Danke :-)

Which indexer is that if I may ask (for a friend)? 😁

German content is mostly on Sharehosters or One-Click-Hosters or whatever you call them. I really don’t know why because they are expensive and worse than the other options. I know BitTorrent is not popular in Germany because of the law but the Usenet could be the better option if it was more popular.

It’s the amount of legacy it’s carrying on that drives me crazy. Many of the implicit default implementations are confusing. That’s where all these “rule of 3”, “rule of 7”, “rule of whatever” come from. The way arguments are passed into functions is another issue. From the call-side you (sometimes) cannot tell if you’ll end up with a moved value or a dangling reference. The compiler will not stop you from using it. Even if the compiler has something to tell you, it’ll do it on the most cryptic way possible. I’m grateful we have C++, it paid lots of my bills. But it’s also a pain in the ass.

[ is a binary (sometimes a symlink) in /usr/bin. It’s /usr/bin/[ 🤓

Diablo 3. Not the one Blizzard released.

Which of the two parties you have to choose from in the US would actually change that?

That sounds more like breaking up.

tl;dr Language evolution and future outlook are big factors besides the existing language features themselves.

I guess Rust has attracted many C++ devs because C++ is painful and there were no other/better options. Rust comes with a build/dependency management system and memory safety guarantees on top of the type safety. Even though C++ templates are still unmatched, I prefer Rust 95% of the time. C++ is evolving very slow and it’s extremely hard to participate. Rust will win that race eventually.

Python has been around since 1991(!) and it took a looong time to build the community. It was a niche like Nim is now for many years.

I’ll definitely keep an eye on Nim because it has the potential to become quite popular.

Again, that’s all just my opinion.

I have to disagree with your “when use what” list. Python has production ready web backend frameworks, Rust is perfectly fine for complex and high-level software, and PHP is mostly obsolete. That’s my humble opinion though. I looked into Nim and like many of the concepts. It’s quite complex and I prefer Rust most of the time when Nim would be an option. I’d argue it’s some kind of “jack of all trades”. A bit like python but compiled, ref-counted, and probably a lot faster. It’s lacking the huge community python has though.

Sorry for the double response… I got an error the first time I hit Submit.

My favorite feature of good old reddit (rip)! Makes me feel right at home.

This is the way! There’s a catch with swap files on encrypted disks and hibernation but that’s quite a special case. Edit: forgot to mention zswap, the compressed version of swap.

The “exclusive content war” already started with podcasts. Wait a few years and let’s say Miley Cyrus will sign an exclusive contract with Apple Music and there you have it.

Revanced MicroG to be specific. MicroG is the free reimplementation of some if the Google APIs.

Apple Music is different because it uses ALAC not FLAC which actually sounds better, definitely a must-have service.

That’s only because Apple marketing makes you believe this. They are both lossless, up to 32 bits/sample and very high sample rates (FLAC allows even higher ones than ALAC afaik). The only “advantage” of ALAC is Apple ecosystem compatibility but that’s only for them to lock you in and make it harder for you to migrate.

It could sound better if they - for whatever reason - had access to better recordings, but that still doesn’t have anything to do with the codec.

Oh, I just saw Spotify in the list and assumed there’s a patch to remove the ads. Sorry for the noise then.

Are the ReVanced mods obfuscated or what’s the problem here? Everything is open source on GitHub.

Haven’t tried it myself but I think ReVanced Manager also supports Spotify.

Too bad. But thanks!

Does that forum/indexer also have spanish content? German seems to be rare also. But that’s for both Usenet and BitTorrent.

No, but you can buy blocks (eg. 200GB) instead of time based subscription if you’re planning to download small amounts occasionally. There are good deals multiple times a year and they (usually) don’t expire.

I’m in one of the counties where it’s impossible without a VPN because there’s a big industry making money by suing people for copyright violations. But you’re right, in many countries nobody really cares.

Is torrenting really free though? VPNs and seedboxes are not and torrenting without any of those is a bad idea in many countries. Usenet is quite cheap. I use both but I prefer the usenet tbh.