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lol try signing up for an email account today without tying a phone number to it or another established email account. It’s incredibly difficult.

You might be able to create an account, but then all “3rd party services” (e.g. creating accounts on absolutely fucking anything) will be blocked and your account will be either restricted or forced to submit a kind of verification that doxes you to lift said block, probably.

I found a single sketchy provider that would take verifications from proton mail that allowed me to then create more accounts, but I had to try over a dozen mail providers before I found the obscure one that did not require any pre-existing accounts, phone numbers or identification documents to just create an email to simply sign up for any web forum, service or basically do anything most people do with email. Everything ends up linked to each other at some point.

There’s just no privacy anymore. The ones who think there is are probably not as private as they really think they are today.

Jokes on you, there are ads as posts on lemmy.

Bots are everywhere.

What’s the damage though?

Don’t judge a man for his shower bacon.

Yeah, I didn’t do a whole lot of research before moving to Pop but i’m sticking with one distro for a while just so I get fluent in something. I hate the out of the box DE experience but with a little tweaking it’s usable.

Gaming is so easy to figure out. I’ve gotten FSR4 to work and I don’t notice much in the way of a performance delta with windows. Plus if you run into any issues there’s solutions to practically everything with ProtonDB, reddit and the archwiki.

So far my biggest gripe so far is zero HDR support which is hardly a dealbreaker.

Ubuntu is the distro that people hate on the most, which is ironic given how easy it is to use.

Pop_OS hit 12.3% in Feb 2021 and completely fell off the chart in May of this year before coming back for September. I’m one of those users.

Oh, and i’m pretty sure I know where flatpak is from. The instructions to input your system data in ProtonDB relies on steam’s system information. My OS shows as flatpak by default because I installed a flatpak version of steam from the pop shop. If someone doesn’t manipulate it themselves, it shows as “OS: Freedesktop SDK 25.08 (Flatpak runtime)” - The most recent data shows flatpak as 4.5%. So who knows where those users really are coming from. Cachyos ships with steam, so it won’t ever show up as flatpak for that OS unless someone does something really funky.

Is this just based on protondb user reporting/comment data? because I doubt the sample size tells you anything other than these are the builds most used by users willing to contribute to protondb.

♫♫ Where Is My Mind? ♫♫ plays

In the background, explosions rip through buildings and they start to collapse.

I have an old Pi floating around that I should probably look at using for stuff like this.

Are they going to be around once Google removes sideloading from unauthorized devs?

I’m never, ever buying digital licenses to video or audio content. My limit is games because avoiding it is kind of impossible.

Too many platforms close down. I’ve lost licenses from the Impulse acquisition and subsequent shutdown, plus one or two others. Any day these guys can just put up a 30 day notice and rip everything out of your library. Usually this happens after an acquisition… looks like bandcamp was sold in 2023 and the buyers shitcanned half the staff too.

Disks are cheap and piracy works until they enforce digital IDs for all connectivity on the internet. At that point we’d be back to swapping thumb drives.

Agreed wholeheartedly.

I built out bluefin as a panacea to issues I had with subtitles on a set of media on my plex server and it couldn’t even give me subtitles.

I hear a lot of rave reviews for Kodi, but that’s serverless so now I need to open up storage or setup a vpn server and isolate a vlan… and how in the everliving fuck am I going to explain configuring this? Oh, and that needs sideloading too and if I go with a vlan now they need to figure out how to connect their device to a VPN. That’s a nightmare.

Sure, I can setup Kodi at home on my TV device and leave plex as is but i’m no closer to a server based transcoding solution. That sucks.

Not far off. Most of what i’ve setup originates from a plex lifetime sub. Maintenance is completely trivial.

Every time I hear about the next thing I think about modernizing which then requires standing up something new. New shit requires a new virtual host and completely new setups of many things. Then training my wife and others on how to utilize the new tech, and then praying it doesn’t just break tomorrow from The Establishment in some way.

Plex is one of the very few solutions that works with minimal sideloading and fuckery. My instructions for someone to start using it are “download the app, check your email for an account link, and enjoy.” I would not recommend any newcomers to go with Plex though, because it’s definitely not a modern solution.

I’ve tried jellyfin, I put substantial time into trying to get it to work but it had substantial issues with subtitles which are mandatory for us unfortunately. I figure any new solution is going to also have substantial challenges in some way as there is no standardized or simple deployment of absolutely anything.

I’d cancel it in a heartbeat but my wife would murder me.

I’ve been paying for a VPN for over a decade and I am up to about 20TB of used disks. Make of that what you will.

I’m doing my part!

My renewal was literally tomorrow too. As these streaming services get worse, I keep on cancelling. Been two years for Prime (literally smashed cancel the day ads were announced) and all i’ve got left at this point is netflix and spotify.

Netflix pricing almost has me there.

I was so confused.

The only reason why the MBAs and Execs have jobs are because the shareholders want more money.

Customers don’t decide company leadership unless it interferes with shareholder or exec goals.

The system of ownership determining everything for everyone is the problem but good luck getting those in power to give up that ownership complex.

Microsoft is maximizing subscription revenue this year. It’s all about increasing that y/y revenue while burning cash on AI that will explode in their face revenue wise, unless the subscription price hikes land.

People are so stupid in this country. Do what the EU did and make it law that they have to offer sideloading and other app stores and payment methods.

It should be the law to begin with. This walled garden shit is really just another word for controlling what the user does with the device they purchased and not allowing them to do business with anybody else exclusively to add software without apple’s approval and protection racket fee.

My boss showed me the article yesterday, but apparently it’s the old news from earlier this year. It went from 70 to 100 back in Feb.

That’s still a giant increase from whatever you would have paid last year.