Early Valve was totally pro Windows tech. Back when HL1 launched, it was the first idTech-derived game with a Direct3D renderer out of the box (yes, Doom95 existed but that wasn’t the default, DOS was). OpenGL was still a massive force on Windows and yet Valve decided that what their fork of GLQuake needed was a Direct3D renderer.

Valve’s stance only changed after Microsoft’s attempt to force Windows Store on everyone and Valve’s subsequent “Faster zombies” experiment (because DirectX was stagnant as well).

Ive Been using KDE Plasma after upgrading Debian which it now officially supports but I’ve been experiencing crashes and bugs… This surprises me on a Debian machine.

Doesn’t surprise me. Debian’s definition of stability is “stays the same”, not “free of bugs”. In Debian Stable packages are frozen and only severe bugs are allowed to be fixed which doesn’t necessarily mean crashes but security risks.

Then there is Debian Unstable. The name already says it. It’s unstable, it’s the development branch.

For some time Ubuntu was the middle ground of a regular, bugfixed snapshot of Debian Unstable but that Snap infested POS is no longer suitable for regular users.

Maybe later

And also most scripts need to be executed in a posix-compliant shell.

That’s why there is that shebang thingie in first line. Distributions like Debian use an entire different shell from bash for scripts: https://manpages.debian.org/buster/dash/dash.1.en.html

I HIGHLY recommend using bash and zsh as posix-compliant shells at the beginning

Why? All the usual shell scripts don’t use Fish as interpreter.

reinstalling Fish right now

Alright:

> /usr/bin/fish --version
fish, version 4.0.1

For whatever reason openSUSE doesn’t ship 4.0.2 despite the fact that it’s in its development repo since months. Oh well, could be worse.

Fixed in fish 4.0 :)

*reinstalling Fish right now*

I really like Fish but for simple stuff like youtube-dl you always have to put quotation marks around the YouTube video’s address because Fish thinks the question mark is an operator. So annoying.

Pop OS is based on Ubuntu LTS and uses a relatively old base system as a result. Try a live ISO like https://get.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/ and check if drivers have since improved.

Realtek only started to develop drivers in the upstream Linux kernel relatively recently, 5 years or so, and only for what was then the newest chipset. Something 88 and two letters but not 88 and other letters (I think CE).

Does Intel WIFI still exist? If so, that is what is probably the best supported chipset.

I don’t speak Spanish and I understood everything.

Since one or two days.

Edit: Or was it lemmyshitpost?

The open source nature of Lemmy attracts the same people who are also attracted by the open source nature of Linux.

Lemmy is a bit of an echo chamber because of that.

I don’t think the ideas of Lambalicious work with Lemmy. What would sending the domain name only achieve? I assume it uses the same logic as Lemmy uses to find crossposts? Obviously it needs the whole address then.

Maybe instead of crawling automatically, the users need to click a button to look up discussions? (I have yet to install your extension, so I have yet to experience the workflow myself, sorry.)

Maybe link to the privacy terms of the default instances? In general, I think your approach is good. You don’t collect any data, the feature is 100% opt-in. A central relay/proxy is even worse than your current approach. People are obviously free to set up their own Lemmy/Mastodon server if they want a relay.

And relying on a single volunteer to ship crucial security updates? Disabling the shitty FF features may be hidden in about:config but as long as this is possible, using upstream FF is still the most secure way to use a Gecko browser.

Told me it doesn’t know specifics without logging in. Knew join date and basic stats from the user page

Depends. Arch Linux, yes. Linux Mint, no.

MKVToolNix has a great cropping feature that completely lossless because it just writes an information into the file how many pixels to leave out.

The massive problem since quite some time is that I’m not aware of any media player respecting this. VLC used to support it but a decade ago suddenly stopped: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/13982

If you have the originals, maybe encode them again. HandBrake has a nice preview feature.

Discord is just a website.

sadly, there are a lot of important newer x86 patents that are still years off

Basic x86_64 in hardware and software emulation of extensions is a more viable path than full x86 emulation on ARM. What we don’t know if anybody is working on independent x86_64 CPUs.