You’ve got a back room and you’re not using it as a cool-ass hackerspace?

I have NOT tried this but according to https://massgrave.dev/change_windows_edition you can change the windows edition. I would not try it without backing up my most important files, regardless. I don’t use Windows so the opportunity for me to try it doesn’t exist, but the option is good to keep in mind.

Bazzite works pretty well and the ublue ecosystem is pretty cool, but there are unfortunately sometimes “decision-making strategies” you must employ. As an example, say you want to install yt-dlp. What’s the best path?

• rpm-ostree is not advised, such that you don’t want to modify the core system, even though Fedora keeps yt-dlp up-to-date. So this would technically work fine.
• brew installs yt-dlp but also a bunch of other stuff. Notably, you get an entirely second copy of Python.
• Distrobox/toolbox works well, but now you have a whole OS container. Just for one command?
• PIP is yet another way to install it, but using a lot of pip can lead to an insane python dependency hell (and it seems that if you want a self-deployed application pipx is the play, but you’ll have to set that up yourself)
• Manually downloading yt-dlp to avoid the drawbacks of the above, with the drawback of have to remember to update it yourself.

That said, I’m using Bazzite on my Steam Deck in particular because it allows me to have full disk encryption, which is mandatory for me because I use it as a generic computer and not just as a steam appliance. And also because with Bazzite the maintenance I personally have to do for it is about as minimal as SteamOS.

Proprietary software is a complete infringement of human dignity and freedom. Desktop Linux is also better now than it has ever been. In fact, given the direction of the latest versions of Windows and macOS, it is in many ways a better experience than those. I won’t lie and say Linux is unequivocally better in every way, though.

The thing about the original agile manifesto is it’s so vague that you could just put anything you want over it. That’s why there are 700 books and 7000000000 consultants teaching agile practices. It’s fake!

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i see a few for xbox360 ranging from 10-40

part 2 of the dumbness. then you go into firefox settings under the search section and rearrange the search providers. the top one is default, and the rest appear in order.

They aren’t automatically conjuring roads out of the ether like in Death Stranding.

I don’t know why Firefox makes you do it this way but you do not need an extension. For example, go to Yandex.com then click on the address/search bar. On the bottom of the pop up you will be able to add Yandex as a search provider.

It’s dumb. But it doesn’t need any extensions or config changes.

Is this the modern edition of the JL421 Badonkadonk?

I understand that a high quality web browser in this modern age is really expensive to develop. Mozilla, which is like an ant compared to the gorillas called Apple and Google, needs to find the funds it takes to develop that browser and pay the people who work on it.

That said, it’s really the bigger picture here that’s totally fucked. The web browser is supposed to be a tool for the user, not for the advertiser. I don’t give a shit about someone else’s advertising, or their ability to reach me and to target my attention span. But in many ways the advertising model props up the entirety of the modern web as we know it. It’s kind of a condemnation of the entire ecosystem, but I don’t know if anyone has thought of a sustainable alternative model.

Further, I view it as a kind of condemnation of the modern WWW that web browsers must be so complex. It feels like half of the development of web browsers is just based on supporting advertising in some way or another, and making sure the 700 ad scripts that run when you load a page don’t bring the browser to a screeching halt (a form of supporting advertising). Another 25% is dedicated to making sure crap web frameworks like React run well.

There is real innovation in the web browsing space. Wasm, WebGL, and so on. The fact that you can play a fully interactive 3d game in your web browser without having to download and run it locally is impressive. But is it all really worthwhile?

The worst thing is I don’t have an answer to any of this. I realize most of this stuff is extremely dumb and pointless, but it feels like the Internet has been totally overwhelmed with AI spam, shitty websites that necessitate javascript to even view them for basic information, and endless ad and user tracking. This announcement is especially rich because Firefox is still both better than Chrome & basically second class compared to it. Many web devs (or their employers) treat Chrome like the standard and Firefox as an afterthought. I just imagine now Mozilla taking that beautiful little fire fox and caging it and poking it with cattle prods to see if it can find new ways to make its ember glow.

I’d love for an alternative to the WWW to spring up, and you’d think something like the Gemini protocol could be it. But if you’ve ever used it, you’d realize it kind of sucks to use. A website like hexbear wouldn’t even be possible on Gemini. It had its heart in the right place but doesn’t meet the moment, and IMO never will.

Likely! Here is the KOReader support matrix for Kindle. https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-Kindle-devices#err-there-are-four-kindle-packages-to-choose-from-which-do-i-pick

Here is the currently latest release downloads for KOReader. https://github.com/koreader/koreader/releases/latest

Here are the latest available firmwares available per Kindle model https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GKMQC26VQQMM8XSW and I know there is an archive of some older versions. Possibly incomplete. I think Amazon and some other sites may have backups of older firmware versions, too.

And for the specific model you have you will have to research to learn how to jailbreak it. If it’s as old as you say it’s likely doable with relative ease.

My first Kindle was a Kindle 4 I bought used. It was 167 DPI and when I switched to the PaperWhite3 at 300 DPI it was definitely noticeable.

A weakness of my PW3 is the lighting. It has 4 LEDs compared to the PW5’s 17. The PW5 definitely has better evenness in the backlight, whereas on my PW3 you can tell exactly where the LEDs are shining their lights from along the bottom edge of the display. The PW5 also has “warmth” in the lighting, giving a much better paper look, sort of like the night light features in computer displays. Not to mention the PW5 display has more real estate. Undoubtedly, the PW5 looks much better than the PW3.

https://old.reddit.com/r/kindle/comments/qgz4zk/kindle_pw5_2021_vs_pw3_2015_photos_with_old/

THAT SAID, my PW3 works fine. I’m not rushing out the door to replace it. I stop noticing the flaws, which are relatively minor, as soon as I start engrossing myself in the book. A good book, fiction or not, will transport your mind elsewhere. The upgrade in PPI was more significant than anything else, which is why I have continued to enjoy my same e-reader for about seven years, now.

So, if you have the opportunity to buy a decent one as your first choice, I recommend it. But if you need to really save on the dollars, you will be happy with a “lower end” model, because the flaws will melt away when you spend less time thinking about the hardware and more time reading your book.

My only concern with such a device is by being so capable and packed with more software, it will assuredly have a bigger surface area for exploitation. Especially once support for the device ends. By contrast, my Kindle barely even has a web browser. The KOReader software has some good web capability, but not in the form of a web browser.

Even to this day I still use Foobar2000. Even with Linux through WINE.

No, it’s not open source, but it’s trim and does the job better than other players.

It’s really quite something that these alternative front-ends (nitter, redlib and teddit before it, et al.) offer a vastly superior UX to the actual official software.

Hell yes

My gf and I are both extremely appreciative of the fact that we did not have to engage in the online dating shitshow. We met and we’re happy.

These apps are blights on human existence, because (surprise surprise) they’re proprietary, user-tracking programs that are designed to elicit as much data out of you as is possible. Making money is the only goal. Anything that happens to you that isn’t profit-making for them is incidental.