btw

Didn’t read the article, nor the full title, did you?

Edit: the single downvote is hilarious

I listen to music mostly on my computer and in the car. The car system is nothing special. I listen through either some ATH-M40fs cans, or Presonus Erie 3.5 monitors, which are honestly glorified bookshelf speakers, but decent for the price, IMHO. All running from my (older gen2) Focusrite 2i4 interface.

I used to listen in the train/metro/bus a lot more, but I now work remotely. That’s where I used Bluetooth stuff. No need to worry about the cable getting stiff in the cold or stuck in my winter jacket. I had a pair of Beats Studio 3 I paid less than $100 for that were pretty decent for the price I paid. The sound was as bass heavy as you’d imagine from the brand, but not terribly overpowering for casual listening, and the ANC in particular was pretty impressive. I also had some Anker wireless earbuds I got with a coupon on Drop (formerly Massdrop) that were good enough for listening to podcasts and having background music.

In terms of platforms, YouTube Music mostly, and a hand picked selection on Plex for stuff that’s not on there or that I want to have always available. The music discovery algorithms are completely useless for me though. It’s the one thing Spotify did better than YTM for me. The “My Mix” playlists and artist radios have been pushing me the same artists for months on end now. Want to know the ironic part? I discover most of my music on YouTube (not Music) nowadays…

I’ve yet to need to use GE’s Proton builds, I’ve pretty much always used the ones Steam gives me… Is the difference that major/noticeable?

I’ve got small gauges, I just don’t feel them at all. I could see more dangling jewelry being kind of irritating…

Holy shit mate. No concussion? Happy to hear you’re doing better today.

As usual with these laws, the people writing them are most likely completely removed from, don’t really care about, nor understand the underlying technologies they’re legislating on. Easiest example to illustrate this is looking at countries pushing for (or already adopting) anti-encryption and online age verification. It’s almost always with those half-measure laws that the most dystopian, privacy invading, abusable stuff gets voted through.

"Better" than what, and how, exactly?

OIDC still needs you to trust one of the parties. Who should I both trust with my age online, and would be fine with letting know where and when I'm trying to jerk off?

There's no doing this kind of thing "properly". One absolutely should fight against idiotic laws.

Of all three, Google has the most skin in that game, for what it’s worth, IMHO. They’re an advertising company first and foremost, and it shows in all of their products’ feature sets and privacy policies.

But we also can’t trust either of them lol

Yeah, maybe not on Lemmy. The downvotes are indeed there though.

So, what you’re saying is, it’s pretty much on character for PP lol

I’ve yet to have the first be as smooth an experience as just using the native package manager. Be it some app misbehaving or needing manual permissions tweaking, or a missing/inexistent GTK theme, amongst other issues.

Distrobox/containers are however pretty cool indeed. I don’t use Distrobox myself, but there are many things in my shell’s RC that’s just a wrapper alias/function around some docker image already.