I do the this and it's great. An entire distro takes up only a few GB. Many graphical installers don't support installing on an existing btrfs partition (or subvolume) and want to create a new one. This can often be solved by manual intervention (via terminal).
Hate the players not the game. Players being the rights holders.
Yeah. Piracy being legal or Piracy not being sanctioned are two entirely different things. Idk about the former, but the latter is the case in many countries.
E.g. downloading and streaming is legal in Switzerland, while it's illegal in the EU. But it's not sanctioned, so nobody cares.
Uploading/seeding is illegal in both regions, thus torrenting copyrighted material is illegal. But Switzerland doesn't really prosecute torrenting, so nobody cares.
Great to see another map with satellite images, besides Google Maps and Microsofts Bing Maps.
Now they just have to stop blocking Linux based on the user agent. If I set it to Firefox on Windows, it works, but not if set UA to Linux. A major feature of browsers is that web devs don't have to care about the underlying OS...
YouTube changed something about their API to break 3rd party apps again. youtube-dl is also broken, but they've found the issue already, so it'll likely be fixed after a while.
GrayJay and YouTube ReVanced still work in meantime.
Luckily Steam will keep Duck Game in my library, but I dread the moment Valve leadership changes. Steam has existed for 20 years, and I naively hope I'll still be able to play my games in 40 years on my Steck Deck.
Our Xamarin app is a bit sluggish and uses a lot more resources on your device than you might expect.
Especially on my slower phone, the Bitwarden UI feels like it would shortly freeze. And some actions take longer than expected.
The new native apps with a new UI look great and should be better to use.
Using Linux means DRM protected content either plays in terrible quality or in RakutenTV's case not at all. Netflix is limited to 720p with low bitrate and Amazon limits to ~540p.
Changing user agent doesn't work because it's the DRM who decides whether the OS is supported.
Linux users have to decide between low quality legal streaming services, or piracy with high quality. It's not a difficult decision for me and my giant HDD.
Edit: I forgot the third option: streaming sticks (Roku, FireTV).
It's sad to see companies threatening completely legal projects, knowing that the volunteering developers don't have the time and money to win a lawsuit against a large company with lawyers. It's nothing less than bullying volunteers, or similar to SLAPP suits.
Edit: typo
This article is based on an article from Eurogamer in 2012 [1].
There're more recent similar rulings like in France in 2019 [2], but Valve already appealed. It will take many years until there's a final decision.
[1] https://www.eurogamer.net/eu-rules-publishers-cannot-stop-you-reselling-your-downloaded-games
[2] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/valve-steam-resell-games-ban-france-eu,40438.html
This proves that AC Oddysey runs faster on Linux than on Windows with your specific hardware. What this doesn't mean is that "Linux gaming is faster and smoother than Windows gaming".
Counter examples are Overwatch, CS:2, GTA V and many more.
Nobody reasonable doubts that Linux can perform as good or better than Windows, but claiming that this is true for all games is simply misinformation.
Wrong general claims like these lead to posts asking why their specific games run worse on Linux since they switched because they want more fps.
Don't get me started on older GPU's like 1000 series Nvidia that have problems with any vkd3d games so the performance is abysmal.
Why is it not enough that almost all games work on Linux with ±15% performance difference?
[...] what happens when everyone starts using it and torrents are no longer downloaded and properly seeded?
It's already happening. More and more people stream torrents and don't seed back which kills public torrents. Imo Debrid is not as big of an issue as they don't necessarily tax the P2P network as much as someone only streaming torrents and automatically dumping them directly.
Additionally downloading torrents after you watched them does not make much sense as you'd tax the network without benefit (unless you seed to say a ratio of 2+).
If you currently have torrents there's nothing stopping you from continuing to seed them if you don't need the storage. Long term seeders are especially important for keeping torrents alive and you won't need to redownload content you've watched just to seed it.
As long as you seed to 1.0 ratio (e.g. 1GB up, 1GB down) per torrent you don't hurt the network. More means you compensate for someone not seeding.