Yes, but they dont have access to anything that could do that unless you give it to them. When you use Facebook directly in can do loads of fingerprinting. This cannot be done on the Fediverse unless the actual instance youre using is doing it.

Yes, but its far harder to associate the identity with others, meaning it doesnt really accomplish much for them. They can’t target ads at a user based on their mastodon account unless they associate it with the users advertising IDs on other sites.

Sunshine should be able to do hardware encoding for that GPU, it has support for VA-API

Pretty much lol. If I remember correctly his reason for leaving was them adding moderation tools

he left Bluesky around 2 years ago

The majority of people just aren’t bothered by them.

AdNauseum has a built in whitelist for ethical ads which I’m happy to leave enabled. I see them on some blogs I read and on the option search page for Home Manager.

It sounds like you could use any markdown app that supports tags or links. You can search for file by tag or create index notes that you link other notes to, letting you view all of them from the backlinks pane.

A lot of Obsidian users do not use folders for organization at all, both of the methods above are common. You could also look at Logseq which has similar features.

Apologies if I’m misunderstanding your requirements, lmk if I did.

The only options are Samsung, Google, and Apples messaging apps. Every carrier uses Google implementation of it and they have not created an open api for other apps to use it.

Even if a third party app supported it, it’d still be completely reliant on Googles RCS services.

Oh thats weird I’d never used it enough to notice that. Not a great choice.

To be a real discord replacement it needs to not be a stack. It also needs to use the server/channel model discord does, rather than rooms like signal or matrix.

It has weirdly good audio quality too, like noticeably better than Discord. If the Steam desktop app wasnt so heavy this could maybe be a good alternative. Maybe if they split out a separate app to use it without launching all of Steam.

I think it comes from the fact that a lot of communities and projects use Discord basically like they would with IRC, with voice chats often not even existing in some servers. I have to assume the people who recommend Matrix are only ever in that kind of server.

I’m in 2 or 3 servers with different friend groups and of course each one is full of friends of friends of friends. Even the smallest is over 30 people, but I only regularly join VC with 3-4. If I had to call all of them to be in a voice call I would literally never do it.

Same goes for chats, in Matrix the closest things to channels and servers is rooms and spaces. The difference is that you don’t join a space, you just view rooms in the space and join them. Most of my servers have a ton of different channels for different things, I want to be able to see what happens in all of them without having to join each one, announcing to them that I’ve joined.

I like Matrix for FOSS project discussions, but I don’t think it’ll ever be the right pick for just hanging out with friends.

This is just a link to the branding repo. There isnt much to maintain in there.

Drop-in voice channels are a requirement for a discord alternative, Matrix does not have them. AFAIK you still need to call an entire channel to start a voice chat.

This is true that some blurs could be undone, but the ones used in the files are definitely destructive and cannot be undone. Grok and any other image generation tool is also definitely not capable of doing it. It requires knowledge of how it was blurred so you can use the same algorithm to undo it, models simply guess what it should look like.

This is very good, winetricks has been a great tool for Linux gaming but its a very slow 20000 line shell script, it definitely needs a replacement imo.

Hopefully this works well enough that Valve and Umu consider switching to it for applying Protonfixes.

I’m not super familiar with sysext, but from my understanding, you’d need to create an additional sysext to include, or find an existing one for DMS (I couldn’t find one).

Your other options would be using rpmtree or a custom image. Theres already a few images out there that are based on Bluefin with Niri + DMS added.

Tbh I’m recalling struggling to find good documentation for sysext. Asking in the ublue discord will probably get you better answers.

Oh that makes a lot of sense. I remember watching that and there were a few games where she just faced really bad matchups or picked a questionable build. My main disagreement is just M&K being in difficult tbh

Dash’s more significant feature is its speed. It’s not meant to be used in place of bash at all, its meant to be symlinked in place of sh to give you a faster and smaller shell with a simpler and more auditable codebase.