and ZZ for save & quit
Astaroth
joined 1 year ago
Can you turn off privacy features?
I still want most things for convenience, but the one thing I want to get rid of is telemetry and somehow I just can't seem to completely get rid of it with firefox (I've tried both nightly and default firefox)
So a browser that gets rid of all the telemetry and then allows me to enable other things that I want would be fine by me.
Well just look at the youtube sub on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1792um0/let_that_sink_in_before_you_defend_a_billion/
99% of comments are youtube apologists
Hopefully most of those are bot comments & the mods are probably youtube employees
I wasn’t saying it can be done, thing is the time and effort to make it work is way too much…
If you think it's too much time and effort for you, that's fair enough.
I obviously don't think it is or I wouldn't do it. Also something to note is it gets easier and faster with time as you have more things already installed and thus more games run out of the box, as well as just having the experience and know-how of what to do.
and the end result tends to be poor.
I'm not having poor end results compared to when I were using Windows, so that's just a you thing.
Only real notable fault for linux gaming is online multiplayer games with anti-cheat, and luckily for me I don't play those anyway.
Well one thing that hasn't been working that comes to mind is Frosty Tool Suite, a mod manager for Frostbite engine games, so I was unable to replay Dragon Age Inquisition with new mods on Linux.
That however isn't a game itself but a 3rd party mod manager, and technically I could get it too work by either using a NTFS formatted hard drive or some other tricks, but it seemed too much of a pain to deal with so I've left that on the back-burner.
assuming that you're running WINE through the terminal you'll see if there's any error and usually it's pretty simple to find what you need to make the game run (if it doesn't already)
for starters get all the gst/gstreamer packages including the plugin ones (libav, good/bad/ugly, etc.) and make sure to have both 64 and 32bit versions.
get wine-mono (or directly install .net runtimes in your wineprefix, easily done with winetricks) and wine-gecko.
after that you basically just get whatever .dll or vcrun stuff as needed (following error messages), most easily done through winetricks
I will admit though, while using Linux Mint (instead of Arch Linux which I use on my home PC) at a relative's house I had some trouble at first because a) apt package manager sucks, b) the names of the packages were different, and c) wine-mono and wine-gecko packages didn't exist so I had to follow these instructions https://wiki.winehq.org/Mono & https://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko
also just like how protondb is a really good resource to look up how well games will run on steam proton and tips on how to run them, there's https://appdb.winehq.org/
just mount the .iso (if there is one) and run the installer (e.g. setup.exe) with WINE
Never used or heard of it before but apparently zoxide is only for cd command, do you happen to know if there's some fuzzy match for in general?
At the moment what I do is history foo | grep -i "bar"
yeah Fish tab completion works, but one thing I've noticed though is that tab completion for wrong case only works if there's no option with the correct case
e.g. if I have Downloads and Downloads2 then d with tab completion will become Downloads, but if I have Downloads and downloads2 it will tab complete to downloads2 and D will complete to Downloads
I've been meaning to look through the Fish documentation to see if I can change that and fuzzy search for history but never got around to it
So one thing I've started getting worried about is whether youtube/google will eventually block/delete youtube/google accounts who use adblockers.
I don't really care about my youtube account but I have several gmail accounts and losing those would be awful.
I assume they won't ever go that far, but just the possibility is scary.
So is there an easy way to migrate all your stuff to some other email service and what are some good ones?