I could see a world in which the US becomes even more cucked for Saudi oil instead. Venezuela ain’t gonna cut it.

Everything search app is easily my most used on my Windows PC. Instant, as-you-type file search by name with detail sorting and wildcard support. I set a keyboard shortcut as well. It puts Explorer search to shame. As good as Spotlight, which I was missing from when I had a Mac in 2008.

LaunchyQT - modern fork of Launchy that actually gets development. App launcher, dead simple.

FanControl - Fan curve software with all the features I want including hybrid temp sources, sensible automatic settings, visual graphs with an intuitive interface.

AutoHotKey - Hotkey scripting language that I can use even as someone who barely codes.

Transcribe! - Not open-source but it’s a reasonably priced audio and video slow down app for transcribing.

Yeah, it makes very little sense to “play the long game” on a private site to spread malware to a small user base when you could just go to any public tracker where it’s the Wild West. Could someone do it? Sure, but it’s really not realistic to expect that regularly.

Some of them have freeleech on some torrents. TorrentLeech has freeleech on every torrent over a certain size (I think 15 GB) + Box Sets of any size and then you just have to seed for 10 days total, then you can stop without penalty to your ratio. I have never paid money to TorrentLeech for access. I suppose this would change quickly if I was downloading individual episodes of a new show or 10 to 14.99 GB torrents, but that’s not my usual usage pattern.

I will say that some of your criticism is correct. I will often avoid using the private tracker to avoid having to seed for 10 days. I can’t get to a 1.0 ratio on private trackers, but I can on public ones, but freeleech seeding adds to my ratio with no penalty for downloading. The zero-sum vibe is both real and off-putting.

I currently have a ratio surplus of 34 GB, and it started me with 25 GB. The benefit is if I really want something, it’s easy to access

Yes, instances are quaking in their boots that lemmy world might *checks notes* block two specific communities. Chilling to would-be pirates everywhere.

The lemmy code is free as in beer and free as in freedom, so you don’t need to give any info to use it yourself.

And it has to work with nvme over nvme and not just sata over nvme

This reminds me of Interview with a Vim enthusiast and Interview with an emacs enthusiast in 2023

It honestly has one of the most beautiful desktop environments out there. It also has a full suite of apps similar to GNOME. There are tour videos on YouTube if you search for one.

Linux is way safer than Windows because barely anyone targets it with malware. As far as safety goes, the main thing is to try and understand what each copy/pasted “sudo” command does before running it. Sudo means “super user do” which gives admin privileges to the commands you are running in command line.

I have never had any malware on any Linux machine I have run. If you’re worried because of your threat model (government, hackers, etc), staying within the main built-in repositories will keep you safer.

Things that are community or user-run (RPMfusion, Ubuntu PPA’s/Personal Package Archives, AUR/Arch User Repository) are slightly more vulnerable to malicious activity of the kind you’re describing, although I have never had a problem trusting them.

Here is the original interview: https://newrepublic.com/article/173662/black-history-absolute-necessity-colin-kaepernick-book-interview

The hill is generally a reactionary publication.

If they’re that indie, consider paying for it because they need support to exist. Sorry I don’t have a real answer.

I don’t understand how anybody could see this market consolidation as a positive! Yes, in the short term ABK games will be added to Game Pass, but once Game Pass is the only “game” in town, the price gouging monopolistic behavior will follow.

Is this referencing a historical event? I don’t know it.

I believe she refers to the dam attack.

Greta Thunburg quote tweets: “This ecocide as a continuation of Russias unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine is yet another atrocity which leaves the world lost for words. Our eyes are once again on Russia who must be held accountable for their crimes.”

Original tweet: Ukraine / Україна @Ukraine · Jun 6 Russia blew up Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam wrecking havoc on civilians and the environment downstream on the Dnipro river. Russia’s army was squandered in Ukraine, so it chose to employ water as a weapon. However, this will only increase Ukraine’s resolve to drive them off our soil.