Is that a joke or something? I hope you're not seriously intending to use this 'license' of yours in your own projects if you intend to seriously protect them.

That's what Reddit became. A place where you either post alongside the popular belief, or get downvoted to hell so no one sees what you've written or, if they do, they question your credibility as a whole. A giant fiasco, where actual discussions are completely discouraged.

It doesn't surprise me. After all it's the default way to start using WSL.

But for people running full distros, it seems to me most are avoiding Ubuntu these days except if they are required to use it by their employer or something. In DistroWatch it seems Ubuntu's popularity is slowly sinking.

I would guess that Microsoft has to comply to Chinese privacy and data laws, AND that China's firewall also might block a lot of the telemetry.

I agree nonetheless. They should be using Linux a long time ago.

Windows has gotten so bad that my family, who has been reticent about the switch since 2004, has finally given in and is swapping!

Yaaaayyyy!!! Nice one!! Congrats on pulling that off!

So far I got them to agree with ChromeOS Flex

Sorry, you what???

If I had to guess, most of these 'books' are some kink bullshit. Ever since I looked for the rankings in the Kindle section, it was flooded by books with men or women stripping on the cover and some random erotic titles. Among them some rare exceptions (and most of these were some cheap self-help stuff).

That being said, I wouldn't be surprised this is what's being actually affected. I can't see the actual data or content of the article though, because it requires me to subscribe and I definitely won't.

Exactly what I wonder. I have a list of 110 (and growing) books I want to read, all of them written by human beings, and I discover something new all the time. There's no way I will buy a random book on Amazon, be it from AI or by some author I've never heard anything about.

Just disabled it with Shizuku + Canta. Hopefully it's enough.

Also from Piefed.zip, also from Gecko browser (in my case, Waterfox) and also a uBlock Origin user, but no issues on my end.

I would guess that's related to LibreWolf's aggressive privacy settings. Maybe try to add an exception for Piefed or disabling Resist Fingerprinting to check if it fixes the issue.

Just wanted to give you an update. I figured out the issue, it was on my end.

When I copy the link from a Piefed.social community, that's what I get:

https://piefed.zip/...

If I try from Lemmy, I get this:

https://piefed.social/...

And I actually attempted that, but didn't work:

https://piefed.social/...

It turns out that the original link, from the original instance, is that simple, and actually works just fine:

https://piefed.social/community/piefed_meta/feed

So, just a little suggestion. I don't know if that's by design for some reason, but maybe when clicking on the 'RSS feed' button it should always (regardless the instance you're in) return the original, functional link: https://piefed.instance/...

I really like Foliate. Great interface, easy to use, enough customization. It's available through Flatpak.

If you want something more feature rich and don't care too much about UI, then Calibre.

I tried with RSS Guard and Fluent Reader and didn't manage to make it work with them. Feeder seems to work though.

Thanks, I really appreciate it!

To be fair, people need to set their priorities straight. Even though these are marketed as 'gaming' hardware, are they actually?

I have an RTX 4060 8GB VRAM that seems to have people hating all over it, but I don't see the point, currently, to buy another GPU. It runs smoothly enough every single game I've attempted to run it, including stuff like Alan Wake 2. There's also the fact that most AAA games that demand a strong hardware are barely worth playing.

But as long as 'gamers' keep fixating on the idea that gaming can only be enjoyable when they own the best hardware to run things on 4k, 120fps, almost zero input delay, and whatever the fuck else the market sells as essential for a 'true gaming experience', that's what you get: extremely overpriced hardware, that will never feel enough.

Is that the same reason why I can't connect to Piefed RSS links with most RSS readers?

It might as well be his doom (pun intended). Can't Activision file a lawsuit against him for uploading that on Github?

No thanks. I don't need a closed source browser from an USA company, promising about privacy. I don't trust them.

The pro-consumer pitch is typical of these startup.

I don't even see the point of paying for their search engine, which honestly feels to me just a viral market stunt on social media to make people believe it's that much different from the dozens free alternatives we already have.

I particularly couldn't care less about Game Pass at this point. I'm just fine without paying Microsoft for anything. But I suppose that's good for those who still use Windows just for that.

At least I find it interesting to have Linux supporting software that it wasn't technically suppose to.

I think people tend to be naive about Steam.

I mean, I DO think that Steam is miles better than Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo/Epic and I would say they're probably one of the biggest responsibles to make Linux that much more popular (both for consumer and for devs) in the latest years.

But I don't know what's gonna happen to Steam after Gabe Newell leaves. I think there's a huge risk for a dramatic shift in Valve / Steam monetization and culture. Things are fine now, but that's still a corporation, and shareholders will want to get the last drop out of it just as these shitheads do to everything else.

Do they want to make the switch? If they don't, they won't.

You can't force or convince the mainstream to get to the Fediverse when pretty much all of their connections are on the mainstream network.

That's why I think Lemmy/Piefed are the ones that have the biggest chance of sticking, because they're aimed to a public that's not necessarily mainstream.

I know they exist and I totally respect it, but I'm not even sure if it makes much of a sense an Instagram/TikTok alternative on the Fediverse, considering these social media are aimed around getting visibility either by personal relationship or by popularity (volume over quality). And I don't think that the Fediverse public as of now is looking to become that.