It won’t affect linux itself, you can restore the bootloader and get into linux when windows does that, it’s just that it’s a pain in the arse to restore. But yes, it has happened not too long ago that windows overwrote the linux bootloader. Microsoft obviously claimed it was an accident, but they obviously don’t care.
And no, on a separate drive windows won’t touch it at all.

EDIT: Maybe it’s not so hard to restore grub loader as I thought, could be as simple as these steps.

Yes. But like @18107@aussie.zone said, Windows has a bad tendency to overwrite the bootloader, and that can happen down the road during an update of theirs.
That’s why people recommend using a separate physical drive to install linux on if dualbooting with windows, because then you choose what you want to boot up on with the UEFI boot menu instead which Windows can’t overwrite (yet?).

Thanks. That’s so sad 😢

_{Also I’ve gotten so worried of the use of em-dashes, so I’m glad you had a source.}

Oh… 😢

Eh. There’s also a bunch of bozos there that’ll literally rip 128 kbps mp3s from youtube and store them as FLACs. I saw it with my own 2 beady eyes right after the release of “The end of you” by Poppy, Amy Lee and Courtney LaPlante. So there’s no way of knowing what source they’ve used.
EDIT: I do like Soulseek a lot tho!

What does “40%” mean in this context?

Thanks for sharing your thought process going through this. Theming is important, perhaps more important than we think of regularly, it’s actually one of the main things I enjoy about linux. I believe it’s also a reason why people are leaving Windows as it has become way too corporate and soulless.

They do mention a plasmoid for KDE plasma, although according to their documentation that requires distro specific packaging. For Debian it looks like there’s a community package (right side).
EDIT:

By systems service you’re talking about systemd, right? I found this guide that sets up syncthing as a systemd service. Archwiki has a different one though.
And as the Archwiki alludes to, there’s this Syncthingtray tool that can be set up to show notifications.

Oof. Luckily it seems to only be DNS blocks for now.

For the longest time I’d use MP3tag in Windows, which is still a great tool, runs great in Wine, and it can do some of the same things like look up artwork and in particular rename files based on tags.
But less than a month ago I downloaded Picard and have been getting into using it, and the workflow is quite strange. But it works. And I can recommend it.

Yeah, unfortunately there’s no inverse mouse cursor theme. I loved it on windows as well. What I’m using now is this “Hackneyed high contrast cursors” theme, the green one to be specific, and I absolutely love it.

I don’t actually know, but I assume mouse themes are universal? Or does KDE mouse themes now work with Cinnamon?

I read that there’s an extension for Cinnamon that does the same, although I also saw a bug report that it might be broken, idk. Worth a shot. Here’s how to enable it.

If I had a better brain I’d be writing like Arya here. Loved the little references to DC++ and Fallout: New Vegas.

Also, it’s sad it’s only now I realize what kind of guy DHH is. I’ve seen him a few times talking with Primeagen, so that was the extent of my knowledge about him up until now. And sad that Brodie Robertson is helping sanewash him, although I think Brodie is pretty oblivious when it comes to politics.

Thanks!

It comes as no surprise that the flatpak version of freetube doesn’t like using an external player. I tried giving access to /usr/bin via flatseal, but alas.
Installing the real version it works though, but seemingly Fedora’s current version of yt-dlp doesn’t seem to cut it anymore. There is a newer version on yt-dlp’s github though, so getting that and overwriting the installed version in /usr/bin (don’t forget to make a backup, otherwise there’s sudo dnf reinstall yt-dlp) that does the trick.

The sponsorblock plugin is an excellent shout though, I hadn’t heard of that for MPV, then again, it’s rare for me to stream directly from youtube.
But wait, doesn’t yt-dlp already have sponsorblock support? I guess it’s better to get the whole stream and then do player based sponsorblock stuff.

block the shit out of people who you know are problems

I moved from Digg to Reddit over ten years ago. I was on Lemmy for a while more recently and then Digg rose from the ashes a couple months ago, but I’m realizing I like Lemmy/Piefed much more.

New Digg is supposedly going to use AI for moderation, so why would anyone want to move back there?
And I’m in the same boat, originally fled from Digg to Reddit. I still remember how much I hated how Reddit looked compared to Digg, which is funny, because even though I no longer have an account on Reddit, I still browse certain subreddits there from time to time and I will just not let go of the old.reddit.com layout now.

I used to feel dread when I logged into reddit and saw that someone had replied to something I wrote. I no longer have an account there, and I even went for the nuclear option of overwriting all my old messages,

For me personally it helps that I’m on a dedicated instance for Danes, so that’s kind of like a safe haven, or like a kiddie pool where it was easier to get to know lemmy at first.

I no longer dread when someone replies because most of the people here on lemmy aren’t assholes. I think it’s because there’s this barrier to entry which filters out a lot of people, or maybe it’s that the assholes are looking for fights to begin with and is therefore attracted to the biggest platforms?

If you wanna check it out: https://www.youtube.com/@Gaming_USA/videos
And if you want one with Mrs. McCarthy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbrM6cFraKo
I feel bad for him, it’s hard not for the comments to be political - he didn’t choose this life for himself.

My atheist ass didn’t account for religion, but I think they would’ve found a way to excuse slavery and exploitation either way.