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Dropping the old NTFS driver.

Good stuff. Hasn't there always been confusion on mounting your NTFS drive using the old driver vs the new?

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Not hacked, it's just getting spammed and I'm not sure if the mods are still active.

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It's open source, and they already said they were Mac only because they used Metal for rendering. It's not suspicious for devs to use what they're most familiar with.

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What's suspicious about it...?

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People that have this opinion often only play AAA games. There are a lot of indie games that channel old-school game energy and improve upon them. Shovel Knight for example is a lot better than old platformers wish they were. A Hat in Time is a ton of fun compared to the vast majority of PS2/Gamecube 3D platformers. Hollow Knight is better than any Metroid game (I know a lot of people would disagree, though).

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They really fucked up and it's so heartwrenching watching it all happen. I was following the story since it started and I just can't believe they allowed anyone to download copyrighted books without a limit in 2020, without asking anyone for permission or whether it's legally viable. Everyone knew they were losing this, and they gave publishers a convincing reason to sue them. by crossing the "legally grey" area to literal piracy.

FWIW, OpenLibrary is a good source of book metadata at least, even if it fails its goal of letting people read books on it.

Besides lemmy, what's another good reddit alternative?

Hi! Recently exiled reddit user, here. I'm curious what other alternatives to reddit there are, besides Lemmy, and Raddle, of course. Also, imho, Phuks is a good alternative, there's no hate-speech (that I'm aware of) and people are pretty respectful. Anyways, let's hear your suggestions! Thank you!

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https://tildes.net/ , it's not super active but it's my second option.

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E-mailed the dev asking for one

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Insanely bizarre, Germany has historically been pro-open source and the EU was just saying that the Fediverse is here to stay.

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Oh sweet. I thought Newpipe stopped development to work on a rewrite, or am I misremembering? Either way, nice to see comments working again.

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Has anyone been using Cosmic on Nvidia? I'm thinking of trying it out but I'm worried it wouldn't be stable.

Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track ( arstechnica.com )

On Tuesday, Microsoft Research Asia unveiled VASA-1, an AI model that can create a synchronized animated video of a person talking or singing from a single photo and an existing audio track. In the future, it could power virtual avatars that render locally and don't require video feeds—or allow anyone with similar tools to...

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That lip sync is scary good. It's still a little off, the teeth are weirdly stretchy, but nobody would notice it's a deepfake on first glance.

Seems very similar to Nvidia's idea of only having a moving photo for video calls to reduce bandwidth needed. Very nice.

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We’re going to need strong digital signatures on everything

That won't help anything considering how easy it is to strip metadata.

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If you like Kbin's design you may enjoy Alexandrite, a frontend for Lemmy

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Not sure if there are any great resources online but there isn't that much you need to know. I'd say just download it and mess around. Here's some random tips:

  • Windows has its own terminal package manager called winget, it's very useful.

  • Nobody uses CMD anymore, everyone moved onto Powershell. The new windows terminal is also nice.

  • Windows has a lot of random features and controls hidden in its registry, which you can access via regedit. You usually don't want to mess around with it but sometimes it is useful.

  • There are a lot of scripts online to de-bloat windows and quickly default to the best privacy settings. I'd run that if you're setting up a new install. Note that some of it comes back every time you update and you'll need to run the script again.

  • Just understand the file system well and how to use the control panel and firewall and you'll already be ready to go as a sysadmin

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Oh and one last thing, you may want to install PowerToys. It's an official program that has a suite of features for power users, things like bulk renaming, easier access to environment variables, checking which files are in use by which apps, and a couple of other neat stuff. I use the color picker all the time.

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It's been so long... Too long... I pray it releases this year.

Redlib: Open-source, privacy-focused frontend for Reddit without Reddit's ads, trackers, and bloat. A fork of Libreddit. ( safereddit.com )

The purpose of this post is not to endorse the use of Reddit ( https://shields.tosdr.org/en_194.svg), but rather to inform users of a privacy-friendly approach in case they need to utilize the platform....

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I've been using it via the LibRedirect extension for a while now and it's great. Feels a lot more reliable than LibReddit ever was.

What do you use for key rebinding in games?

I've just switched over from Windows to Linux for my daily driver in the last few weeks, and after the initial learning curves everything seems pretty solid. The only thing I really, really need for some games is the ability to rebind keys that the game itself doesn't allow. Examples would be Orcs Must Die 1 (no rebinding at...

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I've never used it, but Espanso is a popular open-source alternative for AutoHotKey. Maybe that can work?

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I would love to use this but... I'm just not sure about its privacy and security. I'll wait it out and maybe jump in a few months later.

Also it seems you can self-host it. The bridges are open source: https://github.com/beeper

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An article about Nvidia in the Linux community? Surely all the comments will be productive and discuss the topic at hand.

Clueless

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They're looking into it: https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/112223844887981400

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I just want the blobs back, man

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I believe most of libreddit stopped working, but redlib works great (which is basically just a continuation of that)

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OnlyOffice is good. Better compatibility with MS office and nicer UI than libreoffice.

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Yeah, it does suck that they made it in Electron and performance is not great but it's still pretty good imo.

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The only good GUI for Flatpaks…

Ain't that the truth. I don't know why KDE Discover is so sluggish when it comes to Flatpak, it takes me like 10+ seconds to load the landing page and see the popular apps.

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That's awesome, I spent a day fighting with Latex to edit awesomecv without causing errors or breaking the template. Really hope Typst takes off.

I can only see the image though, not the link to your project

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You laugh but there's actually a very big and active piracy community on Telegram sharing videos

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I love Telltale's stuff, but they're a bit hit or miss for me. I really liked The Wolf Among Us and Tales from the Borderlands, but really didn't care for The Walking Dead sequels and Batman. A lot of companies tried to replicate what they had but they never had writing as good.

That said, Telltale really needed some alternate endings. There's only so much "X will remember this" I can read before I realize how little my actions matter.

I'm sadly not optimistic that The Wolf Among Us 2 is ever coming out. They laid off most of their staff half a year ago.

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They went bankrupt but got picked up by another company years later. They got a big chunk of the original team back on board, then they made The Expanse game, then they fired most of the team again.

Their future is pretty uncertain right now.

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    Least insane apple fanboy

    If you'd read the article it's about Apple intentionally imposing restrictions that nobody else does, like not allowing getting apps out of their store and putting roadblocks for Android to support things like their messenger

    The case is that they're abusing their market lead by forcing people to stay on iPhones, all these restrictions Android/Google DOESN'T do

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    "We have really good intentions, that's why we're working for a company that's been involved in at least two dozen scandals and breaches of user privacy. I'm sure they won't do it again."

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    At this point I think everyone's using alternative frontends. I'm using Alexandrite myself.

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    Someone bring up that one xkcd strip.

    This looks pretty polished though.

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    Claims don't make any sense if there isn't any benchmark.

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    The soundtrack to that game got burned in my head forever...

    Pata pata pata pon. Dunka dunka dunka don. Pon pon pata pon.

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    Daxter and MediEvil Resurrection are two of my favorites.

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    It's a remake of an older Playstation 1 game. It gets a lot of hate but I honestly think it's very charming.

    Kdenlive 24.02 video editor released ( kdenlive.org )

    The team is thrilled to introduce the much-anticipated release of Kdenlive 24.02, featuring a substantial upgrade to our frameworks with the adoption of Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6. This significant under-the-hood transformation establishes a robust foundation, shaping the trajectory of Kdenlive for the next decade. The benefits of...

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    The initial implementation of the long awaited easing interpolation modes for keyframes has landed. Expected soon are easing types (ease in, ease out and ease in and out) and a graph editor.

    YES! Performance boosts and stability are great and all, but Kdenlive sorely needed proper easing types, the "smooth" easing they had before made it impossible to have decent effects and transitions. Even translating text just looked linear and flat. Maybe I will use open source video editors after all!

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    That was fast. Wasn't this one of the main selling points of Windows 11?

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    You can't talk PS2 without mentioning Jak and Daxter or Ratcher and Clank. Each trilogy is incredible and absolutely worth a play.

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    Not surprising considering just how much India is running on old hardware. I wouldn't be surprised if a big chunk of laptops there don't even support win11.

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    That's great, but how's performance compared to the normal drivers?

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    999.00€

    Honestly not bad compared to most Linux laptops.

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    Linux Magazine dedicates the cover and their main article of their latest issue to Plasma 6.

    @linuxmagazine's 5000-word 8-page feature dives deep into why the version number jump (and why now), the current state of Plasma and KDE's ecosystem of apps and frameworks and what it has to offer, and the changes pushing KDE's software to new levels of efficiency, customization, and enhanced user experience.

    https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2024/280

    @kde

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    Wow they're still doing DVDs?

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    Are you sure you're putting your saves in the right folder? I've moved my saves back and forth on many games and they work fine. Binding of Isaac has cloud saves on Steam.

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