probably just people who don't want to bother with compiling everything would be my guess
I use a mix. Sometimes, I'll read stuff in the foliate
app on Linux from my desktop outputting onto a big screen tv.
But I also do an old kindle while lounging on couch/bed and Librera reader on phone (android/f-droid) when I'm on the shitter.
For the most part, I load different things on each and just jump back and forth between several stories. Keeps things interesting and no need to sync bookmarks and whatnot.
same. sometimes for really new books in niche genres, i'll come up empty handed but more often than not i find what i'm looking for
Oh yeah, completely forgot about Mac version lol.
As for why, no way to know for sure without inside info, but best guess is that they are trying to account for maximum file size limits across all the various possible Windows/Mac filesystem types but whichever employee setup the Linux ones realized that most Linux users wouldn't be using shitty Microsoft filesystems. FAT12 is fairly safe to ignore but they might have been considering FAT16 and HFS as the lowest common denominators, then making the files slightly smaller than the max file size just in case.
That or possible that they were balancing by network loads (since Windows versions probably account for around 99% of all downloads) and that was somehow determined to be the sweet spot.
they are based on size but it's only the windows versions. for example, if you buy witcher 2, it has windows and linux versions. linux version is a single ~20 GiB file while the windows version has a small exe + lots of bin files that are 1.5 GiB or less and you need all of them to install.
ok, you convinced me that I want Galaxy for Linux too 😁
the achievements, social, and install management stuff wasn't too important for me but having it simplify offline installer downloads vs doing it from browser would be great.
Definitely agree that being able to control install location + whether or not to update is nice (compared to steam) but I was comparing vs what I can already do in the offline installers so I guess that's why it didn't matter to me if the client could do it. But some games you need to download a lot of files which is kind of a pain in the ass from the browser (especially when it's something you need to run under wine since gog tends to split windows games into multiple pieces/.bin files more often than they do native linux ones from what i've seen).
every few minutes is a lot. havent been on nord for a few years but even when i was on them i dont remember getting drops that frequently. i suspect it is likely not an issue with qbit as many others use it without running into drops like that - including myself.
probably an issue with either nord or your isp. if you are on wifi, there are also some routeres with known issues when it comes to dropping wifi signal - but there's too many different models and firmware versions to really guess this accurately without detailed info (and sometimes it only happens in specific versions of firmware on specific routers).
i get occasional drops on PIA but its usually after running for something like 3-7 days straight. i'm not using the official pia client app but instead download manual ovpn file configurations from pia and import them into generic client. under windows, you need the openvpn free community client for this. under linux, you can import them into networkmanager. iirc, nord has manual ovpn files too but they make you select a specific server and download 1 config file at a time.
alternately, if you setup wireguard that might also work better but haven't tested myself
I understand the chances are low and my media player needs to be exploited but is there a way to be certain?
Personally, even if I was on a highly targeted OS like Windows, I wouldn't really worry too much about video files being infected - with the obvious exceptions of making sure they are actually video files not something like .mkv.exe
and that your system isn't compromised some other way (e.g. installing / running random apps or scripts off the web / email / etc).
But if you want a little extra peace of mind, you could run an antivirus file scan on it or take steps to sandbox it in a VM or security container.
If you are on Linux, you can run the media player apps like vlc / mpv / smplayer / etc in security containers which would limit their capabilities if there ever was a successful exploit on the player software via something embedded in a video or music file. There are several different apps you can use to make use of such security containers. The easiest is probably to just use flatpak versions of applications (flatpak is a "universal" linux build format - most of these are available on flathub.org - and have a built-in security container called bubblewrap which you can control with a tool called flatseal
). There are also other options besides flatpaks such as firejail
(which I use myself), which has pre-made profiles for a lot of the more popular linux apps so like for vlc
I could simply launch firejail vlc
in shortcuts or I think there is a graphical app for it too. edit: jsut checked and yup, there is a gui called firetools
: github | their blog which has screenshots and a 2min video demo.
Linux security containers rely on features built into the Linux kernel so I'm not sure if there are comparable alternatives for Windows or Mac. But I suppose if you were on one of those, you could always just run things in a virtual machine.
A post on reddit said to use mkvtoolnix to check all the elements but I honestly don’t know what to look for. Any help?
Without an actual link to see what they said, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess their assumption was that you would either have some kind of corrupted exe that is NOT a valid video OR a valid video. I mostly agree with that assumption - there are things like steganography that can hide data in some other data files like pictures or videos but that is more just extra crap than exploit.
IF you accept this assumption, then what they probably meant was that you could use mkvtoolnix to confirm that the mkv file loaded successfully and had audio + video streams (e.g. a really really basic test for it being a valid mkv file). You could do the same thing with the mediainfo
tool (I believe this is also crossplatform since that's what RARBG used to use on their media detail pages... and God do I miss that, wish other public trackers all did the same thing).
Possibly stupid question, but how does one manually tag things on lemmy when using desktop web ui from browser (as opposed to mobile apps that specifically have a tagging feature). Is it as simple as add some #SomeWord
thing? Asking bc I thought that when using markdown for comments (which I do), the #
at the beginning indicates a heading level, not a tag. So.. guess I'm just saying I have no idea how tags work in lemmy (don't know how to add them, don't know how to search by them, etc).
It might be worth mentioning - or at least linking to - how one can do so manually on lemmy in the readme.md file for dummies like myself.
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