The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Rusty Metal Skull Gun said:
I don't know what the schedule is normally like. But I think 6.11 is the new LTS, and 6.12 has some shiny stuff like sched_ext and PREEMPT_RT they might be eager to release.
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No lts is further back I believe. I would need to check, but 6.11 is the newest official release.

The 6.12 one is more like a beta. It's the development branch.


@jeff7989 I don't have experience with that. I always use brightnessctl, and tie that to the brightness up and down keys on my laptop. For kde adding key binds should be pretty easy to do. Since there is a settings GUI for it.
 
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MarqueeIsAFunnyWord said:
Honestly, you're much better off using ungoogled-chromium, because Brave's functionality can be replicated with some well picked add-ons, and you won't have privacy conundrums and shitcoins forced into your mouth despite what Brave is advertised as.

I get it, you don't wanna move all your data to a new browser install, but you don't have to make excuses for yourself to keep using it.
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Idunno man, the sync chain is plausibly encrypted to the point that Brave can't read the contents, and all the shitcoin stuff can be turned off or hidden. Unless I find a way to use my nextcloud server for bookmarks, passwords, and browser history sync I'll personally live with Brave.
 
Susanna said:
The only instance I can think of where trannies kicked a package off the repo was some minor drama over a minecraft launcher
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i remember the drama quite well, the fallout from the PolyMC shitshow was entertaining.
one day a dev, Lenny, banned every other dev he considered a faggot (all of them) and took over the project.
the banned devs forked the project (now PrismMC, fucking original) then someone (no clue who, bet it was a banned dev) started spreading rumors that one of the launcher's back end services was spreading malware i shit you not. without proof mind you.
then it was found out that if you were in the PolyMC discord, you were automatically banned from the PrismMC one. (you could've missed the drama, get caught up months later, run into a problem and have no one to ask for help)
even worse was that the PrismMC devs were actively spying on the PolyMC discord server's chat. why they were doing that, i have no clue, these people aren't sane.
whats funny is that Lenny told everyone within the server to not harass the PrismMC team or community, nor to bother them. (i think he even banned a guy for doing that but don't quote me on that as I'm not sure if it happened)
he took the high ground while the nut cases spied and spread lies on and about PolyMC.
even funnier is that the PolyMC package on arch wasn't taken down dispite arch being filled with troons. it's still on the aur.
although lenny was a weird guy, his British patriotism always ended embarrassing him since, it's fucking Britain. i have a feeling he's on the farms, either lurking or an active poster.
if you're out there lenny, i only have one thing to say.
Britain sucks, get fucked.
 
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TheDataHorder said:
i remember the drama quite well, the fallout from the PolyMC shitshow was entertaining.
one day a dev, Lenny, banned every other dev he considered a faggot (all of them) and took over the project.
the banned devs forked the project (now PrismMC, fucking original) then someone (no clue who, bet it was a banned dev) started spreading rumors that one of the launcher's back end services was spreading malware i shit you not. without proof mind you.
then it was found out that if you were in the PolyMC discord, you were automatically banned from the PrismMC one. (you could've missed the drama, get caught up months later, run into a problem and have no one to ask for help)
even worse was that the PrismMC devs were actively spying on the PolyMC discord server's chat. why they were doing that, i have no clue, these people aren't sane.
whats funny is that Lenny told everyone within the server to not harass the PrismMC team or community, nor to bother them. (i think he even banned a guy for doing that but don't quote me on that as I'm not sure if it happened)
he took the high ground while the nut cases spied and spread lies on and about PolyMC.
even funnier is that the PolyMC package on arch wasn't taken down dispite arch being filled with troons. it's still on the aur.
although lenny was a weird guy, his British patriotism always ended embarrassing him since, it's fucking Britain. i have a feeling he's on the farms, either lurking or an active poster.
if you're out there lenny, i only have one thing to say.
Britain sucks, get fucked.
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Good information dump. I just assumed it was an internecine tranny struggle, since trannies and kids are pretty much the only people still playing Minecraft these days, and the latter are unlikely to be developing a third party launcher for anything.
 
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MarqueeIsAFunnyWord said:
Honestly, you're much better off using ungoogled-chromium, because Brave's functionality can be replicated with some well picked add-ons, and you won't have privacy conundrums and shitcoins forced into your mouth despite what Brave is advertised as.

I get it, you don't wanna move all your data to a new browser install, but you don't have to make excuses for yourself to keep using it.
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I second this. I used Brave for a very long time, for websites that are too shit to open in Firefox, but with increasingly questionable decisions my backup browser now is either chromium or ungoogled-chromium, depending on context.
 
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Betonhaus said:
Idunno man, the sync chain is plausibly encrypted to the point that Brave can't read the contents, and all the shitcoin stuff can be turned off or hidden. Unless I find a way to use my nextcloud server for bookmarks, passwords, and browser history sync I'll personally live with Brave.
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The one thing that will ensure I never use Brave is that their adblocker at one point deliberately whitelisted multiple Facebook trackers.
 
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HootersMcBoobies said:
For bookmarks, I host a copy of LinkDing: https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding
It has extensions for FF/Chrome-variants that both tag things and inject bookmarks into search engine results.
I don't sync browser history at all.
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I use KeepassXC with nextcloud for passwords, and just use Firefox sync for the rest. I need to set up a self hosted Sync server though, which is supported.
 
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Funny enough kiwifarms gets a shout out right near the beginning of this. 😂
Squishie PP said:
Google is about to be sold for parts. Once that happens, Mozilla can't survive off of being Google's ant-antitrust shield anymore. And thus they have to come up with a strategy to actually make money.
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I understand they need to make money.

But I can also see all the decisions they have made over the last few years even before this happened that went against the very reason a lot of their supporters liked their product. As well as the manipulative way they are trying to frame things they are doing every step of the way.

I obviously don't have any real answers on what they could do to become profitable on their own. But I feel like they are trying to do exactly what googled did, while trying to get people to pretend they aren't.
 
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prollyanotherlurker said:

Funny enough kiwifarms gets a shout out right near the beginning of this. 😂

I understand they need to make money.

But I can also see all the decisions they have made over the last few years even before this happened that went against the very reason a lot of their supporters liked their product. As well as the manipulative way they are trying to frame things they are doing every step of the way.

I obviously don't have any real answers on what they could do to become profitable on their own. But I feel like they are trying to do exactly what googled did, while trying to get people to pretend they aren't.
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They are also trying to sell their VPN service, Mozilla VPN. Hopefully that becomes more lucrative than advertising. Either way, I am still just going to use Librewolf.
 
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Good news (and bad news) for CoD Fans on linux:

1) Black ops cold war is finally playable. You have to go into properties for proton experimental and enable to "bleeding-edge" branch. This appears to work as well for anybody who got it on battle.net (though battle.net will have to be added to steam manually

EDIT: it doesn't seem to fully work yet and even if you try a private match it triggers something and your account could be banned

2) HorizonMW/H2M mod is playable with a patched exe. There is a discord for Cod players on linux and there are a couple of people there that have been patching h2m to work on linux under Proton and their executable does pass the virustotal sniff test.
 
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std::string said:
Since I think you're probably too fucking stupid to compile programs from source, I'll just spoil it for you. Do you know what you get if you compile Brave from source? You get Chromium with Brave branding. None of the Brave-specific features work. Not even the ad blocking. Do you know why? Because it relies on their secret API keys compiled into their own binary that allow their binary to communicate to their own servers that enable these features.
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The burden of proof is on you. Ive searched all over the net for proof, but couldnt find any. Their subReddit wuld be up in flames if Brave wasnt fully open source. Did you confuse brave for vivaldi?

There are posts that contradict your comment, although they are old and maybe outdated.
From 2022, on Arch the Brave binaries are unofficial. Somebody would said something if the only and unofficial binaries on a repo from a popular distro had missing features. I aint got an idea how you compiled brave, but you mustve done something wrong somewhere
 
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std::string said:
Since I think you're probably too fucking stupid to compile programs from source, I'll just spoil it for you. Do you know what you get if you compile Brave from source? You get Chromium with Brave branding. None of the Brave-specific features work. Not even the ad blocking. Do you know why? Because it relies on their secret API keys compiled into their own binary that allow their binary to communicate to their own servers that enable these features.
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That is really, really cutting hairs, and generally private api keys are considered acceptable in open source products
I don even have an idea why anyone should think otherwise, but there is nothing in the open source licensing model that invalidates your use of the license if you exclude the API license key (or any other information that should be kept confidential, such as login credentials) from what you share.

It is not even considered problematic to exclude a valid API license key from the distribution of an open source project. For instance, there exist countless open source clients for web-services requiring API-keys that do this.

The standard solution is to ship the project with a dummy or no API key, and make provisions (for example during installation) for users to put in place their own, real, key.
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Generally passwords and access keys do not need to be shared for open source projects. And if you take away that concern then Brave is fully open source.
 
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prollyanotherlurker said:

Ah, that clip of Terry in this. Finally explains why I like the command line. It's just because I'm a white man, not a nigger.

He truly was a visionary, and is missed.
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Oh hey, I actually know this guy in a small Discord server I'm in. Was wondering where I'd seen the avatar before. Didn't know he had a YouTube channel.
 
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I've found a fix for that audio crackling issues that I had with a sound card: I've bought a new motherboard and this time it has 5.1 audio/surround output.
I also have re-installed EndeavourOS because I wanted a clean install.
 
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