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Thev00d00 commented on Ask HN: How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act? · Posted by u/hodgesrm
Thev00d00 commented on Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB tomshardware.com/video-ga... · Posted by u/doener
On size limited platforms like steam deck and friends this is a huge W
Thev00d00 commented on KDE Plasma 6.8 Set to Drop X11 Support Completely itsfoss.com/news/kde-plas... · Posted by u/doener
"While we can’t promise all problems will be completely gone"
They could promise to drop support for it once the wayland one reaches feature parity. If any "significant issues" remain, then it's simply not ready for release.
I hate this modern trend of releasing stuff before it is done. And in the commercial space we are now moving on to releasing stuff before they even get started on development. Selling promises. "Buy our shit now and we promise that next year it will be able to do X!"
Remember this not a billion dollar company we are talking about here, this is volunteer OSS project. If no one wants to maintain the X11 support then that's up to them.
Thev00d00 commented on New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS github.com/ravynsoft/ravy... · Posted by u/kasajian
Can Linux replace macOS?
What would be required to achieve this?
I guess one thing macOS users like is the default UI. So this is probably an area where Linux lacks - both GNOME and KDE have shortcomings when compared to that UI. (They are mostly fine if one does not have that as a use case, though I find GNOME to really want to simplify everything to the point of having almost no features left.)
My issue is that the quality of the macos UI is degrading over time. They can't even get rounding consistent, not quite at windows levels of mismatching yet though.
Also no one bothers making the beautiful native apps now, everything is electron, which is equally inconsistent everywhere.
So I think the advantage over time Vs a Linux system is diminishing... Slowly.
What we have all been waiting for:
"Create me a SVG of a pelican riding on a bicycle"
That is pretty impressive.
So impressive it makes you wonder if someone has noticed it being used a benchmark prompt.
Auto-tagging is nice to have but it will screw up verification checksums. I would prefer having metadata in a separate DB and keep the files as is, unless I explicitly request exporting the metadata to the original files.
Beets can do this too!
The -C option to avoid copying files and the -W option to prevent writing tags (or set it in the config file)
It will still attempt to match and store the results in its DB for later writing to files, or moving, or querying.
For the data to be most useful, you will need a client that connect to Beets to get the data though, Im not sure how prevelant those are. You can use the web-ui plugin though.
A few people commenting that some of their collection "doesn't exist in any DB", the best way to fix it is to add it to Musicbrainz[0] yourself!
I have found that adding things to Musicbrainz is actually pretty easy (and if you are so inclined like me, pretty rewarding and fun).
Streaming releases (and Bandcamp) you simply drop the release URL into Harmony[1] and it does most of the work for you.
Musicbrainz can represent nearly everything musically related and its all freely licensed, a very cool thing to exist.
Most (non-destructive) edits are auto-applied, whilst the rest go through a 7 day voting period (they are still applied by default unless someone votes against). The barrier to entry is very low.
Bold to move away from both of the things that contributed to their success initially (mkdocs, material design) at once.