Nadia | 28 | she/they
free system-level anywhere-to-anywhere routing
I’ve heard this is a thing on Linux but have never been able to get this working myself. Idk if it’s something to do with my distro’s defaults or what but in my experience this hasn’t been a thing at all.
My biggest pain points with Linux have mostly been audio related. Audio is serviceable for general users but whenever it comes to either professional audio work or high end consumer audiophile stuff, Mac and Windows unfortunately blow Linux out of the fucking water at this point in time.
Then you’ve unwittingly installed Windows 11
You can use Solaar, which works okay but I can’t rebind the side buttons on my mouse. Fuck Logitech for being a featured exhibitor at the 2025 Border Security Expo though. As far as I’m concerned they don’t deserve to continue to exist as a company.
Adding a birthday field is not privacy invading in itself the same way brandishing a knife is not assault in itself.
Context matters. I’ve held knives before and it was completely inocuous. I’ve used knives to chop vegetables, to spread butter, to carve something out of wood, etc. If I pulled out a knife while in a heated argument with someone that’d be a whole other story, and I don’t think “I was just holding the knife, is it illegal to hold knives now?” would exonerate me from accusations of intent or threat to assault someone.
In any other context adding a date of birth field would be inocuous. You’re not required to use it after all. But in this context as I understand it, it is explicitly infrastructure for age verification, even if it is not age verification in itself.
That’s why I whenever I download an appimage that I intend to use somewhat regurarly, I typically make a .desktop file for it in /usr/share/applications so it shows up in my app menu or rofi or dmenu or whatever and I don’t have to go looking for it. It also helps to have a folder you toss them all into
Now someone’s gotta combine the two and make GNU/Linux without GNU or Linux
This has been my exact issue with native Linux music players ever since I switched to Linux like a year and a half ago. I’ve been using MusicBee via Wine pretty successfully but not without some (mostly minor) bugs. No FOSS devs seemed to anticipate my niche use case of needing my Weasel Walter / Mary Halvorson / Peter Evans albums, my Weasel Walter / Mary Halvorson album, and my Weasel Walter / Peter Evans album to all sort into Weasel Walter’s discography while simultaneously the first two sort into Mary Halvorson’s discography and the first and third sort into Peter Evans’ discography, nor did they anticipate my need to tag an album as both Free Improvisation and Harsh Noise rather than sorting it into a separate third “Free Improvisation; Harsh Noise” category lol.
If I read OP correctly, they plan to livestream games. Screen capture isn’t as smooth of an experience on Wayland as it is on X11. Which isn’t to say one can’t do screen capture on Wayland, but that it might be a point of frustration for a Linux newbie trying to stream or record their gameplay.
Yeah, in your Firefox settings. Click the menu with the 3 horizontal lines in the top right corner, click “More Tools”, and then click on “Customize Toolbar…”. On the bottom left corner there should be a checkbox that says “Title Bar”. Uncheck that and then click “Done” in the bottom right.
speakwrite
“Listen kid, I’ve been on the internet much longer than you have. Back in my day we used to spin fidget spinners while watching LeafyIsHere videos and It’s The Nutshack memes during class instead of doing work. But you wouldn’t know nothin’ bout that, that’s ancient internet stuff right there”
My apologies, this data is misleading. Most of the new traffic is actually just me mass downloading and data hoarding porn across thousands of VMs. Whenever I need to rub one out I ssh into one of them and watch it that way. Keeps it off my main machine and keeps my browser history clean.
As someone who switched from Windows to Linux Mint about a year ago and had a pretty easy time adapting, sometimes I see the advice that beginners should use an immutable distro instead of Mint and am inclined to disagree, but then I remember the Linux Mint subreddit has like, at least one person a week who somehow manages to accidentally install the GNOME desktop and makes a post like “Wtf I started up my computer and it looks weird now why does it look like this” lol
I don’t think OP’s link mentions it but iirc one of the major changes in Audacity 4.0 is supposed to be non-destructive editing. At least that’s what I think I remember hearing like a year or more ago.