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I used to use AntennaPod a few years ago, not sure what it's like now but it looks to still be updated. Nice app as it has built-in search, etc. rather than just taking RSS feeds.

do you think NATO is an alliance for gay marriage? if it's non-negotiable, why do 13 of its members (and ukraine) not allow it? gay marriage is great but has nothing to do with NATO at all

Soulseek

your meme still sucks. what does this have to do with NATO? do you want NATO to use its military to enforce gay marriage? should it start with its own members? what about ukraine?

i hope to see it legalized in all socialist countries (like it is in Cuba!) but do you think things happen instantly? most western countries have only legalized it in the last 5-10 years and in many countries further from the western core conservative social views can be more of a problem to overcome.

there are definitely real concerns to be had about addictive and manipulative software, i use linux and a dumbphone as well. but "AI" is not some genius, it's a dumb algorithm and i think ascribing these apocalyptic powers to it is ridiculous.

and using the word "consoomer" makes you look like a 4chan nazi whether that's what you are or not.

piracy is not that deep… the OS doesn't really matter in this case as what you're concerned about is the ISP, not anything in your own PC. if you don't have a VPN, your ISP could send letters bugging you for downloading stuff. you'd probably have to get dozens of letters before the ISP would cancel your service.

just get a VPN for $5/month and you don't have to worry about it.

The version you linked on github is FOSS but it is out of date— newer versions on the play store are proprietary. Organic Maps is a continuation of the FOSS version by the original developers.

Hate speech is an actual problem for online entities to deal with. "Cancel culture" is a slightly vague term that usually refers to applying social pressure to disassociate from someone. This can obviously be good or bad depending on what it's about, but the term is typically only used by right-wingers when said pressure is applied to them.

Soulseek is the way to go for music, way quicker and easier to find shit than torrents

Is it just me or does it seem a bit out-of-touch to brag that last year's $1100 phone is still usable? You would sure hope it wasn't made obsolete that quickly

cnet's record is terrible. first they do crapware bundling, then have factually incorrect articles written by machine learning algorithms, now this

Soulseek is good. It's a peer-to-peer sharing service, so you can just choose who to download from rather than waiting in a queue. You can find things in FLAC if you want it, or in various lossy qualities.

It's not CentOS 3, it's CentOS with Linux kernel 3.10 (a 2014 kernel). This was supported in RHEL/CentOS through 2017.

Still very dated and a bad idea, of course. And even weirder that it's on a new machine. I've seen tons of stores using Win7 past it's EOL, but on older hardware.

Yes, directx to opengl (included in WINE) was used exclusively for a very long time before dxvk and vk-d3d came out just a few years ago. for older games you should be good to go, before i had a vulkan-capable card i ran all kinds of older games, usually without having to tweak anything. in a few games i had to change a game setting to use D3D9 instead of 11.

The market in smartphones should be expected to decline, and that's a good thing. People keeping old phones for longer = less e-waste, but they have to introduce a new, fragile gimmick for profits

Debian. Huge repository, no bullshit, and basically any software for Linux is packaged/compatible with it.

If the computer boots but you can't access a GUI, use Ctrl+Alt+F3 to open a console. From there you can use nano to edit the login manager configuration. If you had GNOME installed, your login manager is probably GDM, and its config should be at /etc/gdm/daemon.conf, according to the manual. If that is the case, it looks like you should erase the username under the entry "AutomaticLogin=".

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What it sounds like you want is only your home folder encrypted, where it decrypts seamlessly upon login. It sounds like you have encrypted OS root, which is more secure but necessarily requires a password before the system gets to the login screen.

Other than reinstalling your system, you do have the option of either making your decryption password shorter, and/or enabling auto-login after boot (if you're the computer's only user), so you'd only have to type one password instead of two.

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This paper looks like it's essentially run by the US weapons industry. It's a subsidiary of GovExec who helps military contractors sell to the government. This means they have an interest in drumming up armed conflict and you'd have to take everything they print with this in mind.

A group called Cofacts allows users to forward dubious messages to a chatbot. Human editors check the messages, enter them into a database, and get back to the user with a verdict.

“This year, because gen AI is just so mailable [sic], they just fine-tuned a language module together that can clarify such disinformation…adding back a context and things like that. So we're no longer outnumbered,” she said.

I'd be highly skeptical of how well this would work. A language model is not a truth machine, it's just a program that tries to write like a human. There are countless examples of ChatGPT and similar programs saying blatantly false things and making up citations out of thin air.

i feel bad for any writer there who's just trying to do tech journalism

fuck off. how many accounts have you made on tchncs.de to keep posting garbage like this?

Nice! What graphics card do you have? AMD generally works well out-of-the-box, but if you have NVidia you may need to install drivers

I like to make oats in the microwave and mix in peanut butter and banana slices

The backend should be the same (Freetype)… only difference I can think of is that GNOME uses Wayland by default while KDE defaults to X11 and offers Wayland as an option. Do you have a HiDPI screen?

yes, that's a tty. why do you need a different resolution? if what you want to do is change the font size, check out this link

Neat! I have a J2ME-capable phone but I haven't really tried playing games on it much. What are some of the best ones you've found?

it's an extension, right? i would assume it would go away if you uncheck this option in Firefox settings:

i've had this unchecked so i haven't seen it pop up in my use

Were you watching 4K77 and 4K83 with Digital Noise Reduction? The movies are distributed in two versions, one with film grain and the other with DNR.

I've always used XFS on spinning drives and F2FS on SSDs. No issues, they're very solid

I'm not sure if it meets all your requirements, but Dolphin has a dual-panel mode if you press F3 and has lots of other configuration options as well

I haven't been on Android in a few years but it looks like Librera Reader is still being maintained. Works great but somewhat large file size due to being a full-featured e-book/document reader rather than just PDF.

AFAIK, the port on your router is irrelevant as the VPN bypasses it. I'm not familiar with ProtonVPN, but with PIA you can get a forwarded port in the VPN app and specify that port in your P2P application. I use that method for Soulseek, but my qBittorrent works correctly in both directions without doing anything special.

but rather than just cranking up the exposure or brightness, it seems to do the equivalent of bringing the detail from shadows in Photoshop.

Maybe the levels slider? If you place the black point pointer further to the left shoulder of the curve, the shadows won't be as dark.

I would highly recommend using a Wine manager program such as PlayOnLinux. You can have each program in its own virtual drive and can use different wine versions and tweaks for each program. It'll manage the wine versions in the app so you don't have to install it systemwide.

Also check out https://appdb.winehq.org and https://protondb.com for compatibility, tweaks, etc. for each program.

I use XSane for scanning photos and I get good results. It has plenty of options and auto-names files like you said. I'm not sure what Descreening and Backlight Correction are for, though.

dxvk is available through the distro, if you're on an ubuntu or debian-based distro just run sudo apt install dxvk. vulkan should come pre-installed on any modern distro.

i'd highly recommend using some kind of manager, if you don't want lutris than use playonlinux which is more minimal. this keeps things organized and lets you use different wine versions and tweaks for each game. for example, some newer games need proton-experimental or an otherwise very recent version to run, but you may not want to replace your system wine with this.

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i had plenty of physical space in my computer case and didn't want to spend a huge amount on drives, so i have my OS and some games on a SSD and have added a bunch of old enterprise HDDs (6TB, 3TB, and 2TB) to store media and games on. having only an SSD seems overly expensive if you want to store large amounts