Neshura @ neshura @bookwormstory.social

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The point is just using it gives you no experience to talk about how easy it is to lock down an OS, administering one does. EatYouWell is absolutely right in calling out that you don't administer linux, as you say yourself: you don't, you use it. And that difference shows in the falsehood of your comment: it is possible to lock down Linux to levels like a PS5 and anyone administering Linux would know that from their knowledge of the underlying components.

actually making linux usable with the deck controls was probably more work than locking the users out of the desktop mode even

you do realize it is absolutely possible to lock down a Linux install? Every Android device essentially is just that and their bootloaders are only unlockable because they were forced to by EU law. Steam absolutely had the option to make a Linux based DRM shitfest, in some ways it would have been easier even, they just chose not to

By now Steam's most loyal userbase is probably the Linux Gaming community because they make it so easy to just play the games, not to mention the QoL improvements they contribute to upstream projects

I actually bought some games on Steam I already owned on other launchers because while I could set them up via Lutris or the like just hitting "Play" is so much easier it's unreal. Valve is doing so much to make Linux game as comfortable as possible I don't even remotely consider buying from anyone else because there it's a pain in the ass just to get the game running once, never mind keeping it running through updates

yes but most isp's (at least where I live) change the IP in the middle of nobody-should-be-awake-anyway o'clock

Plus the connection drops only for a minute or two at most unless ypu set a really high ttl on the domain dns record

Honestly it's a blessing, hardcoded stuff can be easily circumvented by turning to 1337-speech or inserting whitespace. An AI scanning stuff would not only produce random false positives but also make the censorship actually work

Not sure if possible but have you checked whether the running user is an application property? If so you could maybe manage it via application or window rules.

Can't check rn because I'm away from my PC but it's worth a shot checking imo.

wait Jira is a Java website?

That explains so much....

On that note: Why is it every single time a piece of Software I find runs or feels like absolute Garbage it turns out it was written in Java? (Ok all things being fair occasionally the ancient PHP App is in the mix as well but it's 95% Java Apps being shit)

cosmically unfortunate timing, package maintainer probably just took a nap between updating most packages and fixing the leftovers and the resulting gap caused this mayhem

I would definitely recommend against -Syudd with kde-unstable, the packages can change drastically (as was the case here) breaking the entire system if dependencies are ignored (as happened here)

Update: the bad packages got updated, you should be fine just installing them from kde-unstable again

Hopefully helpful:

you need the following packages for kde-unstable:

• plasma-activities
• plasma-activities-stats
• libplasma

Your Update likely removed these from your system breaking plasma6

The following packages are likely to blame (this list is likely incomplete):

• kweather (I removed it since I don't use it)
• dolphin (as suggested above switching to dolphin-git should help, alternatively installing extra/dolphin will install the plasma 5 version bypassing the dependency problems)
• kio-extras (same fix as for dolphin)
• sweeper (see above)

Edit: if you have terminal access you can try the following (no guarantee it'll work, I think it should but no guarantees):

• pacman -Rdd kactivites kactivites-stats plasma-framework
• pacman -Syudd libplasma plasma-activities plasma-activities-stats

What I did (switch to plasma 5 versions):

• pacman -Syudd extra/dolphin extra/sweeper extra/kio-extras extra/kweather

What you could do (switch to git):

• $AUR_HELPER -Syu dolphin-git sweeper-git kio-extras-git kweather-git

As someone with a beef server: Nope, performance stays unsatisfactory. Redis helps a lot but only if the page is cached which tbh just makes the experience worse if the page isn't cached

Edit: I'm using the AIO installer though, as discussed elsewhere in this post that might be the root cause of the poor performance, will check on the weekend by installing nextcloud manually in a fresh vm

I say most because if there is even a single one doing what they are supposed to do then saying "all" would be wrong and I am aware of at least one offering drm free ebooks (unless you consider an embedded username in the epub file drm) at reasonable prices while (as far as I am aware) not fucking over the authors

Codeberg is iirc the main entity behind it, at the very least they are using some of their funds to support it

see my reply here

I'll try to summarize:

• Gitea is managed by a For-Profit that apparently popped out of nowhere -> profit motive conflicts directly with FOSS and since the corp isn't well known it must be assumed acquisition was solely to make money
• Gitea now requires Copyright attribution, meaning if you push code to Gitea in an existing file it ain't your code anymore -> omega level oof for a FOSS project because this essentially kills any upstream contributing (as seen by Forgejo deciding to stop their contributions)
• This Cloud Service being offered when Self-Hosting Gitea is really easy, again -> profit motive conflicts with FOSS but now on steroids because a "core" feature of their service will limit their ability to make more money

CDN services certainly but not DNS, we're all profitting from Cloudflare & Co having fully automated DNS because that is the sole fact currently holding back court ordered DNS blocks on a large scale.

The DNS Providers do not discriminate and that fact guarantees them (largely) not being forced to discriminate. Not interfering with anyone's DNS is the most Cloudflare can do for the piracy community because it ensures Publishers can't just send an angry email to get a DNS block

Most Publishers in any Industry are a cancer on society. Cramming DRM in where they can while scalping both customers and creators whilst gaslighting both into believing continuing to shovel money to their overpriced services is in their best interest.