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@ Cornflake @pawb.social

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Life is like a bowl of cereal. The longer you wait to live it, the soggier it gets. 23, College Grad 🎓 Musician 🎷 Just a goober 🤓

HMU on Matrix - @cornflake_dog:matrix.org

  • Good ear protection for concerts.

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  • Live audio guy here, and I can say that custom-moulded plugs truly are tremendously above anything you can get in a universal fit. I got mine done for about $100 USD and they are super comfortable. If you are able to save up for it, I cannot recommend enough that you get custom ear plugs.

    I also own a pair of Etymotic ER20XS universal fit ear plugs and they really irritate my ears. It hurts to wear them for a long period of time, whilst the custom plugs I can wear for hours at a time. Your mileage may vary, depending on the size and shape of your ear canal, but for me, universal fit ear plugs are just really painful. Whenever I forget my customs, I just go with foam ear plugs because I just can't stand the Etymotics.

    None of that is to mention how much more balanced the sound is with custom ear plugs, I find that universal ones just don't sound as good.

  • Is DuckDuckGo/Bing still viable for piracy?

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  • I like the DuckDuckGo search engine, but I don't care much for their browsers (mobile nor desktop). I do keep the browser app on my phone so I can generate alias Duck addresses, I do find that feature pretty handy.

    As for how private DDG search is, I feel like the best practice for using any search engine privately is to clear browser data when you're done searching with it. That's a hassle though, so it's smart to have a browser dedicated to temporary browsing sessions that you don't plan to go back to later. On Android, browsers like Firefox (and forks like Mull) as well as Cromite allow you to set it so browsing data clears when you exit the browser.

  • How do I make this look more normal?

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  • I mean the boxes for font and paragraph style are all dark when they should be light. I think it's got to do with the system theme, I just wish I could selectively choose the theme for each application so dark mode doesn't mess things up like this.

  • Process of Degoogleing

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  • Which repository do you use? The F-Droid official one hasn't been updated in three months 😬

  • Process of Degoogleing

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  • The PC equivalent would simply be using Arkenfox with Firefox. If you want a similar out-of-the-box experience without having to tamper with it too much, Librewolf is also pretty good. There aren't any real downsides to them not being the same, fundamentally they're pretty similar and it shouldn't impact one's workflow across the platforms.

  • Process of Degoogleing

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  • You say there's no good Firefox browser for Android, but I strongly recommend you consider Mull. It's pretty much Firefox w/ Arkenfox but for mobile and it works exactly as it should. For Mull you should add the DivestOS repository to F-Droid because the F-Droid one is outdated.

    I like Fossify's apps for phone and contacts. As for photo gallery, I really like Aves Libre, paired with Image Toolbox and Open Video Editor for light edits.

    I don't use an RSS aggregator myself, but Feeder tends to be rated well.

  • Just a little guy

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  • Once in a lifetime... As in you can do it once.

  • People often talk about their own privacy protocols? What are yours or how do you go about considering them beyond the obvious?

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  • My personal op-spec mostly includes partitioning my personal life aside from my professional life. Like most people, I have a job that relies on privacy-invasive software, so I do my best to keep that separate and containerized away from my private stuff. This mostly means using different web browsers for different things (i.e. Librewolf for personal browsing and Brave for work-related internet). My job uses Gmail, but I personally use Proton. Depending on one's needs and available resources, you could even have separate devices for these uses (work phone and personal phone, work computer and personal computer, etc).

  • Linux and the Fear of Change (a video for the normies in our lives)

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  • Awesome, I'm glad to help spread the good word! Fooyin is still in its infancy it seems, but I'm hoping we'll get some more features in it soon- I'm hoping for spectrogram/waveform visualization as well as EQ.

  • Linux and the Fear of Change (a video for the normies in our lives)

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  • I was really hoping you'd say it was Foobar2000! You can run Foobar2000 using something like Wine/Bottles, but the UI gets all screwy. Recently, somebody released a Foobar-alike called Fooyin and I love it! Here's how I styled my layout:

    Fooyin definitely has some growing to do, but I think it's the best you can do on Linux if the goal is the ability to play bit-pefect music with a similar setup to Foobar2000.

  • Linux and the Fear of Change (a video for the normies in our lives)

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  • Out of curiosity, what was that perfectly customized music player?

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    Thinking about switching to Linux; main concern is son's games

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  • I don't know if you happen to have any other machines available to you, but I do recommend you consider giving it a go on a machine you don't share with another person, or at least dual-booting on that machine. It could be pretty jarring to be dumped onto another operating system so quickly, especially as one works out how to use the programs they had been running just fine before.

    I recently made the swap to Linux myself, and a dedicated laptop for that transition has made my life a lot easier. I still have my old laptop on Windows, heavens forbid I absolutely need it, but I do find some issues with compatibility. As another person has mentioned, Roblox does not offer native Linux support, which means you have to run a program that more or less tricks Roblox into thinking you're playing on a smartphone. You can do the same for Bedrock Minecraft if you want to play cross-platform.

    For a lot of things there are alternatives that tend to work even better in some ways. For others, there are workarounds. And for others yet, you just can't use some applications you might have been using before.

  • inoruleation

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  • Otherkin, or therians, are not a kink. They're folks that believe themselves on a spiritual level to have the spirit of something else (animal spirits).

  • Are we allowed to ask for recommendations here?

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  • Hey, I only recently dipped my toes into Linux about a month ago and I went with Fedora, more specifically the KDE spin of Fedora. My experience has been fantastic- I'm not even dual booting and this laptop has become my daily driver! My computer seems pretty similar in terms of specs, it's a ThinkPad X1 Carbon from 2017 that's also rocking an i7 and 16gb RAM. I see a ton of folks recommending Mint or Ubuntu or Pop! as "Linux for noobs" but I feel like you don't necessarily need to start there. I didn't and I've been having a really great time!

  • Nebraska

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  • Nebraska Spiderman had to do the Flintstones thing with the Taxi

  • Calculatable

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  • That's how it works on the adding machine I use at work. That might not be universal, but if I input something wrong I press C and retype it, meanwhile if I need to reset it all I press CE.