As some general advice: If you don’t know the specifics, just go with your Linux distribution’s defaults. They probably have this figured out for you. Wayland is the more modern approach. We had a long transitioning period and some things didn’t work for a while or were missing. I’d say it’s ready by now. And if your distro maintainers also think it’s time to supersede the old X server, it probably is.

Bummer. Yeah I had issues with browser video playback myself. And both Firefox and Chromium-based browsers have so many hidden options, intransparent GPU blocklists… And then people do silly stuff and install third-party browsers which don’t come from the package repositories, so they haven’t been tuned for the specific distribution. And that adds yet another layer of complexity… Luckily it just works out of the box on my current laptop, and in the future I’m not going to install any Nvidia drivers on my machine, either. That has been just too many tweaks for my taste. Though I heard it got a bit better with them. Sorry to hear you can’t make it work. I don’t think watching YouTube should be as hard as it is for some people. (BTW, using Firefox has additional advantages, like a working ad blocker available as an addon, so I for example don’t have to watch any of the multiple 30s pre-roll ads on YouTube. On the downside, Firefox always sucked with graphics acceleration and it still does. Should be fine on Windows, though.)

Did you find out what’s causing this? I found some Reddit threads with people having similar issues with Brave and Chrome-based browsers…

If you don’t want to install anything, there’s also https://3d.kalidoface.com/ for the browser. And seems they shut it down but there was a 2D version as well: https://2d.kalidoface.com/ (both open source.)

And you might want to cross-check the OBS install instructions. I’m fairly sure it does game capture out of the box these days, so not sure if there’s a need to manually install plugins from source.

Ja, irgendwie müssten wir Social Media mit Bildung ersetzen. 😅

Der Artikel liest such für mich sowieso wie einer derer, die krampfhaft in jedem Satz mit einer Zahl um sich werfen müssen. Also ich mag ja Zahlen. Aber eigentlich wären hier die Hintergründe viel interessanter.

Yes, you can. Maybe look up Flatpak and AppImage files, that’s the a bit more clever way to do it. Mind, though, we all, including Windows people try to teach people to avoid installing and running random executables from the internet. As that might mess up the system. And in the Windows world you might catch some viruses. You can do it, though. You can even run random Windows software via Wine/Proton. Or to make it a bit easier, use Lutris or Bottles for Windows .EXEs and downloaded games.

Usually, try to leverage all the tens of thousands of programs packaged with your Linux distribution. Your Linux will come with all the major browsers, printer drivers and all the popular software. If you install that, it’s pretty much guaranteed to work because it’s tested and tied into the system. You’ll get automatic updates. They’ll have a look at security (and sometimes privacy). You’ll forfeit all of that if you run random stuff downloaded from the internet. So keep it to a minimum and do it just in case there’s no better way.

And speaking from own experience, I often had a hard time with things like the tools downloaded from some printer manufacturer’s website. Usually the stuff Linux comes with, works way better. So try that first.

In welchem Land werden denn so Nikotinbeutel frei verkauft um dann von irgendwem nach Deutschland geschmuggelt zu werden? Ich kenne nur Snus, was man/frau ja bekanntlicherweise in Schweden ausprobieren kann. Und das ist 'ne ziemlich ekelige Angelegenheit.

Edit: Okay, scheinbar gibt’s die überall außer Dtland, NL und Frankreich.

Oh man, hilft bestimmt total seinem so tollen Ruf wenn er als so kleinkariert rüberkommt, dass er jene:n und seine Oma auf Facebook verhaften lässt… Wie wär’s wenn die Politiker, Polizei und Gerichte mal ernsthaft arbeiten? Ich weiß nicht… Gute Politik machen? Wirklich böse Kriminelle verhaften und verurteilen?

Uh. I guess people have random opinions and blast them on the internet. I can see how someone would misconfigure their computer and then blame it on the software. Or use software they don’t need, which just adds unnecessary complexity and more issues. Other than that, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with SELinux.

Na, die meisten AI Scraper senden aber einen (gefälschten) Windows User Agent String. Zumindest die, die auf meinem Server ankommen. Sollte man eigentlich genau andersherum machen.

Uh yeah. That is more information… Sorry, I’m not that familiar with Snaps. It looks to my untrained eye a bit like the report on the Snap itself, maybe it advertises to support running in strict confinement. Which it could… but doesn’t do. (Alike the other channels, which you could install, but didn’t… It’s kind of buried with that kind of information.)

It’s confusing at least. And the user definitely wouldn’t expect it from that wording. So I’d view it as a separate bug as well. And dropping confinement without notice would be the third thing, I’d consider a bug.)

No need. It’s already reported. And known since 2019. 👀

Yeah. And I’d say with the SELinux problems and with what OP wrote, the security model including things like a failure mode to fall open, …silently… There’s more things to be wary of, than what they wrote in those 4 sentences.

It may not be wise to use a Snap without first understanding the reputation/limitations of Snap.

seems the Debian Wiki has pretty much your take on it 😅

If I had to guess, this isn’t a bigger issue because Snap is mostly pushed by Canonical. And in a bit of a weird way (proprietary backend, exclusive apps) so… reception in the rest of the Linux community is …mixed. To put it charitably. It’s probably not that relevant for most people outside of the Ubuntu ecosystem. And probably also not a priority for Canonical or the proprietary software vendors.

Verrückte Menschen. Ich stehe ja eher auf Firmen, die ihre Auftragsbücher voll haben und eine langfristige Strategie verfolgen. Aber das kann man wahrscheinlich so oder so halten. Ergibt Sinn, dass beim Spekulieren andere Dinge zählen. Danke.

Warum kacken gerade eigentlich die Rheinmetall Aktien so ab? Hatte ich nicht mal gelesen, dass unsere Rüstungsindustrie in nächster Zeit noch 40% Wachstum erwartet? Wegen voraussichtlich mehr Kriegstreiberei? Oder war die Erwartungshaltung einfach nur zu überzogen? Ich meine die hatten sich ja schon verdreifacht seit Trump an der Macht ist…

I dislike it. Usually I’d use packages from my Linux distribution. Or package it myself and maybe upstream the effort if my distro has a user repository. Now (this way) it’s down to everybody download random files from the internet and execute them. Specifically what every Linux tutorial instructs you not to do. Plus there’s no updates, no security, no version control or transparency. It’s not licensed in any free way, so I can’t fix it or adapt it to my liking, I can’t help you write better Python code…

But it’s your software project. You’re perfectly fine to do whatever you want with it. And it’s certainly commendable to write software, whether you do it for yourself, or put it out there in some way.

To give some perspective: BitTorrent was released in 2001. So in the 90s, you’d be looking at some precursor to that. And the first CD recorder to cost less than $1000 was sold in 1995. Before that, they’d cost something like a car.

We definitely shared and copied a lot of floppy disks back then. And music on tapes.