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Last time I used Mint, the ffmpeg version was so disgustingly old that I couldn’t play YouTube videos I had downloaded. I understand why it’s recommended to beginners so much, but I think that something like Bazzite which has much newer software in its repos is much better if one wants everything to just work.
You should switch off from Manjaro because of their track record, not because of the AUR attack.
The official recommendation has always been to review them manually, but realistically, who does that for every package?
How many AUR packages do you install? It doesn’t take that long to review a PKGBUILD once, and then review only the changes every update.
Sadly not.
NewPipe’s extractor doesn’t work properly right now, as you can only watch videos in 360p. That’s the biggest upside of PipePipe but it also has some extra features like these:
Sorry, I must’ve skipped over that.
They can still see what sites you visit even with Secure DNS though. That only blocks your ISP from seeing what domain names you’re connecting to, but they can still see the IP addresses. It’s useless, unless you’re using a VPN in which case it is worse for your privacy as it makes you more identifiable than just using your VPN’s DNS.
My recommendations:
Organic Maps -> CoMaps (they got forked because of some bad decisions.)
Brave -> Helium (has full uBlock Origin and Ungoogled Chromium patches, and no crypto bloat)
LibreTube -> PipePipe (has some nice features like live chat, and less buggy in my experience)
LibreOffice -> OnlyOffice (has better Microsoft Office compatibility, and easier to use in my experience)
Disable your third-party DNS, that only works to make you more identifiable as you’re already using a VPN. You can also use Syncthing to sync your password vault etc. between your devices. I’d also recommend using Posteo instead of Tuta because it is cheaper and its privacy policy is kinda better.
There are some pretty cheap listings, some even having escrow. I think I’ll go with this if I can’t find another solution. Thank you!
Mullvad VPN is always enabled with lockdown mode on my PC and my phone, I’m supposing that they’ve shadowbanned me because I’m using a VPN. I also don’t think Reddit is going to keep my IP private from the government so that’s why I do not plan on creating an account without a VPN.
I guess I could go to a cafe and try signing up via public Wi-Fi, but most of those in my city require a phone number to connect to, so I’m currently trying to find a way to do this without searching for a cafe that doesn’t have such a requirement :(
Thanks for the answer!
Do you have a link for where you saw those? I’m also not paying 30USD for a Reddit account :D, but I wouldn’t mind paying a smaller amount.
They’re still on Reddit and Discord 😭
Most of them don’t seem to care. I saw one comment that said even if only 1% of the population identified as queer, they couldn’t fit all those people in prison. I think they really underestimate the amount of people that will comply with these laws.
Kerbal Space Program is pretty great for getting to understand a rather simplified version of orbital mechanics and aerodynamics (no n-body physics unless you install Principia and no realistic aerodynamics unless you install FAR). Just don’t buy KSP 2.
For mods, you should use CKAN to get them. The comments in this Reddit thread have some good recommendations. You can also play with the RP-1 modpack + Principia if you want an ultra realistic experience:
https://github.com/KSP-RO/RP-1/wiki/RO-&-RP-1-Express-Installation-for-1.12.5
Edit: You should only use Principia with the Real Solar System mod (which is included in RP-1) because n-body physics breaks the game with KSP’s vanilla star system.
This is the one I use:
https://store.kde.org/p/2116993
Hyprland is probably the one you’re thinking of, as they became a “Gold-tier sponsor” for the project. They have also sent out “large quantities of hardware” to Omarchy though.
https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986/2
Use AppImageLauncher or Gear Lever.
I couldn’t get hardware video acceleration on Intel working for some reason on Void, no matter what I tried. Switched to Artix+dinit+KDE and only had to install intel-media-driver for hardware decoding and set ANV_DEBUG for Vulkan video.
vis. Only used it for editing configs and stuff though, not programming.
They’re probably talking about offline updates, which are used by Fedora and Ubuntu. They do require you to reboot to apply the updates.
You still need to enable third-party repositories like RPMFusion on Fedora for a lot of packages, which may annoy the average beginner. Immutability is really not an issue for most use cases, and if it is then Nobara also exists.
No outdated package is the fault of the package manager. The software in Mint’s (and also Debian’s) apt repositories are just old because they are long-term support distros.