If I want to install and use a different desktop environment than came with my distro, what (if any) problems can I expect to encounter?

I’m not knowledgeable about kernel tweaks, but switching DEs is very easy on Debian and should not cause any problems. Just install the desktop metapackage (e.g., “task-kde-desktop”) and you’ll be able to choose it from the login screen.

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It’s not CentOS 3, it’s CentOS with Linux kernel 3.10 (a 2014 kernel). This was supported in RHEL/CentOS through 2017.

Still very dated and a bad idea, of course. And even weirder that it’s on a new machine. I’ve seen tons of stores using Win7 past it’s EOL, but on older hardware.

You can just use MKVToolNix to add the second track to the MKV file after rendering, it’s still another step but doesn’t require re-encoding.

If you’re just trying to multiplex tracks and not actually edit the video, I’d recommend doing it entirely with MKVToolNix and skipping Kdenlive for this use. I’ve done this previously to combine a subbed video and a dubbed one into one file, you can offset or stretch the audio if needed as well.

I like Blade Runner, I like Michelle Yeoh, I have very little faith in Amazon’s production… we’ll see

What is it good for?

Soulseek is good. It’s a peer-to-peer sharing service, so you can just choose who to download from rather than waiting in a queue. You can find things in FLAC if you want it, or in various lossy qualities.

Were you watching 4K77 and 4K83 with Digital Noise Reduction? The movies are distributed in two versions, one with film grain and the other with DNR.

it’s an extension, right? i would assume it would go away if you uncheck this option in Firefox settings:

i’ve had this unchecked so i haven’t seen it pop up in my use

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Is it just me or does it seem a bit out-of-touch to brag that last year’s $1100 phone is still usable? You would sure hope it wasn’t made obsolete that quickly

AFAIK, the port on your router is irrelevant as the VPN bypasses it. I’m not familiar with ProtonVPN, but with PIA you can get a forwarded port in the VPN app and specify that port in your P2P application. I use that method for Soulseek, but my qBittorrent works correctly in both directions without doing anything special.

The market in smartphones should be expected to decline, and that’s a good thing. People keeping old phones for longer = less e-waste, but they have to introduce a new, fragile gimmick for profits

looks like a new 4tb HDD only costs $40 nowadays so it’d be pretty cost-effective to use RAID 1

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i understand that our level of activity tends to overwhelm smaller instances, but what others call “brigading” is literally just us clicking on what’s on the front page.

There are “boomer” forums I know of where they also generally deny AI is possible anytime soon, claim GPT-n is a stochastic parrot, and make fun of tech bros as being hypesters who collect 300k to edit javascript and drive Teslas*.

i hate rationalists too but this is literally a correct take

Soulseek is the way to go for music, way quicker and easier to find shit than torrents