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  • help me wrap my head around bcachefs

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  • As for btrfs, I don’t use it because I’m an adult.

    This is a strange statement, because it's now a mature fs that works. It's even the default fs of the OS you're trying to use. But for the sake of experimentation, I can appreciate wanting to try something off the beaten path. And I generally agree about Oracle and, specifically, Larry Ellison.

  • help me wrap my head around bcachefs

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  • I hate to reply because I don’t have the answer to your question, just a remark which you may not care for: why bcachefs, especially on fedora server which has a rapidly advancing kernel? Bcachefs is out of the kernel tree. It is just going to be a constant maintenance burden on you to upkeep it with your server.

    Btrfs will support subvolumes, compression, nodatacow directories, and everything else you might want while not being a thing you have to manually keep up with.

    I would not expect the fedora installer to have any support for bcachefs, because fedora doesn’t have support for it generally.

  • Sort your trash!

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  • I stopped buying BP products because of how terrible they are.

    What was the effectiveness of this? Was it "far more" than, say, regulation by a government?

  • What's a service you’ve been using forever that hasn’t enshitified?

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  • Signal is good so far. Firefox is teetering on the edge, but it's also good so far (poor little fox). Lemmy and Mastodon are both great, but maybe that's EZ mode because they're built as alternatives to proprietary social media sites.

    I pay for ArsTechnica and I feel that I get a lot of value out of doing so. And keep in mind, being a paying subscriber of a service does not safeguard the service from enshittification, so that's quite great

  • What's a service you’ve been using forever that hasn’t enshitified?

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  • I recently bought a replacement PC for my dad because of windows 11 (though his old computer was also over 10 years old so it was a somewhat fair upgrade, anyhow). Someone suggested I use Ninite to quickly bootstrap a lot of the programs he'd use and I was honestly surprised. It was genuinely no-nonsense and got the job done. A rare nice thing in Windows...

  • VPN Comparison 2.0

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  • Yes. The owner/developer is Kape technologies, an Israeli spyware/adware company.

    To quote from cnet

    For maximum privacy, I recommend VPN providers with a jurisdiction outside of Five Eyes and other international intelligence-sharing agreements -- that is, one headquartered outside of the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. So it initially seems like a positive sign that, while CyberGhost has offices in Germany, it's headquartered in Romania. German entrepreneur Robert Knapp says he founded the $114,000 startup on the back of low-wage Bucharest labor before flipping it for $10.5 million in 2017.

    The issue is who he sold it to -- the notorious creator of some pernicious data-huffing ad-ware, Crossrider. The UK-based company was cofounded by an ex-Israeli surveillance agent and a billionaire previously convicted of insider trading who was later named in the Panama Papers. It produced software which previously allowed third-party developers to hijack users' browsers via malware injection, redirect traffic to advertisers and slurp up private data.

    Crossrider was so successful it ultimately drew the gaze of Google and UC Berkeley, which identified the company in a damning 2015 study. (You can read the Web Archive version of that document.)

    This practice, commonly called traffic manipulation, is condemned web-wide. And the only difference between it and one of the oldest forms of cyberattack, called man-in-the-middle (MitM), is that you clicked "agree" on the terms and conditions.

    Whether or not PIA or ExpressVPN or the other providers owned by Kape fulfill this data scraping and ad-serving pipeline in my mind is irrelevant. Choosing to do business with them rewards bad actors when there are other VPN sellers who don't have such a tainted lineage.

  • Webp

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  • There are situations where the compression can benefit end users as well, such as loading less image data on a capped cellular plan. Transmission of data is not necessarily free for the recipient, either.

  • Webp

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  • Webp and avif are nice, but I think their inherent base in a video codec makes them a bit funny, e.g. lack of progressive decoding. I await our jxl future. Jpeg is dated and we can do a lot better than a format defined in the early 90s, as venerable as that format may be.

    It's like holding onto mp3 when aac and opus exist, or mpeg2 when hevc exists. The only benefits of the old stuff is less computation required, which only matters if you are using some seriously primitive hardware in 2025.

  • Webp

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  • Depending on the image in question, lossless webp can have enormous savings. I have in mind screenshots from OpenRCT2 where you can save the whole park in one image. Because that image will have a limited, sharp color palette webp lossless can work magic on it compared to the source .png. In fact in that case it also massively out-performs webp lossy.

  • The US is now the largest investor in commercial spyware

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  • Indeed, I’m not justifying surveillance in either country. Just reflecting on how it’s been portrayed and is progressing here in the USA

  • Guns good

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  • He just lived in the society he advocated for. He literally believed a shooting now and then was worth the right for everyone to have guns.

    You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It's drivel. But I am, I, I — I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.

    Those are his own words from 2023.

    Just because it happened to him doesn't mean it wasn't what he wanted. For all we know, he died blissfully knowing he received a God-given bullet.

  • The US is now the largest investor in commercial spyware

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  • The irony is I remember growing up with numerous stories about how expression is locked down in China and everything there is surveilled and if you speak poorly against the government you’ll get arrested etc. And thank goodness we are free in America to express ourselves even if it’s against the government because, my gosh, I might not like what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it!

    And as if with no sense of irony and not even a remote bit of critique, all those stories about surveillance in China (true or not, I don’t know) were actually true, are currently true, or are becoming true here in the USA. And in many cases they’re just sold as commodities back to us e.g. ring doorbell cameras.

    And a final thought: the USA used to be able to justify many of its foreign interferences on a sort of moral high ground, including freedom of expression and all that. That mask was slipping but now with Trump2 seems to have just fallen off. The pretense has given away to crass might makes right international relations. I consider the USA becoming a hyper surveilled state to be part of this story.

  • I have some questions about soulseek. (Hopefully this fits here)

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  • A redundant comment already made by someone else: to consider the power draw of the computer if you leave it on 24/7

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  • One thing to keep in mind is the IP address might not reflect the actual user's location.

  • I have some questions about soulseek. (Hopefully this fits here)

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  • Do you guys just have flawless experiences or what?

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  • For me the experience is not flawless, but it's not problematic either. For instance, I have never encountered random flickering just because a wrong program was open. In your case if you're using Nvidia as a GPU and are using Wayland as a display compositor that might explain some of your problems like Vivaldi flickering, where it might not be an issue in an Xorg session.

    And the fact that you have to be potentially aware of these things is one of the annoying aspects of using Linux.

  • Bazzite has gained nearly 10k users in 3 months while other Fedora Atomic distros remain fairly stagnant

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  • IME the nicest part of Bazzite is not having to manage it. To that end, it works on my Steam Deck. But that's nothing to do with stability, as you say. In its own ways it's more annoying to use than a regular distro.

    Clearly people are finding use for it, but I personally find those annoying aspects needless speedbumps in my own usage. Except for, again, on my Steam Deck.

  • ublock lite is now on IOS, Should people switch to that instead of using Adguard or should they stick with Adguard?

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  • UBlock on iphone works well and is free but is limited to safari, does not appear to even work with safari used as an in-app browser

    This is the most annoying part about "content blockers" on iOS. Works fine in this one narrow context. Otherwise you need DNS filtering. I use PiHole, and I have it set up to VPN back home when I'm away to keep myself covered.

  • Ex-GitHub user switching to Codeberg, is there anything I should know about?

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  • Well there are a lot of positives… anyway I just mentioned it as a point of reference. If you know Magit, you know it’s good.

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    How do you time manage and prioritize your work and projects?

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    Found a printer and Linux saves the day again

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    Is there a high quality offline map/globe/atlas software like how Encarta used to be?

  • Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. @lemmy.ml
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    Migrated from Nginx to Caddy

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    Is there a better way to browse man pages?

  • Rust Programming @lemmy.ml
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    FuturesUnordered and the order of futures

    without.boats /blog/futures-unordered/
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    NVIDIA R545 Linux Beta Driver Brings HDMI Deep Color, Night Color & FB Consoles

    www.phoronix.com /news/NVIDIA-545.23.06-Linux-Beta
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    Niceness and Cgroups. How do I change this correctly?

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    PipeWire 0.3.77 Released

    gitlab.freedesktop.org /pipewire/pipewire/-/releases/0.3.77
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    OpenMW 0.48.0 Released!

    gitlab.com /OpenMW/openmw/-/releases/openmw-0.48.0