Lies. CDs are useful for ripping to FLAC and then putting away in a box somewhere never to be seen again.

At a glannce, my guess is that the tape jacks are an input but the headphone jack is an output.

itch.io is fantastic. Mostly indie stuff with some bigger name stuff, but it's by far the best out there for devs.

This guy has been spamming garbage everywhere. sh.itjust.works is a terrible instance with no moderation and this quality of post is pretty normal from users there. I don't know why they haven't been defederated en masse when other less spammy/disruptive instances that actually contribute to discussions have been.

The article explicitly talks about that multiple times, though. Were you reading one of the articles that this one references? It mentions repeatedly how inaccessible and unaffordable healthcare is, using both of those points, and then moves on to discuss the issue as part of a broader societal trend.

Android Auto is a proprietary standard that's basically glorified spyware - if one thing isn't being fed to it 24/7 exactly as Google wants it so they can sell it, it breaks. It's basically just that there are a lot of dependencies that it would need that are fundamentally incompatible with privacy.

No, because if every piece of your entire existence isn't dedicated to making profit for the upper class, your life is worthless, and anything that devalues the profit they could make from you is stealing.

To be clear, I'm not saying you're wrong, just expressing frustration at the current state of the world.

Trillium is my personal choice for self-hosted notes. I haven't really had issues with using it on mobile, but I also just tend to put the stuff I think of when I'm out and about into a single note that I periodically go through and reorganize. It's been good to me so far, and it has all of the features I really need. If I need something fancier (or public-facing), I toss it in BookStack instead. Then again, I don't use either of them for business (mostly for tabletop RPG stuff and instructions to friends/family about using the other stuff I self-host), so if that's your application, I have no clue how it holds up.

You can use nginx or traefik as a reverse proxy locally without opening ports 80 and 443 to the world and host your own local DNS service that points to your server's IP (and even use a self signed certificate to get HTTPS working).

Can confirm; this is exactly why I switched to Linux. After my fifth-ish reinstallation of Windows, Microsoft pushed an update that caused the OS to use 80-90% of my CPU and I couldn't fix it because they locked down the service that was doing it despite it being entirely unrelated to my use of the computer (it was an Edge-related service that scanned web traffic for "optimization" if I remember right - one of those where Microsoft says "it's necessary but we won't tell you what it is and it wasn't in the OS before a couple months ago").

The Vulkan vs DirectX thing isn't an absolute in terms of performance. In addition, it's worth keeping in mind that Windows is horrifically bloated with unoptimized "features" and can use up to 8GB of RAM at idle plus 10-50% of your CPU at idle depending on your configuration as well as which unnecessary services are bugged in that update. That in and of itself makes a huge difference; my W10 install was using 8GB of RAM and nearly 80% of my CPU on system services for almost a month straight before they finally fixed the bug and reduced it to 2-4 GB + maybe 15-25% depending on the day, meaning I was getting huge stutter playing games as simple as Old School RuneScape. My Tumbleweed install on my much worse specs-wise laptop, on the other hand, used effectively zero CPU and less than 1GB of RAM at idle (fairly confident on the RAM thing but I'd have to check for exact numbers).

Almost none of these groups actually care about the kids. Most of them actively support policies that are proven to enable/cause more abuse because it feels like they're hurting the bad guys. As a childhood survivor of a bunch of awful shit that I don't want to get into specifics on, I've never seen a single "for the children" group advocate anything that wouldn't have caused more trauma for me when I was younger. There's no care about fixing problems and preventing childhood trauma/abuse, just care about asserting control and investing in what "feels good": retributive justice (that's more likely to cause recidivism) against one single specific style of abuser while ignoring others (and the survivors) entirely.

This is more about feeling good (and, for some, more authoritarian control) than about actually helping the issue of child abuse.