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  • Navidrome replaced Spotify for me, with Symfonium on Android, I'm never going back. On PC you can use any Subsonic client, and there are plenty I threw Tailscale on top to access it when I go out.

  • Org-mode, with Orgzly on Android, sync via a WebDav server, which you can also mount on you PC and literally use any editor to edit.

  • Okay I think I might know what you mean? I just tried doing that and got it to work. We can compare what we did. Here's mine.

    I created a shared folder called "Shared"

    then I create a group called "All" and mount the "Shared" folder to /shared

    I went to a user and add them to group "All"

    Examining that user's files

    I can navigate into that shared folder and access everything (I have stuff in there already).

  • To set up the folder, which I called "shared", I set the home directory for it to /srv/sftpgo/data/shared. For reference, my user home directory is /srv/sftpgo/data/user1. Then to allow user1 to access it, I mount it as a virtual folder. Is this what you did?

  • A lot of the western "left" has a fetish with defeat and struggle. The moment the oppressed take things into their own hands, make advances never seen before, overthrow their oppressor, and start rebuilding post-war, the western left tends to stop giving a shit and abandon what's now has "lost its charm".

    That's why critical support for AES is so low in the western left. I think it has its roots in orientalist thinking. Poor, oppressed, and revolutionary people from the global south driven into martyrdom fits their narrative, anything else is too much reality to deal with. They project onto these conflicts their desired aesthetics and what they deem a "cultured" theoretical understanding of global systems.

    But dialectical thinking doesn't stop at rallies and symbolic pins, flags, posters and patches. It also means accepting the material actions being taken to achieve that. Sure, it might conflict with their ideal aesthetics. But they can't get past the disappointment. Instead, they take the disappointment as a sign of some kind of moral high ground, which is just blatant orientalism.

  • Of course whatever works for you works too, we found workarounds for what we need.

    Yes it's more convenient because it's a keybinding away. Also, on Wayland I have to use kernel modeset and it is impossible to "overclock/undervoltage" the GPU to save energy. I also get more frames on X. It's not that KDE on Wayland is bad...it's exactly switching to X just to do that to play games is inconvenient.

  • It was annoying at first for me too but they tell you how to bypass it, so can't you just use the flag --break-system-packages and make it an alias for pip?

  • I'm curious what you mean by "no animations while playing games"?

    I like Wayland and use it on my laptop. But I also have Nvidia on my PC and while it's janky at places, I don't get all the problems you describe (at least on i3 for me)

    I use multiple monitors with different refresh rates and don't really have any major issue. It syncs with the highest one. I indeed don't use a compositor because it's distracting and also turn off all the composition pipe line stuff. The result of turning off the latter is less latency and a teeny tiny bit of tearing in the lower 3rd when scrolling web pages but that's it.

    Games can run utilize gsync when in-game vsync is enabled so long as you disable the second monitor with xrandr.

  • I know you meant well, but I don't think their interpretation implied any logical fallacy. I used a conditional statement but my statement was prescriptive, not descriptive.

    The difference between "I should" and "I have to/must" is a modal one. I implied "if I have to X then I shouldn't Y". They swapped X and Y around to get "If I have to Y then I shouldn't X", which is just a plain misinterpretation. The use of what is and what ought implies a recommendation or opinion, not mutual exclusivity. For that, I would have to use the same modality "If I have to X then I must not do Y".

    It's like mixing up "If I have an infectious disease, I shouldn't go outside" vs. "If I have to go outside, I shouldn't have an infectious disease". To me, they have a subtle difference. There is compromise and decision-making involved.

    I'll spell it out anyway because why not. I can't be bothered to edit my original comment. While it's sensational-sounding, anyone who take issue with what I said don't take surveillance properly so I can't help them, while those that misinterpreted me like nous did can find out for themselves here.

  • Adguard Home on the homelab, with my router set to use it as DNS, alongside Tailscale with Headscale on top to reroute all traffic through the home network so that ad blocking works all the time, on all devices that can use Tailscale, and also away from home.

  • Yeah I agree. To be clear, if you take the reverse of my statement, i.e. if you're on Windows, you shouldn't use Tor, then I would be gatekeeping.

    But I'm not implying that, but rather the reverse. I'm saying if you have use Tor for whatever reasons to bypass censorship, do illegal stuff and avoid being tracked, you should at least be aware that at the kernel level, how you're accessing the internet has already been compromised by Microsoft, and consider alternatives OSes

    Of course I'd still want people running Windows to be able to use Tor, and also I'd say leaving Windows isn't something you would only do at the "highest threat model".

    Privacy will almost always be a trade-off with convenience, I'm pushing the awareness to get people to act, should they choose to. That's all.

  • Agreed. I thought of ISP restrictions too, but I would say if where you live places a level of censorship due to political reasons or otherwise and you need to access it for whatever reasons so you need Tor then by all means Microsoft is not your friend since they're a privacy nightmare.

    There are also VPNs for banned media, I typically wouldn't want to use Tor for anything more than textual content as it puts too much load on the Tor network.

  • I bet for the owners of public instances, it must be a constant fight against YouTube's IP banning or rate limiting.

    If you have the resources, you could self-host your own private instance for you and your friends or family. I haven't had performance issue with my private instance so far.

  • +1 for Netdata, very fast and a lot of alerts have already been set-up. It also has a lot of plugins, as well as the ability to use Prometheus metric endpoints. The local dashboard is near parity with the cloud one, and setting it up is as easy as running their bootstrap scripts. There is decent documentation too, if one gets stuck.

  • uBlock origin and CanvasBlocker/JShelter are probably enough. There's also uMatrix, which gives you more granular control over what to block or allow.

  • Subsonic-based alternatives are good too. Navidrome and gonic, for instance.

  • Hmmm, that isn't open source, I don't know if one can trust it. Why does a browser need in-app purchases? Try Mull or Cromite.

    Edit: from the description, it uses Brave Search (to answer you question), so it doesn't send to Google your queries. But I'd be careful with an app with a bunch of SEO keywords in its description.