I thought the Unreal Engine was running native on linux, last time I checked... 17 years ago...
Can someone explain what the chad is referencing?
I stand corrected.
That's what Samsung tried with Dex. You could even run an honest to god (emulated) Linux on it. Unfortunately, it didn't work out and no one knows about it today.
I think Canonical pitched this about 10 years ago.
Isn't that the same thought process that could lead you to mass murder a bunch of folk? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Looks like religious conservative "pro-life" propaganda to me. ಠ_ಠ
I sawa video on MessageEase and thought it was neat. Also, I hate legacy problems like QWERTY... And things like qwerty on phone screens.
You sonuvabich beat me by 2 minutes! ಥ_ಥ
They needed to construct additional pylons.
Should've thought. 😅
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It's impossible to not be condescending in that situation
Skill issue, asshole.
Why are you mad that I call your stuff about "competition" and "inefficiencies" a "liberal narrative"? That's what the liberal market economids are supposed to be. How did you interpret it exactly?
Not enough of the money goes to the artist, but money does go to the artists. If you're not sure, ask literally any artist who has their content featured on netflix, or any of the other platforms.
Really depends on the industry. E.g for games: The devs were already payed their salary and usually don't get residuals. Here the money goes to the publisher/studio. As I already said: I pay for the indie games I play singe I want these studios to be able to exist/pay their devs. But the money I'd spend on Call of Duty will mostly go to Bobby Kotick and his shareholders.
Money also goes to the marketing team, and software developers, and internationalization teams, and all the other people in the chain who actually do have a purpose and make that artist's content more available to the world than it otherwise would be.
Those people don't get residuals, but wages. Yes, the money has to come from somewhere. But the animators of a Netflix show I'm watching where already payed. Yes, the people currently working on stuff that will come out in the future still need wages, but let's not forget that most of the money I'd pay will go to shareholders.
But they're always going to take more than they should, that's just called inefficiency, and is where competition can happen. But if it's not generating enough income, the content simply won't happen.
I don't really care for this liberal narrative.
Which is honestly fine with me, lord knows we have too much garbage on these platforms.
So, people who make that "garbage" don't deserve to pay their rent? Either be defending the poor workers or be a market extremist. Pick a lane, my dog.
that you should pay what you can afford.
I don't think people should be ripped off though. Which is what I think is happening with the big platforms.
Don't get me wrong: I pay for my indie games and don't have the time for the so-called "triple-AAA" crap.
But the money I'd pay to Netflix or Spotify won't actually go to the artists who worked on the stuff. That's just not how this works.
Most imortantly: I don't want to shame anyone for pay/not paying, as I usually don't know their financial situtation.
And yet: Netflix prevents me from recording any of their shows and sharing the recording with my friends and family.
Great! Let's do that for any type of media!
When I steal a shoe, the shoe can't besold anymore, because I have it. If I pirate a game, is there one less copy that steam can sell?
Piracy is categorically something else than stealing. Have you even read the original post?
Edit: If you really follow your logic strand, you would have to reach the conclusion that Sony stole content from their users.
Edit2:
No, I never said anything of the sort.
This u?
The origins of any movie you pirate come from theft, full stop.
We're literally talking about piracy, so yes lmao
So, according to you, piracy is stealing, because it has to be stolen at some point. And the reason that it must be stolen is because it is connected to piracy.
Don't act surprised if you're downvoted, if you present your circular logic this plainly.

Surface Go 2 with 4GB Ram and 4425Y worth it?
Hi! There's no Surface on Linux Lemmy community (yet), but I didn't feel like asking on reddit, so I thought that this community is my best bet.
I was thinking about getting a surface go, since I really like the form factor and have fond memories of my old Surface Pro 3 in Uni.
Now, there's a deal going on, where they're selling the tablet for under 300€, but it's the low-spec one with 4GB RAM and the weakest processor. I was wondering if I would be doing myself a favor by getting a tablet with these low-end specs.
My usecases would be: Note taking with rnote/xournalpp, surfing, reading, youtube and maybe some light coding.
A FOSS system with encrypted home directory is essential for me, which is why I'm not even considering Android/Apple tablets.
I think I'd give Fedora Silverblue a shot, because Gnome is supposedly great for tablets and it seems more stable to fuck-ups. But maybe the meager storage space (64GB) makes this infeasible
Do any of you have any experiences with these

Any way to anonymize Podcast downloads?
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Yesterday I was really surprised that the ad seemed very well targeted, because it has been referencing a very specific topic concerning my flatmates and me that doesn't have anything to do with gaming.
My first theory was that my IP was correlated with search terms my partner googled in my home IP (I search with searxng). But then I realized that I've subscribed to another podcast related to the advertised topic. (also: the episode with the advertisements was downloaded via mobile network)
So... Apparently, spotify (where slightly something else is hosted via anchor.fm) analyzes the podcasts I subscribe to via rss feed. Is there any way how I can avoid being profiled? Is this the reason why I'd start using a commercial VPN?
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Hi! I want to try out fedora workstation in the near future (once 39 is out) and was wondering if systemd-homed is ready for everyday use yet.
I'm a bit paranoid and really need my private data encrypted. However, I don't think that full disk encryption is practical for my daily use. Therefore I was really looking forward to the encryption possibilities of systemd-homed.
However, after reading up on it, I was a bit discouraged. AFAIK, there's no option to setup systemd-homed at installation (of fedora). I was an Arch then Manjaro, then Endeavour user for years but don't have the time/patience anymore to configure major parrts of my system anymore. Also, the documentation doesn't seem too noob-friendly to me, which also plays into the time/patience argument.
Is it ready? Can anyone seriously recommend it for a lazy ex-Arch user who doesn't want to break another linux installation?
Thank you in advance. :)
btrfs + snapraid: good idea for homelab?
Hi!
I'm about to upgrade my homelab from a RAID1 with two 8TB drives to a new one with two additional dives. I mostly use my homelab for Nextcloud (Documents, photos, audiobooks, ...), media storage, jellyfin and whatever docker container I think would be cool to self host.
Since data availability is less of an issue for me and Backup Space is limited, I'm thinking of ditching the RAID in favour of btrfs and for additional safety: use one of my 8TB drives as a Snapraid parity drive. At least for the personal nextcloud data - I can get the media files from elsewhere in case of data loss.
However, tutorials of btrfs with Snapraid are a bt thin on the ground and with this being my first time using btrfs, I'm a bit hesitant. Some people suggest MergerFS with btrfs + snapraid, but I fail to see the advantage of MergerFS with btrfs.
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