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  • It is important for free software to use free software infrastructure

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  • But 99% of people won't. Choosing that platform massively shrinks your community.

    I'm not saying don't do it and try to grow that ecosystem if you want to. I'm all for federated becoming the standard going forward. But don't judge people not wanting to massively compromise their project with a platform that actually is massively worse because it doesn't have people there.

  • It is important for free software to use free software infrastructure

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  • But, to be clear, I am not asking you to use inferior platforms for philosophical or altruistic reasons.

    Except you just called people selfish for it a paragraph up. A platform that depends on human interaction without humans to interact with is an inferior platform regardless of technical merit.

    Going where people are isn't selfish. It's rational.

  • Fedora Linux Flatpak cool apps to try for February - Fedora Magazine

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  • Not everyone values the same things you do. Flatpaks aren't the cause of the fact that different applications don't function correctly with different versions of libraries; they're just the solution.

    Flatpak is better for normal people. It's better for most advanced users who don't want to micromanage compatibility issues. And it really doesn't have an impact on people who do want to micromanage because all your alternative ways to install software are still there.

  • Stop being elitist, spread Linux!

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  • If you're actually expecting people to transition without asking for help on a regular basis, you don't know people.

    You just made yourself their IT guy for life.

  • LockBit remorseless in latest children's hospital attack

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  • It's not "digital" when it literally kills people.

  • YouTube now suggests new content by colour

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  • Those nature videos as backgrounds in a room with a strong color scheme?

    Except I wouldn't even sort of trust them not to veer into some jackass ranting about something stupid.

  • Using Linux really ISN'T hard.[Video 26:08]

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  • I think it's a mixed bag. Some of the friction is just because people are used to the stupid ways Windows does stuff.

    But there's other stuff like needing to manually change some downloaded files to have permission to execute that it makes sense for casual users to find confusing.

  • AMD GPUs are cursed for me

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  • You may wish to pick a distro that makes a point of nvidia compatibility.

    I use nobara, who have a few options in the welcome script specifically to improve compatibility with nvidia. I've specifically heard popOS mentioned several times as one people have liked with nvidia as well.

    Some only ship with or distribute alternative open source nvidia drivers that tank performance.

  • Zed - A code editor written in rust by Atom's Developer.

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  • Probably because they use MacOS.

  • Dish & Sling Sue ‘Pirate’ IPTV Operation For Circumventing Widevine DRM

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  • I know what sub I'm in, and while I don't pirate anything, I'm not going to argue the ethics at all.

    But according to the article, they were literally advertising to customers that they were sling and selling them devices preloaded to look like they were sling. Again, I'm not here to argue the merits of piracy generally. I follow the sub without being a pirate because many of the legal/technical issues around piracy affect anyone who wants to own their media and browse the internet with some level of privacy. But distributors of any of that content aren't credible if they're lying to the end users. Lying to tell people you're actually the real service isn't cool.

  • Can I install Ubuntu 18 software on Ubuntu 22.04? (Technically Linux Mint 21.3)

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  • Try it?

    I haven't really needed to virtualize anything lately, but my understanding is that some of the options on Linux are pretty light weight. Frpm discussion I've seen, I think distrobox could resolve the issue with minimal overhead if you have issues natively, though I haven't personally experimented with it or its limitations.

  • My move to wayland: it's finally ready

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  • Exactly. You'd think with the two things they're really competitive on being raw flops and memory, they'd be a viable option for ML and scientific compute, but they're just such a pain to work with that they're pretty much irrelevant.

  • On "Wasting disk space"

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  • No, the mindset that the storage is less than pennies worth and this usage would have to explode massively to even approach negligible.

    A device that is affected in any way by a GB of storage space is going to choke on 50 other things way before you get to that.

  • On "Wasting disk space"

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  • What's the use case where storage is at enough of a premium to matter? None of this is targeting a server where you're getting silly with optimizing storage, and even the smallest storage on most consumer facing hardware is filled by media one way or another. It straight up doesn't matter to a reasonable end user. Storage is less than dirt cheap.

  • Webmail server with multiple mail accounts

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  • It's just a computer (or program, depending on context). It can do whatever you want it to.

    If I want to write/modify a mail server that watches video feeds from 6 different beaches and only bothers accepting mail when beaches 2, 3 and 5 are empty and beaches 1, 4, and 6 have 500 people, nothing is stopping me. It's stupid and a waste of time, but it's a computer. It can run arbitrary code.

    That's ignoring that if you read what he wants, it would be a client to the actual recipient mail server and only needs to actually serve the web interface so that he can access his email from various browsers.

  • Webmail server with multiple mail accounts

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  • They're just protocols. There's nothing preventing a program from interacting with both. Webmail isn't some mystical art no one's ever thought of before.

  • Webmail server with multiple mail accounts

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  • You understand that computers can use more than one port?

    There's nothing abnormal about what he's requesting.

  • Webmail server with multiple mail accounts

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  • This doesn't make sense.

    A website is basically just the responses a server sends to a browser. That server has any functionality you want it to.

  • Villa: Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL?

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