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The Firehawk52 guide has some ARLs that expire in 2099. I never had issues with them. Just hit Ctrl + F, search for 2099 and you’re good to go.

Btw the regular ARLs are being updated, search for 2025 and you’ll get some results.

OSS Document Scanner is great. It’s also available in the IzzyOnDroid F-Droid repository: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.akylas.documentscanner

Corporations steal from us all the time, and they don’t even let us buy their content, they only sell limited access that can be revoked at any time (see https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/9531016 or https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/12904663). Under these circumstances, there are no ethical issues with piracy.

Well, you can change your IP as often as you want. You can go to a completely different ISP in a different country in a matter of seconds.

So if you are using one tool to access YouTube while being logged into Google on your browser, doesn’t that defeat the purpose of the VPN?

Yeah, I didn’t assume anyone in this community would log in to YouTube, but maybe I’m wrong

I used to prefer Plume because it’s written in Rust, but, well, it seems like it isn’t maintained right now, so WriteFreely is currently the better option

Frigate is pretty nice. If you need a simpler setup, go with Rpisurv, it’s made for a Raspberry Pi, and very easy to setup and use.

Sorry for the rant

I’ll definitely stay on Gentoo with doas and OpenRC

I don’t like the left-right political spectrum. It’s not particularly good for explaining a more complicated political stance (e.g. like yours or mine). I see centrists as those who don’t really have any opinion, not people who agree with some left-wing and some right-wing ideas. I would definitely describe myself as a leftist, because I agree with almost all basic leftist concepts, but there are other ones that I strongly disagree with. But I’m definitely nowhere near the political right wing, as even though I might agree with a few right-wing concepts, I absolutely despise of their fundamental ideas. But unfortunately I see various centrist parties in different countries that shift further and further to the right, because right-wing populists are gaining momentum and coming up with dumber and dumber, radical ideas.

I like this, but it’s mostly command-line and server related. I don’t think this would teach someone as much about running desktop Linux. This seems more like something one would use if they need Linux for their job.

I don’t think there’s one single effective guide that teaches you everything. I don’t even think you need to learn everything right from the beginning. I just watched a bunch of DistroTube, The Linux Experiment, LearnLinuxTV and Mental Outlaw videos, and grew my skills over time. And the best way to learn it is just to install and start using it IMO. If you need help with something, search for a solution on the web, or ask in a Lemmy community, forum or chat room. I also recommend taking some notes about what you learned, so that you can reference it later. Any note-taking app will do it, but I specifically like Obsidian for this. Also consider guides/threads/videos that you found useful, if you might need them again at some point.

Personally I run everything behind a VPN. Browsing the web without one kinda feels like a bad idea, like why should I expose my approximate home location to every website I go to and every server I connect to? Why should I let my ISP see which websites I’m visiting? And why should I trust my government to have access to all of that data?

the only affected IPs are of Invidious instances

That’s not true, I just got a “Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” message on the official fucking YouTube website using Firefox behind Mullvad VPN. It’s also very common to see this on Piped instances. The invidious team seems to have developed a fix though: https://github.com/iv-org/youtube-trusted-session-generator

That’s just my personal opinion, but centrists are often enablers of right-wing extremists/fascists. Since they don’t really have their own opinion and political stance, they just kinda take the average of the left and the right-wing. This starts to become a big problem, when the right suddenly radicalizes, and the centrists now also move further to the right.

Pixels are nice because of their hardware secure element and great Verified boot support, even with a custom OS. And those new Pixel 9’s are really fire 🔥

WriteFreely and Plume are based on ActivityPub and can be followed from the Fediverse (in addition to RSS of course)

Wtf is run0

Edit: Is that nyx flake made by the same guys as the Chaotic AUR repo for arch?

It’s great for offline, singleplayer games. Unfortunately some multiplayer games just refuse to work on Linux, because of the anti-cheat. But I mostly use my Steam Deck when I’m traveling and have a very poor or no internet connection, so I can only play singleplayer games anyway.

That’s what I’ve been trying to tell my boss for the last 6 months…

Torvalds actually hates GitHub