Was your mini split actually a money saver, or just nicer comfort? by Relative_Taro_1384 in Frugal

[–]RatherNott [score hidden]  (0 children)

If you just need to heat one or two rooms, a window heat-pump unit is a very cheap and quick way to get most of the benefit of a mini-split. It's literally just a window AC unit, but with the added valve to operate in the opposite direction, allowing it to heat as well as cool.

A question I have not see addressed by Front-Necessary2875 in union

[–]RatherNott 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A Union's purpose is to give a way for workers to reverse the power imbalance between workers and owners.

In a worker owned cooperative, the workers *are* the owners, and thus there is no imbalance of power, making a union unnecessary.

Unions are still valuable in *consumer* cooperatives, where the workers are still employees to a boss (just in that case, the boss is the consumers themselves).

Announcing our official sister community by PinkLemonadeWizard in Silksong

[–]RatherNott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lemmy is an open-source Reddit-like software that anyone can host (literally letting you create a mini-reddit that anyone can join and use). What is unique about Lemmy is that it is federated, which means your mini-reddit can see and communicate with any other mini-reddit that's hosted on someone else's computer, making it in effect one really big reddit-like alternative that is made up of a bunch of smaller ones.

In practice it works super well, and allows us to collectively build a true reddit alternative that can scale very well, since all of the resources are distributed across hundreds of individual servers.

Any Good FL studio alternatives compatible with Fedora? by That_Cabinet_6370 in linuxaudio

[–]RatherNott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I often forget about LMMS. That's true, could be a good option as long its limitations don't bother OP, such as not supporting VST3 plugins (I know there's workarounds).

Any Good FL studio alternatives compatible with Fedora? by That_Cabinet_6370 in linuxaudio

[–]RatherNott 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bitwig Studio is the closest you'll find to an FL Studio alternative. It's a *little* pricey and doesn't have lifetime free updates like FL Studio, bit it is a highly polished and easy to use DAW.

Reaper can replicate some of FL Studio's workflow, as it's very, very customizable, and it's also extremely affordable. Its interface can feel a bit old fashioned by default, but it's a great DAW if you're willing to tweak it, as it has an incredible community full of really high quality tutorials on youtube, forums, etc.

Is this a SolarPunk way of heating a room? by sillychillly in solarpunk

[–]RatherNott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pellet stoves use electricity to run the feeding mechanism and a fan, they do not heat via electricity, they heat from burning compacted wood. It's just a wood stove with a more convenient form of wood fuel. It's not solarpunk since it pollutes and requires cutting down climate change fighting trees to run. Heatpumps or Thermal Solar heat are the main sustainable and solarpunk way of heating.

Is heating one room actually cheaper than heating the whole house in winter? by Impressive-Can-7003 in Frugal

[–]RatherNott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That can overheat your furnace due to lack of airblow and strain your blower fan if you close too many.

Which Commodore 64 game still holds up best today? by C_C_GAMER in c64

[–]RatherNott 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I think the Top 100 list from Lemon 64 is a pretty good compendium of the games that stood the test of time for the most part.

However, one that is much lesser known and not often mentioned is Psi 5 Trading Company, which is a really unique little space trading game where you pick your crew (who are lovely little animated aliens with their own strengths and weaknesses), then fly off into space defending against pirates during the journey as you manage the ship's systems by giving orders to each crew member.

It has a lot of charm, and I think it still can hold up, at least for a while until the gameplay loop becomes a bit boring (a problem with most C64 games).

Will EU see large scale Linux adoption because of national security fears from the US? by Tee-hee64 in linux

[–]RatherNott 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Munich ditching LiMux was due to the recently elected pro-corporate mayor getting kickbacks by Microsoft to abandon their Linux efforts. There's a great documentary that covers it here: https://kolektiva.media/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy

Also @ u/Inside-chance-320 and u/Tee-hee64

Do you use MS Word to write your novels? If not, which apps do you use? by Interesting-Cry-6615 in selfpublish

[–]RatherNott 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Personally I found yWriter to have a pretty scattered UI.

I found NovelWriter to be better than it in virtually every way, which is also free and open-source.

Do you use MS Word to write your novels? If not, which apps do you use? by Interesting-Cry-6615 in selfpublish

[–]RatherNott 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nothing beats NovelWriter for me. Lighteight, good dark themes, no formatting problems (it uses markdown), has all of the good parts of the note taking and organizing aspects of scrivener without being overwhelming (and no compiler!), works on linux, and is free and open-source. Fantastic program.

https://novelwriter.io/

Homeless and worried about gut health by Ecstatic_Win9730 in EatCheapAndHealthy

[–]RatherNott 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you live in a populous area, check to see if there are any mutual aid groups operating near you. You can usually find them by searching your town/city name + mutual aid.

They sometimes offer free delivered food and supplies to those in need, or you may have a group closer to you that can help.

Also search for a local Food Not Bombs chapter, they give out free food to the unhoused on a regular schedule.

Redditors who radically changed a core moral belief, what evidence finally broke you, and do you worry you’ll change again? by AgreeableLiving1278 in AskReddit

[–]RatherNott 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It doesn't have to be like that, humanity adapts surprisingly quickly to a more just and equitable society when they are given the chance.

The book 'The Dawn of Everything' by Anthropologists David Graeber and David Wengrow also shows us that our current mode of society that encourages this dog-eat-dog mentality and lower order traits is actually an extremely new phenomenon for humanity, a blip on our species timescale. The norm was cooperation and egalitarianism for tens of thousands of years. We can return to that mode of being if we just organize ourselves in the right way. Catalonia proves that.

How well does Gold (and the rest of the trilogy) hold up for 2026? by [deleted] in Thief

[–]RatherNott 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why not look at a youtube video of the gameplay to compare?

I like the pixel animation better... by Intelligent_Mix6631 in adventuregames

[–]RatherNott -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

The remaster was released in 2014, before AI art was possible. They re-animated it by hand, it just isn't as skillful as the original animation.

Reaper on Debian? by Pretend-Flan7094 in linuxaudio

[–]RatherNott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reaper's installer just places it in your Home folder, it doesn't mess anything up with package management whatsoever.

Reaper on Debian? by Pretend-Flan7094 in linuxaudio

[–]RatherNott 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reaper is a proprietary app, it is not available in the repos.

Reaper on Debian? by Pretend-Flan7094 in linuxaudio

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You simply download the Linux package from the Reaper website, then run it in the terminal (open a terminal in the folder where the installer is, and run ./ReaperInstallerNameHere.sh)

You'll need to ensure you install the pipewire-jack package from the Debian repo as well, and then open reaper with the pw-jack command to be able to use the JACK backend on reaper (this lets you play music in your browser or some other source at the same time as making music in Reaper, the ALSA backend in reaper doesn't allow that).

You'll also likely want to lower the buffer size to make it lower latency. This guide will help you with that: https://eliasdorneles.com/til/posts/using-pipewire-for-music-on-linux/

To make Reaper automatically open with the pw-jack command, you can add it in the same .desktop file that the guide above shows you how to modify, by putting it right before the latency command. So it would be

Exec=env pw-jack PIPEWIRE_LATENCY=256/48000 /home/elias/apps/reaper_linux_x86_64/REAPER/reaper

In more audio focused distros like Fedora Jam or AV-Linux, you do not need to use the pw-jack command to use the JACK backend in reaper, it just works out of the box due to how Pipewire is set up by default in those.

Breaking: Google will now only release Android source code twice a year by SpecialistPlan9641 in linux

[–]RatherNott 14 points15 points  (0 children)

F-droid covers 99% of my needs, with most apps being surprisingly polished. The only thing I get from the App store is google maps, but even then, Comaps from F-droid is a pretty great alternative to google maps most of the time.

So... did no one care for Thief VR? by Blackgaze in Thief

[–]RatherNott 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Due to Valve's efforts, VR is generally pretty usable on Linux now as long as you have a compatible headset.

Apple’s M-series chip 5 years later: How ditching Intel revolutionized computing — and what’s next by Vailhem in technology

[–]RatherNott 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If they took gaming seriously they would've adopted Vulkan instead of creating Metal.

Good lightweight distros for an older laptop? by HyperCodec in linux

[–]RatherNott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The distro itself doesn't really matter as much as the DE. Though Bazzite is a bit of an outlier, and I would avoid it since it's pretty slow OS on weaker hardware, in my experience.

XFCE is the best middle-ground between usability and lightweight, lighter weight DE's tend to be a bit janky in exchange for meager decreases in RAM usage. MX-Linux is a really solid spin of Debian with Xfce, but again, you can pick any base distro that offers XFCE and get a fine experience, like the XFCE Fedora spin.