yeah i recall that the connector would melt, let alone that i think there wouldn’t be any sort of feedback to ensure that the cable was connected all the way.

self-contained, offline

While on one part i do like the all-ini-one ui and services, i feel as though it could have been done a little better without hosting a mini web-server just to use localhost on it.

Most if not all of the tools here are based on snapshots of online websites running in a browser, along with Docker ontop of it. While the intention is good and there are some neat ideas in here, why not just bundle native, offline FOSS programs that do the job already? for instance, cyberchef can be replaced with respective linux programs (eg base64, hexdump, grep, awk/sed, and gpg, just to name a few. graphical versions of these programs exist as well, so it’s not like you need to use the terminal, it’s just the most versatile environment for this type of stuff). No need for a webserver or anything.

However i will say, the offline wikipedia and maps are cool, unfortunately they’re the only neat things in this project.

Now let’s get to the point, an AI chatbot. What, does the dev think we have money to burn? Much less if SHTF and NVDIA RTX GPUs are scrapped for metal? (which they should be anyways). Now i know it’s local, and that it most likely has data already trained on it so that it has the 100% guarantee of not huffing its own fumes and hallucinating, but compared to the absolute power usage that’ll bring because of the sheer amount of resources it’s hogging out trying to spit out an answer, a search engine could do just as good, and it won’t hog up your GPU while at it. That’s not even getting into the current ssd/gpu/ram situation right now. On its front page, its own recommended spec sheet says 32 gigs of ram. yeah that’s a bit steep. 1TB SSD, i could kinda see why, but if i assume that most of the information is just text, you don’t really need 1TB, but it is better safe than sorry. Still, that’ll be pretty expensive if we’re going by today’s prices. When SHTF do you really think that most people are going to be rocking killer rigs with 8/16core CPUs, 32+ gigs of RAM and an RTX GPU? For the millionares and spoiled gamers who already have those? Sure, but for the masses? They’ll mostly be using laptops with 4-6 cores, 8 gigs of ram, and a mid-range gpu if they’re lucky, or integrated graphics.

Sure, you can say that having AI in it is somehow beneficial and tout how “everyone is using it”, but don’t get all pissy when your power bank runs out of juice at the worst time, let alone word gets out and your place gets raided and your 20-year-old 5090 is turned into scrap. All because you thought AI is good enough.

All in all it’s a good premise, but it could be executed way better than just snapshotting websites, then slapping AI onto it and calling it a day.

That logo is already giving me AI vibes. I’m sticking with floorp.

as far as VST plugins/audio software are concerned, it’s great over here, albeit with the usual WINE quirks once in a blue moon. the only thing stopping certain VSTs from working correctly (or in rare cases at all) is WINE. WINE ain’t perfect, but is it glorious.

RX10 and SpectraLayers Pro 11 run like a dream too.

the only thing i miss is having every vst work (i’ve learned ot live without the broken ones which are only a couple in my collection, besides that all of them work beautifully, aside from a few that have flickery UIs). FL Studio on Linux is awesome.

he actually did nothing wrong

The left 4 dead 2 thing could have been fixed by running the game through Proton, as the native Linux port of thegame is less than stellar. Helldivers 2 is Helldivers 2, and honestly I wish LS just did a bit more research on PopOS to know that it switched to COSMIC (or just right out the bat didn’t make ChatGPT choose a distro for him by regurgitating those awful listicles with outdated info), and maybe, just maybe, reconsidered installing an OS at a LAN party. I’m sorry but if you’re installing an OS at a LAN party and let alone trying to troubleshoot things while people are waiting for you on a match, everyone will laugh at you.

However I will give LS the benefit of the doubt on Cosmic, that windows duplication bug was insane. idk how System76 decided Cosmic is ready for release now. They could have at least put it up as a second download option with a short disclaimer alongside the GNOME version or something.

Elijah and Luke did way better imho. They actually went onto the internet, chose the distro after a little bit of thread hunting and a little research, and tried their best to troubleshoot their problems.

is he still gonna try it on that jank ass setup that i know he’s still using then whine to the OS when nothing works right? Haven’t watched the previous one fully but Luke was more reasonable imo, Linus was just a whiny little shit.

So i’ve watched the 2nd episode, Linus is using an actual computer this time, which is a step up, but he had the bright idea to let ChatGPT recommend him a distro (PopOS again, which he didn’t do any further research on, especially consdiering now that they’re sipping an unfinished COSMIC DE in prod), and outstepping that with an even brighter idea: choosing to install the OS and deal with troubleshooting at a LAN Party, Yup, you heard that right, a LAN party. The perfect place to troubleshoot things while you have people who are waiting on you to start a match.

The problems he does encounter are indeed issues with the native linux port of L4D2 (audio levels changing and general source linux build bugs), also helldivers bugs in general, and it wouldn’t be current PopOS without a Steam window duplication bug.

The rest of the team are (like in the last one if i remember correctly), miles better, they actually allocated some time to troubleshooting and didn’t let ChatGPT recommend a distro for them, they actually used the internet.

hope they’re ready for missiles to come down on them

that’s the best way to put a huge “RAID ME!” sticker infront of your server room

lmao i only caught that typo just now

jokes on them i’m already on linux (been since 2018). Failing that i’d honestly use veracrypt, just so that the key is with you and only you, but considering how invasive MS is with their copilot idk if i would really trust them not seeing anything.

While I do get removing soviet symbols and monuments, erasing the name of a composer from a building is just silly. What next, abolish the periodic table cause it was done by a Russian chemist?

wiped a windows partition with grub while trying to install an iso to a usb stick (just woke up and thought that was a good idea to be doing), realised my mistake, had bad ram at the time and so i bit the bullet and installed linux cause windows wouldn’t get past the initial install screen, 2 pcs later and i’m still rocking linux. switched in the tail end of october 2018 and i laugh at the state of windows ever since then.

i think Kdenlive has subtitle transcription which you can enable and configure in settings.

Here’s a tip: after moving the folder (idk if this counts after renaming a folder or file, probably doesn’t), go into your torrent client and click Force Recheck on the torrent. it’ll recheck everything and continue seeding the file.

yeah i had that happen to me too, didn’t look in the update screen because updates before went with a breeze but i took another look after VLC wouldn’t play anything, it was something with the VLC plugins and i needed to reinstall those, just had to do sudo pacamn -S vlc-plugins-all to get VLC to play video files back, but man, that should have been in the news imo.

I think they’re referring to the how to make a tiktok style edit tutorial video on the Youtube he linked. It’s pretty good, ngl, although i’d much rather than fade out, overlay the alternative clips by a few frames, then fade out and in usinc either cubic out/cubic in, or a combination of exponential and cubic. Gives it a more seamless transition imo.

it’s high quality (afaik) if oyu get from Tidal or Deezer (if Deezer works at all, worked before but it’s now haing some issues as of late), Lucidia also is a bit unstable as of late but when it works it’s a nice little site

half to most of these aren’t even youtube alternatives, as far as i can guess they’re just video hosting for that specific site and its content

idk if i would inherently say that, but the CEO does have some worms in his brain so there’s that.