I use the same and for the same reason of wanting it to be tailless.

Thanks!

Is the controller a limited run kind of thing or does valve intend to continue selling them indefinetly?

If you don’t need stuff publicly accessible, and just need it accessible to you, then set up a small computer on the network as an ssh Bastion host/jump server, put it on a VPN connection with a VPN provider that offers dyndns, forward the ssh port through the dyndns, and then off network, reverse proxy in with socks5 via key based ssh -D to gain access to all the services available inside the LAN.

Been doing this for a few years, works great and no one is getting in without my ssh key.

I feel similarly, especially about remmina, though as I understand it, this is not necessarily the fault of Wayland, but of the various applications and drivers not offering or having been developed to support wayland yet (I’m quite sure this is the case of Remmina anyway).

It’s too bad because on Debian 13 here, wayland actually speeds up the general interface for me - if it weren’t for these shortcomings in-app then I would be running it for sure.

I would hope plasma’s decision pushes the application developers to catch up a bit.

I’m a professional. I expect to be treated like one. If there are companies who are serious about hiring a professional, I’m all in. Please engage me.

That’s really well said.

I remember being in the same situation a couple years ago in which I was accepted to an interview through a video chat web application hosted by the company.

To my horror, when I joined the meeting, it was not a video chat interview. It was a series of recorded clips of their HR person reading off questions, the clips pausing, and then a timer showing up on the screen noting “You have 15 seconds to answer”.

I was so put off by this that after the first question, I decided to spend the rest of the time I was being recorded explaining to them under no uncertainties that this was one of the most unprofessional interview processes I had ever engaged in, and that they had made it clear that they did not value my time whatsoever, so I had no reason to reciprocate.

Final straw?

So it was contradicting itself and would not update no matter how many times I would hit “check for updates” over the course of a week.

So not only was the system not functioning correctly, but I could no longer trust it was going to be secure from third parties.

I had intended to switch for some time before then for a litany of reasons but this definitely convinced me to stop wasting any more time and I moved myself and family over less than a week later.

For sure, I have no illusions about that. I still think if this went through and fucked the world economy they would pretty quickly find they would have to repeal the repealment though. It would create way too many problems to try to weasel out of.

I don’t think this would pass, the megacorps stand wayyy too much to lose here and would fight tooth and nail to prevent anything like this. Same goes for a lot of the US government. This would kill any website with user generated content because no company would risk the lawsuits and basically boils down to two options for them - get collapsed due to the cost of legal fees resulting from millions of lawsuits, or get collapsed because the major sources of income streams of your business no longer exist.

Facebook/meta - gone, youtube - gone, reddit - gone, lemmy - gone, twitter/x - gone, bluesky - gone, every chat application - gone, every email provider with a web application - gone, every search engine - gone because they wouldn’t be caught dead potentially displaying anything made by a user, etc.

This would instantly kill the thousands of data mining/brokering businesses that exist because they collect and sell this data.

Sections of government that collect the same data to spy on what people are up to would also not be happy about this. Making it so that people can’t openly discuss anything actually damages their ability to control narrative because no one would be able to speak openly anymore, including bot accounts.

Ad companies would die because users would no longer have any reason to visit half the websites where the ads are and therefore advertising on them would be useless.

IT infrastructure would collapse because there would no longer be any place to discuss fixes or workarounds to problems and every open source project would cease development - which a tonne of proprietary technology uses in their stack. Every business that uses a LAMP stack would almost immediately be fucked.

Billing systems would collapse, large numbers of people wouldn’t be receiving paychecks anymore, supply chains would crumble, etc.

Tonnes of companies would get hacked because there wouldn’t be a reasonable way for people to distribute information/stay in the know on new vulnerabilities for the masses of IT/security workers.

No one could leave reviews of any kind on any service or product which has a litany of resulting problems itself.

This would also result in an ungodly amount of lawsuits filed for any and all reasons which would basically collapse the court system under its weight.

Even if this went through, I’m sure it would immediately collapse the economy like has never been seen before and they would scramble to revert it.

I might have agreed 10 years or so ago, but Linux has changed and this is entirely dependent upon the distribution and use case. Linux will hold onto the image of being a “difficult” OS for some amount of time of course, but I really don’t believe that is necessarily the case any longer.

I installed Mint for my parents who are in their 70’s ~4 months ago, showed them how to run updates, configured automatic backups, and I haven’t heard a peep since except for the few times they told me they liked it a lot more than windows because they feel like it’s a lot easier to find where stuff is. They can browse the internet as needed, work in Libre office as needed, get to all of their emails as needed, etc - they have actually 0 problems with it meeting their needs.

Furthermore since the middle of last year, I have incredibly helped 5 of my friends move over to Linux (at their request! It’s been really exciting to see the interest in Linux exploding.). While they had never installed an OS themselves, they have a good amount of experience in troubleshooting from their experience in windows, and this has translated into them being able to figure out things like running their games with proton, installing software, customizing their window managers, and so on all without my help.

I would argue that a person can have no earthly idea how to flash a USB or get into their BIOS/UEFI to change a boot order, or be afraid of doing so, but at the same time can use the OS effectively once it has been installed.

I think in part this is because people who have not installed an OS themselves find it more intimidating to interact with something as low level as the BIOS than a higher level operating system even if the task is straightforward, and generally they just want someone who has done it before there with them so that they have reassurance in that step.

Vancouver is notoriously one of the, if not the - most expensive place/s to live in Canada. The cost of living there was insane even before the housing crisis. It can cost something like $3000 a month for something as small as a 350 Sq foot apartment, and the average monthly living cost for an individual there (not a family) is over $5000. Near vancouver, it’s not that great either.

The city also has a pretty rough homelessness and opioid problem, so take that for what you will.

If you find a job that pays like $120,000, then go for it, otherwise it’s not so good.

If you want cheaper property/rental prices in Canada, I would probably recommend looking at listings in provinces such as Saskatchewan or Manitoba.

If you ever get out and want to have any money to your name, do NOT move to Vancouver…

Yes, I switched to them somewhat recently to escape google for email and cloud drive. I was paying something like 3 dollars a month to google for an extra 100 GB of drive storage, switched, and now I am paying something like 1.50 for 1 TB of drive storage.

Couldn’t be more pleased so far.

I’m currently yanking everything over a VPN connection from a provider that I trust and I’m not collecting anything as enormous as entire channels. With this considered along with the fact that this is outside the bounds of a user account (I don’t believe EULA can come into play as a result), I don’t think I could get in much trouble with them outside of having to change VPN endpoints occasionally if they decide to block out some IP (On one or two occasions I have gotten a message back from yt-dlp noting to sign in to prove I am not a bot).

I appreciate the offer on the script, however I think I will build my own as it is not an urgent matter for me and I consider it a good exercise in practicing my skills with programming. I’ve been looking to build my own RSS reader for a while, and I think this is probably a good use case for this as well.

Thanks!

Wonderful, not surprised it exists already, Thanks!

Neat, didn’t notice since they perma banned me for watching without ads via freetube I believe.

Ive just been downloading videos direct with yt-dlp, but I think I’m going to extend it into a bash script which fetches the RSS of the channels I want, downloads them if they haven’t been downloaded, and then deletes them after they have been watched and after a certain amount of time has passed, or if I have marked them for deletion.

If you are so concerned about battery life that you are looking to jailbreak a phone, instead you should look into a power solution such as power banks - or even better, a solar panel with a controller that stores to a 12 volt car battery or some such.

The post did not necessarily convince me to block the HC instance, but the instance admin of it coming in here to combat every comment critical of the instance sure has lol.

I have used inkscape though it has been some time. I felt as though it was not super featureful at the time so the UI felt slightly barren compared to something like Adobe Illustrator, but I don’t recall having the same kind of trouble with it that I do with GIMP honestly.

I only see one on your previous comment, but it could be because blender has recently started getting a better reputation for usability/learnability.

6 years ago I touched it and I was horrified, but I touched it a few times this year and found they had made some good improvements.