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I have cd && clear aliased as home

Lazy aliases unite!

I wish I had even half the braincells required to understand the installation for this.

Does Spectacle work well with Wayland?

Don’t be too optimistic, you probably haven’t seen it because it’s not being rolled out universally just yet; they like to A/B test their massive feature changes.

It was honestly the one thing I still have never found a feature parity Linux alt for after years; it will always bug me no matter what other “it’s basically the same” suggested player I use instead.

That said, currently I’m making do with Quodlibet, and I have no major complaints. But nothing is an exact replica enough for me not to constantly compare it to Wimamp & complain.

Not a serious suggestion, but I can confirm that WACUP does at least have no noticeable issues using WINE

Same speed, except they’re gouging me for $90 a month over here.

I don’t think the average person even knows GiB exists, since Windows and all the random flash drive manufacturers have mislabeled and confused the two for ages now.

Gotta start double-knotting those laces.

And yet all websites seem to still exist using only email verification.

Yes, and unless you haven’t noticed spam comments and fake account are rampant across most popular online services.

that a server admin and a company shouldn’t be asking for excessive security for recreational uses.

And yet most people don’t care, and just add their phone number to their Discord account without a second thought; because it’s not excessive, it’s the norm. You can’t even make an account on Instagram without providing your phone number, and in some cases and selfie while holding up a security code on a piece of paper to verify you are human. I’m not saying this slow creep into collecting user date should just be hand-waived away by virtue of it’s widespread adoption, but the matter of fact is that if it was really viewed as such an egregious breach of privacy by the average person, then it wouldn’t have survived since no one would be using the affected services.

they need to look into other methods of securing their servers

You seem to be willfully ignoring the fact that phone number verification is the answer to this question. Real people tend to have one phone number, fake phone numbers are easy to create but cost money, emails do not cost money.

Do you really not see the intrinsic benefit of requiring a phone number as the strictest form of online security for a tragically spam-laden service like Discord?

information that’s stored without clear legal specifications of what’s done with it

First of all, this is just patently false, Discord lays out precisely what they will and won’t do with information you provide to them in their Privacy Policy. That said, I’m not exactly championing giving every website or service you log into your phone number.

Regardless, you’re still putting the blame in the wrong place. The onus for securing the server is still on the server admins, and they’re doing exactly that by leveraging the security options made available by Discord. Don’t blame the admins for taking necessary steps, blame one-click spam bot SAAS providers for making it a necessary step in the first place. I would even argue blaming Discord is even a step too far, because phone number verification does actually work to limit account creation spam.

As crippling as it might be to your sense of privacy, phone numbers are still a decent enough way to limit account spam since most spam creators are taking the path of least resistance and not going through the effort to set up a voip / prepaid throwaway phone line for every new account they create.

They can dial it back one notch and still have spam/bot protections.

This is a ridiculous claim to make, because of how useless the tier before phone verification is:

High is the next step security setting you can lockdown your server with. Including requiring a verified email AND being registered on Discord for more than 5 minutes. You must also be present in the server for longer than 10 minutes.

Those are not legitimate restrictions, please do not pretend like they are.

You have to balance privacy / security with convenience in the modern age. If you put more weight on your phone number than on your desire to interact with that video game community, then just don’t join the server and claim the moral highground.

As someone who had run & managed a Discord server with 10,000+ users, there’s only so many options available to us to try and limit bot spam and throwaway account raids.

Yes it’s needlessly intrusive to an extent, but you really should try and look at it from their perspective. We didn’t run that setting 24/7, but we were also a pretty niche (albeit relatively popular) server. For a server that exists for a fully advertised steam game, I can kinda understand the urge to lock down the security settings to the maximum.Even some of the best server-ran bots which try and stop / catch suspicious accounts just can’t do the trick sometimes, and the best solution after that is unfortunately the nuclear option.

Maybe, but it’s far more likely it’s just dependancies and other 3rd party library packages being updated.

The Steam Link Linux package also still gets the rare update now and then on my old Ras Pi, but mostly these days it’s just the Android app being given bug fixes (even though the last one is from October).

Fascinating, but in the video they very quickly swipe off-screen that the top speed their new system was able to achieve was 120 kph / ~75 mph.

I imagine something like this would have to be limited to vehicles that never need to approach speeds above that on a highway, so maybe busses or indoor shipping & receiving vehicles.

I know it’s been said already, but actually a ton of off-site backup services operate exclusively on tape. It’s significantly cheaper and more reliable for cold storage solutions.

lol totally fair

Sure, but that’s not the only benefit to having full control over the entire tiling interface. I enjoy building out the features and visuals I want in python. It’s fun to have that level of control.

Yeah I also use KDE on my desktop, though I have my laptop running QTile because the tile hotkeys are much more convinient than navigating with the trackpad.

Ever considered trying out a tiling window manager?

You are also not indicative an entire category of potential new users. You are also clearly not the majority who I am referring to, no need to take it personally.