I will check out some of those Taiwan-based news sites, thanks!

I will follow SBS, thanks mate!

Yeah, maybe pro-corporate isn’t the right word for it. I will amend my question

As in they are usually aligned with corporations and have certain biases associated with that. For instance, the BBC and DW tend to be pro-Israel, while Al Jazeera avoids criticism of the Qatari government. They are still very reliable news sources, they’re not spouting off nonsense like that of Fox News or the Telegraph. Everybody has biases, no one can truly be “unbiased”, but I’d like to read more independent news outlets that are not backed by big corporations.

Also, have you considered Ground News?

It looks very US-centric, and it’s always a bad idea to get all your news from one source. I’m personally not a fan, and would rather get news from multiple different outlets and judge them myself.

OK, that’s good to know!

Ich kann nicht ein schlaffen.

Kann ich commen?

Kann ich helfen?

Eins, zwei, drei, vier, fünf, sechs, sieben, acht!

That’s about the extent of it right now.

Off-topic, I just realised why I couldn’t see a lot of posts on Lemmy (including my own!). When enabling the ability to view German language posts (I’m trying to learn a bit!), I accidentally deselected English. It’s fixed now, and I can see English posts again!

Nice, that’s good!

Aside from Wireguard, you have Wireguard alternatives-but-not-really-since-they-are-based-on-Wireguard like Netbird and Tailscale. The latter is more well-known, but the main downside is that, to connect to the cloud servers, you need a Google, Microsoft, or Github account to login. It can be self-hosted with Headscale (community project) though (and you don’t need an account for that, since it’s your hardware)! Netbird is similar to Tailscale, but you can use normal email login to use their cloud servers, and they offer official self-hosting support.

They’re not forcing anybody to use it (Windows Hello, on the other hand…)

I personally use KDE so this specific news isn’t applicable to me, but it’s still really cool to see neat things like this!

Hey, that’s pretty neat!

Barely a Linux distro. It’s literally just Arch with some dotfiles, Hyprland, and LLM agents thrown in too, made by DHH (a racist transphobe who is advocating ethnic cleansing)

Number one thing, don’t get a “Pro” controller from Nintendo. 8BitDo, GameSir, Gulikit, etc. all have excellent options that undercut NIntendo by a lot (you have $20 controllers that perform nearly as well), and they all use hall-effect sticks (or TMR with the fancy ones) so you won’t suffer from the same stick drift. You could also get a Gulikit mod kit for the Switch 2 joycons and replace the sticks with TMR ones, but at least from my experience with the original Joy-Con, it is incredibly annoying to open it up (and you always need to do it multiple times, because you didn’t seat the ribbon cable properly, you are pinching a cable, etc.), and I doubt the new ones are any more repairable.

As for specific controller recommendations, from 8BitDo you have the Ultimate 2C Bluetooth (C is for cheap, I think it’s $25 or something, but no gyro and other bits) and the Ultimate 2 Bluetooth (has gyro, trigger lock, dock, etc.), from Gulikit you have the TT Max (symmetrical stick layout!) and the KK3 Max (the TT Max but with hall-effect instead of TMR, older version of the 2.4 GHz dongle, and asymmetrical), and from GameSir you have the Nova 2 Lite (cheaper, no gyro) and Supernova (rubber grips, gyro, trigger locks, dock, etc.)

Next, the Switch 2. That is a big asking price, and I personally don’t think it’s worth it, especially since there is no pack in game. If you do want a Nintendo console, you can easily find original Switches used online for very cheap (unless you already have one, which is even better!), and unless you want to play some of the Switch 2 exclusive titles, those are definitely the best from Nintendo in terms of value. Almost all the original Switch games will play exactly the same in the Switch 2 unless you get the upgrade packs (some of which are free, others are paid), which is incredibly stupid in my opinion, paid or not.

If you are not interested in any Nintendo exclusive games and want to play cross-platform titles only (like Hades II, Silksong, etc.), I would definitely suggest getting a used Steam Deck (if available + you need a handheld) or building a PC (with AM4, DDR4 memory, and the used market if you have one, you can definitely build something decent that will outperform the Switch 2 in every metric, but the value will depend on the cost of components where you live!!).

If you just want to play Nintendo games (or Playstation, Xbox, Sega, etc.) but don’t care for the latest and greatest “Mario Kart World” or similar, you could always go the emulation route! There are a lot of good handhelds right now:

• the RG XX line is great for anything under PS1 (I particularly like the 34XXSP for the clamshell)
• the TrimUI Brick is another one in that price bracket and relatively small
• the Miyoo Mini is even smaller!
• the RG DS is decent for DS w/ Rocknix (but it will be replaced with the RG DS Plus soon, so you might want to check if you want the better screen in exchange for a third of the memory. The new one will have the same chip though)
• Retroid’s Pocket line is always awesome (the 5 uses the Snapdragon 865 and is good for everything up to GC and PS2, while the 6 uses the 8 Gen 2 and can do more Switch and PC emulation and will handle every GC and PS2 game with upscaling)
• Ayn has fancier devices ($300-400 price range) like the Odin 2 Portal (beeg screen Pocket 6) and Thor (3DS champ), which both use the 8 Gen 2

I dunno, just stuff I’ve heard before. For 99% of people both are awesome, it’s just preference!

Fish is setup out of the box while ZSH is minimal OOTB and can be extended with all sorts of themes, plugins, etc. They both offer syntax highlighting, tab completion, fuzzy search, as well as many other QoL features over bash. The main upside of ZSH is that it’s compatible with the same POSIX scripts bash supports, while fish uses their own scripting thing (that can be easier to read and simpler, yes, but you lose compatibility with a lot of existing scripts!)

In my opinion, I would say fish and ZSH are awesome for most people, while ZSH has the edge when if you use a lot of scripts, and fish is better if you don’t want to configure anything (though oh-my-zsh, which is very simple to install, puts ZSH nearly on par with stock fish)

That’s really neat! I personally use ZSH, but Fish is great too, and it’s always nice to see improvements!

I’m not going to preorder it anytime soon, I would rather see (independent) reviews of a finished product first. ON their website, they note that it could be good for retro gaming (though that price for the chipset isn’t great compared to the competition, but you get open hardware + modularity!), as a music player (audio jack!), and sysadmin / networking diagnostic stuff (where Linux is preferred over Android or iOS), but obviously there are better devices for each of those use cases. Few devices can do it all though, and you would be supporting open hardware and all that jazz. They also say that it could be useful for testing Linux mobile apps and that sort of stuff (since it’s an ARM chip w/ optional LTE support), but won’t be too good as a daily driver phone (no earpiece speaker, LTE being an optional upgrade).

I probably won’t get this, as I already have a computer (which does run Linux!) and smartphone and don’t need/want another fun Linux device (my OnePlus 6 running postmarketOS fulfills that role already).

This looks really neat, and it’s awesome to see more open hardware! And the price seems pretty reasonable too for what you’re getting, especially given this is a smaller company. The modular plates are also open, meaning you can design your own ones! It looks like it starts at 2GB / 64GB eMMC, and goes up to 8GB / 128GB. It has display out support too, and the super long software support (7 years) is very nice. The device is apparently repairable too, with spare parts to be easily available too! It’s definitely a computer first, phone second, since LTE support is an optional upgrade, and there is no earpiece speaker (so calls will be very bothersome to others). It also supports M.2 SSDs, but it’s in the more esoteric 3042 B-Key form factor (and an adapter for more standard 2230 SSDs will be another separate upgrade). If the Comet actually comes out and orders are fulfilled, I think this could be an awesome device!

OK this is pretty awesome.

from their article:

Linux support for M3 series SoCs and the machines powered by them is now in a state where almost everything supported on the M1 and M2 series machines just works. This includes the webcam, internal microphones, USB (up to the hardware limit of USB 3 10 Gb/s), hardware accelerated video decoding including support for AV1, WiFi, Bluetooth, and much more! The only major exceptions remain full DCP support and the GPU, which we will have more news on in the coming months. Do not expect performant or power-efficient 3D acceleration right now.