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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023
  • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•AudioBook sites?English
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    11 months ago

    Libby often had any popular books often taken up by other users, so I couldn’t read until someone else “turned in their copy”.

    I get libraries in real life that have limited stock of books, but it’s a epub file hosted somewhere. The only limit is the server space and bandwidth costs.

    Also the app was so laggy on even my (at the time) midrange device, that it felt like I was browsing books on molasses.

    If they’ve fixed that, that’s incredible. I haven’t used it since, it left such a horrible impression. Trying to limit an endless digital supply, like making ebooks into early NFTs.

  • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoLinux@lemmy.ml•Help me choose a distro, please!English
    14·
    11 months ago

    Hi OP, I would like to state that my personal distro of choice is Arch, but I have used a wide selection of the more popular and some niche distros.

    First of: Just remember that as long as your distro works for your workflow and requirements, you’re doing fine. Don’t fall for some guilt of “This one is way better because of [subjective opinion for their needs].”

    If you want to experiment with distros, just remember to backup your files. One is none, two is one.

    Do you have newer hardware such as a brand new NVIDIA or AMD graphics card, or perhaps a new CPU chipset from Intel that came out this year? Then a rolling distro is probably best for you. There’s many tempting options, but my personal “sane default” is of course Arch. There is an installer once you load the ISO on a flash drive. Just ensure you have an internet connection. There will be a learning curve.

    If you want to have something to guide you along, then Endevour OS is good. While 99% of your questions can be found on /r/archlinux and Arch’s forums, they (rightfully) expect you to use Arch for Arch-based questions. It’s kind of like asking a question for Ford Mustangs when you drive an F-150. While there’s a lot of overlap, it’s not 1:1.

    But if you have something like a laptop from the last few years or more, or just need to focus on your tasks such as your programing and web browsing, and don’t need the latest and greatest, then something more stable is probably best. My top two “I just need it to stay there and remain the same without any worry” distros are:

    • Fedora Linux

    • Debian Linux

    Fedora is going to offer a nice mix of stable yet forward thinking, with major updates rolling out about every 13 months, and it’s a pretty smooth experience upgrading.

    Debian is the grand daddy of modern distros, and it is considered the gold standard. They recently made it so 99% of firmware support needed is now included for easier installation. The only thing that you’ll really get update wise is security fixes and any backports you enable.

    Keep in mind, Arch/Endeavor itself will not implode if you don’t update daily/weekly, it’s just intended to be refreshed often so when anything big is planned, it’s done in smaller chunks. If you install Arch and then go to a remote island for a few months, you’ll most likely be fine once you get back, but there might be some hiccups.

    So if you want more triple A gaming, I think something along Arch/Endevor is “better”, but if you don’t care about the latest and greatest, then I’d say Fedora is a solid foundation.

    Sorry for the small novel, but I wanted to state that there is no explicitly wrong option, all that matters is what you consider important. The defaults, the packages, and your workflow. Anything else is secondary.

  • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoLinux@lemmy.ml•Help me choose a distro, please!English
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    11 months ago

    Please do not suggest people to use Manjaro.

    https://github.com/arindas/manjarno

    https://www.hadet.dev/Manjaro-Bad

    https://rentry.co/manjaro-controversies

    https://averagelinuxuser.com/manjaro-review

    Manjaro’s maintainers have repeatedly:

    • Let SSL certs expire, asking end users to turn back their system clock until they fixed it.

    • Told users to make partial updates which often causes packages to break, including mandatory rollbacks on critical packages such as systemd

    • Held back packages for ~1-2 weeks to improve stablity, but does not do this for all packages, including the AUR, which causes dependency hell and breakage.

    • Rolled out an edit to a AUR package that repeatedly sent requests to aur.archlinux.org which made the servers experience a DDOS attack, impacting all users.

    I am not saying this to hate on Manjaro, but to inform OP and others. If they want a stable yet fresher distro, they should choose something more like Fedora or Ubuntu. If they want something rolling, Arch includes an installer in its iso that is really simple to understand.

    Edit: I guess I hate Manjaro for pointing out they run their packages horribly. I’m such a bad guy for that. Woes Manjaro.

  • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What shitty things have your favourite bands/artists done?English
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    1 year ago

    I like the Beatles, and there’s the obvious clique joke of “John beats his wives, ya know?”

    I like a grand total of one Megadeath song, “Hanger 18”. That bad is very troublesome. I feel bad for enjoying it, but I don’t pay for it, so I guess that’s better? But it’s nostalgic for me, and I like the words “Military intelligence, two words combined that can’t make sense.”

    I’d have to go through each bands’ wikipedia page, but I think some of the worst things are;

    • Disagreed on who wrote what, leading to members leaving or the band breaking up

    • Disagreed on who owns the name, leading to court battles and the band splitting in two

    • Important members leaving, and while the band is still fun to listen to both new and old songs, its not the same

    And of course the dreaded sin of “Why does no one know who I am talking about, they need more fans.” but that’s not really a thing of their own.

  • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoLinux@lemmy.ml•Curl Preps For "Probably The Worst Curl Security Flaw In A Long Time"
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    1 year ago

    Funny enough, I was just listening to an episode of a podcast that had the inventor and maintainer of Curl on, and they described the methods for bug solving and feature requests.

    He said while he largely doesn’t do most of the work, he still reads over code and denies random new internet protocols until it matures, and often by the time they worked have added it in a release the fad is gone.

    I forget what they said about bugs, but I do know he said “I have good people who have written more code for my program than myself, and when they find bugs or get issues, i trust them over random github accounts.”

    I don’t think this will last long from curl directly, the issue is devices that don’t or can’t be upgraded.

  • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoLinux@lemmy.ml•What is the most secure linux os for torrenting and such?English
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    1 year ago

    All that matters is if you trust your VPN. You can torrent on Windows with a good VPN, and you won’t get caught. You don’t need linux to torrent safely.

    If you’re worried about copyright notices, VPNs can help with that. If you’re worried about viruses, most viruses aim for Windows systems, but you can avoid them by keeping an eye out. There’s viruses for macOS and Linux, but due to the smaller scale of users, most people don’t bother hosting them online.

    If you’re afraid your law enforcement is going to bust down your door, that isn’t going to happen even if you torrent hundreds of movies and shows a month. They mainly crack down on the people who host the content, your ISP would probably end your service before you went to court.

    That said, if you want a more “secure” operating system, Linux can help beyond tormenting. Fedora, Linux Mint, Debian, are all solid choices for your first time use. Just know there’s going to be a learning curve, and if it gives you an error, read it carefully and search online, as others have had the issue before and are willing to help.