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Bookmarks and GPX export is a great addition. OrganicMaps continues to improve and I find myself using OsmAnd less and less (unless I need specific features).

Great to see Unified Push on the list. As well as improved Wayland input method support, whatever that exactly means.

Immich recently changed license from MIT to AGPL. As far as I understand they can’t sinply relicense to a non-free license unless they redo a good chunk of code from the last half a year.

If they still used the MIT license I’d be worried too.

I personally would be hesitant to host Immich publicly until they’ve done a security audit. The risk of accidentally exposing my photos publicly is too big for me.

That’s why I recommend using Tailscale or Wireguard directly. Personally I’m using Wireguard for me and Tailscale for other people I want to easily access my services.

(Of course, not realistic if you have 500GB of music and no SD card slot in your phone)

That’s the problem right there. SD card storage is so cheap, but the manufacturers don’t include a slot for it.

It’s a sad day. E.g. former MEP Felix Reda did incredible work around the time of the 2017 EU copyright reform and helped the protests through transparency.

Now with the risk of badly written laws enabling (atm. restricted) surveillance, we’d have needed them more than ever. Luckily there’s still MEPs from the Czech Republic in the EU parliament.

Yes, Linux OS are usually lighter on hardware. But if we’re talking about gaming and other heavy applications usually have the same hardware requirements.

Windows Defender, update checker and other system services on Windows do tank performance by a few percent as shown by those “debloated” Windows images.

But DXVK also usually reduces performance by 5-15%, even more so for VKD3D. This outweighs the performance gains of less background services. Not to mention I’m (and I guess most people are) running apps like Discord, Spotify and Firefox in the background.

There’re games running better on DXVK than native D3D, but that’s usually because they are using an older graphics API that isn’t optimized on newer GPUs. Both GTA IV and Sims 3 use DirectX 9. Interestingly, running older titles om Windows with DXVK also results in performance gains.

I certainly didnt notice any difference […]

Me neither, except for a few games where my hardware was already struggling. Without direct comparisons I’d say a 10% performance overhead is negligeble too.

They likely don’t play Valorant, Fortnite, Roblox, Rainbox Six Siege, Destiny or League of Legends.

Basically all of my games run well on Linux, but I wouldn’t dare say they run better on Linux than Windows. Some do, e.g. Minecraft, but almost all other games have at least a bit lower FPS.

If games build for Windows in general ran better on Linux it’d be pretty surprising, given the amount of investment into Windows gaming there’s from many more big corporations than we have on Linux.

Linux gaming is better than ever, but there’s enough people expecting too much and going back to Windows because of Linux gaming shilling.

Torrents are based on the idea that everyone using them pays for it with their bandwidth and hardware cost. Except for those leechers who don’t share.

I’m paying more for my seedbox than for my usenet subscription. If I used my own hardware I’d pay with stress on my hardware, e.g. the disks aging and failing earlier because of seeding. The power consumption is also not negligeble, altough the server is also used for other purposes.

With private trackers this idea of an equal exchange is more obvious because of ratio requirements.

Edit: I’d say it’s similar to open source in that no single individual has to pay for it, but someone does have to, for it to exist. Most often with their (valuable) time and knowledge. If no one helps out and does their part (through money or time+knowledge), a project won’t survive for long. Same is true for torrents.

Same. It’s been great on a few occasions, but I’m not playing much in general. It still came down to a third of my playtime being on Steam Deck last year.

Though I have to say I did use it more than I expected over the last two years.

I will be surprised if Spotify won’t announce a new more expensive HIFI subscription with their support for lossless audio. Imo this still makes it less interesting than Tidal/Deezer/Qobuz since it’ll still be impossible to permanently download music from Spotify.

Nonetheless it’s great that Spotify will provide lossless audio for those who want it.

Shares aren’t necessarily voting shares, but I don’t know how that works and if it’s even relevant for the private Valve corporation.

So maybe Gabe Newell does have full control over Valve, or he might not.

It’s definitely interesting that it’s only 25%.

It doesn’t seem like there’s much ongoing work on suyu, which isn’t surprising since emulators are difficult to develop. Not many people have the necessary knowledge and are willing to work for free.

So yes, suyu is there for people who need it for it’s performance, but it seems likely that Ryunjinx continues to improve while suyu won’t change much in terms of performance and compatibility.

It’s great for the games that are already running well though, especially on low end hardware like the Steam Deck.

I don’t see how the ability of users to actually know which repository an app comes from and change the repository makes it more likely for devs to not remove anti-features.

I’ve had this exact issue a month ago where an app was available in official F-Droid repos and Izzy’s and I didn’t know which repo F-Droid selected by default.

If they chose an open source license, a fork under a different name would be possible (else it’s not open source).

Their wording is ambiguous, so maybe they only talk about keeping the name/trademark to themselves, which is definitely a good choice.

It’s also not clear if they accept contributions, but they’ll likely keep deciding what features should get added or not.

At least that’s how I understand it.

What happens if you start the torrent client without the VPN already running?

Bind your torrent client to the VPN interface, then you won’t even need a killswitch.

Sadly I find myself opening up Stealth (open source reddit client without any login) more than I’d like. There’s just more content for some topics. No longer supporting reddit by commenting is largely good enough for me, but it makes me understand how most people never left reddit.

At the same time I spent more time on social media than I should, like typing this comment.

The dowloaded files can’t be played and testing .flacs with flac -t throws errors.

https://github.com/nathom/streamrip/issues/656

KDE and Gnome being nearly identical, irrespective of X.org and (X)Wayland, was to be expected. Prior benchmarks came to the same conclusion, altough I believe to remember the gap between Wayland and X.org has been widening slightly.

It’d be interesting to see if games running natively on Wayland will change things a bit more, but I don’t expect it to change performance any more than it did until now (barely measurable). Most of the performance issues of games is having enough compute to calculate the frames, not how they are presented.

But it’s interesting that Gnome Wayland still has some unexpectedly worse results in a few cases, altough it’s not a reason to choose any desktop over another.