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Often times on this sub there's always an alternative being proposed, so I'm a bit shocked that this time most of the answers are simply "no".

I have nothing against buying what I enjoy. But I also want to use my own streaming service (be it Plex or Jellyfin), I want to watch it offline, I want to not live in fear that it gets taken away, and most importantly I want to know that atleast 50% of my money rightfully goes to the artists of said content.

As I've said in another comment, it's shocking that even the notoriously copyright-obsessed music industry allows retailers to sell high quality digital copies, while the film-industry just plainly doesn't.

Interesting concept. If I understand it correctly it didn't truly let you own the stuff that you bought. It instead gave you a proof-of-purchase allowing you to stream your purchased content on different streaming platforms (like Netflix, etc) as long as you have that one proof-of-purchase. However, if the platforms remove your purchased content from their catalogues at any time, it would be gone. So you're right, almost but not quite like DVD.

I wonder why the notoriously copyright-obsessed music industry allows retailers to sell digital copies (and high-quality ones), while the film-industry doesn't.

Spotify currently does not work, apparently they got blocked and are currently arranging a new proxy.

I tested it with Qobuz. I copy-pasted the link directly from Qobuz, and it somehow managed to pull a full 24 bit, 48KHz, flac file from source with just the Qobuz link. I still don't understand how. It works with full albums too.

I'm glad that not even a year later we've completely moved past the whole "fuck spez" shtick (it do be funny tho). I see this as an absolute win, as we've developed our own identity and finally embraced what we really are: A defederated link aggregator named Lemmy, not a Reddit clone or sidechick.

P.s. Altough, I have to agree that we do have to chill with all this My Little Pony stuff🤣

Of course! I'm too deep into Linux now, and how could I switch back to the old ways when the Linux community is just so incredibly kind like this :P

About the search tip, I read somewhere that Bazzite is a skin of a skin of a skin. So in general I'll remember to search for the upstream base if I can't find anything, got it.

Oh and seriously, please don't search for the other three, I know how tedious it can be and you've helped more than enough. I even got NordVPN working thanks to your link, so I'm more than satisfied! Armed with this new knowledge I'll do the rest myself, and I was also planning to switch to ProtonVPN anyways, that's one way of solving it :) But again, a huge thank you for helping me out!

Thanks for the encouraging words! That's actually very relatable and I hope that moment comes soon. But I'm also learning new stuff about Linux on an almost hourly basis and it's a lot of fun. Oh, and it's so rewarding when something finally works!

Hey!

So I've managed to find the time and install tlp and I'm already hugely grateful for that. You were right, and it was really just as easy as typing "sudo rpm-ostree install tlp" and it worked just like it would with apt or dnf. 1/5 done!

But sadly the other ones weren't so easy.

• Goverlay gives an error when using rpm-ostree, and the installation via tarball required qt6pas which I didn't manage to install correctly. Edit: After trying the same exact rpm-ostree a second time it....worked! But no idea what just happened. 2/5!!
• "Razer laptop control project" requires some packages (libdbus-1-dev libusb-dev libhidapi-dev libhidapi-hidraw0 pkg-config libudev-dev) that rpm-ostree isn't able to find.
• Auto-cpufreq uses an installer that exited with an error about the package "cairo" not being found (or rather, it being inactive). Installing it via rpm-ostree didn't change that...
• NordVPN for Linux uses a weird sh command that exited with the code "rpm-ostree: Dropping privileges as 'rpm' was executed with not 'known safe' arguments." I couldn't find anything on the internet about adding those arguments.

I've basically accepted my fate and given up on these last three programs, and it's largely my fault for wanting to install stuff that hasn't been made to work on an OS like Bazzite just yet. But maybe you can spot a rookie mistake or something that might help me again! Regardless of that, a huge thanks for your help and I'm glad I've got some programs to work while also learning something new along the way :)

Just wanted to chime in and give a +1 to Anytype. While I haven't self-hosted the backup node and I can't help you with that just yet, the fact that a free, P2P decentralized, end-to-end encrypted and source-available notes app like Anytype even exists is awesome!

I'd be curious to see if you manage to get the backup node up and running 👀

Hey db0 and mods!

Since you're just humans and we never know if the insults are slowly getting to you or you're just having doubts, I want to give a voice to the lurkers in here and reiterate one thing: I feel exceptionally well taken care of in this instance! I'm extremely happy to be a part of it, I don't even know what a downtime is and I don't see much drama or toxicity if any at all. I'm simply loving Lemmy (yes, seriously!), I'm loving my time on it and I can just focus on following the communities I'm passionate in, which is the main point of Lemmy. I'm also aware that this does not happen without considerable hard work from the people behind it. So while I'm sure most of it goes unnoticed, I hope to at least convey with this that it's not taken for granted or unappreciated in the slightest bit. A very big thanks to you all (and I try to donate where I can) <3

As for my personal experience, whenever a hexbear post makes it into my feed it's mostly an overly aggressive political take or straight up trolling. It reminds me of the League of Legends kind of humour: It's supposed to be a joke, but it's not explicitly spelled out that it's a joke and it attacks the individual. It's a mix of aggressive trolling and just straight up toxicity. You just never know if you're supposed to take it serious or not. But I personally like to have a choice if I eventually want to block them or not, and I feel like having a choice is one of the common threads between FOSS, Linux, the fediverse, self-hosting, piracy and so on.

But, while I do appreciate this, it isn't crucial to my experience on Lemmy. So, if at any time this balance is taking too much of a toll on you guys, it wouldn't be a big deal for me if we would "lose contact" with hexbear. Last thing I want is to slowly cook your sanity bit by bit, with each passing day a bit more, over something that is frankly not that important. I'd rather prefer you focus on what you love doing, be that doing technical stuff, improving the instance, memeing around, learning new stuff or simply discussing things with other people in peace. Life is much too short to argue with people, and over the internet it's even worse!

Thank you so much for the hint, I sporadically read the word "rpm-ostree" but never thought that it was related to my issue. I'll do some research on it tomorrow and keep you updated!

Very insightful, thanks. All this does seem very fishy at best. Best to stick with LibreOffice then.

Not an expert, but I think they're actually Latvian.