correct, saw feb 4th and went berserk. maybe take the post down?

it’s known that google doesn’t want you to use email, they want you to use gmail. same as how all those fucks co-opt standard protocols (XMPP, ActivityPub, etc.) and then defederate it and make it their own walled, proprietary thing.

I ran a slew of geo-dispersed mail servers for a decade+; not really spam as it’s willing recipients but essentially not that far from it, either. also fully compliant, experimenting with voodoo-adjacent tips for improving deliverability (none of them work). so glad to be out of that racket.

anyhoo, you can utilise mailchimp/sendinblue/etc as they have a direct pipe into gmail/outlook infra and are not subject to any of those harassment tactics, which is basically payola. the prices last time I was involved with checking things weren’t that much better (worse in fact, if you add the costs of running all that shit) than transferring everything to gmail and friends, which is their ultimate goal.

don’t know what “slow” means in your case, but jellyfin clients have a buffer setting and increasing it should improve things for them.

maybe open with what this is, first time I heard of it. to anyone similarly clueless, that’s a proxy for other people to use that can’t get at Signal’s servers because it’s blocked in their country or sumsuch.

in nginx you set up a proxy, like mysignalproxy.net:80 gets proxy_pass to your internal network’s 172.16.12.34:980 and the same for 443

the simplest config is thus:

server {
    listen 80 http;

    server_name mysignalproxy.net;

    proxy_pass http://172.16.12.34:980/;

    proxy_pass_request_headers on;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    etc

I haven’t kept up with that clown but if that’s a reference to the time he attempted to switch, that was a top-gear-like slapstick show, consisting of making wrong turns at every fork and having outliers galore in the form of some hardware he and one other dude on the entire planet got. that show of his is infotainment, as in not a reliable source of information.

you go with the beginner-friendliest distro, with the widest distribution which is ubuntu. that ain’t the distro I’m running, but it’s something you need to go through to figure out how this shit runs. after you’ve been around the block a time or two and you start bumping your head at the ceiling, you’ll have enough experience to switch to something better.

thanks, this looks good, gonna try it out with my next build

first time I heard of this, thanks. so running it thusly it’s no different than a copr or apt repo?

can someone who runs arch btw on weak hardware, like dual-core U-series i5 and such, tell me how they’re handling AUR and friends? every time I bring that up I get downvotes as if I’m some MICROS~1 agent paid to besmirch arch btw’s good name and whatnot…

the idea that I hafta build and compile shit on a puny dual-core in 2026 is fucking ludicrous to me, never mind the bloat and cruft from all the build tools and deps for every possible stack. so what obvious solution am I missing? like, how do you handle a full system upgrade, say you got like ten things from AUR in addition to regular packages, what does that look like?

you’re nowhere close to RAM exhaustion. I had similar mishaps on an all-AMD system a few gens back and it manifested itself as micro-stutters that occasionally grew to such manifestations. I think I remember it was fixed via a combination of kernel switches and progressively better performance as new versions of kernel and modules/drivers progressed.

no idea what KDE Neon is based on (Ubuntu LTS?), but I’m guessing you rock pretty old kernels and relatively modern hardware, which is a pain. also you don’t need a swapfile, use zram. or just switch to fedora or sumsuch that takes care of all them things for you.

you did what? I mean, dude, give with the pictures, wtf!

this is a problemXY type of deal. leave the work PC alone. metrolist on android has everything you mentioned, allows download so it’s even available offline, etc.

was about to add this. kinda sad that I had to give up my searxng instance because I can’t get ublacklist to work on it (works on some public instances)

I use it reluctantly and only to un-fuck the fucked up search. if there were a good search engine I wouldn’t use the thing.

brah, it is not a flatpak issue, the same happens with the portable version i.e. the one you’d get via deb/rpm/whatevers. it doesn’t accelerate video under wayland but does with xwayland; If you got a commensurate rant towards wayland, ixnay please.

as to why flatpak at all, I like my system stuff and my application stuff separate. thus my apps are all flatpak and autoupdated via systemd timer (another rant?) whereas my system stuff get updated like once a month or so as I hate rebooting.

I’m sure you found by now that your use case doesn’t match everybody else’s, so chill with the absolutes a bit.

if you’d read the thread you’d see it’s not a flatpak issue. also if you spell it correctly maybe people would take you seriously.

yeah, that jives with what I got here. wayland - no HW accel, xwayland - HW accel. so I guess that’s it, for the time being…

cool beans. can you confirm your flatpak settings, are they for X or wayland? if you run freetube and run xlsclients in terminal, does it return empty? and if freetube runs in wayland, does it say 0% in media when you playback?

check if you have runaway processes: ps aux | grep -i freetube then kill them if they’re there. also flatpak settings, here are mine:

works with portable, media percentage is non-zero (dependent on resolution) but only with X11/Xwayland. running it with wayland switches works but nets a 0% in media.

doesn’t work at all with Appimage; won’t start with wayland switches. without them starts but media at 0%.

works with flatpak, media is non-zero, under Xwayland. for some reason now won’t start under wayland at all, possibly something I fucked up experimenting. works under wayland but zero media use.