This thread has set me on the path of getting two of my nerds over onto simplex or XMPP. Maybe matrix.

I finished reading both articles and they are very heavy on conjecture. It does raise an eyebrow though, but still.

Yes, in an ideal world we would be using SimpleX, XMPP, or similar. However it was already hard enough getting ten non-tech contacts to switch to Signal. The barrier to entry is higher on other platforms or protocols.

Huh? What crypto scam?

They rely on AWS due to favourable contract in hosting it, and also proving the proof of concept that they can be hosted securely on a hostile provider, without the provider having any clues at all in what data is being sent between the parties.

Yu could just… stop playing League.

Thank you for your explanation. That makes sense. I stopped pirating music exactly due to oink and then what dying, getting disillusioned by private trackers.

I wonder what the in is to RED/OPS?

What? Things sure have changed. Why would everyone want FLAC over mp3 vbr V0?

He’s an og quakeworld player running it in 320x200 sw@120Hz/fps. It’s native on Linux since 1998, so the switch for him makes sense.

ArchInstaller. Or Endeavour.

I have the same experience with Arch. It just works. When it doesn’t, you forgot to read https://archlinux.org/news/ before sudo pacman -Syu

Well damn.

My hatred of Windows got so much in the past two years, when I abandoned ship last year for Linux (using Arch btw), I was ready to ditch software that was not available native, without even bothering with trying to run them through Wine. In the end I had to abandon three of my absolute favourite software, totalcmd, notepad++ and foobar2000. Luckily I was able to replace them with nearly similar quality equivalents in Krusader, Kate and DeaDBeeF. Bit less polished, but very configurable.

My work requires me to have a windows based laptop or a Macbook. They’ve told me that they’ve been trying Fedora workstation before, but supposedly the VPN doesn’t work on it. I’ve checked and the VPN expressly supports certain distro, including fedora. But they’ve simply disabled VPN access from non-win/mac based systems since. I suspect there’s either some skill issue or something fishy going on. I know they are monitoring incoming and outgoing files to the system via some tool, which may indeed be not supported on Linux workstations. However the way I use this laptop is simply by accessing it through RDP, and then share files between it and my personal desktop via SMB on LAN, and no one ever complained. I have the lid closed on it all the time. So in essence I just use it like a terminal, and only run work related webportals through a browser on it, like JIRA and shit. Most of my work related to our platform I’m running on my own desktop, because it’s significantly faster.

Not sure what I’d do if I still had to run Windows or even VMs for stuff.

Wth do you need once or twice a day, unless it’s for a niche hobby or work?

Ploopy time!

I think they mean they already use linux. Or Unix.

Yet Another Electron Shit probably.

Is this She-Ra?

Can you showcase this specific feature you are asking about? Maybe other software or platforms have it under different names or a different solution.

Lemmy pretty much converted me from Windows to Linux within a year of API-gate.

Average Canonical employee post.

Are you plugging in a headset through jack or USB? Or are you letting the speakers of your laptop do the work?

I know you’ve hopped from Mint to PopOS to Bazzite since, but I had a hard time getting built in speaker audio working on my laptop as well with Mint. I’d probably go with arch or something other bleeding edge.