Yingwu

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

When you torrent you can only connect to peers that have open ports, if your ports are closed. Which means it makes it a lot harder to upload if you rely on private trackers and maintaining a good ratio. One can still download and upload, but for especially older torrents it has a good chance to affect your speeds and ability to download.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is to be honest a huge barrier for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If Mullvad only allowed port forwarding...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

NMS is great! A fun, casual game to relax with for sure

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Apparently it's been shown (I don't have any sources on hand though) that most Proton games run better than native Linux games. While this probably just shows how badly made most Linux ports are, it does also show how great Proton works. Most of the time I'm able to run at Windows-levels of performance and in some cases the games run even better with Proton that in Windows, due to not having any additional bloat. I agree with you that there should be more games made natively for Linux, but gaming on Linux is super feasible nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Works through Steam Play/Proton, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lol. An e-Reader was actually one of the best purchases I've done. Started reading waaaay more than before. Also great that one can start digesting all those old out-of-copyright ebooks from like standardebooks.org, on a screen that resembles paper. I can never read a book on an ordinary screen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I recommend MComix for reading on Linux. I only use it on the PC, but nonetheless it's great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah if the library supports Overdrive, it's possible. I've used it and it seemed to work fine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

If one doesn't want telemetry etc being sent to Rakuten.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

This looks really awesome actually

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I think the person asked for e-ink device recommendations. Reading on an Android vs e-ink screen makes such a huge difference

 

Thanks for the great work! Especially since I've been looking for a way to filter out keywords on desktop, without resorting to a mobile-first front-end.

 

I still haven't decided on whether top, hot or scaled is the best sort. I feel like all of them feels "wrong" somehow. Any ideas?

 

.. but still end up going. Anyone agree?

 

I don't get this. AI bros talk about how "in the near future" no one will "need" to be a writer, a filmmaker or a musician anymore, as you'll be able to generate your own media with your own parameters and preferences on the fly. This, to me, feels like such an insane opinion. How can someone not value the ingenuity and creativity behind a work of art? Do these people not see or feel the human behind it all? And are these really opinions that you've encountered outside of the internet?

 

I love having some chill LoFi in the background, but I detest all the AI slop that's now dominating YouTube. Literally thousands of AI generated channels and no way to filter them. Some of my favorite channels that still seem to post real music are SteezyAF, bootleg boy and Jazz Hop Café. Does anyone else have any nice recs of channels posting nice LoFi compilations?

 

Of course it's not an explicit expectation, but the news cycle is dominated by a mix of 24/7 news and daily summaries. It's rare that I see weekly, bi-weekly, monthly summaries. I'm thinking, is there really that much that can happen in a day and that warrants our attention? Most news are clickbait focused on the negative, making us feel depressed and feeds our negative emotions. I wouldn't be surprised if the news actively contributes to the mental health crisis.

At the same time I think it can be of importance to have some understanding on what's going on in one's local area, one's country and in the world. For me I think a weekly summary would be good balance, but those are weirdly hard to find. What are your thoughts?

 

Or am I the only one remembering this opinion? I felt like it was common for people to say that the internet couldn't be taken down, or censored or whatever. This has obviously been proven false with the Great Firewall of China, and of Russia's latest attempts of completely disconnecting from the global internet. Where did this idea come from?

 

I was just reading this post https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1gmv76n/is_reddit_going_to_remain_the_primary_space_for/ and many barely see the fediverse as an alternative and they seem to have a negative bias towards it. Super ironic when it comes to the self-hosting community. Yes, some instances are problematic, yes, some devs might have had problematic views. But it doesn't really matter when it's federated and FOSS. I think it's clear-cut that the selfhosting community on Lemmy is a perfect alternative to reddit. Why is there such a negative bias?

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