Great to see another map with satellite images, besides Google Maps and Microsofts Bing Maps.

Now they just have to stop blocking Linux based on the user agent. If I set it to Firefox on Windows, it works, but not if set UA to Linux. A major feature of browsers is that web devs don't have to care about the underlying OS...

This article is based on an article from Eurogamer in 2012 [1].

There're more recent similar rulings like in France in 2019 [2], but Valve already appealed. It will take many years until there's a final decision.

[1] https://www.eurogamer.net/eu-rules-publishers-cannot-stop-you-reselling-your-downloaded-games

[2] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/valve-steam-resell-games-ban-france-eu,40438.html

It's sad to see companies threatening completely legal projects, knowing that the volunteering developers don't have the time and money to win a lawsuit against a large company with lawyers. It's nothing less than bullying volunteers, or similar to SLAPP suits.

Edit: typo

Our Xamarin app is a bit sluggish and uses a lot more resources on your device than you might expect.

Especially on my slower phone, the Bitwarden UI feels like it would shortly freeze. And some actions take longer than expected.

The new native apps with a new UI look great and should be better to use.

Using Linux means DRM protected content either plays in terrible quality or in RakutenTV's case not at all. Netflix is limited to 720p with low bitrate and Amazon limits to ~540p.

Changing user agent doesn't work because it's the DRM who decides whether the OS is supported.

Linux users have to decide between low quality legal streaming services, or piracy with high quality. It's not a difficult decision for me and my giant HDD.

Edit: I forgot the third option: streaming sticks (Roku, FireTV).

YouTube changed something about their API to break 3rd party apps again. youtube-dl is also broken, but they've found the issue already, so it'll likely be fixed after a while.

GrayJay and YouTube ReVanced still work in meantime.

[1] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/11255

Luckily Steam will keep Duck Game in my library, but I dread the moment Valve leadership changes. Steam has existed for 20 years, and I naively hope I'll still be able to play my games in 40 years on my Steck Deck.

Some Highlights:

• A new component "systemd-bsod" has been added to show logged error messages full-screen if they have a "LOG_EMERG" log level. This is intended as a tool for displaying emergency log messages full-screen on boot failures. Yes, BSOD in this case short for "Blue Screen of Death". This was worked on as part of Outreachy 2023. The systemd-bsod will also display a QR code for getting more information on the error causing the boot failure.

• Hibernation into swap files backed by Btrfs are now supported.

• Support for split-usr has been removed.

Being able to play game from a single library simultaneously is awesome and how it should've been from a usability perspective.

Sadly this change will make it impossible to simply share games with someone specifically, since it's now required to be in the same Family Share, which is a strong commitment. For sharing games in a single friend group, this change won't change much (unless someone still wants to share with their family). The changes make game sharing work more like intended, in other words family share.

Agreed. Being able to customize all elements of the top bar is one of the great things about Firefox.
I don't see a reason why it shouldn't be possible to remove newly added elements. Even the "Open a new tab" button can be removed, as well as the recently added "View recent browsing across windows and devices" button.

On Firefox Android after ~100 tabs the amount is replaced with ∞.

The I/O size is a reason why it's better to use cp than dd to copy an ISO to a USB stick. cp automatically selects an I/O size which should yield good performance, while dd's default is extremely small and it's necessary to specify a sane value manually (e.g. bs=1M).

With "everything" being a file on Linux, dd isn't really special for simply cloning a disk. The habit of using dd is still quite strong for me.

One always has to be suspicious of Mozilla these days.

As far as I know Mozilla never lied on technical details, at worst they didn't know about wrongdoings by their partners and acted once known about.

The translation being done locally is advertised and should be simple to check with it being open-source. It also has to download for a while on first use, as well as translations take a considerable amount of time depending on the hardware. E.g. for larger sites it takes a short while until the last paragraph shows up as translated.

That's good. A Steam Deck 2 might make sense once there's an APU with double the performance at the same 15W.

Current APU's are faster per watt, but only at higher power consumption. This means either the battery life sucks, or the handheld is too heavy and expensive with a giant battery.

The current handhelds by other manufacturers are faster, but only a bit. 120Hz are nice, but I don't even reach 60fps on most titles and it consumes too much power. Games might perform a bit better but everything is still also playable on the SD, so there's no real point in releasing a second generation. All these devices fill the same niche.

What I expect is a refresh of the SD with an OLED display. Maybe even with VRR and HDR, now that SteamOS has support for it. Farther down the wish list are hall effect joysticks.

Symphonium is a great Android music player which connects to a Subsonic or Jellyfin server (or any other protocol like SMB).

Navidrome is a music server which implements the Subsonic protocol. This means apps like Symphonium can connect to it.

Any old PC is enough, even a Raspberry Pi is fast enough for a music server.

1. Install Navidrome on the server/pc
2. Configure Navidrome (open ports, add your music library/folder)
3. Connect a subsonic-compatible music app to to the server (I.e. type in IP or domain as well as the port).

Anything more like SSL (https) and a domain is optional for getting it working, and only a benefit if used outside of your home network. Using Tailscale makes a domain/SSL unnecessary and also no longer needs messing around with networking (e.g. no opening ports on the router).

The problem in this case is that they automatically trigger XeSS, which isn't bad unto itself (unless it can't be deactivated, which this sounds like).

The GPU does support XeSS but it crashes on Linux. If they just added a toggle/cmd flag to disable the feature changing the vendorId wouldn't be necessary.

Even if my screen broke I'd go with official instead of higher resolution, because of the performance penalty. Many games I play are already at low framerates, so sacrificing performance for resolution isn't worth it.

Someone pedantic: It's source-available, because it doesn't grant the necessary freedoms to e.g. redistribute and modify the code.

This will help eliminate excess baggage that builds up over time by automatically removing end-of-life runtimes that are no longer used. As the system is updated to use new drivers/run-times, the old ones can be automatically removed.

This might solve the issue with flatpak nvidia driver versions not being removed and accumulating over time. AMD/Intel don't have this issue as a single flatpak mesa driver version can work with multiple system drivers. Nvidia's closed source driver needs an exact version match to allow for flatpak's sandboxed GUI apps to work.

At least that's how I understand it, take it with a grain of salt.

They've been earning 30k USD per month according to their patreon page. I've read in a comment that they've doubled their supporters at the time TOTK was leaked.

Interestingly 30k USD per month over 7 years is 2.5m USD, which is pretty close to the 2.3m USD settlement.

There's already a wayland protocols extension in "testing", called ext-session-lock-v1 [1]. Sway, river and other wlroots compositors already support it.

The ext-session-lock-v1 protocol is significantly more robust than previous client-side Wayland screen locking approaches. Importantly, the screenlocker crashing does not cause the session to be unlocked. [2]

[1] https://wayland.app/protocols/ext-session-lock-v1

[2] https://github.com/ifreund/waylock

I've bought a Nexus 4 to play around with Ubuntu Touch many years ago, but I really don't think I could daily drive even a more powerful Linux phone. Many apps from messengers to banking apps are Android/iOS only, so it'd be really inconvenient to use — not to mention problems with calling and a not-so-great camera.

Almost all things I want to do on a phone are possible with a Pixel + GrapheneOS, which also makes an open source, secure and private phone OS.

Usually ssh'ing into a server through termux is all I need, altough it'd be cool to be able to plug my phone into a monitor and have a desktop with me all the time. But it being "cool" is the problem, as it's not useful day to fay for me. If I need a pc I'll take my laptop. I'll probably try it at some point, but that's many years into the future.

The hardware attestation feature is part of the Android Open Source Project and is fully supported by GrapheneOS. SafetyNet attestation chooses to use it to enforce using Google certified operating systems. However, app developers can use it directly and permit other properly signed operating systems upholding the security model. [...] Direct use of the hardware attestation API provides much higher assurance than using SafetyNet so these apps have nothing to lose by using a more meaningful API and supporting a more secure OS.

https://grapheneos.org/usage#banking-apps

My banking apps work on GrapheneOS, so I guess they are using hardware attestation instead of SafetyNet. LineageOS won't pass hardware attestation because it doesn't support locked bootloader.

It's so great to see how well proton supports so many games compared to 2018. A year later and more games are running, but many with terrible stuttery fps. Now it all works except for anti-cheat because of those terrible cheaters.

I wonder how long it'll be possible to build Gnome with Xorg support. If I had to guess I'd say there won't be any support within the next 3 years, because keeping future Gnome working with Xorg is work nobody wants to put in.

That said, Xwayland will likely keep being around for the foreseeable future.

Out of curiosity, do you use Xorg and if yes, what's keeping you from using Wayland?

Depending on your OS it should prevent screen recording. Maybe screen recording works depending on the DRM level.

The DRM prevents you from directly downloading the files. Similarly Spotify requires DRM so it's impossible to download songs.

Obviously if it's on your device there're ways to circumvent DRM, either by recording or having the right keys.

Most of the time it's the rightholders who demand copy prevention, even if it doesn't prevent copies but annoys customers if it fails.

In my opinion no proprietary browser is worth using.

Chrome isn't better in any way than Edge, as both don't respect it's users privacy and decisions (dark patterns, etc).

While I agree that piracy can be preservation of media, it's most often not the case.

Streaming torrents directly or through real-debrid doesn't help preserve media at all. Leeching only without keeping torrents alive also doesn't keep media accessible.

Some people might store media for a few decades and then reupload, but most people never create new torrents.

I'd say the pirates who help preserve media are a small subset of pirates.

Rotating the display by a custom angle is possible through xrandr on X.org.

There's no Wayland protocol for custom angle rotation, and I don't expect anyone to create a protocol extension without a use-case.

My wild guess: Theoretically it should be possible for a compositor to support similar custom rotation, as applications simply draw to their surface (window), without knowing how and where it is displayed on the viewport (display).

But it might require quite a bit of work, depending on the project, so I don't expect to ever see custom rotation on anything besides smaller/niche compositors.

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/552138/rotate-a-display-by-custom-angle#552140

I don't feel like !linux@lemmy.ml has a problem with spam/reposts, at least with the current users. If lemmy got more popular this might change, but as long as the current mods do action unwanted posts, I think we're okay.

Without account-wide karma on lemmy, hopefully we'll avoid the karma farming known from reddit. At least I want to believe others also post what they think this community might interest, without other selfish reasons.

I personally try to only post likns on topics not already discussed previously, and I think I do a good job with it. As someone who didn't post on reddit (besides commenting), I want to encourage people to look whether an interesting article/topic was posted recently and post it if not. I want this community to thrive, which includes avoiding depending on only a few people. Just my 2 cents.

It's more so that you are allowed to try to block ads. If YouTube adds DRM or otherwise manages to stop usage of ad blocking, they are completely in their right to do so.

IIRC if something runs on your system, you have the right to mess with it, however you want — e.g. block specific parts of the site, or use reader mode etc.

I've wanted to buy an upgrade to my RX580 for years now, but I'd really like AV1 encoding support. With OBS finally supporting AV1 on all platforms (?), this actually makes sense. But I'm once again reminded how bad the used market for GPUs is in my country atm, so I'll wait for a while longer.

“On skippable ads, the button appears after 5 seconds into playback, as always.”

They aren't hiding the skip-button, they are hiding the not-being-able-to skip-button.

I guess the advantage for Google is that users can't know whether they'll be able to skip, so they might watch more of the ad with expectations that they might be able to skip it.

I had hoped the OLED screen would be compatible with the LCD Steam Deck, but I understand why they chose to redesign the internals.

I already dread having to replace the battery down the road, since I've got one of the early Decks with a heavily glued in battery.

It's initial bcachefs anyway, which doesn't support all features yet and still needs a lot of work. I wouldn't run bcachefs yet on any system where an LTS kernel is necessary.

VPN's solve this problem completely. This law firm looks at the IP's of seeders and if they are german they request the personal details from the respective ISP.

If it's an IP of a (reputable) VPN they don't achieve anything and if it's not a german IP they can't do anything anyway.

They mostly go for the easy targets since that's their easy business.

That's the risk of partnerships with other companies for established brands with users who care about their ideals.

It'll be interesting how Mozilla reacts to this news, as they should've done better research themselves.

Even then I wouldn’t do it. Installing games takes a while too, so it’s not much of a time-saver compared to automatically organizing movies/shows.

And the risk of getting a misleadingly named game with malware is too high. Remembering to sandbox isn’t easy either, after possessing them for a while. Untrusted files should never be on a computer, imo. But I don’t pirate games, so take my advice for what it is.

Hopefully their personal information won't be found out by those lawyers, or they could also be threatened into stopping development. It's sad to see how companies are bullying volunteers into stopping legal projects.

Edit: SLAPP suits are similar to this, where companies file lawsuits while knowing they'd lose, if the defendent had the time, money and stress tolerance to win the lawsuit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation

I'm honestly fine with DRM, as long as it's removed within my definition of reasonable time. I'd say a year vor two.

Once the DRM is removed it allows for archiving and preserving the piece of media — as well as pirating copies.