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Honestly, I don’t think this is a new phenomenon per sé. Politicians being quick to take full credit for good news isn’t groundbreaking (and the masses quick to blame politics for what may be beyond anyone’s control is an interesting parallel)

What’s changed is how brazen, barren, and hollow Trump and MAGA have exposed the GOP to be. Under his guidance they’ve collectively had the finesse of a third grader and this radically exposed how little they’re contributing in terms of policy.

As an example, look at Affordable Care Act. Trump claims to replace it with something better, but after years they’ve produced almost nothing to point to as a substitute, and it’s glaringly obvious to anyone slightly interested.

By contrast, if you roll back to the debates on gay marriage, Republicans threw a ‘separate but equal’ token civil union around, which had enough meat on the bone to fuel a discussion.

https://alternativeto.net/feature/create-multiboot-usb/ Maybe this will help?

Disclaimer: I don’t use Fedora, but have friends who do. So I tried to include sources, below. 😅

How would I install NVIDIA drivers?

https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

_Does Wayland work with NVIDIA?*

(I don’t know)

A lot of distros are moving to Wayland. How would I ensure I stay on an Xorg session?

GNOME now defaults to Wayland. Instructions to use xOrg instead: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/configuring-xorg-as-default-gnome-session/

I expect other desktop environments will similarly have mechanisms switch, at least during a transition period.

I enjoy modding Bethesda games. Does Mod Organizer work fully on Linux?

Your mileage may vary, but it looks likely: https://github.com/rockerbacon/modorganizer2-linux-installer

I’ve had difficulties running my steam games through proton on my laptop. Does proton work with Fedora?

I suspect it will. Steam has been pouring money into making it’s catalog Linux ready, https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/gaming/proton/

With said difficulties with proton, would installing Steam as a flatpak work or will it cause issues?

In principle it ought to, but there appears to be an issue with it currently. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/gaming/proton/

Can you really not play any games with anti-cheat?

Anti cheat software generally works by looking for irregularities that detect if there’s any program besides Windows that’s intercepting system calls. It is unfortunately by exactly this mechanism that allows Proton to work (as Windows isn’t present).

Let’s start simple: You should consider hoping from Linux Mint to LMDE if you haven’t already.

As a user, you have no obligation to participate in the politics between the Ubuntu and the Mint Development team, but if you’ve followed the controversy and agree that Ubuntu is being a bully, this would be a small yet material way to show support.

what am I missing?

Every Linux distribution has a purpose - a reason its author thought it was worth the effort of creating it. Some are grand, others are silly, etc. When you explore distros, you’re telling the community which ideas resonate with you. Popular ideas will replicate, unpopular ideas will be abandoned.

Also, switching distributions makes it harder for business to ‘capture’ the Linux demographic. The mere act of switching occasionally means that tools to import/export/manage your data stay relevant. This literally fights enshitification.

Finally, and this is a matter of personal taste, but I like trying different versions of Linux for the same reason I try different flavors of ice cream: It’s fun; and even if now and then I get a bad flavor, I feel enriched by the experience.

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Yes, at the beginning of the pandemic it was discovered that Plex Inc had been tracking, reporting home, and selling user watching habits to advertisers. Basically the exact thing many Plex users were trying to get away from.

This inspired many developers (who were otherwise stuck at home due to said pandemic) to fork Emby and thus Jellyfin was born.

Knoppix, my old friend

Yes. Absolutely 100%. Canonical has a pretty solid track record of acting like a corporation.

Can’t speak for @[email protected], but I was happy with Ubuntu when they first started - they took the best of open-source, put it in a nice package and then put money into improving it. It’s just over the years they’ve drifted away from that and slowly have been replacing stuff with their own in-house stuff. At this point, they’re sorta Microsoft light. Maybe harmless today, but only because they want to look better than the competition.

If that alone weren’t sufficient reason to be skeptically pessimistic, enshitification is trending, all corporations seem to feel that now is the time to turn the screws. Can’t blame a guy for expecting bad news generally in this environment.

Counterpoint: tech literacy is irresponsibly low for a modern developed world that now requires it for everyday operation.

Many phone/cell providers provide a method to send voicemails to a third party, if you setup call forwarding (busy or unanswered, don’t set unconditional) for reference, this page covers how to do that for T-Mobile

https://www.t-mobile.com/support/plans-features/self-service-short-codes

The new voicemail provider may allow you to save messages better, or might offer transcoding themselves.

https://freeappsforme.com/free-voicemail-apps/

(I would have included this all earlier, if I thought of it earlier 😅)

Ahh, so this isn’t a processing issue it’s a data access issue.

Frankly, if you can’t access the raw data of your voicemail inbox, probably no third party developer can too. This means that the only way to implement such a tool would to be to work with the voicemail provider. If they’re a for-profit company, they probably have no incentive to make the data available unless there’s a big moneybag involved somewhere in the exchange. That’s probably why no such tool exists.

There isn’t a turnkey solution I know of, but if you can have a tool save voicemails into a folder, you could probably have a script generate text files based on a Speech To Text (STT) solution:

https://fosspost.org/open-source-speech-recognition/

I recommend using Transwiz to zip up your user profile, you can move the .trans.zip file to a neutral location (external drive, network storage, etc). Of course if you have valuable information stored outside the C:\Users folder, back it up as well. Now you should have a system you can safely mangle, destroy and rebuild without worrying about user data. Once you’ve built your new setup, extract the zip folder into /home/[your_name] or ~ and you’re all set.

With the exception of a handful of titles, this is a quickly evaporating problem, due to Valve pouring millions of dollars into the development of the Steam Deck (motivated by wanting to separate themselves from being dependent on their computer Xbox/Microsoft).

Valve recently passed 11,000 playable or verified titles for the Deck, and since the Deck is Linux, that means 11,000 playable games in Linux (with priority on the most played games)

My suspicion is they decided to call the messages toots first, to since the average user already knows what a tweet is, then the rest of the naming was based around that.

From weeks in general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week

The modern seven-day week can be traced back to the Babylonians, who used it within their calendar. Other ancient cultures had different week lengths, including ten in Egypt and an eight-day week for Etruscans.

There’s probably a rabbit hole to go down to get into the mindset of who decided that a seven day week was a better system then what the neighbors are using. Babylonian astronomy and mathematics at the time likely played a role.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonia

And overall there’s a rich history to how we divide up the years in calendar reform.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_reform

Personally, I’ve fallen in love with the international fixed calendar. It proposes getting rid of the 30 days hath November nonsense and making all months 28 days. Take all the month-ends and combine them into a new month Sol, and since 28 × 13 is 364, create a new holiday called world day that is part of no week, no month, just doin’ it’s own thing. Add on a monthless leap day when needed and like magic, months are now a functional unit of measurement. 1 month = 28 days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

I’m gonna argue ‘no’.

Sure, we could do something clever with mesh network access points, or use tunneling (VPN) to build a pocket network on top of the existing Internet (TOR does something generally like this to create a more anonymous Internet). So if this were simply a matter of infrastructure, the tech is already there.

However, there are two problems. The biggest problem is adoption. What service can our little pocket network provide that would convince the lay person to tap into such a network? How are we going to advertise this to others? Even if we had our own copy of the current internet’s infrastructure, we would have a cool webpage and spread by word of mouth and they would still have advertising dollars. Either we need a killer feature (that they can’t simply replicate) or else they’ll just win over the average person by the pillow talk of advertising bucks.

However there’s also a philosophical problem. To create a open internet, it has to be available to everyone and our problem is that includes the asshole corporations we don’t like. The fundamental nature of an internet is to be an interconnected network. By building our own separate network, we’re fundamentally creating a walled garden network, not an open network - it’s essentially defined by who we’re keeping out.

But I’m not going to leave you without a solution. Here’s the framework of what I think we need to do to fix the internet†:

• We need to stop treating internet access like a consumer good. It needs to at least be treated as a utility, i.e. as something that has an inherent monopoly and doesn’t self-regulate through the process of supply and demand - there is only one internet, no substitute exists. Heck, I’d argue that internet access should be a human right, a tool that fulfills a basic need for connection and communication.

• We need to restore network neutrality, ISPs need to be content neutral, because if they can pick winners and losers, they’ll make private deals and pick the winners that work best for them (often another branch of themselves). Since we lost network neutrality formally in the USA less than a decade ago, the internet still looks kinda mostly open, but it’s eroding slowly.

• We need to separate ownership of the physical network equipment from the ownership of the information services. Let’s call these ‘equipment ISPs’ and ‘general access ISPs’. The physical equipment should be owned and maintained by small companies, ideally with about 5-10 field technicians (the physical footprint that covers will vary based on the setting, dense urban settings will need more companies than sparse rural ones). These small equipment ISPs will not be allowed to negotiate directly with the consumer. The Access ISPs will be the ones that will lease an IP address to the general public as well as basic services such as DNS, and will compete on general service quality (up/down/latency speeds) that they’ll have to negotiate with equipment ISPs to ensure quality of service, access ISPs can also sweeten the pot with things like offering an email address or bundling with media services(e.g. Netflix), etc. Equipment ISPs should be expected to have deals with multiple service ISPs, and be prevented from having exclusivity deals. Ultimately, the goal is to allow the general public to have options about which ISP they choose that’s not fundamentally limited by where they are at, and the service ISPs are then on the hook to work with the equipment ISPs to fulfill those promises. Equipment ISPs are being given a small monopoly, but if they perform shoddy there’ll be neighbors on all sides to shame them, also they’ll have to work with at least one or two access ISPs to have any income at all.

• Start choosing people over brands. The biggest crime corporations perform against humanity is to take credit for the work that is ultimately done by unique, talented people, then internally treat people as fungible assets that can be let go once they’re not useful. lemmy.world is administrated by @ruud and a small team of admins (check your instance’s sidebar for more details). If @ruud and lemmy.world split and he created a new, different Lemmy instance, I’d follow @ruud to the new insurance because he’s proved his talent at weathering the problems of keeping a service up and running in the modern internet, whereas lemmy.world … is just a domain name. Google wasn’t nearly as evil when it was still run day-to-day by Larry Page & Sergey Brin. Valve rakes in money, but Gabe Newell keeps the company priorities on actually being a good game platform. By contrast Steve Hoffman is hated partially because it often feels his job is to be the face of an otherwise obscure board of directors and he serves them in a way that he doesn’t serve his employees, the moderators, or the users in general.

Overall, that’s four things we can do. None of them are easy. One is on the global level, one on the national level, one on the state or local level, and one on the personal level.

†I live in the USA, so my perspective is through that lens, but I’m trying to offer ideas that should generalize.