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  • tabular@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 months ago

    As long as you follow the GPL license you can redistribute it, for free or at cost. Linux is mostly free as in freedom and usually free as in free beer.

    Wikipedia says ElementaryOS has a pay what you want model. So if your image is from them then you don’t have to pay (a 3rd party is free to charge you for it - bandwidth ain’t free).





  • tabular@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlFedora OBS Drama Resolved
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    3 months ago

    Has a software update ever changed something in a way you dislike? When it’s proprietary software your choices are to:

    • tolerate the anti-feature
    • downgrade and keep using an older version instead (if feasible also has demerits)
    • hope someone reverse engineers a work-around
    • stop using the software

    When the software is free (libre) then a communities can change it (e.g. removing an anti-feature) via the source code.

    Sadly it’s not enough to simply “then don’t use it” - proprietary software proliferates society (interacting socially, with the government, with banks, etc). Since it’s better to be in control of your own computing anyway then might as well promote the values of software freedom.











  • tabular@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlMint 22 external speaker static
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    5 months ago

    When I had static on headphones on Mint (20, maybe 21) then killing PulseAudio would prevent it happening again for a variable amount of time (minutes or weeks). I hope someone suggests something better but that might be worth trying that next time it happens: pulseaudio -k. [edit: tried that just now and had to re-select my headphones as an output device]

    I’ve not had to do that for a long time and I don’t know what has changed (fairly sure it had stopped happening before I got new headphones). PluseAudio isn’t even installed on my Mint MSI B450 machine, I assume it didn’t install during boot. I guess my static issues are are hardware related: something causing inference.