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andioop ,

And for those looking to back up locally, there's yt-dlp and ffmpeg! I can personally attest to yt-dlp working on more than just YouTube. I have both downloaded because yt-dlp handled some online videos better, getting them in one shot instead of only part of it, in my specific anecdotal experience, than ffmpeg. I kept ffmpeg around for reasons I honestly forgot, used them for just one big backup session and never touched them again.

andioop OP ,

Congratulations on leaving! The silver lining of these platforms continuing to enshittify is that more and more people are finding a breaking point and jumping ship.

andioop ,

My first instinct was to say "cursed," my second is to think "huh… kind of cute actually"

andioop , (edited )

Going to be an interesting thread to follow as someone who wants a Framework for the repairability. And friends recommending it; and honestly in a world where social media is probably flooded with astroturfed comments instead of real experience, and review sites are ones I highly doubt actually touched or bothered with the products, I am gonna trust word of mouth. But I can be convinced into reconsidering (price, performance I can get out of a laptop, and the Hyperland/Omarchy thing).

my general consideration points for purchasing

General points

  • Typing this from a MacBook as someone who likes the look and thinness of it a lot, and appreciates the "boring gray color scheme" because neutrals will always go with my outfit.
  • I see the interchangeable ports as a bonus.
  • Any of them, including the weakest possible take-home configuration for the 12, would be a performance upgrade over my current Linux laptop (HP laptop I got for around $249ish).
  • I particularly like the upgradeable storage.
  • Would be buying DIY and loading some Linux distro on it.

Model-specific

  • 12 inch would be great for me if it were not for the color accuracy and me wanting to use it to do a bit of digital art that involves color. And Linux not supporting the sheet music reader I like. Or having any sheet music reader at all as far as I am aware—dedicated sheet music readers as opposed to just PDF readers tend to have nice features like letting you jump back to a specific page without needing to go in and edit the whole PDF file, and setting up setlists of sheet music you can quickly and easily flick through. But being able to totally replace my iPad and my current Linux laptop would be so nice. Putting one foot out of the Apple ecosystem for principles and "what if they start making more changes I don't like and I'm stuck," and consolidating two devices into one.
  • 13 inch is better on accuracy but loses the stylus support, so no more art, and having a stylus is really helpful on sheet music annotation for me. Would handle my games better too. Although I don't really play things requiring great performance, never play multiplayer requiring high ping or kernel-level anticheat, and I have pretty good tolerance for low frames per second, I do have a feeling 12 inch would fail to handle anything but the most super lightweight games.
  • 16 inch is a total nonstarter. Too big. I like portability.
andioop ,

TL;DR: Framework is sponsoring Omarchy and Hyprland. Omarchy, at least, is really linked to far-righter DHH; cannot find nearly as much about Hyprland on a quick search besides "toxic".

andioop ,

Hey, thank you so much for helping me! Now I have a better idea of my options and what wants are viable and which are not.

andioop ,

"For all my projects, the motivation is the same," Champion told The Register. "We tend to look past the technology that surrounds us and shapes our lives. My work is about forcing us to look at it, and seeing the beauty in engineering."

Really like this!

OOP for the win

It was literally like that. I had a script of about 310 lines and the main function was like 10-20 lines of code. I had a very nice Setup of objects that handled all functionality possible behaviours independent and so my main function was just receiving a user input from another function and add accordingly which included like ...

andioop ,

i have been summoned

andioop OP ,

I'd love if you posted it here :)

Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

Thought I'd create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people's pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share ...

andioop ,

As a gamer who did switch, curious what games are preventing the switch. In my experience sometimes it struggles with indie games only released for Windows that have probably been downloaded maybe 100 times at best; and probably as you know anything with kernel-level anticheat

andioop ,

I'm happy! It Just Works. Windows 11 -> Linux.

  • I have had ONE WiFi problem that was my computer's fault the whole year; as opposed to half the times I open the computer.
  • One video game didn't Just Work, I had to tinker, but I got it working smoothly with mods.
  • A bit of trouble with flash drives initially because they were not formatted to something compatible with Linux. Once I learned that I managed to shuffle data around and format it to be compatible with MacOS, Linux, and my Windows VM. But Linux actually saved me and let me get an old flash drive working that did not work at all. Love reformatting on my distro, it's easier and more visual than when I tried to do it on Mac or Windows.
andioop ,

Hey thank you for the good information; I starred your comment! This is the stuff I like seeing on programming.dev.

And I have built from source before—but considering how un-knowledgeable I feel compared to the average poster here, probably a good thing you included that reassurance that it's not so hard, since I feel just barely technical enough to be able to build from source. It's also friendly to drive-by readers at my level of expertise/knowledge or lower who have not built from source yet.

andioop , (edited )

Is he one of those awful people who the civil route has been tried with and did not work, and the (seemingly) only way to chip away at their power is to make fun of them and call them weird?

No personal investment in the dude, but this reads more like finding an acceptable target to punch on now that a claim he is dangerous has been made. Now he is wide open to "lol what a weirdo!" that would be seen as just irrelevant bullying if there wasn't the claim he has regressive and harmful views. Now anyone who points out "hmm maybe bringing that up is mean, and not a good practice for debate" can be shut up with "are you really defending this awful person? That means you are on his side…"

It is useful to spread information of when someone's dangerous, so people do not get hurt, like the link already posted by someone else here, detailing his views that align with pedophilia, and one I found that has depressingly predictable remarks a person with pedophilic-justifying beliefs might make about Epstein victims. But who cares about what he does with his toes?

I am also reminded of https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/66bb2998-9d9a-435e-abd4-eae6a6e0b7ea.jpeg. Our entire problem with him is the pedophilia-justifying views and not weird but harmless personal habits. Not whatever toe thing he does.

andioop , (edited )

Wasn't aware he ate from his feet specifically onstage.

Still not going to agree with you, sorry, as someone who does not agree with ridiculing people unless it's necessary. Of course, I'm not a perfect human being, I have probably unfairly ridiculed people, especially when angry and when pretty sure my target is someone that nobody will argue against me ridiculing. I'm just… as a person who desperately tried to avoid being "the weirdo" and still might fail at avoiding that nowadays? I'm pretty anti-"what a weirdo lmao," and want people left the fuck alone about their weird behaviors unless they are hurting people with the weird behavior; or they literally will not stop their actual harmful behaviors and ridiculing might have a slight chance to get through or erode the power they have to perform those bad behaviors consequence-free.

I can also admit that people probably do need some level of social judgment to not gross out the people around you, so the eating that onstage probably wasn't a great move (do not know what happened in context, I'm not very up to date on the whole drama of Richard Stallman). Now I know it was onstage and not some leaked information about his personal life, this does at least make sense as something people would make fun of, especially given I think most people, even the socially inept, would figure out not to do this by 6th grade.

Still probably going to dig in my heels on my belief that in this particular discussion bringing this up after "this guy has dangerous/regressive beliefs" feels a lot more like "and look, he's weird too!!! what a loser LMAO" gossip and less like a relevant thing we should know about him that can contribute to a useful informative discussion, though. Sorry.

andioop ,

I'll freely admit that you know the "did not read the article and still commented" folks?

I'm a "didn't watch the video" person and had to be told by other people what happened.

Also, at least one of them someone linked me of the foot thing was age restricted so I Xed out and took them at their word.

andioop ,

Independent e-readers (or at least more independent than Amazon): https://itsfoss.com/open-source-ebook-readers-options/

take any care of it

I'm a clumsy person, but also weirdly high-maintenance. I will absolutely papercut myself on a physical book, or spill water on it and feel bad when the pages are deformed, or notice wear and tear and feel bad. Part of why I really prefer digital is because it's a lot harder for me to hurt myself, my minor spills can just be wiped off, and for some reason I do not notice tech wear and tear nearly as much. I also like the portability of digital books. Goes everywhere my phone goes, no awkwardness about carrying a book. I'm one of the people who really really wants to abandon physical media forever, personally. Less things collecting dust, less things to be super careful around that I cannot even get a single drop of water on. But not everyone is me, where digital helps me evade all my pain points with physical, and where I do personally not feel any digital pain points. I think both options should be available to people; but if I had to pick one of course I'll go with the one I feel serves my needs best.

Thanks for your long response, fun to read!

andioop ,

The 20-year-old computer might not work but I still have its files good as new because of backups and migrations for me.

Also I just like being able to search for stuff digitally. I misplace physical things very easily even if I do try to have a home for everything, so reducing down to one digital item for reading instead of many books is very helpful for me.

The advantages of paper you cite probably hold water for lots of people, but for me the way digital just erodes all of the problems I would have with physical books makes that the way for me, as I am sure you feel the pros of physical outweigh the cons for you.

I do wonder how popular our respective preferences (physical vs digital copies) are when you restrict to people concerned with privacy.

andioop ,

Huh, I read the article and I don't see anything about more companies experiencing gains than losses. Are you talking about a different article than https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/20/pwc_ai_ceo_survey/?

Only 12 percent reported both lower costs and higher revenue, while 56 percent saw neither benefit. Twenty-six percent saw reduced costs, but nearly as many experienced cost increases.

This is the closest thing I saw.

andioop ,

Hey, thanks for clarifying, I appreciate it!

https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/3bd637f7-e12d-4a59-9d36-a4493baac484.jpeg

Picture for people who do not want to click the link.

Am I just colorblind? I see 0%, 42%, 12%, and 1% in red. I see 13%, 12%, and 8% in green. You would have to remove "no change" in 42% for your assertion about green square percentages summing to more than red square percentages; though it does keep your point about drawback vs. benefit percentage true since "no change" is neither good nor bad.

andioop , (edited )

In this situation I've used xcancel before: just replace the x in the domain name with xcancel. Still get to see the Tweet

andioop ,

checked community, this specific instance of the post is Opensource and not Europe or Denmark so I think it's okay for me to open my American mouth and say: I hope they manage to resist. If Denmark can put up a successful fight, there is hope for the rest of us, including the Americans being crushed under Big Tech.

andioop , (edited )

I think that is one of my problems with AI. People who were once creators, and who were the only means to produce it (either you became a creator by learning the skills or hired a creator to do it) did things. Now that a machine can do it they babysit it at best. If they enjoyed the process of creation, something was lost. I would hate washing clothes by hand and am glad I have a washing machine to do it for me. But if I enjoyed it I am sure I'd have to use the washing machine at a laundromat job because it is more efficient, while lamenting the lost enjoyment from handwashing myself and instead becoming a glorified babysitter. And in my personal life I might not even have the time to wash clothes by hand if I liked it and would keep washing with the machine. Much easier to make time for something if that is the only way it can get done; much easier to have time to handwash clothes when that is the only way you can have clean clothes without buying new.

I admit I now work a non-tech career. And my motivation to do my own hobby projects went way down because "well if AI can do it since it's greenfield," but I also do not want to use AI, so nothing gets done. Small hobby project so I could learn would be still building something new only I could do (or that I'd have to hire out). Now if something else can do it I feel like I am handicapping myself so I can learn (even though I have never even used AI to code), which feels very different. Like having to learn math without calculators while knowing they are a possibility, vs. learning math without when calculators are not invented yet so you cannot have that complaint. Yes, I know, abacuses, but I hope you get my point. Going from the project being something only I or someone else with the skills could have done, so it makes sense for me to do it, it was efficient, to "well I have to to learn the skills but it would have been faster to just get AI to do it." (If that is even true! Maybe I am getting overly influenced by bots pushing AI and it would be faster for ME to do it.) That makes it feel way less motivating to try myself.

And that does not even get into whether AI can even do it. So many comments (that may or may not be bots, not sure) nowadays in dev communities seeming to change their tune from "AI slows me down. It's faster to do it yourself correctly, making mistakes that are easier to catch, than to use the hallucinator that makes mistakes that look correct so it's harder to find those mistakes in the first place" to "actually you have to use it, it's just a tool, and it is getting better every day, get on board or get left behind, maybe it sucks at brownfield projects in industry but it can whip up your hobby project or quick web UI much faster than you can." Not sure if this is actual people changing opinions as they have more time with the tech and it improves (and is it? Because there are both reports of it getting better, and reports of new models being worse).

"Go try the tools to assess them and form your own opinion then!" I'm fresh out of a CS degree and don't feel knowledgeable enough in coding to be able to assess if it would be flawed or not. I trust expert opinions (or at least more experienced opinions, which I assume to be most users of programming.dev) over my own, which usually helps but is awful when the experts conflict. As for just learning to code well so I become qualified to judge for myself, I'm still hearing conflicting things! "It'll speed up your learning x5, it helped me with this thing that otherwise would have taken hours of forumscrolling and trial and error" vs. "it makes so many mistakes, especially when you are learning and do not yet know how to catch the AI mistakes, you shouldn't use it." I personally do not feel great about trusting something that (as far as I know) is not actually citing its sources, that does not know and is not speaking from experience. I hate the idea of trusting a black box where I cannot look at the insides and see how it came to that output or ask an expert who knows more than me about what the insides are doing (because yeah, I admit cars are black boxes to me because I do not understand their working, but I know someone does!). I hate the idea of trusting something made to be nondeterministic by design to be correct all the time, or having to be its babysitter-corrected-reviewer instead of just making it myself. But maybe it advanced further than I thought?

End result: too many conflicting ideas, paralysis, do nothing. (And even if AI does actually make you faster, doing it without AI is still infinitely faster than doing nothing.) God I hope typing that conclusion helps motivate me to get back on those projects, building my skills I have not been using at work back up.

I don't know what to think anymore. Do not want to fight a losing battle and be a stupid Luddite, also recognizing Luddites were not exactly "all tech bad" but "who is the tech doing things for and who is it doing it to," wanting to get ahead and not have things done to me without also promoting use of a tool that does things to others. Not wanting to get automated out of a job, "you're so smart andioop, you are sure to get a good job!" only to see knowledge workers threatened while being autistic so the social skills are not so hot (I can work on improving! But I feel I'll probably never approach the level of a non-autistic person applying the same effort, nor will I ever get some nonverbal cues) and not liking the idea of manual labor… also recognizing that people who can change things do not care about the people getting automated out of a job so I have to figure out how to reskill while having a full-time job, into something that will not just be automated away too (but everything I am good at is stuff people claim AI can do). Thinking about how disruptors, even of men-in-the-middle, not only can take out fat cats but also little guys like me who learned how to do that kind of job, so maybe being forced to do something else for society is good, but also that families and lives depend on a job and the unregulated surveillance capitalism society I live in does not always have us doing meaningful work that contributes to something useful for society so maybe the disruption does not actually force us to pick something more useful to society now.

Still don't like AI, but also scared of being wrong and getting eaten because of my own bias and not being willing to move on and change with the times at the old age of my 20s. Also not even sure how to change with the times.

ANTI-SUBSCRIPTION SOFTWARE CATALOGUE (ASC) ( www.a-s-c.org )

Posting because I figure it could help you move away from enshittified things that used to be one-time payment but are now ongoing-subscription-only access. Or maybe that is technically a different issue, but I think still adjacent enough that posting helpful alternatives would be nice.

andioop OP ,

Not sure if you're trying to give me credit for spreading someone else's work around (in which case thanks, I'll take it!) or for making the site in the first place (not mine! I am just posting it here).

andioop ,

I try to click on something and it doesn't react.

Is this because I failed to execute the click (has happened, especially on laptop touchpads), or because the site is unresponsive/buggy?

As a person not too familiar with hardware or what goes into mouse creation, I have always taken the "click" sound as something that can only happen when I actually successfully execute the click. That I made those two connectors touch. (Of course, the OS might drop it and the software part does not work, but I do take it as I made all the physical things that need to happen to make a click happen.) So if I get to hear the "click" on a mouse I know for sure if I clicked or not, if it's human error or not in the problem I posed. If I don't I'm going to be clicking a lot more times to ensure I got a real click through, because I am not sure if I actually managed to click.

andioop , (edited )

Thrilled. I recently started trying LibreOffice thanks to a friend of mine and I admit that as someone used to Microsoft Office or Google Workspace, I feel like a total idiot always searching up "how to [do something] libreoffice" for things I know how to do already in Office/Workspace (or am confident I could figure out by fooling around in them for a few minutes).

andioop , (edited )

It could just be me expecting a Sheets or Excel-like interface (I would bet Sheets UI was made specifically to be an easy transfer from Excel), and my brain being stupid when asked to learn a new one (or expecting to learn a new interface too quickly… but then again I don't usually have trouble with new software and interfaces, so maybe it really is bad UI), but thank you for the reassurance!

Sad for others who might not see improvements because of the macOS focus but still thrilled for myself, because I use LibreOffice on my Mac. This will only bite me too when my Mac kicks the bucket and I have to get a new laptop which I have already decided will run Linux.

andioop ,

OOP boilerplater except for the Windows bit; trying to slowly move off proprietary software and choose open source when I can

andioop ,

also a JetBrains enjoyer :( one day I'll teach myself to like VSCode as much as I like JetBrains

andioop ,

programming_horror@programming.dev icon Programming Horror and software_gore@programming.dev icon Software Gore if you were not being facetious

andioop , (edited )

I'd rather focus more on the people pushing AI or consuming it uncritically (which does include Baby Boomers, yes, but also people all over the age spectrum), and less on age groups we are unable to get out of.

me being upset about generation warring

a bit disheartening that people are doing the generation wars, most of the Baby Boomers I talk to give a shit about the looming climate apocalypse and are concerned about AI; god I hope that if people in my generation do bad things people aren't inclined to dismiss me on sight as "stupid [andioop's generational cohort]" especially since there is nothing I can do to change when I was born and thus what generational group I'm placed in. Wasn't there a whole thing about not making assumptions of people based on demographics we cannot choose? Blame people for choosing the Nazi party, but not for their skin color or gender or sexuality. Why doesn't that extend to age? Why are all elderly people lumped in with the bad ones at the top? Or is it just "a demographic you choose is okay to bash if positions of power are primarily composed of its members, no matter how many decent people who do not have that level of power share that demographic"? I think a lot of people are doing that and it rubs me super wrong, as a person whose demographics are not traditionally empowered so my perspective cannot just be dismissed as "fragile white male tears" because I am not a white male

andioop , (edited )

Oh yeah, you are absolutely right, that is another thing that bothers me. (Obviously I still believe listening to minority voices is important.) Me bringing that up is specifically directed at the type of person who might dismiss opinions from people because they are white males, especially if the opinion is about not liking the way majority demographics sometimes get spoken about. It is me saying to that type of person that they cannot dismiss my position of disliking punching up at demographics by going "of course you'd say that, you are the demographic being punched up at!" I am from the non-male, non-white demographics that they are trying to empower with this "lol white man bad" stuff.

And yes, fully aware speaking ≠ the many harms that went way past speaking done to minorities in the past. But also this kind of stuff is what I think contributes to some more people being funneled towards alt right perspectives. "Yes, white men bad is a hypocritical stance" video -> more "silly stupid liberals" videos (whether they do actually point out legit problems with social justice or not) down into "The world is actually completely stacked against white men, who are just better than the other demographics which is why women are only good for breeding and men of color are too stupid for anything besides manual labor. Structural/systemic oppression, biases, and other genders don't exist, that's woke DEI nonsense. Also, the stupid liberals telling you otherwise are also telling you lies that vaccines work and climate change is happening."

andioop ,

Hey, I missed that caveat, thank you for pointing it out!

andioop ,

I never even thought of using Stack Overflow to cheat when doing my homework. Still heard of its reputation during college and decided I should never ask a question there (even now after I've graduated so it absolutely would not be homework help), lest someone, yes, be mean to me.

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TL;DR: Mozilla has a new CEO and a new mission: transform Firefox into an AI browser. That has run into some snags, as Firefox users don’t seem that interested in AI. Mozilla is forging ahead, utilizing deceptive patterns (previously known as dark patterns) to nag and annoy people into enabling AI features. You can see this in ...

andioop ,

I have been specifically thinking about how big tech keeps manufacturing consent for AI, having it on by default and counting accidental undesired uses for "95% of people adopted our AI features!" and all this… glad to see an article that has a title reflecting my thoughts. Looking up manufactured consent for AI usually brings things on how people can use AI to manufacture consent or change narratives, not on "consent to AI" being manufactured itself.

andioop ,

[email protected] would like this

andioop , (edited )

Social proof is a hell of a drug. Getting off Instagram was always a "yeah they suck, I barely use the app, but I do not really want to spend the energy" for me; then I saw a real life friend do a post about how they were getting off Instagram. I promptly did the same.

That's always the problem when deciding whether to post something you did you think is good and that you want others to do more. How much would I possibly influence others to do the same (because my nobody ass followed my nobody friend in getting off Insta, we clearly do not have to be mega celebrities to put our small drop of influence in the proverbial bucket), vs how much backlash will I get in the vein of "why do you have to announce it and have a public privacy tantrum, you're not that special boo" and "humblebrag much? nobody cares". (I'm special to the group of people that cares about me, as I am sure everyone is to the group of people that care about them! And social media makes it easier to announce it to them instead of texting everyone individually, and if you don't have a giant group chat… I do wonder what standards you have to meet before you can post online without being told "nobody cares".)

andioop ,

I think as long as there are 2 people on earth who do not have perfect trust in each other, there will be politics.

andioop ,

I'll do it for you as a post on Deshittification (was looking through your profile trying to find our DMs together, turns out that is not where to find them, found this comment though) if you list the smut ones. I'm asexual so not asking for myself, but I'll definitely make a separate NSFW post for them on !deshittification; the non-asexual portion of the population deserves DRM-free stuff too.