China could be about to attempt a landmark satellite refuelling test
China could be about to attempt a landmark satellite refuelling test
Tracking images show Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 within extremely close range, suggesting docking then refuelling and servicing could be next.Liu Zhen (South China Morning Post)
In an age of failing economies and a populist backlash, I’ll tell you what we need – Marxism
In an age of failing economies and a populist backlash, I’ll tell you what we need – Marxism
The corporations would asset-strip our brains, but we can take back control, says economist and former finance minister Yanis VaroufakisYanis Varoufakis (The Guardian)
Should Lemmy add a Modmail feature similar to Reddit's?
On Reddit, Subreddits have a "Modmail" feature that allows users to message all subreddit moderators at once, and moderators can respond collaboratively.
Should Lemmy consider potentially implement something similar, for Communities?
Even a basic version — like leveraging the already existing DM feature to have a Group DM that automatically includes all moderators and the user who sent the message — could help improve communication between users and community mod teams.
This could just use Lemmy's existing DM system but adapted for group messages tied to the mod team of a specific community.
Later on, if this proves to be successful, it could potentially be tweaked even further, and have support for Modchat, via the same Group DM as the potential Modmail.
Community Modmail System (Group DM for Mods + User) - GitHub Issue
FYI, this was considered fairly recently, and the end-result was:
Will re-open if anyone wants to work on this, but its way out of scope for us.
Implement modmail
Requirements Is this a feature request? For questions or discussions use https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support Did you check to see if this issue already exists? Is this only a feature request? Do not p...asudox (GitHub)
I feel like this is an example of how the core dev team running on an instance that basically just has 3 of the admins do more or less all the moderation for the entire site is not ideal. This type of feature is probably one of the most-requested pain points for most people who run most servers, but my guess is that it’s basically completely invisible to the .ml team why it would even be needed, because their model works fine for them, so why would they.
Of course they’ve got a right to work or not work on whatever they want, but if their goal is success and good moderation for most servers this type of scalability and teamwork enabling thing is super important.
I'm surprised that they decided to host
DM's/etc. themselves, and not potentially integrate a protocol like Matrix.Org, XAMPP, etc.
Ik that Matrix allows user:
Clients
Bridges
Servers
Integrations
etc.
They mean more "bored of life" than "bored in the moment".
Used habitually, it can be a pacifying kind of drug. You're unhappy with things, so you get stoned to get a little escape. If you didn't have the out of that little escape, you might be more inclined to make choices and put in the work to make lasting changes.
On the other side, shrooms makes you uncomfortably confront the shit that you don't like about yourself and neural pathways get a chance to reroute, so you can kinda give yourself the kick in your ass you need to see the problem and make changes.
you might be more inclined to make choices and put in the work
Fuck off, Dad! I learned it from watching you!
Also, genuinely sorry to hear about your record label and tour dates recently. ✊🏼
So, I once watched The Lighthouse together with my then girlfriend remotely, being in a long distance relationship at the time. We used the same file, started at the same time and were in chat together.
The audio codec of this (of course 100% legal) file for some reason did not work with my VLC player properly. There were no voices. But it also wasn't just complete silence, some music and subtle, surreal sound effects came through. None of this was happening for my ex, btw, even though we had the same file.
Talking about the movie in chat and afterwards was fascinating, I only then realised it was, in fact, not a masterful, purposeful, stylistic choice: A major production not just in black and white, but as a silent movie. I also was able to get the essential things that happened and the important plot points, so that is also another point very much in favour of the film.
That is a possible explanation, although I think it was weirder than that, because I remember checking some "obvious" settings like that afterwards. I also re-encoded the file with VLC media player out of curiosity, where it should have just re-encoded whatever audio track it had, without adjusting it to a specific output device, and the resulting file then also had the same issue when played in SMPLayer (whereas the original worked in SMPlayer).
I might still have both files laying around on my NAS, but I myself at least don't really have the energy right now to go into a rabbit hole again years after the fact, and sharing them would be non-trivial.
As just a personal thing, the original mute watching was so surreal and unique, I enjoyed it more - solving the mystery of what is happening from what's shown visually alone (and some subdued music) - but that is a deeply subjective thing.
you should also get back together with that girlfriend and be on the phone with her while you watch it.
Oh no, I couldn't do that to her, she definitely deserved better.
Honestly, I think most of Eggers' flims are probably still fantastic without dialogue. The atmosphere and visuals he creates tell the story all on their own most of the time.
Hell, I couldn't even tell you what the hell they're saying in The Witch without subtitles and it's still one of the best horror movies released in the last decade.
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can't remember what I was watching, but I accidentally muted it just when a dramatic scene started, and I was so riveted by the scene having no sound at all.
i had to focus only on the scene, and it was so suspenseful, tense, and immersive, thought the director was a genius for taking such risks and it paid off... eventually I noticed it was on mute.
I don't know if it's still a thing in the digital age, but having even just a few seconds of dead air back in the analogue broadcast days could mean that "silence detectors" all over the country would start going off and radio engineers everywhere would think there was some kind of problem with their station. So there had to be talking, music, something at pretty much all times.
If you wanted intentional silence you could play comfort noise in the background.
I somehow missed one of the middle episodes of the first season of House of Cards, and was very surprised at the boldness of having to piece together what had happened between episodes. Very demanding of the viewer.
I did realise my mistake immediately after though.
Israel has just killed Dr. Marwan Sultan in Gaza. The bomb killed he and his family.
BREAKING: Israel has just killed Dr. Marwan Sultan in Gaza. They dropped a bomb on his home, murdering him, his wife, and their children. He wasn’t a combatant. He was a doctor who devoted his life to saving others.
‘Shock and grief’ as senior doctor killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza
‘Shock and grief’ as senior doctor killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza
Marwan al-Sultan, a renowned cardiologist and director of the Indonesian hospital, is the 70th healthcare worker to be killed by Israeli attacks in the past 50 days, says Palestinian medical organisationAnnie Kelly (The Guardian)
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Pretty sure the real goal of Israel is to do enough damage so that even without the support of the US they can maintain control over the region.
With the recent attacks in Iran I'm not sure it will end even if America ends its support.
So Gaza aid was outright denied under Biden?
So weapon shipments weren’t threatened to be removed under Biden?
So Palestinians were shot at Gaza aid stations under Biden?
Israel was blatantly seeking full annexation under Biden?
The “hostages” were conveniently ignored under Biden?
The settlers were so brazenly hateful and emboldened that they shot at IDF forces under Biden?
Iran was preemptively attacked by Israel and reinforced by the USA under Biden?
Yeah, Biden did a crap job with the Middle East but he at least didn’t take the extermination with glee and advertise hotels in the West Bank.
You are no different than those Abandon Harris clowns.
Read the amnesty international report finding that Israel is committing genocide and their reasoning.
Which came out while Biden was in office.
amnesty.org/en/latest/news/202…
TLDR: Yes. It was literally the same Genocide under Biden. You just didn't care then unlike the rest of us.
Amnesty concludes Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
Our research reveals that Israel has persisted in committing genocidal acts, fully aware of the irreparable harm it was inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza.Amnesty International
You’re right. I was busy worrying about the future and the shit show a Trump presidency would cause while most of you were virtue signaling.
Congrats. Harris lost. Now Gaza is really fucked.
Lemmy world misinformation at its finest
Israel was blatantly seeking full annexation under Biden?
Yes
ohchr.org/en/press-releases/20…
Iran was preemptively attacked by Israel and reinforced by the USA under Biden?
No it was lebannon
Fucking liars
The Iran situation only ended because America got involved. Israel was running out of air defenses and couldn't establish air superiority over enough of Iran to stop Guerilla style launches despite getting air superiority early on due to their initial surprise opening. Even before we "got involved" with the bombs, most of the missiles that got shot down were shot down by American systems iirc.
If the US ended support, Israel would have no choice but to capitulate and stop being a genocidal apartheid always picking fights in the region, or to activate the Samson option.
The Iran situation only ended because America got involved.
Call me pessimistic but I don't think the "Iran situation" is anywhere close to being over.
Israel was running out of air defenses and couldn't establish air superiority over enough of Iran to stop Guerilla style launches
I don't think air superiority was ever in question. If anything Israel might be running low on anti-air defense that currently allows them to strike without receiving any meaningful retribution.
When talking about achieving air superiority it usually refers to being able to provide combined arms air support for ground troops.
If the US ended support, Israel would have no choice but to capitulate and stop being a genocidal apartheid always picking fights in the region, or to activate the Samson option.
Maybe if it happens right now.... but with trump in the White House I wouldn't count on it. I think another three and a half years of support maybe enough to where they could mobilize to a wartime economy and commit it's population to total war. Israel is currently trying to straddle a somewhat normal economy in the hopes they don't spook the civilian population into unrest. But who knows how crazy they're going to get in the next 3 years.
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Veteran families protest Pete Hegseth’s nomination for Defense Secretary during Senate hearing
“You are a Christian Zionist and you support the war in Gaza by the Zionists!”President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth to serve as United Stat...YouTube
Windows machine running a Linux VM at 4K 240Hz
I don't know if this is common knowledge but I hadn't found anything on the web (for Windows specifically) that stated that this was possible.
I kinda badly want to fully switch to Linux in the short term but wanted to first properly test how different distros feel at these specs (and maybe try some basic gaming too); maybe someone that wants to do the same can find this post useful (I hope this is the right community to post to).
To do this I used QEMU, and had to edit the source code and recompile it to enable 240hz.
Forcing higher refresh rates is surprisingly not that hard, I only had to edit a single line of code (hw\display\edid-generate.c, line ~390, set '75000' to '240000').
So far Mint, Fedora and KDE Neon work perfectly at that refresh rate (after adjusting mouse input polling rates), then I added a couple other nice features like shared clipboard and mouse device toggling (I tested q2pro and it wouldn't work with absolute mouse coordinates, and relative mouse was a pain to use in normal desktop browsing, so I had to find a way to toggle them if I didn't want to reboot the VM every time).
This is my very first lemmy post (hi fedi!), I wrote this lengthy blog post detailing how I did everything, hopefully I'm allowed to post it here (reddit traumatized me with the blanket banning).
Windows running a Linux VM at 4k 240hz+ (+ shared clipboard) - A Guide? | Enkhayzo's Blog
Ever wanted to run a VM at 240hz on Windows? No? Understandable. But I did that anyway cause it seemed very cool to me (still is), and I've explained how to do that in this post. K bye.blog.enkhayzomachines.net
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If you try to run the game from the windows vm yes the perf are bad.
But try to play these game from linux using wine/lutris ou protom/steam and you could be surprised
My games were running better (really better) on archlinux than windows 11. And i have also a nvidia card (RTX 3090 FE)
On Cognitive Alignment
On Cognitive Alignment
by Laurence Chen There was once a time when a client asked me to add a rate limit to an HTTP API. I quickly identified three similar options, all of which could apply rate...lambdaisland.com
in case anyone wants to try out a privacy-respecting, community-empowered map app! so excited for this! - midwest.social
Sharing from midwest.social, not OP
Also see CoMaps community post
Does anyone know of good single-use virtual credit cards. Specifically for online purchases like flights or hotels where you can limit the card to one time use or a max limit?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/28567151
A few cards that I read about.RBC virtual card, seems to do what I need. But it's available for business use only.
Robinhood Gold Card, only in the states.
Wise, not sure if exact limits are available.
Context: I recently purchased a hotel stay where a merchant charged my card for the advertised price on their website, the amount was then refunded. Then another merchant charged my card a higher amount (a few hundred) all in a few seconds of the original transaction.
Edit: I found Wise provides limits on their virtual cards. I have yet to test how this works and if the transaction is declined for Insufficient funds, does anyone have experience with this?
Introducing Virtual Credit Cards
Experience a new level of security, convenience and control for business: Virtual Credit Cards. At no additional cost, create 'single-use' virtual credit cards to pay suppliers or give to employees through an RBC Commercial credit card program.www.rbcroyalbank.com
Payment Solutions for Online Data Security | Get Started For Free
Easily create virtual cards. Select single use or merchant locked cards. Set spend limits. Close & pause cards. We are committed to your online data security...www.privacy.com
the two I heard about are mysudo.com and privacy.com. I think both are US only. Are they both based in the US? It didnt say on the privacy.com about us page
edit:
yes, they are both based in the US.
any non-US based options that offer services to the US?
Login to your credit card portal and check if they have it. I noticed mine has it as a free service now.
Edit: free service with my my cc account not straight up free to everyone with no cc.
Sir Keir Starmer could be ousted as PM within months, two senior Labour MPs tell Sky News
Sir Keir Starmer could be ousted as PM within months, two senior Labour MPs tell Sky News
A member of the government and a prominent MP said Sir Keir Starmer could be ousted unless Labour has a strong showing in May's elections.Sky News
MPs vote to proscribe Palestine Action as terrorist group
MPs vote to proscribe Palestine Action as terrorist group
The ban means supporting the group could potentially carry a maximum sentence of 14 years.Michael Sheils McNamee (BBC News)
BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR
More than a hundred BBC employees have written a letter to the director general, Tim Davie, complaining that the Corporation has become a mouthpiece for Israel. It was also signed by 300 other journalists and media professionals: one of them was yours truly. The BBC employees, as you would expect, are all anonymous, because otherwise they would face grave consequences to their careers.
The letter says:
We’re writing to express our concerns over opaque editorial decisions and censorship at the BBC on the reporting of Israel/Palestine. We believe the refusal to broadcast the documentary ‘Gaza: Medics Under Fire’ is just one in a long line of agenda driven decisions. It demonstrates, once again, that the BBC is not reporting “without fear or favour” when it comes to Israel.
It goes on to note that the decision not to broadcast the investigation was taken by BBC management despite the content being signed off in accordance with BBC guidelines and editorial policy, which it says “Appears to be a political decision”, adding that the BBC response shows the organisation “is crippled by the fear of being perceived as critical of the Israeli government.”
BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR
A devastating letter signed by over 100 BBC journalists underlines one of the great scandals of our ageOwen Jones (BattleLines with Owen Jones)
According to Pornhub data (yes seriously!) Linux market share in 2024 increased more than 40% relative to 5.1% of all users.
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You don't have to be logged in because you've got a digital fingerprint.
I would hazard a guess that they're using google analytics to collect this data, and google is creepy and knows everything. Maybe they got you to tell them your age at some point, or they can use the vast amount of other data they have to estimate it with probably-super-creepy accuracy.
What is a Digital Fingerprint? - Just Understanding Data
Digital fingerprinting is a hot topic in online security right now. Learn about what it is, why it's used and what you can do about it here!Just Understanding Data
Pornhub is lowkey a very skilled tech company. Delivering a quality video platform on the scale they do is incredibly difficult.
Also obligatory: Year of the Linux Desktop! 🎉
Lmao in hindsight I probably didn't read the graph correctly. Apparently more people want on desktop. I was looking at the dovosoon by country.
Still, are people watching porn in cafes? Or worse, are they masturbating in public? Hmm...
I think smartphones definitely win when it comes to convenience, accessibility, and ease of use. Even at home I use my phone a whole dang lot for general chill purposes, even though I have bigger and better screens to use.
I can't comment on porn because I genuinely never watch porn of any sort (yes, I'm serious), but I have watched and enjoyed YouTube and Netflix et al on my phone, even at home. I usually prefer a bigger screen but sometimes the portability wins out.
Under video game consoles, it lists 0.1% for "Other (3DS/PS Vita)". Unless PornHub offers 3D porn that works on the 3DS (do they?!), I refuse to believe even 0.01% would use the 3DS browser in this capacity.
(On the other hand, that's 0.1% of video game consoles, and I can't imagine too many people use their consoles for porn in the first place... Basically I'd love to see absolute numbers for this)
Guys, we're losing big to mobile devices. Although I'm glad Australia is still going strong at 12% desktop computer.
postmarketOS // real Linux distribution for phones
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphonespostmarketOS
Tablet pornography must be nice.
That seems like someone who made a plan, and then lived out their best evening.
I imagine those tablet Pornhub users probably prepared themselves a nice mixed drink, set out some snacks, and got all cozy in a bathrobe first.
Tablet pornhub sounds like some kind of intentional self care.
Why? Did you get stuck in a washing machine yourself at some point?
On a more serious note, I remember reading an article once about this phenomenon. About how it's not some widespread latent sex fantasy to fuck step-siblings. Rather it's an odd reflection of how algorithms poison the content in this attention economy. The more unusual the content is (without being outright objectionable), then the more attention it gets for being so unusual. That starts a wave of new creations from content creators to jump on the bandwagon for the popularity of the content that seems to be getting traction. Then pretty soon anyone not catering to this "demand" is an outlier and loses out, so eventually this theme of content floods the entire ecosystem.
to the brave coomers keeping bsd alive
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Y'all need a spanking.
We don't even look at porn on our computer anymore- we look at it on our phone?
HR: IT detected that you watch porn at work.
Employee: I’m not, it’s all SFW videos
HR: OK, no problem then.
I'm somewhat proud my generation is actively seeking out parody porn. Those videos tend to be higher budget and more sex positive (less gonzo misogyny).
Edit: well, should caveat that by saying relatively less misogynist
Those gen y and x ages are whack
Also, I hate zoomers and their vertical videos too
... is it possible that these uneducated plebeians just put "fetish" in the search?
(jk)
Is that supposed to be they watch videos in vertical...or they get off on watching vertical videos?
"Oh yeah, tilt that camera. Tilt it harder. There we go. Oh yeah! It's standing straight up."
Vertical video is better for content focused on a single standing performer, because it allows as much of the screen resolution as possible to show the body. Horizontal is better for a performer lying down or any traditional horizontal sex acts, for the same reason.
I'm probably reading a little too far into this, but IMO Gen Z is much less interested in "simulations" of intercourse and is more interested in something "real", i.e someone doing a dance. Intercourse feels like a fantasy, like you're supposed to imagine that you're the one having intercourse, it's that fantasy which is appealing. Something like dancing or dirty talking is more honest about what it is, since a video of someone dancing or talking is essentially the same experience as if they were actually there in front of you. I believe that because Gen Z is more digitally native than older generations, they see digital content not as a substitute or fantasy for a real thing, but rather as a real thing in itself, and the nature of the content they consume reflects that. Another example of this is the shift from real-life streamers who fake personalities but pretend that they are presenting their real selves, to vtubers - who implicitly acknowledge that they are playing a fictional character for their stream as symbolized by their avatars. The human streamers are a fantasy substitute for a real human friend, but with a vtuber the content does not pretend to be different than what it actually is - a pretend character putting on a show for your enjoyment. By acknowledging its artificiality and integrating it into the content itself, it shifts from being something "fake" and "simulated" to being something "real". To me it's the exact same dynamic manifesting in a different area.
Now of course, I do understand that vertical content also simply means you don't need to rotate your phone, and that Gen Z is almost exclusively using the Internet on the phone vs. the desktop as older generations will. But this too is essentially a reflection of the feeling that digital content is not an artificial recreation confined to a specific display area (a TV or computer) but rather perpetually available (your phone), as would be appropriate for something which has taken on the status of being real rather than fake. The two forces reinforce each other, imo.
Boomers = 1950-1964
Gen X = 1965-1979
Gen Y = 1980-1994
Gen Z = 1995-2009
Gen α = 2010-2025
So ages
18-29
30-44
45-59
60+
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Or, and hear me out, what if they actually have good engineers and know how to sanitise their analytics? And at the risk of sounding crazy, what if the reason that the Linux share is rising is because it’s genuinely becoming more popular?
Crazy talk, right?
User agent logging is often done by running javascript locally on a machine, so the vpn would just pass the javascript to the local machine on which it would be run, so the data wouldn't be effected that way.
Sometimes TLS fingerprinting is done to try to identify bots and not sure if bots would be included. They probably would be included because if they were blocked, then the javascript catching user would never be run on their machine, although I'm unsure of whether such bots would run useragent fingerprinting javascriot yo try to blend in or block it to avoid unneeded processing.
So, Linux doesn't have a general icon and ChromeOS's icon isn't used, what could be an ideal icon/logo for the Linux Kernel, I wonder?
WhatsApp recently pulled support for some older iOS versions and devices, a lot of ppl threw them away and got Androids instead(as they should), I wonder if that's related to iOS's decrease.
Android devices dominate in a lot of countries, especially Asian countries, where our growth in those regions in the last few years has boosted Android’s user base.
I think the decrease is mostly due to this.
the age of linux is cumming upon os.
ok this is really bad , ill see myself out....
And there's a kernel of truth in there and by that I don't mean the kernel of an apple.
Back when I used Windows I used PatchMyPC and made it add a daily task.
It updated most of my programs.
You as a user help propagate that content while you have it open.
I'm sure that's a legal grey area that hasn't been explored largely but I would think you would have to actually host the content or have it on your device locally.
A single instance is not federated by itself. It requires multiple instances to be considered a federation.
Just a little nitpick.
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Yes but the question was for a federated alternative. lemmynsfw is not a federation by itself. It's only a part of a larger federation.
You would need multiple nsfw lemmy instances which can then become their own federation. Or a separate federation software on top of ActivityPub.
I am very suspicious of the -26% Apple marketshare. It makes me feel like there's more to this than it seems at first. There's no way 26% of Apple users stopped using Apple devices within a year.
Edit: maybe it could be caused by a large user base increase that shifted the demographics, but this fast? And the PornHub bans across US states started only this year for the most part if I'm not mistaken, so it shouldn't affect this data?
Which data source would be more repräsentative and reliable ?
Do you guys realize how much 40% actually is in a single year? That's crazy. Don't just look at the 5.1%.
I'm sure it's heavily influenced by the Steam Deck, it being a great device for porn and all, but still.
If they're anything like me, it's the old laptop that you'd install Linux on as an experiment.
And maybe that laptop was only ah... Semi-retired at the time.
PipeWire workshop 2025: Updates on video transport, Rust efforts, TSN networking, and Bluetooth support
PipeWire workshop 2025: Updates on video transport, Rust efforts, TSN networking, and Bluetooth support
With PipeWire evolving at a rapid pace, the agenda for the 2025 workshop featured several key discussion topics. Here's a look at what was covered.Collabora | Open Source Consulting
This is such a wonderful project. I am so grateful that it exists.
Thank-you everyone. Truly.
I'm back again with another question: Wine/Proton
A few days ago I asked about taking the big leap, but I use my PC for work in the arts (voice over, music, digital art, etc).
I've been playing around with Bitwig to replace Cubase and ideally Adobe Audition. It's... a learning curve but I'm willing to make it work if I can get everything about my PC lined up with Linux.
I then discovered Wine and Proton. So, they're basically bridges that allow you to use some Windows programs in Linux? I read they can use vst files with a bit of work, and people have had some success with Cubase, though Adobe is still right out but I'd love to get away from Adobe anyway. Also games??
Is there a difference between Wine and Proton or are they basically just different programs that do the same thing? The big leap might be more feasible than I thought if they do what I think they do.
Edit: This seems like it could suit most of my needs. I need to do more research into it but you guys answered my questions. Appreciate you all taking the time, thanks!
Wine and proton are the same valve takes wine and adds some tweaks to it to work beter for games. Wine can work in a pinch but I wouldn't rely on it for your workflow as wine could always be playing catch up when your software updates versions.
Wine/Proton is a translation layer that translates windows system calls Linux system calls. So if wine/proton doesn't have a feature windows has for your knew version then it will break. That's okay for games but for something you need for work that can be a deal breaker. If you can switching to something Linux native will benefit you in the long run.
Wine can work in a pinch but I wouldn't rely on it
In this case I would say the other way round. Proton works in a container, so getting to the sound interface for example might be harder than just using Wine
Side note: yabridge may be of help for VSTs
Also, another DAWci recommend is Reaper
GitHub - robbert-vdh/yabridge: A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2, VST3 and CLAP plugins on Linux
A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2, VST3 and CLAP plugins on Linux - robbert-vdh/yabridgeGitHub
Comments on Reddit seem to suggest that UI problems with NeuralDSP plugins seems to be solved with some onstallation of DirectX libraries (? Not sure about the technical details) :
was able to fix it just yesterday after seeing someone suggest this:install WineGUI
use it to install DirectX 9/10/11 and DirectX 12 packages
This instantly fixed the GUI not being responsive, tested with the new Nolly X
As a side note, a couple of things that might be handy for you:
Bottles is a GUI for running Wine things that might make it a bit easier to navigate. It's helped me out a few times.
Also there's an AppDB on the Wine site where you can search for specific software to find out how well it runs/tweaks that people have used etc.
ALSO yeah games are in a pretty good place on Linux nowadays. I have a Steam Deck and it runs a surprising amount of stuff, even things that aren't listed as being compatible. I think the main source of trouble is the online AntiCheat stuff, that's not always compatible with Linux (although sometimes those work too, I think it just depends on the game.) There's also protondb for checking which games work in Linux.
Hopefully some of that is helpful!
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Proton is built on top of Wine in order to make sure games specifically work well.
You can check protondb.com/ before buying a game (with Steam or otherwise) to insure it works as expected. A lot will work with 0 tinkering but some might next extra command line parameters.
You might get the same result with Wine directly but Proton it doing everything it can to "hide" away those (hopefully small) challenges away from the final user, a gamer (like me) who wants to just sit down and play.
So... the heuristic is basically :
- games? Proton
- not games but Windows applications that somehow do not have a better open-source equivalent running on Linux? Wine
Edit: for the anecdote I wrote this reply on my SteamDeck, the gaming console by Valve coming with Steam, and Proton, and running Linux to... just play BUT I also use it to work while traveling. So yes, works like a charm!
Wine is designed for apps, but can be used for gaming.
So, they're basically bridges that allow you to use some Windows programs in Linux?
They are like really Bad cocaine. Sure, it may work, but if you want to give up that much time, might as well learn an alternative because the next version will need a new workaround.
I read they can use vst files with a bit of work
That's an emulator.
Is there a difference between Wine and Proton
Proton-ge is a fork of proton is a fork of wine, which only exists because Wine isnt made for gaming specifically and proton can't include a bunch of stuff because of legal reasons which enhance gaming further.
Philadelphia Municipal Workers Strike Before July 4 Celebrations
Philadelphia Municipal Workers Strike Before July 4 Celebrations
Nine thousand blue-collar workers who make Philadelphia run went on strike July 1. After sacrificing through the pandemic and years of bruising inflation, they say they’re on strike so they can afford to live in the city they serve.Labor Notes
Philadelphia Municipal Workers Strike Before July 4 Celebrations
Philadelphia Municipal Workers Strike Before July 4 Celebrations
Nine thousand blue-collar workers who make Philadelphia run went on strike July 1. After sacrificing through the pandemic and years of bruising inflation, they say they’re on strike so they can afford to live in the city they serve.Labor Notes
Wayback: A Wayland replacement for the whole X11 server
Wayback gives X11 desktops a fighting chance in a Wayland world
: Minimalist glue code offers surprising lifeline for stubborn display setupsLiam Proven (The Register)
As the Linux world increasingly moves towards adopting Wayland in place of X11, there is a serious risk that a third of a century's worth of FOSS desktops and windowing environments would get dropped and left behind. Wayback could prevent that happening, and retain the diversity of choice in GUIs while modernizing the tools upon which they run.
Why do I feel like narrowing down the options would not be that bad? The whole world of Linux is, IMO, in dire need of consolidation behind tried and tested, universally accepted technologies instead of endless number of choices for specific tastes. That is at least the case if Linux aims for desktops (like it now very much should and could with all the Win 11 mess).
There really can’t be half a dozen or more alternatives for any particular task. Two desktop environments for example has to be enough for 99% of users, same with package management systems etc. Otherwise the newbie user will only get scared and confused, or not be able to easily find support relevant to their ”version” of Linux.
Man, we really need to make "The ~~Church~~ Cathedral and the Bazaar" required reading.
You clearly have missed the entire point of Linux, which is the freedom to do with your machine as you like. The endless number of choices for specific tastes is the result of people having the choice to write their own thing.
When consolidation happens, when people say "make my choice for me, I can't make decisions" we end up with super constrained setups like MacOS, Windows 11 and stupid Gnome the way it is now; no choice, do it our way or not at all.
And the answer is still freedom. It's obvious in the plugins and addons for gnome that get it to do basic customizing you find in, say xfce as a toggle in the settings. You find it in the myriad of softwares written for windows and mac that let the user do what they want to do.
And I will likely not be the first to point out to you Linux doesn't "aim for desktops", linux isn't an organization the way ms and apple are. And it likely never will be.
Newbies will be scared and confused no matter what's in front of them.
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Not to correct you but, if people try to search based on your recommendation, it is “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”.
Why do I feel like narrowing down the options would not be that bad?
Perhaps because you miss Microsoft or Apple? In a rather misdirected way?
Half the point is there are multiple ways to do things - and mind, Windows is like that too (you can get to some settings though the new Control Panel, the old Control Panel, the Regedit, the Powershell...). Just about the only thing in Windows you are forced only one vision of is the desktop itself, but as soon as you double-click an icon, all bets are off.
Also if what you want is getting behind "tried and tested, universally accepted technologies"... that's what sysvinit, ALSA, X11 and automake / build-essentials; no need for systemd, Pulseaudio, Wayland and Snaps. Pulseaudio was basically a stillborn deformed baby whereas I've never seen ALSA fail since 2002 (to the point even today I have to "fix" Flatpak not having audio on Pipewire unless Pulseaudio sits behind it by just seating both of them behind ALSA). I don't even have to begin on Wayland, it started as just vaporware; Systemd is largely an attempt to microsoft-ize Linux system management; and Snaps make me want to snap.
As for newbies... others have addressed the point but honestly, if someone gets scared and whiny at the "choose your starter" screen of the game, they're not gonna last any in a Pokémon game nor would I want them around whining about things they couldn't even be bothered to be here for.
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I am trying to understand the difference between Wayback and running Xwayland in Cage.
I’m Wayback, will I still be able to run Wayland applications? Or am I literally just running an Xserver that uses Wayland for the DDX layer?
Cage is designed around running a single maximized application. Wayback is meant to run an entire x11 desktop environment.
Not sure about the second part.
Forked-off Xlibre tells Wayland display protocol to DEI in a fire
Updated: Project to modernize the X.org X11 server seems to actively court controversyLiam Proven (The Register)
[5:48] 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' – The Full Film They Didn't Want You To See - Zeteo
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Exclusive: The powerful film the BBC refused to air is out now, released globally by Zeteo. It documents Israel's destruction of Gaza's hospitals and the killing of Palestinian doctors.Team Zeteo (Zeteo)
US Approves $510 Million Arms Deal for Israel
US Approves $510 Million Arms Deal for Israel
The deal is for more than 7,000 JDAM kits, which turn bombs into precision-guided weapons.scheerpost.com
Announcing CoMaps! Navigate with Privacy - Discover more of your journey!
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feat: Add the Public Transport data and functionality
### What problem would this feature help solve? The current Transport map doesn't contain every Mode of transit.Codeberg.org
Organic Maps Offline Hike Bike
• Detailed offline maps with places that don't exist on other maps • Cycling routes, hiking trails, and walking paths • Contour lines, elevation profiles, peaks, and slopes • Turn-by-turn walking, cycling, and car navigation with voice guidance • Fa…App Store
Organic Maps Forked Over Governance Concerns: CoMaps is Born
An Organic Maps fork has emerged due to broken trust.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
Export locations from OM, open kmz file with comaps, done.
Thank you, it seems really nice.
Edit: I'm on a camping trip and I was mad because the app wasn't able to find my next stop. Turns out that I downloaded the wrong map because I suck at local geography.
OsmAnd seems to do this.
They predict traffic patterns based on random UUID. I don't know how it works but it seems to be default on.
feat: Traffic data
### What problem would this feature help solve? There is currently no traffic data in the map download, making travel time estimates inaccurate when there is traffic, which makes it not possible to rely on the app for arrival time.Codeberg.org
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That sounds like an issue with the underlying OpenStreetMap data that is used by Organic Maps (and CoMaps, and OsmAnd, and others). Map quality depends on where you are in the world and who is contributing to the maps there. If data is incomplete around you, you could contribute to it (but easier said than done, I know).
I can't say why the route would be hours longer than Google maps, but I've noticed OsmAnd~ tends to overestimate drive time for me (I think it overestimates delay from traffic lights). Or it could just be that calculating routes on your phone doesn't always give results as good as calculating routes on Google's servers.
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.OpenStreetMap
Holy crap, this map is awesome. They have the grills, picnic tables, even all the ski lifts on the ski hill.
Don't care if the graphics look like they came from the 90s. I love the details
Blast Claimed by Daesh Kills Four in Northwest Pakistan - Other Media news - Tasnim News Agency
Blast Claimed by Daesh Kills Four in Northwest Pakistan
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An explosion in northwest Pakistan killed at least four local government officials and police Wednesday, an officer said, in an attack claimed by a branch of the Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group.Tasnim News Agency
Russian strike on Poltava: hit caused fire in TCR and on house territory, there are dead and wounded
And now let me spread a little bit of my favourite Russian misinformation.
This is how Ukrainian people react to "enemy" hitting the building of (and possibly killing several of) the brave TCC/TCR heroes helping people to enlist against the invading orcs who want to massacre us all.
US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza
AP spoke to the two contractors for UG Solutions, an American outfit subcontracted to hire security personnel for the distribution sites. They said bullets, stun grenades and pepper spray were used at nearly every distribution, even if there was no threat.
In one video, what appear to be heavily armed American security contractors at one of the sites in Gaza discuss how to disperse Palestinians nearby. One is heard saying he has arranged for a “show of force” by Israeli tanks.
“I don’t want this to be too aggressive,” he adds, “because this is calming down.” At that moment, bursts of gunfire erupt close by, at least 15 shots. “Whoo! Whoo!” one contractor yelps. “I think you hit one,” one says. Then comes a shout: “Hell, yeah, boy!”
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