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No, refold have a basic SRS web app now. It's terrible though, awful. Refold is basically trying to commercialize the community MattVsJapan created with awful things like proprietary alternatives to Anki.

Refold?

The definition of open source requires that you must be allowed to use the software for commercial purposes. While this library does have a commercial license available, it is dual licensed under the GPL 3.0, which is an open source license that allows for commercial use. Therefore it is open source, and of course allows you to use the product in a commercial product, provided you comply with the GPL.

I thought grub2 does support this now?

Dark Reader just shows up in the addons section for me in fdroid Fennec, and Firefox mobile. I don't think you need to do anything special to get it to work.

Yea, I've used that before but just switching between vertical and horizontal tiling doesn't get you anywhere close to dynamic tiling and on demand layouts.

Pretty sure they were referring to the amount of resources Valve puts in to keeping the PC platform open, including the vast amounts of ooen source software they create and the ones they contribute to, primarily for Linux. Hiring devs to work on FOSS, contracting out to FOSS companies like Collabora and Sourcehut, these are great things to do. Valve does plenty bad, like any big company, but one thing they don't do is use their marketshare monopoly with Steam to create an actual monopoly, lockin, etc. Even their hardware isn't locked down.

1. MS buys many game studios (especially those with popular IPs) 2. Puts these titles on Game Pass. Now in the long run, they don't need to sign deals for these IPs to be on Game Pass because they own them, they get their return on investment. 3. More and more games on Game Pass, MS is able to keep its ridiculously good value because they aren't forking out as much to put games on there (because they own the titles). Game Pass subs increase at an even higher rate. 4. Game Pass exclusives, even on PC. More people subbing just for exclusives. At this stage Game Pass is so popular fewer people care that this happens. 5. Other studios feel pressured that their games aren't on the most popular platform, which is no longer Steam on PC, and no longer the digital stores on consoles, it's Game Pass everywhere. They sign deals with MS to get their games on Game Pass. 6. Indie games are losing their ability to be seen on traditional stores due to loss of marketshare. At this point, MS makes it even easier to publish games to Game Pass and indie games take advantage of this.

Simple timeline of what will happen. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Microsoft embraced gaming, including the openness of the PC platform, and now are in the process of extending it with Game Pass and its value. They will eventually turn to the final E.

They probably won't be a pure monopoly, competitors will pop up, but it'll be an all subscription world and Game Pass will be the Steam of this world, except not just for PC and Xbox but for most platforms they can get their service to work on.

We will no longer own our games. Eventually Game Pass will be cloud only and the files won't even sit on our devices. And the worst part is no one cares, not now or in the future. Everyone just wants access to the latest games at the cheapest cost. And clearly the US government (I'm not a US citizen nor do I live there fyi) does not care to lift a finger against something in this sector.

I hate to suck up to another company, who itself does many bad things, but I hope Valve is able to keep the PC platform open for at least as long as I care to play video games. It's out of their own self interest, but they've done wonders for the Linux community and contract some great people to improve linux gaming for everyone, not just them. And they're releasing hardware that isn't locked down. Honestly, I hate to feel good about what a big company like Valve is doing, but I'm greatful.

No, the biggest feature of DWM is dynamic window tiling (pretty sure DWM stands for Dynamic Window Manager). Sway/i3 can be made to kinda dynamically tile with scripts, but it's much less consistent, less powerful, and hardly works. They are manual tilers and they don't try to be dynamic tilers.

Personally I prefer being able to quickly toggle a dynamic window layout based on my current workflow, and switch back to manual tiling when I specifically need to manually tile.

Currently I use Sway too as it's the most mature tiling compositor on Wayland, but once River WM[0], also based on wlroots, matures more I think I will likely make the switch because I often miss dynamic tiling.

[0] https://github.com/riverwm/river

On a side note, I hate how window moving works in Sway/i3. I can hardly ever get windows to move to where I want them to go with keyboard. As a result, I have a bind that enters a 'move' mode that takes the current selected window and moves it to a window that I can select. That, or I just use the mouse to drag the window, which is kinda annoying considering this is a keeb focussed environment.

The AMD microcode, running on my computer, isn't going to lock me out of my computer. You don't get full freedom with that microcode in the free software sense, but that's besides the point in this situation. At the very least that AMD microcode isn't going to (purposefully) lock you out from logging in to your TTY, because it wasn't designed to do that. At worst, the microcode will be so faulty that your PC won't boot (and that, hopefully, wouldn't be by design).

What's happening on your Mac, however, is by design. Apple designed the software to do that, and they get away with it. That's the difference.

If my AMD microcode started doing that, the whole world would be in uproar. Because, at least in present time, present day, they're not able to get away with that. Same applies to Intel and ARM. But Apple does.

That's a pretty nice plugin. I don't know if you're using it with the latest version of beets, but I'll give it a go, and hopefully it'll work. If not I'll try to get it working and send a patch if I do.

At the moment I use smart playlists and generate an "added today" playlist with all the songs imported to beets today, and add that playlist to my queue, appending it to the end of the queue.

Same. Don't know what I'd do without beets, can't imagine using Picard.

The rich set of plugins are equally amazing. For instance, I use the Playlist plugin, and whenever I update any metadata on a music file that results in a file name change (thus changing the song path), it'll scan my MPD (a completely separate program) created playlists (.m3u) and update the paths for the effected songs. Just one of the many things it automates for me, besides metadata.

Although not the fault of Beets, I wish there was a decent source for Japanese albums. Between metabrainz and discogs, it only gets me 70-80% of the way there. The new Deezer plugin helps with digital only releases but it's not as accurate. Unfortunately I don't have the time to contribute to metabrainz, as that 20% missing is quite large in the context of my library.

Exactly. Copyleft is more about "freedom for society" as a whole, ensuring all users (which includes developers) retain this version of freedom. Permissive licenses are more about "freedom" for the individual to do whatever they want, with the potential to take freedoms away from others as a result. I think the stupid anti-gpl sentiment mostly comes from American idealisms of freedom, and developer selfishness, but that's just imo. The GPL still lets you do whatever you want in the privacy of your own computer, but when you put that GPLed software into the public, you need to ensure that you give the same freedoms to everyone else to have within their own computers as well.

I think that's much more noble and kind. But as long as it's free software, I'll still use it and be happy it is, regardless of the license. And tbh it'd be nice if the small, loud minority of BSD lovers, GPL despisers would shut up. They give the BSD crowd a terrible look.

> I think that's not a smart business decision IMO.

They literally have to make their own hardware. The only VR hardware that supports Linux officially is the Valve Index and the HTV Vive line. Everything else barely functions, with the only hope being from community efforts (which are not stable experiences yet at all, far from it). The Index and the Vive aren't suitable for people that just want to use this software, because they're expensive and bulky.

It has literally nothing to do with the metaverse or virtual offices. It's a productivity device. While I don't think it's something I want, plenty of people like the idea of having 6+ monitors which take up the space of less than one (at the expense of having to wear it on your face). They're also marketing it as being useful for remote work, so instead of taking your laptop with you with one screen, you take this headset and you've got your whole multi monitor desktop with you. Bit more clunky because you need to carry a separate mouse + keyboard (keeb with a trackball/trackpad on it), but for certain people that's worth it.

It's not open source though. I think it used to be a while back but it hasn't for a long time. There's also the fact that it's more difficult to modify software and self host it when it was never built fir that, vs something that was (i.e. reddit vs Discourse

> It's not mandatory

That's not true at all. At any point your account can be flagged by their internal system and on your next login you will be forced to add a phone number "for security purposes". It happens to people all the time, but in particular, though not limited, to TOR and VPN users. So, yea, sure Discord's not at fault in the situation where a server admin turns on the phone number requirement, but they are definitely to blame when they force users, some who prefer to remain anonymous, to either give up personal information or lose their account forever (support will not help you).

Not sure if this can still happen if you've got 2FA turned on, but seeing as I see it mentioned more often from tech literate people (e.g. on here) who are more inclined to setup 2FA I doubt it makes a difference.

A certain (weeb named, from scratch, hobby) OS.

It's not the kernel security updates that are important in regards to this 5 year promise, those are all open source and can be applied to any device a ROM (such as CalyxOS) supports. It's the proprietary firmware blobs that are the big deal, and what this 5 years promise from google means is that those blobs, required for certain hardware on the device, will receive 5 years of security updates. And that's good, because those are the security vulnerabilities that e.g. the CalyxOS team cannot patch themselves (no source code).

This is why CalyxOS now makes it clear what devices they support are still getting full security updates (kernel + firmware blobs) or just kernel updates. I believe the most recent CalyxOS patch added the ability for the user to see in settings the month and year of the last firmware security update for their device vs their current kernel security update.

Apologies for misgendering you. My opinion that you come off like a windows fangirl was mostly due to the other rant you linked in the sixel-tmux rant: https://github.com/csdvrx/cutexterm#wait-i-thought-people-sa...

Here you mention some other things unrelated to terminals, and I was mostly addressing those. It seems to me you want a specific type of experience on Linux, but you can't get that, so therefore dismiss the merits of Linux. I think a lot of your impressions on Linux come from using an X11 based setup instead of Wayland. Completely different beasts, and I think a lot of your grievances would be solved by the latter.

For me, I cannot go back to Windows, ethical reasons aside: Sway on Wayland is perfect for me, and it's what I want out of my computing experience.

I actually agree with a lot that is written in those rants, particularly the VTE and gnome terminal situation. It's just your comments on windows vs linux came across as very personal imo, so I suppose I have retorted here with also a somewhat personal rant.

Also, I don't think either platform has many good terminal choices. Besides mintty, I don't think there are that many good (platform exclusive) terminal emulators on Windows. And on Linux, Foot is one of the few that meets my criteria, including top tier Sixel support (though Wezterm meets my criteria too if it wasn't so slow, hopefully it gets faster). But, for example, I could never really like mintty if I was forced to use Windows, because it lacks features I want.

What I'm trying to say: different needs, different use cases, different tastes. Sorry that my original rant came off so negatively to you and that I wasn't able to convey this point I was trying to make.

No, my reasoning for the 'rant' is explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28769793

The rant in this repo links to a related rant in another one of the author's repos: https://github.com/csdvrx/cutexterm#wait-i-thought-people-sa...

No, my 'rant' came from this section of this other rant[0], which is linked in the rant in OP's linked repo. I suppose I should have made this more obvious instead of assuming everyone would read the links provided in the whole rant (because I did indeed read the whole entire rant, and I agree with a lot of it, just not the part about windows being better than Linux and everyone who disagrees is a "millennial" seeking "geek cred", which originally misquoted in my 'rant').

[0] https://github.com/csdvrx/cutexterm#wait-i-thought-people-sa...

> It's not! Gnuplot ...

You misunderstood me, I was saying Kitty graphics protocol feels more like a toy in how well it can produce graphics (GIFs, videos, etc). Sixel is more common in actual use cases (at the moment). But, take notcurse's graphics demo for example, using the kitty backend, it's very unreal terminal experience. But once Kitty's graphics protocol has more widespread support, for example in graphing tools, it'll be just as useful as Sixel :)

The issue with Kitty is that its graphics protocol is not widespread yet, so some of the CLI/terminal programs OP uses that can do graphics output may only support sixel. But yea, personally looking forward to Foot terminal implementing one of the fancier graphics protocols, even if it feels more like a toy at the moment (until they are used more). But seriously running the notcurses[0] graphics test with a terminal supporting the kitty graphics protocol is sex, just like the program itself says.

[0] https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses

OP, your rants are pretty subjective and imo come from a place of windows fanboy-ism (before someone reports this comment for flame baiting, go read both of OP's rants in the repo, they're far worse).

I came to Linux last year, and I've been on it 100% no windows during this entire period.

I'm using Sway (Wayland), a DE (well, really just a window manager) you cannot replicate in the windows graphical environment, and I'd never go back. Everything is so smooth, and of course you may say that it's "because vsync is used in Sway and vsync = bad blah blah", but I've never agreed with that and a good implementation of vsync with minimal latency increases is worth it, especially paired with freesync/adaptive sync (which works on the desktop just as it does in Windows).

Fyi, before my Linux days, I was a very competitive gamer, and absolute windows power user. I went out of my way to get every last bit of performance and latency reduction possible (just so you know where I'm coming from).

My terminal emulator is Foot, a wayland native terminal with a focus on TUI performance, especially in TUI editors like (neo)vim (my editor of choice). It has amazing Sixel support with a developer who goes out of his way to fix even the smallest imperfections with the implementation. Foot has features I really love, like link following by keyboard shortcuts, great font fallback customisation, and no bloat (a feature in my book)

My multi-resolution setup is not impacted by Linux because Sway, and Wayland ecosystem in general, handles multi resolution tremendously, and supports integer and fractional scaling per display. Multi display freesync/adaptive-sync (and gsync whenever Nvidia starts playing ball) works great too, just as it does on windows.

The majority of stuff you complain about is due to crusty old X11 (whether you're stuck on X because of nvidia or not, it's not a fair argument). Or because you think the way Windows does something is better than the way Linux does that thing (even though in most cases I think the opposite, clearly a subjective thing).

Oh, and yea I think Windows sucks and Linux does <insert> better. But I'm saying that as a zoomer, not a "geek millennial" (as you said in your rant) :)

CalyxOS, or GrapheneOS, flashed to a Pixel device will be a far better degoogled experience than plain AOSP. Though I don't think CalyxOS's chromium webview is fully degoogled, iirc. Something about too many apps breaking.

> open source

Are you saying sentinel is open source, or that Velocity is open source? Because I can't find any velocity repositories on the web, nor is the app on f-droid.

Migadu http://migadu.com/

Super nice people, when you email them for support they're fast and thorough. Their founders are/have been active on here, and they're currently investing in foss projects by hiring sourcehut.org (Simon Ser and Drew DeVault) to build a new web mail built on modern Go libraries https://git.sr.ht/~migadu/alps.

They've got a list of pros/cons here https://www.migadu.com/procon/

I'll shill them any day because I appreciate their simple goal of creating a good email service with no extra unicord dust, marketing, etc on top, plus their willingness to work on open technologies.

They've got what you'd expect for the price, unlimited domains, great admin dashboard, etc etc. CalDAV and CardDAV come out of beta very soon (end of September iirc).

I can't edit my original reply to you because I'm not on desktop right now and the mobile app I use doesn't support edits, but here's the response from the waycooler dev. Note he actually was talking about wayland as a whole, not just wlroots. Obviously it's just one take on the matter, but it's a credible one based on their background: https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm/issues/199#issuecomment...

I should have said just with wlroots. Though smithay isn't a full compositor. There's a BSPWM issue on github (I can't be assed finding it rn) about Wayland where the authors of waycooler explained their difficulties in creating a rust wayland window manager after someone suggested that the wayland version of BSPWM should be written in rust. The waycooler devs generalised their statement to the wayland protocol in general, but in hindsight what they were likely referring to was just their struggles in wlroots.