Snapper!

The one thing I’ve been thinking about (but haven’t yet done) is using it for the Insta 360 camera app (an app for editing/exporting videos from 360 panoramic cameras). It’s actually more feature rich than the desktop version, which doesn’t have a linux version in any case, so using it to quickly reframe my videos and export them to something non proprietary would be a whole lot easier…

Maybe I’ll try and get that working today…

Thank you! I’ll be watching with great interest! Lots of potential :)

A couple of questions. If I was trying to keep a consistent workspace to build a community around, would it be persistent after the host logs off, and are their tools to protect it from trolls etc who discover it a workspace?

It means you won’t end up with dual boot breaking one of your installs, you won’t accidentally overwrite anything etc.

Entirely optional, but if you were already planning on removing it anyway, it’s not really any extra work

If you’ve got two slots and a modern motherboard, you can do the same thing but keep both m.2 devices installed. If you really want to be sure, take out the windows device, install Linux on the second, and then put the windows device back in. You’ll be able to swap back to windows if needed that way without swapping things out

Yeah, it’s extra work, and doesn’t change the infuriating aspect of enshitification, but it’s an option if you absolutely do not want to sign in to the app

For what it’s worth, you can generally record a GPS tracking in another app or on another device and then use your photo editing software to add the coordinates to the photos after the fact.

Anyway, you’re all good to go now. I know you’re not a troll

It was designed to be banned.

And that’s the issue.

From a new account, with no discussion history on the topic that I could find, with no previously removed posts, it looked inflammatory, and it was, deliberately so. So you got a short term ban.

If you’d been a long term user, or had a posting history that made it clear you were trying to demonstrate a point, I’d have left your account alone. But as it was, I couldn’t tell you apart from a troll. I wasn’t certain, which is why it wasn’t permanent.

If I took issue with what you were saying, it would have been a permanent ban.

I took issue with how you said it, which is to say, you started a new “conversation” out of the blue, framed in a way designed to start an argument. And even that wouldn’t have been enough to get me involved, except that you don’t have a history of posting on this topic, your account is new, and I’ve previously removed a comment of yours for arguing with a femboy about what kind of memes he’s allowed to post.

tl;dr your account has a bunch of red flags, and this post was one of them. So you got a temp ban.

I’m not going to remove someone for complaining about my moderation. Which is to say, ranting about me in this community is something I’ll leave up to the community mods to deal with however they feel appropriate.

You’re a month old account, approaching a topic in a way designed to maximise rage responses and arguments. Stop doing that

It’s on my list to try!

And that’s why it’s good that it’s an option! I just don’t want it to become the only option

10/10 this is the future of Linux.

I hope it’s a future of Linux, not the future. I’m not a fan of atomic distros, mostly because if their reliance on flatpak and the like

Open world games don’t hold me, because ironically, they tend to feel too small. When you can walk from one side of the setting to the other in real time, it all feels small.

All I read in these threads is effectively “WAAAH I don’t WANNA pay!”… Without realizing that the payment gave them something significantly more secure.

I’ve never used Plex, but the thing that stopped me from looking at it isn’t that it’s a paid service. It’s that it’s partially centralised, and starting to become hostile to its user base. This current change, locking down a previously free feature being an iconic example of that.

My partner and I fund two decently sized fediverse instances and a matrix instance mostly out of our own pockets. We do that precisely because we have both actively chosen to move away from centralised, user hostile social media platforms. And whilst Plex isn’t a social media platform, it is centralised and becoming more user hostile, and I won’t pay for that.

(And to be clear, I’m front of house, I’m not responsible for setting up our instances security :P)

Put it behind a reverse proxy!

I guess I haven’t noticed that. The non technically literate folk I know use smart TVs, or can download Jellyfin from an app store. Then they just use the URL when the app asks for it.

There’s no other configuring to do on their end.