more like 1000:1.

you know these cats? because the site is joke; like, check out the faq. and says “we” a lot, who’s that? who’s moderating spam and scams and abuse and such? how are they financing the infra? the name, dios mio…

TIL vice is still a thing

I haven’t kept up with that clown but if that’s a reference to the time he attempted to switch, that was a top-gear-like slapstick show, consisting of making wrong turns at every fork and having outliers galore in the form of some hardware he and one other dude on the entire planet got. that show of his is infotainment, as in not a reliable source of information.

you go with the beginner-friendliest distro, with the widest distribution which is ubuntu. that ain’t the distro I’m running, but it’s something you need to go through to figure out how this shit runs. after you’ve been around the block a time or two and you start bumping your head at the ceiling, you’ll have enough experience to switch to something better.

thanks, this looks good, gonna try it out with my next build

in case you didn’t know, jellyfin has support for hosting your books, and if you install the OPDS plugin, any compatible reader (librera, moon+, etc.) can pull books directly off the server and open them for reading.

first time I heard of this, thanks. so running it thusly it’s no different than a copr or apt repo?

can someone who runs arch btw on weak hardware, like dual-core U-series i5 and such, tell me how they’re handling AUR and friends? every time I bring that up I get downvotes as if I’m some MICROS~1 agent paid to besmirch arch btw’s good name and whatnot…

the idea that I hafta build and compile shit on a puny dual-core in 2026 is fucking ludicrous to me, never mind the bloat and cruft from all the build tools and deps for every possible stack. so what obvious solution am I missing? like, how do you handle a full system upgrade, say you got like ten things from AUR in addition to regular packages, what does that look like?

you’re nowhere close to RAM exhaustion. I had similar mishaps on an all-AMD system a few gens back and it manifested itself as micro-stutters that occasionally grew to such manifestations. I think I remember it was fixed via a combination of kernel switches and progressively better performance as new versions of kernel and modules/drivers progressed.

no idea what KDE Neon is based on (Ubuntu LTS?), but I’m guessing you rock pretty old kernels and relatively modern hardware, which is a pain. also you don’t need a swapfile, use zram. or just switch to fedora or sumsuch that takes care of all them things for you.

you did what? I mean, dude, give with the pictures, wtf!

this is a problemXY type of deal. leave the work PC alone. metrolist on android has everything you mentioned, allows download so it’s even available offline, etc.

was about to add this. kinda sad that I had to give up my searxng instance because I can’t get ublacklist to work on it (works on some public instances)

I use it reluctantly and only to un-fuck the fucked up search. if there were a good search engine I wouldn’t use the thing.

that’s a beast of a device (SDM888), it’s barely 4 years old and it’s fully lineageos supported: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/sake/ wiping the supposedly “pure” OS and replacing it with LOS will net you a blazing fast device with infinite configuration options, your potential hardware problems notwithstanding.

a) if you’re truly poor, you’d stay clear of buying stuff and use the shit you got, b) no new budget phone comes close to what you got and c) it don’t matter what the manufacturer shipped with it as long it has lineageos support. go to https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ and filter for latest version (23.0) and you’ll see which devices have active support.

didn’t see how they’re planning to make money. the infra they described costs a lot of money, not to mention the actual devs doing the deving.

brah, it is not a flatpak issue, the same happens with the portable version i.e. the one you’d get via deb/rpm/whatevers. it doesn’t accelerate video under wayland but does with xwayland; If you got a commensurate rant towards wayland, ixnay please.

as to why flatpak at all, I like my system stuff and my application stuff separate. thus my apps are all flatpak and autoupdated via systemd timer (another rant?) whereas my system stuff get updated like once a month or so as I hate rebooting.

I’m sure you found by now that your use case doesn’t match everybody else’s, so chill with the absolutes a bit.

if you’d read the thread you’d see it’s not a flatpak issue. also if you spell it correctly maybe people would take you seriously.

I mean, you do you, but I’ll pass this and every other money burning thing and not give it a second glance. my pocket computer is a universal machine, thus I can program it and set it up the way I want to. and if I don’t want no AI & friends on my property - that’s what’s gonna happen.

if all that crap is truly bugging you, put a blank android on yo phone. set up all apps to work without any intrusions. if I want to talk to people, I open the talk-to-people-app. if I want to read up on stuff, I open the reading-stuff-app. no notifications, no reminders, no nothing, my device doesn’t beep at me and demand shit, it’s there to serve me when I need it.

I guarantee you nobody at Xiaomi imagined I’d be running the thing the way I do, let alone - almost a decade after it was introed!

what I’m saying is, we have all the hardware that we’re ever gonna need already created and all we have to do is use it and ignore every spend-money-to-fix-problem ideas from them visionaries and mavericks and those kinda folk.

yeah, that jives with what I got here. wayland - no HW accel, xwayland - HW accel. so I guess that’s it, for the time being…

cool beans. can you confirm your flatpak settings, are they for X or wayland? if you run freetube and run xlsclients in terminal, does it return empty? and if freetube runs in wayland, does it say 0% in media when you playback?