I hope nobody today is depending on websites that use Flash, but I’m still glad to see projects like this, for the sake of cultural preservation.

Well, yes, that’s why I asked. Some newcomers to linux find Plasma more familiar than GNOME et al. Having it preinstalled can help them get comfortable faster, with less effort.

Do Pop!_OS AND Linux Mint have KDE Plasma variants, for newcomers who don’t know how to swap desktop environments?

I can’t comment on EndeavourOS, but your storage plan is fine. Good luck!

BTW, a lot of us would say Windows is already shit.

Did your wife go on social media to pick a fight by stereotyping and publicly scolding a large community of people, and justify it with an obviously false claim? I hope not, but if so, then I wish you the best of luck working through that together.

Be the change, homie.

When someone claims two obviously different things are exactly the same, pointing out that the comparison is idiotic is not combative, homie.

Edit: More to the point, defending one’s community by pointing out the idiocy of an attack is not combative.

You might not be paying for software in money but you’re going to pay for it, one way or another.

Indeed. As I hinted in my comment, and stated more clearly in another one.

You should just learn Chinese.

That’s disingenuous. I wasn’t complaining about English not serving me well, now was I?

Also, once again, mountains vs. molehills.

The difference here is mountains vs. molehills.

And in most cases, they obviously do have sufficient ability to learn how, because they were able to learn the commercial software they’re currently using.

As for time, yes, learning always takes time. (Thus my comparison to learning a new commute.) But suggesting that someone learn something new is not stupid or unreasonable, especially if the thing they currently use is not serving them well.

• In response to that paragraph you added after I replied:

I don’t know why you would think that cherry-picked and extremely specific scenario is somehow representative of the general subject we’re discussing. Of course situations exist where learning alternative software isn’t the best answer. That doesn’t make it wrong for people to suggest the alternatives. Quite often, they’re perfectly viable, and it’s perfectly reasonable to try to help by making someone aware of them.

is exactly like saying “why don’t you just buy a house?” to someone complaining about their landlord.

What an idiotic comparison.

Buying a house costs so much money and time that most people cannot afford to, and those who can generally must go into debt for most of their remaining lives in order to do so. Suggesting FOSS to replace “whatever commercial software they use” is the polar opposite, in that it’s literally free (usually in both senses of the word). It’s more like suggesting that someone consider a new route to commute from home to work.

Also, this opening…

Okay, all you open source evangelist people: your knee-jerk reaction to come at people

…is incredibly reductive and combative. The world needs less of that, not more.

Cantata is the music player I wanted for years.

Streamlink (with mpv) is great for no-nonsense video stream playback.

Filelight makes it easy to see where my disk space went.

Practically speaking, it’s a replacement for both PulseAudio and JACK, and provides multimedia plumbing for app container systems like Flatpak.

https://pipewire.org/

I don’t know of anything stopping banks from creating FOSS apps, but since it’s not their area of expertise, I think they’re more likely to license an app from a provider, and existing providers don’t have a compelling incentive to open-source their apps.

If we want FOSS banking apps, I think the first and most important step would be legally requiring banks to provide standard APIs.

I don’t know when I’ll have time to watch this, but if someone who does were to post a synopsis or link a transcript, it would be welcome.

Have you browsed the list of speech a dispatcher back-ends, and the different voices available for each of them?

that blocks access to the largest Linux community in Lemmy.

!Linux@lemmy.world is looking like a pretty good alternative. I unsubscribed from most lemmy.ml communities some time ago.

For stress testing, stress-ng might be worth considering.

I think Raptor Computing Systems hardware supports coreboot. It’s not Intel and not cheap, though.

Friendly reminder that multiple accounts will not be sufficient to compartmentalize your youtube activity, since google will still see your IP address and client/browser fingerprint. Using different clients through different VPN (or proxy) sessions can help there.

Of course, then you would be expecting people to give their personal info to Google.

These projects came up in a quick search for something self-hosted:

https://github.com/ohmyform/ohmyform

https://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms

https://github.com/formio/formio.js

https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey

There are probably more.

Deb packages can be built by anyone, including proprietary software makers. Installing .deb files downloaded from random web sites is like running .exe files downloaded from random web sites. Not safe or (as you discovered) ad-free.

If you want to avoid ads and malware, I suggest installing only from a trustworthy distro’s software repository, using its built-in package manager.