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Is Proton Unlimited Worth renewing?
  • I had the unlimited plan for a few months but downgraded only to the mail plan, that way I can try different providers for VPN, Drive, and password manager.

    For password manager I've had Bitwarden for years now and it works great for me. VPN currently with AirVPN because of easy port forwarding, and drive with Nextcloud self hosted because I can, and also works fine for me.

  • Spotify Wrapped 2023 is out, what's your top artist and top song for the year?
  • Song: fake me by Itou Kanako Artist: Itou Kanako

    Top song 2 years in a row now, and top artist for 3 years now :)

  • Best CPU and GPU monitoring app
  • On KDE there's System Monitor, which you can customize to show graphs for CPU usage and temp, among other things, and GPU usage and temp too.

    For in-game monitoring there's Mangohud, also very customizable on what you can show in the overlay

  • Is there anything you miss from previous iOS versions?
  • I don't know if you've tried it yet, but setting the "Haptic Touch" option to "Fast" gets you a bit closer to what you could do with 3D touch.

    It's under Accessibility -> Touch -> Haptic Touch

    Personally I like it better vs the default setting.

  • Is it ok to go "all in" into Apple ecosystem?
  • I think in terms of hardware it's worth it if you value the convenience. Stuff like the Apple Watch, Airpods, iPad, Apple TV, is good hardware and they work well together.

    On the software side you can use cross platform software wherever possible to not rely as much on Apple's services, in case you wanted to switch, then it would be too difficult

  • Distro hoppers, how do you manage your config files?
  • I copy everything in my home folder and paste it all in the new installation. Works well if I stick with the same desktop environment.

  • Was Fedora always so unstable?
  • I think it's worth noting that Tumbleweed also has the Mesa/codecs situation, where if you want the codecs you have to enable the Packman repo and install mesa from there, and when there's an update for mesa you have to wait for the update on Packman repo, otherwise you get some conflicts when trying to update. Though packman usually updates quick enough so it's usually not an issue but it can be a bit weird the first time you see it.

    Aside from that yeah, Tumbleweed is great. Though i'm currently running Fedora Kinoite and overall I've been happy with it, but I would probably go back to Tumbleweed if something were to happen.

  • Integrating VSCode and Distrobox
  • Here's some info on it: https://userbase.kde.org/KWin_Rules

    From the overview:

    KWin allows the end-user to define rules to alter an application's window attributes.

    For example, when an application is started, it can be forced to always run on Virtual Desktop 2. Or a defect in an application can be worked-around to force the window above others.

  • Integrating VSCode and Distrobox
  • I faced this as well on KDE and got around it by creating a window rule to match it by window title and force a .desktop name to the vs code window, so it shows the correct icon on the taskbar. I wonder if there is a similar functionality on Gnome?

  • Today I discovered Distrobox and it saved my day by letting me install an old-ass, unmaintained app that's only packaged for old Debian
  • I'm pretty sure it's wayland because on KDE wayland, with 200% scaling, when the cursor is over an xwayland window, it looks blurry. This doesn't happen on wayland windows. Also for some reason electron and chromium based apps run at 60 fps on wayland, while xwayland apps run at 144 fps as it should, and my VS Code in the Distrobox with the wayland flags also runs at 60 fps. Weird KDE stuff.

  • Today I discovered Distrobox and it saved my day by letting me install an old-ass, unmaintained app that's only packaged for old Debian
  • Yes. I run VS Code in an Ubuntu distrobox, with the electron wayland flags. Works real nice. KDE Wayland btw.

  • FOSS Apple Music player Cider is EOL, what will you use?
  • They're going closed source and windows only when there's already an official client from Apple coming to Windows? That's strange, and unfortunate.

  • Are we committed to Lemmy? or would we move if something better comes along?
  • Whoa, thanks for sharing this. It looks great!

  • Why do so many new games not have a fullscreen option?
  • At least on Windows 11, there's an option called like "Optimizations for Fullscreen games" where you can have screen tearing on borderless windowed games that are not DX12. Performance wise, OP would want to turn on this option if they have it available.

  • Can I use a docker container to route only 1 program through a VPN?
  • One option is what I currently use, a docker image of Qbittorrent with support for OpenVPN: https://hub.docker.com/r/markusmcnugen/qbittorrentvpn

    If you can get OpenVPN config files from CyberGhost then it should be straightforward to set up.

  • Dual Boot?
  • Regarding your bluetooth issues on your 8bitdo, I had an issue with my 8bitdo pro 2 where on linux there was a higher input delay vs Windows. I then updated the controller firmware and that fixed it. Works great on linux now.

    Maybe try updating the controller's firmware, if you haven't yet anyway.

    Regarding dual booting, I do dual boot, sometimes I like using windows, others i like using linux. It's nice to have the flexibility. Ideally i would like to switch to linux one day, but there are still a few small issues, at least on KDE wayland.

  • How do I transition my friends from Instagram DMs to Signal as a Gen Z individual in the US?
  • A few years ago I got 5 of my millennial friends to move from FB Messenger to Telegram and it took some peer pressure from me and essentially one hangout where we were all together, and moved in one go. Telegram is not perfect but overall it's much better than being on FB messenger.

  • question for you immutable distro users
  • I use Fedora Kinoite and I do a mix of Distrobox + layered packages for normal use. For development porpuses I prefer a Distrobox container with its own Home directory and it works nice.

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