Mint and Mint LMDE are using Pipewire by default, how are you using pulseaudio?

I think you are confusing terms. Scraping a website means to download copies of its pages. Mirroring means taking those scraped page copies and re-hosting them on your website. Since you said you were doing both of those things, that would mean you would be mass scraping the site to rehost (mirror) on yours.

If you are not doing either of those, then you are not mass scraping or mirroring. It sounds like instead you just scraped a few pages of piefed, and then modified the CSS/HTML of the page itself for your own purposes?

If so, that’s not as bad as I thought.

However, I can guarantee you that no one here is interested in joining an isolated reddit clone that isn’t federated with Piefed or lemmy, and which is explicitly designed to eventually allow you to throw ads on it for passive income. That is precisely what we all were trying to escape when we left reddit for the fediverse.

But you’re scraping piefed.social to fill your site with content so you can monetize it, while increasing hosting costs for piefed for your own gain.

That you don’t see the ethical and moral problems with that plan is highly concerning.

So it’s… A mirror of piefed.social with your own frontend?

Why?

I definitely had a few blue screens with XP over the years, maybe once every 5 or 6 months?

7 was super stable on my hardware, I’ve probably had about the same amount of blue screens on that as I did on Windows 10, maybe about 4 or 5 from what I can recall. The bigger issue I had back then was AMD’s GPU drivers were insanely unstable at that point, resulting in constant green screen crashes from youtube videos.

At least for me, blue screens haven’t been too much of an issue, especially since after they reboot, everything is still working as normal. That’s in contrast to Windows 11’s bugs introduced from updates, which often introduce a new persistent problem that a user either has to actively troubleshoot to resolve, or cannot resolve on their own, leaving them to wait until Microsoft pushes out a fix.

Examples of that being:

• KB5077181 breaking Blutooth and causing Samsung devices to lose the ability to access the C: drive
• KB5085516, preventing users from resizing or moving windows, which itself was supposed to be a fix for KB5079473
• Microsoft themselves admitting that multiple major core features were broken for months

I personally consider the severity and frequency of these issues appearing in Windows 11 to be fairly unprecedented in the history of Windows, which happens to coincide with the QA team being fired.

(I didn’t downvote you, btw).

I think a majority of people would consider needing to disable multiple parts of the default installed system to not encounter potentially breaking bugs to be a pretty big indicator that the platform is not as stable as it used to be.

Personally, I never had to disable anything, perform any specific actions, or disable a particular part of Windows XP, Window 7, or Windows 10 LTSC to achieve a very stable system, and new updates generally didn’t introduce any bugs either since MS had a pretty big QA team.

There are now regularly reports of major or critical components of a windows system failing or even becoming unbootable due to updates or bugs in new features in Windows 11, which is very much a change from the norm.

It is likely these bugs are being introduced far more frequently due to MS laying off the majority of their QA team, and instead relying on regular users to report bugs after they have already been shipped.

90% of youtube thumbnails have a face in them, usually of an exaggerated emotion, and that goes for both male and female youtubers. Many youtubers have confirmed time and time again that the algorithm favors faces by a pretty wide margin, and thus most play that game.

I’m not a fan of it, I wish they didn’t or the algorithm was changed to not favor it, but I understand why they do it. Though I don’t think it’s particularly gendered as your image claims.

20 years ago Linux couldn’t play 95% of Windows games seamlessly without tinkering, couldn’t easily produce music without a lot of tinkering and few DAWs, couldn’t effectively video edit (Kdenlive is good now, and Davimci Resolve now supports Linux), and it had spotty WiFi card support.

All of those are now no longer a problem, and make transitioning to it far easier for a much wider swath of people.

Not the person you responded to, but I also generally prefer Krita for GIMP-y/Photoshop-y tasks, though I am by no means an expert photo-shopper, just an amateur.

Krita has most of the necessary tools for photo editing, especially as it now comes with the G’mic tool pre-installed (it can be added to GIMP as a plugin, too), which is incredibly powerful, and has features such as a fantastic heal/object removal tool called Inpaint (shown here in GIMP, but the same process is used in Krita), as well as a quite good alternative to Adobe’s Magnet Select tool called Extract Foreground.

GIMP has a different heal tool plugin available called Resynthasizer that I think is a little quicker to use, but from what I recall didn’t give quite as good a result compared to the G’mic inpaint (though much better than Krita’s non-G’mic heal tool, which gave the worst results).

There’s more tutorials on different G’mic functions here, which really shows off how capable of a toolset it is.

The new text tool is huge, since the old one was naff to use. This new one is a game changer for me.

Not to minimize your plight there, but that sounds like a fairly uncommon situation. The last version of OpenGL 3 was released in 2010, which was 16 years ago, so if you have a recent card that’s unable to use a version newer than that, then your driver is strictly to blame, not Blender (If Blender supports OpenGL 4.0, which was also released in 2010, that would mean it still supports 16 year old cards, such as a Geforce GTX 460, which would be pretty spectacular support and backwards compatibility. IMHO, the opposite if expecting users to constantly upgrade).

May I ask what card you have that suffers from this issue?

I think how good of a GPU you need is almost entirely dependent on the complexity of the scene itself.

You could use the GPU to help host a peertube instance.

For XMPP, the Movim client is currently the best option as a discord alternative.

It has group voice and video calls, screensharing w/audio (need a chromium browser to share the audio for now), and just added discord-like channels with rooms (though it’s not as smooth as Discord). The Dev plans to implement drop-in voice rooms at some point as well.

I’m sure there’ll be lots of bugs and I don’t think it will scale well.

The lack of scaling and even more critically, lack of federation, unfortunately makes this not a viable alternative, at least not for Discord as it is used today. As a smaller self-hosted option that is just for use between a friend group, it’d probably be fine. It just won’t be able to replace the exact use-case of Discord, such as allowing for easily bringing new randos you meet into a call without them having to sign up to your specific server.

The Discord-alternative landscape is filled with people vying to take its place, but I think we would be better served rallying behind Movim and XMPP, IMHO. Or Fluxer, if they eventually can enable federation.

I think it’d be better if we stuck with Movim instead, which is already built on a proven scalable and most importantly federated back-end (XMPP), and also already offers text, group audio and video calls, screensharing w/ audio (have to use chromium based browser for now to stream the audio), and even some pretty decent encryption.

It’s our most promising Discord alternative out of many.

Donate to PostmarketOS so they can support more phones and polish it up. It’s based on upstream Linux, and once polished would give us a true and permanent alternative.

I’ve found that Ubuntu still has by far the easiest one-click Nvidia driver installer of any distro, and switching between driver versions (such as rolling back if a new driver is buggy) is also far easier on Ubuntu.

I say that as someone who does not like Ubuntu in most other aspects.

Hope it works well for ya! Also should mention that if you want to screenshare an application’s audio, you have to be using a Chromium based browser currently, due to it still being pretty new.