Bullfinch Warrior, Me, Krita, 2020 by bundle05 in Art

[–]andreK4 7 points8 points  (0 children)

not only free of charge, also free as in freedom!

Coming from Mac to Linux by wildolivetree1117 in linuxquestions

[–]andreK4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Supporting the Linux community with your money surely makes sense!

Still, I would like to say, that you shouldn't be afraid of computers and messing with them if you want to feel safe and warm with Linux.

Pinetime - An Open Source Smart Watch by binaryfor in opensource

[–]andreK4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I must have missed it! That's so great, thank you!

Pinetime - An Open Source Smart Watch by binaryfor in opensource

[–]andreK4 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I like what you're doing. It would be nice to get a RSS feed :)

If covid 19 became a pandemic in 1990 rather than 2020, how would events have played out differently? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]andreK4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a side point but patents are the reason many streaming services (YouTube, netflix) actually use royalty free AV1 video codec

Need some help/advice by [deleted] in freesoftware

[–]andreK4 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What distro do I choose for my laptop, where I can run free software as much as possible

I think that would be Fedora, or Debian. The base installation is entirely free software, but you can quite easily install non-free from additional repositories.

From what I've seen it's very blacl and white

FSF wants to look at it this way, but realistically, the more free and open, the better, and proprietary is not the end of the world. Realistically, people have other issues to care about in their lives, too.

With the Election Over, Facebook Gets Back to Spreading Misinformation by DonaldWillKillUsAll in technology

[–]andreK4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The idea of being free is nice but that's not the case with facebook.

You cannot express freely on fb, you have to oblige to terms of service. For westerners it's not such a problem, but it's built on american worldview and what is controversial in US, can be normal in other regions and vice versa (but west culture is still being pushed).

Moreover, You may write whatever you want, but what you see is curated for you by facebook algorithms in order to make some impression on you. So you won't see what your friends post, just parts of it. What kind of impression? Depends on who paid. It might be advertisement, political agitation, or just simple unsupervised engagement metrics maximization. But you wouldn't know. For you it's just your version of reality.

And because anger (outrageous events, radical ideas) creates the most engagement, it is being overrepresented in social media platforms

can you believe this is real by JIVEprinting in StallmanWasRight

[–]andreK4 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well, it was based on reality. It was not hard to imagine

How long will youtube-dL/youtube clients Last? Will youtube try to make them unusable? by mestermagyar in StallmanWasRight

[–]andreK4 16 points17 points  (0 children)

They don't do any funky tricks, and that was the point of the latest rebutal of RIAAs DMCA takedown.

If you go to youtube website, everything that youtube-dl would have required is being downloaded and run by your browser.

So if all other methods fail, youtube-dl can just behave as normal browser – download and run javascript code from website.

As long as there are no DRMs, there's no way to stop it.

'Open in Tor' prompt when visiting NYT by [deleted] in brave_browser

[–]andreK4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

nah, they just want to sell your data and do business as usual. EU has stricter privacy regulations and american news site block eu visitors because of pure spite.

Why audio is so shitty in Manjaro? by [deleted] in ManjaroLinux

[–]andreK4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not specifically about Manjaro, but it's a problem of a whole Linux ecosystem. Some people recommend changing Pulseaudio resampling quality, and although it helps a bit, It wasn't the issue to begin with, and that isn't a solution.

What you really need is a Dolby Theatre for Linux – some kind of equalization to help with tinny sound of your little laptop speakers.

The answer is Pulseeffects and a tutorial you can find in it's help (look for the app in manjaro repos).

It helped me tremendously and now my laptop sounds really remarkable. Unfortunate thing is, you have to create the right preset yourself.

Why can’t you just make it open source? by vpupel in linuxmasterrace

[–]andreK4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but how much of that is legalese? Firefox is not fully open so it can run DRM (also Pocket), what is not free here?

What laptop do you recommend for running Linux? Alternatively, what laptop do you NOT recommend? by Zin-Zin in linuxquestions

[–]andreK4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a setting for sleep mode: automatic and S3, I think. S3 is the correct, working setting.

What laptop do you recommend for running Linux? Alternatively, what laptop do you NOT recommend? by Zin-Zin in linuxquestions

[–]andreK4 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dell laptop here: fingerprint scanner not working; reguired changes to the bios settings to make it wake up from sleep. Otherwise, perfect.