It still does, but I do understand people’s displeasure with snaps.

Ubuntu in the corner, crying.

Linux users: “Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself!”

Reppin argyle socks instead of the classic striped, hell yeah.

Soulseek.

Have you set up certificates with LetsEncrypt or something similar?

Since you’re running it on your own hardware and obviously have admin privileges, you could try out Certbot:

https://certbot.eff.org/

HTTPS requires signed certificates to be able to connect, that’s part of the trust provided in the security. Also, HTTPS is port 443 while HTTP is port 80.

Also looks like both gamemaker and UE have native Linux versions, although gamemakers is still in beta.

Talespire you shouldn’t have any issues with as long as you run it through Steam.

The main thing is that proton is enabled in Linux in Steam out of the box but only for some games. You will need to open your Steam settings and choose the Compatibility tab and choose to enable proton for all games (“Enable Steam Play for all other titles”). That should make it so that any game launched via Steam will run through the proton compatibility layer.

For non-Steam games check out Lutris.

As for Obsidian (not familiar, basing this on quick search), if its the “personal Wikipedia” note taking app they have multiple native Linux versions including a deb and a flatpak.

Discord, as I said elsewhere, use the website or the flatpak.

Do yourself a favor and use either the flatpak of Discord or just use the website since its an Electron app anyway. The *.deb install will force you to endlessly download and manually install new *.deb files to keep using it. A true pain in the ass, there was even a meme about it here on Lemmy recently.

The most important thing: Tell us, the community, what your critical application needs are, and get suggestions for applications to use. So many people jump through fifty hoops because they Google search first and the first thing they try turns out to be deprecated, the second thing they try doesn’t work on their system, the third thing they try has everything they need minus the most important part, the fourth thing they try turns out to be proprietary and half-broken, and so on.

You will not find good solutions just by searching around, you honestly, truly, need fucking nerds in this community who live this shit daily to help you know what the genuine best available solutions are. Otherwise you will spend weeks pounding your head against the keyboard using the wrong solutions, not because of anything you did wrong but because there are often so many different implementations of the same thing that it’s nearly impossible to know which ones are the ones you need for your use case without directly asking some people.

Once you’ve been using it a few years, you’ll be familiar enough with working solutions to keep track of this kind of thing yourself, but trust me, it takes a while. So please do yourself a favor and make a thread asking which applications people suggest for the distribution you’ve chosen to use and what kind of framework to install them from (repository or flatpak). You will save yourself a lot of trouble.

Also, as for keeping your backed up data from Windows on a USB, I think best practice is to always keep that kind of info backed up on an external drive, no matter the OS you use, or whether you plan on switching, so if anything fails, the drive will always still be there and readable (unless the drive fails, of course).

Hey, look at it this way:

1. macOS is, if nothing else, certified UNIX. Which means under the hood it’s actually a lot like Linux.

2. Are you really overpaying for the hardware? Apple makes the hardware and the OS and every other OS subsidizes the cost of their OS with ads (Windows and Android). At the very least, it feels like you’re paying a higher price for the hardware by having a small amount of more respect for your privacy in respect to invasive advertising.

3. The new Apple developed silicon (M1-M4) is actually really solid stuff, and as such, are you really overpaying when it comes to quality hardware and a quality OS?

It’s valid to think you’re overpaying, I’m just saying maybe to try to view it a different way if you have to buy it anyway.

Yes, I do use it, and I’ve never experienced any trouble with it.

Magnolia’s Twitter Account: https://x.com/Magnolia1234B
Nitter Link: https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/Magnolia1234B

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_Paywalls_Clean

It used to be on the official Firefox Extensions repository until DMCA takedown notices made them take it down.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210429215917/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywalls-clean/

It used to be on gitlab until DMCA takedown notices made them take it down.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220320090024/https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

It used to be on github until DMCA takedown notices made them take it down.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240611084455/https://github.com/bpc-clone/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

It moved to gitflic.ru not because it’s sketchy, but because of copyright enforcement.

It’s kind of like sci-hub, in a way, it can only actually survive in a country that doesn’t respect the US copyright cabal.

That being said, I’ve never audited the code, but it’s open source (MIT-license) and signed by Mozilla as noted on its gitflic page:

PS although the add-on was removed from Mozilla’s add-on store (AMO) (because of DMCA Takedown Notice) it’s still signed and manually checked for security by Mozilla (hence the delay in signing).

Lookin pretty slick, I dig it.

Did you 3D print the rackmounts or is there a place to get smallish ones like this?

Ah yes because caring about an issue makes one alarmist. Get over yourself.

I read the entire posted article… Did you?

Can you point to where I said that proprietary software is better at this?

What a hyporcritical fucking take from someone making quite a lot of assumptions of what I meant.

Maybe you ought to work harder on understanding what other people say before you go putting words in their mouths.

Whataboutism is never a good look.

At no point did I even begin to insinuate proprietary code is better. That’s you deciding that is what I must mean despite me not mentioning it at all.

But please, keep trying to educate me about something I did not say.

If that’s how you feel why not tell the author to get off their high horse considering I am just echoing their sentiment.

This is devastating and truly an indictment on the “code it yourself” mentality that is leaving accessibility as an exercise for the user… which is the opposite of accessibility.

This should be shared far and wide.

Whooooooo caaaaaares what this fucking dipshit thinks? Sick of seeing fucking posts about it.

Soulseek.