Yes exactly and I always consider Steam (and to a lesser degree the Kindle ecosystem), which make it obvious to me that interoperability and convenience are something consumers are willing to pay for.

50 upvotes and yet half the comments here are “it worked for me OP must be using it wrong” and the other half are "Using Plex is worse than bombing Palestinian children "

Fedora has two immutable distros KDE (Kinoite) and GNOME (Silverblue) and both are excellent and very stable.

No love lost for IBM but I still wouldn’t expect to see casually mentioned alongside Palantir.

Wow I went to fact check that claim and it’s actually no exaggeration. Here is the AP article.

Google and Amazon provide cloud computing and AI services to the Israeli military under “Project Nimbus,” a $1.2 billion contract signed in 2021, when Israel first tested out its in-house AI-powered targeting systems. The IDF has used Cisco and Dell server farms or data centers. Red Hat, an independent IBM subsidiary, also has provided cloud computing technologies to the Israeli military, while Palantir Technologies, a Microsoft partner in U.S. defense contracts, has a “strategic partnership” providing AI systems to help Israel’s war efforts.

Crazy to see Palantir, Google, Microsoft mentioned alongside …Red Hat.

I think we’ll continue to see incremental gains for a long time, especially as normies abandon desktops/laptops entirely and the entire market shrinks. Windows will probably continue to dominate in enterprise for long past when it’s fashionable.

It’s crazy because Apple had every reason to be FAR ahead in that game.

Assuming you mean desktop Linux, probably slowly. While Linux on desktop is growing, Desktops PC use in general is trending downwards and Linux on mobile is far behind the other players.

My gut says that long before Linux overtakes Windows/Macintosh most people who want a mouse/keyboard/monitor experience will just plug their phone into a simple dock, like we’re seeing with Android’s “Desktop mode”.

The social ecosystem around FOSS is so horribly toxic. There’s an “upper middle class” of power user that aren’t quite developers, that insult everyone with less experience, and openly harass the developers themselves. I honestly don’t know how FOSS can expand adoption as long as these people exist. They are a dual-edged sword that disincentivizes both new adoptees and long term app support.

Yes the way I see it, is if someone is spending $60/month on 3-5 creators that’s still more money going to “the arts” than if the same person spent double that on streaming services.

Thank you I was actually so confused lmao I’m like, are they distributing this ET reel in pieces?

It’s also pretty much impossible to seed enough since every file has hundreds of seeders and only gets a handful of downloads every month, you need to seed it for over a year to break even on 1:1 ratio.

This post is very validating as I have struggled for over a year to get MAM set up and working with a VPN according to all their specific rules and I finally gave up.

I got a seedbox going with fixed IP etc etc etc and it STILL doesn’t work because even though the qBittorrent IP matches, it’s using a proxy and I would need to route the entire container through the same VPN.

I really wish there was another place that had the variety of audiobooks without the headache.

Yeah this is it. I like snaps just fine but I also like Flatpaks and well, everyone else is using Flatpaks.

Hah! I definitely didn’t mean any shade at Zorin! I used it for a while too. I ultimately moved to Fedora Kinoite and now Bazzite for the exact reasons you described, the immutability makes it even harder to break than Zorin.

It’s great we have so many good options these days.

On one hand I think that Linux would benefit from KDE being better than windows and GNOME being better than MacOS and that we shouldn’t get distracted by new shiny toys like Cinnamon and Cosmic.

…and yet on the other hand… they are pretty cool…

Mine is running Debian and to my memory has never crashed or required me to restore a backup once in several years.

It’s definitely possible. It’s possible with a custom Android ROM.

There are are also a few phones in existence now that do basically what you request: https://www.thelightphone.com/lightiii

They must be doing some voodoo since Tidal doesn’t let you use the same account for multiple concurrent streams.