to find users in the wild given how niche the product is, so I'd love to hear your experience.

foreverastudent,
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@jacqueline

I was mainly just gonna use it as a personal everyday computer, your use case is much cooler lol. I'm glad to hear you've had a good experience with it.

Raspberry_Pi, (edited ) to RaspberryPi
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:raspberrypi: Raspberry Pi 5 is coming :raspberrypi:

With more than twice the speed of Raspberry Pi 4, and featuring our brand new RP1 chip, we’ve refined the Raspberry Pi experience.

It’s the everything computer. Optimised.

Priced at $60 for the 4GB variant, and $80 for its 8GB sibling, units are already available to pre-order from many of our Approved Resellers, and will ship at the end of October.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/


foreverastudent,
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@Raspberry_Pi

This is awesome! I am excited to tinker around with my first Pi. I just have a few questions.

  1. Will the active cooler be compatible with the official case? I know the case has a fan of its own, but the active case seems to quite a bit more effective based on the footage.

  2. When will an official starter pack akin to this (https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-4-desktop-kit/) be released? I'd like to put this on a list for the holidays, and I think it'd be easier for family to understand.

tailsy, to random
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While we're all moving from Chrome to Firefox or Safari, maybe we can also all move from Unity to Godot?

Time and again I see folks building businesses on top of platforms they don't control, and then getting rug-pulled through changes to pricing, privacy policy, content policy, etc. We have to start making different choices when it comes to making a living with digital creative work.

foreverastudent,
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@tailsy

Well didn't this age like fine wine.

foreverastudent,
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@tailsy

Didn't this toot predate the whole Unity situation by a little bit?

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