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  • Orion Browser for Linux Gets Exciting Progress Update

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  • The FAQ explains it better than I will:

    Depends on the package manager. It's probably easy on Debian, but more difficult on rolling releases, mostly because of dependency hell. Binary distributed software is also harder to integrate in a build system and cross-compilation to a different architecture is not possible.

    You shouldn't need to cross compile, as they will provide the binaries for systems they support. I'm not sure what integration with build systems it might need, but I feel like a package manager should not have this limitation. I use NixOS Unstable, the rolling release branch, and have many packages that are distributed as binaries, either due to being closed source or having issues preventing them from being built with Nix.

    Regarding the cost of the search engine, I don't care about all the things you get. I just want a search engine and for a reasonable price compared to the price of their "all of them at once, I suppose" bundle.

    That's perfectly fair. I felt ok with spending $10 a month on the search, even before they started adding more features and services to it. I believe that the $5 option used to offer 500 searches, which felt more fair, but I guess that wasn't sustainable.

  • How the ranks feel

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  • I'm in Archon and for some reason matches are never Archon average, either Oracle+ or Emissary. I had a big win streak yesterday because I was getting all Oracle-Phantom matches and each team was trying and communicating, super fun games.

    Today I only got Emissary matches, each one had an extremely toxic teammate and one started hard griefing after saying someone threw his lane.

    IMO the vibes are usually good at Phantom+. I get the occasional game at those ranks and people are usually chill. Prob a bit worse than the good vibes range but much better than the mid ranks.

  • Orion Browser for Linux Gets Exciting Progress Update

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  • The browser isnt paid though. https://help.kagi.com/orion/faq/faq.html#business

    I agree the $5 a month option is pretty useless, but I also think $10 is completely reasonable for everything you get.

    Also even if it was paid why would it have issues with a package manager? Paid software generally just uses an account or license key to verify payment, with the executable being frwely available. JetBrains and Burp Suite are two software that come to mind and both are in many repositories.

    Edit: To be clear, the browser will only be for Kagi and Orion+ members during the testing phase, likely just to control the size of the testing group. After that it will be free.

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  • They've been open sourcing parts of it the entire time. Looks to me like they're doing what they said.

    You can easily monitor network connections to see what addresses its sending packets to. You can't collect information without sending it somewhere. Run Firefox through a proxy, and you'll see it is far from private. The source code will show you what they're sending, but nothing about what they're doing with it after it's received.

  • Orion Browser for Linux Gets Exciting Progress Update

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  • Open source =/= private. Chromium and Firefox are open source, and both have horrible privacy defaults. I have far more trust in Kagi than Mozilla or Google. There are many ways to verify privacy than other than reading the source code.

    Besides, they have shared that they plan to open source the browser once the project is ready, and some components are already open source. Making a project open-source is a much bigger task than people realize. While community contributions may take some maintenance load off of your staff, they now become responsible for much more external code review, which requires more scrutiny due to coming from outside sources.

    https://help.kagi.com/orion/faq/faq.html#oss

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  • I mean, I'd imagine the goal is to avoid being mediocre.

    If Orion fully supports the Firefox extensions I use and is as privacy respecting as I expect, I'll likely switch to it as soon as I can. I'm sick of Firefox prioritizing features very few people want.

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    Hyprperks: a new 5€ official subscription to support Hyprland development.

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  • I did not say he said something transphobic, reread my message. I said he was banned for the transphobia in his discord, the community space that he runs and is responsible for, especially in the case of actions by other mods.

    My bad on the date, but I really dont think it being 3 years ago makes a big difference. He was still an adult at the time.

    Besides that event, hes just an asshole. This is obvious from the email exchange and from his blog posts.

  • Removed

    Hyprperks: a new 5€ official subscription to support Hyprland development.

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  • He was banned from Free desktop two years ago for the transphobia in his discord. It wasnt some decade old messages from when he was a kid.

  • YouTube app is the worst

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  • You dont need to have it installed, you can just download the APK. Thats usually the better option since the YouTube app you have installed will probably be too new of a version for the patchs.

  • A case for an Immich Flatpak

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  • If your goal is simply having a backup then Immich is probably overkill. Why not just use something like Syncthing?

  • KDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from dead

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  • Looks nice! I'm getting it set up on an old Pi right now for a new media center in my basement.

  • Call for Support: Bottles Team Needs Funding to Sustain Development

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  • I use the Nix package, so neither. Although I also use flatpaks for other stuff so I doubt it would require many dependencies I'm not already using.

  • Introduction - Steve's Tutorial on Jujutsu, an alternative front-end to git

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  • I highly recommend giving Jujutsu a try. It didnt take long to learn at all and just feels so much more flexible and intuitive.

  • Old Call of Duty RCE's and Proton

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  • I would highly advise against it. While its not very likely someone will be targeting systems running the game through Proton, its also not out of the question and malicious code can do serious home even through Wine/Proton.

    Most vulnerable COD games have community patches and servers to avoid this. Theres Plutonium for WaW, BO1/2 and MW3, a community patch for BO3, and AlterWare for MW2/3, Ghosts, and Advanced Warfare. I've used Plutonium before with Proton and it worked great, and AlterWare has instructions for running it with Proton.

    Besides the security these community launchers/patches have quality of life and performance improvements, they're definitely worth using.

  • Call for Support: Bottles Team Needs Funding to Sustain Development

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  • Better UI and many of the tools for managing wine prefixes are higher quality, rather than relying on something like Winetricks, which is actually a 20000 line bash script.

  • FitGirl games installation stuck at around 0.0% (Linux)

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  • I'd highly recommend using Dodi instead. I dont know what causes it, but FitGirls installers have been doing this for years. There are some steps that can fix it, but its very inconsistent. Meanwhile, I havent had a Dodo install fail.

    If you'd really prefer FitGirls repacks you can run the installer in a Windows VM and move the files to the host.

  • What is your favorite Steam deck Bluetooth keyboard?

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  • I have an Air75 from Nuphy that I love. Not super cheap, but it is a really nice low-profile mechanical keyboard. I was very impressed by the feel and quality of it. It works with either a dongle or Bluetooth. If I was buying one now I'd probably go with the Air60 v2 to make it a bit more compact.

  • You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning

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  • You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning

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  • You can remove most apps using ADB. Universal Android Debloater is helpful for this, just make sure you read the comments for each app so you dont remove something you need.