“If everyone who understands the seriousness of the situation were to become more involved, then we would have all the people we need. We need to mobilize our friends, not convert our opponents.”~ Rebecca Solnit
Bitwig-fanboy here. This application is insane. Instead of collecting or worse, buying, random VSTs, instruments and samples you can one stop buy Bitwig, download the free packs and have 99% of everything you'll ever need to make music until you die. Plus you can modulate all parameters everywhere, but this already is more advanced stuff. If I had to pick one piece of software to use for the rest of my life, it'd be Bitwig. It's on sale twice a year, watch out fi dis.
I agree. Jellyfin is great. After dropping my beloved Pi and switching to a refurbished Dell Wyse 5070 with DietPi every headache is gone. Again: Use DIETPI!
"Sideoloading" is framing it the wrong way. You want to install software on a computer you own and some corporation won't let you. You paid for the TV, you choose what to install.
I was fiddeling with my Raspberry Pi 4 but decided to buy a refurbished Dell Wyse Thin Client 5070. It cost like 70€, I put DietPi on it because I love it, plugged an external drive and I'm very happy with the experience.
Nationalism is such a joke! Old rich men sending young poor men to kill each other, to protect their wealth and power. Us pirates have much more in common than a Russian citizen and his idiot president or me and my millionaire chancellor.
Posteo is a great email-provider. For 1€ a month you get a secure and friendly email with aliases, calendars, notes and contacts. I use DavX from Neo Store (great F-Droid frontend) to sync them to my devices. Also, I'm a huge Signal fan-person.
It's a very personal decision and I'm glad about every human that's not born on this crowded planet. But collectively not having children feels pretty bleak to me. Are we as a species already giving up, rolling on our backs and wait to go extinct? Come on! There is so much beauty and so much to do in this world.My children are having a great time, they bring joy, purpose and chaos to my life. I love having them around, even though their future scares me. That has always been part of becoming a parent.I feel like some doomer lemmings need to go outside a little more, instead of telling themselves and their screens how awful everything is. Life was brutal a century ago.
I used to install low latency kernel as well. Last time I just installed vanilla Mint. Audio was bad. Then I figured out I have to add myself to the audio group and voilà, works perfectly. No more kernel-hopping for me.
Synching is incredibly useful, my list of synced folders keeps getting longer, my list of added devices keeps growing. I pray the never drop android support!
Don't forget the Napster-version of a Madonna-track, where after some time she stopped singing and started scolding the listener: "What the fuck do you think you are doing, stealing my music?!" or something like that. It was pretty wild in the Old Net.
I was a huge Windows-fanboy for +20 years. Then I slowly started getting familiar with Linux Mint. Since a couple of years we have no more Windows in our house.I used to fix computer problems for people a lot, for fun. Last week, I booted a Windows 11 laptop to help a friend and I was put off by EVERYTHING. The nagging popups, ads, the dubious ad-riddled webpages I have to visit to download apps. It's all crazy evil. And still people bullshit-bingo me that "Linux is so complicated, you need to learn so much" while constantly fighting off predatory shit from soulless corporations. They don't even know what using a computer that works for you means anymore.