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I'd personally recommend Sennheiser Momentum 4. I have that one, and a Sony WH-1000XM4. I think maybe the Sony has slightly better noise cancellation, but the M4 has better sound, and much better registration for when it is removed etc, so I only use that one. I've many times picked up the XM4 and it's out of battery because it never turned itself of. That has never happened with the M4, and it's super nice to be on the phone with someone, move the headphone from the right ear to talk to someone nearby, and it automatically mutes me. That kind of thing.

But, different budgets, different needs (I need over the ear for comfort, etc). Definitely don't take my word for it though and just see if you can try them out in a store. Maybe also check the app they expect you to use, as you don't find out if it sucks before you buy it otherwise.

Technically, the inch is defined by the meter, so it's all SI.

Hm. That wouldn't correct any established injustice.

Noise cancelling headphones is almost a medical aid when it comes to shopping. You don't have to listen to any noises except ones you like, and, people are much less likely to bother you.

I would argue that you are completely right. But, it would surprise me if there isn't a fairly strong correlation between the two (corelation!=majority). Living in a society where expected social interactions far exceed the comfort level can sure cause some anxiety.

All that said, if you are anxious to interact with another person with very fixed frames for the interaction (like a person working in a shop at the checkout counter (I don't know the name)), then you have social anxiety and unlikely just being introverted.

The... UI in blender is really good. Have you used any other equivalent software or know how complicated it is?

It's not "good but it's a hard problem to solve". It is more "great and it's a hard problem to solve"

I learned the hard way to never trust windows to not destroy other disks. One time it decided to place the boot partition on a disk it saw having a unknown file system. Turns out it was a disk on a raid-array. After that I physically unpower all other disks before installing windows.

qBittorrent

Are there non-FOSS qBittorrent clients? I didn't mention it since it doesn't feel like a thing. I don't count MacOS software, as there you'll find commercial apps for anything you can imagine. You can probably find a paid app to do Alt+Tab correctly.

That is an interesting observation, though, it is getting quite better. Blender is top tier. Gimp, Krita and InkScape are also exceptional software. Just a little bit rough around the edges, and some niche commercial applications. Very easy to be highly productive with those tools. Same with FreeCAD. But, where as Gimp, Krita and InkScape I would say are 8/10 in feature completeness, FreeCAD is more 5/10.

Ardour

That's what I wanted to mention! I just remembered 5-10 years ago, I tried getting into DAW stuff. and it just felt clunky, all of the linux ones. I definitely tried Ardour and LMMS. It didn't help that I have no musical skill, but with FL Studio, it was more obvious that I was the problem. I'll give Ardour another go some day. Thanks for reminding me.

How do you feel about unions?

I think you have a lot of valid arguments for why Valve isn't a pure champion for all things good. But, that also wasn't the question.

I've used proton more often than not with games purchased through GoG. Their contributions to wine and the layer on top is excellent. Sam Latinga is a Valve employee and creator of libSDL, which is also another significant and foundational contribution to FOSS.

A company can do a lot of good without having to be exclusively good. And as for Linux gaming, it wouldn't be where it is without Valve.

Explain. I get the reference, so not that.

Ah, good to know. I found the source code for Vivaldi, but it probably has some proprietary bits so you cannot build it yourself? I'll remove it from the list.

Glad you like it! Developer (it's mostly one) deserves the thanks though.

I agree. Nautilus could be better. But to compare it with Finder in MacOS, which straight up hides the root file system ("a feature" of course), you cannot mount sftp/ssh etc, or even let's you cut and paste files, not to mention the crappy traversal of folders. The worst part of gnome (if you can call the file manager a part of gnome) is still miles better than the commercial counterpart.

Here is my opinion on some FOSS software. PS, I'm too old to give a shit about team mentality, I just want stuff to work. Also, my motivation for liking FOSS is not so much "free", but rather "unencumbered and unrestricted shared human technology and knowledge".

• GNOME, for the hate it gets, it comes close to getting everything right. I'd give it a 95/100 score. Windows a 30/100, and MacOS a 35/100. No verdict/comment on KDE as I haven't used it. I have good reasons for disliking W10/W11 and separate ones for MacOS. As desktop environments, they are both shit for each their own reasons.
• Blender. 3D/Scultping/Drawing/Video Editing. Aside from Linux kernel, the most impressive and well managed FOSS project there is. I grew up with pirated 3dsmax, and what a dream it would be to grow up today with Blender as it is.
• Linux as a OS kernel. One can argue about the desktop market share, but people don't know better. They think the software that runs on it defines it. But, there is a reason why 100% of top 500 supercomputers in this world run on Linux. I'd also mention the Arch/AUR community. Doesn't matter if you use Arch or not, arch/aur wiki is a goldmine.
• Godot: 2D game engine. As a 3d game engine, it's not nearly as good as the non-FOSS competition.
• Firefox: If it wasn't for Firefox, I don't know what I would do. I don't trust chrome one single bit.
• Alacrity terminal: I'm sure there are plenty great FOSS terminal emulators, but the built in ones for MacOS and Windows are garbage.
• Prusa Slicer: I think this one is as good as the commercial counterparts for FDM G-code generation.
• VLC. Mixed feelings about this one, as I think it's UI is lacking, but since it plays almost everything the UX ends up being great.
• LibreOffice Writer. Perhaps debatable. But the fact that you can trust LibreOffice to respect and adhere to the OpenDocumentFormat, and equally trust Microsoft Word to deliberately not do so in subtle ways, LibreOffice Writer is ultimately the better software IMHO.

Projects I wish had an edge over commercial proprietary software:

• Gimp. It just isn't as good, even if you get used to it. Some things, of course, it can do much better (e.g the G'Mic QT filter pack). The lack of non-destructive work flows is the key part that is missing.
• FreeCAD. It's good, and you can do wonders with it, but oh so rough compared to onshape/Fusion/etc.
• Darktable. Not as good as commercial counterparts like Lightroom.
• Kdenlive. Not as good as Davinci Resolve, or the adobe counterparts.
• LMMS: Not as good as most commercial DAWs.
• Krita: This one is actually not too far away from being best in class. I still suspect photoshop and has an edge
• InkScape: A "best for some vector things but not all"-kinda thing. It's FOSS nature makes it the defacto vector editing software for certain kind of makers. But as a graphical vector editing suite, adobe's stuff is just much more solid.

Mobile stuff that I think is better than the counterpart, or at least so good that I don't care if there is a counterpart

• Tuner: https://f-droid.org/packages/de.moekadu.tuner/ It just does what it is supposed to. There are hundreds of these on the play store, with ads or paid. There is no need for it.
• Aegis Authenticator: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.beemdevelopment.aegis/ For handling 2FA keys.
• Gallery: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.simplemobiletools.gallery.pro/
• Telegram: Sort of FOSS. Aside from security concerns whereby Signal would win out, it's still the best UX. Compared to Messenger and Whats'App, not even a contest.

This might come across a little bit insulting, and I mean it that way too if it hits home.

You are putting way to much value into the creation of this word. It is the descriptive noun "shit" followed by the suffix "-ification". It doesn't need to be "coined" by anyone attributing any other meaning than what you would get by a descriptive noun, followed by "-ification". Adding the prefix en- is a nice embellishment.

So, perhaps the dude made it become a used word, but to presume a word's origin defines it is a bit silly. That isn't how language work. If enough people like a word, and like for it to mean something, then... that's what that word means, because that's what "meaning" means. Sometimes, it is exceedingly frustrating when it breaks with the original meaning, e.g. "literally" being used for "figurative". In this case, it does not. So why would anyone give a shit if someone thinks a word should mean something else than what it literally means.

Didn't amazon want to be able to secretly piggiback on other known WiFi networks of other wifis known to amazon through connected devices, when some users would refuse to connect their decides to their WiFi? I think I remember something like that, but don't know what came of it. Might have just been a nightmare.

Nah. He called it that, but the word follows grammatical* structure well enough that it can be easily understood and used in a more general sense. "the gradual increase in which something is shit" = "enshitification".

Fits for what he wanted to use it for. Fits for a whole lot more. One cannot gatekeep language. Whatever is the most effective way to transfer a concept from one mind as to be similarly understood in someone else's, ultimately is language.

maybe not grammar, but you get what I mean