I wish there was a browser addon which would create bogus ai slop comments and just save them as drafts.
Admittedly I wish this was built into RES and just happened randomly across reddit. The ai misinformation war needs to start to punish the companies selling user data imo.
I got bans for checks notes using an anonymizer and deleting an account, then on a new account being told I broke rules for using an anonymizer on a linked account and getting sitewide banned for it because I was “evading bans.”
Can’t wait to anonymize my new throwaway and then request deletion through the california privacy law enabling it.
I’ve seen this but I don’t really want the docker part.
I think it could be phenomenal for some kind of beefy VDI implementation for low demanding games or some kind of monster server with multiple GPUs, but it just feels wrong for an individual who wants to remotely stream their desktop on demand and has no plans on having others share the host.
Maybe i’m overthinking it, or haven’t thought it through enough - but my gut says this has more drawbacks than i’m realizing.
Why? for a feature that doesn’t exist consistently or comfortably on windows?
non-arm-Windows client to Windows host you can use something like parsec where you can adjust resolution on the fly. You can install a fallback virtual display for when the display is off from right inside the app in a single click + UAC prompt. I really don’t like parsec though because I know the enshittification will come, and I don’t really trust them to be secure or to not abuse their backdoor accesses.
This project allows you to create virtual displays that are persistent, and you can configure them so that when the primary monitor is off the backup one is enabled in windows, just by using the default windows display manager options. You can change the resolution freely… because this is using the same vd driver parsec created https://github.com/nomi-san/parsec-vdd - this works pretty well overall with Sunshine
Ultimately though, Sunshine and Parsec are the only two things i’m aware of with great low latency and high fidelity remote capabilities, aside from niche implementations like what the PS5 has. If something like Xorg had similar quality and latency parity i’d be interested, but i’m under the impression everything is like old school vnc or rdp where it is functional when necessary but not very pleasant overall.
It cannot generate a virtual display. It only uses attached displays which by default are real powered on monitors.
I’ve gotten around this on windows with parsec and a virtual display adapter that someone keeps updated on GitHub which can spawn backup displays if none are present, but I find still sometimes fails to spawn them. Parsec is fairly reliable at spawning them when the windows solution fails but it’s not perfect either.
A hack job virtual display on Linux will be more difficult to work with. It’s going to eat my desktop and be fairly hidden.
Dummy plugs exist, but I specifically don’t want to put dummy plugs in all my remote hosts. Seems like an unga bunga solution to something which should be software.
Something with VNC or simply ssh with some scripting could be the workaround I use to get back in when a virtual display fails to work as expected, but I am lazy and want something effectively bulletproof.
…and just to be clear, this is a multiplatform problem. There’s a single mediocre ‘easy’ option in windows land and a very tinkery option in linux land.
Doesn’t seem like any OS has caught up to the idea of fast streaming desktops quite yet. I’m convinced it’s the future of computing though. Way better than old VDI options from days of yore.
Switching to linux has been the best decision i’ve made all year.
Just wish there was a good one-click-setup virtual display option for Sunshine that “just works.” It’s my white whale of features.
Sure, but trying and failing is the only way we’ve ever accomplished anything.
With the rate of CVEs scored at 9+ that come across all the stuff I manage at work I would not agree.
It would be foolish to simply stop patching this giant pile of obsolete insecure dependencies they are calling windows.
The fact that in lieu of paying them they simply want you to log in with an account they control should speak volumes to the privacy implications.
Must be a reason why they don’t want us to see the code. Maybe it’s whatever they’re changing to attempt to build a walled garden to keep the app protection money rolling in.
What purpose do electric door locks serve? Other than being more prone to failure, more expensive, and dangerous?
An oligarch’s fancy?
I’m sure in product meetings it’s been brought up that it’s a dumb thing and they could save money and make the cars safer by not having them, then the oligarch speaks up.
TorGuard is a vpn provider but instead you have that onion network. Why?
Been using it for years.
Been using multi account containers [1] for a couple weeks, complete with per-tab-SSL vpns.
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/
♫♫ Where Is My Mind? ♫♫ plays
In the background, explosions rip through buildings and they start to collapse.
I have an old Pi floating around that I should probably look at using for stuff like this.
Are they going to be around once Google removes sideloading from unauthorized devs?
I’m never, ever buying digital licenses to video or audio content. My limit is games because avoiding it is kind of impossible.
Too many platforms close down. I’ve lost licenses from the Impulse acquisition and subsequent shutdown, plus one or two others. Any day these guys can just put up a 30 day notice and rip everything out of your library. Usually this happens after an acquisition… looks like bandcamp was sold in 2023 and the buyers shitcanned half the staff too.
Disks are cheap and piracy works until they enforce digital IDs for all connectivity on the internet. At that point we’d be back to swapping thumb drives.
Agreed wholeheartedly.
I built out bluefin as a panacea to issues I had with subtitles on a set of media on my plex server and it couldn’t even give me subtitles.
I hear a lot of rave reviews for Kodi, but that’s serverless so now I need to open up storage or setup a vpn server and isolate a vlan… and how in the everliving fuck am I going to explain configuring this? Oh, and that needs sideloading too and if I go with a vlan now they need to figure out how to connect their device to a VPN. That’s a nightmare.
Sure, I can setup Kodi at home on my TV device and leave plex as is but i’m no closer to a server based transcoding solution. That sucks.
Cool. Pop_OS is working quite well over here.
It’s never been a better time to convert to Linux. The best part is that if one distro turns to shit you can just move over to another.