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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I highly disagree with recommending regular users to use virtual machines, it defeats the whole purpose, at the end of the day, you are still using windows, and on top of that, it adds additional complexities that can only create frustration to users.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Do you correct everyone who says Windows instead of Microsoft Windows NT?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't know why, but they skipped a few cities in Switzerland.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Hahaha, too stable and boring... Do you use OSs as a form of entertainment? No wonder why people can't take Linux enthusiasts seriously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Way easier, the catalogs are ready for you, you don't need to download anything in advance, you can use it in any device too.

If you use real debrid, there's no need for VPN either. So it's cheaper also.

It's also very low in maintenance, I touch my configuration every 3 months to update my details and that's it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Stremio + Real debrid.

Stremio is a platform to watch any media you like (works very similar to Plex), you can use it as it is, and install the plugins that are more useful to you (torrentio for example). If your country has strict laws, then you can use real debrid to convert the torrents to direct downloads, you just need to open an account in real debrid, pay a few dollars a month (no need to pay for a VPN as direct downloads are ok), and link your account to stremio, and then you'll have access to lots of content.

But I only use it to watch the latest linux distributions, nothing like spending a Sunday afternoon watching Fedora 40 while it's raining outside.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I am in academia, and I hate how everyone in my field interacts there. Even my supervisor posts relatively important news there (new papers published or conferences etc).

I used to check it without logging in. But now I can't see a thread without logging in. From all the fields, I thought academia was the first to leave, but no. I tried the mastodon but it is still a ghost town..

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You basically need professional headphones and speakers to notice any difference, my guess is that 99% of Spotify customers have headphones that didn't cost more than $100, so why would they care? I mean, I have nice headphones and speakers and after some blind tests I couldn't notice any difference.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In corporate world, where I think MS makes most of the money, windows is the standard (unfortunately).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Check out the new video by "some more news", it's more comedy than anything, by it deals with some reputable sources.

https://youtu.be/5aFQY6-Mxcw?si=IFkuuPCQ6Pmv7YOK

The effect is not clear cut, and there are many other confounding effects that might be more important, and being glued to your phone might be a symptom more than a cause, but I agree that excessive social media and short format videos are bad for you, but that can be said about video games or even regular games.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, I'm almost 100% sure the "tiktok is damaging kid's brains" is the millennial equivalent of boomers "videogames and TV are damaging kid's brains".

I'm a millennia by the way, and we are starting to sound a bit afraid of technologies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Your example was on Google Chrome, and your example said you had tabs opened with searches, so I assumed you were using chrome. I guess bad assumption though...

 

The main cloud services don't even work natively (GoogleDrive, OneDrive, iCloud) basically the only mainstream choice is Dropbox. I tried to use Google Drive in Mint, and it's a pain to get it to work, and usually it stops working after computer restarts.

Someone has a recommendation about how to handle these services?

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