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  • Linux doesn’t have several programs I use to control my peripherals, the mobo RGB profile, and GPU fan control from Sapphire. It also doesn’t have a proper AMD adrenalin as far as I’ve checked, nor firmware updater for SSD/NVME, and the list goes on and on. I also heard controlling high refresh rate displays on linux is a nightmare.

    If I want to use the gaming PC I built to its full potential then I need windows…

    The article is still dumb though, anyone left behind using old hardware should not go through the pain of forcing win11 to run. They all should switch to linux



  • There’s a big difference. You trust entities like bitwarden/lastpass/etc to properly encrypt the data, protect your master key, and trust their entire architecture behind the scenes.

    When you encrypt the keepass DB that’s all done by you locally with a open source client. No one knows your master key, and you get a simple encrypted file. You can hand that file to hackers if you want, will be useless without the key.

    I put one of the copies of my keepass on onedrive, and syncs perfectly across all devices.

    Companies can enshiffity at a moments notice.






  • No one is forced to use youtube in the same sense no one is forced to use a smartphone.

    In the real world you’ll eventually have to use those things to participate in society, just by the sheer reach those things have in our daily lives.

    Just look back into any time a friend or family shared a link, or it was embedded in an article, or a company made an announcement only in youtube, or if you’re in school and you were asked to view some lesson, or those college lectures that get uploaded to youtube.

    I can get more examples, the thing is you’ll need to click a youtube link at some point. Is it ok for us to deal with an enshittified platform? should we act like a luddite because we don’t agree with the TOS? is this fair for us?

    My current usage of youtube doesn’t involve following creators, for that I use odysee/twitch. But the point remains, its morally correct to block ads, the platform is unfairly dominant.




  • They can try to enshittify all they want, but as long as they keep offering that shit for free it’s their own fault really. There will always be a way to remove all the crap once the video images enter my computer.

    If it isn’t sustainable for them then they should have required sign in and payment long ago instead of operating at a loss just to get all the content in their place. The only ones letting it happen are themselves, we just here for the ride.



  • Just install Linux, it’s not that hard.

    This is just but the small first step. I was basically checking what it will take to daily drive linux on my desktop, and there’s many little roadblocks that I’m just instead considering getting a Win 11 pro license next year and just turning off all the shit in gpedit.

    • No RGB software for my gigabyte mobo (openrgb doesn’t have it).
    • No AMD adrenalin unless I go with Ubuntu, which is just on the same path of enshittification as windows
    • No steelseries engine
    • No Sapphire trixx
    • No microsoft office desktop/onedrive (means I gotta find an office replacement that also works on my apple devices and syncs)

    Linux has come a long way, and it’s probably enough for some but it would be a massive headache for me still…


  • net00@lemm.eetoFediverse@lemmy.worldLemmy being used as a source now
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    2 months ago

    Why does it have to be LMG of all places to use lemmy. Linus is not the cool tech guy anymore, he’s just another corpa boss who prefers profits over people and accuracy.

    LMG has a long history of overworking its workers, plus reports of sexual harassment and bullying…

    He belongs with spez and all other profit shitheads the fediverse is supposed to be free of.

    My favorite linus quote (when asked why he didn’t properly test a product for a video):

    I don’t know if I can apologize for not spending another $500 of various people’s time.


  • "but we still can’t give everything away for free.”

    Then why have they positioned youtube to be a public worldwide service freely accessible all these years?

    It is the usual tactic of operating at a loss for years, building an unsustainable service and supporting it with revenue from other places. Google was officially declared a monopoly, and youtube is not profitable, so it’s easy to connect the dots and say youtube grew to it’s current dominance unfairly through that monopoly money.

    Now they want to enforce their TOS on you, pay up or watch a million ads or leave. Well fuck their TOS, I avoid anything google like the plague, but their unfair position on video sharing makes it hard to avoid youtube particularly. I respond unfairly in turn, by proxying youtube through invidious.




  • net00@lemm.eetoPrivacy@lemmy.mlDeath of Piped?
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    google has been blocking any IP that uses lots of youtube bandwidth, and that means any public instance needs to do IP rotation.

    I also heard they began blocking all IPs belonging to some cloud providers.

    I run my own invidious instance from my home servr. Only I use it, so it’ll never be blocked, but I don’t have the same anonymity as if using a public instance…

    It’s mostly for the benefits of using youtube ad-free without a google account, while having local bookmarks, watch-later, and subscription feed. If that’s your main goal Invidious is really easy to set-up.