gstreamer lads, gstreamer is the god of all media pipelines

mpv on desktop, all the way

vlc on phone, all the way

It flawlessly plays me 1080p videos on my 8 year old smart phone with a 480p screen. It is the most performative app I have.

Try switch to software rendering. That, or weep, for if VLC fails you then nothing in this world will ever be right again.

The base tarball between Debian and Arch (locked to the same glibc) differ only very slightly in software composition stratified mostly by filesystem organization. One could actually make the case then, that the package manager is what differentiates the OS – in which case, Arch’s source code could be conflated to being pacman’s source code

I wanna know what the newsreader he uses is

cover your eyes!

Yes, but can you say removed, removed, and sharemoved?

Doesn’t samba block synchronously until mounted?

For anyone wondering: Alsa does sound card detection and basic IO at the kernel level, Pulse takes ALSA devices and does audio mixing at the user/system level. Pipe does what Pulse does but more and even includes video devices

UFW → nftables/iptables. Never worry about chains again

Tiny learning curve, easy to refactor existing projects

those last two are just made up words

That’s a feature! If you can access that share as rw, you should be able to do anything to it IMO. If it’s hosted read-only, then no matter what privileges you mount it with, the data is still protected

file manager integration could be better, I agree

NFS is fantastic from a practical standpoint. You can literally specify it in your fstab to mount the network share at boot.

The best part is, there is no latency in waiting for it to mount. It only tries to fetch data once you request a resource from that mount path. Translation: If your network device is asleep, NFS will wake it up for you and fetch the resource on demand.

I love NFS

I detest the node ecosystem, but I do love watching NPM build packages

You joke, but you should look up Guix

Stump user huh?

DuckDB have been promoting hard these last few weeks. I saw them on HN a few days ago, and now here.