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I think if the ability to buy something (from the provider, not ebay/secondhand or whatever) on a valid platform, at a reasonable price, without any BS (ex: bad anticheat/the cracked version provide a better service/etc), and if you can genuinely afford it, then it’s better to just buy the thing. I also believe in supporting indie companies and solo devs, they usually provide fair access anyway but if I can’t get something from them I just go without.

Outside of that, fair game in my opinion. If the seller doesn’t provide fair access to something, they’re basically asking for it.

If someone just doesn’t want to pay, fair game to them as well even if I’m not a fan of that. My views are just what I hold myself to, not what’s right or wrong for everyone.

One for people in the US:

You aren’t taxed at the higher rate for all of your income when you get a raise that puts you in a higher tax bracket, only the part that is in the range of that bracket specifically. The rest of your income below the bracket is taxed the same as before.

I’ve seen a lot of people decline promotions and raises over this, and bosses are very happy to let you continue thinking that’s how it works.

Not sure if that counts as not common knowledge, but a lot of people I know didn’t know it before.

My favorite was Infinity/Eternity for a while, but I tried out Jerboa and it kinda just stuck for me, I really like it

Poll results are pretty interesting so far too

I’ve been thinking the same thing, I stick near stable releases of distros mostly because of both breakage and I don’t like just having hundreds of updates every week, this feels like a good in-between that gets me everything I want. I don’t need the latest and greatest days or hours after release, but I certainly don’t want to be years behind either.

Not a bad idea really, if you update tons of stuff without rebooting if you have it disabled sometimes weird stuff can happen, but its not very common and usually not very bad at all. I’d leave it on if you want that extra little bit of stability, but if its just a regular every day use computer I think either way is fine.

It’s because it has offline updates enabled in Discover settings, its not a distro thing rather that Gnome and KDE have that in their software centers as a setting, and Fedora enables it by default, but it can be disabled.

It’s to make your system more stable because no packages get moved or updated during a running system causing unexpected behavior, and you also don’t have to reboot when it tells you, it’s more just a reminder that updates are waiting to be applied when you do, they could really word that better.

For average use not really, assuming the VPN is reliable and trustworthy, and if by average you mean just regular day to day browsing.

When you start getting into the territory of doing stuff that would actually get investigated, it has some benefits like having a little bit of protection from possibly backdoored servers, MITM, etc.

For regular privacy in day to day, it is an improvement but I wouldn’t consider it worth the latency gain unless absolutely needed.

Snaps mount themselves as a filesystem which floods the menu with needless entries when you’re trying to monitor/manage filesystems

I’m all for the second USB-C, I feel like this is more likely to possibly happen compared to getting the headphone jack back, plus it would just be useful to have in general

I use it just for daily internet use, work (browser-based), and gaming, I’m daily driving Debian 12. I’m “tech savvy” but I don’t code or anything, Windows and MacOS could both do everything I need but they irritate me.

I’m using Debian 12 stable and I do everything on it, even gaming. I use flatpaks to keep certain apps that benefit from being up to date, and I install backported kernel and mesa when they release for more performance (amd gpu).

I’ve been on and off with vanilla Debian for years while distrohopping, but I tried out Debian 11 testing and everything just worked for me, am still using that same install but I’m sticking to stable branch now.

Also, proprietary drivers are now officially supported by Debian as of Debian 12, and are available to install out of the box without needing to search for them or add the non-free repositories now, which was a pretty big roadblock for a lot of people.

Just out of curiosity, since I’ve had a similar problem, can you try to disable KScreen 2 in your Background Services settings near the startup applications/autostart menu, then try to let your monitors go to sleep?

My monitors always wake from sleep repeatedly on their own on both X11 and Wayland, but disabling it fixes it for me (but also resets my monitor settings on every boot/log in). I’m still working on finding a permanent solution for mine, but if this also acts as a workaround for your issue it might help narrow down the cause a bit.

I saw this yesterday and posted this in the disqus thing on the link but completely forgot to post it here too. While it’s being added in Firefox beta as a native feature, this has actually existed as a “by firefox” extension for a bit now and they’ve just been quietly working on it in the background. If you want to try this out without switching to Firefox beta, you can install it here but make sure to remove it once it gets properly added.

I’ll try to be unbiased during this, but I am biased against Manjaro personally.

I think as a distro they have good defaults for someone who wants to just dive in and start using it, I like that they have a ton of editions where you can pretty much just start off with whatever one you like.

However, they have had quite a few issues, some innocent mistakes, some larger, but these have had some bad effects that have caused many to lose their trust for it in terms of stability and security, including me. Whether that causes you to trust or not trust them though is a different story. Some of these issues are listed here.

In terms of user friendliness, they make a lot of things very easy, especially graphics card driver and choosing kernel versions via some nice GUI tools they use, and there is a decently large community to find support and ask questions on, but best to make sure you’re asking specifically for Manjaro, as it is far enough away from Arch that some solutions or fixes won’t work and vice versa.

They also have a consistent visual design/color theme, some like it, some hate it, but it’s pretty consistent for those who it matters to.

I would consider using them again personally, but I am on a different distro I’m happy with currently, and will keep an eye on them to see how they improve over the years. I think some of their methods are flawed, but they are passionate about what they do.

I can’t really recommend for or against using it directly, but I hope this info helps you make a decision for it.

I’m focusing on it because the open source license is what allows this to happen in the first place, if the developer didn’t intend to allow this to happen, they likely wouldn’t have made it open source. I think it’s a big part of the discussion. It didn’t happen with Sync or Boost because of the closed source license, which intends to not allow derivative works, while open source does.

I don’t think this is shady behavior, because the dev is responding to this responsibly. I also haven’t seen anyone thinking that it is the original developer though it may happen, but the original developer is credited in multiple places, and anywhere that you can download the app explains that it’s a fork of Lemmy for Reddit. I’m not sure what more the developer can do, but this is a pretty common thing that usually goes down just fine, and if it’s not fine the developer of Infinity for Reddit would reach out.

I personally think that credit was given where it was due.

Edit: Reworded for clarity

Sync for Reddit is not open source

Boost for Reddit is not open source

Infinity for Reddit is open source

The Reddit developer allowed to it to be used in this way by making it open source, the point of which being to be modified and forked by other developers. The Infinity for Lemmy developer is already changing the name with the intent of making it known that it’s a separate project. Infinity for Lemmy is only a temporary name.

I don’t see an issue when the creator of Infinity for Reddit specifically licensed the app in a way that this was allowed to happen, especially when credit was properly given. The first time that I saw someone mention the naming thing, the Lemmy developer made plans to change the name in the replies, as far as I can see, there was no malicious intent and they just wanted to do something nice for the community and put proper credit to the original developer.

Edit: Reworded for clarity.