And that’s just the number according to Israel. Gaza officials claim over two hundred.

Yes, that is unfortunately true.

If you don’t want to move instances, you can probably reduce 99% of annoying Hexbear shitposts by blocking just 3 communities:

• !memes@hexbear.net
• !chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
• !the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net

They’re by far the noisiest, in my experience.

“The West” is a very nebulous and hard-to-define concept at best, and so the term “Westerner” can be equally hard to pin down to one single definition.

In my experience, though, it generally refers to cultural background rather than ethnicity. If a person grows up in a “Western” country to the extent that their mindset and outlook is aligned with that country’s cultural values and way of life, then they are a Westerner, regardless of their ancestry.

Gaming these days is generally excellent thanks to Proton. Certain titles do still have issues, but it’s on a case by case basis.

Audio latency is a good point - I don’t know how that fares under a VM these days. Pipewire has brought many improvements over Pulse, so it’s possible that the situation has also gotten better.

If you’re hanging onto Windows for just one app, you could try running it in a virtual machine. I do that for a few work-related apps that have no Linux/web versions and it works great.

You could also dual boot, if VM performance doesn’t quite cut it.

The IzzyOnDroid repo, most likely.

If you’re using the stock F-Droid store app, you have to manually add it. If you’re on one of the newer clients, like Neo Store, it’s enabled out-of-the-box.

Next on the list of pointlessly reductive comparisons: let’s judge which is the best desktop environment solely on which has the superior clock app.

The devs laid out their reasoning here:

https://vanillaos.org/blog/article/2023-03-07/vanilla-os-20-orchid---initial-work

Essentially, they want a non-opinionated rolling release and to stick with apt as a base package manager, which means that Sid is the obvious solution.

I picked up Civ 6 for $5, which ain’t bad.

This has some good info.

https://news.itsfoss.com/vanilla-os-beta/

The main change with 2.0 is the Debian Sid base, as opposed to Ubuntu.

The latest developer preview build in an early alpha of 2.0. It is noticeably less functional than the latest stable release, which is still built on Ubuntu.

If you want to play around with their package manager and distrobox, I’d suggest trying out the latter.

Agreed. I had a dual boot setup like this for years and it worked well.

The only downside is that you run the risk of running out of space in your system partitions and you can’t really do much to resize them once you’re up and running. For this reason I recently went full Linux and set up Windows 11 in a VM in case I need to use it for work.

They really need to bolster their software support. It’s really the main thing keeping me from considering a ZenFone for my next upgrade.

Fuck me. TIL that was Tom Waits.

One wonders why but each to their own, I guess.

Yup, and even when doing quick A-B testing, it’s usually a slight volume disparity that makes it possible to tell them apart.

The idea that Tidal sounds noticeably better because it offers FLAC instead of a lossy codec is pretty much a myth.

I don’t know about open source, but the only Android app that comes anywhere close to the functionality of GIMP/Krita/Photoshop is Infinite Painter, AFAIK.

The audible difference between Tidal and Spotify is way overblown even with audiophile quality gear.

Apple Music does sometimes sound better by comparison, but that’s more to do with the fact that they tend to curate their music library with better sounding master recordings than it does with what codec/bitrate they use.

The downsides of AM is that it can be a pain if you aren’t already in Apple ecosystem, and its suggestion algorithm often isn’t as good.

There’s a difference between purchasing a product and paying for a service.

Paying for Spotify would be the latter.