priapus
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- Comment on - Buy Once Software 2 days ago:
Yep, didnt make a single sensible point. Just anecdotes and irrelevant examples. I’m bad at ignoring an argument so I went and blocked lol
- Comment on - Buy Once Software 2 days ago:
That’s not what a false equivalency is, but ok.
FOSS has this reputation among most people.
Most people don’t have any clue what FOSS is. They just want software, and if its free and works, they’ll like it.
I am genuinely curious why you think people pay money for worse software though…
I provided two reasons in my post. Superior marketing and professional support.
That was my entire point. The person I was originally replying to seemed to suggest exactly that.
Ok, but thats not what you went on to say.
- Comment on - Buy Once Software 2 days ago:
How is that false equivalency? Comparing fdroid to the play store is about as close as you can get.
Like I said, there is bad FOSS software, but that doesnt make it generally false. People pay for software that doesnt have a good free alternative, they pay for support, and often they will pay to use software that has good marketing because they are simply unaware of the alternatives.
I’m not saying all FOSS software is great, but lots of software does have great FOSS options, for example, Firefox, Blender, and Bevy.
You’re not backing your points up with any actual reasoning or examples while also being condescending about it.
- Comment on - Buy Once Software 2 days ago:
You can also go on the play store and find a huge list of proprietary apps that haven’t been updated.
You need some actual stats to back up this point. Plenty of proprietary software is unsuccessful because it fails to profit, so its shut down. At least FOSS software will continue as long as someone finds it useful enough to keep it going. Plus the obvious, that if you like a piece of software you can maintain it yourself.
Also saying that FOSS software is “notoriously low quality” is silly. There’s tons of great FOSS software and plenty of shit FOSS software, just like proprietary software.
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 1 week ago:
I’m not saying Librewolf is insecure, I’m saying its less secure. They generally do a good job keeping up to date, but there can be delays if an update conflicts with their changes.
Librewolf is not just a Firefox config. You can look at the repo and see a number of patches. Without a paid security team to review these patches with every update, it is less secure.
I’m not saying not to use Librewolf, the likelihood of a zero day specifically targeting it and effecting a significant number of users is very unlikely.
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 1 week ago:
It does, but less than Firefox does. Their lack of manpower means delayed updates to fix zero days compared to Firefox. It also means less eyes on any patches introduced, so I’d be more concerned about malicious code being introduced.
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 1 week ago:
It just lacks manpower unfortunately. Going with a browser that has the funding for a security team is the safer option.
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 1 week ago:
I agree, Mullvad is the only fork that I have confidence in the security of (ignoring Tor ofc since it’s not really for general use).
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 1 week ago:
Also want to add that this was caused by a configuration issue. If you want security, don’t use Firefox (or its forks) default configs, look into Betterfox.
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 1 week ago:
What do you mean? The dev did acknowledge it and linked to a relevant discussion.
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 1 week ago:
Because its a stupid issue. The complaint is that a Firefox fork acts like Firefox.
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 1 week ago:
I’m not sure why you linked to this irrelevant 3 week old issue while referring to something that was fixed a year ago. Referring to it as a backdoor also implies that I was malicious, when it was simply incompetence. Have there been any security issues since? (Not trying to imply that not having any would make it safe, just wondering).
Zen is an amateur hobbyist project, expecting it to be something else is silly. It isn’t backed by a company. You take on these risks when you use a project like this. Its open source, do your research before using it for anything important.
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 1 week ago:
Floorp is even less trustworthy after incident with part of the browser being closed source. Even if they undid it, the fact that they would try that is unacceptable.
- Comment on Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically 1 week ago:
Tidal won’t play lossless in a browser, Qobuz does it with no issue and I am enjoying the new Zen widget with it.
- Comment on Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically 1 week ago:
Just anecdotal, but I transferred my fairly small library of about 500 songs from Tidal to Qobuz and nothing was missing. I even added back some songs I lost going from Spotify to Tidal. Nothing super niche though.
- Comment on Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically 1 week ago:
I don’t know how it used to be, but I’ve just switched to it from Tidal and am generally enjoying the UI much. Plus it has functioning search, unlike Tidal. My only issue is the lack of a shuffle button on my favorited tracks.
- Comment on Discord is getting mobile ads 1 week ago:
I do agree that Matrix isn’t a good replacement for Discord, but Revolt is largely centralized, so I have my doubt’s that its a good option either. If users started to switch to it, how would the primary instance handle that level of traffic?
- Comment on Discord is getting mobile ads 1 week ago:
Shame its not federated. Makes the self hosting aspect kinda unappealing if I’d need to access a different instance for different servers.
- Comment on Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically 1 week ago:
For anyone else who decides to give Qobuz a try, I wouldn’t recommend using TuneYourMusic to transfer playlists and favorites. A ton of songs were transfered but just say unavailable in Qobuz.
Qobuz has a partnership that let’s you transfer for free using Soundiiz, so I’d try that instead.
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 3 weeks ago:
Exactly what it is. A gross example of company trying to get their name out their by sensationalizing their findings.
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 3 weeks ago:
Its not a backdoor, your most likely fine.
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 3 weeks ago:
This isn’t a backdoor. Just a company trying to make name for themselves by sensationalizing a much smaller discovery.
- Comment on My Thoughts on the Zen Browser 4 weeks ago:
Agreed. I doubt he expected the project to be anywhere near this popular considering how many Firefox forks there are, and he’s been doing a great job keeping up with everything that popularity comes with.
- Comment on My Thoughts on the Zen Browser 4 weeks ago:
That comment about their security updates is a couple of months old. Zen has made significant changes to how they handle releases to stay up to date with Firefox, some of which were mentioned in the thread.
The Nix package is functional. Nixpkgs sometimes chooses not to add beta software that is receiving very frequent updates, especially if the package takes a lot of resources to build. In those cases, it makes more sense for the package to be maintained outside of Nixpkgs for the time being. NixOS users can get Zen from this Flake, which patches the official binary. COSMIC Desktop is another example of this.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 5 weeks ago:
I’ve never used Findroid, but they work on my regular Jellyfin app. I think on Roku transcoding is required, but afaik that’s on Roku not supporting the subtitle format.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 5 weeks ago:
I now extract all my subs, but for the first 2 years using it I left everything embedded and it always worked normally. Even with some advanced ones like Jujutsu Kaisen and One Pace, which both use stylized ones.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 5 weeks ago:
Yes. You set hardware encoding to QSV, then you’re mostly set. You can choose which formats it should work on, which for an Arc card will probably be all of them. I got an Arc A380 and its worked flawlessly with many streams at once.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 5 weeks ago:
Fair enough, not saying you should bother with it, just surprised to hear it happening.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 5 weeks ago:
I genuinely do not understand the issues people are having with Jellyfin subtitles. I just have Bazarr set up to automatically download and they play on every device (web, android, iOS, roku, android TV) with zero issues.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 5 weeks ago:
Embedded subtitles definitely work, and I’ve used bitmap ones before, although I generally avoid them so I’m not sure if they consistently work well. Directly playback also does work with those subtitles, so if you had issues it was likely related to codec support.