Even with SteamOS coming to more systems Bazzite has no plans to go anywhere
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The rednote move is mostly a form of protest. People are fully aware its a dumb idea for privacy.
Fediverse by design is ideal for institution-based social networks for sure. Each school hosts a server and federates with the nearby institutions (possibly in a limited manner so it's still focused on your group but you can easily interact with other people from your city)/school district too.
Maybe the school has two servers: one for active students, another for alumni. Some configuration for letting people say "only fill my main feed with stuff from my graduating class +/- 2 years" and so on. When you graduate, you get auto migrated to the next server.
Hometown sort of tries to do this for cities as a Nextdoor replacement (and even nextdoor for a long time tried to keep things hyper local with optional visibility elsewhere until they caved to ad money and NIMBYism)
This. I basically didn't use my facebook for the last 6 years and i left it deactivated most of the time. My thinking was that people could use messenger to reach out to me (and my family has mostly been using messenger for stuff anyeay) but even then, that only proved true for a handful of circumstances, and the people who did make use of messenger or a non-deactivated account all had my phone number anyway.
Would my experience be different if I was more active on facebook? Eh, maybe. Maybe I'm an oddity, but most of my high school and college connections barely post on facebook as it is, if at all. I didn't lose much by finally giving it the axe last week.
It still has a real impact on the people being harmed. I dont know if bullies getting social consequences for their actions outweighs the pain they have already inflicted.
That said, hopefully better information dissemination will help anyone being targeted to find better places where bullies are defederated/moderated for being shitty humans rather than based on shareholder value and kissing the ring of a dictator.
The momentum on a lot of the "popular node.js package but for Deno" packages died well before they added npm: specifiers and more support for node builtins. Aside from a few notable outliers, denoland is full of stuff that hasn't been updated in 4+ years.
What I like about deno is that I can do everything with web standards, then fill the gaps for server-side needs with the node standard lib. Web standards have come a long way for server code thanks to web workers, but there are still some missing pieces. The deno experience is way better with web standard libraries and jsr, so my hope is the momentum will continue to head in that direction such that the npm: and node: imports just become nice-to-have capabilities for niche uses.
Its less censorship AND an allowance of actual hate speech.
Tiktok has been useful for several groups that are normally extremely supressed with other algorithmic social media. Tiktok isn't geared towards the "what will make you angry therefore keep scrolling" or "what will make you buy more things" motivations that facebook et. al. are geared towards, so it will actually show you things you care about. It also has a tendency to show you opposing viewpoints from time to time, which makes it surprisingly useful for deprogramming people from misinformation.
For people with specific medical disorders or conditions, tiktok was excellent for finding others and sharing information. For people of different minorities that are normally supressed on social media, it was excellent for building community.
So sure, if all you watch on it was dancing teenagers, that's what you are gonna get: Vine 2.0. If you curate your feed a little then it'd help you branch out from your interests without the primary goal of keeping your eyes peeled to it or grabbing more ad revenue.
if you are part of a group that tiktok was basically the only social media network that had ever been helpful for, it's a big deal that it's going away. Its not about the format of the videos, but the algorithm and its focus on your interests rather than making money.
Not exactly an unbiased chunk of evidence there, is it?
You can hide your number on Signal so people can't start conversations with you unless they have your QR code/link.
But even if you leave it visible... it's really not that big a deal. Tbh, thats a good feature if you want to use Signal as a way for people you don't often interact with to securely communicate if they have your phone number but can't utilize encrypted RCS. Once Apple gets on board with encryption then it's less important for Signal to fill that gap for casual conversation.
Signal may not be perfect for all use cases. But it's pretty easy to navigate for the normies and its got most of the features people would miss from whatsapp/facebook messenger. I got my family converted to Signal this week from facebook messenger and it went rather smoothly. Plus, Signal has been around for a long time. Even some among my less tech-literate family had already used it in the past, but everyone had heard of it so it was an easy sell.
The reality of communication nowadays is that there is no one size fits all solution. Signal, XMPP, Matrix, whatever else all have their pros/cons.
I know there's been a lot more discussion around SimpleX lately, but tbh, the sudden noise about it + the VC backing just feels more like a coordinated advertising campaign and that makes me less interested in it.
I've used linux on my laptops and non-gaming devices for a long time, but it took me a long time to switch my gaming desktop over. I've felt i could use linux full time most of the last 8 years (and especially for games since 2020 as i rarely play anything with anti-cheat anyway), but i only went linux on all devices as of 2 years ago when i built a new gaming PC so it required starting from scratch anyway, and aside from a few components i intended to retain for the new one, i could easily drop back to play a game if i ran into problems.
They won't do it, whether they just fear change or think it'll break stuff or they can't bother
Not everyone has the time nor feels the need to just rip and replace on a dime. Not everyone has the luxury of multiple devices to gain confidence. Some people only have a handful of hours a week to play games, so switching OS isnt going to be an immediate priority sven if its their desire.
And I'm not going to lie, I don't hate them or debate with them for it, I just hate the bold lies they tell just to get with the crowd
The world already has enough things to tear us all down, why flip a table and possibly be unable to game for a time just because doing it right away, according to you, is the only way to be honest or whatever. A vocal desire to dump windows doesnt equate to lying. Let people be excited about linux even if they dont make the switch themselves. Maybe their excitement inspires someone else to take the plunge who wouldn't have done so otherwise.
Also, if you felt the need to write this rant, seems like you do kinda hate them.
At least don't lie that you'll move to Linux at a goal post that you'll just move whenever you get close, maybe say that you'll move to Linux when you finally get a new pc with a new disk or something?
even tho i knew i was "done" with the windows since like 2018, I just simply waited until it was convenient to switch. Should i have qualified every conversation where i discussed linux gaming with this? Idk, maybe just let people be excited about something, even if it takes them a long time to get to it.
Maybe they will, due in fucking 2028 or something when they invent a really easy way to use built in Linux tools to move your files from NTFS to Linux and then when you launch steam you have a perfect library of Linux compatible games that are as good or better than windows
Uh... This has existed a long time. Mounting ntfs on linux is rather easy. Even a windows boot disk. Just point steam at the library folder. In fact, my steam library is installed on ntfs in case i ended up dual booting or using gpu passthrough to a windows vm for a few items. If you're gonna sit here and virtue signal about who is a real linux gamer or not maybe you'd at least know something as basic as mounting ntfs in linux...
Fortunately, Google TV is fairly easy to lock down and has permission management similar to android (because its just android with a custom launcher)
Shader cache updates usually have an extra icon next to them in the downloads list
Mulch and DDG are not firefox-based
Hopefully we see some of these projects picked up by others. In a weird way, sometimes these sorts of events end up being exactly what a project needs to get forked/transferred and have even more funding/resources thrown at it.
Ive only recently been utilizing mull, mulch, and hypatia, but they've been fantastic. All the best to the devs.
Speaking as an engineer doing a lot of web dev, I think people underestimate how much work Mozilla does in standards and low-level shared API's via w3c and others, and how important it is that google isn't the only one in there making decisions. Most w3c standards decisions are made with google, Mozilla, Microsoft, and apple representatives in committees, and as we know, two of those are much more aligned in their own best interests these days, while one kinda wishes mobile web browsing didn't exist.
Would we have a better browser with less Mozilla baggage? Possibly.
Would the web standards that make everything work be better off without Mozilla? No, absolutely not.
Safari's team does what they can within Apple's bullshit intentional deprioritization of anything that could compete with the App Store, Edge's team has brought some sanity to the chromium side and toned back some of Google's wilder standards proposals and intentions. The fact that there are now 0 legitimate reasons for a website to "only work in chrome" (aside from some mobile safari things still) nowadays is all the stuff behind the scenes that matters. Even google is doing less FAFO shipping features and not caring about what other browsers need.
That said, maybe a disruptions is needed to a new paradigm could step in. Maybe a Mozilla Foundation placed under other ownership with a narrowed focus.
In the Linux space, the massive investments that GNOME, KDE, and others have been able to garner the last few years from governments and interested organizations is promising. There could be a similar interest in a web-focused org that could champion things without the Mozilla baggage and intent to avoid the same fate.
Braus is new to me, tho at a glance looks less capable overall than Junction.
Looks like Junction supports firefox profiles via .desktop entries, so it would also support launching via the private CLI flag (firefox -private-window iirc).
Might be easier to keep up with than modding Braus source code in the long run.
https://github.com/sonnyp/Junction
Like other gnome circle apps it heavily encourages flatpak but its available on arch official and other distro package managers.
On android I use URL Check (https://triangularapps.blogspot.com/search/label/UrlChecker?m=1) which has a lot of utility for unshortening snd dropping parameters as well as opening in a specific app. It can open private or normal, too. It is a bit overkill if you only use 1 browser, but tbh, its super useful for revising links before you open them anyway to remove tracking garbage.
I'm not aware of anything this involved and able to do private vs non-private on Linux or macOS, but it would be neat if Browserosourus (macOS) or Junction (Linux) could add those capabilities.
I haven't looked too much for solutions outside of mobile. Easy enough on desktop to copy a link and paste in a private window. Not as easy on mobile.
Listen to the podcast. It's... Awful. The AI voices trying to do radio show-style things like spelling out some letters of words or enunciating oddly is a whole level of cringe. Plus my podcast was full of hallucinations. Very obviously saying one of my top songs was by a different one of my top artists.
My wrapped stats weren't super off, but they were off. Clearly some artists they favor or punish in rankings. Whether thats intentional, buggy code, or hallucination, eh, who knows.
Either way, it was a reminder that ive been wanting to switch to tidal for a while. The day list used to be really good, too, but it has had a noticeable drop in quality since the last round of layoffs, and it shows a lot more evidence of being AI-based rather than algorithm-based.
I run a fairly standard arch setup and have had very few issues with games. I've done a bit of tinkering with bottles, lutris, etc, but pretty much everything just works first time with steam.
I've only had to set a few launch flags, usually for a game to use directx instead of vulkan or vice-versa. Sometimes you can't play a game on launch, but usually one of the first few patches will get things in working order. Steam deck popularity has done wonders for this aspect.
The most common issue I run into is a game update that will break or degrade the experience. But usually those get fixed fairly quickly in follow up patches. A lot of developers will skip testing in proton (mostly because itll "just work" these days) but i imagine theyll start doing so more often before pushing updates as steam decks and Linux become larger shares of players.
Wild that people are concerned when Bazzite has a completely different underlying toolset vs SteamOS.
Want arch? SteamOS Want fedora? Bazzite
Tbh Bazzite has an important role going forward: pointing out any bad decisions by valve and offering an off-ramp if valve enshittifies.