This is so true. There have been many occasions where I thought someone was using TikTok, but it was just another app that looked exactly the same (Instagram, LinkedIn, some guitar learning app etc)

But think of the shareholders. They would loose so much money they would probably have to sell their third yacht!

It allows you to use WhatsApp without giving them full access to your contacts, so privacy wise I do want this feature

Answer of Bitwarden founder:

Thanks for sharing your concerns here. We have been progressing use of our SDK in more use cases for our clients. However, our goal is to make sure that the SDK is used in a way that maintains GPL compatibility.

1. the SDK and the client are two separate programs

2. code for each program is in separate repositories

3. the fact that the two programs communicate using standard protocols does not mean they are one program for purposes of GPLv3

Being able to build the app as you are trying to do here is an issue we plan to resolve and is merely a bug.

Care to share what parental control you are using on Linux?

Any good readers for IOS that don’t require a subscription (preferably FOSS)?

AFAIK the Lutris devs are working on integrating umu into Lutris, not sure about bottles though

The limitations are annoying but it’s definitely a step in the right direction.

proceeds to download the entirety of one piece to train an AI

Personally I use Kasts, it’s the default for KDE and just works, but Podcasts also is nice and looks more like Musicpod.

Download Flatseal and make sure the app has the permission to access the network

Discord: Their are custom clients like Vesktop that fix streaming on Linux and add features

Da Vinci: You can use this project for easier use, or just get Kdenlive which is fully supported on Linux

WhatsApp: If you do want to call people you could use Waydroid and install the android version, or if you don’t need calls but want background notifications you can use Zapzap

There is Neonmodem as a TUI client

Printing has basically everywhere been annoying. You need(-ed) specific drivers or even apps to make it work and if you have that set up it still can be annoying. And because most of these drivers/apps don’t support Linux printing relied on reverse engineered drivers. Then CUPS came around which made things better. And when apple adopted CUPS for Mac suddenly everyone wanted to support.

If you are really interested check out this episode of destination Linux where it’s discussed in detail.

I believe you can just do youruser: and chmod automatically uses the correct group. The other user is also technically correct as the usergroup is called the same as the user so both commands are the same.

Use chown to change ownership or chmod to change rights. The -R option makes them also change the permissions for all files and directories inside of the directory.

sudo chown -R <username>:<usergroup>  /pathto/Files

Arch man

I think the main reason is that most people who use Linux installed it on their own and at that point no parental control is stopping you.

What about Epiphany/Falcon? They are AFAIK built from scratch, apart from the engine. Would you still consider them clones?

Parental controls are one of the under developed parts of Linux, the only major one I know of is timekpr

For Wine: Microsoft 365 and anything Adobe notoriously doesn’t work with wine, any solution will most likely not be permanent.

For Premiere: Kdenlive is the best open source alternative IMO and there also DaVinci Resolve which has a free and a pro version. It is also more professional. Be aware DaVinci has problems with GNOME, which is the default environment of Ubuntu.

For distro: Nowadays Linux Mint is the best for user friendliness. If you will be going for a tilling window manager, the typical easy distros won’t make that much of a difference as you will be replacing a large part of it. You could probably do everything with KDE though with window rules and this, if you are going to use KDE then maybe use Kubuntu, it is a official version of Ubuntu with KDE. Ubuntu flavors