Ah yes, a perfectly normal thing to do after I’ve previously spent thousands on my NVIDIA GPU and am just getting into Linux. Love this comment when it comes up.
I agree, and it’s been a fine experience with nvidia on Xorg. “Buy new hardware” is not what someone getting into Linux should hear though if we want to increase the number of Linux users.
I see it referenced constantly here, not quite as much on Reddit. I know what it means, but just wondering why such the popularity over on this side of the fence?
In what he described as an “emergency broadcast” on Saturday, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed that his far-right news company, Infowars’, studios in Austin, Texas, might be shut down by federal authorities soon....
It’s very tech focused over here, but that makes a lot of sense when you consider only tech aligned people can figure out how to get it all working as it is.
That’s a really good way of looking at it actually and I agree. The community is kind of filtered by only people who care enough to leave reddit, but also I think there is an aspect that we’re trying to escape the consequences of the karma system on posting/commenting behaviour.
I’ve always thought that having accounts that showed your total number of upvotes incentivises posting the same in-jokes endlessly. Bot accounts with high karma can even be sold to people who care about having a high karma account.
Fair enough, I was under the impression that if you are using SSL, all an ISP or VPN provider could see is that you are connected to whichever backbone provider you were connected to. I.e. The content of what you are downloading is encrypted.
You could be downloading stuff that is not illegal, and I don’t think that is necessarily knowable by anyone except yourself.
I may be way off here, I’m not an IT person, but that was my understanding of SSL.
I used the wiki on r/usenet, which was pretty helpful.
From my understanding, you need 3 things:
Usenet Provider (these are servers that host all of the content - you pay them to have access to download the content)
Indexer (this is kind of like Google but for the usenet providers - they will find and give you the .nzb file which will be used to access the content from the usenet provider above - you pay the indexer for their service)
Usenet client (This would be akin to a torrent client like Qbittorrent - it is the program which you use to download the content from the provider, using the .nzb file provided by the indexer)
Benefits of Usenet I believe are the high speed of downloads, generally accessibility to older and more niche content, and ease of use. You don’t need to fish through torrents hoping that the seed/peer numbers are enough to actually get all of the content in good time. I’ve found a lot of stuff there lately that I have not been able to find via torrenting sites, but are important childhood media to me/my wife.
Looking for a self hosted diary type of service. Where I can login and write small topics, ideas, tag them and date them. No need for public access....
Content can cost nothing, if you’re talking a podcast made in your bedroom. You get fleeced when putting it on streaming services though, as far as I know there is no free way of getting your stuff on Spotify, as you need to pay an aggregator (a middleman rent seeker that we don’t complain about enough) to do so.
Absolutely, I’ve got music on Spotify and well aware of the costs of mixing and mastering, as well as the sacrifice you make in terms of playing poorly paid gigs, and the opportunity cost just by creating music.
The Spotify CEOs take is so far out when you consider that if just super budget content was on the platform, people wouldn’t use it or at least wouldn’t pay for it.
Fallout seems to be getting the Edgerunners treatment at the moment. Shame about the fallout London fiasco, that would have convinced me to spin it up again.
Even though there are already a couple of other threads about this Schweinerei, there wasn’t a good place to insert this into the discussion, and for those unfamiliar, this video’s a good starting point.
Exactly, that would be chicken feed compared to the overall cash flow for LTT alone. He’s got plenty of other YouTube channels and other means of making money.
YouTube ad revenue OF LTT in 2022 was $4.6 million, and sponsors would have paid the channel more than ad revenue was bringing in.
Is Adobe suite a major cost for LTT though? It’s the cost of a few licenses, and if it means just one less video goes out per year due to the inefficiencies of learning a new software package, it would not be worth the switch. I’m assuming each video they put out brings in revenue well into the 5 figures.
I don’t think it’s downloading apps that is hard necessarily, but there are a few big barriers getting in the way for casual users to run a self-hosted FOSS solution:
seeing a problem with their current way of doing things
knowing other options exist
having the confidence to feel like setup won’t be a headache, or that maintenance won’t be a problem with their non-tech background
I think its pretty understandable that a normal person would preference “one simple app” than a DIY 2 app system when you consider the above.
Toxic linux communities moment:
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Why is Lemmy obsessed with the word "enshittification"?
I see it referenced constantly here, not quite as much on Reddit. I know what it means, but just wondering why such the popularity over on this side of the fence?
Alex Jones says Infowars could be shut down within hours (www.newsweek.com)
In what he described as an “emergency broadcast” on Saturday, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed that his far-right news company, Infowars’, studios in Austin, Texas, might be shut down by federal authorities soon....
Boost for reddit has now truly 100% died. Hello Lemmy!
The Boost for Reddit app still worked for a while after the big shutdown with workarounds, like creating a mod account or using revanced....
Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned | Op-ed: The risks to Recall are way too high for security to be secondary (arstechnica.com)
Embracer Boss Mulls Increasing the Price of Video Games Beyond $70 (www.ign.com)
How many of you use Usenet VS torrents
Just wondering what a rough split is of people using either Usenet, torrents, or both?...
Self-hosted diary
Looking for a self hosted diary type of service. Where I can login and write small topics, ideas, tag them and date them. No need for public access....
Spotify CEO sparks backlash after social media post that claimed the cost of making "content" is "close to zero" (www.loudersound.com)
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek sparked an online backlash after a social media post in which he said the cost of creating “content” is “close to zero”....
Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die (www.techspot.com)
If you cannot pass on your ownership rights to your purchased games to your children, then you cannot pass on your copyright either, I guess?
Todd Howard says Fallout renaissance is "beyond anything" he's seen in his career (www.eurogamer.net)
Halo: Combat Evolved remaster reportedly in the works, being considered for PlayStation release (www.eurogamer.net)
MultiVersus studio claims ability to purchase extra lives with real money was "a bug" that was "not an intended feature in the game" (www.gamesradar.com)
Adobe roofies all of their customers (Louis Rossmann's reaction) (www.youtube.com)
Even though there are already a couple of other threads about this Schweinerei, there wasn’t a good place to insert this into the discussion, and for those unfamiliar, this video’s a good starting point.
Proton Pass Arrives on Mac and Linux (www.howtogeek.com)
Why investors are doubling down on Truth Social despite Trump's historic conviction (www.npr.org)
Moonlight PC for game streaming via Sunshine gets HDR support for Linux / Steam Deck (www.gamingonlinux.com)