https://lemmy.ca/post/7243839/4029041

I already wrote about what’s different back in Oct 2023 in response to a complaint reminiscent of yours. Most important bit:

That’s what you will have to deal with in the de-centralized model, and I think it strikes a decent balance of allowing open communication, resisting overall censorship while still allowing some groups to censor out what they consider bad vibes.

Lets you change audio input and output device and level per application on the fly.

It’s quite a magical tool, in my opinion.

Problem nearly as old as Linux itself:

My suggestion is to try pulse audio volume control (pavucontrol), you get a pretty decent number of options to look through and troubleshoot, in case it’s routing to non-existent display monitor speakers or like a separate headphone jack instead of Lineout, etc.

The part about local entropy I said precisely that in the second paragraph and is essential to my analogy. Thanks for clarifying that.

Remember (per our current scientific understanding), entropy goes in one direction from orderly to chaotic. No matter what you do, the total entropy goes up, and doing nothing does increase the total entropy less.

However, instead of letting that fact let you down, it is possible to do things that locally reduce entropy and make things more ordered in your local environment. All this to say, don’t focus solely on the inevitable, focus on that which you can control, what you can hope for, and what you can make better for yourself and your world.

Camp outside their headquarters in Bellevue? /s

Unless those features are what attracts a far wider swath of people than before, I wouldn’t be mad at it but I wouldn’t join because I worry about the technical debt that will build up over time. Bugs will get reported, some fixes will be issued but unless the lead keeps a hard thumb on it, the code will become less and less coherent over time.

“We’ll blast the wireless signals on max to ensure our heavy machinery controls don’t cause it to run into a building accidentally” doesn’t sound like the safest and most robust operating procedure to me…

Right but essentially the Anthropic Marketing team made extraordinary claims about what Mythos is, pretended like it’s too dangerous for public use, that it can find and patch vulnerabilities undiscovered by human researchers for 20 years, etc. etc. but it’s own technical team and big firm partners haven’t brought forward evidence that it’s all that much. It’s probably not useless, and it might be an improvement in some ways to its other models, but having an “additional researcher” is not really something that is too scary for public use.

It’s like if a drug company was hyping up a miracle drug, but it’s really just acetaminophen and ibuprofen in a different dosage combination. It treats pain and fever fine enough, and maybe better in some cases but not as game changing as they say.

I know of an easy way one can reset their PC…🐧

☁️✊️😠 “We didn’t need a robot’s help, we were perfectly capable of accidentally sudo rm -rf /* ing our disks on our own!”

I’ll be honest, I don’t like the way AI is pushed and speculation ruining the price of computing, but it has helped me once or twice. For example I used someone’s vibecoded driver patch to get a relatively ancient audio interface working, which was the last thing that I would have missed using Windows for.

Congrats on making the jump! Have a nice time with us on Lemmy and Piefed.

https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/164

TIL it has purposely not been implemented by the main developers in over a decade for ideological reasons. There are scripts and forks to enable it by default.

Aside from the point that Jellyfin is meant to browse your own personal collection of files usually after the fact…

Some file formats like mkv do work even if partially downloaded, so if you’re downloading a torrent for a free libre open source movie, choose the option to download chunks in sequential order, and I think there’s a way that you can watch while downloading.

There aren’t many Linux problems that cannot be fixed in one way or another.

Even with the messed up resolution on Pop, can you connect to the internet and open a browser? From your desktop, usually you can press the Super (Windows) key on your keyboard, then type firefox and press enter to get the browser. Similar with “terminal” to get the terminal. From there you have a number of options.

Option 1. Couldn’t you try booting from the same USB you used to install Pop OS again? Then avoid the Proprietary graphics option, use Nouveau graphics instead then install the last version of the Nvidia driver that supports the 1080 ti.

Option 2. Get another USB stick you don’t need for anything else on hand. Download the software Balena etcher from https://etcher.balena.io/ go into file properties to make the program executable. Then download bazzite and get the version with old nvidia drivers. Then insert the USB and use Etcher to flash the disk image to it. Boot to the USB.

Option 3. Uninstall and reinstall an older version of the nvidia drivers in the terminal to try to salvage your current Pop OS! installation.

I’d say it’s to help replace unhealthy addictions with a platform that’s smaller and less easy to fall into infinite scroll rabbit holes. Like nic-patches to stop smoking.

Have you tried Bazzite? Works pretty well for me on a gaming focused laptop I upgraded from win 10.

PC optimum I think is the biggest offender of the major grocery chains doing this. They set a high base price, then put member-exclusive loss-leaders to draw them in, then use the app where you have to “register” specific discounts that are applied when you check out. I have no doubt that Loblaws is messing with prices for each individual consumer to see what they can skim off of each. I don’t shop there, this is what I gleaned off my parents using it.

It’s not any more sus than running any FOSS project binaries obtained from github. And OP wants to test a bunch of live environments, so that’s not really a security-critical environment.

I’d suggest it’s collective laziness over any even potentially malicious intent. The author listed about the 180 blobs they are aware of, the vast majority from FOSS projects.