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32 - he/they - Alberta, Canada - Just a random retro gaming enthusiast, Linux user, and furry on the autism spectrum.

  • On Alpine 3.24, can sudo be replaced with doas-sudo-shim after Pi-Hole is installed?

  • I've considered trying that to see what happens.

  • Can you set up SMPlayer and/or MPV to automatically grab YouTube subtitles?

  • I've noticed that if I pass the --config=yes option for mpv in SMPlayer's advanced preferences, it will use some of my mpv config, since it'll load the autoload script I use, but it'll ignore all the settings needed to load YouTube subtitles. Setting disable_player_config=false doesn't change this.

    Celluloid, meanwhile, will load subtitles, but using it feels kind of jank compared to mpv by itself. On my setup, you have to pause while it's "loading", then play to actually get a YouTube video to start, and you also have to press J to bring up the subtitles.

  • Can you set up SMPlayer and/or MPV to automatically grab YouTube subtitles?

  • I'm using FreeTube Nightly, and I'm actually using a newer build than the one that's on the AUR, since you can pull the latest Nightly build from their Github, yay -G the PKGBUILD for freetube-nightly, then modify the PKGBUILD to point at the newer .pacman file. FWIW, this has never really fixed any problems I've had with using whatever the latest version on the AUR is.

    But in any case, different people have different results with FreeTube, and it sounds like you've been having better luck than I have. It's not consistent.

  • Can you set up SMPlayer and/or MPV to automatically grab YouTube subtitles?

  • The last answer works for MPV. I'll have to figure out if it's possible to get it working with SMPlayer as well, but for now telling FreeTube to use MPV directly works.

    If anyone doesn't feel like opening the link, the fix involves adding this to your ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf file:

     
        
slang=en,eng,enUS,en-US
sub-auto=fuzzy
ytdl-raw-options=ignore-config=,sub-lang="en,eng,enUS,en-US",write-sub=,write-auto-sub=
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    Can you set up SMPlayer and/or MPV to automatically grab YouTube subtitles?

  • Crazy Taxi: World Tour - Official 'Welcome to the West Coast' Trailer

  • Likely the result of them using AI in the development process, even if they claim it's "just for reference".

  • GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux

  • Holy fucking shit, it's about time. I would've loved to see this 10 years ago, but better late than never.

    Maybe I'll start digging into more of my GOG library once this is out. Yes, I'm aware Heroic exists, but I've never been a huge fan of it.

  • Valve Hits 760,000 Yearly Steam Machine Sales Amid RAM Shortage

  • The 4 OG Xbox releases for Win11 seem to be emulated indeed and XWine1 already found a way to play more games with the embedded emulator

  • I can't wait for the Fitgirl repacks.

  • People saying just build your own steam machine don't get its appeal

  • They don't like it when you ask them for parts lists. They also don't like it when you tell them you don't like tempered glass case panels because you worry about them breaking. :P

  • People saying just build your own steam machine don't get its appeal

  • It pains me that people are like that. Working with computer hardware really isn't that scary unless you're cracking open a CRT monitor or a power supply for whatever reason.

    I'd like to think that more people would be able to work with computer hardware if they simply set aside their fears and preconceptions and were willing to learn a few things, but like I said before, there are plenty of people who see computers as "magic boxes".

  • People saying just build your own steam machine don't get its appeal

  • Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer'

  • Wake me up when there's an actual slop-free Linux fork.

  • People saying just build your own steam machine don't get its appeal

  • The people downvoting this don't understand how intimidating building and upgrading PCs is to the average person. Like seriously, there's a reason prebuilts exist. Building a PC may seem easy if you're used to doing it, but most people aren't.

    A lot of people see a PC as this magic box that runs games and other programs, and they don't dare open it up for fear of breaking something. Heck, a lot of people don't even understand that an operating system is just a piece of software that can be swapped out for other software, and not an integral part of the system they're using.

  • Despite having an offline mode, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced was unplayable when Ubisoft Connect went down

  • I don't bother with Steam games that use third party launchers. Too much of a hassle on Linux. I learned that the hard way a few years ago when I grabbed Titanfall 2, after people insisted that it ran well in Linux.

  • Despite having an offline mode, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced was unplayable when Ubisoft Connect went down

  • People keep downvoting you, but you speak the truth. GOG's Linux support is a joke. If they were serious about Linux, they would've released an official version of Galaxy for it by now.

  • Have you ever been disappointed with Linux?

  • I wasn't sure how powerful of a machine you had. The Ryzen you have likely slaughters the CPUs in both of the laptops I mentioned; an i5 4300U in the HP, and an i5 3320m in the Thinkpad. I should've been more specific about that.

    I have Debian 13 running on a desktop i5 4570 box, and it seems to run well, though I have it set up differently than the laptops since it's a headless machine I mainly access over RDP and SSH. It also has twice the RAM (16GB vs the 8GB in both laptops), an NVME SSD for a boot drive, and XFCE instead of KDE Plasma.

    Whatever the case, I feel like if your machine is powerful enough, the performance difference between Debian and more aggressively optimized distros shouldn't matter too much, BUT, I can see not wanting to use it if you're adamant about squeezing every last drop of performance from your machine.

  • Have you ever been disappointed with Linux?

  • Have you ever been disappointed with Linux?

  • EDIT: Hopefully this isn't too TL;DR. I got a bit carried away writing this response.

    Debian Stable uses an LTS kernel, so while it's based on an older codebase, it still gets regular security updates. You won't get the most bleeding-edge performance features, but since you're using an older Nvidia GPU, not being on the bleeding edge might actually be helpful.

    I honestly wouldn't be too concerned about the space used by Flatpak dependencies, unless you have a really small SSD that you're trying not to use too much space on. If you use a separate home partition, it's helpful to set up Flathub as a user repo (add --user to the usual install command) so that the space that gets used is on your home partition and not on root.

    As far as sandboxing issues go with your development workflow, I'm not super well-informed on that subject, but I know that Flatseal gives you a fair amount of control over what Flatpak applications can access.

    I think if Debian Stable has one big caveat, it's that it's not the lightest distro, particularly when you're running it with a full DE and Flatpak applications.

    On machines like my Thinkpad X230t or my HP Elitebook 840 G1, EndeavourOS has been noticeably snappier. However, EOS is basically Arch, and I don't like running Arch on machines I don't intend to use regularly, since it tends to break when it hasn't been updated in a long time.

  • Have you ever been disappointed with Linux?

  • What are your thoughts on Debian Stable?

    It's not a rolling release, and you'll need to use Flatpak if you want newer versions of certain apps; unless you're willing to deal with the Backports repos and their limited level of support, but I think it might be a good fit for your use case.

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    Allow us to collapse images in comments, or hide them by default

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    What's the PieFed/Lemmy equivalent to r/findareddit? Does one exist?

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    In Bazzite KDE, can you prevent emulated keyboard/mouse inputs on controller from conflicting with controller inputs when a game is launched in desktop mode?

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    Why doesn't the Communities page on piefed.zip exclude blocked communities? (not sure if this applies to piefed.social)