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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It was annoying at first for me too but they tell you how to bypass it, so can't you just use the flag --break-system-packages and make it an alias for pip?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm curious what you mean by "no animations while playing games"?

I like Wayland and use it on my laptop. But I also have Nvidia on my PC and while it's janky at places, I don't get all the problems you describe (at least on i3 for me)

I use multiple monitors with different refresh rates and don't really have any major issue. It syncs with the highest one. I indeed don't use a compositor because it's distracting and also turn off all the composition pipe line stuff. The result of turning off the latter is less latency and a teeny tiny bit of tearing in the lower 3rd when scrolling web pages but that's it.

Games can run utilize gsync when in-game vsync is enabled so long as you disable the second monitor with xrandr.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Calibre is awesome. Going the other way, from pdf to epub is not so easy though, requires a bit of manual work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I know you meant well, but I don't think their interpretation implied any logical fallacy. I used a conditional statement but my statement was prescriptive, not descriptive.

The difference between "I should" and "I have to/must" is a modal one. I implied "if I have to X then I shouldn't Y". They swapped X and Y around to get "If I have to Y then I shouldn't X", which is just a plain misinterpretation. The use of what is and what ought implies a recommendation or opinion, not mutual exclusivity. For that, I would have to use the same modality "If I have to X then I must not do Y".

It's like mixing up "If I have an infectious disease, I shouldn't go outside" vs. "If I have to go outside, I shouldn't have an infectious disease". To me, they have a subtle difference. There is compromise and decision-making involved.

I'll spell it out anyway because why not. I can't be bothered to edit my original comment. While it's sensational-sounding, anyone who take issue with what I said don't take surveillance properly so I can't help them, while those that misinterpreted me like nous did can find out for themselves here.

spoilerIf I have to use Windows, then I can still use Tor understanding and accepting that the OS at the kernel level is a black box that logs and tracks whatever it wants. I can compromise because I might just want to read a blocked news site or Wikipedia. Likewise, if I'm stuck somewhere and I have to use Windows to use Tor then it is a compromise. But that doesn't mean I shouldn't use Tor. I'm responsible for my bad opsec should anything bad come my way.

versus

If I have to use Tor, then something is wrong with the way I'm able to access and/or spread information (I handle sensitive or illegal topics, that can harm me or others if found out), and I can't do it privately because there is surveillance involved. At the kernel level windows is a blackbox that mishandle my data and has the ability to observe everything I do. Therefore I ought to not use Windows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Adguard Home on the homelab, with my router set to use it as DNS, alongside Tailscale with Headscale on top to reroute all traffic through the home network so that ad blocking works all the time, on all devices that can use Tailscale, and also away from home.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Yeah I agree. To be clear, if you take the reverse of my statement, i.e. if you're on Windows, you shouldn't use Tor, then I would be gatekeeping.

But I'm not implying that, but rather the reverse. I'm saying if you have use Tor for whatever reasons to bypass censorship, do illegal stuff and avoid being tracked, you should at least be aware that at the kernel level, how you're accessing the internet has already been compromised by Microsoft, and consider alternatives OSes

Of course I'd still want people running Windows to be able to use Tor, and also I'd say leaving Windows isn't something you would only do at the "highest threat model".

Privacy will almost always be a trade-off with convenience, I'm pushing the awareness to get people to act, should they choose to. That's all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Agreed. I thought of ISP restrictions too, but I would say if where you live places a level of censorship due to political reasons or otherwise and you need to access it for whatever reasons so you need Tor then by all means Microsoft is not your friend since they're a privacy nightmare.

There are also VPNs for banned media, I typically wouldn't want to use Tor for anything more than textual content as it puts too much load on the Tor network.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Backtrack/mentioned lists show you a list of pages that mention the page you're on, so you can see how it's related to other pages.

It's hard to find one solution that fits all my use cases, I have to admit.

And by actual hosted wiki, I mean Dokuwiki, Wiki.js, Bookstack, Gollum, Mkdocs, etc. that renders the syntax into HTML.I like that they make my "notes" appear more immutable and allow me to access them through any browser. This applies to content like glossaries, food/drinks recipes, homelab documentation. Things you put in once and forget.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is there a real use to a graph-like visualization like this? Or is it just for pure fun? I find backtrack lists or mentioned lists a lot more useful. When I used to use Logseq, the graph view would be quite slow when I had a hundred or so files. Nowadays, I just use orgmode for more temporary, short stuff and an actual hosted wiki for more permanent, long-written stuff.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I bet for the owners of public instances, it must be a constant fight against YouTube's IP banning or rate limiting.

If you have the resources, you could self-host your own private instance for you and your friends or family. I haven't had performance issue with my private instance so far.

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