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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

Debian. Huge repository, no bullshit, and basically any software for Linux is packaged/compatible with it.

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 backend should be the same (Freetype)… only difference I can think of is that GNOME uses Wayland by default while KDE defaults to X11 and offers Wayland as an option. Do you have a HiDPI screen?

piracy is not that deep… the OS doesn't really matter in this case as what you're concerned about is the ISP, not anything in your own PC. if you don't have a VPN, your ISP could send letters bugging you for downloading stuff. you'd probably have to get dozens of letters before the ISP would cancel your service.

just get a VPN for $5/month and you don't have to worry about it.

I would highly recommend using a Wine manager program such as PlayOnLinux. You can have each program in its own virtual drive and can use different wine versions and tweaks for each program. It'll manage the wine versions in the app so you don't have to install it systemwide.

Also check out https://appdb.winehq.org and https://protondb.com for compatibility, tweaks, etc. for each program.

hmm, not sure… i've heard it referred to as "wined3d"? when i had a non-vulkan card it usually wouldn't try to run vulkan so i didn't have to mess with it. what result does disabling dxvk have?

in steam you can put PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 in the launch options, but this doesn't help for non-steam games

Yes, directx to opengl (included in WINE) was used exclusively for a very long time before dxvk and vk-d3d came out just a few years ago. for older games you should be good to go, before i had a vulkan-capable card i ran all kinds of older games, usually without having to tweak anything. in a few games i had to change a game setting to use D3D9 instead of 11.

but rather than just cranking up the exposure or brightness, it seems to do the equivalent of bringing the detail from shadows in Photoshop.

Maybe the levels slider? If you place the black point pointer further to the left shoulder of the curve, the shadows won't be as dark.

I use XSane for scanning photos and I get good results. It has plenty of options and auto-names files like you said. I'm not sure what Descreening and Backlight Correction are for, though.

I could understand requiring an account with Jitsi itself, but needing that account to be Facebook, Google, or MS seems to be at odds with the type of person who would use an encrypted video chat in the first place.