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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Plasma on Wayland does have HDR support now... But I don't have a way to test how good it is, and I think it's both still unfinished and severely lacking support from applications. But hey, things are improving!

I wouldn't count on Adobe support though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

For a while, maybe... But the two distinctions I'd want to make is that, one, that's also mostly the time you'll spend learning what you need to set up as part of your system, and two, things that might be out of your control on many distros. I'd also say that by calling it a "meme distro" you're lumping it together with Hannah Montana Linux and similar.

I will certainly say, however, that I'm rather annoyed by all the people saying "Bro you can set up arch in a few minutes just run archinstal it's easy"... Not only do I not believe it's that easy when you don't know what you're doing and need to actually use the system, but that also seems to run counter to the point of arch. I think there's at least two popular arch derivatives meant to remove the enthusiast aspect and provide a streamlined experience, so why recommend arch to new people if not as a learning experience?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Calling Arch a meme distro is unnecessarily insulting. I imagine the same applies to Gentoo, but I haven't used it myself. It's an enthusiast distro, for people who want to have control over how their system is set up while accepting the responsibility of having to set everything up.

I absolutely agree with recommending against it for somebody's first experience - but if you're willing to read through the guides and troubleshoot issues, you can learn a lot about how things work on Linux. It's the kind of distro where you will have issues, and they will usually be due to your own mistakes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I do think the phrasing is complicated, IIRC Hetzner moved from monthly to hourly billing recently, so they probably had to have legally well-defined terms while also wanting to do a monthly-based system in hourly terms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I think it's only for the EU, and the other browsers don't have a solution ready - porting their engines for iOS is a lot of work, which takes time, and might not even be worth it when they still need to maintain the safari-based version for the rest of the world.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yup 😉

It's a unit that's been adopted by many technical mods, and conveniently sidesteps the issue of what the actual unit is by using the bucket as a reference. After all, in the wacky world of computer game, the actual measure doesn't matter, so long as it's consistent.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

As a tech mod player, they hold exactly 1000mB of water

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That makes sense, thanks for explaining! I saw "makes space" as what's happening right now, since Android does let you install alternatives for all those, including third party app stores, but it does go farther than that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

I don't think anything you said makes it not free, as long as you can fork it. The same can be said about most FOSS, since somebody, usually the creator, is in control of the repository.

That's the point of FOSS - your repository isn't becoming a democracy by virtue of using a permissive license, but it means somebody could outcompete you with a fork and effectively take over as the dominant project.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

But... Aren't all of those things still very much dominant?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Everyone being equally miserable could be preferable to some people being happy, since it gives everybody equal reasons to work towards improving the situation... Except, of course, the monkey paw would ensure that wouldn't pan out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I mean, couldn't an addon just read the password you put into a login field, or send in a request, and send it off to their servers?

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