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Challenges meeting new people without an Instagram account

I’ve been trying to meet new friends and new people to hang out with so have been going to a lot of social events.

I noticed that everyone seems to ask for my instagram account and when I say I don’t have one that connection kind of dies, and it feels too personal to ask for someone number when I just met them.

I don’t want to create an instagram because of the privacy invasions of meta but I also don’t want to feel left out when trying to make new connections. Anyone have any advice?

#privacy

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wildbus8979

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

Unfortunately I have also found it to be a huge impediment to making friends with other millennials who aren't techie. I sort of left a crowd that was always on xmpp and signal and found myself rather ostracized. Things are changing slowly and most of them are now on Signal and with the usernames it's easier to exchange contact without relying on phone numbers that feel like a bigger commitment. But unfortunately passed explaining why you won't support Meta, and why alternatives like Signal are good there isn't much to do.

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CrocodilloBombardino

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

It sucks, but just ask for numbers or emails

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ISOmorph

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

Man I'm glad I got done with the "I want to meet new people" part of my life before social platforms became inevitable. As far as I know nowadays it's either friends or privacy. Can't have both

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lock

in reply to ISOmorph • 2 mesi fa • •

Opsec requires sacrifices. Friends ruin opsec.

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krolden

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

Privacy is subjective. Use it but dont use it for things you don't want Facebook to know about. Don't use it on your phone. Don't use it on a computer with things you care about. Keep it in a container tab in your browser but don't keep it open all the time.

It's kind of a pain but you can definitely be mindful and only give meta crumbs where others are giving them truckloads of data.

Sadly there is a lot of good content on Instagram

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velanox

in reply to krolden • 2 mesi fa • •

Don't use it on your phone

There's also the option of using Private Space (Android 15+) or its multiple clones in manufacturer OSes. It effectively creates a new user profile which can be deactivated at will. The new user profile also has no access to any data from the main profile that can't already be controlled by permissions, like the app list. It has its own instance of Play Services, so AFAIK it shouldn't be linkable to the main profile. It's the best middle-ground I've found this far if the app needs to be installed in one way or the other.

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hansolo

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

An IG account isn't a phone number or email, and I think it's weird that young people treat it like it is.

Just say you don't do social media, and if they can't respect that, it's a quick test as to if they're your people or not.

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TranquilTurbulence

in reply to hansolo • 2 mesi fa • •

It can also be a good conversation starter. Some people genuinely don't know or care about the social media corporations spying on us. You can have some interesting conversations with them.

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hitmyspot

in reply to TranquilTurbulence • 2 mesi fa • •

Or come across as a weirdo, conspiracy theory, antisocial, tech obsessive nerd.

I mean, it's not inaccurate, but not maybe how to present initially when you meet someone.

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technomad

in reply to hitmyspot • 2 mesi fa • •

Definitely second date material

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TranquilTurbulence

in reply to hitmyspot • 2 mesi fa • •

It’s a bit risky, for sure. You just need to express your point in a calm and professional manner. Appeal to common sense or ethics, stick with the facts, and you should be able to find common ground with most people. You’ll be fine as long as you don’t use aggressive language, or go into crazy conspiracies.

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hitmyspot

in reply to TranquilTurbulence • 2 mesi fa • •

And is it really a conspiracy when it's true?

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TranquilTurbulence

in reply to hitmyspot • 2 mesi fa • •

No. Also some crazy things like project 2025 are entirely public, so those aren’t conspiracies either. When discussing scary things like that, you can just point to the facts and calmly explain what they mean.

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hansolo

in reply to TranquilTurbulence • 2 mesi fa • •

Depends entirely on the audience. The problem with privacy issues is that privacy nihilism sets on quickly, and people with short attention spans and no intrinsic idea of how much they're being ripped off quickly take refuge in the comfort of a no-friction status quo.

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TranquilTurbulence

in reply to hansolo • 2 mesi fa • •

Yeah, friction and convenience need to be balanced. Most people don’t even think about where they should draw the line. Sparking conversation about it can be useful, because once you’ve thought about it a little bit, you can make a conscious decision to sacrifice your data for convenience purposes… or slide down the rabbit hole and become a privacy hermit. Either way, making a conscious decision is better than going with the flow.

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ElectricWaterfall

in reply to hansolo • 2 mesi fa • •

That is a good point, when I say I don’t have any social media more than half the time people respect it, almost like I’m saying I’m X years sober from alcohol.

But I still feel like I’m tempted to make an account to avoid this additional social friction. Maybe I won’t use it for anything except getting people’s contact info in these situations. I’m not sure I’m a bit torn.

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BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

Maybe I won’t use it for anything except getting people’s contact info in these situations.

This is exactly what I did. I posted like three pics of my dog, and put it on private and never really use it except for that purpose.

I have never used any social media before or had an account on anything else, but something changed and people started treating instagram like a phone number, which is weird to me but sans-shrug that's the way it is now.

Don't feel like you must do this, but just wanted to say you're not the only person to do no social media, but felt the need to open an instagram

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hansolo

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

Stay strong! Just because people call to you from their walled garden doesn't mean you need to lock yourself in there as well.

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loomy

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but that's a lie bc op obviously does mastodon

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hansolo

in reply to loomy • 2 mesi fa • •

For the kind of people that use IG handles as a way to keep in contact, do you truly think you can say "Oh, I only have Mastadon" and even have them know what you're talking about?

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loomy

in reply to hansolo • 2 mesi fa • •

yes, bc they are bring the mammoth back

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utopiah

in reply to hansolo • 2 mesi fa • •

quick test as to if they’re your people or not

Absolutely... it's like when during job interview the recruiter ask if you code on the weekend. Some people treat that like the absolute worst question ever. Yes, in most cases I would argue it's to probe if you can be abused by working over time for free... but maybe you are into that or rather you do have found a way to make it work, e.g. NOT work during some weekdays. The point is that the question itself is a way to discover BOTH ways, for them AND for you. It is perfectly fine to stop right there and then if any of you is now aware that it's a show stopper because of whatever difference. The entire purpose of dating or interviews is to engage in a more involving relationship ONLY if it's worth it for both. It's a discovery phase, not a "let's close the sale" phase.

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0x0

in reply to utopiah • 2 mesi fa • •

if you code on the weekend.

Sure.

For us?

Get fucked.

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utopiah

in reply to 0x0 • 2 mesi fa • •

I mean again my initial reaction would be that indeed ... BUT it depends. If they genuinely offer say 3x rate, it's on demand from MY side (not the client), double vacations, etc then maybe. Again it has to be something that's actually interesting.

Sadly this is not even .001% the case, usually companies consider the weekend an extension of the week and such cases, they can absolutely go get fucked.

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QuazarOmega

in reply to utopiah • 2 mesi fa • •

when during job interview the recruiter ask if you code on the weekend

I think it's more to see if you're actually passionate about what you do and you don't "just" do it for work, which definitely is a bit of a twisted view, when on average you'll already be spending 40 hours a week doing that, but I think people tend to make this sort of evaluation, because people who love programming so much to also do it on their free time will usually be better, since they simply have more experience than those who only do what they're assigned to do

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utopiah

in reply to QuazarOmega • 2 mesi fa • •

Indeed, IMHO what's important here is precisely WHY the question is asked, namely is it to evaluate agency, passion as a proxy for skills potentially, or the opportunity to exploit.

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balsoft

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

If it's such an obstacle for social life, I'd just give in and make an account. Given the alternative is "exchanging phone numbers" (with the intent to text or call, presumably) I'd say Instagram is no worse privacy-wise - both offer absolutely no privacy protection. If a phone number is required to register (I don't know if it is), I'd get a bootleg sim specifically for it. I would treat all communications on any proprietary platform (even 1-on-1) as though they are happening in public (Twitter-style). Avoid using apps if at all possible as they have more access to your device. If that's not possible, at least do not give those apps any permissions, however hard they are trying to eek them out of you. Do not use it for anything but chatting with your acquaintances - merely looking at your feed, even without any explicit interactions like opening a post, gives Meta a lot of data about you.

If the connection moves on from "acquaintance" to "friendship", perhaps try pushing them towards a better platform - I recommend Matrix as it is federated (unlike Signal), and has pretty nice clients/UX nowadays (unlike Tox and XMPP), and is e2e-encrypted (unlike almost everything else).

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MangoPenguin

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

I would just make an IG account if it's being a large obstacle, you probably don't have to install the app as you can do most things through the web browser.

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lock

in reply to MangoPenguin • 2 mesi fa • •

Never install an app like Instagram on your phone, It will know your device even if you uninstall the app or use a different IP.

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solrize

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

Back when Craigslist had personals ads I answered one saying that I had 10 laptop computers and no facebook account, and I actually got a couple of dates that way. Not everyone wants corporate media.

I've been chatting (non romantically) with someone I met on another forum, who is about the same way. No facebook or reddit or anything, not even Lemmy, just a few niche forums.

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JaggedRobotPubes

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

Are you meeting people 15 years ago?? We've known everything mark zuckerberg touches is trying to kill you for money for a long time.

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Ulrich

in reply to JaggedRobotPubes • 2 mesi fa • •

Not helpful.

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troglodyte_mignon

in reply to JaggedRobotPubes • 2 mesi fa • •

I assure you most people don’t know that.

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Ulrich

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

This is, IMO, the biggest problem with FB and IG. They've replaced personal connections. I know some women who say they won't date anyone without an IG account.

and it feels too personal to ask for someone number when I just met them

Someone's number is literally just a series of digits. Social Media has their fuckin' life's story. I'd say it's far less personal.

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obsidianfoxxy7870

in reply to Ulrich • 2 mesi fa • •

I think it's mainly two things:
- people fear reverse phone numbers look up tools more then the equivalent tools for social media.
- It's viewed as less replaceable then just blocking somone on social media

I don't really agree with either of these but it is what seems to be common.

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lock

in reply to obsidianfoxxy7870 • 2 mesi fa • •

Get a new phone number and never sign it up on anything. It is very easy to replace a phone number. If you have had a phone number for multiple years and signed it up multiple times and still using it, it is time to change it now.

Blocking somebody on social media doesn't really mean anything, they still have your account, can still see your posts, comments, and even liked videos if they use another account. You would have to delete your account if some random person has your personal Instagram that you don't want anybody knowing, even if it is private.

They both have there downsides though.

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dadarobot

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

yeah i feel you. I'm in a band, so instagram is basically a necessity for promotion and communication. getting the word out about shows, other bands will message me for gigs etc

just try to use it a little as possible, and try to lock it down as much as possible in the os. you can do alot in the android app settings.

basically treat it as you would having a conversation near a security camera.

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loomy

in reply to dadarobot • 2 mesi fa • •

The band TOOL literally never did any interviews before (or after) the internet.

Worked well for them.

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dadarobot

in reply to loomy • 2 mesi fa • •

ok, and i'll just buy a house to build wealth like my dad suggested. and dress better than the manager if i want a job. and stop eating avocado toast.

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loomy

in reply to dadarobot • 2 mesi fa • •

yeah avacado toast isn't even good for you. better off with potatos

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0x0

in reply to loomy • 2 mesi fa • •

They've been on a few interviews and now have social media.

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stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]

in reply to dadarobot • 2 mesi fa • •

If you’re in dadabots point me at the place to download the full 12hrs of no soul.

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dadarobot

in reply to stupid_asshole69 [none/use name] • 2 mesi fa • •

im not.

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stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

Anyone have any advice?

Yes: recognize what you’re trying to accomplish and change your actions.

Privacy requires shutting people out of your life. Meeting new people requires letting people into your life.

If people expect that the first “gate” into your life is your social media then meet that expectation. Have a social media presence. Post shit that you want people to see on it.

If you’re afraid of letting the companies that operate social media see your life, examine why. It may be that you’re perfectly fine with the trade off of a limited hang out in exchange for looking normal. Most people are.

It doesn’t have to be instagram. You could have a snapchat or a tiktok or whatever.

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chaoticnumber

in reply to stupid_asshole69 [none/use name] • 2 mesi fa • •

I disagree. You are normal if you have social media and not if you don't?

Dunno man, if people need IG to interact with you and you are not comfortable with it, maybe they are not your people, you know?

Why should one go into uncomfortable territory for others, people should interact from positions of comfort, otherwise its a stretch for one side and just a bad time all round.

One thing is for sure @ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zip , you will have a harder time, make less connections, but I'm pretty sure the ones you will make, will be solid.

One word of advice as a fellow non-socialmedia-person. If you want to meet new people, make sure you are in the same place at a certain time on certain days. That way people know where you might be during certain hours and that is also a way to make connections. Just be sure you like said place.

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stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]

in reply to chaoticnumber • 2 mesi fa • •

Social media is literally normal.

It has gone through a process called normalization in order to become an expected part of social interaction. The op even said that people expect them to have a particular type of account and they feel like not having one excludes them from having more friends.

Yes, you are normal if you have a social media account and abnormal if you don’t.

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lock

in reply to stupid_asshole69 [none/use name] • 2 mesi fa • •

I agree with you. Social media has been normalized and you are not fit in society if you don't have any at all.

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stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]

in reply to lock • 2 mesi fa • •

The ol’ sarcasm detectors’ flashing red, ringing the bell and pouring black smoke out of all the panel joints but yes: if you want to fit into society it’s important to have social media.

If you wanted to live a private life in the 1970s, would it be better to descend from your cabin hundreds of miles from civilization with a wild mane of shaggy hair wearing your homemade leather suit or with an unstylish but kempt haircut, nondescript jeans and shirt and military duffel bag looking like any other of the myriad characters wandering the roads at the time?

Obviously you’d want the latter. Part of privacy is blending in so that you don’t arouse interest.

Nowadays if you want to be a private person and still interact in society, like the op, you need to have all the trappings of a someone who doesn't raise alarm bells. That includes, especially as your age drops, social media.

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MonkderVierte

in reply to stupid_asshole69 [none/use name] • 2 mesi fa • •

Social media is literally normal.

That's your bubble, not mine and not generally. Social media profiles is something 2010's here, maybe some still have it. What's in now is loose communities like Lemmy or Tiktok and chat apps for irl friends.

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stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]

in reply to MonkderVierte • 2 mesi fa • •

It’s also the ops bubble. My replies are generally directed at the op and their post.

I will also point to the requirement though, that us visa applicants give up social media account names or be subject to denial as evidence that it’s considered normal.

If it wasn’t considered normal to have social media then the cbp wouldn’t be so quick to implement that process.

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terminhell

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

What about email? Just create a new one just for this stuff. Go back to giving out just an email. Everyone has one of those too and it's not as 'archaic' as a phone#

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lock

in reply to terminhell • 2 mesi fa • •

How old are you? Nobody uses email for regular chat

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BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]

in reply to lock • 2 mesi fa • •

I'm kind of an old and email was never used for regular chat at like any time lol

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jjjalljs

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

Is this an age thing? I'm about 40 and I never had instagram, barely used facebook, and didn't use any others really. I don't think I've ever had a problem where someone backed out because I didn't have instagram. But I also don't have a big group of casual friends, and maybe that would be harder.

Discord sucks, but I've noticed a lot of social groups use it. A couple meetups I go to all use it for communication. Maybe that's more bearable than instagram?

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0x0

in reply to jjjalljs • 2 mesi fa • •

Is this an age thing?

Yup.
An newer humans go for tiktok.

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troglodyte_mignon

in reply to jjjalljs • 2 mesi fa • •

I’m in my mid-thirties, and while I didn’t have the Instagram/Whatsapp problem as a late teen / young adult, the pressure to use Facebook was similar. When I decided to close my account, it was almost a social death. My friends organised all their outings there and didn’t want to bother reaching out to me. And many of those who did go out of their way to include me occasionally made passive-agressive remarks about how I was being ridiculous and making their life difficult.

That said, I would have loved being able to just say “I don’t have Insta” when men were bothering me in the street. 😀 But I’m sure that wouldn’t stop most of them even now.

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Ilandar

in reply to troglodyte_mignon • 2 mesi fa • •

I'm a similar age and it was the same for me when I first deactivated my Facebook account, and still is with Messenger. After a few months of vainly trying to get people to switch to something else (like Signal), I just gave up and started using Messenger again. For me, the self-imposed social isolation was not worth the privacy gains.

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monovergent

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

Don't worry, I handed out my Instagram to some people who requested it and those connections fizzled out just as easily.

Could be down to me only ever checking it on a designated laptop once a week, but in my opinion, if it comes down to an Instagram account and regular app access, can't even exchange SMS numbers to text, then it's already a tenuous connection.

Funny enough, I didn't even make my own Instagram account. My friend really wanted me to be on Instagram so he went ahead, made it under my name, and handed me the keys. You probably can't do this nowadays due to security checks, unless you're Meta making a shadow profile kinda like my friend did for me. I'm just sitting on the shadow profile that would exist anyway, trying to contribute as little as possible.

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KuroiKaze

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

Gonna be real with you, if you're in the US and wanna connect with pretty ladies you pretty much have to have insta or messenger. If they are devout apple heads they might wanna do iMessage but as I don't use apple products I can't speak to that. I personally don't want anyone to have my phone number. I have signal, messenger, whatsapp, Kik, WeChat, and discord because I travel a lot and I have contacts on all of them. People prefer social media so they can remember you, your interests, things you say publicly, and use that to help decide if they wanna hang.

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Autonomous User

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

Find a way to use Instagram to drive them to another app, like this: lemmy.world/post/21620691

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hexagonwin

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

same, i just say I don't do instagram and tell them my local whatsapp equivalent's id or phone number. I've tried using instagram a few times but it can't be used anonymously at all.

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Libb

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

Anyone have any advice?

Ask them for their number, and see how it goes? Worst case, they will say 'no', end of the story. Maybe the will ask why you don't have IG and that will be the start of an interesting conversation.
Try to meet different kind of people? I mean it seriously. I know a lot of people around me who have IG/Facebook/X and so on but at the same time none of them make it a requirement to use it.
Use a second phone/number for that crap content only? I barely use my 'real' phone (I have nothing installed on it beside what I'm required to use) still I do own a second phone just so I can easily share a number with all the services and various craps that ask for one. It's a phone I never answer to, despite it being constantly harassed by callers. And that peace of mind (my real number is almost spam free) only costs me the 2€/month (plus the phone, I purchased used). You should be able to do something similar for social networks: have a second phone without anything personal on it, just with IG.
Accept that you're doomed to use IG because it's with those 'IG people' and no others you want to spend your time with? I like to spend time with people reading books, it's kinda expected we indeed read books. Would I not like to read, I would not spend as much time with them.

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FireIced

in reply to Libb • 2 mesi fa • •

2€/month

🇫🇷❓

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Libb

in reply to FireIced • 2 mesi fa • •

I suppose you're asking if I'm French? Yes. And, yes, it's a French operator (Bouygues Mobile)

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FireIced

in reply to Libb • 2 mesi fa • •

Yea we're pretty much the only country that has cheap mobile plans like that

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troglodyte_mignon

in reply to FireIced • 2 mesi fa • •

0€/month for me. 😀

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FireIced

in reply to troglodyte_mignon • 2 mesi fa • •

How 👀

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troglodyte_mignon

in reply to FireIced • 2 mesi fa • •

It’s a 2 € plan with a 2 € discount because the mobile operator is also my home internet provider. So 0 €/month.

And it’s my one and only mobile number, not an extra one for crap content. The plan only includes 50 MB of (4G) data per month, and I have to pay extra if I go over it, so barring emergencies I’m only using wifi — but I don’t mind not having access to internet everywhere and all the time, I find that healthier in a way.

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Thebigguy

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

How is having somebody’s phone number more personal than having access to an account where you can see all the photos they take and shit? I’d just ask for their number.

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Novaling

in reply to Thebigguy • 2 mesi fa • •

It's just a perception thing we have, a phone number DOES feel more personal to me, even if most people's Instagram accounts are even more detailed. In my case, I literally never posted anything on Instagram, so there was nothing to gather about me besides what posts I liked.

Plus some people my interpret asking for a phone number as wanting to date them or smth (although the same could be said for any messaging service tbh).

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Thebigguy

in reply to Novaling • 2 mesi fa • •

I feel like a phone number is is a lot less personal than giving some one a photo album of myself with picture of me and all the people I know and where somebody can see all the things I care about. Goes to show just how crazy people have gotten when it comes to privacy. With modern phones you can always block the person as well 🤷‍♂️

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Interstellar_1

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What I've done since Instagram is practically necessary for networking at my university, is using shelter for android I have Instagram Revanced in a work profile, and I've opted out from everything possible in the app, which is easy but not simple. I also have my account set to private and no posts, although maybe I'll need some at some point idk. I also have trackercontrol to block trackers, and I use the Facebook Container add-on for Firefox as well as Ublock Origin.

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NahMarcas

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

Make a pixelfed, people want to know you we ask for IG

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0x0

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

If they shun you for not having instragram, find better social circles.

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irotsoma

in reply to ElectricWaterfall • 2 mesi fa • •

Phone number can be problematic to share in some areas of the world, so it does depend on where you are, but email shouldn't be an issue in general. So easy to get an additional, private email address and use both at the same time.

I also don't have most mainstream social media anymore but have noticed a significant drop in people asking for it these days. Might just be my location in a city with a lot of progressive, tech savvy people, though.

I mostly use phone number and/or Signal these days.

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Am Gen Z, and currently in college. Clearly am on Fediverse, and I was never a fan of using IG (only got it cause my middle school friends made me since COVID was happening) and I have completely deactivated my account as of last winter. I have met several people at my college who don't use Instagram for various reasons, and while my other friend is a little disappointed that she can't message them on insta, at the end of the day, we live and move on.

At my college a lot of clubs use GroupMe (owned by Microsoft unfortunately) and we have an official Discord Hub that a lot of clubs are on also. So there's two different methods of communication that aren't Insta that are common on my campus. Some of my friends do have Signal in fact (even my Instagram loving friend), but because more of them don't we unfortunately don't use Signal, even when I beg my one friend who has it. She says 'it sucks and who uses it", but I've never really had the chance to use it to judge her statement as true or not.

Anyway, yeah, you could do a bunch of crazy shit and make fake accounts on Insta to have superficial conversations with people who won't give you the time of day for having an app, or you could just not. It's not that hard to find better friends/people to hang out with, and if you really make a connection with them then they should be happy with any form of communication you offer. Not all Gen Z are adamant Instagram defenders, some even hate it for various reasons (Suckerberg, being data stalkers, promoting bigotry, promoting mental health disorders, etc.)

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Seefra 1

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Just an anecdote, but every time I try to create an account on Instagram I get automatically banned after account creation before even login-in for the first time.

If I recal they then ask me for a copy of my ID to confirm my name is real (which it isn't).

I have no idea how they know, I've tried literally with different residential IPs, different emails and even on brand new devices. On my Instagram user friend's house.

Maybe it's just ~~bad~~ good luck, who knows. In don't need Instagram anyway, just an interesting fact.

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pulsewidth

Unknown parent • 2 mesi fa • •

You're on the 'privacy' community of an open source and federated alternative social media system designed to avoid corporate control and surveillance capitalism - and you're like "wtf everyone here is very privacy focussed and Linux nerds".

Do you complain about sand at the beach?

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jenesaisquoi

Unknown parent • 2 mesi fa • •

You mean to say unicode empty character (zero width space, probably). ASCII doesn't have one.

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Leviathan

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I've gone back to just texting and switched over to signal for band chats and group stuff, and so far the only person who doesn't like it is a dick bag who claims to be an anarchist but refuses to live his life without using a fascist propaganda machine to socialize.

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Iran envoy leaves meeting over presence of hostile US media

TEHRAN, Jun. 30 (MNA) – Iran's ambassador to Armenia has walked out of a National Press Club meeting, in protest over the presence of a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) correspondent, who "works for our enemies."

Mehdi Sobhani initially demanded the removal of the RFE/RL reporter from the National Press Club meeting, noting that “this outlet currently works for our enemies”.

As the moderator Narine Mkrtchyan said she could not remove the journalist and urged to begin the event, Sobhani replied “I will not participate,” and left the room, according to Press TV.

Eventually, the correspondent of RFE/RL, which is funded by the US and operates under the US Agency for Global Media, left the meeting, as his presence caused disruption.

Iran envoy leaves meeting over presence of hostile US media

^{Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (Mehr News Agency)}

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I love this part (end of the article):

As the Iranian Armed Forces pounded Israel and its military and industrial infrastructure, using many new-generation missiles that precisely hit the designated targets, the embattled regime was forced to unilaterally declare a truce deal on June 24.

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Maeve

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The reporter radio free should be banned everywhere.

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Talent agency UTA drop Bob Vylan following Glastonbury chant controversy

The punk band Bob Vylan has now officially been dropped by the talent agency UTA following the comments being made during their Glastonbury set.

During the performance, the band led a pro-Palestine chant with their crowd, proclaiming “death to the IDF”. Following comments from the festival staff as well as various politicians, UTA has announced their decision to part ways with the group.

Insiders have said that UTA senior executives agreed with the festival, saying that the band had taken their political beliefs too far when making their comments. Despite not coming out with any official statement, all images and information relating to the musical duo have been wiped from the company’s website.

The BBC continued in a statement, “The antisemitic sentiments expressed by Bob Vylan were utterly unacceptable and have no place on our airwaves. We welcome Glastonbury’s condemnation of the performance.”

Bob Vylan ‘dropped by agents’ after controversial Glastonbury IDF chant

Rap punk duo no longer appear on agency’s website days after festival furore

^{Jacob Stolworthy (The Independent)}

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Diddlydee

in reply to Jo Miran • 2 mesi fa • •

It's not. The media constantly willingly confuse anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. One is awful, the other a virtue.

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geneva_convenience

in reply to Diddlydee • 2 mesi fa • •

If Israel is the "victim" then they are "Jews". And "The Jewish State"

If Israel is the perpetrator then it is the "secular only democracy in the Middle East.

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Nato’s summit cannot disguise Ukraine’s plight

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Nato’s summit cannot disguise Ukraine’s plight

Without more military aid, Kyiv’s situation on the battlefield could deteriorate rapidly

^{Gideon Rachman (Financial Times)}

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The AI Company Zuckerberg Just Poured $14 Billion Into Is Reportedly a Clown Show of Ludicrous Incompetence

The data annotation company Scale AI that Meta splurged $14 billion to take ownership of was reportedly overrun with "spammers."

^{Frank Landymore (Futurism)}

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chobeat

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Futurism.com is garbage. I think it's quite a distorted narrative: the vetting is extremely invasive, with regular face scans and passport verifications at sign up. Then maybe a lot of shit was still going through, but this narrative suggests that these companies are not at the forefront of extremely invasive worker surveillance, which is demonstrably false given the wave of class actions and privacy violation proceedings they are subject to.

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‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis

Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them

^{Oliver Milman (The Guardian)}

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Central banks rush to gold as fears of US dollar crisis mount

Macroscope | Central banks rush to gold as fears of US dollar crisis mount

Central bank gold holdings are now back to where they were in the 1960s, before gold went out of official fashion.

^{Anthony Rowley (South China Morning Post)}

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Velázquez Leads 'No Masks for ICE Act' Rally at NYC Field Office | Common Dreams

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32488116

Jessica Corbett
Jun 28, 2025
"As the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) works to deliver on Republican President Donald Trump's promise of mass deportations, federal agents, including those with ICE, have taken immigrants into custody while wearing masks and plain clothes—sparking alarm over abuse by anonymous agents and also copycat criminals.
Velázquez's bill would bar ICE agents from wearing facial coverings during immigration enforcement, unless medically necessary or required for safety. It would also require written justification for any mask use, agents to wear clothing displaying their name and affiliation with ICE, and DHS to report annually to Congress on any related complaints and disciplinary actions."

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2025-06-30 12:47:14

Velázquez Leads 'No Masks for ICE Act' Rally at NYC Field Office | Common Dreams

Jessica Corbett
Jun 28, 2025
"As the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) works to deliver on Republican President Donald Trump's promise of mass deportations, federal agents, including those with ICE, have taken immigrants into custody while wearing masks and plain clothes—sparking alarm over abuse by anonymous agents and also copycat criminals.
Velázquez's bill would bar ICE agents from wearing facial coverings during immigration enforcement, unless medically necessary or required for safety. It would also require written justification for any mask use, agents to wear clothing displaying their name and affiliation with ICE, and DHS to report annually to Congress on any related complaints and disciplinary actions."

Velázquez Leads 'No Masks for ICE Act' Rally at NYC Field Office
"When agents hide their faces and identities they create chaos, fear, and open the door to abuse. Immigrant communities are left wondering if they're being arrested or kidnapped."
^{jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)}

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Velázquez Leads 'No Masks for ICE Act' Rally at NYC Field Office | Common Dreams

Jessica Corbett
Jun 28, 2025

"As the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) works to deliver on Republican President Donald Trump's promise of mass deportations, federal agents, including those with ICE, have taken immigrants into custody while wearing masks and plain clothes—sparking alarm over abuse by anonymous agents and also copycat criminals.

Velázquez's bill would bar ICE agents from wearing facial coverings during immigration enforcement, unless medically necessary or required for safety. It would also require written justification for any mask use, agents to wear clothing displaying their name and affiliation with ICE, and DHS to report annually to Congress on any related complaints and disciplinary actions."

Velázquez Leads 'No Masks for ICE Act' Rally at NYC Field Office

"When agents hide their faces and identities they create chaos, fear, and open the door to abuse. Immigrant communities are left wondering if they're being arrested or kidnapped."

^{jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)}

#USA

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More than half of Ukrainians support finding compromise in war, 20% support continuing the fight

Almost 56% of Ukrainians are in favour of seeking a solution through compromise with the involvement of international leaders in order to end the war. Almost 17% of Ukranians are in favour of a temporary freeze of the war, and 21.

^{Iryna Balachuk (Ukrainska Pravda)}

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ReverendIrreverence

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 2 mesi fa • •

Pravda saying this is about as accurate as Fox "News" saying...anything

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

in reply to ReverendIrreverence • 2 mesi fa • •

Ah yes, an Ukrainian publication is spreading Russian propaganda, that's what you're saying?

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Bobr

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 2 mesi fa • •

Well, what else can one do when even ukrainian sources begin to admit that maybe, just maybe, "Crimean beach party" won't happen after all? 😀

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ReverendIrreverence

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 2 mesi fa • •

Pravda is a Russian publication

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

in reply to ReverendIrreverence • 2 mesi fa • •

Wait till you find out what country .ua domain is owned by. Absolutely hilarious how fascists are invariably the most ignorant people on the fediverse. 🤡

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ReverendIrreverence

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 2 mesi fa • •

.ua domain

covering your bases by owning multiple URLs in different domains is called being thorough. There also exists gazeta-pravda.ru, pravda.sk/, pravda.com.ua/, main.pravda.rs/, and many others.

Pravda

www.pravda.sk - správy, ktorým môžete veriť. Prehľad aktuálnych správ a udalostí online. Z domova, zo zahraničia, politika, šport, Slovensko, Česko, Európska únia.

^Pravda.sk

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

in reply to ReverendIrreverence • 2 mesi fa • •

It's an official Ukrainian publication you dumb fuck.

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ZeroHora

in reply to ReverendIrreverence • 2 mesi fa • •

Pravda .ru is not the same as the pravda.com.ua

Ukrainska Pravda (Ukrainian: Українська правда, lit. 'Ukrainian truth') is a Ukrainian socio-political online media outlet founded by Heorhii Gongadze in April 2000.... In May 2021, the publication’s new owner became Tomas Fiala, CEO of Dragon Capital.
Dragon Capital is a Ukrainian group of companies in the field of investment and financial services, offering a comprehensive range of products in equities and fixed income sales, trading and research, investment banking, private equity, and asset management to institutional, corporate, and private clients. It was founded in 2000 in Kyiv... It is also the owner of news media holdings in Ukraine — Ukrainska Pravda and The New Voice of Ukraine.

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Flyberius [comrade/them]

in reply to ReverendIrreverence • 2 mesi fa • •

You've been absolutely bodied.

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Nakoichi [they/them]

in reply to ReverendIrreverence • 2 mesi fa • •

Honestly I would just delete my account out of embarrassment if I were you lol.

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BrainInABox

in reply to ReverendIrreverence • 2 mesi fa • •

Do you ever get tired of being confidently incorrect?

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Nakoichi [they/them]

in reply to ReverendIrreverence • 2 mesi fa • •

This is all from that same site. Is all of this also "Russian propaganda"?

This is the equivalent of calling Haaretz an "anti-semitic source"

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hobata

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 2 mesi fa • •

they beg for donations, that should go to:
NGO Ukrainska Pravda
Vyacheslava Lipinskogo, 9, Kyiv, Ukraine, 01030

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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Turns out Russian propagandists have infiltrated the heart of Ukraine. 🤣

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Nakoichi [they/them]

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 2 mesi fa • •

The funniest part of all of this is that they said those funds should go to "NGO Ukrainska Pravda" which is literally the source you linked.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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one of those I can't believe this site is free moments

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geneva_convenience

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Wait till you find out what language Ukrainians sprak.

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ReverendIrreverence

in reply to geneva_convenience • 2 mesi fa • •

Language has nothing to do with my mentioning that Pravda, a Russian-owned "news" outlet, is a propaganda-spewing entity.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

in reply to ReverendIrreverence • 2 mesi fa • •

meanwhile in the real world

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Nakoichi [they/them]

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Lmao im cracking up on my bus home at this exchange holy shit dude.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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BrainInABox

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So is the public owning going to lead to you developing any introspection?

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Nakoichi [they/them]

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Judging from my experience with most clueless libs on lemmy the answer is no.

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Researching making the switch from Windows on my main PC and I have questions.

This PC is basically my life, I use it for work (freelance business), entertainment, and to self host a server so I'm hesitant. I have a handful of questions for now while I look into it more:

I'd prefer not to dual boo, but it might be the safest way to start? If I dual boot, get used to Linux and (hopefully) get everything I need working, can I then go from dual boot to erasing the Windows partition and recombining so I then only have Linux installed and can keep the work and programs I already installed on Linux?
I do voiceover work, music production, and digital art/photography. Anyone else here do all this and what programs would you recommened to replace Audition, Photoshop, and Cubase?

--2.1. Regarding music production, has anyone successfully used vst files from Windows on Linux?

The drives for my server are NTFS. Does anyone have experience with this format on Linux (I use Emby)?
My bread and butter right now is voice acting so I NEED everything to play nice. I've read there might be some issues with drivers for my hardware, namely Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 and Behringer UV1. Anyone have any experience with this?

EDIT: Wow that's a lot of responses. I'd like to respond to each but I'm a bit overwhelmed with all the info haha. I think I'm gonna grab an old external USB drive and live boot from there and test things out. Thanks to everyone, I've got a tonne to mull over now. Appreciate it!

#linux

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alexcleac

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I’d prefer not to dual boo, but it might be the safest way to start? If I dual boot, get used to Linux and (hopefully) get everything I need working, can I then go from dual boot to erasing the Windows partition and recombining so I then only have Linux installed and can keep the work and programs I already installed on Linux?

My personal experience says: try dualbooting first, because it will make you to have a working machine continuously. Taking into account that all Linux-based OS behave vastly differently from MS Windows, it is possible to break things, when learning a new way of doing things.

The drives for my server are NTFS. Does anyone have experience with this format on Linux (I use Emby)?

I've been using an external NTFS drive for compatibility and big files storage: works as charm. The worst case scenario is you will need to install an ntfs-3g driver, although it is usually included with the distro.

As for production: I don't have much experience with that, although I can recommend you looking around tooling that solves the problem. You will need quite a bit of patience and trying things, because switching platform will definitely require you to make some shifts in usual processes you have now. Don't expect things to be obvious 100% replacement: unfortunately lots of people have this expectation, and get frustrated.

As for hardware, just looking the model up on the internet with adding "linux", or "ubuntu", or "fedora" should do the trick of figuring out if it will work.

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dun_fionn

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Quick response:

Yes, what you suggest is possible, but just be careful to backup your data. Burn the Gparted ISO onto a USB and then boot from it. You will then be able to use this tool to delete the Win partition and resize the Linux one.
For complete peace of mind in case something goes wrong, I suggest using CloneZilla to create an image of the drive for backup purposes before messing around with the partition. Of course, you will then need a spare internal or external drive of the same size, or larger, onto which you will save the image...
Grub will easily cope when the Windows partition is removed, but I also suggest installing Refind, which provides a nice interface at boot-time to choose which system to use and also recognizes any changes when partitions are added or removed. You should find the package in the repositories of most distros.
I cannot help with this.
Linux can handle NTFS. On my Linux server I used Samba to share files on NTFS drives over the network because those drives were removed from my Windows PC at the time . Most Linux distros will handle Samba shares through the CIFS-utils package.
I read that there is no great performance loss between sharing Linux's EXT file system over a NFS network share from a Linux box , and NTFS over a Samba network share from a Linux box, but there is one potential issue as I see it: Linux distros do not have the tools to check NTFS drives for errors. Therefore, if a powercut was to happen, then you may then have to remove the NTFS drives from your Linux machine and go find a Windows machine to check the disks and correct any errors. I coped with this for a few years before deciding to create new EXT4 partitions and copy the data across from the NTFS partitions. I recommend that you employ a similar migration strategy.
I cannot help with this.

Good luck! The learning curve is steep and somewhat mindblowing, but very satisfying too - and you'll maybe catch the Linux server admin bug (disease?) and want to go deeper into that rabbit hole....

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ijhoo

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Dual boot should be ok. If and when you decide to fully switch, I'd say it's better to do a reinstall. Messing with partitions always comes with disclaimers. A bit advanced topic if you are interested: when you resize partition usually data needs to be moved, depending what you do with it, so it will wear your ssd; also you should be aware that you must install windows first, Linux second because windows doesn't really play well with others and be sure NOT to format EFI partition when installing Linux.

You have alternatives to dual boot: VMs. Run Linux on bare metal, then boot up a VM if you need something only windows can provide. Gnome has a new VM tool incoming.

No idea for audio, but Photoshop has alternative, gimp. Wether you like it or not, it's another story (people I know really really hate that one). For digital art there is a tool called Krita that runs on kde. People really enjoy using it.
NTFS has one thing that Linux doesn't really like - it is case insensitive. Linux normally works with case sensitive filesystems. There was recently a rant by the Linux overlord about case insensitive filesystems, so you might want to stay clear of it. It's ok to use it on a thumb drive though.

Edit: minor typing fixes

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Tim_Bisley

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I would dual boot first. I'm doing that myself at the moment with Pop OS. I disconnected my existing drives leaving just the drive I'd install Linux to. Ran the installer, then reconnected. I hit f12 at boot to select startup. I did this to avoid dealing with grub or messing with the windows bootloader. I haven't had good experiences with it in the past.

My biggest problem with trying Linux at the moment is I have a USB audio mixer that Linux refuses to enable. I can tell it sees it, it just won't list it as a selectable audio device or send audio through to it. So I have no sound.

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ElectricAirship

in reply to Jack_Burton • 2 mesi fa • •

There is software for all your uses on linux, but I would start by using those apps on your current setup to get used to the workflow.

Changing from windows to linux can be really tough but it can be made a lot easier if you are already using programs that work on linux before you switch.

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ijhoo

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This is the key to a painless transition.

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malfisya

in reply to ElectricAirship • 2 mesi fa • •

👆 This is my advice as well. Switch all your apps to the one that is available on Linux. After you get used to it, then switch the OS. No need to do both at the same time.

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jlow (he / him)

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I learned Inkscape / Scribus / Krita (which was not easy after 15+ years hooked on Adobe BS) while still on Windoge, had used Linux before so the switch was really painless.

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mystic-macaroni

in reply to Jack_Burton • 2 mesi fa • •

I suggest having two separate hard drives rather than dual booting

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CarrotsHaveEars

in reply to mystic-macaroni • 2 mesi fa • •

Since OP uses it for freelance business, self-hosting and stuff, I recommend even one step further, by a new computer and try to replicate all workflows there. Don't fuck with the old one until one day OP suddenly noticed that he hasn't booted his old computer for one year, then he can sell it as parts.

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Jack_Burton

in reply to CarrotsHaveEars • 2 mesi fa • •

That's the problem, I'm freelance and barely scraping by haha. I'd love to grab something to try out but it ain't gonna happen right now. My laptop is a Samsung galaxy book3 ultra which I slapped Mint on a while back and had issues and went back with a cracked windows 11. Apparently linux and the galaxy book line don't play well. But, I'm very tempted to try another distro on it first, like bazzite. Probably be the smart thing before touching my main PC.

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Eugenia

in reply to Jack_Burton • 2 mesi fa • •

That's a rather expensive laptop you got there... I personally bought a used Thinkpad x280 for $160, and I run Linux on there. Another option is to get an small computer (sbc) with at least 8 gb of ram, if you already have a monitor.

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Libra00

in reply to Jack_Burton • 2 mesi fa • •

Definitely dual boot, especially if you're new to linux, and double-especially if this is what you use for work. You are likely to run into situations where shit just doesn't work and you need a fallback environment to operate in while you figure out what that's about and how to fix it. Likewise, you will run into software that runs badly on linux or just doesn't run at all even under wine/VM, and it will be nice to have that fallback for when you don't have time to fuck around and figure out what the problem is and need to just get shit done. If things go well you will find very quickly that you don't need it and can probably go ahead and delete it after a little bit, but at first you want that lifeboat. Mine stuck around for 2 weeks, but I only even used it the first couple days and the rest was 'maybe I'll run into some weird situation...' and just not needing it. As for merging the partitions and such, I believe that's possible, but you definitely want to make sure you have backups before you try it just in case. There are many good cloud backup services that have linux native clients (I use filen.io myself.)
I've never even touched music software so I have no idea what's out there. I do however know about a great website called alternativeto.net that lets you find alternatives to existing software, and you can select your platform to limit it only to linux software. For example, here's the entry for linux-native replacements for Cubase (it was the obscure one from my perspective, wanted to see if they actually had anything, turns out they do.)
Yes, NTFS generally works mostly fine on linux, though there are a couple of weird cases where it causes problems (one I ran into was adding games I had installed on an NTFS drive for windows to Steam on linux, it was very wonky.) After nuking my windows boot drive I went through and copied all the stuff off my NTFS drives and reformatted them to btrfs before putting the data back on them to ensure that everything would work smoothly, but if you're just using it for regular file access you should be fine. The one caveat I would add is I would probably not recommend editing large projects in files on NTFS drives in linux if you can avoid it, but poke around google and see if you can find people reporting issues with your specific software/use-case to see if there are any problems with it.
Drivers for weird hardware are potentially an issue. Looks like there is a FOSS driver for the Scarlett, didn't see anything at first glance for the Behringer, but also again I have no idea what I'm looking at here so this is something you're going to have to do some research on. I have had some weirdness with audio in general on linux, things cutting out unexpectedly, stuff like that, but that's strictly games/discord/that sort of thing, so it might be worth looking for stuff other people have posted about doing heavy audio work on linux to get an idea for what to expect. I'm sure it can be made to work, but it might require more fiddling than you expect.

Either way, welcome to the party. 😀

Support for Focusrite Scarlett audio interfaces on Linux

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flatbield

in reply to Jack_Burton • 2 mesi fa • •

Actually the safest thing is probably to choose a main system and run the other in a VM like with VirtualBox. For you, you could just install VirtualBox on Windows then Linux inside of a VirtualBox VM. Windows does have a builtin Virtualization solution too you may be able to use, but I have personally never done that. Keep in mind too that VMs are not as performant as bare metal. For video probably NO, for images fine, for audio maybe but you'll have to see if you get the real-time timing you need in a VM. Good way to play in any case. 2nd best if you have a workstation, not a laptop, you could put in a hot mount SATA drive enclosure, and just swap in the drive you want and get full bear metal performance. Dual boot takes some tech skill. Be sure to back everything up if you do that. Should do that anyway before fiddling. Also if you use bitlocker and secure boot make sure you have all your recovery keys and know how to work with your bios settings too.

Maybe I am missing something, not sure why you care about NTFS. If this is a separate computer you don't really care about that, just the sharing protocol (SMB for example). If it is on the main box, then you'd probably convert this to Ext4 or something similar. No reason to stick with NTFS with Linux. There are a lot of great FS options on linux plus BTRFS, LVM, or RAID to if you want redundancy.

Regarding apps. The alternativeto site is great. Linux has a bunch of audio and photo software. If your a pro, you may not find any of it sufficient. Especially a lot of people cannot do without Photoshop. The common quoted photo programs are GIMP and Darktable. There are many other photo and image programs. Common audio program is Audacity. Again, there are many others. Looks like some handle vst but I have no personal experience.

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obsoleteacct

in reply to Jack_Burton • 2 mesi fa • •

"This PC is basically my life" screams leave well enough alone. I wouldn't even set up a dual boot on a machine I depended on to make my living. If you do, make sure you've got everything backed up before you start. Nothing should go wrong, but that's a very different statement than nothing will go wrong.

If you want to start using linux I'd recommend you buy a cheap second computer and start there. You can safely experiment as much as you like without risking your professional set up.

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Bob Smith

in reply to obsoleteacct • 2 mesi fa • •

This seems like a solid take. Never fuck with your bread and butter.

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jollyroberts

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Agreed. A Virtual Machine is also an option. That's how I got started, running fedora vms on my windows laptop ten+ years ago.

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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble

in reply to jollyroberts • 2 mesi fa • •

It is an option to play around. But for audio production you really don't want to be trying to use a VM unless you're fiddling with USB passthrough (which is a pain). Audio latency on Windows is bad enough, adding Linux's on top is awful.

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jollyroberts

in reply to fuckwit_mcbumcrumble • 2 mesi fa • •

Fair. I don't do audio stuff so I'll take your word for it.

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cmnybo

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Dual booting on separate drives is safe, especially if you unplug the windows drive while installing Linux so you can't accidentally mix them up. Just don't mess with the windows drive from Linux. It's probably encrypted if you're running windows 11 anyways.

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folkrav

in reply to Jack_Burton • 2 mesi fa • •

Audition, Photoshop and Cubase you’ll probably have the hardest time to truly replace. Even more if you rely on third party plugins for either of those.

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Domi

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I don't have a Behringer UV1 but I do have an UMC404HD and an UMC202HD. Both work flawlessly on Linux out of the box.

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lol dual boo

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rolandtb303

in reply to Jack_Burton • 2 mesi fa • •

I'm an ex-Windows user and have been using Linux for about 7-ish years now.

If you can handle some downtime, the possibility of some plugins breaking and some time getting used to your new system, you can give it a shot. Otherwise, what I'd more or less recommend is getting a spare computer and just trying Linux out on that. That way you can keep your work computer for critical work while you mess around on the spare.

I checked Cubase on WineHQ, and sadly it won't run via WINE from what I see, so you will either have to look for a different DAW (which will require extra time re-learning everything) or just going with a spare).

If you do plan on biting the bullet and going full Linux on your work machine, here's a couple observations:

The only Windows DAW i've tried on Linux is FL Studio running through WINE. I do have REAPER for aligning audio tracks (it's very good at that) but I haven't really used that enough to become proficient with it. There's also Bitwig, which I haven't used (I checked the price on that when i was kinda on the fence about getting it and oh boy is it expensive! around $800 with the annual upgrade or smth lol).

From my experience, VSTs via WINE (in my case, running through FL Studio 24.2.1), is quite good, although there are is a good bit of jank that comes with it (a few 32-bit VSTs don't work, it's a bit of a gamble honestly) and there are bound to be a couple potential breakages with WINE updates (like what happened today as I'm writing this, I updated WINE and idk if it's just a residual thing but the GUIs on GVST plugins don't render anymore, I can still access the parameters via hovering and looking at the hints panel in FL Studio, but it is a bit cumbersome trying to operate VSTs blindly, especially when they contain things such as waveforms/levels).

Other than that FL Studio's been running like a charm, very very close to (if not native), except for stuff like the Diagnostic thingy not working at all (told you there's jank).

As for replacements, you will need to learn new programs, one which may not contain all the features that you would want (muscle memory can also be a bit of a pain). I'd start out with maybe trying out Audacity and GiMP/Krita on Windows and try learning and getting used to the workflow of each on your existing Windows installation before swapping over. I was using FOSS programs like GiMP/Audacity beforehand so the transition was easy once I swapped over. FL in WINE back then was a little more finnicky but most of it still worked so it kept me going.

If you're still thinking about wiping Windows off of there and going full Linux, good luck, my friend.

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Thebigguy

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Hey just want to say bitwig is on sale atm and costs 299€ from 399€. It’s not 800€.
I think I still have an 8 track key I can give some one if they dm me.

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Broken

in reply to Jack_Burton • 2 mesi fa • •

I'm going to second the comment to leave well enough alone. Do NOT mess with your machine if its what makes you money.

I know you commented you don't have funds for a second computer to test with but that really is the best step for you.

This is especially regarding some of your other details. You are not in for a quick and smooth transition (sorry to say).

VSTs are "sort of" supported on Linux. Basically they're not and there are work arounds that I haven't done using wine for compatibility.

I run a virtual machine for the windows software I am reliant on. So basically my Photoshop etc I use Affinity in a windows VM and it works fine. Depending if you get intensive with your work you might need a lot of resources or experience lag. But for the most part it should be fine.
Look into virt-manager for your VM if you want to go that route.

Besides the VST issue, audio recording will probably give you additiinal problems. I haven't delved into it because he rabbit hole went too deep for me, but from what I've read there tends to be issues with audio in VMs (tremendous lag for one).

But all that being said, there should be a solution for all of your needs. It probably won't be straight forward though given your use cases. I don't want to sound negative with my warnings, I just want to make sure you don't shoot yourself in the foot with your work.

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Teppichbrand

in reply to Jack_Burton • 2 mesi fa • •

2: I'm a Bitwig fan-boy. Buy this great piece of software, have tons of fun and never use third party VSTs again. Sound design, modulate everything, wow! You can run many Windows VSTs using yabridge. Reaper might be a good choice for a DAW as well, it's a little more classic and has plugins and scripts for everything.

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vala

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Ok so I'll just focus on dual booting since there are other thorough replys here.

I really recommend that you DO dual boot but only in a specific way.

When people say "Dual Boot", this can mean two very different things.

A common way to dual boot is to have windows and Linux exist on the same drive by partitioning the drive and installing a boot manager. I strongly advise against this. It's not worth the risk and pain.

Just install linux on a totally new drive and select it as the boot drive from bios. Leave you windows drive untouched.

Linux is much better than it ever has been. There is a very good chance it can do everything you want. But, especially as someone running a business, there will be times when you just need to get something done and will want to fall back to what you know. These times often lead to people giving up and rolling back to windows in a panic.

Just leave yourself a way to instantly and effortlessly fall back into windows as needed and eventually you will end up doing that less and less. Until you don't do it at all and the windows drive gets wiped for more Linux storage.

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Crozekiel

in reply to vala • 2 mesi fa • •

I was going to suggest something similar. Basically, unplug the windows drive entirely, install linux on a dedicated drive. Then plug them both in and use the bios to decide which one to use. Basically don't have them interact at all. That way, worst comes to worst, you can boot into windows exactly as it is.

If this was a personal machine you use for recreation, I would fully support just dropping windows entirely. But no matter how much I want to support a fellow Linux convert, if you make your livelihood from this computer, I wouldn't risk any downtime that costs you money.

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AndrewZabar

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I think I'm gonna grab an old external USB drive and live boot from there and test things out

Just keep in mind, in such a case, that your performance will be quite reduced due to limits on I/O. When you have Linux on a real drive - especially a striped RAID, the system is blazing fast. It’s a substantial difference you should keep in mind when evaluating.

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Gnugit

in reply to Jack_Burton • 2 mesi fa • •

You could acquire a pretty cheap PC for Linux it runs on a potato. Try an electrical scrap heap nearby that you can fossick from or a friend with an old, unused system in storage (even a cheap $20 retro PC from your local marketplace?) to acquire an old retro system. You might not even need a new screen depending what connections your existing screens/TV has and if you could use a cheap adapter and cable from the thrift store.

Linux runs on basically any retro PC and laptop excluding some annoying wifi chips that need planning before the install if you don't have ethernet. Some really old tech may also require specific distributions that still offer support too.

Machines with a 32bit CPU you will want to confirm beforehand if your chosen distribution still offers a supported 32bit install image and retro PC's with obscure expansion cards that perhaps were never supported. This is likely moving into vintage collectors territory though and you would have to be pretty lucky now to find a machine like that super cheap and working.

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Solved: Any desktop environment or WM with configurable placing/opening of windows?

When using TMUX, it is easy to create a script, which opens TMUX, configures the screens/panes of TMUX and open/run programs.

I like this a lot.

My baseline would be something like, when I login, some applications are executed and their windows automatically placed on a virtual desktop.

For example:

Open Firefox and put it on virtual desktop 1
Open Terminal in fullscreen and put it on virtual desktop 2
Open VSCode and put it on virtual desktop 3

Something like that is possible with sway, in the environment I am working, sway is not able to run XWayland applications w/o crashing.

Is there any way to have this functionality on Gnome, Mate, Xfce?

Even better would be something to open several windows and arrange them automatically for different work tasks/projects I am working on. Any ideas?

Edit: Solved! Thanks for the input. Auto Move Windows extension for Gnome solves my problem.

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Used to use fluxbox and it did this; fantastic feature.

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Inst this simply KDEs activities?

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De-dollarization from bellow?

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Disabled Amazon workers in corporate jobs allege ‘systemic discrimination’

Disabled corporate workers at Amazon have accused the company of engaging in “systemic discrimination”, aggressively quashing their attempts to organize, and using artificial intelligence systems that they allege do not comply with US disability laws.

At the center of the Amazon workers’ complaints are allegations that the company has denied requests for accommodations for disabled staff in an “automated” or “semi automated” way and have allegedly repeatedly removed messages and a petition from an employee Slack channel.

Amazon disputes allegations that it discriminates against disabled workers.

A 31 May letter sent on behalf of a group of more than 200 disabled workers to top executives, including Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy, claimed the company was fundamentally out of step with federal requirements under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the 1990 civil rights law that protects people against discrimination based on disabilities.

Disabled Amazon workers in corporate jobs allege ‘systemic discrimination’

Workers claim the company has used AI to deny requests for accommodation and policed an employee Slack channel

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BBC smears Bob Vylan and calls them antisemitic for saying "Death to the IDF".

Impartial broadcaster btw.

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Bob Vylan is two people

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Good catch. Corrected.

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BBC smears Bob Vylan and calls them antisemitic for saying "Death to the IDF".

Impartial broadcaster btw.

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I have made a formal complaint to the BBC which you can through their site and I recommend others to do so to. I labelled it as factual inaccuracy and written the following:

In a statement about Bob Vylan at Glastonbury it was stated: 'The antisemitic sentiments expressed by Bob Vylan were utterly unacceptable and have no place on our airwaves.'
Nothing they said were antisemitic. Being critical of governing state's military killing innocent people is not the same as hating an ethnic group. This is slander to pose it as such and I am appalled at the BBC for thinking it should be. As well as thinking that such criticisms should not be live on air.
Being critical of Israel as a state is not the same as hating Jewish people as an ethnicity. Thus NOT antisemitic. It is anti-zionist at best if you are searching for a more valid label.
The BBC are meant to be impartial but this statement shows otherwise to the highest order.

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Great work. Mass complains is how the Israel lobby supposedly gets their way.

For others, put in a complaint if you can bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/m…

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Pedro Sánchez, in Strasbourg: "Europe has everything it needs to remain one of the most prosperous and socially advanced regions in the world"

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Norwegian pension fund divests from two companies supplying weapons to Israel

Norway’s largest pension company says it has divested from two firms selling weapons to the Israeli regime, which uses them in the Gaza war.

KLP said on Monday it will no longer do business with the US-based Oshkosh Corporation and the German-based ThyssenKrupp due to their sale of products to “entities” that use them in “systematic breaches of international law.”

Oshkosh Corporation mostly produces trucks and military vehicles, while ThyssenKrupp makes a broad selection of products, ranging from elevators and industrial machinery to warships.

Norwegian pension fund divests from two companies supplying weapons to Israel

Norwegian pension fund divests from two companies that sell weapons to the Israeli regime.

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The day a nuclear Iran was born

Donald Trump undermined the nuclear architecture when he decided to withdraw the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2018.

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'Israeli' farmers report widening boycott of exports across Europe, Japan: Reports

'Israeli' farmers and food exporters are reporting a sharp rise in boycott efforts against their agricultural products across Europe, according to a report published Wednesday by the Hebrew outlet Ynet.

The growing backlash, triggered by ongoing public opposition to 'Israel’s' war in Gaza, has led to both formal and informal actions by major retailers, with some suppliers even noting hesitations from markets as far as Japan.

The Ynet report cites exporters saying that European countries like Belgium and Ireland have effectively begun boycotting 'Israeli' produce. In recent weeks, Italy’s and the UK’s Co-op chains announced they would stop selling 'Israeli' products, and now other retailers—such as the UK’s Waitrose and Germany’s Aldi—are reportedly following suit, even without public declarations.

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'Israeli' farmers report widening boycott of exports across Europe, Japan: Reports

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US, Israel move to block UN effort to shut down Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

The United States and Israel are working behind the scenes to block a United Nations and European-led initiative aimed at dismantling the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), Ynet learned Sunday. The initiative came after a closed session of the UN Security Council held on Friday, after which the UN reportedly instructed its agencies and affiliated organizations to cease all cooperation with the foundation.

“Some organizations are threatening not to cooperate with the foundation and are spreading lies about indiscriminate fire and drug distribution, all to derail this initiative. If this were going through UN channels, which have shown support for Hamas, it would be embraced quietly. This isn’t about concern for Gaza—it’s pure double standards,” he also said.

US, Israel move to block UN effort to shut down Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

Close allies work to shield Gaza Humanitarian Foundation from UN-led dismantling efforts; officials accusing Russia of fabricating claims to undermine aid coordination

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The Evangelical Christian leader of this group was on BBC World Report (via NPR) the other day, and I was absolutely disgusted by what he had to say. The BBC reporter did push back a little bit, but not nearly enough.

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Kirp123

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Well of course they don't want to shut down their "humanitarian" foundation. What else are they going to use to bait Palestinians so they get gunned down?

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Meet the Israeli fanatic running Ted Cruz’s office

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Do What You Love

Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.

My dad used to say this to me. He didn’t come up with it of course. Searching for the source, I see attribution to Marc Anthony. How it came to be a 70-80 year old man was quoting a singer to me I’d bet money he’d never heard, I’ll never know. Maybe he didn’t either.

The basic idea behind the quote is that what you’re doing won’t feel like work if it’s something you love doing anyway. I mean, think of the thing you want to be doing right now instead of reading this post. Your favorite thing in the world. Now, along comes some idiot who offers to pay you to do that very thing! How can you possibly say no?

There’s a darker aspect to this quote that I don’t think people consider though. If you take the thing you love and do that for work, you’re turning what you love into a job. This is a trap that I’ve fallen into. Multiple times.

Do What You Love

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Flamekebab

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Seems like an odd place to post this but I'll bite.

Even the things I love doing involve work. If I want to do some sewing I still need to tidy up before and afterwards, for example, or spend time pinning stuff (and then taping up the numerous stab wounds). It's a bit reductive.

Instead I try to get paid for things that require minimal emotional "work" from me - that is to say, things that don't leave me sapped of energy to work on my passion projects. I don't dislike what I am paid to do but I'm not super enthused about it. That means that when I'm done working I've still got the creative juice to work on stuff I actually want to do.

If instead I have to spend my working days pushing myself through stuff then I tend to be left with nothing in the tank, even if I still have time left at the end of the day. Instead I get paid to do something I'm good at but that doesn't usually involve extended periods of advanced problem solving or frequent uphill battles of effort (there's always a bit, of course, it's not a perfect solution!). That isn't to say what I do is easy, but much of the stuff involved is stuff I've been doing for twenty years so is comparatively easy for me.

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If you take the thing you love and do that for work, you’re turning what you love into a job. This is a trap that I’ve fallen into. Multiple times.

Exactly. It gets corrupted by the 10% shittiest customers, with their shitty understanding of others and the world, who end up taking 90% of your time.

I like a good fried egg on sunday morning. How would you like fried eggs every day, we will pay you for it? Oh and the egg comes with poo from the dirtiest most stinky morons we can find. Lucky you.

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Vegafjord eo

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Yes, that's a trap. When you make the thing you love into a job. You blur the lines of whether it still is meaningful or something you do because you love it. You are no longer guided the meaningful, but whether your bloodgivers finds it valuable. In smaller and larger ways your path is steered away from the meaningful.

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ter_maxima

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Hopefully you love enough different things that you can do some of them for work, and some of them as hobbies.

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Universal Monk

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I see attribution to Marc Anthony

It was around long, long before Marc Anthony. Also, you are being way too cynical. It's really just saying that if ya can, you should try to make a living out of something you are passionate about.

Yes, there are people who love what they do for a living so much, that they never wanna quit doing it. I am one of them. I own my own company.

Think of musicians, or actors. Some of them legit love what they are doing and never wanna stop doing it. My grandfather owned an Antique store. His entire life was that store and even when he was in the hospital, he was trying to get back to his Antique shop ASAP. My father was same way. And it's probably why I own my own company.

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New Linux Kernel Drama: Torvalds Drops Bcachefs Support After Clash

Things have taken a bad turn for Bcachefs as Linux supremo Linus Torvalds is not happy with their objections.

New Linux Kernel Drama: Torvalds Drops Bcachefs Support After Clash

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wolf

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Ah, sorry to read - I like the idea of Bcachefs and would have been happy to have it ready for production eventually.

OTOH it seems the recent years I read more about the drama about Bcachefs commits to the kernel, than about any technical parts of Bcachefs.

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MyNameIsRichard

in reply to comum • 2 mesi fa • •

Good for him. It's a reminder that the rules apply to everybody.

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thingsiplay

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Can't wait for a new Brodie-video on this topic. Stay tuned for some comments.

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ferret

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“no features in RCs” is a very basic rule, this was a forgone conclusion. If these features were so integral to data integrity, he should have kept bcachefs out of the kernel until they were ready.

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LeFantome

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There is no reason that Kent Overstreet needed to do this.

I love bcachefs but I am so angry at him for making this happen.

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nous

in reply to LeFantome • 2 mesi fa • •

There is in this case, and why Linus did accept the patch in the end. Previous cases less so though which is why Linus is so pissed at this one.

The reason for this new feature is to help fix data loss on users systems - which is a fine line between a bug and a new feature really. There is precedent for this type on thing in RC releases from other filesystems as well. So the issue in this instance is a lot less black and white.

That doesn't excuse previous behaviour though.

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LeFantome

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Honestly, not even in this case (especially given the history). Kent has a kernel tree people can pull if they need to. If it is an emergency, point people there.

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thann

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The problem is that kent is a bullshitter and acted like he doesnt get what a feature freeze is.
If he cant communicate with linus as to why his patch is actually bugfix then he cant contribute to the kernel.

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tehn00bi

in reply to ferret • 2 mesi fa • •

Sort of the ultimate fuck around and find out.

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Croquette

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My uneducated kernel take. Flexibility is acceptable and desirable in small projects or low impact projects.

When the majority of the internet and a good chunk of PC are dependent on your project, predictability and stability is much more important than flexibility.

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LeFantome

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Reading all the comments (between Kent and Linux), the problem is that the bcachefs dev thinks that his project (the filesystem) is the critically important one and that the Linux kernel needs to bend to his will.

I am a bcachefs user but it is pretty damn obvious to me that the production Linux kernel is more important than an experimental filesystem.

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Laser

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Yeah, this one is on Kent... again.

He posted on Patreon that there'll be a DKMS module. In my opinion, this should have been the option from the very beginning and upstreaming at a later point in time. It would have avoided a lot of drama. And now bcachefs is kind of tainted. The only way I ever see it back in mainline is there is an independent downstream of Kent's kernel that has no connection to him whatsoever.

Shame because I had very good experience with the filesystem. Definitely better than when btrfs was new. But Linus is unfortunately right; Kent is unable to follow agreed collaboration rules.

Unfortunate situation that could have been avoided entirely. Though I don't want to be too harsh on Kent. He spent a lot of time and work on bcachefs and it's his most important project. As such, he's more passionate about all of this. But the same can be said for Linus and the kernel on the other side.

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Mwa

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Good I didn't choose bcachefs

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ikidd

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It's an interesting filesystem, but you shouldn't use it at this point unless you know what the hell you're doing. You'll need to be able to notice, report and help resolve bugs, and under no circumstances use it for production or where you can't afford to lose some or all of the data on the partition.

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Mwa

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True

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UpperBroccoli

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...which makes Overstreet's argument for urgency even weirder.

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James R Kirk

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Anyone else here actively put off by Linux drama and headlines like "Torvalds Drops support After Clash!"

EDIT: New rule?

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MartianSands

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This is a non-issue, being over-reported by people looking for clicks. A minor technical matter being handled by the person ultimately responsible for handling such things

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patatahooligan

in reply to MartianSands • 2 mesi fa • •

Yeah for sure there's ton of clickbait, but this isn't "a minor technical matter". The news here isn't the clash over whether the patch should be accepted in the RC branch, but the fact that Linus said he wants to remove bcachefs from the kernel tree.

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MartianSands

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An experimental capability being kicked out of the kernel, so that it has to settle for being a kernel module or custom forks of the kernel, is absolutely a minor matter

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stewi

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Filesystems are incredibly antiquated, and while I don't agree with Kent's attitude, it is very important in the long run that filesystems catch back up.

As it stands just about any enterprise system you can poke a stick at is rolling their own customised file storage system, with a traditional filesystem typically being a misshapen dead weight sitting somewhere in the middle of it - existing because it's the only thing the kernel can integrate with.

It is pretty important that this trend reverses, and bcachefs was a big step in the right direction. Unfortunate that Kent is the way he is.

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dontbelievethis

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Put off in what way?

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Please don't sealion me.

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dontbelievethis

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Don't you dare turn this around on me.

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James R Kirk

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It's annoying to be treated that way isn't it?

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dontbelievethis

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Annoying in the sense that I don't understand what you are trying to say.

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Dae

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I'm really glad Torvalds is the kind of person to flip articles like this off and carry on with his day and just not be affected by it at all. When the time comes, I hope whoever carries the torch is just as well.

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James R Kirk

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That's a good point, I have no doubt Linux would not be in the position it is if he were more sensitive to it.

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Dae

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At the very least, it would be far more of a circus, as the follow-up articles would read "LINUX KERNEL CREATOR LINUS TORVALDS MAKES DEVESTATING REPLY TO FOSS DRAMA!"

But yeah, I think shit like that would just make devs want to go work for a company, because at least when they make a shitty closed sourced, exploitive program people are mad at the company, not them, specifically. They don't have to deal with this shit.

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sfera

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I don't see any drama. It's just people working together, having different priorities yet still getting things done. Some friction is to be expected.

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James R Kirk

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This is literally literally a drama article

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sfera

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Ok, my mistake. I didn't express myself correctly. I wasn't referring to the article but to the communication between developers.

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Elon Musk’s ‘America’ party could focus on a few pivotal congressional seats

The new US political party that Elon Musk has boasted about bankrolling could initially focus on a handful of attainable House and Senate seats while striving to be the decisive vote on major issues amid the thin margins in Congress.
Tesla and SpaceX’s multibillionaire CEO mused about that approach on Friday in a post on X, the social media platform he owns, as he continued feuding with Donald Trump over the spending bill that the president has signed into law. On Saturday, without immediately elaborating, the former Trump adviser announced on X that he had created the so-called America party.
“One way to execute on this would be to laser-focus on just 2 or 3 Senate seats and 8 to 10 House districts,” wrote Musk, who is the world’s richest person and oversaw brutal cuts to the federal government after Trump’s second presidency began in January. “Given the razor-thin legislative margins, that would be enough to serve as the deciding vote on contentious laws, ensuring they serve the true will of the people.”

Ross Perot already tried this gambit. Billions of dollars can't buy a political party starting from scratch. Musk has always been more successful as an investor who turns around and claims to be the founder.

Not to mention, Fox News will no doubt find any snippet they can to tear him down after being the golden boy for a while.

I point this out because I think he can only pull from non-MAGA conservatives, and I've no idea what his approval rating is amongst them. The rest of us know he's a drug-addled Nazi.

A phased start makes logical sense instead of trying to build out a 50-state network Day 1. But I see no way to critical mass, even at the congressional district level, for a win as opposed to being a spoiler.

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Which hedge fund owns this sea?

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PipeWire 1.4.6 Adds New Option to Disable RAOP, Improves the ALSA Plugin

PipeWire 1.4.6 Adds New Option to Disable RAOP, Improves the ALSA Plugin - 9to5Linux

PipeWire 1.4.6 open-source server for handling audio/video streams and hardware on Linux is now available for download with various fixes.

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PipeWire my beloved 😍

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Obin

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It is great. I actually was a heavy critic of pulseaudio and stuck with ALSA on my desktop for as long as I could (until last year) by using Gentoo with USE="alsa -pulseaudio", the X-Fi's hardware mixing and automatic S/PDIF passthrough.

I tried to switch to pulseaudio a couple of times whenever I read one of those "it's good now, trust me bro" articles, but it wasn't, ever. It had and still has a huge amount of hard-coded, opinionated, often perplexing, behavioral quirks that made it feel like it just fought me every step of the way.

Pipewire on the other hand does not only have saner defaults, almost everything is softcoded with a great Lua plugin API. Don't like a default routing choice or want to automate your own, Wireplumber got you covered. Last year my X-Fi failed (or rather got flakey) and I had to choose between buying another used one or moving to PW. Almost everything worked out of the box on PW the way I like it, except a few details which were almost all covered by the settings. For the last problem, encoded streams not clearing the output, I wrote my own routing plugin.

The documentation for that API isn't necessarily the best, but it's easy to start from something small and work your way to understanding how to get the result you want.

GitHub - lucius-martius/wp-clear-for-passthrough: A wireplumber linker script that clears output devices for passthrough streams

A wireplumber linker script that clears output devices for passthrough streams - lucius-martius/wp-clear-for-passthrough

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MonkderVierte

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Btw, i have a USB-C DAC that has it's comfortable level on 5%. Any way to change that and increase fidelity of audio steps?

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aim_at_me

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Its your DE that controls the volume steps, if that's what you're asking. On Ubuntu its shift + volume.

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Übercomplicated

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If it's a pure DAC, it's default output will likely be between 1 to 2 Volts RMS. If your listening on iems or ~30 Ohm headphones that is gonna be crazy loud. It seems like you are using digital audio control to manage this (i.e., the audio level in your DE), which is possible, but certainly not ideal. It also is kinda bad for the audio quality, as you are digitally remixing it, and if you ever switch to high impedance headphones (or already have), the output current will be sub-ideal.

If I'm assessing your situation correctly, then this is quite easy to solve though. You just need a preamp! This will give a nice knob to control audio with much more precision and finesse. I know that both JDS Labs and Schiit Audio offer headphone amps with built in preamps in the USA. I can highly recommend the JDS Labs Atom Amp 2. In Europe your a little more limited, but FiiO has some nice options I think.

Of course none of this is necessary if you don't want audiophile levels of quality, but it would boost the audio quality (presuming your DAC doesn't have a proper preamp), and would certainly give you a tactile, wonderful knob.

I can certainly attest that my HD600s sound quite a bit better out of a JDS Labs Atom Amp 2 than out of just my DAC or—god forbid—my Mobo audio... They sound even better out of my vintage 100W Onkyo amp, of course, but really not by much. I am really impressed by the Atom Amp. I initially just bought it for travelling, but it has now basically become my main amp lol.

Okay, ramble over.

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MonkderVierte

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Ah, no, it's iFi Audio Go Blue and a 3More Triple something in-ear connected via jack. It has Bluetooth, but via USB sounds better.

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RAOP stands for Remote Audio Output Protocol and is the key to enabling Airplay on Linux

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Spies For Empire: Beware UN-Affiliated Organisations

On June 13th, the Zionist entity carried out an unprovoked, criminal military strike on Iran. While its impact was limited, with Tehran’s counterattack far more devastating, Israel’s targeted assassination of a number of Iranian nuclear scientists indicates Tel Aviv knew their identities and locations with some precision. Coincidentally, a day prior to the entity’s broadside, Press TV published documents indicating the International Atomic Energy Agency previously provided Israeli intelligence the names of several Iranian nuclear scientists, who were subsequently killed.

Other documents indicate IAEA chief Rafael Grossi enjoys a close, clandestine relationship with Israeli officials, and has frequently acted upon their orders. The files are part of a wider trove obtained by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry, containing unprecedented insights into Tel Aviv’s secret, illegal nuclear weapons capability, and its relationships with Europe, the US and other countries, among other bombshell material. The tranche could well shed further light on the IAEA’s brazen, murderous collusion with the entity.

Further reinforcing interpretations the IAEA assisted Israel’s June 13th strike on Iran, a day prior, the Association’s Board of Governors declared Tehran “in breach of its non-proliferation obligations.” The basis for this finding, which provided Tel Aviv with a propaganda pretext for its illegal attack, was an IAEA report published two weeks prior. The document provided no new information - its dubious charges related “to activities dating back decades” at three sites where allegedly, until the early 2000s, “undeclared nuclear material” was handled.

With the “12 day war” between Iran, Israel, and its Western puppet masters now over, US President Donald Trump has expressed optimism he can both broker peace between Tehran and the Zionist entity, and finalise a new nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic. Both outcomes seem highly implausible. At the very least, there is little chance of IAEA inspectors being permitted anywhere near Iran’s nuclear sites ever again, given the Association’s intimate covert relationship with officials in Tel Aviv, and complicity in its attacks old and potentially new.

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Thom Tillis won’t seek re-election after clash with Trump over ‘big beautiful bill’

Thom Tillis announced on Sunday that he will not run for re-election to the US Senate next year, one day after the North Carolina Republican’s vote against Donald Trump’s signature piece of domestic legislation prompted the president to launch a barrage of threats and insults – as well as promise to support a primary challenger to defeat him in their party’s 2026 primary.

“In Washington over the last few years, it’s become increasingly evident that leaders who are willing to embrace bipartisanship, compromise, and demonstrate independent thinking are becoming an endangered species,” Tillis said in a statement sent to reporters.

“As many of my colleagues have noticed over the last year, and at times even joked about, I haven’t exactly been excited about running for another term”, he added. “It’s not a hard choice, and I will not be seeking re-election.”

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GUI/App to automate key presses in linux wayland

There is xclicker which is a flatpak app, but it only automate mouse clicks, but there is nothing for key presses, I am surprised I could not find anything on this, but is there any GUI for this? Also is this possible on a technical level (in flatpak especially, I dont know if apps can simulate key presses). I know of ydotool, but that uses root, also its not a gui

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Luke

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Dunno if it would meet your needs, but I've been using Input Remapper for binding macros to various key presses and mouse buttons under Wayland. It does prompt for root access, but it's a GUI. It supports any input method, as far as I can tell. It even supports my tablet.

I use it to bind stuff like hold(key(BTN_LEFT).wait(100)) to some button to repeatedly left click while I'm holding that button down.

GitHub - sezanzeb/input-remapper: 🎮 ⌨ An easy to use tool to change the behaviour of your input devices.

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thingsiplay

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It's not GUI, but I want to mention another alternative, as people mention commandline applications here too: kdotool, works under KDE Wayland without with normal user rights (no root). They still work on a few features, but it can do lot of windowing stuff already. A good addition to ydotool.

GitHub - jinliu/kdotool: xdotool-like for KDE Wayland

xdotool-like for KDE Wayland. Contribute to jinliu/kdotool development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Bad issues with system load on Mint Desktop

Hi!. Currently running Linux Mint 22.1, but i suspect it's not strictly a distro issue. This laptop was running VERY well but was outdated, running Mint 19.3, some things were unable to be installed because the system libraries were old (didn't expect Calibre to be one of them, figures), so i updated all the way to that moment's current version which was Mint 21.3. All of a sudden it felt like the laptop got downgraded two whole computer tech generations. As soon as i ask it to do something mildly complicated that made it break no sweat on Mint 19, it gets VERY slow, all the cores start running at max, system load increases, until it finishes doing whatever it was doing several minutes later, something between a couple of minutes when lucky, to 20 or more. Typically what triggers the issue is something on the browser (what i use the most on the computer is browser tabs and lots of terminals) but not exclusively. Thought it was the browser but replicated it on an empty Firefox profile, and has triggered with simpler stuff like the Discord client. Been trying to find the issue for a while trying to avoid a full reinstall, no luck so far.

If i were to describe how it feels, it's like there was a bottleneck on tasks being done by the system, as soon as you ask it to do something mildly complex it chokes on it and tasks accumulate. No idea if it's some kind of kernel misconfiguration, if it's some hardware incompatibility, or something else entirely, checking the changelogs of Mint all the way between 19.3 and 21.3 showed nothing i could pin this onto (or at least nothing i could notice).

The nuclear option would be a brand new blank install but I'd MUCH rather avoid that if possible, made the comfortable but now unwise choice of a single partition for everything (instead of a separate /home and whatnot as i used to do) so reinstallation would wipe it completely, if i must then i must but much rather not.

Would welcome VERY much ideas on stuff to check or try.

Edit: It's got an NVME drive, which seems to be healthy as far as i can see

Edit: When it happens it doesn't seem to matter how much RAM is free, seen it happen with only 8 of the 32Gb of RAM in use and zero swap

Edit: Found a great way to describe how it feels like: Have you done heavy video encoding on a computer that's adequate for the task but not more than that, and noticed how everything in it stalls heavily, even if there's plenty of RAM free and the computer feels like it's giving everything to that task only? Pretty much that, but for nearly everything even moderately heavy

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HayadSont

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I wish you the best of luck at/with whatever you end up doing! May your system be protected from bit rot, config drift and/or problems caused by hidden state!

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jherazob

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Thanks!

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Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android

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GE-Proton10-6 and GE-Proton10-7 Released

HOTFIX: GE-Proton10-7:

Re-added the PROTON_PREFER_SDL option. When this envvar is set steam input and hidraw are disabled so that SDL takes priority over controller support.

HOTFIX (GE-Proton10-6):

The wine-wayland patches needed rebasing and needed force pushing due to a problem with a few commits in them noted by the author that can cause some crashing, making GE-Proton10-5 version invalid.

The 10-5 release was reverted due to the force push per the request of the wine-wayland patch set author, thus the version bumped to 10-6. It's one of those view weird instances where you will see a version missing in the releases. (This also happened in the past with media foundation stuff that Valve yelled at me about). Oopsie.

Changelog (GE-Proton10-5):

Nothing too major here, mostly just an update to upstream's code since it's been about 30 days.

Wine-wayland patches have been updated/rebased, should fix some nvidia crashes, and no longer need this mesa patch: gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/me…
patches added to help with Wuthering Waves.
protonfixes updated
protonfix added for Artificial Academy 2
protonfix added for Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
protonfix added for Anno 1800 from Ubisoft Store
protonfix added for Anno 1800

Release GE-Proton10-7 Released · GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom

HOTFIX: GE-Proton10-7: Re-added the PROTON_PREFER_SDL option. When this envvar is set steam input and hidraw are disabled so that SDL takes priority over controller support.

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Valso

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I installed that today. Finally! Years after GE release, I managed to install it with the help of an AI bc nobody explains anything properly, except for the AI.
Hopefully with GE I'll stop seeing 130 GB log files from Forza 5. 😂

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Trump threatens to cut off New York City funds if Mamdani ‘doesn’t behave’

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32472965

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"Mamdani said he was inspired by the US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr, who once remarked: “Call it democracy or call it democratic socialism. There has to be a better distribution of wealth for all of God’s children in this country.”
He then reiterated his intent to raise taxes on New York’s wealthiest as part of a campaign pledge “to shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods”.
“I don’t think that we should have billionaires because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality... "

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Trump threatens to cut off New York City funds if Mamdani ‘doesn’t behave’

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Sun 29 Jun 2025 13.06 EDT
"Mamdani said he was inspired by the US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr, who once remarked: “Call it democracy or call it democratic socialism. There has to be a better distribution of wealth for all of God’s children in this country.”
He then reiterated his intent to raise taxes on New York’s wealthiest as part of a campaign pledge “to shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods”.
“I don’t think that we should have billionaires because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality... "

Trump threatens to cut off New York City funds if Mamdani ‘doesn’t behave’
Democratic mayoral candidate denies Trump’s accusation that he is communist while reaffirming push to tax wealthy
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