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ajvs··on Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California
The way Kindles are being forcibly deprecated lately is another good example.
ajvs··on Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months
Valve's Lepton (Waydroid fork) might solve this when it gets released.
ajvs··on Yggdrasil Network
Was evaluating this recently, the lack of NAT busting was a dealbreaker.
ajvs··on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
They know their software and update story sucks, so partnering with a company which promises to handle all that and they have an existing audience means they'll sell a lot more of that model.
ajvs··on Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC
Do you do that for Android?
ajvs··on Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC
It's likely just a codename for now.
ajvs··on Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC
Just think about how few Android devices have an open bootloader right now, there's no reason to think it'd be any different on larger hardware.
ajvs··on Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC
A big part of it is chipmakers deprecating S3 sleep in favour of Modern Standby.
ajvs··on Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable
> Unfortunately it seems supporting Linux natively is pretty quickly moving target

With the container-based approach of the Steam Linux Runtime this should no longer be a problem. Games can just target a particular version and Steam will be able to run it forevermore.

ajvs··on I don’t need a Steam Machine
And this is due to Valve's big investments in Proton, Steam Deck and the new Steam hardware to get game compatibility working from both the Linux/Wine side as well as making game developers aim for compatibility.
ajvs··on Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
The anti-cheat creators other than Valve aren't bothered to invest into making a Linux kernel anti-cheat, and most Linux users would be unwilling to allow one to be installed either.
ajvs··on Supreme Court allows multibillion-dollar class action to proceed against Meta
For several days it wasn't viewable to many people, even if you specifically searched for it[1], YouTube later addressed the outrage and resolved this[2].

[1] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1850982018064269423 [2] https://x.com/YouTubeInsider/status/1851016296269242434

ajvs··on Supreme Court allows multibillion-dollar class action to proceed against Meta
> the pervasive myth that conservative voices are somehow being censored or silenced, despite lots of evidence that conservative rage-bait gets disproprotionately more distribution on recommendation algorithms

It can be true that both conservative content gets more widely shared AND that they're still being censored.

There were countless high-profile conservatives banned from pre-Musk Twitter, YouTube and other social media. Likewise there's clear and obvious cases of conservative content being silenced like Donald Trump's interview on Joe Rogan kept off the YouTube trending page as the most recent example.

But these are specific cases, you claim there's lots of evidence that conservatives on the whole get more distribution. I'm not sure I believe that without seeing your purported evidence, but even if studies proved that were the case it doesn't negate the fact that simultaneously there's a large amount of conservatives being censored on top of that, preventing their distribution from going even further.

ajvs··on DOJ filed paperwork to US District Court to force Google to spin off Chrome [pdf]
Or just don't fork Chromium at all and Google can make the upstream their recommended browser.
ajvs··on DOJ filed paperwork to US District Court to force Google to spin off Chrome [pdf]
A huge amount of their products require browser access, having a good UX to access them off in their best interest.
ajvs··on Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds
If you're going to the official domains linked from their Wikipedia article then there's definitely no malware.
ajvs··on ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives
How do you set this up? I found this relevant issue[1] but it doesn't explain how to get it working.

[1] https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/211

ajvs··on Restic: Backups done right
Relevant: Borg 2.x now supports rclone to allow S3-compatible hosts.
ajvs··on Restic: Backups done right
Not sure but I know that Vorta (borg GUI) does automatic consistency checking using `borg check ` regularly.
ajvs··on BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH
Vorta (GUI for BorgBackup) will also opportunistically backup if it's overdue for a backup.
ajvs··on Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%
The new Nexus Mods App is cross-platform https://github.com/Nexus-Mods/NexusMods.App
ajvs··on Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%
It really hasn't got it still unfortunately. Been waiting for hot-unplug support for years, eGPU gaming is still not viable on Linux https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1081
ajvs··on Show HN: Crawl a modern website to a zip, serve the website from the zip
SingleFile extension is the modern equivalent these days.
ajvs··on Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)
It doesn't work on various distributions, lots of people disable it because of various issues like it being much slower to start, it can only connect to one backend at a time (which is Canonical's proprietary one) unlike Flatpak, and generally the Linux community has settled on Flatpak and AppImage as the preferred universal packaging formats.
ajvs··on Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)
If you're going to offer an offline-capable Linux app then no-one wants to use Snap. AppImage or Flatpak is the way.
ajvs··on EU opens proceedings against X over efforts to combat information manipulation
Why get rid of one propaganda overlord just to replace it with another?
ajvs··on Naev – open-source game about space exploration, trade and combat
Yeah I have to say Starsector way of less arcadey combat works really really good, wish more of these space sims would copy it.
ajvs··on The UK's Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law
Because you're missing the context of what's actually happening in the UK such as ULEZ making travel more expensive (thus monetarily restricting your movement) and councils implementing 15-minute city-aligned schemes which also limit movement.
ajvs··on Show HN: Fediverser Portal – Bring your subreddits to Lemmy
Yeah this is a design change that can only be fixed on the client application side because there will always be a reason created by an instance for why they don't want X content mirrored to their site.
ajvs··on Show HN: Fediverser Portal – Bring your subreddits to Lemmy
The main thing Lemmy is missing for adoption is a good desktop and/or mobile app.

Since instances can defederate with each other it's often not possible to follow all your favourite communities from one account. So a good app needs to decouple this and enable follow any community without having an account, and instead store following data in the client.

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