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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's fair, but at least they could say something like "you can download our songs for as long as we allow it" and not "you can download your favourite songs and listen to them any time, anywhere" when that is only partially true, since, if someone has a playlist downloaded (still talking about personal experience) and they go offline for a long period of time, they can no longer play the songs and are required to get an internet connection only for spotify to audit and say "yeah you still have a valid subscription, you can still listen offline". It's not truly offline if I have to connect to the internet every once in a while.

Again, it's completely fair, but they could at least tell more than half-truths

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Not fun is pressing play one day and finding a big chunk of your carefully constructed playlist is "no longer in your library."

this is exceptionally true from my experience with Spotify. I had downloaded a playlist that had a specific song. One day I went to play my locally downloaded playlist only to glance over it and see that the song was unavailable. I had the song downloaded. In my device and it still removed the song. No warnings, no nothing. Ever since, I downloaded everything locally and completely ditched Spotify. Fuck this scummy behaviour

 

Hello Linux people, I need a bit of help. I wanted to leverage the new 545 NVIDIA drivers, but no other OS that I know of has them yet, so I installed Arch Linux using the handy archinstall script. I followed an external guide on how to get NVIDIA cards up and running. This one specifically: https://github.com/korvahannu/arch-nvidia-drivers-installation-guide. And yes, I checked it against the wiki (from what I could understand, the linked guide has no issues). After I rebooted everything went okay. Tested out resource-intesive games and they ran as expected with the proprietary drivers. However (and I don't know if this is a problem related to the drivers), I just tried suspending the KDE Wayland session on my laptop (Forgot to mention that I followed the wiki on how to get nvidia-suspend and nvidia-hibernate set up, and they were set up correctly), but when I tried waking it up, the screen freezes in a black background with only the kde cursor (I cannot move the cursor in this state) so the only option I know of is to forcefully shutdown the system and reboot. I am not very experienced in Linux so I could use some assistance in finding the source of this problem.

Journalctl log:

If there's anything else that would prove useful in debugging this issue, please tell me and I will provide

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

And they're big supporters and developers of Linux

Not looking to disagree, but do you have a source on the "developers" part?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Some games from Steam can still be used without Steam's DRM. It's a little difficult to pull it off, but it can be done

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Yes. Opening PDFs might be safer on Linux, but general internet security and practice goes a long way, too. Using a content-blocker like uBlock Origin on Firefox can greatly reduce attack surface on both Linux and Windows as well

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

researchers from security firm Trend Micro found an encrypted binary file on a server known to be used by a group they had been tracking since 2021

Sounds like it targets servers specifically, so desktop users should be safe

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago (5 children)

No.

By installing software only from trusted sources (default repositories from your distribution are the safest software you will ever install on linux)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Say no to centralized platforms altogether. I don’t want to be that person, but things like these are exactly why open-source is (and should be) superior. It’s unfortunate that OSS has had so little traction in the end-user side of things

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I found someone on 4chan that wouldn’t stop announcing this engine on /g/, most likely the owner as well. And seeing that the name is 4get, it probably started there

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It’s not ChatGPT’s API. It runs locally, no internet required. For those interested read more here: https://gpt4all.io/index.html

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

If only KDE was as seamless as GNOME on my Optimus laptop… I’ve tried gaming on Wayland (I need wayland for games) on KDE and performance was awful. On GNOME Wayland it’s as good as Windows

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

As ironic as this sounds, Google can't let Firefox die because then it would become a monopoly

 

Since I haven't seen a post about this, I decided to post this. Sorry in advance if this is a duplicate

 

I know this is something people probably say a lot regarding all sorts of media, but ehh, this is lemmy and I wanted to express my gratitude to this community.

For a little unnecessary background, I was one day just browsing derpibooru (an imageboard) and saw the 'random' button. I thought "ehh, why not press this button and see where it leads?" I got the jackpot. It sent me to a youtube link from a decade ago, to a video called Snowdrop. I thought "oh, great, fanfiction..." since, by that time I was led to believe by people on-line that most communities do bad fanfiction (bad in the sense of NSFW. This kind of gross stuff). And yes, I know this community is infamous by its bad side, but I ain't talking about the bad side in this post. Anyway, I saw the view count and was baffled: "22 million? WTF?" Since I was already there, I thought "ehh? Why not?" and started the video. In the end I was crying. How? How can a video based on a kids show be this good and thought-provoking?

Fast-forward to yesterday when anon in 4chan posts this masterpiece on an Applejack-related thread. After seeing this and other masterpieces by the same person, this other masterpiece gets recommended to me by youtube (I cried with this as well btw).

My only question is how? How can a KIDS SHOW have this much care and attention by its community? I'm never seeing fan-made content the same way again. Absolutely insane high-quality stuff right here

 

Hey y'all! First time trying to self-host something, I started with a local Nextcloud instance for me and my family to use. I just wanted to make sure that no outsiders can enter the instance (access it or its files) through a browser on another connection.

I don't have a DNS server so we access it through its IP address. The connection is unencrypted (I don't know if this is a problem on a local instance, but from what I've read, I need a local DNS server to encrypt it, as well as to be able to set a domain (?) name (I don't really know if it's a domain name, but I'm referring to the website name, for instance google.com). I don't think leaving it as it is (unencrypted, no domain name, only accessible through IP) will be problematic. Could other people access the server remotely with this setting? By remotely, I mean from far away. I tried out Nextcloud's own Security Scan and it returns:

Scan failed! The scan for the specified domain failed. Either no Nextcloud or ownCloud can be found there or you tried to scan too many servers.

I'm guessing this is a good thing for what I'm trying to achieve?

for reference, the tutorial I've used is this one under Linux Mint

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