Essential cookies only and with GPC header.

I block system update immediately when I heard this. Though I could use Shizuku, who knows when they will block loop back ADB. And the recent CVE-2026-43499 exploits are another reason to keep me holding my kernel version. BTW, I now have 0 app are my phone that receives update from Google Play or those OEMs stores now. Some still use APKPure over Obtainium or Aurora Store, but most are FOSS.

-vbr 0 means CBR (constant bitrate), 1 means normal VBR (variable bitrate), 2 means constrained VBR, and 1 is the default for most build I think.

-ac is audio channel. 1 is mono, 2 is stereo, 6/8 are 5.1/7.1 surround, so I think I'll keep it unspecified since some movies or Dolby Atmos things use >2 channels.

Thanks for your recommendation.

Regarding lossless encoding, I find flac much smaller than wav, another lossless format, while lossless AV1 is quite huge in size when converting from H264/H265.

~/a $ du -sh *
10308   file_example_WAV_10MG.wav
2924    file_example_WAV_10MG_ffmpeg_flac.flac
2016    file_example_WAV_10MG_ffmpeg_opus_256k.opus
~/a $ declare -f ffmpeg_flac ffmpeg_opus
ffmpeg_flac ()
{
    if [ "$#" -eq 0 ]; then
        return;
    fi;
    ffmpeg -i "$1" -c:a flac "${2:-"$(echo "$1" | remove_extension)_ffmpeg_flac.flac"}"
}
ffmpeg_opus ()
{
    if [ "$#" -lt 2 ]; then
        return;
    fi;
    ffmpeg -i "$2" -c:a libopus -vbr:a 1 -ac 2 -b:a "$1" "${3:-"$(echo "$2" | remove_extension)_ffmpeg_opus_$1.opus"}"
}

Ι stick with KDE Plasma after trying GNOME, KDE, and Cinnamon. In GNOME, many settings are not available in GUI (I don't remember which they are now), while they are available in KDE. And back when I used Cinnamon it didn't support Wayland while some of my apps (especially Waydroid) needs Wayland. But I mostly use CLI for daily tasks for automation and easier copy-pasting forum answers, asking LLM, and sharing to GitHub, so I may not be a representative DE user.

If containers, VMs, and dual-boot are banned in the workspace I kinda feel the fear of things not work is legit. When I'm forced to code on a Windows computer without WSL at university's Programming course in electrical engineering department. Everything I'm used to, bash, cat, cd, ls, nvim, sed, grep, ..., simply don't exist. And I end up find it easier to code in the small text box of the site they provide than any of the slow, non-Vim mode, IDEs.

I am a Ubuntu to user now. However, I find myself reading Arch wiki far more and a bit Debian's but barely Ubuntu's. But I agree that Ubuntu is the industry standard and it's acceptable to distribute a deb and test it on Ubuntu LTS and call it a day. Other distros can simply dig into it and make it work. Containers and sandboxes are great, but I hate the concept to only distribute things that way. Snap Flatpak LXC Incus Docker Podman etc. stuff don't work on some restricted/weird environment.

Communism

I'm a CLI enjoyer. It's easier for me to define what I often do as a bash function than to remember which button to click in a GUI app. It's easier for me to copy paste a StackOverflow answer than to zoom the screenshot only to find out that the UI has changed. And I'm too lazy to move my mouse when I can do it with a Neovim keymap.

Every time seeing this kind of news, I thank redlib.catsarch.com.

VPN is a shifting of trust from your ISP to your VPN provider. If you already trust your ISP, you don't need a VPN (except for accessing content that can only be accessed from another country). BTW, I think that Mullvad, Windscribe, and AirVPN are probably some good options if for privacy and security.

I sometimes also look like LLM when writing in English since it's my second language.

Installing Linux is just so easy while it genuinely took me a long while to (re)install Windows alongside Linux cuz the driver they provide is an exe and the install process wants some format else, and I ended up found a Github repo that provides decompressed driver files.

ISO-8601 or RFC-3339 is the way. It's not about which is better, but about that it would be confusing to use MMDDYYYY or DDMMYYYY since the other exists.

And keyd to remap it on Linux, e.g., f23+leftshift+leftmeta=rightcontrol

I use Neovim with this config https://github.com/Willie169/nvim-config