That’s super easy to fix with tools like entr. That’s what I use when I write Markdown documents so I can automatically generate the plain text file to a PDF document using Pandoc, and preview it simply by saving the file in Neovim. :)

Neovim. No other editor comes close to it.

If I didn’t know anything about Linux, and had Linus Tech Tips as my main source of knowledge in regards to Linux, I would have considered Linux to be a toy novelty project at best.

Linus Tech Tips should focus on what they’re good at, which is, err… Well. I bet they’re good at something. Perhaps making noodles or something?

You need to add some sort of context. Posting a single link without even a title explaining what it is, makes it look like random spam.

Let’s not forget the Honey scandal when he sold his own audience for money.

Fair point. I can’t argue with that. :)

How are you supposed to learn anything if you don’t make the effort of actually learn anything? Do you expect to get everything served on a silver plate? :)

I’ve been using XMPP the past two decades. I use it because I haven’t found something that’s better.

:D

It’s as simple as:

echo "example.ogg >> mixtape.m3u

Does this mean that they have finally solved the mouse centrering issue, which means that you can actually play Minecraft on Wayland now? Woho!

While they’re technically the same type of software, it’s still sort of like comparing apples to oranges.

VLC is your kitchen skink media players that comes bundled with basically everything possible.

mpv is more of a minimalist media player that let’s the user add the features themselves using add-ons.

Me personally prefer mpv since it’s minimal in every regard. I have turned of the OSC, and I use the keyboard for everything. I don’t use a lot of extras, but the ones I have, is add-ons I couldn’t probably live without, like yt-dlp and SponsorBlock (for YouTube).

I even use mpv as my music player with playlist that I manage using Neovim and the tool echo (to add new tracks to my playlists).

That’s exactly what I said? A ROM with a backdoor is a malicious ROM.

AFAIK. The only security risk with this is that anyone with physical access to your phone could flash a malicious ROM on it.

This shouldn’t be an issue for most people. And I’m pretty sure that those who cares about this runs GrapheneOS anyway.

The closest to politics I watch is why systemd sucks. ;)

This has never been about the kids. It’s about slowly eroding privacy for all of us.

Context for anyone else who’s not from the US:

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

Phone numbers are an issue, true, though you can get around that using a burner SIM or even a virtual phone number.

You can’t buy any SIM here without providing ID. I believe that’s more of a rule than an exception these days, but I don’t have any actual numbers to back up my claim.

However. I don’t think that anyone requiring extreme privacy would use any phone whatsoever.

Also, contact discovery has been working without exposing your phone number for over a year now.

I trust Signal when it comes to security and privacy.

The phone can be made by anyone. The OS needs to be Android or iOS at some point, which is unfortunate

With the Google Play Services or whatever it’s called, which is required for notifications to work.

Remember that they have killed people based on metadata alone.

That said, deGoogled Android has been around for more than a decade, allowing you to use Android in a privacy-friendly way.

It’s what I’ve been using for years. :) GApps has always been optional. Back in the days vanilla Android was even perfectly useable without GApps! It feels like AOSP is basically only a kernel these days.

So if you want, you absolutely can avoid being tied to Google and use Signal.

Yes, but you will have to rely on third party clients, which Signal don’t like. That’s not a great experience. :/

As you can see, there’s a lot more nuance here than “Signal isn’t private”; privacy, after all, isn’t binary, but rather a gradient.

I guess so. I’m not much of a person of nuances though. I like living in a binary world. :D

The way I see it, Signal sits in a Goldilocks Zone of “private enough” (for most threat models) and “convenient enough” for mainstream adoption.

That is true. Perhaps I’m a bit hard at them, but then again, I’m a binary person. ;)

You’re forced to use a phone number and a phone from Google or Apple. Do I have to say more? This is not a claim. It’s a fact. Well. Unless something has changed?

I have never whined, but I can see how you wish that would be true. ;)

And, my apologies, if I have somehow hurt your feelings. It was never my intention to do so.

Haha! I appreciate your refreshing honesty, and I reward you with an upvote. ;)