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.

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

That looks interesting. Immediately wishlisted

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

Not sure, but maybe this is a pipewire vs pulseaudio thing. Enable pipewire on Debian

Peertube/Odysee exist, even if they are relatively niche.

Endeavour OS is exactly es stable as arch, and Manjaro tends to break more often than arch due to dependency issues. Debian and Arch are questionable for beginners, I would always recommend Mint as the first option for beginners. Also Mint has an easy NVIDIA setup, so I don’t think that is an advantage of pop OS compared to it. Nowadays NVIDIA is fine on Linux, especially on distros like pop OS, Mint or Aurora that makes the setup easy.

That is an interesting way of saying Apple is finally supporting an industry standard. By the way what is it with people pretending iMessage is the only messenger? There are many great cross platform options like signal and also some not so good options like WhatsApp. May just be Europe, but the last time I used SMS was in 2021. And I always have used iPhones.

You could create a live usb on another device and then use chroot

This sounds like AI is literally biting its own tail

Yeah, I think in my head I mixed up this article with a unrelated one.

But lmstudio isn’t FOSS no?

Here is the article were they adjusted the privacy policy to allow AI training. Personally I think this is enough evidence to think they train their AI on messages.

They sell your dms for money, which makes them money. They don’t make money through spying on your calls. I’ll let you figure this one out.

Edit: no evidence

https://docs.invidious.io/faq/#q-what-data-is-shared-with-youtube

Invidious shares your IP with google, it does not act as a proxy

What are some good larger/general purpose peer tube instances? Last time I checked tilvids was one of the largest I found, so I seem to have missed a lot.

Way more models available, faster in my experience, more reliable, local ChatGPT compatible api and advanced fine tuning features. There have been some additions to Alpaca since I last used it, so maybe I will try it again soon but since I don’t use it regularly I use GPT4ALL because it just works, and when I tried Alpaca didn’t.