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Unsupported typically just means they wont provide (technical) support if/when it breaks.

What are the odds the classic “expertsexchange” ends up out lasting stack exchange?

I would consider nuclear winter a pretty big change in climate.

Although patrolling the mojavi might make you wish for one…

I dont think its a huge leap to think artists would rather you be able to buy their music once and make a $ instead of stream it from a sevice that pays them next to nothing.

They tried to fuck me on a return once and after a month of it sitting in limbo i filed and won a dispute though my card provider instead.

Matter of fact i think it was over ram too, but it was over a year ago.

Well if you genuinely care about seeing artists get paid the ones who need it most tend to make their conent available already for free on bandcamp or similar services, and have physical albums and merch you can buy.

Last night i spent $10 on 3 albums on bandcamp, those artists each made more on that single purchase then they would from thousands of streams.

Spotify making less (or more) money does not trickle down to artists on a per stream basis.

Dont be a corporate bootlicker. Say it with me now, "If buying isnt owning Piracy is not stealing. "

Its mostly Sony, UMG, and all the other leeches who would get paid less for their share holders.

I dont feel like editing the image but imagine the guy with most of the cookies in this picture was UMG and the artists are the guy on the right.

The proper way to do it is connect your router to the vpn, most routers have support for it these days.

If you want to do it the harder way, connect one machine to your vpn provide on one wg network and create a second wg network for your local devices which routes all traffic (not just http) through the one device thats connected to your VPN provider. Basically make youe own home vpn server and connect to that.

Using just squid for http to relay the vpn in addition to being fragile and breaking sometimes is also just not really giving you the full vpn coverage, your ip is going to be leaking all over the place.

Ive been wary if firefox since wheneved it was they decided it was okay to shove “pocket” into the browser. These days i dont see mozilla as anything other than anti monopoly insurance for google, which they obviously dont need anymore.

Mozilla as a company has just been a decade of one poor decision after another adding more bloat and doing nothing meaningful to counter chromes near monopoly.

Vivaldi isnt perfect and brave has its baggage, but at least they actually include adblocking out of the box, a feature that just about everyone wants. Sure its easy enough to install an addon to firefox for it but the fact that you even have to do that should tell you everything you need to know about who mozilla is actually working for.

Im not sure if this is the same thing but i noticed a similar problem in vivaldi but its specific to youtube, or at least it doesnt affect peertube the same way. It seems to be based on the volume of the video, my guess its a “feature” that tries to normalize volume between different videos, but ive never figured out how to disable it.

Currently best option might be vdo.ninja, or if you have multiple people wanting to game on the same shared screen sunshine/moonlight is specifically for gaming can handle shared sessions.

I do hope jitsi gets better encoding options in the future because its really the easiest to use

Can you give me more details about what you’re trying to screenshare, like games, videos, slidshows? I mainly use OBS to stream to peertube which can itself host a chat or be integrated with other chats, but if you are looking for something more like a group video call jistsi might be more in line with what you want.

Send me a DM with more info and ill try to figure out what options might work for ya. My contact info is also on my lemmy profile.

The entire internet would be a whole lot better if the kind of information and help people currently turn to discord for was still primarily done on public web forums like it was from practically the dawn of the internet up until discord and other corporate trash just all of a sudden be came “essential” for everyone. Discord is actively harming our ability to archive and share data and they are profiting massively from it, it is objectively bad for the internet and bad for open source.

Discord is surveillance capitalism trash that cant die of enshittification soon enough.

Discord is spyware

Matrix, xmpp, mumble, there are cointless alternatives for every use case that are better options.

You can 1:1 mirror discord guilds on matrix or rocket chat. Mumble has been doing voice chat since before discord ever existed. Obs and rustdesk can do screen sharing much better then discord.

But sure, continue to lick that corporate boot more and tell me about how nothing can come close to the goodness of discord and all the normies are too dumb to ever use anything else.

The only way for discord to improve on linux would be if they stopped releasing it entirely

Probably just less of it but yes. Thats why people use privacy front ends like dumb instead.

Surveillance capitalism in this context would be how the “product” genuis is selling is your usage data, as opposed to what they seem to provide which is song lyrics.

You may have heard the phrase " if you arent paying for it then YOU are the product", An oversimplified version but the same idea.

Genuis is a tracking and metrics service for spotify and other rent seekers in the music industry, they do it by offering lyrics for “free” and tracking as much as they can about users who visit the site.

Safe is relative but most liiely its wanting 11 because thats the version lineage you are using is based on.

As for these “some websites ive never heard of”… They might just be ai generated pages that hit on keywords common to android such as “root” and “custom rom”. Often they are scams that present instructions looking like they will work on phone models that dont have support for custom roms at all.

So be careful, make sure what you get comes from a decent source like android file host or xda, dont just go with random search results.

Except you have to grant permission to install it, thats a pretty big one, especially for average users who dont have Sideloading enabled