laughing like a scooby doo villian

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just saw this on bluesky, might be of help on your Linux quest https://bsky.app/profile/eninabox.art/post/3mktbbonrec2j

thank you anon. this script looks like it works a lot better than when i set it up before in bottles and the script ive tried to use before. ill definitely have to play with it

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Zionists having a meltdown over this Nick Kristof NYT article and calling it a mouth piece for Hamas is hilarious because this is literally the NYT staff

Source

The New York Times is deeply committed to upholding Zionism that about 20 of their high ranking editors, executives, journalists are either former IDF or literally living in stolen Palestinian property.

This dossier is worth digging into if you wanna know who they all are

Fuck the NYT but watching Zionists lose their shit because even their own paper is calling out the sexual violence Palestinian prisoners have faced by Israeli authorities

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Hope OP doesn't mind if I add this Intercept article from a few days ago that deep-dives the extent of pro-Israel media bias. Essentially no one was free of guilt, but by and far the NYT and CNN are trailblazers in genocide-denialism and propaganda.

We Analyzed Thousands of News Articles: Here’s the Proof of Pro-Israel Bias in Mainstream Media

U.S. media outlets were crucial in helping Israel sell the Gaza genocide to the American public.

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hi! i see youve made a few posts on linux for personal use as well as for content creation, but i may be delusional but i think i remember in a critter stream, you talking about setting up a server, and i’m curious on more details about this! i’ve been using linux on my main laptop for a few years now, starting with mint before switching to manjaro after a while, but i think it’d be fun for me to set up a home server in the apartment i’ll be moving into next semester with a friend

yea this thing

its not super powerful or anything. i wanted something small to experiment with. its a rock chip with 2 ssds running ubuntu server. i kept running into issues so its been slow going.

rn i can ssh in and i have docker set up. the goal is to finish setting up samba, host a minecraft server and set up swing music, maybe jellyfin but im more focused on music for now

once im a little more confident that i know what im doing id love to set up an actual rack with a switch and everything and make it so i could access music outside of my our home network too. but for right now i think thats too much time, money and honestly a security risk lol

if you’re going to give your friend access make sure you have your permissions locked down so they can’t access anything other than like. ex. the swing ui where you actually listen to the music vs the folders that swing pulls the music from

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Can I ask what brand your mp3 player is? Also have you had it long enough to know if it'd be worth looking into? Been looking for a good music player.

i have the innosasis y1. that i snagged it last year? maybe a little longer than that. back when they were still only $50 and you could put rockbox on it (something something, the new version of the firmware isn’t compatible, devs are working on it? idk for sure i haven’t looked into it too much)

i think it’s decent enough for $50. comes in fun colors. the form factor is familiar. it sounds good connected to my speaker. the bluetooth works fine for me. battery lasts long enough. but i don’t know if i would pay the $75/$80 they’re asking for them now. it would depend what my other options are. it is made entirely of plastic and even though i treat my tech gently the screen is already super scuffed

if you want something to start with i don’t think it’s a bad deal. putting music on it is easy. but honestly depending on how much music i… acquire… i might get something a little nicer. tbh i would love a modded ipod but those suckers cost money money

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Source:

Keep Android Open

Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

Among the many reasons I am clawing my life back from Google.

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I GOT MY MP3 PLAYER AND SPEAKERS SET UP FUCKING FINALLY

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ok… helium fucks. i love firefox but this shit is fast

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Do you get the minoxidil pill covered by insurance or?? Because I do want to do pill form but it seems expensive without it

i know this is a kind of wish washy answer but it truly depends on your insurance. you can always try to find if it’s covered in your benefit documents or you can call and ask an insurance rep if it would be before asking your doctor.

i also use goodrx as a back up if stuff isn’t covered. so if your insurance doesn’t cover minoxidil at all goodrx might. but i havent had to check the prices for it specifically.

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I remember you saying at one point you use minoxidil even though you have cats, what precautions do you take?

pill

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Heya, hope you don't mind me sending you an ask about Linux! I've been slowly trying to learn Linux so I can finally bite the bullet and migrate off Microslop. Would you have any tips for beginners (outside of your recent guide post), or words of wisdom that you wish you knew when you first started out yourself?

One of my biggest questions though: how'd you go about learning Linux terminal commands? I am struggling with that, and is one of the bigger things that seems a bit daunting to find good information on (for me, at least). My long term goal is to first migrate to Mint to familiarize myself with Linux, then migrate to Artix to get away from systemd distros. If you decide to answer this, thank you in advance! And if not, no worries at all, we chillin.

i don’t mind!

honestly i wish i hadn’t been afraid of arch and started on an arch based distro. or been more open to distro hopping and starting over.

rn i have two projects going on. arch (because of cachyos) and setting up a ported version of ubuntu server for arm. the commands are different enough between the two that if im constantly switching, like when i ssh into the server, ill mix them up and when something doesnt work itll throw me off.

the reason im bringing this up is because with linux mint and artix you’ll probably run into something similar. mint is based on ubuntu, which is based on debian, so you’ll have that package manager and commands to familiarize yourself with. and then you’ll be switching to an arch based distro plus the differences that come with not having systemd. there are a bunch of ways to get into arch, arch based distros like manjaro, cachyos, endeavouros or omarchy (it’s an arch set up script for the desktop environment hyperland vs having to do it all yourself) where you can see if you like the… flow of arch? before switching to artix, especially if you know that’s for sure where you wanna end up.

for me, i learn by doing things. so i learned a chunk of the commands as i was setting everything up. i was prepared to fuck up my shit so all of my important stuff was backed up and i could delete everything and start over if needed. i still haven’t committed to changing my wallpaper… last time i did that i installed something that i couldn’t uninstall properly and it kept messing stuff up so i restarted lol. it’s not like youll have to go into the terminal everyday but when i wanted to install something i would try to use the terminal to do it. most linux programs have documentation detailing installation or if they don’t someone has asked for a tutorial before and you’ll probably find it within the first scroll of a google search. when there was something id never seen before, like the first time i had to use wget or curl, id look it up in another tab to read more about them. the arch/respective distro wiki is your friend for that. its also why almost everything i have installed is native and not a flatpak.

finding alternatives before you switch vs trying to strong arm windows only applications helped too. luckily for me the only thing that im fighting with is clip studio paint (for my fiance, it’s the last piece of the puzzle to get them to linux too and it’s still too laggy for how big they like their canvases to be for printing). everything else had a foss alternative that ive either liked better than what i was using before or don’t really notice a difference.

at the end of the day they’re both linux but i did definitely get used to using the arch package manager a lot faster than the debian package manager and ran into less problems that has personally made the switch more enjoyable. but any linux experience is a learning experience and will help you in the long run!

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im scared the linux post broke containment

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using linux (as a content creator)

i will preface this by saying that im not an it guy, i dont code or anything but i do read a lot of tutorials and love linux. after i found a distribution that i liked i found that finding open source alternatives and trouble shooting stuff etc became pretty satisfying. linux is like a puzzle that you can make into whatever you want if you have the right pieces. but i will apologize in advance to it peeps if i dont use the right technical term for something.

to start off with some technical stuff you have the linux kernel, then you have all the distributions based on said kernel that are customized to suit different needs.

"A kernel is a computer program at the core of a computer's operating system that always has complete control over everything in the system. The kernel is also responsible for preventing and mitigating conflicts between different processes. It is the portion of the operating system code that is always resident in memory and facilitates interactions between hardware and software components."

tbh i think of it like ice cream flavors. each distro is a different flavor but theyre all ice cream. so while anything that i say here is geared towards my distro of choice, cachyos, it would work on other distros, you would just want to find a tutorial to see the differences.

i have tried other linux distros, but cachy has blown me away by how well and fast everything works. i honestly think that if youre gaming or doing any kind of content creation its the way to go. for the sake of this post not getting stupid long im going to assume you have linux installed. if not here is a general tutorial: "How to Install Linux."

here’s the wiki that walks you through installing cachyos specifically, it goes over everything, personally i used grub as my boot manager and kde plasma as my desktop environment, everything else default: LINK

starting out

thinking of content creators you would usually go to streamers, digital artists, photographers, gamers etc. so thats what this post (kind of guide?) is geared towards. so. if youre on your fresh cachyos install you can navigate to cachyos hello.

i have cachyos hello launch at start.

go to apps/tweaks and click install gaming packages. thatll prompt it to download stuff that makes gaming easier on linux. also in cachyos hello go to install apps, which will open the gui (graphical user interface) of the package manager and you can install the heavy hitters, discord, obs and steam, pretty close to how you would on windows by clicking through the prompts. i also downloaded krita, libreoffice (awesome microsoft office alternative), and vlc (my preferred media player). theres also some cool stuff like opentoonz (2d animation), blender and darktable (RAW photo editing) in there.

when you download programs from your package manager (through the terminal or with the gui), youre installing them natively. there is something called a flatpak, which runs a sandboxed version of the program. its in the name of security so its sectioned off from the other stuff on your computer and so that a company can make one version, the flatpak, and it should work on all linux distros without issue. well get more into flatpaks later.

discord: the json files

once you have all of that installed these are some tweaks that i did. sometimes the cachyos update of discord is a little behind the official discord update (usually less than a day tbh but if youre planning to log into a call not being able to before a collab stream would be bad) so you can navigate to the json of discord (basically just the settings txt file) and turn off that discord checks for updates before launching.

you will want to go here: ~/.config/discord/settings.json

and add this line somewhere in the file: "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true

it should look something like this. you can still update whenever its rolled out but youll be able to use discord uninterrupted while youre waiting.

obs: git, the aur and yay

obs almost works the same as on windows. the plugin structure is a little different but its not too bad once you know what to look for. you have the easy ones like this closed captions plugin. where all you have to do is download the linux zip, extract it and put it in this folder in your file directory: ~/.config/obs-studio/plugins.

then there are the harder ones like the move plugin. where you have to clone and build the plugin yourself from github. or the aitum multistream plugin where cloning and building it myself resulted in a cmake error so the best bet is to navigate to the aur and download it that way.

which sounds like A LOT. so let me explain.

something that makes linux so cool is how easy it is to just grab cool shit from github. but to do that well need to start talking about the terminal which seems to scare people.

so background, cachyos is based on another flavor of linux, arch. its super lightweight and customizable! but when you dont know what youre doing it can be scary. since cachyos is based on arch it used the same package manager and the same commands to navigate through the terminal.

you can follow this tutorial here: "How to Install Git on Arch," and just follow to first steps to install and verify that you installed it. ill be honest i havent actually needed to configure it as it works just fine without doing so.

after youve done that you can install all the cool stuff youve seen on github. going back to the obs move plugin you would type the following in the terminal to clone (download all the necessary files from github): git clone <repository link>

which is https://github.com/exeldro/obs-move-transition

still in the terminal, you want to navigate to where it downloaded by typing: cd <folder name in file directory>

which is usually the name of the program obs-move-transition

most github pages have instructions on how to actually build the thing. for the move plugin you would type: cmake -S . -B build -DBUILD_OUT_OF_TREE=On && cmake --build build

(i realized that i already had cmake installed when i wrote this but if you dont youll want to before you try to set up the move plugin. you can install it with the command “sudo pacman -S cmake” then check that it’s installed with “cmake —version”)

youll see a bunch of stuff pop up in the terminal and once its done, you should be able to see the folder for it in your file directory.

youll navigate to /home/*your username*/obs-move-transition/build/ and there should be the actual plugin move-transition.so. thats what youll put in your obs plugin folder from earlier. youll might have to make a few new folders but it should be nested like this: /home/*your username*/.config/obs-studio/plugins/move-transition/bin/64bit/

git is cool but theres another really cool thing that cachy has because of being based on arch. and thats the aur, the arch user repository. it hosts packages made by the community. in order to install these packages i personally use yay. and heres a tutorial for how to install it here, i followed option 1: "How to Install yay on Arch Linux."

but going back up to the obs plugin example, its similar to what we did earlier. first youd have to find the aur version of the aitum multistream plugin then you would type: git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/obs-aitum-multistream-bin

then: cd obs-aitum-multistream-bin

the difference is that someone already built the plugin for us so you just have to type: makepkg -si

it should once again appear in your home directory and you can go digging for the .so. for me it was in /home/*your username*/obs-aitum-multistream-bin/pkg/obs-aitum-multistream-bin/usr/lib/obs-plugins/. and youll nest it the same way we did earlier with the move plugin.

since i linked what we needed for the multistream plugin we didnt need to use yay very much but the tutorial i linked earlier shows the other ways that you can use it!

once youre done collecting all the plugins you want you can start obs, connect your twitch/youtube account and start streaming the same way you would on windows.

steam: proton, wine and flatpaks

moving onto steam... honestly... a lot of steam games should just work. steam comes with proton, which is basically a compatibility layer that lets window games run on linux. its something that we actually downloaded earlier when we installed the gaming packages. if you want to check before hand what games work you can visit ProtonDB. what is pretty much a guarantee NOT to work are games that use kernel level anticheat, like apex legends, sorry. i dont play any games like that anyways because that seems like an invasion of privacy. but you do you.

if theres something that you want to play that isnt on steam you can use wine instead, or the wine manager bottles to do so. wine is another compatibility layer, its actually partially what proton is based off of. if you want to check and see if something specific runs through wine you can check WineHQ.

if you want to use bottles (which is my preference it keeps everything neat), well be rounding back to flatpaks! to get flatpaks set up youll need to install it by typing in the terminal: sudo pacman -S flatpak

sudo means your acting as the "superuser," itll prompt you to type in your password to verify that you actually want to do what youre doing and that your authorized to do it. you wont see your password as your typing. it looks blank for security purposes but if you type your password and hit enter it will work as long as it was typed correctly. pacman is the name of the package manager for arch. heres some more about the commands you can use in pacman: "pacman."

now with flatpak installed you can install anything from the flathub! but were specifically looking for bottles right now. if you go to the bottles page on flathub the install button will give you what to put into the terminal: "Flathub- Bottles"

getting started with veadotube

veadotube is a good place to start if you want to try out streaming. its an easy to learn program for pngtubers specifically. mini is available for free and once the full version is released i can only imagine that it would be installed the same way.

honestly this is the easiest thing to install out of everything weve talked about. all you need to do is go to the veadotube website and download the zip file for mini. you extract it and inside is an exe file like youd be familiar with if you use windows.

i moved the extracted veadotube mini folder to my home folder for easy access. i will admit im not sure if theres a better place but this works for me. once you launch it, veadotube should work pretty much the same as how it does on windows. i havent run into an issues yet but just in case ill leave the docs for veadotube here: LINK

closing thoughts and links

those are honestly the biggest things that i can think of right now. just walking through how to setup/tweak discord, obs, steam and bottles walks you through everything that ive needed to learn in order to get streaming working comparably to how i used to stream and game with windows. everything that i use can be installed with once you know how to use pacman, git or yay.

something that might be helpful is wget... but honestly i wouldnt worry about it unless its needed for something you want. theres no need to have it if you dont use it.

some other useful things:

a general how to doc for streaming on linux, with a bunch of programs i didnt mention: LINK

streamer.bot for managing streams: LINK

what i used to get csp working. my fiance noticed lag while drawing, but its worth a try if you dont want to use krita or other drawing programs with linux versions: LINK

or you can set csp up in a bottle: LINK

opendeck, to use the elgato streamdeck: LINK

this is a plugin for opendeck to use the fifine steam deck, which is what i have: LINK

slime2 is just a neat chatbox for obs, it doesnt say anything about linux but because of how its built it works: LINK

the obspluginbuilding page for if you want to look more into how plugins work: LINK

prism launcher, to play minecraft, i just used pacman but theres other ways to install it listed on the downloads page: LINK

cachyos wiki: LINK

arch linux wiki, if you run into problems that you cant find in the cachyos wiki the solution is probably somewhere in here: LINK

ill sign this off by saying linux, especially distributions like cachyos, are constantly improving. make sure you update often (the easiest way to do so imo is using cachyos hello) and keep your files clean so you know where everything is if you run into problems!

pre-linux i didnt have a super extravagant streaming set up so theres not too too much here but i hope it at least gets you started and gives you resources to figure out the rest!

** edit- i think that the obs multi rtmp plugin works better than the aitum multistream plugin. at least for my setup. but it's also available from the aur and installed the same way. you can get it here: LINK

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i hate all headphones. they are never comfortable ever. ive tried earbuds, the open ones, traditional over ear headphones, etc.

the claims of comfort are lies

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i love over ear headphones but usually i have 30 mins before it feels like they’re denting my dome

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i may have found a solution. review coming as soon as they get here

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yea these fuck. therye not sound isolating like over ears but that doesnt really matter to me. they sound good, bordering on great for the price, are super light weight and dont squeeze my head or the inside of my ears. i got the oversized ear cushions too

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would anyone be interested if i typed up what ive learned about streaming with linux… or would i be typing into the void. there’s a bunch of resources that ive compiled and i feel like steps in between just going to the wiki for help if you’ve never used the terminal before

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i hate all headphones. they are never comfortable ever. ive tried earbuds, the open ones, traditional over ear headphones, etc.

the claims of comfort are lies

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i love over ear headphones but usually i have 30 mins before it feels like they’re denting my dome

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i may have found a solution. review coming as soon as they get here

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i did it. i got so pissed off at windows that i just wiped my desktop computer and put cachyos on in. currently trying to put minecraft on it and if i can get that to work tonight ill be happy

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ok so it works and i got it working faster than when i installed it on windows

i dont want to be that guy whos like linux is the best thing ever, it has no issues what do you mean, it works perfect every time etc. but i do want to encourage people to try a flavor of it at some point

for me, i didnt want to wake up one morning to a borked update that microsoft pushed out that say erased everything on my ssd for no reason because i was using the wrong kind of mouse, id much rather have to deep dive into a wiki every once in awhile when i run into an issue

ive tried mint, ubuntu and now cachyos. mint and ubuntu are definitely more beginner friendly if youre coming from windows. i didnt really need to touch the terminal in either if thats something that scares you. cachy while i like it a lot better does require the terminal at least a little bit but i think its worth it for how well it works