It’s the plugins that cause me grief. Especially any that use ilok or weird licensing software.
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I’m a fairly advanced user of gnu Linux distros at this point in my life. Fedora is no where close to straightforward for gaming. Bazzite is plug and play set and forget. Is it frustrating to deal with flatpaks and osm-tree instead of simply using a standard package manager? Sometimes, sure. But for an absolute beginner there really is no better option for gaming as a fresh convert from windows.
Audio problems and nvidia drivers can be an absolute nightmare on almost all major distros from Debian to Ubuntu, to fedora if you don’t have an absurdly advanced grasp of the processes underlying.
Bazitte takes all of that out of the picture. It’s absolutely not a meme distro. It’s perfect for an average tech literate person.
I use arch btw, Debian, fedora, Pop, lubuntu, Ubuntu, and a half dozen other distros on a daily basis across a handful of devices. So I’m not daily driving Bazitte, but for gaming and general purpose computing there’s no simpler distro imo and I’ll die on that hill.
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•"Free Activation"? Looking for an explanationEnglish
1·14 days agoOkay. That clears up quite a bit.
brownmustardminion@lemmy.mlOPto
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•"Free Activation"? Looking for an explanationEnglish
9·14 days agoIt absolutely does and I’m not remotely interested in trying, but I’m also curious. There’s large communities and major repackers involved.
I’m hoping somebody from this community has an experience with that community they can share.
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Gluetun qbittorrent port updater?English
4·23 days agoThe gluetun wiki’s command didn’t work for me, so I used yours and it worked flawlessly. Thank you.
The wiki uses {{PORT}} and it seems {{PORTS}} is the correct variable.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Coworker wants to try Linux with gaming, Bazzite or Mint?
63·1 month agoI’ve tried many distros, Bazitte is by far the best for gaming without having to tinker. Fedora is not a good option imo because nvidia drivers are a pain in the ass.
I’d recommend he dual boot. Bazitte strictly for gaming due to it’s lack of traditional package management. And arch, Debian, or Fedora for coding.
I personally use PopOS for work stuff as well.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Experience with hosting a public Invidious instance?
5·2 months agoLast time I checked, you need to make a github pull request with the relevant info about your instance and after a certain buffer period they will add your instance to the list. Check the github page. There should be instructions.
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Pirated Ableton on Linux (or BitWig?)English
11·2 months agoI recently went down that same rabbit hole.
I ended up buying Bitwig Producer and I’m running it in an Arch install.
I tried a number of different distros which all caused different headaches. Arch ended up being the best fit for my Linux audio needs and was way easier to set up than Lubuntu, Debian, PopOS.
With the right setup, latency is better than I was getting in Ableton on Windows and Mac. I can even record live audio without any perceivable latency.
Bitwig made me realize how convoluted and stupid Ableton’s UI is. The team behind Bitwig holds good values, so I felt they deserved my money. However I have seen torrents available for it. I suggest you try a 30 day trial first that way you can check if you even like Bitwig before going through the hassle of getting a pirated version working.
My current pain point is Serum in Wine has GUI rendering issues making it unusable. Luckily Vital for Linux works perfectly.
Fabfilter plugins work with some minor tweaks.
My Waves license is on an ilok, which I know doesn’t work in Wine. So eventually I’ll pirate the cracked version and try that.
So far I’m really happy with the setup. Another benefit of Linux audio over Windows or Mac is the routing abilities. I can route any program as an input, allowing me to stream YouTube or Spotify into Bitwig so I can play live music over the songs without having to download them first or rig up some weird aux cable nonsense.
brownmustardminion@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Warning to new tutamail users, your account could be temporary
10·2 months agoThat’s pretty annoying.
I had a similar experience today with two other services. The bot detection systems these sites are using is completely broken.
I’ve had my tuta account for a while so never had that issue with them. But I don’t appreciate the way they handled your issue. I wouldn’t use tuta if I was treated like that.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•How do we actually confront or evade "kirkification" and the flood of ai slop?
1·2 months agoBuy IP PoE cameras like Amcrest or Reolink, hard wire them to a detected hub that is either disconnected from the internet, or firewalled to only allow direct access over your own personal VPN.
brownmustardminion@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•How do we actually confront or evade "kirkification" and the flood of ai slop?
2·2 months agoAI is the poetic culmination of where society has been heading for decades.
A photocopy of a photocopy.
AI is literally an acceleration of Jean Baudrillard’s theories on modern culture.
Not that I think that excuses it. If anything it’s more depressing.
brownmustardminion@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•How do we actually confront or evade "kirkification" and the flood of ai slop?
1·2 months agoTake it one step further and host your repo somewhere other than github. Codeberg, perhaps?
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•How concerned are you of watermarks in videos or images you share?
6·3 months agoI believe this is the original whitepaper: https://ws.binghamton.edu/fridrich/Research/double.pdf
And here’s an implemention I found on github: https://github.com/andrewlewis/camera-id
With that repo you should be able to test ways to obfuscate the noise signal.
brownmustardminion@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•How concerned are you of watermarks in videos or images you share?
27·3 months agoMost people don’t know your photos can be cross profiled and identified by the unique noise signature of your camera.
I’ve never heard of it being used in practice though. There’s a github repo somewhere if you’re interested in trying it yourself.
Partly true but Amazon has been known to make dupes of a product and sell it at a loss to drive the competitor out of business. I’m sure that threat lingers in some peoples’ minds.
They probably also promise the management team “you’ll still have creative control after we buy you”. Then turn around and replace each of them one by one
This has been such a depressing trend over the last few decades.
Fresh bright-eyed startup with a passionate creator develops some interesting and innovative product.
Gets bought out by FAANG, turns to shit and stops working properly or gets discontinued, and primarily functions as a spyware device.
brownmustardminion@lemmy.mlto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Blog post: The Linux kernel is just a program
4·3 months agoThis is amazing. Thank you!
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Upgrading video quality for non-English content?English
1·6 months agoJoin lat-team private tracker. They have everything you’d ever want.
brownmustardminion@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Do we have a good solution for public survaillence cams and Facial Recognition yet?
1·6 months agoThe question is whether they were using infrared to see through normal sunglasses. IR blocking sunglasses prevent “night vision” from seeing through the lenses. Under infared, you can see through normal dark sunglasses like they aren’t even there.
I’ve had these issues during high intensity GPU usage on an nvidia gpu. It’s the only times REISUB didn’t work and I’ve had to do a hard reset.
Not much I can contribute other than don’t rule out a nvidia driver problem.