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I don’t know, I’m not on the Debian team. This is probably a question for them. I think the mailing list is public if you wanted to ask someone.

I have no idea, but I don’t think the team would add a bunch of useless crap into the release notes for no reason. Doesn’t sound very Debian to me.

Here’s the link to the relevant section of the release notes, for your reference. It’s short.

That’s why you’re supposed to remove 3rd party repos before you update, but nobody reads the release notes anymore, I guess.

Here is the section of the release notes that deals with the source list.

Also see this man page for further details and examples.

If something pops up that you’ve never seen before, just search online for what it is. If you don’t know what System Information is, literally search “what is system information windows” and find out. This can be done for so many things and you don’t have to wait for an answer.

Additionally, in the “Open with…” dialog on Windows, you can see that System Information is the default application for .nfo files. Just change it to Notepad or something and you’ll never have this problem again.

I use Podman with Diun (like Watchtower but no auto-updates) and I think that’s the only time I’ve had to mount the socket into the container. Maybe also CrowdSec. Podman is rootless so I feel a bit better about it.

Any changes you make to the DNS records will take a little while to take effect because the information needs to propagate, just FYI. This is the case whether you’re using your own domain or one of theirs.

Serious question: why should I pay for a search engine? Sounds like just another subscription that’ll enshittify like all the others.

I don’t use Lidarr, but I’ve read that the team has been having issues over the past few weeks with its metadata server, which can’t be run locally (as of right now, anyway) and is required for parsing and fetching metadata. So, essentially, the auto-tagging and search systems are non-functional.

I think it’s only supposed to be temporary, but I’m sure it’s been frustrating a lot of users and I’ve seen that some people are switching to alternatives or just downloading/tagging songs manually again.

The files have to be exact copies of the originals so this usually isn’t possible. The only time I’ve ever had success with reviving torrents was by finding a DDL that miraculously hadn’t been deleted that was an archive of the original torrent. I found it by searching online for the exact name of the release.

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They certainly are. I’ll never own a house, but I can download anything I want.

• DDL sites go down (like MegaUpload) whereas torrents often have multiple trackers
• DDL sites often have download speed limits whereas torrents are only limited by peer upload speeds (which are usually pretty good)
• DDL sites often have tons of ads or endlessly redirect you to farm clicks
• Private trackers aren’t usually subject to takedowns or copyright notices because they’re selective in who can join
• A lot of people live in countries where no one cares about getting caught or, when caught, nothing actually happens (like me)

I use fish, I had to learn some new syntax and modify some functions since it’s not POSIX-compliant, but it was pretty painless.

Oh, great! I didn’t know that.

If stability is the goal, you really can’t go wrong with Debian. I have about 10 containers running on Debian 12 (through Podman) at any given time.

I’ve heard good things about GameMaker (the engine Hotline Miami 1 and 2 use) for beginner devs. It’s hard to recommend an engine without knowing how familiar you are with scripting. GameMaker is 2D-only and isn’t free though.

Godot can be very confusing if you aren’t much of a coder or have trouble with complex workflows. But one thing it does very well is allow you to get a barebones structure up and running quickly, and that really helps with setting up scenes and iterating on them. So if that sounds like your thing, Godot is free and can do 3D as well as 2D.

There’s archive.is.

I’ve used Ulauncher in the past, it looks nice and it’s launched with a keybinding, but I don’t know if you can configure it to only include certain apps since I don’t use it anymore.

Absolutely. The brand is very important. So many no-name brands out there putting out complete junk that can be straight up unsafe in addition to offering poor (or no) performance.