That’s what I mean, this is massive overreach and completely unwarranted on top of that.

The league claimed that through the app, users were able to access M3U playlists. These files carry no infringing content themselves, but effectively point to locations where pirated audiovisual content (such as sports, TV channels, TV series, and movies) can be found.

In the specific form it was made available for download on various app stores, NewPlay didn’t appear to contain pre-loaded playlists or links to copyrighted content, at least at the point of delivery.

While acknowledging NewPlay’s ability to consume M3U playlists in a manner not unlike VLC, for example, they argued that NewPlay played no part creating the playlists or the media to which they linked

The court order required Google, Apple, and Huawei to disable or delete NewPlay to prevent future use on users’ mobile devices.

So it’s a HLS stream player app? I fucking hate the football mafia

Signal is much more polished and less fragile than Matrix, but is pretty barebones especially in terms of features for large communities. Matrix additionally has a browser client and many non-Electron desktop clients. It’s really close and depends on the use case imo. For personal messages I think I prefer Signal, for communities Matrix.

I haven’t used Threema.

Summer last year, getting into a private/walled off area I wanted to explore. (That was a ~2m drop onto some stairs so getting out was much harder than getting in haha)

I use zsh and it works fine for me fwiw. Same with zsh --no-rcs (which doesn’t load zshrc). Maybe you have some weird setting enabled?

For a macOS-style desktop I recommend Plasma. It won’t feel like it out of the box, but you can customize it. I have it set up to have a top panel with app launcher, global menu, tray icons/notifications/time, and a bottom floating panel with all the application icons, downloads and trash like the Mac Dock, window buttons on the left, and a bunch of other tweaks. Keyboard shortcuts I’ve also all set up to be as far as on the Mac as possible, including correct mapping of the command key, if you care about those.

It’s certainly not perfect in terms of how it behaves like macOS but probably about the best you can get with “off the shelf” desktops. (Wish more people cared about a GNUstep desktop tbh)

Not sure about distros, I generally recommend openSuSE to new users. If it or Mint works for your use cases, no idea though.

I said it was significant, not that they were having problems.

I’m pretty sure only the yellow bar on the right of that indicator is cache. Green is actually being used by processes.

It’s apparently jumped by almost a third of all of their available RAM. That’s pretty significant.

They don’t want their network blocks reputation lowered because some idiot is sending spam mail or has an open relay. Apparently some will allow it on request.

Personally my mail server is on a Hetzner VPS.

I was talking about Telegram. Syncing messages between devices has always been possible on Signal, just not the ones from before you connected the extra device.

Additionally, E2E chats don’t sync between devices (and iirc you can’t use them on desktop at all), and group chats can’t be encrypted at all.

Yes, in fact that’s the default for panels.

That would make sense if they were overlapping. They aren’t. There’s no need to “focus” the window.

Window focus is important for things like determining where keyboard input goes. If you want to type text into another window that isn’t focused, you need to switch focus before continuing to type so your text goes into the right window.

The need to focus on the window before clicking?

It doesn’t delay the click action for a double click because it already does it for a single click, so it would be pointless to do the same for a double click. If you’re double clicking, it’s pretty much always because you actually want to double click on something specific in the UI.

I don’t understand the question. All of them.

Skill issue.

No. It doesn’t. I’m beginning to think you’ve never used a Mac.

I use a Mac almost as much as I use Linux, which is almost daily, right now exclusively even since I’m not at home where my Linux computer is.

I’m beginning to think you’ve never used any computer since you don’t even know what window focus is for.

Well, theoretically yes. On a Mac, no.

Yes, even on a Mac. Necessarily so since it strictly places windows on one monitor. You’re always switching to a window on another monitor.

Can you give an example of what you’re talking about?

Why would I want to do that? Why does double-clicking suddenly remove that need?

So you can activate a window without first having to find a free space in the UI to click on (especially if it partially overlaps). It much increases the surface to click on to focus a window and therefore makes it faster since you can be more inaccurate in where you move the mouse.

What need?

No you can’t. It just minimizes them. Just like the yellow button.

It does not.

Can you give an example of a window that gets minimized by clicking the red button?

Like I said, sometimes you can, sometimes you can’t. Apple does not give any fucks about consistency or intuitive design.

No, drag and drop tile actions always work, even if it doesn’t entirely make sense (e.g. windows that can’t be resized).

Can you give an example of a window that it does not work with?

You have to click to switch monitors but if you do it twice it registers as a double click so you have to click…wait…then click again.

You don’t switch monitors, you switch windows. That is how it works for all windows. It’s like that so you can click anywhere in a window to focus it without activating something in the window by accident.

You can’t close anything from the window buttons and the red and yellow buttons do the same thing. You have to go into the taskbar and right click to close them.

You can close windows with the red window button, and the yellow button minimizes a window. Absolutely not the same thing. The whole application you can close via the dock, or the menu bar, or cmd+q. Two different things.

Some apps have a single main window though which will reopen when the dock icon is clicked (e.g. Mail), but that is still different to what the yellow minimize button does. The distinction is much more useful for document style apps like TextEdit which can have multiple windows (or none, if no file is open). There is also Hide which hides the entire application and all its windows until it’s activated again.

Then they took the time in Sequoia to add window tiling but it’s just such an awful experience. You have to hover over the green dot and wait for the prompt to popup and choose from a drop-down menu. WHY CAN’T YOU JUST DRAG AND DROP!?

You can absolutely drag and drop to tile windows, and there are also keyboard shortcuts for it. Check the Window -> Move & Resize menu for that.

GRUB is still the standard bootloader in physical deployments because it is the most likely to work

The countless issues you can find online about being stuck at the GRUB prompt say otherwise. I’ve personally recently experienced GRUB on a computer seemingly randomly losing information about where the config file was stored, or at least not automatically loading it. God knows where that was supposed to be stored, running grub-install fixed it in any case.

More likely it’s used by the big non-DIY distros because it’s less effort to maintain a single bootloader than one for UEFI and one for BIOS boot, because the latter you still need anyway.

and supports most of the features you might want in a bootloader.

That’s the understatement of the century. It’s basically a decently sized operating system at this point, with seemingly everything tacked on that you can think of such as support for what looks like a grand total of 11 partition table schemes, “The Bee File System”, disk driver for classic Macintosh, and a JSON parser.

While some of what it has may have been needed for BIOS boot, the essential functionality is now provided by EFI APIs, and you do not need 337979 lines of C code anymore to implement a suitable bootloader for a contemporary system.

And I probably wouldn’t even say anything if it was well written or maintained code. There’s clearly something very wrong with it if distributions feel the need to apply hundreds of patches to it, Fedora has 283 right now. I’ve also had a terrible experience trying to script some of its commands.

I have 2 disks which each have an efi system partition. And the root file system is btrfs raid1 across 4 disks. This was very easy to set up and completely supported by grub with no custom configuration needed.

This is of course also supported by any other bootloader, since which of the two ESPs to load from is determined by the UEFI, and mounting the rootfs is done by the kernel. You just need to sync the two ESPs. systemd-boot’s kernel-install admittedly can’t do this out of the box, but you can make it work with hooks.

Try systemd-boot, it’s lightweight and well designed.

Since you use UEFI, you don’t have to use GRUB. It basically consists 90% of cruft left over that was needed for BIOS boot, and has a lot of moving parts and bad design (such as a single config file which has to be shared between OSes, which is so complex it needs a generator for it).

Try systemd-boot, it’s lightweight and well designed.

Anyway, looks like the target parameter is default now, the “esp” in the arch command is supposed to be substituted for the ESP path, for example /efi, so the only difference is bootloader-id. Which looks like that’s the label that show up in your UEFI setup for the boot entry.

“100%” which would include those that either don’t have any use flags or all of them disabled by default/masked where -* wouldn’t do anything. pkgconf for example. Uh huh, yeah right.