cyberwolfie
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- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 21 hours ago:
That’s a weird thing to present as an absolute truth. As someone who has exstensively used both Windows (3.1, 95, 98, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 and 11) and macOS (from 2011-2022), and now using KDE Plasma on my daily driver laptop, GNOME at work and Cinnamon for my living room machine: all three Linux DE are superior experiences.
Surely there are people who would prefer Windows and macOS over them, but it is highly subjective.
- Comment on Music Assistant 2.7 - Taking over the airwaves 4 days ago:
I would use Audiobookshelf as a source for Music Assistant, and then play them via Music Assistant. That way I can use my Sonos speakers (and eventually Snapcast speakers), synchronize across rooms etc. If I had to use Audiobookshelf directly, I would either play it from my TV with the TV on (only other way I can use my Sonos Beam) or on my phone with a Bluetooth speaker or headphones.
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 6 days ago:
How voluntary is it when these platforms have a monopolistic grasp on how consumers access music these days? And the more people believe that the artists are actually fairly compensated from this model, the firmer this grasp becomes. What choice do they have of being there if they want to have any kind of reach?
A Spotify Premium subscriptions will cost someone 156€ a year. If that person instead spent that entire music budget on purchasing albums from select musicians according to the enjoyment they derive from their works, or buy concert tickets or merch, and decides to pirate the rest of their music listening, what changes? For the consumer, they are now left with actual, irrevocable access (legal and illegal) to the same music you had rented access to before, and have spent the same amount of money. For the musicians, the ones who received the purchases are left with much more of your dedicated music spend, and the rest will have marginally less (their share based on total streams of your monthly subscription x12). For Spotify and Taylor Swift, they receive marginally less money (but more than the artists you actually listen to) of which they should probably not have received to begin with.
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 6 days ago:
I’m not sure how you think Spotify compensation works, but it is not a “one stream and you get paid”-deal, but rather a revenue share model where artists are compensated from a large pool by total streams. The main share of your Spotify monthly subscription that goes to compensating artists goes to Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny etc. Being a top listener to your favorite, but underground band contributes negligibly to what they actually get paid.
If you care about their compensation, buy the album as directly from them as possible, or buy merch/go to concerts, and recommend their msuic to other people so they might end up paying customers. Subscribing to Spotify and thinking they get a fair deal out of that is not the way, and increasingly not the way (with their GenAI-shenanigans).
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
My Linux laptop at work is enrolled in Intune
- Comment on Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results 1 week ago:
Will be interesting to see how the Jolla phone turns out :)
- Comment on Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results 1 week ago:
I would like to use my current phone (Fairphone 4), so I will donate to postmarketOS, Ubuntu Touch, and some of the DE (ME?) like KDE Plasma Mobile and Phosh.
- Comment on Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results 1 week ago:
Oh, I wish. I will be focusing my year-end donation round on efforts to make that happen.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 1 week ago:
Their Linux marketing department seems to have been quite effective over the last year.
- Comment on What are some unique Games to host server's of? 1 week ago:
I need to do this, good memories!
- Comment on America Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugman 2 weeks ago:
Being one of the best paid traders in the world does not necessarily qualify you to advise the government… There are plenty of morons who (for some time) are able to make a killing as a trader due to taking excessive risks and being sufficiently lucky for some stretch of time.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly #147: Ad-Free 4 weeks ago:
Ah, right! I didn’t scroll past the Newswire-section because my brain parsed it as a “Related articles”-section with links to previous posts. I am no longer confused!
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly #147: Ad-Free 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, what does this have to do with the post? I tried to find references to it but couldn’t, and now I am confused.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 4 weeks ago:
“Used to” maybe, bu “comfortable” is a stretch
- Comment on I Built a Mini Bowling Lane - Danny Lum 4 weeks ago:
This was really cool and impressive.
- Comment on How do you handle junk email? 4 weeks ago:
Since switching from Gmail three years ago to Proton, I’ve not had a single spam mail. I also use aliases most places so that I can disable it if I start receiving spam on one.
- Comment on An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026 4 weeks ago:
It might be sooner, but that would mean the AI bubble popped.
Unless the next insanity-driven hype cycle also relies on specific hardware components.
- Comment on Bossware rises as employers keep closer tabs on remote staff 4 weeks ago:
No, absolutely not! When you’re a manager you are supposed to stop doing actual work and instead spend your time in meetings, making PowerPoints and “navigating office politics”.
- Comment on Bad experience on selfhosting nextcloud 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been running tge AIO container for several years now and it is running perfectly fine. I only enable whatever I use, so for instance no Collabora.
But for Collabora, while it should be good for single-person use, if you require some kind of collaborative simultaneous work, you should probably set up the high-performance backend. I did this at work for a NC-instance hosted via Hetzner and it works well when we tried it, but we don’t really use those kinds of tools much in our daily work.
- Comment on How bad are my printer's VFAs? 1 month ago:
I see no such artifacts on my Core One. I am only printing with Prusament PLA so far.
- Comment on Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services 1 month ago:
It depends on what service - some, like Jellyfin, are accessed only from home IPs which are static (for music through Jellyfin I use offline mode to prevent too much mobile traffic), so I can add those specific IPs in the whitelist. Otger services I need to access from elsewhere, and I can add entire subnets (i.e. for my phone carrier network or VPN servers). Those change once in a while and that is annoying. Other services I want publically available.
Jellyfin especially still has some unsecured endpoints where it would be wise to take some.extra precautions. I think the risk some people seem to think this poses is a little overblown (i.e. rights holders finding your instance and reverse mapping your entire library and suing you to oblivion), but better not risk it.
- Comment on Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services 1 month ago:
What kinds of things are you planning to expose? What I expose I hide behind a reverse proxy with IP whitelists. Whatever I don’t need access to on the go I don’t expose.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 month ago:
Battery fuel guage is almost ready for FP4 at least:
fosstodon.org/@z3ntu/115435804332775702
And there has been recent successes by the same guy (employed at Fairphone) on getting cameras working (main post of the thread linked above).
These are recent improvements, and I really hope they can solve the audio stability and GPS stuff so I can move. Thinking of trying out Ubuntu Touch before a mainline distro is ready.
- Comment on Backups of Backups 1 month ago:
I put encrypted backups (borg or restic) on a storage box from Hetzner. One local copy on a different drive and one remote. Keep your encryption passwords safe though, otherwise they aren’t worth much.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I don’t think you bypass the age checks with the alternative front-ends? I’ve been using FreeTube for some time, and whenever there has been an 18+ video, I would not be able to view it as I would not pass the age check. If this is a more general check that is being rolled out, I guess there will be less and less videos that will work through these.
I think I need to start hoarding video tutorial series and self-host them. Would something like TubeArchivist be my best bet for that?
- Comment on Windows 11 Finally Fixes "Update and Shut Down" Functionality After a Decade 1 month ago:
Oh, this was a general issue? It was driving me crazy as I was certain I hit “shut down” instead of “reboot”. I am soon getting a Linux laptop at work anyway (I’ve only been waiting about 5 montha for it now, so any day now!) - so I will hopefully not experience this fix.
- Comment on 3D design software for 3d printing? 1 month ago:
Alright, that’s fair. I have been planning on trying the CAD-plugins for Blender as well. I love Blender, and it is easy to use except when it comes to CAD-stuff. I’ve also been wanting to try out OpenSCAD.
I like that FreeCAD seems to have quite some steam and hopefully it will only improve going forward.
- Comment on 3D design software for 3d printing? 1 month ago:
FreeCAD is insane. It is absolutelty unworkable and unintuitive for me.
I find it pretty workable for most of my cases, but have to look up how to solve certain things. I am doing fairly simple stuff though, and I don’t have any other references except some SolidWorks back in high school ages ago. But it gets me fairly easily to where I want to be, and it is FOSS which is important to me - I don’t want to lock my workflow into a software suite that may do a major rugpull at any given moment. I have experienced that before.
I didn’t start using it until after the 1.0 release - apparently there were some major improvements to the usability with that release. Did you try it after?
- Comment on 3D design software for 3d printing? 1 month ago:
I’ve been generally happy with FreeCAD for my use. If I am doing something less parametric and more organic in shape, I will use Blender.
- Comment on US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router 1 month ago:
I was planning to get the OpenWRT One. Any reasons that would be a bad idea?