Solid video, and it comes from a pretty grounded viewpoint. It’s not very techy or pros/cons-focused; it’s more about the “spirituality” of what we’re even doing with the technology in our lives. They’re obviously not a tech expert, but their mindset and “breaking point” are a lot more relatable for most casual people. This is the sort of realization that people are going to continue having as big tech encroaches further and further on their lives. E.g. their example of “it’s not one big problem, it’s many small problems that add up” with why it’s so frustrating to use Windows, but then why people continue to use it.

It will take a “breaking point” and self-motivated change to critically evaluate the power that you’re giving to corporations and decide that you’re going to accept some discomfort in order to fix it. There will never be a perfect time to effortlessly switch your entire workflow across operating systems. I daresay that if there ever was a point at which switching to Linux was effortless, big tech would flash something new and shiny and make that no longer the case. They prey on keeping people in the path of least resistance, and understanding their strategy is the first step to doing something about it.

Wish people would have realized this a couple decades ago, but it really does feel like Linux is re-entering public discourse as people are getting more and more jaded about their relationship with big tech companies.

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Maybe HDR on linux? I’m fairly clueless about how it all works under the hood, but I’m currently on debian 12 and I’m hoping that by the time 13 comes around it will just work without me needing to do any manual system tweaks. As I understand it, it’s currently semi-working or fully-working in KDE6, but I’m still on KDE5 until debian 13 comes out.

Rutracker is pretty solid for a public tracker. They’ve notably got a ton of music rips mirrored from what.cd and RED, and they seem to have a good handle on gaming releases as well. Their uploaders seem to focus at least a little on making releases well-annotated and a custom/high quality experience rather than just mindless scene content dumping. Use an adblocker and page translator and you should be good to go.

If you use the Molly fork with UnifiedPush support and set up a tiny mollysocket instance on a VPS or always-on server (no need for exposed ports), this problem can be patched. You can use the Conversations XMPP client or ntfy to redirect UnifiedPush notifications into Molly, and it won’t need to use Signal’s normal costly notification scheme. I have no idea why Signal has not implemented UnifiedPush support directly yet; it’s a very active pain point for most users: one, two, three.