My stance on the ethics of piracy is - the procurement of something is based on what is a fair value.

I think what you’re describing is a transactional dynamic, rather than an ethical one:

If you are hungry and someone has infinite loaves of bread, but they are charging £100 per loaf, you can choose not to buy one from them. But is it ethical that they are charging £100 for them? In this case, I would argue that the morally right thing to do would be for the seller to accept what you can afford, and for you to offer what is fair.

Artificial scarcity and extortion are two sides of the same coin IMO.

Crazy - it hasn’t happened again since my original post, until literally just now. I come on Lemmy to look for the thread and remind myself how to fix it, and here is your comment!

I’ll have a look, thanks :) How is it less secure?

Very interesting question.

I don’t really know any Muslim doctrine but I think you could make the argument from first principles that if the ‘owner’ of the original work is not deprived of it then it doesn’t qualify as theft.

Also, does Islam have a concept of all things ultimately belonging to god? In which case they cannot really be stolen in a strict sense.

This has proven to be the one 👍

Man, I would love to do some cycle touring…

I don’t have any experience with open bike computers but I did set up a very old Fairphone 2 running Fairphone Open and the OsmAnd app for this. In airplane mode and only GPS for location the battery life was incredible, even without making use of spares. And you can of course import & export gpx tracks freely in OsmAnd, which is basically the best app ever.

A totally viable solution.

That’s really funny - I’m definitely running a Shadow IT Operation at my workplace! My attitude is that as long as my output is interoperable with the software and systems that my colleagues are using I should be free to work however I like.

There’s no IT department as such - it’s a small business. My boss had everything set up by a guy who moved away and if there’s a problem these days he gets people from the local computer shop to come over! All the other machines here are running Windows.

It would also instantly make it impossible to find for everyone who knows it as GIMP, and mean that users of the new version wouldn’t see any of the huge amount of existing tutorials for it.

The word only really has two meanings in one country anyway (the US).

Yeah, it could have been something similar for me. I moved a lot of dotfiles over when I switched from Fedora to Debian. I don’t remember bringing this one with me but it could have happened.

Boom, looks like it’s sorted, thanks! I didn’t have a ~/.local/state/pipewire/media-session.d/ directory, but I deleted ~/.local/state/wireplumber/ and then rebooted and all was well again 🤸

Any idea what might have caused the problem in the first place?

MPV is no longer responding to my keyboard shortcuts for media controls (play/pause etc). Not a biggie but understanding the issue might help me solve that too.

No luck so far. When I use ‘groups username’ in the terminal to compare the groups of both users they are exactly the same. Interestingly neither show ‘audio’ or ‘video’ as a group that they’re in - both users are only in ‘username’ and ‘users’. Yet both are able to play video, and only one gets audio along with it… The behaviour is the same from a cold boot with only one user logged in as it is when there are two users logged in.

I got into free and open source software to help preserve my privacy, so I’m pretty ambivalent about a FOSS surveillance platform.

prompts every time you try to send or receive an explicit image on a messaging app

Does this mean they caved in to the UK’s client-side scanning stuff after all?

I have some nostalgia about my original experience playing Minecraft but these days I would just play VoxeLibre in Luanti

Ok, so am I understanding correctly that for example the .py can be anywhere, as long as it is run from a suitable venv folder and the path to it is defined in the command?

Good question. I’m quite familiar with the terminal, but I still get confused by things in it that I’m not familiar with, if that makes sense!

Thanks for the help! For some reason tab autocompletion doesn’t work for me but that’s an issue for another day…

put the .py file in the right place to run inside the venv

This could be where I’ve been getting lost. How do I figure out what the right place is?

Great choice. And if you do ever find yourself in a hurry for the latest version of something, there is flatpak and appimage.

It is a wonderful time to be a Linux user.