I read エロゲ and haunt AO3. I’ve been learning Japanese for far too long. I like GNOME, KDE, and Sway.
If it doesn’t work in Wine (the only reason I’ve encountered so far is DRM), I just run it in a Windows VM. I play mostly visual novels, so it’s not that much slower. For Anti-Cheat games, I boot into my Windows 10 installation. I still haven’t quite figured out what I’m going to do with that installation come October 2025.
Just disable Javascript; it will load fine.
Those instances defederated from lemmy.comfysnug.space. @neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space contacted them and a few others about refederating a few months ago; I don’t know the current status.
Relevant threads:
I now finally know why Rocket League updates more often for me (1-2GB of updates) than my friend on Windows.
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Microsoft Exchange. For running an email server. It’s easily the most popular use for Windows servers.
In fairness, it’s so there’s a log of why the machine was shut down. It’s for the sysadmins in charge rather than Microsoft. In practice, most people just choose “Other” as the reason so it’s fairly useless. I have no idea if there’s a way to turn it off, though.
What’s next? Hopefully, Microsoft won’t start injecting a poll at shutdown demanding to know why I’m turning my PC off for the day.
Well, if you decide to run Windows Server, I have news for you…
I’m always worried about over explaining or sounding pendantic.
That makes two of us :)
Red Hat, the world’s largest provider of open source software, would begin to reserve the source code of its flagship product, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, to paying customers only.
I think they should have done that in the first place. You can sell open source software just fine; you shouldn’t be expected to make the sources public—only to those with a binary copy of your software who ask for it. Organizations that write and maintain open source software should be paid for their work.
In 1984, a researcher named Richard Stallman released a software project called GNU. Stallman licensed GNU for free, with his only stipulation that users sign an agreement called the GNU General Public License. […] To Stallman, freedom meant no restrictions — not necessarily no costs. “Think free as in free speech, not free beer,” he is quoted as saying.
Yes. Stallman sold copies of GNU Emacs on physical media back in the day.
This article doesn’t touch on the contentious issue, which is that RHEL’s terms say, if you share the Red hat sources as a customer to a non-customer, Red Hat may stop serving you as a customer. The controversy isn’t about cost. It’s about being punished for exercising the freedoms Red Hat gives you.
Of course, SUSE and Ubuntu Enterprise have had the same terms for years. Red Hat was the outlier until now.
I don’t try explaining this stuff anymore. I’m extremely bad at it and I know most people will either not care or not care enough. And that’s fine. It’s easier to let people think I’m a luddite. I prefer to wait for them to ask me why I use technology differently than to preach to them, and most of the time, they don’t ask. It’s always easier to let people convince themselves than to try to convince them.
I tell them to install Signal and message me there, and if they don’t want to do that, they can SMS me. Signal is a better idea if they want faster responses as I rarely check my phone but do check Signal Desktop fairly regularly. I have tried to get KDE Connect working so I can respond to SMS more timely but it was annoying and I gave up.
I ran an iPhone for many years and never updated anything at all. The apps were updated automatically.
Edit: Ah, you’re talking about an iOS update. Forgive my lack of reading comprehension. Apps that have been automatically updated have been known to stop working, however.
What non-AGPL software were you hoping to be compatible with fediverse software? Or am I misunderstanding why you want non-AGPL software?
I haven’t missed a thing. I don’t even get most of my news from Lemmy or Reddit communities; I get it from RSS feeds or books. I lurked /r/linux for a long time after I stopped actively contributing. It wasn’t until a few months ago that I started contributing to Lemmy, the first collection of online communities I’ve been a part of in years. I’m of two minds about it.
I’m actually grateful for it because I started complaining about things that have bothered me for a long time, and The Great Lemmy Migration made me realize, well, there’s no reason I can’t do something about that. It helped me change my attitude. So, in a very real way, I’ve contributed to several upstream projects because Lemmy made me rethink things and I am now less annoyed. It’s weird how Lemmy feels like an actual community in the way no other social site (including Reddit) has.
On the flip side, I think I spend too much time on Lemmy…but this week has been uniquely rough.
For a moment, I thought this meant Slack was now only going to work on Wayland compositors…
I also had a pretty terrible experience with Fedora KDE not too long ago. Too many issues to count. In the end, I couldn’t start a Plasma session from the display manager anymore so I gave up.
I really wanted to like Fedora, but…well, Fedora does not seem to like me. My experience on Arch KDE has been great. Like night and day. Still a few small bugs, but annoyances and not showstoppers. My experience with GNOME on Arch has been fantastic. Only one program was broken in GNOME that isn’t in KDE. It makes me wonder why I ever tried to leave…
So how else would you combat malicious forks like what happened to new pipe?
Trademarks. Anyone malicious can take your source-available code anyway, but if they infringe on your trademark by calling it “Firefox” or “Newpipe”, you are legally in your right to take it down. Trademarks deal with fraud; copyright doesn’t.
Iceweasel is a classic example of what happens when free software projects like Firefox seek to defend their trademark. They didn’t want to allow Debian to use the Firefox name, as that may cause users to attribute quality problems to Mozilla when Debian is actually responsible because of the patches they had made.
Want to remove an app using the GrayJay name without your permission if it’s a registered trademark? Here’s a link to report it to Google Play.
Honestly I laugh at the people whining about password sharing getting shut down. It was never really intended to be used that way
To quote Netflix, “Love is sharing a password”: https://twitter.com/netflix/status/840276073040371712?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
Who is using the Google app for iOS…?