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Daniel Quinn via Linux

2 months ago

Daniel Quinn
2 months ago

Can you configure tmux to use "normal" modifier keys?

I find the whole "Ctrl+b followed by another key" way of navigating tmux to be too cumbersome to warrant a switch away from something like Tilix where I can hit Ctrl+Alt+| and the screen splits vertically, or Alt+Left to switch to the terminal on the left. I think it's the mandatory release of all keys followed by more keys that does it.

Is there a way to tell tmux to understand that "Alt+Left means switch to the terminal on the left" and bypass the whole Ctrl+b song and dance altogether?

Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

Tilix is an advanced GTK3 tiling terminal for Linux based on the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (HIG).

^{gnunn1.github.io}

in reply to Daniel Quinn

whaleross

in reply to Daniel Quinn 2 months ago

Imagine doing a search instead of asking others to solve it for you.

in reply to whaleross

Daniel Quinn

in reply to whaleross 2 months ago

There's no need to get snarky. I did in fact do multiple searches, but as you might note from the question, this is a hard thing to search for. The GitHub wiki has this page which looks promising, save for the disclaimer at the top claiming that it's no longer relevant due to something called extended-keys, but searching the same wiki for that returns nothing. Similarly, a web search for it returned a bunch of news sites talking about how tmux does extended-keys now, but none of the ones I found explained what this was, how to use it, or even if it was relevant to my question.

Modifier Keys

tmux source code. Contribute to tmux/tmux development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

in reply to Daniel Quinn

whaleross

in reply to Daniel Quinn 2 months ago

superuser.com/questions/238545…

The first hit in my first search. Amazing.

Binding a command in tmux without using the prefix key

Is it possible to bind a tmux command to a key combination and use it directly without first pressing the prefix? I find C-b + n too cumbersome to switch panes, so I was wondering whether I could ...

^{Super User}

in reply to whaleross

tetris11

in reply to whaleross 2 months ago

It does stimulate discussion, and as someone who has passively thought about this problem in tmux, but not actively tried to fix it, OP has enriched my life with their post.

The snark really isn't that warranted

in reply to tetris11

whaleross

in reply to tetris11 2 months ago

I told op they could solve this problem themselves in the same time they asked others to do it for them, which my follow up prove they could. OP gave no indication or information of making any attempts to find information or solve it themselves or why they would have hardships doing so, only a complaint that software A doesn't function like software B. I'm glad to help when someone is struggling, but at least try something yourself first.

Yeah, frankly, I'm so tried of people doing exactly this when information on the topic is plentiful at the bare minimum of effort. I think it is plain laziness and from the time of forums and news groups it was considered arrogance to expect others to donate time for your non issues.

But I'm glad you are stimulated.

Btw, how do I make a bechamel? How do I convert between Celsius and Fahrenheit? Is this an excellent use case for ChatGPT if I can't be arsed to use search engines?

in reply to whaleross

tetris11

in reply to whaleross 2 months ago

I agree, you could ask a search engine which is gamed to give you the most promoted result instead of the bestt one, or you could indeed ask an AI which is trained to give you an aesthetically pleasing answer that may or may not be without substance....

More simply, you could just reach out to the wider community and get a reasonably up-to-date answer with an easy back and forth from others in the same situation without any worry about nefarious incentives.

I guess it depends on how you measure what a good and trustworthy answer is.

in reply to tetris11

whaleross

in reply to tetris11 2 months ago

Following your speculative reasoning - sure, until this forum too much like any other before it becomes swamped with non questions like this and becomes heavily moderated by necessity and users like yourself are upset that moderators are not doing their non paid volunteer work and then for doing it.

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TheTwelveYearOld via Linux

2 months ago

TheTwelveYearOld
2 months ago

App launchers with interactive extensions like Alfred & Raycast?

I did some searching and many users recommend Rofi but looking at man rofi-script it seems to just be a list picker. You pick something from the a list and only one thing runs. On Alfred and Raycast you can have interactive extensions which are essentially keyboard navigable UIs.

One example looking at the Alfred workflow gallery is Reddit Browser, where you select a subreddit from a list and then it shows of lists of posts, you can press cmd enter to go back & select another subreddit.
Another one lets you ask questions for chatgpt and shows answers right in the launcher (I'm not necessarily looking for AI extensions).
This Raycast extension lets you search and create Notion pages.

ChatGPT / DALL-E - Alfred Workflow

OpenAI integrations. By Alfred Team.

^{Alfred Gallery}

in reply to Byter

TheTwelveYearOld

in reply to Byter 2 months ago

I've done lots of searching and Reddit comments about what makes Emacs so appealing. I think Emacs users like the specific ecosystem and things it offers and they put in the work to tailor it for them. Consistently is one thing I hear. Tell me ur thoughts.

I don't find anything appealing about it over Neovim + TUIs and keyboard navigation in GUI apps, including hints: github.com/AlfredoSequeida/hin…

GitHub - AlfredoSequeida/hints: Hints lets you navigate GUI applications in Linux without your mouse by displaying "hints" you can type on your keyboard to interact with GUI elements.

Hints lets you navigate GUI applications in Linux without your mouse by displaying "hints" you can type on your keyboard to interact with GUI elements. - AlfredoSequeida/hints

^GitHub

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in reply to TheTwelveYearOld

Byter

in reply to TheTwelveYearOld 2 months ago

Well, I started using Emacs because I was feeling limited by my Vim+Tmux-based workflow. Like you've heard from others, what convinced me was the consistency in interface, and the composability that enables.

Everything is a text buffer. When the text is drawn to screen, it might be resized, colored, hidden, replaced with images, etc, but it's all still just text. Because of that consistency of medium, all your interactions boil down to manipulations of that text.

What's important isn't the verbatim text, but what the text represents. It could be code (symbol, function, library, in any language, literately), prose (word, sentence, paragraph, or whole book), , a button, a list, a foldable outline, a process, a container, a , a typo, a secret, a , a pull request, the string you're looking for, a definition, a chat message, an RSS feed/item, a web page, etc...

Each of those has a mode (or modes) that makes interacting with those objects in a semantically meaningful way both efficient and composable (to varying degrees).

That's why Emacs devotees try to do everything in Emacs. Leaving Emacs means leaving that consistency and semantic expressiveness behind. In a CLI shell, yes everything is text, but it's comparatively raw. The best you can do is define variables and color. TUIs bridge the semantic-meaning gap, but aren't composable with each other. (Same with GUIs, but because of administering remote systems I avoided them when possible.) You can't add functionality to htop without recompiling the whole thing. You can't pipe ncdu's results to rsync. Emacs is a live Lisp machine. You can redefine (or advise) any function on a whim, without restarting.

That's not even getting into how everything you do to improve interacting with text improves your experience with all those text-encoded objects. Completions can be filtered and ranked by different algorithms, lines can be "narrowed" to, it has an interactive regex builder, you can autofill with simple, intelligent predictions (like, what's under your cursor, or a prefix-matching word up-buffer), you can deeply integrate LLMs, reflow and pretty print, follow externally-edited files, transparently access remote resources...

I don't know. Obviously it's not for everyone, but using Emacs makes me feel liberated; in control of my software. I love it.

Wordsmithing in Emacs

Emacs has long had a competent spell checker, and it's capable of distinguishing code from prose, which is useful to many. But Emacs 28 adds a compelling dictionary lookup feature that warrants a much closer look.

^{Mickey Petersen (Mastering Emacs)}

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Meldrik via Fediverse

2 months ago

Meldrik
2 months ago

The Channel Directory - Discover new content!

cross-posted from: lemmy.wtf/post/15810205

This directory contains known content creators and their channels in the PeerTube vidiverse. The directory is a work-in-progress and everyone is welcome to suggest content creators.
::: spoiler Activism
- Kate Making Waves - My name is Kate Hildenbrand. I'm a marine ecologist and conservationist. My goal is to create a space where normal humans can learn about this beautiful blue planet, to understand and see the beauty of the ocean, and to feel like they can make a difference. It's not too late to affect change. We need to demand change now, to scream for it until governments, industry, and lobbies are forced to listen.
- subMedia - sub.Media is a small collective of anarchist filmmakers based on the colonially occupied territories of the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee, in so-called Canada.
:::
::: spoiler Animals
- Dermaleon - Bird watching
:::
::: spoiler Art
- Krita - The official Krita peertube channel!
- Coreyartus Imagery's Art - This channel is a repository of the speed paints and livestreams of Corey Johnston, the artist behind Coreyartus Imagery.
- Hegeezias | Art - Here you can watch a person make abstract art using traditional mediums.
- Photography with Ewen Bell - Welcome to my PeerTube account and home to my photography videos. I'll have a little bit of gear on here, but mostly I want to talk about creativity and the creative process for photography.
- Blender Studio - This is the official Blender Studio channel on Peertube.
- Anditosan - All things Open Source design!
- Operation: Puppet - The official Operation: Puppet Peertube Channel! Puppetry, puppet building, and The Oracle show!
- Graphic Artwork - Mostly time lapse videos of artworks I've made, sometimes a few animated works. At this point I'm mostly just uploading some of my YT backlog.
:::
::: spoiler Comedy
- The Schuman Show - The Schuman Show uses comedy to make EU affairs more understandable for a global audience.
:::
::: spoiler Education
- Learn Together - I love learning new programming languages and tech. Learn with me! Often I get lost in tutorials because they go too fast or assume I know something. With me, I usually know very little so we'll be in it together!
- Indie Creator Hub - Welcome to Indie Creator Hub! Are you a content creator or live streamer looking for a community that shares your passion for alternative platforms? You've come to the right place! Here at Indie Creator Hub, we focus on fostering a supportive and engaging environment where creators like you can thrive. Join us to exchange ideas, collaborate on projects, and find the resources you need to succeed. Let's create and grow together!
:::
::: spoiler Entertainment
- ASMR of the Fediverse - CC licensed ASMR videos.
- Mr. Funk E. Dude's Place.
- Hotel Breakfast Review
:::
::: spoiler Films
- Digital Digest 4K+ Trailers & Clips - Watch the latest 4K trailers and clips. - A place to put whatever's on my mind at the time.
- ClassX - Preserving the best Classic Movies, copyright-free and of the highest quality, since 1915!
- Public domain films - Feddit.uk Admin @emperor@feddit.uk, I'm using this account to host public domain films. I can't be comprehensive so it is going to be a curated list of films I like or are intriguing for some reason (I'll try and explain in the description).
:::
::: spoiler Food
- Zalasur: Food and Cooking - Game playthroughs with no commentary.
:::
::: spoiler Gaming
- Boiling Steam - We talk about PC Gaming on Linux!
- Solarus - Solarus is a free and open-source 2D game engine.
- Start Gametrailers - Trailers and teasers of upcoming games.
- Open Source_Gaming - I'll play Opensource Games here every week and play/spectate tournaments as well!
- Gardiner Bryant - Gardiner Bryant (formerly The Linux Gamer) talks about Linux, gaming, and everything in between!
- Guild Wars 2 - An unofficial mirror of the official Guild Wars 2 channel on YouTube.
- Space Quest Historian - Hi, I'm the Space Quest Historian! I make videos predominantly about adventure games and narrative-driven games.
- marco_rennmaus Gaming
- Vitekc45c - Game playthroughs with no commentary.
- Blender Dumbass
- Gamercast - The official Gamercast PeerTube channel. Our videos range from unboxings of collector's editions, reviews, pickups, competitions and more.
- FinnVT Online - Playing games through the digital gates of hell.
- Beko Motion - My occasional videos usually resolve around HEMA (Historical European Martial Art), LinuxGaming / GamingOnLinux and SimPit projects.
- Linux (vs Windows) Benchmarks - A channel dedicated to Linux benchmarks and comparing games on Linux vs Windows.
- lyn1337 - Mostly does videos and live streams about World of Warcraft.
- The R-Man - My name is The R-Man, or simply Roman, a VTuber from another dimension and I try to find a way to go back to my Original-Dimension. Until then, I'll stream on Twitch and sometimes upload highlights (or something else too) on here.
- Nico's Arcade - Couch gaming with 80s spirit!
- MyNamesTee
- mezzo On Demand - Stream recordings from video.mezzo.moe.
- AshenWolf - Hi, I'm Ash! Nice to meet you all! I'll be releasing most if not all content here. I like Fire Emblem, so there will be a good amount of that , but I might also make content related to politics, history, and music!
- First 2 Hours - Ever bought games during Steam sales that just sit in your library? Join me as I randomly select and play games from my Steam collection for 2 hours each! No preparation, just pure genuine reactions and gameplay exploration.
- Triple Iris - Dedicated to Indie Games and Indie Game Accessories!
- NorthWestWind - I code stuff. I draw stuff. Hongkonger, Splatoon 3 ☂ main, vector artist, Minecraft modder. Streaming every day here as well as on Twitch!
:::
::: spoiler How To
- Privacy Guides
- Trafotin - I hate technology, but love to fix it.
- TheGiddyStitcher - On this channel you'll find project vlogs, tutorials and experiments in everything from fiber crafts to 3d printing, and your new biggest supporter in all your crafting goals.
- Nick's Workshop - How-to's by graphic designer Nick Saporito about Inkscape and Gimp, the Open-Source vector graphics editor and raster graphics editor for Linux, Windows and Mac.
- Roots & Calluses - Learning how to live in balance with nature. Growing our own food, foraging for edible herbs and mushrooms, preserving food for winter--essentially homesteading in an apartment and a garden. Currently, I am restoring abandoned land to create an urban homestead of sorts.
:::
::: spoiler Kids
- ...
:::
::: spoiler Music
- AssortedTrance, Techno & Acid - Various mixes featuring Trance, techno & acid from the 90s to now.
- STREET SOUL - Hip-Hop Culture since 1994. Miracles Are Now Science.
- Fiddle Gika - Fiddle Player from Hamburg, Germany.
- Stephen Radnedge - Stephen Radnedge is a composer and an artist. His work is inspired by the nature of northern England.
- LilyBit – Music - Hi :) I’m Lily (she/they), a musician, artist and tech nerd. I mainly make 8-bit NES/FamiTracker arrangements of nostalgic game soundtracks from my childhood like DPPt, PMD2 and HGSS, but I also want to branch out a little more to music from other games and media, media other than 8-bit like game soundfonts, high-quality instruments and fully hand-played on my keyboard, as well as original music.
- Organ music from various centuries - You will find organ music from various centuries in this channel. My main organs are a one-manual Keller organ built in 1858 and a two-manual Bernhard organ built in 1911.
- Forgotten Tunes - This channel is about preserving and sharing forgotten music (mostly soundtracks), that is no longer available for purchase or streaming.
- Billykaren Beaufort - Hi! Thanks for listening to my #music 💕! I love you ALL! 💕🤘🎤 ✊🇺🇸♾️ - I’m an MS-Fighter 🧡 (multiple sclerosis) and I have a cool cane! 🪄 - Music gives me self-worth and I enjoy the feedback I receive from those of you that enjoy some of my music. #MusicIsLife ~ #Billykaren
:::
::: spoiler News / Politics
- Surveillance Report - Weekly security and privacy news.
:::
::: spoiler People
- Russell Brand - On this channel my videos explore new ways to connect with ourselves and one another and how to elevate our consciousness.
- Lety Does Stuff - Hihi! I'm Lety! I do all sorts of stuff! This is my PeerTube account, where I post videos onto my PeerTube channels!
- Ashley
- Nerdy Keith - My name is Keith, l'm a video blogger from Dublin Ireland and I make videos about nerdy culture, human rights (including LGBTQ issues) and animal rights issues.
- Anubis2814 - I am a microbiologist and a former naval nuclear electrician. On this channel I discuss a wide range of topic, from religion, politics, science, skepticism, economics and labor, as wall are coping mechanism for Aspergers and tearing apart commonly held misunderstandings. Having been a former isolated home schooled young earth creationist Non-judgmental or non-pwning education is what my channel is about, while learning to find and block the trolls.
:::
::: spoiler Science / Technology
- The Linux Experiment - I'm Nick, and I like to tinker with Linux stuff.
- The New Oil - Practical privacy and simple cybersecurity for everyone.
- FUTO
- Geotechland - I make videos about foss, opensource technology, community funded projects, gaming, and everything linux.
- Linux Renaissance - Hi, I’m Darth! Welcome to my channel, where Free Software and Linux are front and center.
- VWestlife - Demonstrations, reviews, and tutorials about computers and electronics.
- Jan Beta - Hi I'm Jan. I repair/hack/make/destroy stuff on camera. Electronics, Repair, Tinkering, Retrocomputing, VintageAudio. As unprofessional as it gets.
- ctrl-alt-rees - I restore, repair, upgrade, modify and maintain all of retro computers and consoles in my collection myself and I'm keen to share not only the process but the end results.
- Flipboard Dot Social - Hosted by Flipboard co-founder and CEO Mike McCue, Dot Social is a new podcast and video series spotlighting leaders at the forefront of the open social web movement.
- The Linux Lugcast - We are an open Podcast/LUG that meets every first and third Friday of every month using mumble at 9pm EST. We encourage anyone listening to join us and participate on the podcast.
- root42 - I thinker with old hardware, homebrew hardware; I make Let's Code videos for teaching Oldskool demo effects and Assembly language.
- Fedora Project - An innovative platform for hardware, clouds, and containers, built with love by you.
- Eric the IT Guy - Fighting against the forces of burnout and poor work-life balance, The IT Guy stands for DevOps, Open Source, and an endless supply of energy!
- Veronica Explains - I'm Veronica! I love Linux, old computer hardware, and explaining things. Some folks call me the Linux Mom, and that works for me. I'm a former "legacy systems" sysadmin who's posting fun content about cool things you can do with Linux, as well as some fun retro tech stuff I come across!
- More Fun Making It - Join me as I fumble around the innards of 40-year-old tech. Relax, put your feet up and watch me build and fix stuff.
- Tech Savvy - Microsoft Windows know-how, tutorials and fixes from Tech Savvy Productions. Visit the Tech Savvy website at techsavvyproductions.com/*
- Simple DIY Electronic Music Projects - *You'll also find a few relatively simple videos to accompany my Simple DIY Electronic Music Projects blog that exist simply to demonstrate some of the projects and tutorials I talk about on my blog. For more about me and my blog, visit diyelectromusic.wordpress.com/…
- Independent Creator Podcast - *Exploring the world of alternative platforms and services for the independent creator. We take on the mission to find those nuggets of information many of us look for as we journey on our path to being truly independent creators.
:::
::: spoiler Sports
- 3MoreReps - Yoga & Fitness - Fitness, Yoga Trapeze, Stretching and Flexibility Workouts.
:::
::: spoiler Travels
- Sustainable Sailing - Dave and Jane's journey towards live aboard sustainable sailing on a 1977 Rival 38 Centre Cockpit Yacht.
- Big World small Sasha
- SV Seeker - I am the builder and owner of Sailing Vessel Seeker. We are the boat the Internet built. Hundreds of folks worldwide came to my front yard in Tulsa Oklahoma and helped. Dream Big, Work Hard, Stay Focused, and Surround Yourself with Good People. -- Doug Jackson, Cpt SV Seeker
- Stop us if you can(Original title: Stop nous si tu peux) - We would like to make you aware of alternative travel. Our principle? Travelling soberly, promoting meeting, exchanges and mutual assistance. Equipped with a backpack, cameras, and a dose of good humour, we bet on the benevolence to get housed, move and feed.
- hikingdude - Hiker, cyclist and landscape photographer, loving the beauty of nature and sharing the hiking experience with you!
- sarah.louise - Travel, art and other things... a jack of all trades
:::
::: spoiler Vehicles
- Transport Evolved - Welcome to Transport Evolved! Join us every day for content from Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield, Kate Walton-Elliott, Erin Carlie and Michael Horton as they explore and explain the world of cleaner, greener, safer, and smarter transport.
- Shifter - A channel about urban cycling, bike commuting and the ways we get around our cities with author, journalist and creator Tom Babin.
- Transit - Ever wondered why your city's transit just doesn't seem quite up to snuff? RMTransit is here to answer that, and help you open your eyes to all of the different public transportation systems around the world!
- Oh The Urbanity! - Oh The Urbanity! traverses cities by foot, bike, and public transit and aims to make informative and (hopefully) entertaining videos combining streetscapes and demographic data.
- Rally & Racing - Hi! I’m Harry and I’m one of the mods for the Gamer’s Tavern, but also have my own channel here where I create and stream mainly rallying and racing content. I don’t post new videos every few days like a YouTuber, I maybe post at best once every few weeks, at worst once a month. I won’t spam your feed with crappy shouty videos haha!
:::

About

Contacts: Fediverse | Mastodon | MakerTube | GitHub | Discord I’ve always been fascinated by technology and music and I love it when the two intersect. I am a particular fan of anyone w…

^{Simple DIY Electronic Music Projects}

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in reply to Meldrik

ozoned

in reply to Meldrik 2 months ago

Can I throw my channels in the mix?

Ozoned Games - games obviously - video.firesidefedi.live/c/game…

Ozoned Tech - tech obviously - video.firesidefedi.live/c/tech

Fireside Fedi - podcast with folks from around the Fediverse so I've been putting them under People - video.firesidefedi.live/c/show

Edit: formatting

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Karna via Linux

2 months ago

Karna
2 months ago

openSUSE’s Agama Installer Lands with Enhanced Web UI

openSUSE's new Agama installer v13 is here, bringing hostname configuration, LVM support, and more.

^{Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)}

in reply to Karna

20nat

in reply to Karna 2 months ago

I was considering switching from Windows to Linux but man, I don't know, if only they had one more installer... /s

Why people can't just use Calamares and stop reinventing the wheel?

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in reply to 20nat

Raptorox

in reply to 20nat 2 months ago

Why people can't just use and stop reinventing the wheel?

This is a really dumb take. If you don't like it, don't use it. They got an idea and implement it? Good for them
And what does that even have to do with switching to Linux?

in reply to Raptorox

20nat

in reply to Raptorox 2 months ago

1) Instead of wasting time on something that has already 1k iterations, they could redirect that effort on something beneficial to Linux.

2) Any person contributing to this new installer is a person less contributing to something distro agnostic, which is a loss for everyone.

in reply to 20nat

BlueSquid0741

in reply to 20nat 2 months ago

Any project is beneficial if someone is passionate about doing it.

The “this person shouldn’t work on this project, they should work on something that benefits me” like is selfish as hell.

If the projects you see aren’t the projects you want, then DIY, but don’t tell people they wasted their time because you don’t want to use their software.

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in reply to Raptorox

beleza pura

in reply to Raptorox 2 months ago

i'd usually agree, but in this case, it feels like a cost-cutting measure. webdevs are cheaper and more available, so it's cheaper for them to just rewrite the installer in electron than pay more expensive desktop developers to maintain their existing installer

in reply to beleza pura

ProtonBadger

in reply to beleza pura 2 months ago

Assumptions are assumptions. The server is written in Rust, the idea is to be flexible with control and the optional UI. It has a big focus on Enterprise and things that were difficult with YAST are easier with Agama, such as unattended installation and using Ansible. For a simpler use case you can boot it up on your headless server and connect to agama.local/ in a web browser and continue the installation.

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in reply to 20nat

Auzy

in reply to 20nat 2 months ago

Rather than downvoting. This is a good teachable moment

I used to think this way, that it was about efficiency exclusively

But the reality is, any contribution is better than none, and a lot of these things implemented you don't really understand how important they are until a while later often

One consideration also is that Germany is apparently considering to continue their Linux migration, so things like this may also be based on feedback from admins

Suse has definitely carved their own niche as a Linux distro and it's actually sad they're not more successful because a lot of their tools are pretty cool

in reply to Auzy

20nat

in reply to Auzy 2 months ago

I understand but that's not how I think when I develop something.

I usually try to find a tool, library, program or functionality that is missing. If I find something that does that already, I use it. If it is missing something or is not perfect, I try to contribute to it.

I strongly believe in joining efforts to build better tools and that software quality can soffer from too high fragmentation.

in reply to 20nat

Auzy

in reply to 20nat 2 months ago

Except doesn't this replace their old tool? So, its not really fragmenting anything if its replacing an existing project.

Fragmentation isn't great, but it can be beneficial in some cases too. I've contributed to a number of projects.

Over the last 20-30 years, I've seen plenty of projects fail, and new ones take over.

If you take a look at arts/eaudio and the other sound servers of 20 years ago. All failed, because Pulseaudio consolidated and killed them eventually. Now, Pulseaudio is on its way to getting killed by Pipewire. And one could argue its a waste of resources.. but, the changeover is actually super awesome (for JACK)

One other good example of the fragmentation argument was Xfree86. Lots of people argued against Xorg at the time, and ultimately, Xfree86 died ages ago. If you asked me 20 years ago, I would have said KDE was dead, but now Gnome and KDE and carved out VERY different products, that suit very different people. Both are awesome in their own way

Everyone was freaking out when devFS got deprecated. But, udev was an amazing replacement

Linux is evolving FAR quicker than Windows or MAC (mac OS has barely changed in a decade). And, many ideas introduced in linux are stolen by Windows and Apple.

At the end of the day though, sometimes a rewrite is needed of things. What really matters is that it doesn't fragment the desktop experience (and, it won't in this case)

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in reply to Karna

N0x0n

in reply to Karna 2 months ago

That's great ! Is there any chance we will switch to Agama instead of Calamares? Cause instead of fixing the LVM installation issue they just drop the support...

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in reply to Karna

MonkderVierte

in reply to Karna 2 months ago

installer … with enhanced web UI

∘ ∘ ∘ ( °ヮ° ) ?

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beleza pura

in reply to MonkderVierte 2 months ago

seems like yet another electron app that only runs locally. i'm guessing that hiring traditional desktop ui developers is getting harder and more expensive over time, so they don't bother anymore and just hire webdevs instead

in reply to beleza pura

MyNameIsRichard

in reply to beleza pura 2 months ago

A quick glance at the Agama repository suggests that the server is written in rust and the front end in react. I've no idea how it all works in practice as I don't use Tumbleweed any more. I really liked the yast installer but it was getting old.

GitHub - agama-project/agama: A service-based Linux installer

A service-based Linux installer. Contribute to agama-project/agama development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

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in reply to MyNameIsRichard

kalpol

in reply to MyNameIsRichard 2 months ago

It worked perfectly well to install though? Like why does it matter if its old

in reply to kalpol

MyNameIsRichard

in reply to kalpol 2 months ago

That's kind of like asking why we're not all driving Ford Model T cars, after all you could drive in them just fine. Technology moves on, best practice moves on, Hell, everything moves on.

in reply to MyNameIsRichard

ReversalHatchery

in reply to MyNameIsRichard 2 months ago

anyone who thinks web tech is best practice on the fucking desktop should be expelled from the whole field

said ford would consume way too much gas and produce way too much noise, among other things. but what's the problem with the current installer? that it doesn't have curly corners, and that it has too many options which is confusing to those with no reading comprehension?

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TheTwelveYearOld via Linux

3 months ago (Received 2 months ago)

TheTwelveYearOld
3 months ago (Received 2 months ago)

[Answered] Most customizable desktop environment?

Edit: Yep KDE is the most customizable full desktop environment. I gave Gnome a shot but like KDE A lot more with desktop effects and kwin scripts.

What makes Linux appealing to me is the extent of customizability, but I didn't find many answers when looking up with desktop environment is them most customizable. Some say KDE is most customizable than say, Gnome, but doesn't Gnome support CSS customization while KDE doesn't?

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[Answered] Most customizable desktop environment?

Edit: Yep KDE is the most customizable full desktop environment. I gave Gnome a shot but like KDE A lot more with desktop effects and kwin scripts.

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[Answered] Most customizable desktop environment?

Edit: Yep KDE is the most customizable full desktop environment. I gave Gnome a shot but like KDE A lot more with desktop effects and kwin scripts.

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German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating

Schleswig-Holstein, one of Germany’s 16 states, on Wednesday confirmed plans to move tens of thousands of systems from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The announcement follows previously established plans to migrate the state government off Microsoft Office in favor of open source LibreOffice.

German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating

Schleswig-Holstein looks to succeed where Munich failed.

^{Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)}

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1 year (and a few days) old article. How did this turn out?

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sus

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found this update from 1 month ago:

euro-stack.com/blog/2025/3/sch…

what the actual amount of progress is seems to be buried under bureaucracy-speak but I got 3 useful sentences out of it so far:

Configuration via group policies
MS Office can remain installed in parallel, until October 2025
Goals for october 2025: LibreOffice should be the sole standard office software on around 70% of the state administration's IT workstations

so to me it seems they're currently slowly doing a MS office -> LibreOffice transfer, but they're still all using windows (as the use of "group policy" implies)

Schleswig-Holstein's Bold Open Source Leap: A Model for Digital Sovereignty? | EuroStack

The German state of Schleswig-Holstein is making waves with its ambitious plan to ditch Microsoft Office, Exchange, and Windows in favor of Open Source alternatives.

^{euro-stack.com}

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2 months ago

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2 months ago

Peertube video recommendation program

thinking about making a program that recommends videos that are on peertube. likes, titles, descriptions, and even closed caption can be collected locally and compared to the local users liked videos and watch time to rank videos the local user would like to watch.

later on there could be a server that people can willingly choose to send their data to build a better recommendation program.

I'm still in the research phase of this, but from my experience even implementing basic concepts would be effective

I know there is an anti algorithm crowd but this is opt in so this should be fine

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yeah i hope people build on my work and improve it since i doubt ill even have this project working anytime soon.

i have hard time concieving of p2p system for this. is it like heres what this person likes so do "X"

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P2P file system over a centralised server, keep users in control.

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2 months ago

Linux Bluetooth adapters

I need a Bluetooth adapter for my laptop that has Linux mint on it. I just need it to connect a BT speaker for watching YouTube and netflix. The adapters I looked at on amazon all say they aren't compatible with Linux. I was hoping I could get some recommendations that work with Linux. And preferably one that doesn't require drivers from some sketchy site, Thanks!

EDIT: thanks everyone for the recommendations!

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Here you can find hardware for linux that requires no proprietary driver or firmware, in your case is ASUS UB400. I was in the same situation as yours so I bought it and it works.

home - h-node.org

free software project with the aim of collecting information about the hardware that works with a fully free operating system

^h-node.org

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German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating

Schleswig-Holstein, one of Germany’s 16 states, on Wednesday confirmed plans to move tens of thousands of systems from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The announcement follows previously established plans to migrate the state government off Microsoft Office in favor of open source LibreOffice.

German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating

Schleswig-Holstein looks to succeed where Munich failed.

^{Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)}

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Isn't this like the third time they've done this and it lasts until Microsoft backs a dump truck of money up to the government?

Don't get me wrong though. I hope it sticks! Fuck Microsoft.

Edit: spelling

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Comparing LINUX DESKTOPS performance and resource usage (on the Slimbook Evo 14)

Try Kasm Workspaces to stream any desktop, app or OS to your web browser: https://kasmweb.com/community-edition https://kasmweb.com/cloud-personal SLIMOOK EVO 14 (NOT SPONSORED): https://slimbook.c...

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The most important parts are at the end of the CPU and GPU performance sections. They performed the same across all desktops. On most modern systems the desktop you use is not going to have any significant impact on your performance, when software you're running requires resources, they will be directed towards it.

Also, low RAM usage is massively overrated, especially by Linux users. Your RAM is there to be used, leaving it unused is a waste. It is good for your desktop to be caching a lot of data in RAM when it is otherwise unused. It's only an issue if its still utilizing an excessive amount of RAM when other apps need it more.

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This is actual RAM used by the desktop environments that is not available for cache. That is the number he gets from top, it doesn't include the disk cache. The DE won't use less RAM even when Firefox needs it, because it is not cache, it cannot be dropped if needed, you just have less RAM available for you applications.

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2 months ago

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2 months ago

What is the best setup for Wayland + Nvidia/Intel Laptop (Alternative to Reverse Sync)?

Not sure if this is a good place to ask for help, but I have scoured the internet and no one has a solution, so hopefully this question helps me as well as others.

I'm trying to get my computer to run at its best when on Hyprland.
I have an MSI Raider GE76 which has an Nvidia GTX 3080 Mobile and an Intel Tiger Lake CPU with integrated graphics.

I typically have an external display over display port, an Ultrawide 3440x1440@60Hz, and the internal laptop display is on eDP at 1920x1080@360Hz.
Note tho that while I often have the dual screen setup, I do need to be able to go to just the Intel display.
The Nvidia GPU drives all outputs (DP, HDMI, Thunderbolt) EXCEPT for the eDP which is connected to the Intel card.

On X11, I could use reverse prime sync to use the Nvidia card for everything and just have the Intel card draw whatever the Nvidia card renders. This worked well.
Unfortunately there isn't anything like that for Wayland, and I don't have a hardware switch to put the eDP on the nvidia side of things.

This means that I have to use the default prime modes to run stuff on the nvidia card which makes the second screen incredibly laggy.
Now, I can disable the i915 module and the external display becomes buttery smooth, but I can't use my built-in display (which means I also can't use the display when I'm not connected to the external monitor).

How can I get both to work well on Wayland?

Can I run the external display exclusively on Nvidia and the internal on Intel with Prime?
That could work, but idk if that's possible.

What's the optimal way to set up an external display on Wayland with and Nvidia hybrid-graphics laptop?
Bc right now I'm thinking of just going back to X11 and praying it gets enough support to live until I can get a decent Wayland config.

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in reply to KindaABigDyl 2 months ago

I don't have such a laptop, so I can't really speak for experience, but I can tell you what I know.

You definitely can use prime to render a program on the dgpu and display it on the igpu, this requires basically no configuration at all on wayland, I even did it on my desktop computer when Wayland didn't run on Nvidia. But I don't know if you can or why you would use the dgpu for everything instead of only selected programs (games).

What you really need is a compositor that properly uses both GPUs and can use the ports of both at the same time, hyperlaneld might just be bad at that. Gnome should be in a better position so you can start from here and see if gnome behaves better.

Also, are you sure you want to use a tiling compositor on a gaming laptop? Wouldn't it be a better experiment to just go with gnome? It's visually polished and goes well with trackpads.

doc/multi-gpu.md · main · GNOME / mutter · GitLab

A Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.

^GitLab

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Also, are you sure you want to use a tiling compositor on a gaming laptop

I can't go back to moving windows around by hand. It's so tedious. I can't stand it anymore. Even on Windows which I use for work I always install FancyWM to achieve some sense of tiling. It's just imo a superior way to use a computer.

That said, GNOME has the fantastic Pop Shell 2 which functions similar to Hyprland or i3, so that's fine on GNOME. Honestly, I'm hopeful for COSMIC and plan to try it out once it gets out of Alpha.

The problem I have with GNOME is I always end up breaking it in a way that I can't restore it. Some extension or GTK theme tweak or something, even when uninstalled, always seems to get it stuck in a bad state. It doesn't like customization. KDE does, but it doesn't have as good tiling support (there's Polonium, which is... okay).

Perhaps I'll try it again tho. I've used GNOME for several months at a time before, but I had problems when switching to Wayland a couple years ago initially (which I'm sure are fixed now).

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edinbruh

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A couple years ago it could never have worked properly, Nvidia drivers didn't support Wayland. Because Nvidia refused to implement drivers that followed the Linux semantic (which admittedly was outdated). About a year ago, after many years of work, they published a new semantic that Nvidia was willing to implement. Alongside that, a new Wayland protocol was added so that compositors could opt-in the new semantic when the driver supports it. So, to use Wayland with Nvidia you need both a recent enough Nvidia driver (I think anything after last July) and a compositor that implement the linux_drm_syncobj_v1 protocol. I'm not even sure hyperland supports it, so you should also look into that before continuing.

P.s.: gnome's mutter, and kde's kwin (which are the name of their compositors) both supported that protocol since the very day after it was released, so those are guaranteed to work if they are recent enough, unless if you are on Ubuntu lts which stripped it out for a pet peeve about adding features to lts releases.

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KindaABigDyl

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Yeah, I may just go back to Gnome/KDE.

I recently switched OS from NixOS to Arch which is why I wanted to give Hyprland a try.

I was on KDE before with not a ton of issue, but well, the tiling options on KDE are few and limited, so I wanted to go back and retry a dedicated tiler. I was on i3 before switching to Wayland, then I was on Hyprland for a while, then switched around a bit, and then settled on KDE once I discovered Polonium which I could live with.

I'm gonna give GNOME a shot for now, and just try not to tweak it too much (other than Pop Shell)

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boomzilla

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Yes most tiling solutions on KDE are half-baked even the new built-in (at least the last time I tried) but Krohnkite is really solid. It was forked to Bismuth, then that one got defunct after a major kwin update. But it's back again as Krohnkite (infinite thanks to the maintainers). It's rock solid and even has a B-Tree Layout now. I'm on X11 but the last time I tried it also worked nice with Wayland.

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edinbruh

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Splitting the thread here. I personally used i3wm for more than a year and became white fast with it, then I had to use windows for a month and when I went back to i3 it was a pain, I couldn't do shit. It was at that moment I decided "why can't I just stop forcing myself to this PITA and just use the mouse faster?" And I never used a tiling VM again, personally I use kde on desktop and gnome on laptop.

But, I can see the appeal of automatic tiling, so I raise you this: scrollable compositors. You get both the benefits of automatic positioning and oc moving things in and out of the way, without keeping track and managing 10 virtual desktops

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KindaABigDyl

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why can’t I just stop forcing myself to this PITA and just use the mouse faster?

You know that i3 has support for mouse, right? Really good support in fact.

I use the mouse all the time in tiling window managers, not exclusively keyboard shortcuts, especially for well, window management. Win + Right Click and drag to resize and Win + Left Click to move a window into place. However, unlike traditional desktops, when I move the window, it snaps to a reasonable and consistent tiling location instead of just left/right snapping, a random place it can get covered up, or tiled using some awful extraneous system like KDE's tiling system or some of the Windows little GUI popups. I also sometimes use floating windows.

The nice thing about tilers is they can do traditional usage well whereas traditional desktops cannot do tiling well. Heck, dynamic tilers can't even do tiling well.

I often make use of very complex layouts like this:

--------------------------------------
| Win A              | Win B         |
|                    |               |
|                    |---------------|
|--------------------| Win C | Win D |
| Win E              |---------------|
|                    | Win F         |
--------------------------------------

That many windows with different priorities and visible at once is just not possible to do in traditional desktops or even in dynamic tilers like DWM or KDE's Bismuth plugin.

I need something that makes window organization EASY, and that is manual tilers.

I'll have to look into the scrolling compositor. That does sound interesting.

without keeping track and managing 10 virtual desktops

Also, I don't understand what you mean here. I'm very curious to what troubles you had with workspaces.

What is there to manage? Do you not use virtual desktops at all anymore? I use them even in traditional desktops (including Windows).

It's just a place to put more windows when you run out of room on a screen or when doing a different task, what's the difficulty there?

Did you always use all 10? I don't usually need more than 2, and if I do, then I don't usually need more than 4

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KindaABigDyl

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Scrollables are neat. I think Niri or KDE + Karousel might be useful to me. Thanks for the tip

GitHub - YaLTeR/niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.

A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Contribute to YaLTeR/niri development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

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No background, AMA

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Why here? There are better communities for this, like !justpost@lemmy.world or !casualconversation@lemmy.world etc.

The point of communities is that conversations are nicely categorized, you don't just shout to the void like on mastodon

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2 months ago

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2 months ago

Insurrection act — April 20th. Pls read!

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I really wish there was a way to get this into the hands of every American before April 20th.

FROM THE MEDIUM:

Part 1: On April 20th, 2025, the United States may Cross the Point of No Return.

It sounds wild. Maybe even crazy. But every step is already in motion. I’d be happy to be wrong. But if this is correct… you’ll be ready.

On April 20, 2025, the United States may initiate its final steps into authoritarian rule.

That’s the day Donald Trump’s advisory committee is expected to release its findings on whether he should invoke the Insurrection Act — a move that would allow him to deploy the military domestically and allow Trump to impose martial law. (San Francisco Chronicle). Given Hegseth and Noem are the main “advisors”, the conclusion is foregone.

And as his two months in office has already shown, he won’t stop at just a legal opinion.

Expect an executive order even that same day or the next, officially declaring the Insurrection Act, restricting freedoms in the name of restoring control of the border and perhaps in blue-state cities, and setting the larger plan in motion.

Of course, this won’t be framed as an attack on democracy. It will be packaged as a necessary response to crisis — as authoritarian takeovers always are.

But once it happens, there’s no going back.

THIS WILL BE THE POINT OF NO RETURN.

The roadmap for overthrowing a democratic government isn’t new or theoretical — it’s a well-worn playbook, tested and repeated across history by those who crave power more than liberty. After rejecting it initially, being incredulous, I have realized there is too much evidence suggesting this may be what’s happening now to remain silent.

Telling other people what may be happening, so they can recognize it and maybe together we can stop it, is my entire purpose here.

This is Part 1 of what has turned into a series: Their Coup Playbook: How They Quietly Kill the Constitution in the Coming Weeks and Months

THIS IS HOW DEMOCRACY ENDS: HERE’S THEIR PLAYBOOK

It won’t all happen in one night.

Instead, the process will unfold in stages, each step making resistance harder.

Free elections, a free press, and the right to protest will disappear one piece at a time, until there’s nothing left to save.

My entire goal here is to make people aware, so you can recognize it, if it really is what’s happening, and maybe together we can help stop it. It’s all I, personally, can do.

Here’s how it will happen, step by step, after Trump invokes the Insurrection Act with an Executive Order:

“Resist!” Demonstrations Grow — Just As Planned Left-leaning and even more centrist people will be alarmed. Peaceful protests will be organized nationwide, as they already have been being organized now, with growing numbers of people joining protests each week.

The calls to “Resist!” will grow louder, and large-scale demonstrations will begin forming in major cities. This is exactly what Trump wants. He didn’t invoke the Insurrection Act sooner because he needed his opposition to gather first — so he could use them as a tool for his next step.

He also waited 90 days, instead of invoking it on Day 1 as Project 2025 recommended, so he would have his people in place, and remove those who would oppose them in the government, military, courts, and civil positions.

His cabal is waiting for a strong reaction — they want massive unrest. They need a justification to kick off the next steps in their plan.

The False Flag Crisis: Turning Protest into “Terror” The protests will turn violent quickly. Maybe in a day, maybe during the next big protest the following weekend.

They will turn violent not because of the protesters, but because they will have been infiltrated by agents provocateurs, from militia groups like The Proud Boys, whose goal is to escalate as quickly as possible and give Trump and his cabal an excuse to trigger the next stage.

Expect “terrorist” bombings, targeted assassinations, or high-profile acts of violence, either staged or exploited, to justify the crackdown.

There may even be an extremely high profile assassination of a leading right-wing leader that changes everything in a moment… and the “woke radicals” will be blamed, and the country will rally around more extreme measures to bring back order and control.

The media will be flooded with images of chaos, pushing the public into a state of fear. Calls for “order” will follow.

Trump Declares Expanded Martial Law — And Calls for Militia to assist the police and Military

Trump has already invoked the Insurrection Act — so now he now declares even more extensive and repressive martial law, and orders troops into major US cities where most oppose him, branding protesters and opponents as “seditionists,” “traitors,” and the “woke mob”.

He will call on “good Americans” to grab their guns, like the patriots of 1776, and join the militias forming to “restore order” and “take back control” from the leftist threat. Using militias also gets him around resistance from military leaders who might oppose his orders. The militias already exist — the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters, and others— and they are not some distant fringe. They were at January 6. The most extreme and radicalized are all released from prison now.They are ready to roll, and to answer Trump’s call, which they were waiting for four years ago.

The militia members are your neighbors. The difference between them and you? These neighbors own and have been training with AR-15s. You and your friends? Not so much.

This will be framed as “helping the police” and “keeping order.” Law enforcement will quietly welcome them — or, in some cases, will deputize them, with Trump’s support.

Mass Arrests of Opposition Leaders Journalists, Democratic officials, and activists will be arrested under charges of sedition, terrorism, or “inciting violence.”

Expect Mark Milley, Liz Cheyney, and Adam Kinzinger to be arrested quickly and with great press coverage. How long the show trials take is probably a good measure of how much control Trump has established over the courts.

Key Democratic governors and attorneys general will be removed first, ensuring no state-level resistance. Law enforcement and military ranks will be purged, with loyalty tests ensuring only Trump-aligned officers remain.

Military & National Guard Take Over Major Cities Expect deployments in Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and other blue-state strongholds.

Curfews and lockdowns will be imposed, justified as measures to “restore peace.”

Checkpoints and military policing will become the new normal. Expect them in particular along major highways going to Canada or Mexico, and in red states — to identify and detain seditionists, traitors, and people of questionable loyalty.

Trump’s building of detainment centers in Guantanamo, and expansion of the 106 other ICE detention centers, was not actually intended for illegal migrants. And just a few days ago, Blackwater founder and Billionaire Erik Prince offered to help Trump “privatize deportation camps” as has been being done with prisons per Trump’s Day 1 Executive Order. So now Trump has an extrajudicial place to store the disloyal and those who resist, in for-profit camps guarded by militias and loyal military. Until he decides what to do with them.

Press Censorship & Total Media Control Independent news outlets will face shutdowns or takeovers. Those that resist will see their journalists arrested or harassed.

Mainstream media will be forced into compliance. Blackmail, corporate pressure, and legal threats will ensure they toe the line.

Social media platforms like X (Twitter) will amplify the official narrative, drowning out opposition.

Other social media and lines of communication will be turned off. The Internet will be monitored, people identified from this monitoring for arrest, using Palantir technology. Peter Thiel, who I’ve written about before, is co-founder of Palantir. We will fully enter the surveillance state.

Borders Close & Dissidents Are Trapped Inside Passports will be revoked for critics and opponents. If you’re on a list, you’re not leaving. Especially if you’re of Draft age.

No-fly lists will expand to include activists and journalists.

ICE and DHS will be weaponized — not just against immigrants, but against political enemies.

Elections Are “Postponed” Indefinitely

The 2026 midterms will be suspended under the excuse of national security concerns. Red-state legislatures will eliminate Democratic-leaning districts, ensuring permanent Republican control.

By 2028, Trump (or his handpicked successor) will run unopposed. Elections will be a formality, probably still held. But rigged.

PROJECT 2025 AND THE INSURRECTION ACT: THIS WAS ALWAYS THE PLAN

This isn’t speculation.

The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 lays out a detailed strategy for permanent right-wing control. It openly advocates using the Insurrection Act to crush opposition and dismantle the administrative state. Trump isn’t improvising — he’s following a script.

We Can’t Wait — The Time to Act Is Now

We can’t sit back and wait for Trump to fire the starting gun — because once he does, it will already be too late.

We need to prepare now.

We need to plan now.

We need to dismantle his plans before they begin.

We have one month.

That’s it.

The Only Way to Stop this Coup is by Exposing It

The only way I can think of to stop this conspiracy, which is in final planning stages, is through exposure. If people see the playbook in advance, they will be less likely be manipulated when it happens.

They might question the narrative. “Wait. This is what they said would happen. I thought it was crazy. But maybe…”

We need to spread this narrative far and wide so that when the moment comes, no one can claim ignorance.

Maybe we will be proven wrong.

Maybe we will look silly.

Or maybe… we will have derailed the plan, by telling people what to look for, to recognize the playbook steps as (if) they happen.

Here’s what we must do before April 20:

Empower the press, law enforcement, military, and elected officials to recognize the game that’s being played. They need to understand what’s happening before they are pressured to go along with it.

**Share this post, or write your own. Do your own research. Don’t take my word for it. Talk with your friends and family about this crazy conspiracy theory that can’t rally happen… can it? ** So if and when the steps actually happen, people recognize it for what it is.

Prepare the public so they don’t take the bait. Trump and his cabal want protests to explode into chaos.

They want violence in the streets to justify their crackdown. We must be ready to outmaneuver them — to refuse to be used as pawns in their game.

Stand up to the militias — and stop friends and family from joining them. The Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and other armed groups will be mobilized as Trump’s shock troops. They will be framed as “restoring order” and “helping the police.” We need to be ready to counter this, to make sure our neighbors, friends, and family don’t get sucked in.

Inoculate our fellow citizens against the propaganda. Most Americans are good people — but good people can be misled. They can be scared into compliance. Our job is to make sure they see what’s happening before it’s too late.

The only way to stop this plot is to expose it, reject it, and make it unmistakably clear to every American what is happening. We must stop these malign forces from enacting their will on our country, the world, and each of us and our families.

WHAT IF WE DON’T STOP IT?

If it is not stopped, and Trump enacts the Insurrection Act, at that point we probably only have 48 to 72 hours to try to stop everything from happening after the Executive Order.

Once martial law is imposed, there will be a tiny window — no more than three days — before resistance becomes nearly impossible.

Stopping it before it happens is the best option.

But what if we don’t?

In my next post, I’ll outline peaceful, strategic ways to resist — while we still can. And what our reduced options are if it still happens.

If we don’t act before April 20, then by April 23, it will already be too late.

Aletheisthenes – Medium

Read writing from Aletheisthenes on Medium. Call me Aletheisthenes. Truth (‘aletheia’ ) without strength (‘sthenos’) is fragile. Strength without truth is tyranny. I'm here to create more of both.

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BmeBenji

in reply to Justlosingmymind 2 months ago

Blanketly saying “Project 2025 laid this out” isn’t the most reliable way to cite a source. Can you provide specific citations?

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Pregnenolone

in reply to BmeBenji 2 months ago

Yeah I’m inclined to agree. There is a lot of “this isn’t speculation”, yet there’s a lot of speculation. A source on where it says this in Project 2025 would be handy.

Edit:

No.

Shut the fuck up.

I’m sick of your doom-screaming without source. Provide sources.

The rhetoric in this post could kill people. ACTUALLY FUCKING KILL PEOPLE. Fuck me for wanting some assurance before I panic.

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muusemuuse via Linux

2 months ago

muusemuuse
2 months ago

You think windows updates are bad?

Welp, I might just have to throw a grenade on this. Lets see if bcachefs fsck -pvk can work some miracles....

Bcachefs seems displeased

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muusemuuse

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Sorry I'm new to lemmy, is there a preferred service we use here?

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HelloRoot

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You can just directly upload media on lemmy.

The form field says "upload image" but webm videos work for sure. I have not tried other formats.

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ZeroOne via Fediverse

2 months ago

ZeroOne
2 months ago

Beckn Protocol

Ok so I don't know if this protocol has got anything to do with Federation, but it's an interesting protocol regardless

It's used mostly for logistics. I'm interested in your thoughts
becknprotocol.io/

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Beckn Protocol (or Beckn in short) enables the creation of open, peer-to-peer decentralized networks for pan-sector economic transactions.The protocol can be

^{Beckn protocol}

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Create, enable and scale economic and digital exchange across and between diverse sectors.

Seems cryptocurrency related. Lot of marketing fluff.

Beckn Protocol is perhaps the least well-known project outside of tech circles, but is likely the most impactful of all work Nilekani has championed since Aadhaar

Who and what are those?

The github repo is slightly better, but not by much:

Beckn is an open protocol that allows local businesses across any industry to be discovered and engaged by any beckn-enabled application. Beckn protocol helps businesses co-create solutions for the masses seamlessly, by combining services of any form or provider.
Beckn protocol is a collection of open specifications consisting of protocol APIs, message formats, network design and reference architectures to allow any two entities to execute commercial transactions without being on the same platform.
This server-to-server communication protocol allows any consumer facing online platform to discover and transact with any business with minimal implementation overhead. The server-to-server nature of the protocol allows rich user experiences to be built by bundling services from multiple independent platforms.
Beckn protocol decouples the demand side digital infrastructure in the form of apps and other channels from the supply side service provisioning infrastructure. It does this by making integratedservices available not just on a single platform but potentially on any online consumer interface, (online maps, messaging, wallets, voice assistant apps and devices) that have mainstream adoption in a city.
Beckn is a protocol, not a platform. It adopts a decentralized architecture that obviates the need for creating a centralised platform in order to integrate services from multiple providers simultaneously ensuring privacy and security by design by enabling secure, encrypted iteractions.

The project could really use a "What problem is this trying to solve?" section. Is it aiming to replace something existing like HTTPS/Visa/etc?

GitHub - beckn/protocol-specifications: Core protocol specification for peer-to-peer consumer-provider interaction

Core protocol specification for peer-to-peer consumer-provider interaction - beckn/protocol-specifications

^GitHub

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becknprotocol.io/all-projects/

All Projects - Beckn protocol

Build better digital economies, ecosystems and societies based on efficient, inclusive, transparent and sustainable open networks

^{Khalid ahamed (Beckn protocol)}

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Doesn't really help much. Seems to be some spin on blockchain/cryptocurrency, and doesn't really do a good job of explaining the value proposition.

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ZeroOne

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It isn't though, there are a series of cab-booking apps that use this, look up Yathri-Sathi on PlayStore (Govt-Backed)

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vortexal via Linux

2 months ago

vortexal
2 months ago

[solved] I'm having audio issues with Linux and while I have a temporary solution, I'd like to have a permanent solution if possible.

Final update (hopefully): It seems that I have been able to fix the issue. I'm not sure what exactly caused the problem but either removing fluidsynth or installing the wireplumber ppa fixed the issue and I have working audio again. I've also removed pulseaudio as I only installed it as a temporary solution and it's no longer necessary.

For the past three days, I've been having this issue where my computer starts with no audio and the only sound device listed is a "dummy output" device. I've tried looking online for solution but the only solution I found has to be redone manually every time I start/restart my computer. It also seems like this issue is common with and possibly specific to the sound card my computer has, which is an "Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio".

The solution that worked for me was to add blacklist snd_soc_avs to the modprobe blacklist and then run the two commands sudo alsa force-reload and pulseaudio. Adding snd_soc_avs to the blacklist permanently brought back my actually audio devices but it didn't fix the audio nor did it remove the dummy output device. The two commands I listed do restore the audio and remove the dummy output device but they only work for the current session and I have to run them again after starting/restarting my computer.

I have no problem doing this if there isn't a permanent solution but I would like a permanent solution, if possible.

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gnuhaut

in reply to vortexal 2 months ago

I had an issue like this recently on Debian testing and it turns out fluidsynth was hogging the sound device and so pipewire couldn't open it. IDK why it was doing that all of a sudden. The symptom was also just having the dummy device.

I think what I did to figure this out was look at the pipewire logs and it said something to the effect that it couldn't open the sound device because it was busy, and according to my bash history I did fuser -fv /dev/snd/* and figured out it was fluidsynth that was using it, which I then disabled or maybe uninstalled because wtf do I need midi for anyway.

Your problem may be different, but I can imagine, theoretically, that all the stuff you're doing makes it so pulseaudio gets first dibs on the (otherwise busy) sound device and so maybe you have misdiagnosed the problem.

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When I run that command, I get:
$ fuser -fv /dev/snd/* USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: j 2002 F.... wireplumber j 11734 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/seq: j 1998 F.... pipewire

I know pulseaudio is only running because I manually ran it, so could it be wireplumber that's causing the issue?

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I mean it's definitely weird that wireplumber and pulseaudio are running simultanously, that is probably not great, but it's normal when using pipewire to have wireplumber on control0.

Also I deleted my original post, because I wasn't super happy about it, and made new one, so now there are two versions of this post. Sorry.

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gnuhaut

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I mean something must have changed three days ago, kernel update maybe? You could try running a different kernel and see if this fixes it automagically.

I recently also had an issue where I could only see a dummy device, and that got me wondering. It was caused by fluidsynth hogging the audio device. So maybe could you check something? Look at the log file for pipewire (journalctl --user -u pipewire here) and do fuser -fv /dev/snd/* when it's still in its broken state to see if (maybe) you're misdiagnosing the problem. Because I could possibly sort of imagine that doing the force-reload and start pulseaudio dance might actually have seemingly fixed my fluidsynth issue by inadvertently making it so that pulseaudio got a hold of the audio device.

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in reply to gnuhaut 2 months ago

I thought that it was a kernel update too but the last time it was updated was two weeks ago and nothing else relevant to audio was updated either.

I've restarted my computer and the fuser command does show mutiple instances of fluidsynth. I also ran the journalctl command and I'm getting a bunch of the same error messages over and over again. They are:

mod.jackdbus-detect: Failed to receive jackdbus reply: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.jackaudio.service was not provided by any .service files

spa.alsa: 'front:0': playback open failed: Device or resource busy

mod.adapter: 0x5794b3a2b2a0: can't get format: Device or resource busy

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Yeah actually looks like the same issue I had. Just uninstall fluidsynth with apt remove fluidsynth and (probably) reboot, and see if that fixes it.

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vortexal

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Nope, that didn't work. In fact, it made the issue worse because now I can't get audio to work at all because my normal audio devices are missing again. I also tried running the commands again and the journalctl command is still giving me the same error messages and fuser states that the only thing running is pipewire.

Also, for some reason, my computer took a longer time to boot than normal and it made me input my password at startup, which I have Linux Mint configured to just automatically log me in without it. So if you have any further suggestions that require a restart, I don't feel comfortable restarting my computer again and I will try them tomorrow.

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gnuhaut

in reply to vortexal 2 months ago

Oh, I'm sorry. Can you run systemd-analyze blame (and also systemd-analyze --user blame) and look for something, near the top, that took a long time? Also systemctl list-units --failed to see if something has failed to load properly.

I'm afraid to ask, and I should have thought of that, do you remember if uninstalling fluidsynth removed anything else?

Also maybe try uninstalling pulseaudio, it's possible it's fighting with pipewire over the device, but that's just a guess.

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vortexal

in reply to gnuhaut 2 months ago

I just saw you edit and I did just remove pulseaudio.

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gnuhaut

in reply to vortexal 2 months ago

Oh good. Maybe you can try restarting pipewire w/o rebooting.

First, check if pulse is running (it might be even if uninstalled), with systemctl --user list-units (search for pulse by typing /pulse) or ps -A|grep pulse kill it with (probably) something like systemctl --user stop pulseaudio or maybe killall pulseaudio. Not sure what's better here, but it needs to be killed if it's running.

Then do systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber.

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vortexal

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For some reason the the "stop" command didn't work as it thought pulseaudio wasn't running but I was able terminate it through htop. Also, that didn't work, it did restart pipewire but my normal audio devices are still missing and I still don't have working audio. I did, just in case, also check the journalctl and fuser commands you gave me previously, and fuser still just lists pipewire and journalctl stil gives the same error messages as before.

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gnuhaut

in reply to vortexal 2 months ago

Yeah I wrote that stop command wrong, it's supposed to be systemctl --user stop pulseaudio. The relevant errors from journalctl were the "busy" errors. Are they still there? Maybe they're old messages? You can type G to go to the end of the log.

Also, and this is probably my last suggestion, try restarting the socket with systemctl --user restart pipewire-pulse.socket. And maybe restart all the other crap as well for good measure. My theory here is that pulseaudio overwrote that socket with it's own socket, and anything trying to play sound would be trying to connect to the nonexistent pulseaudio, and maybe restarting pipewire doesn't actually recreate the socket, because systemd does that, but I'm not sure that's actually how that works.

Theoretically logging out and in again should also restart all the things pipewire I think, but it's possible that whatever is slowing down your boot is actually slowing down the login, so do at your own risk.

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vortexal

in reply to gnuhaut 2 months ago

Ok, so a lot of them are old messages, none of the messages from this session are labeled as busy. I did just try logging out and back in and that was pretty much instantaneous, so whatever it was that caused my computer to boot slowly just effect the boot itself. But yeah, I tried restarting pipewire and everything related to it and it's still just showing the dummy output device and audio isn't working. Thanks for trying though.

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gnuhaut

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If we assume, for a moment, that your issue was in fact related to fluidsynth, which I kinda still think it might be, because of what fuser and the logs showed, it would be a good idea to undo your module blacklist thingy and reboot.

If your slow boot issue persists, and you try to fix that tomorrow, then try looking at the bootup messages as described here:

askubuntu.com/questions/25022/…

If you reinstall pulseaudio to get back to where you were before, uninstall pipewire, those two shouldn't be running simultaneously.

Good luck and keep me updated if you manage to fix it somehow.

How to enable boot messages to be printed on screen during boot up?

How to enable boot messages, kernel messages and other logs of various services to be printed on screen during boot up?

^{Ask Ubuntu}

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vortexal

in reply to gnuhaut 2 months ago

Ok, even though I said I'd wait until tomorrow, I decided to try it again. It seemed to boot more or less normally but I did try someone else's suggestion and it got audio working again. I did undo the edit I made to the modprobe blacklist and I did keep fluidsynth and pulseaudio uninstalled but I tried using the wireplumber ppa, like someone else suggested and my audio is working again. Granded, I have no idea what actually fixed the issue, so I don't know who to fully credit but thanks for helping.

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gnuhaut

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Glad you got it working.

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Focal via Linux

2 months ago

Focal
2 months ago

Getting ready to switch to Linux full time

But I've got two doubts remaining.

Currently, I'm running Windows 11, but I'd still like the ability to dual boot for certain games which don't necessarily work with Linux for various reasons. Is it possible to move a windows install to a different drive and then install Linux on the main drive instead?

If yes, how do I do it?

Second doubt is if I'll have many issues daily driving Linux if I have an Nvidia card

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rc__buggy

in reply to Focal 2 months ago

Clone it over, try it. If it works, great. Install Linux.

Search "clone windows install" and see what looks good

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Retro_unlimited

in reply to Focal 2 months ago

I run Linux mint with Nvidia card and no problems gaming, basically every game I tried worked (don’t forget to check protonDB and see how to get some games running, but most work right away).

As for dual booting, you need to worry about Microsoft doing evil and trashing the boot loader after an update. Windows is a mess, it spies on you, it boots your computer at 3 am to do updates, and it reboots when your doing work you haven’t saved. So happy I switched. (I do have an old MacBook that has macOS and windows for the few things that need windows or Mac such as modding tools (hardware flashing tools and such but I only use it a few times a year).

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7U5K3N

in reply to Focal 2 months ago

For ages I ran two SSDs.

One had Linux one had windows.

The reason is windows like to over write the bootloader when it updates (or did)

So for me... I had the Linux SSD as the primary boot device and I had to select the windows device in grub to boot windows.

It worked for ages and ages until I realized I wasn't using windows anymore.

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I ran a 1060 Nvidia on Ubuntu / Manjaro / arch / Debian

I never had an issue. Tho I use kde because waaaaay back in the day it was the only DE that wouldn't screen tear.

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Jumuta

in reply to Focal 2 months ago

nvidia these days has little to no issues with games, I've personally had very little.

The biggest problem I've had is with video decode/encode acceleration, because nvidia doesn't provide vaapi drivers and Firefox doesn't enable vaapi by default. there is a solution that works but you need to do some tinkering.

this isn't a huge problem though, modern cpus are pretty fast and software decoding is fine for the most part

GitHub - elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver: A VA-API implemention using NVIDIA's NVDEC

A VA-API implemention using NVIDIA's NVDEC. Contribute to elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

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John Richard

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I'm not so sure you're to the getting ready to switch to Linux stage as you think you are. Also, cloning & moving drive partitions are pretty elementary concepts. Not that people shouldn't help but many people on Linux don't realize encouraging people to switch too soon, often results in that person actually hurting the Linux community because they had a relatively productive setup before & now everything sucks to them. Having a dual boot partition or drive is helpful but you should also have some strategies to switch back if needed as your primary OS until you feel more confident & productive.

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misk via Fediverse

2 months ago

misk
2 months ago

Lemmy vote aggregation idea

Alright, this one will be weird but I’m coming to accept I might be way further on the spectrum than I thought. Reader beware, it’s probably dumb but kind of amusing and fun to think about.

We are currently dealing with various kinds of vote manipulation and that affects visibility of things even if we don’t care about imaginary points. As long as they are used for sorting they’re not that imaginary because I can sort by new but most will not have time and will want to peek. Now, the main issue here are the extremes - instances used to flood votes or weirdos stalking other users.

Currently Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin create a federated network but votes are still kind of a direct democracy. What if that democracy was federated too? One can think of this as federating consensus. There are two approaches to implementing this but the idea boils down to either outside instances aggregating votes made on their side and sending final voting result on a scale -1/0/1 or alternatively this aggregation could be done by the hosting community.

What this solves:

Flooding is harder because you need to keep on making instances.
People have more motivation to join smaller instances because that way their vote matters more.
People have more motivation to join interest / theme / location based instances so that their vote is aggregated with similar people.
Weirdos will set up their own instances meaning even more decentralisation.

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remon

in reply to misk 2 months ago

So basically the electoral college? No thanks.

Just sort by new.

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misk

in reply to remon 2 months ago

Does electoral college allow you to create a state and vote as an equal to any other instance whenever you feel like?

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remon

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Hosting your own instance is not option for the majority of people.

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misk

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What’s important is that it’s possible if you don’t like any other instance. Maybe once Lemmy gets popular we’ll get commercial hosts offering to spin up a Lemmy instance the same way they offer WordPress.

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Donald Musk

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There are examples of that already.

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rglullis

in reply to misk 2 months ago

Creating a fake instance to send out votes is cheaper and easier that you think. You need only one domain and a script.

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misk

in reply to rglullis 2 months ago

It can’t be stopped this way but this is just some friction or increasing barrier to entry to discourage it. Most people are lazy and will just drop it as not worth the effort, and the most persistent will be annoying no matter what you do.

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rglullis

in reply to misk 2 months ago

It won't stop the people interested in doing mass-manipulation of votes. There is no virtual difference between a bot that votes through Lemmy and a bot that votes through "pure" ActivityPub.

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Agent Karyo via Fediverse

2 months ago

Agent Karyo
2 months ago

Mastodon to Lemmy post formatting rules questions

Hi all,

This is a continuation of this thread around Mastodon/Lemmy integration.

I am trying to understand the formatting rules around Mastodon to Mastodon/Lemmy posts. My Mastodon instance is www.mstdn.games.

I was able to get this point:

Mastodon input:

Lemmy crosspost:

Let me walk through the key points.

1. Thumbnail

This works really well. You attach an image on Mastodon and it outputs the correct thumbnail on Lemmy (it even works across instances, I know there are issues with LW vs other instances in custom thumbnail attach).

2. Markdown Formatting

Doesn't seem to work on the Mastodon side. Not a big deal, the only somewhat relevant piece is the markdown URL syntax, but I can just use [Text - URL] style formatting.

I read that Mastodon is supposed to support markdown, but it seems to not be the case. Doesn't matter, but if someone has anyone info on this, I would appreciate it.

3. Mastodon to multiple Lemmy communities

I tried adding both !testfediverse@jlai.lu and !test@lemmy.ca. It seems only the first Lemmy community URL gets crossposted (I was able to post to !test@lemmy.ca when it was the first Lemmy URL).

Again, this is manageable. I can crosspost (within Lemmy) from my Lemmy account.

4. Direct URL Lemmy link with Text Heading

This doesn't seem to work. This is really annoying.

I can get text heading working on the Lemmy side, but the Lemmy URL always points to the Mastodon post URL:

Is there a way to define the URL on the Mastodon side so that Lemmy understands that the post must point to a specific URL (while having a separate Lemmy text heading and not having the post look like shit on the Mastodon side).

The last piece is critical for me. I don't want to post links to Mastodon in the !tycoon@lemmy.world community.

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2025-04-08 06:29:09

Lemmy Mastadon (automated crossposting?) interaction issue.

I am a mod/curator at !tycoon@[url=https://lemmy.world/]Lemmy.World[/url]. We cover tycoon game (Project Highrise, Transport Fever) etc.
I also have a Mastodon account:
mstdn.games/@Landgraab_Industr…
I typically only post releases or major stuff (not demos, or smaller early access titles) on the Mastodon account. I also add screenshots and tags for visibility/UX.
Today I clicked on the #tycoon hashtag on Mastodon and to my surprise it turns out my posts on !tycoon@[url=https://lemmy.world/]Lemmy.World[/url] are being automatically propagated on Mastodon:
When I started !tycoon@[url=https://lemmy.world/]Lemmy.World[/url], I was actually considering creating an automated Mastodon account, but it turned out to be more difficult than I anticipated (or I don't know what I am doing).
I am curious how this automated propagation got enabled. It wasn't there a week ago. Is this tied to my mstdn.games Mastodon instance? What's going on here?
I am also not sure I like the current automated propagation method because:
It links only to the Lemmy URL, it doesn't include the post URL (e.g. steam/gog page) which is IMO more important.
Does not include a screenshot of the game (critical for micro-blogging IMO).
Does not include additional tags.
Is there a way to "control" the parameters of this automatic propagation on Mastodon? E.g. by manually adding a "Thumbnail URL" on the Lemmy side, adding an additional post URL and hashtags in the Lemmy body post?
At this point, it almost looks like I am spamming the #tycoon tag. I would much prefer if there was a way to propagate my Lemmy posts on Mastodon using my manual Mastodon template (e.g. mstdn.games/@Landgraab_Industr…).

Landgraab Industries 🏙️ (@Landgraab_Industries@mstdn.games)
Attached: 1 image Folklands, a relaxed settlement builder with farming, production, trade and diplomacy, released in early access on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2282890/Folklands/ https://lemmy.
^{Mastodon Games}

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schnurrito

in reply to Agent Karyo 2 months ago

Lemmy and Mastodon have somewhat different purposes and integration between them is never going to be perfect. :/ Ultimately you'll always get better results if you post to the platform you mainly want to target; posts sometimes being visible on the other one too is a side effect.

What would probably be useful for purposes like yours is to have some kind of software that allows the creation of arbitrary or near-arbitrary ActivityPub objects with arbitrary audiences which can include one's followers or any number of groups. I don't know how feasible this is or whether someone has already done it.

A few months ago I saw a post on a relatively large Lemmy community that had clearly been intended for the author's Mastodon followers, but they tagged that Lemmy community (it had a name relevant to the content) apparently not knowing this would publish it to Lemmy. As I recall, this got >100 upvotes on Lemmy, but the Lemmy community's mods deleted that post after a few hours. (Maybe some readers of this saw it too, it was to a "Europe" community and its content was something like "musKKK get the fuck out of EU politics".)

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Agent Karyo

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I get that. I would argue the use case I described is basically the bread and butter of Mastodon <> Lemmy integration (if you don't want your posts to look like shit on either Mastodon or Lemmy).

The critical drawback for me is that you can't have hardcoded URLs/images/headings across both Mastodon and Lemmy posts.

If you can't do that, you severely restrict the scope of integration between the two platforms. This is a net loss because the content I post on !tycoon@lemmy.world is arguably relevant for both forum style discussions and micro-blogging.

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A_norny_mousse via Linux

2 months ago

A_norny_mousse
2 months ago

Best (preferably offline) HTML viewer? Minimal resources?

I have wondered many times.

Of course I can always use a browser but it's overkill.

The same goes for yad or zenity, they pull in webkit which is a full-fledged browser engine, and at least yad does not have an offline mode.

I just want to look at some local HTML (incl. images) & CSS styling.

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cerement

in reply to A_norny_mousse 2 months ago

Offpunk

(technically a console browser – Debian installed size 352 KB)

Offpunk, an offline-first command-line browser

Offpunk Tutorial

^offpunk.net

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cy_narrator

in reply to A_norny_mousse 1 month ago

A more lightweight browser?

You gotta understand, browsers are designed to be HTML parsers. You can write an HTML file and double click to open in browser so your only option is a web browser.

Some browsers are certainly light weght than others, find the one that suits your need and use it

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bigsleep via Linux

2 months ago

bigsleep
2 months ago

Is Libreoffice a good Microsoft Office substitute?

Hi. So my girlfriend wants to try out Linux (Elementary OS, she thinks it looks pretty) and needs my help setting everything up (she’s not that good at tech). I’ve never use Linux before. From what I’ve read MS Office is not supported on Linux, but there’s Libreoffice. My gf uses a lot of MS Office for high school (Word & Powerpoint mostly), so I’m curious if Libre is a good substitute? As in compatibility, features, etc.?

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bigsleep

in reply to BombOmOm 2 months ago

Thanks. I’m assuming a high school student is included in “the vast majority of people”. 😀))

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Vittelius

in reply to bigsleep 2 months ago

One thing to make your girlfriend's transition easier: you can reconfigure the UI to be more similar to more recent versions of MS office. The first time you open it, there will be a popup that brings you directly to the relevant settings menu. It's not one to one but the major options are going to be in similar places after you changed the UI.

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FundMECFS via Fediverse

2 months ago

FundMECFS
2 months ago

2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/60715570

cross-posted from: hackertalks.com/post/8713785

The instances being used are
lemmy.doesnotexist.club
chinese.lol
Here is an example of the coordinated downvoting hackertalks.com/post/8692093
Of course its a controversial user who got someone angry enough to automated downvoting @DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today
But you can see every post they make gets 53ish downvotes from these two instances, plus some organic ones after a few hours.
Current downvoting Accounts
:::spoiler bot-list
LightIsland@chinese.lol
MagnificentRow@chinese.lol
FondKnowledge@chinese.lol
SillyTowel95@chinese.lol
HelplessDear@chinese.lol
SomberBrain@chinese.lol
InexperiencedCloset@chinese.lol
NecessaryPerson11@chinese.lol
ClosedEmployment@chinese.lol
CoarseHair420@chinese.lol
BurlyChampionship49@chinese.lol
ZigzagNatural@chinese.lol
QuestionableDirt@chinese.lol
ProudDeparture@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
JoyousDouble@chinese.lol
UnitedPatience@chinese.lol
MajesticArea@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
SinfulConference@chinese.lol
MoralDivide96@chinese.lol
LeadingCarry65@chinese.lol
FrillyOpinion38@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
LimitedDiscount49@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
ForkedScreen@chinese.lol
MediumChemistry13@chinese.lol
xXxLawfulGrassxXx@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
VisibleSentence@chinese.lol
AcidicLawyer90@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
PriceySink14@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
ExcellentBeach@chinese.lol
VivaciousNews@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
LankyIndependent32@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
SpeedyFault@chinese.lol
ConcreteHall89@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
WorthyPoint12@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
SurprisedAdult99@chinese.lol
FlashyCrack@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
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irelephant [he/him]🍭

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This was posted about half an hour earlier by someone else.
lemm.ee/post/60719953

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FundMECFS

in reply to irelephant [he/him]🍭 2 months ago

You are literally linking to the post I crossposted.

Do some lemmy clients not distinguish crossposts?

Edit: I’m wrong, see comments below.

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kiol via Linux

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kiol
2 months ago

What abandoned or unmaintained Linux things (software, hardware, etc) do you use?

I enjoy Trelby for Screenwriting, which last saw an update in 2018. trelby.org/

Dead Tech - What do you still rely on software, hardware, or other? - Learning Together

Part of Living Cartoon Company

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DepressedMan

in reply to kiol 2 months ago

Flatcam for making pcbs. For milling copper.

flatcam repo

Any alternatives or forks?

Bitbucket

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Agent Karyo via Fediverse

2 months ago

Agent Karyo
2 months ago

Lemmy Mastadon (automated crossposting?) interaction issue.

I am a mod/curator at !tycoon@lemmy.world. We cover tycoon game (Project Highrise, Transport Fever) etc.

I also have a Mastodon account:

mstdn.games/@Landgraab_Industr…

I typically only post releases or major stuff (not demos, or smaller early access titles) on the Mastodon account. I also add screenshots and tags for visibility/UX.

Today I clicked on the #tycoon hashtag on Mastodon and to my surprise it turns out my posts on !tycoon@lemmy.world are being automatically propagated on Mastodon:

When I started !tycoon@lemmy.world, I was actually considering creating an automated Mastodon account, but it turned out to be more difficult than I anticipated (or I don't know what I am doing).

I am curious how this automated propagation got enabled. It wasn't there a week ago. Is this tied to my mstdn.games Mastodon instance? What's going on here?

I am also not sure I like the current automated propagation method because:

It links only to the Lemmy URL, it doesn't include the post URL (e.g. steam/gog page) which is IMO more important.
Does not include a screenshot of the game (critical for micro-blogging IMO).
Does not include additional tags.

Is there a way to "control" the parameters of this automatic propagation on Mastodon? E.g. by manually adding a "Thumbnail URL" on the Lemmy side, adding an additional post URL and hashtags in the Lemmy body post?

At this point, it almost looks like I am spamming the #tycoon tag. I would much prefer if there was a way to propagate my Lemmy posts on Mastodon using my manual Mastodon template (e.g. mstdn.games/@Landgraab_Industr…).

Landgraab Industries 🏙️ (@Landgraab_Industries@mstdn.games)

Attached: 1 image Folklands, a relaxed settlement builder with farming, production, trade and diplomacy, released in early access on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2282890/Folklands/ https://lemmy.

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56!

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I think it's worth trying putting the link in the post body. Mastodon might generate a preview image with it.

Another option would be creating the posts on mastodon, and mentioning the lemmy community. The KDE community uses this method for their announcements. Example: lemmy.world/post/27768851

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Agent Karyo

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Sorry, I didn't quiet get that.

The manual Mastodon posts already include a link to the Lemmy post URL.

What would adding a @tycoon@lemmy.world to Mastodon posts do on the Lemmy side?

Or maybe I am not getting something?

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mazzilius_marsti via Linux

2 months ago

mazzilius_marsti
2 months ago

How do I map "caplock to escape but shift+caplock = normal caplock", like Gnome has?

I use i3wm, and to map cap lock to escape, I run:

setxkbmap -option caps:swapescape

This works fine, but sometimes while hitting the F1 key, my pinky can accidentally hit the Escape key, which turns on CapsLock.

Gnome has a very nice way to do this, where Shift + Escape = CapsLock. Hitting Escape on its own will do nothing.

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gnuhaut

in reply to mazzilius_marsti 2 months ago

It's option caps:escape_shifted_capslock I think.

You can look through /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst for all the options.

Edit: Just looked up when this was added, this is a new option from 2024:

gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboa…

Add option `caps:ctrl_shifted_capslock` (6bf17ba7) · Commits · xkbdesc / xkeyboard-config · GitLab

Make `Caps Lock` an additional `Ctrl` and `Shift + Caps Lock` the regular `Caps Lock`. Part-of:

^GitLab

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degen

in reply to mazzilius_marsti 2 months ago

I use keyd for software remapping now, and I like it a lot more than xkb's esoteric options. It has functionality for layers like layer:C, where any "passthrough" input will have the defined modifier (or combo like C-S-M), but you can define whatever other bindings inside.

Long story short, I've used it to remap caps, control, shift (with a custom shift layer for some symbols), and meta, with overloads, double tap/hold into layers, oneshots, timeouts, and all sorts of (surprisingly fluid) nonsense. It's so much easier than wading through xkb options for me.

To sidestep the question slightly less, I always got rid of capslock altogether instead of swapping. That still leaves true escape to be hit accidentally, but I think there should be an option to change escape too?

Edit: what I always used was

# make CapsLock behave like Ctrl:
setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps

# make short-pressed Ctrl behave like Escape:
xcape -e 'Control_L=Escape'

from here

Smart Caps Lock: Remap Caps Lock to Control AND Escape

Smart Caps Lock: Remap Caps Lock to Control AND Escape - smart-caps-lock.md

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AbnormalHumanBeing via Fediverse

2 months ago

AbnormalHumanBeing
2 months ago

What Eddy Burback got wrong about his phone... [Discussion of Fediverse as an alternative within]

cross-posted from: lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/pos…

Companion article here: blog.gardinerbryant.com/what-e…

What Eddy Got Wrong About His Phone

Eddy's solution of locking his phone in a safe is not a sustainable solution. So I wanted to explore what I believe to be the next best thing!

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InfiniteHench

in reply to AbnormalHumanBeing 2 months ago

I like Eddy. And at first I’ve liked this essay subject from other creators, but now I just find it shortsighted. The phone isn’t the problem, just like the television and radio weren’t the problem. It’s the content you put on it.

You can watch great TV shows—documentaries, masterpiece dramas, etc. Or you can watch slop.

You can do incredible stuff with your phone—get directions, listen to almost any song ever recorded, learn about the night sky, watch documentaries anywhere you are, write, create your own content, sky’s the limit. Or you can install slop and brain rot apps like Twitter.

You don’t have to pull a stunt like locking your phone away. Just delete the slop. Be more mindful of what an app and the company behind it are, and either limit your use of it or simply don’t install it at all.

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jeffhykin

in reply to InfiniteHench 2 months ago

I disagree. Yes there can be good intermediate steps, but deleting slop is not even half as healthy as locking a phone away.

1) Interruptions

Not just phone calls or texts, but things like typing an email on the phone and then seeing a text or having the GPS interrupt your train of thought by yelling "Continue straight for 5 miles". Brains hate interruptions. Those are still going to exist even when the slop is gone.

2) Resisting a temptation is exhausting. "not eating candy is healthy"... yes but having a candy bowl right next to your desk is exhausting. It takes 2sec to open a twitter link in the browser. Uninstalling an app is like moving the candy bowl to a nearby room, yeah its better, but it only takes 30 sec to reinstall.

Turning off the dopamine machine (not eating candy) is one thing. But Eddy was showing something a lot bigger than that; how it feels to delete his ability to access to the temptation. He didnt know the code to unlock the phone.

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I feel like this kind of misses the point. To be clear: If someone absolutely cannot avoid installing slop apps and enabling notifications for everything, I can see their need for an ultra minimal device or other solution. But I also think that speaks to a larger, personal discussion about discipline and possibly addiction, but that’s outside the realm of this thread.

My point is we can choose which apps, notifications, features, and algorithms are allowed to get our attention. It’s easy to turn off all notifications or never even allow them in the first place—after all, apps have to ask for that permission in the first place.

But the choice is the point. If someone is traveling somewhere they probably want maps to tell them important information about the journey. Otherwise why turn on directions at all? That’s the entire point.

We even have the ability to disable all texting notifications but also choose to allow them from certain people if they’re important enough. These devices are simply tools and we have the power to choose how they operate. The device isn’t the problem, it’s our choices.

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jeffhykin

in reply to InfiniteHench 2 months ago

I'm saying one of the big downsides has nothing to do with self discipline.

Even if we never click an advertisement.
Even if we never eat from the candy bowl.
Even if we never use the bad phone apps.

Merely living in a world covered in advertisements, living next to a delicious smelling candy bowl, living 30 seconds away from memes, rage-bait, doom scrolling, sports gambling, and other slop -- just living next to those things are bad for our mental health.

Some sources if you're curious on the research behind it.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/…

ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/…

scholarworks.uark.edu/mgmtuht/…

More than Resisting Temptation: Beneficial Habits Mediate the Relationship between Self-Control and Positive Life Outcomes - PMC

Why does self-control predict such a wide array of positive life outcomes? Conventional wisdom holds that self-control is used to effortfully inhibit maladaptive impulses, yet this view conflicts with emerging evidence that self-control is ...

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theorangeninja via Linux

2 months ago

theorangeninja
2 months ago

[Help] Trouble shutting down a linux machine

I am having issues with my linux machine running openSUSE MicroOS. It runs fine but I can't power it off via SSH. I tried shutdown, poweroff and halt but no command turned the machine off. I then have to physically push the power button but I don't feel comfortable doing that too often because I might interrupt some processes which are still running? Is there something I could still try or something I did wrong?

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Clocks [They/Them]

in reply to theorangeninja 2 months ago

SystemCTL systems need to use: "systemctl shutdown".

Not sure if openSUSE uses it.

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@Clocks [They/Them] @theorangeninja Not entirely correct, most will have shutdown scripts that call systemd, but that is a direct way to accomplish it.

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Running poweroff is one of the correct ways on anything Systemd (details). If that doesn't work then something is broken.

If you haven't done so already try looking into the journal. sudo journalctl -b -1 -e will take you to the end of the log for the last boot.

What is the difference between these commands for bringing down a Linux server?

Reading "What is the difference between Halt and Shutdown commands?" , I generally have an idea what does the command shutdown does, with or without -h/-r options. The "halt" command performs po...

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iturnedintoanewt via Linux

2 months ago

iturnedintoanewt
2 months ago

Question about cryptsetup, LUKS and auto-mounting an SD at boot

Hi guys!

I have a Surface laptop, which I want to use again with a microSD as external storage. Since this can be easily pulled off from the laptop, I want it to be encrypted. This was encrypted before, but eventually the SD failed, and I'm trying to recreate what I had...without much success.

Steps so far...
Create the LUKS volume:

#cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sda

Format in ext4 (I believe it was in Exfat with the old SD?):

\#cryptsetup open /dev/sda encrypted
\#mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/encrypted

That should do it regarding the volume creation. Now comes what I can't quite get working.
I created a pw txt file within my home folder:

/home/user/EncryptedSD.txt

Then I refer to this via /etc/crypttab at boot:

encrypted /dev/sda /home/user/EncryptedSD.txt

And my /etc/fstab should attempt to mount this on the spot:

/dev/mapper/encrypted /media/SDCard ext4 auto,nofail,rw

However, as this is set, I'm being prompted halfway through boot for the password. And I can't type anything onto that field. Not that it matters, as it's a really long randomly generated password, no way I could remember it.

Even if I managed to make it go through boot, I'm still prompted for mounting the drive when I clicked on it, and I'm also prompted for the password, so clearly something's not quite there yet. Any ideas? I intend to sync a series of network folders to this drive, so not being ready can make it a bit messier to sync at boot.

Thanks!

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Björn Tantau

in reply to iturnedintoanewt 2 months ago

You have to add the file as a key file. Just adding the password to the file isn't enough.

cryptsetup luksAddKey /home/user/EncryptedSD.txt /dev/sda

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iturnedintoanewt

in reply to Björn Tantau 2 months ago

You have to add the file as a key file. Just adding the password to the file isn’t enough.
cryptsetup luksAddKey /home/user/EncryptedSD.txt /dev/sda

Thanks! I think you're onto something here. SOrry what's the purpose of adding the key? Does it get stored in cryptsetup's internal storage so you never have to input it again?

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Björn Tantau

in reply to iturnedintoanewt 2 months ago

I'm not sure about the details but as far as I know luks has a long internal key that is used to encrypt the whole drive. This master key is encrypted with your passphrase and that encrypted key is stored on the drive.

When you add a file as a key the master key is encrypted using the binary contents of that file and stored as well. The contents of the file are basically an additional pass phrase.

So when it tries to decrypt the drive at boot it first tries to use the key file you give it. When that fails it asks for the pass phrase.

When you made the file EncryptedSD.txt it did not contain the same binary data as the pass phrase you created. Probably due to an additional newline or two. To get around that you add the whole file as it is as a valid decryption key.

Often people might create an extra long key on an extra USB stick. Or if you want to decrypt the drive automatically with the option of setting up a pass phrase later you can initially create the volume only with a key file stored on the boot drive or so.

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iturnedintoanewt

in reply to Björn Tantau 2 months ago

...I think you have something here. If I create a random password and save it via nano on a brand new file, and use this file as passphrase during the initial creation...it then doesn't let me open the encrypted device. It says no key available with this passphrase. When you input the cryptsetup open, you're only allowed to manually type the passphrase (it no longer accepts a file with the passphrase, I think). Curiously, both the file and the passphrase I type manually...are pasted from the clipboard from the same password randomly generated on bitwarden and then copied to the clipboard. And yet, it seems something doesn't match.

EDIT: Seems when you 'open' with a file, the appropiate way is cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda encrypted --key-file /home/user/encryptedSD.txt

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Gerowen

in reply to iturnedintoanewt 2 months ago

Key files should be key files that are associated with the device encryption, not just the password stored on a text file.

cyberciti.biz/hardware/cryptse…

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dengtav

in reply to iturnedintoanewt 2 months ago

Just partly related, and probably no help here - but about the fact, that you can't type in that password (regardless whether you can remember it or not):

you probably use a bluetooth keyboard on that surface? Before boot is finished, bluetooth connection is not possible, so you need some sort of USB/serial keyboard to even type.

Had this issue when full disk encrypting a surface, because without usb (or the original serial) keyboard your stuck in the luks mount process during boot...

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iturnedintoanewt

in reply to dengtav 2 months ago

Nope. Full on original surface keyboard. Works on BIOS, works on Grub...and then on that specific step, no input is reflected on the screen. No keys being typed, no failed login message being shown, nothing reacts.

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dengtav

in reply to iturnedintoanewt 2 months ago

Ok, typing in the password but not seeing any characters (like * e.g.) is quite common. It prevents shoulder surfers from seeing the acual length of you password.

That means, that its still possible, that you keyboard is actually working there.

Are you using a layout different from US-ANSI ? Sometimes devices fall back to US layout during boot, which would lead to you typing in a "wrong" password, without noticing it. Especially special characters have different keys on different layouts. On german layout e.g. "y" and "z" are "swapped".

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iturnedintoanewt

in reply to dengtav 2 months ago

Yes, I understand all this but....If I got the wrong password, I should, A) get some feedback that I have clicked Enter and attempted a login, and B) get feedback that my attempt failed, right? All I get is a frozen screen unresponsive to any input at all.

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dengtav

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Yes, sorry for missunderstanding !

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mao via Linux

2 months ago

mao
2 months ago

When did Kdenlive get so good?

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/32192355

Just found out about this guy on YouTube named Nuxttux because I've been trying to make some social media videos.
Kdenlive is a completely different beast than the one that I remember using a couple of years ago. It has so much functionality in it, like all the "TikTok effects", proxy clips, rendering previews, visualizing effect curves between keyframes... like damn. This is actually legit software now for my basic needs.
The thing is, it seems like these were all added in the past 2 years, because I had 23.x installed through the Debian repo and I upgraded through Flatpak to 24.12 and it seems to have added all of these?
Anyway holy shit. Go give these guys some money. This is game changing

Nuxttux Creative Studio

Tutorials and short animations. Open Source multimedia production.

^YouTube

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drwankingstein

in reply to mao 2 months ago

Sadly kdenlive is still extremely buggy and slow for me.

Even when using proxy clips which are an absolute necessity to get decent performance I still can't edit at decent performance. This is on a ryzen 2600 and arc a380 which has no problems with other tools even when editing 4k timelines so long as I use low impact codecs on the timeline.

The insane amount of crashes it has makes it really hard to use, I can get by using autosave but its more tedious then it is worth. I keep coming back and trying kdenlive, but I can just never use it. I hope it does good eventually, but for the forseeable future I dont see that happening.

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doubtingtammy

in reply to drwankingstein 2 months ago

Flatpak?

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wuphysics87

in reply to mao 2 months ago

Kdenlive has always been good for me, but I prefer shotcut. It seems simpler for the smaller edits I do

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Luffy

in reply to wuphysics87 2 months ago

Shotcut does not work on Linux.

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20nat

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It does

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Luffy

in reply to 20nat 2 months ago

Sorry, I thought of Capcut. That's the newest thing in the tiktok generation of people, because you don't need any braincells to use it.

It is also proprietary, only has a windows build, and a Garbage tier on WineHQ.

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shirro

in reply to mao 2 months ago

Our family does a reasonable amount of editing in kdenlive every week (youtube, education etc). A decade or so ago practically every video editor on linux felt incredibly unstable. I remember trying to work in Cinelerra. Now shit just works. There are a couple of things in the workflow that still need other tools but kdenlive has been fairly solid. It could do with some minor usability tweaks to make it friendlier to people coming from other editors and for beginners. Also I wish the gpu acceleration (movit) was stable enough to be enabled in MLT in kdenlive builds. Focussing on stability makes sense though.

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r.EndTimes

in reply to mao 2 months ago

Davinic is paid but its a one time fee and pretty solid on linux, no issues transitioning for the modst part, some reactor plugins are incompatible like shaderotoys

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r.EndTimes

in reply to r.EndTimes 2 months ago

(reactor used to be free and would extend it a lot only works on studio now) btw I pirated it, its very easy to do on linux just one reddit post where you copy and paste 3 commands into the terminal after downloading the official studio version from their site, eventually I might buy some hardware from them for around 300 since you get free studio with it.

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DFX4509B

in reply to r.EndTimes 1 month ago

DaVinci Resolve also has a free version that's a fully-featured editor with nothing locked behind a paywall, the benefit from buying the paid version is you get an actual upgrade in functionality over the already-pretty-powerful free version.

However it's still a proprietary app so if that bothers you, then KdenLive seems like a good FOSS alternative to that.

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r.EndTimes

in reply to DFX4509B 1 month ago

It has plenty of nodes locked behind a paywall like magic mask, they also recentlly locked reactor, the community made plugins, behind a paywall (I still think its worth it, especially if you buy hardware for editing, the studio license comes with it)

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doubtingtammy

in reply to mao 2 months ago

I just make little videos for myself a couple times a year. So I'm far from a pro. But holy shit kdenlive and blender are powerful programs (blender moreso, but kden is still pretty cool)

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comfy

in reply to doubtingtammy 2 months ago

Same, for quick-and-easy hobby work, it's a great tool. Sometimes I will be surprised by looking up a video effect and seeing it can be done in kdenlive.

A few years back there was a bug with my set-up where it would crash when moving clips a certain way, but once that was solved, kdenlive has been smooth sailing for me.

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Coki91 via Linux

2 months ago

Coki91
2 months ago

Physical Install to QEMU VM, is it possible?

Hello everyone!

I have been learning QEMU for the past day and so I've almost finished building my perfect VM from the qemu cli, and I was wondering if there is any method to say, copy a partition(+bootloader) of a physically installed system (in this case, Windows) over a hard disk image and run it with QEMU

Unfortunately I've had no luck searching online about it and I'm unsure how to proceed myself since I've never done any disk-cloning or anything like that

My best guess would be to dump the contents of the partitions into a shared folder with the VM, then use a live media to copy those contents over into the hard disk image and finally install a bootloader to work with the Windows boot manager, but I'm all ears for what anyone has to say about it.

Thanks for reading and please let me know what you know!

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enumerator4829

in reply to Coki91 2 months ago

Here be dragons. But basically:

Run a VM from contents of a physical disk: use ’dd’ to create disk image. If on linux, try to boot and fix all the errors, hopefully few.
Run VM as physical machine: other way around.

You won’t find this in a tutorial. You need to understand concepts, read manuals, fit everything together, execute, fail and retry until it works.

For Windows, I have no idea. Conceptually, I figure it’s similar.

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Coki91

in reply to enumerator4829 2 months ago

The Host is Linux (arch, btw) so just the guest would be Windows and im ready to squash errors too, so thanks for the heads up

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Nanook

in reply to Coki91 2 months ago

Yes. set your CD in the VM to a linux distro iso like Linux, set boot from the CD in the vm, then you can use all the tools on your ISO to do whatever you want to the vm.

absGeekNZ via Linux

2 months ago

absGeekNZ
2 months ago

Alternative to PicCollage

My partner is looking for an alternative to PicCollage, there doesn't seem to be a simple collage builder for digital scrapbooking on Linux.

It needs to be able to scale, rotate and place images (video nice but not required) and add text that can be put into various "fun" fonts.

I don't know what the "ideal" would be other than the above.

Note: she is running Linux Mint 21.3

PicCollage - Photo and Video Greetings App

Make all your memories last forever. Create holiday greetings, wedding invitations, birthday cards, and more. Download the app and start creating now!

^PicCollage

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Paddy66 via Fediverse

2 months ago

Paddy66
2 months ago

Could not upvote on another instance [please explain for noob]

I've joined Lemmy.ml. Someone sent me a link to a video posted on Feddit.nl - I thought I could log in and upvote/comment using my Lemmy.ml credentials. Wrong!

Why is this? Sorry for my ignorance, I'm relatively new to the fediverse. But I thought that they were all federated so you can interact with all instances??!

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zonnewin

in reply to queermunist she/her 2 months ago

When instances become instruments of propaganda for Putin/Xi/Kim and ban people who expose such propaganda, they fully deserve to be blocked. They've become instruments of the enemies of civil society.

It's the moderation practices of those instances that put them in the corner of "sectarian shit". The rest of us don't need to tolerate such toxicity.

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queermunist she/her

in reply to zonnewin 2 months ago

But when instances become instruments of propaganda for NATO/US/EU and ban people who expose such propaganda, that's fine.

I tolerate the toxicity of .world and other liberal instances, but maybe I shouldn't. Maybe this is self harm. Maybe I should just join lemmygrad so I never have to get attacked again for disagreeing with the liberal consensus. I'd probably hit myself less.

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who via Linux

2 months ago

who
2 months ago

Debian APT 3.0 Stable Released With New Package Solver & Refined Text UI

APT 3.0 has been officially released as the first stable version following an interesting development cycle

^{www.phoronix.com}

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Onno (VK6FLAB)

in reply to who 2 months ago

Anyone got a link to a meaningful description of improvement, rather than "pretty colours" and a "better package solver"?

My most frequent use of apt is inside a Dockerfile, so care factor on UI is not high and "better" isn't a measurable metric.

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who

in reply to Onno (VK6FLAB) 2 months ago

duckduckgo.com/?q=apt+3.0

Edit for those who couldn't be bothered to click through the first result:

salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/…

debian/changelog · main · APT Developers / apt · GitLab

The APT package management tool

^GitLab

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Buon via Fediverse

2 months ago

Buon
2 months ago

Why can't I block rule 34 community?

Hi, I am able to block other communities but rule 34 at lemmynsfw does not let me block it at all. The side bar does not always load and when I can get it to load the block button does not work. Anyone else have issues blocking communities?

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Melatonin

in reply to Buon 2 months ago

Just stop going there.

Haven't you seen enough Flintstones pron?

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lonesomeCat via Linux

2 months ago

lonesomeCat
2 months ago

Can I use BTRFS to keep seperate root and home while being able to format root while keeping home intact?

I want to be able to format my system without formatting my home, I know I can keep them seperate partitions but I would prefer if I can have dynamic sizes of each, can I achieve that by creating a sub volume for each? Would I be able to distrohop without removing my home while keeping the sizes dynamic? I never sat up a BTRFS before so I'm clueless

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cmnybo

in reply to lonesomeCat 2 months ago

If you format the btrfs partition, it will erase everything. You can just delete the old root subvolume and create a new one when installing a different distro though.

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Chewy

in reply to cmnybo 2 months ago

I do the this and it's great. An entire distro takes up only a few GB. Many graphical installers don't support installing on an existing btrfs partition (or subvolume) and want to create a new one. This can often be solved by manual intervention (via terminal).

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Ludrol via Linux

2 months ago

Ludrol
2 months ago

[Solved] How can I run a command without being logged in as a user?

XY: I installed bazzite and goofed up. The username is wrong and my home is /home/bazzite instead of /home/ludrol

I am trying to run usermod -l ludrol bazzite in tty3 with sudo su - but the bazzite user is logged.

Solution:
Added password to root with passwd
Logged in as root
Ran required usermod commands
Disabled root with passwd -l

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gnuhaut

in reply to Ludrol 2 months ago

IDK if this will work but maybe doing exec sudo -i does the trick.

Otherwise just enable the root account and log in as root. Should be passwd -u root to unlock (passwd -l root to relock), also need to set the root password using passwd root.

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LainTrain

in reply to gnuhaut 2 months ago

Another way to do this is sudo su -c 'this is my command'

E.g. change a fan setting on a ThinkPad with:

sudo su -c 'echo "level full-speed" > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan'

So to run a shell you could do all sorts of tricks like:

sudo su -c '/bin/bash -i' and such.

Never know when it comes in handy.

EDIT: Damn, downvoted, any reason why? It works on my machine with a locked root user or one without a PW and I made sure to test it before posting, but I'd love an explanation of why it wouldn't work if that's the reason for the downvote. Was just hoping it would be useful to somebody :/

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lonesomeCat via Linux

2 months ago

lonesomeCat
2 months ago

What bios settings do I need to change before installing Linux?

So I got a new HP Victus 2023, and I want to install Fedora on it, it has an RTX 4050 and has win11 preinstalled, my last laptop was a 2014 Toshiba and I only had to disable secure boot for Linux to run, is there something else to disable before installing Fedora ? Maybe TPM?

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thingsiplay

in reply to WeAreAllOne 2 months ago

But make backups...

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N.E.P.T.R

in reply to thingsiplay 2 months ago

WEAK. WASTE 17HRS AND UNCOUNTABLE AMOUNTS OF DATA BY FUCKING AROUND. 40 BILLION SUCH CASES!

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Cris via Fediverse

2 months ago

Cris
2 months ago

The best thing you can do for the fediverse is just be kind

The fediverse is small, and thats both a blessing and a curse - one of its several blessings is that in a smaller space we all individually have a bigger impact on what the culture of this space is like.

On this comm (and on lemmy broadly) there's a lot of discussion about how to grow the fediverse, what to improve, but an easy thing you can do for the fediverse is right in front of us-

Be kind
Ask people what they think, and why
Approach folks you disagree with with curiosity rather than hostility (EDIT: no, this is not specifically referring to Nazis. I get it, they're the first thing that comes to mind. I'm not telling you to approve of Nazis I'm just saying be kind to your fellow lemmites)
Engage sincerely
Ask yourself if there's something nice you can say
Make this small space worth being in

A platform lives or dies by what's available on said platform and often we have this conversation in the context of "content" or posts - and we may never have as much content as reddit does. But content and posts aren't the only thing this kind of platform offers- it also offers people. It offers community, and human interaction.

Culture and community is lemmy and the fediverse's biggest differentiator, and we all have a role to play in shaping the culture of this space.

***The biggest thing you can do to help the fediverse *is make it a place worth being.****

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TanteRegenbogen

in reply to Cris 2 months ago

Tell that to the people who make a dozen sockpuppet accounts to insult me just because I disagreed with them.

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pseudo

in reply to TanteRegenbogen 2 months ago

Second best thing you can go is to report unkind people.

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Nanook

in reply to Cris 1 month ago

@Cris A lot of people mistake kind for being fake and not ever expressing disagreement, but doing so neuters what is in my view one of the most valuable aspects of these federated social media, the potential for opposing view points to be expressed and then discussed and hopefully some mutually beneficial solutions that accommodate both sides of an opposing viewpoint can be arrived at. That can't happen unless an environment is safe and inviting and people can act in a civilized manner.

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BigHeadMode via Fediverse

2 months ago

BigHeadMode
2 months ago

How do Boosts / Retoots Show on Your Home Server?

I am a prolific retweeter. I also see many instances prohibit nsfw, or some prohibit nsfw without a cw, or without a specific cw. Many servers have 5 or 10 categories of content that must be CWd. If I boost/retoot a post from another mastodon instance, what does that look like for other users of my instance? Does it show up in the local feed? If I boost an untagged nsfw or otherwise 'bad' content under the local rules, is that moderate-able (bad for the retooter)?

I intend to mark my profile as sensitive and put every post of mine behind a CW.

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maxint via Linux

2 months ago

maxint
2 months ago

The Wizard and His Shell

The shell was once powerful magic. Now it’s holding us back.

^{terminal.click}

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ertai

in reply to maxint 2 months ago

I don't know, nothing struck me as new, the only difference is the presentation and the mouse (but I prefer keyboard). the example given for animated indicators already exists using ASCII escape codes. my zsh already has syntax highlighting on the prompt indicating mistyped commands, and suggest possible completions with a tui (with vim bindings). I could go on but anyway my point is everything they show is already possible with a tui, the only reason a clicky clicky solution doesn't exist is because keyboard are freakin better and faster.
They are right that we need a terminal evolution/revolution, but it's not the mouse.

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Oinks

in reply to ertai 2 months ago

GUIs do have advantages in things like discoverability. Honestly the 1983s Apple Lisa nailed this with the idea of having clickable menus annotated with keyboard shortcuts, so users could do the same thing faster next time. For some reason we stopped doing this (especially in web apps), but that's a reason to make better GUIs, not to RETVRN to the feature set of a VT100.

I don't know why we have to go on nonsensical diatribes about "UNIX wizards" though when we're fundamentally talking about a handful of minor UI improvements to things that already exist.

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filister via Linux

2 months ago

filister
2 months ago

What second hand laptop to buy

I would like to buy myself a second hand and install Linux on it. I was looking into ThinkPad T14 gen1 or gen2 devices because of their maintainability and repairability. I found one where I live with a Ryzen processor but it has the wrong keyboard. How easy and expensive would it be to swap this with US English? Are there any good alternatives to the ThinkPads? I fancy the X1 but don't like the fact that I cannot change or swap anything on it. The T14 looks very bulky and unattractive but at least can have the RAM upgraded and the battery changed.

I fancy the Framework laptops, but don't want to spend so much on a laptop. Especially the latest 16 inch with Ryzen AI CPUs.

The T14 G1 is at least cheap, like 350€ with the 400 nits low power display and the battery is at 99%. I guess with tlp installed and autocpugfreq I can get 5-6 hours out of it.

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Eugenia

in reply to filister 2 months ago

I got an X280 with 8 GB of RAM a few months ago, works great with Linux. Paid just $175. It even works with Haiku OS!
Pic: files.mastodon.social/media_at…

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FurryMemesAccount

in reply to filister 2 months ago

At framework, only the desktop and the 13 offer Ryzen AI options.

That said, my 16 is plenty powerful enough.

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blue_berry via Fediverse

2 months ago

blue_berry
2 months ago

FediAI - Demo

You post through the UI to a Fediverse hashtag, on which AI bots listen to, which replies are then displayed in the UI. In the future, the main app should have some kind of ranking only to show the best replies. Through hashtags, AI bots can specialize in certain areas. It would also be possible to partially process a task (for example translate it) and then repost it to another hashtag (I call that "prompt routing). This way, you can have chains of AI bots working together on public, shared message queues.

FediAI - First Look

Repo: https://github.com/bluebbberry/FediAI

^MakerTube

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Sl00k via Fediverse

2 months ago

Sl00k
2 months ago

Great ATProto blog post on the reasoning behind their design architecture

Atproto Ethos - AT Protocol

A deep dive into the philosophical and aesthetic principles underlying the design of AT Protocol.

^{AT Protocol}

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Airportline

Unknown parent 2 months ago

The ATProto equivalent of the word "Fediverse" is "Atmosphere."

Glossary of terms - AT Protocol

A collection of terminology used in the AT Protocol and their definitions.

^{AT Protocol}

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aeshna_cyanea

in reply to flamingos-cant 2 months ago

This is false, they support did:web which ties your identity to ownership of a DNS name (which is its own can of worms, but not controlled by bluesky like PLC).

Unless you mean that you still have to register your pds it to get indexed by the relay, so people can read your posts without querying your server directly (which is possible but discouraged). This is actually an advantage over mastodon/activitypub however, your personal pds will not crash if a post goes viral (unlike a personal mastodon instance).

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ZeroOne via Fediverse

2 months ago

ZeroOne
2 months ago

Ibis-Wiki (A federated encyclopaedia)

Introducing IBIS-Wiki

A federated encyclopedia which uses the ActivityPub protocol, just like Mastodon or Lemmy.
ibis.wiki/

Main Page — ibis.wiki

^ibis.wiki

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ShellMonkey

in reply to ZeroOne 2 months ago

This sounds like a way to have 13 different 'realities' for any given topic, depending on which instance it was hosted on.

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Avid Amoeba

in reply to ShellMonkey 2 months ago

Hm, that's not how Lemmy communities / threads tend to develop. Unless you're considering the effects of defederation I guess.

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ShellMonkey

in reply to Avid Amoeba 2 months ago

Missing an /s?

Take a look at the 'news' on various instances like hexbear vs world and it's night and day. An encyclopedia is meant to be factually reliable, but if this works like it does here you would have the equivalent of conservapedia and prolewiki sitting side by side as 'true'.

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Avid Amoeba

in reply to ShellMonkey 2 months ago

What you're observing are different communities and different threads. The community lemmy.world/c/news is roughly the same everywhere. A thread in some community in lemmy.ca is roughly the same everywhere.

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ShellMonkey

in reply to Avid Amoeba 2 months ago

That could be, I was thinking if the pages were more like the communities. I would have to think they need to be for any kind of moderation, otherwise who approves edits or has edit permissions? If someone else doesn't agree with the vision on the existing page/thread what stops someone from putting up an alternate version?

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Avid Amoeba

in reply to ShellMonkey 2 months ago

Moderation, voting, there are options. My point is whatever the version is of a community or a thread on Lemmy on its host instance, nearly the same the version is on another Lemmy instance that federates with most of the same instances. If we consider just 2 instances federating with each other, and users have no blocklists, and all federation updates are perfectly transferred (no networking issues), then a community in one instance would look identical on the other. So would a thread. After moderation actions and all.

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quickenparalysespunk

in reply to ShellMonkey 2 months ago

Agree.

I also think a federated wiki is a great idea.

I think the way to do that is: instead of having separate realities/universes linked together by search and federation, try to unite those universes into a shared multiverse, to the greatest possible.

In other words
- ❌ merely give all federated users access to the same articles
- ✅ automatically link and embed similar articles into each other by default (collapsed, but expandable). similarity can be determined by authors'/contributors' intentional citations, by instance owners' filter rules, by LLM, etc.

of course, there may be attempts to obfuscate relatedness, astroturfing, brigading, whatnot. I wonder if its possible to visualize voting results for each duplicated/linked article along with the originating instance. I think this would function as a pseudo version of 'community fact-checking'. Maybe a better name would be 'reality-checking' or 'sanity-checking' or whatever.

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Lanske via Linux

2 months ago

Lanske
2 months ago

World on warcraft on Linux

Hello everybody!
I want to escape Microsoft and windows, and I am looking for a Linux distro. I have some experience with Unix and a very old Ubuntu distro. But that's quite some years ago. I am looking for a Linux distribution where i can play World of Warcraft on. I mainly use Nvidia graphics (RTX 3070).

I have found some distributions that are supposed to be good for gaming. I suppose, as i am still a Linux Noob, I am also looking for a distribution which is easy to get into. Especially for an older gamer ;)

I came with these distro's myself. What does the Linux community say?

Bazzite
- Based on Fedora Atomic
- Pre Installed Steam
- Nvidia drivers and support
bazzite.gg/
docs.bazzite.gg/Gaming/index.h…

Developer: Universal Blue (US?)

Drauger OS
- Based on Ubuntu LTS using KDE Plasma
- Pre for AMD
draugeros.org/

Pop!_OS
- based on Ubuntu
- Optimized for gaming on Nvidia GPU's
system76.com/pop/

Developer: system76 (Denver, US)

SteamOS
-based on Debian 8 (Jessie)
-designed to run steam and steam games
-set to auto update their OS from Valve repo's
store.steampowered.com/steamos

Developer: Valve (US)

Manjaro
-based on Arch (rolling release model for latest software/drivers)
-KDE plasma desktop
(Pro-tip: enable flatpak and install ProtonUp-QT)
manjaro.org/products

Developer: Majaro (EU - Austria, France, Germany)

Ubuntu:
-the go-to linux distro for millions of users, incl gamers
-best for beginners and gamers who want stable well supported distro
-works seamlesssly with steam, lutris, wine
(pro-tip: install the gamemode package (sudo apt install gamemode))
ubuntu.com/download

Developer: Canonical ltd. (UK)

Nobara
-based on Fedora
-optimized for gaming on newer Nvidia graphics (drivers come installed)
nobaraproject.org/download-nob…

Developer: Thomas Crider (Denver, US)

Mint
-based on debian and Ubuntu
-friendly OS, works out of the box, extremely easy to use
linuxmint.com/download.php

Developer : Linuxmint (French, Dutch, UK)

Bazzite - The next generation of Linux gaming

Bazzite is a custom Fedora Atomic image built with cloud native technology that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices - including your favorite handheld..

^bazzite.gg

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mina86

in reply to Lanske 2 months ago

Admittedly, I’m probably not the best person to ask for recommendation of a noob-friendly distro, but I feel people are overthinking this. If someone produces a list which includes distros I’ve never heard of, I think they spent too much time on ‘Top 10 Noob Friendly Distros in 2025’ websites.

If you really care about my recommendation, just start with Mint.

PS. I should also add, this isn’t criticism of you or any other new
user who does search online for recommendation. This is more
a comment on state of the Internet where there are so many websites
which seem to pad their list with obscure distros where really all
such articles should give recommendation for one of the same three
distributions. Which three I don’t exactly know.

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Lanske

in reply to mina86 2 months ago

Thnx for your reply!
And don't worry, i didn't see your reply as some criticism, i am fairly new to Linux, that's why i did some researching, and might found some unknown distro's ;)

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Telorand

in reply to Lanske 2 months ago

First, gaming distros are vanilla distros with opinionated tweaks and additions to support the hobby of gaming. It might be as simple as having Steam pre-installed to as complex as having unique kernels or custom package repos maintained by the distro maintainers.

But that doesn't mean vanilla is always the best choice, because not everybody wants to spend time optimizing everything. Some distros even have easy setup scripts for otherwise complex installations (like for Davinci Resolve). Don't feel like you need to pick vanilla to be a "true user."

Some easy to set up Distros for gaming that are ready ootb:

Bazzite: Fedora Atomic, practically bulletproof, just works. Downsides are that adding new packages is not the same as other distros, and there's a learning curve to it beyond flatpaks. Some software can't be installed at all if it doesn't come as an RPM or AppImage (Private Internet Access's VPN client, for example).
CachyOS: Arch with an optimized kernel and optimized packages. Comes with some easy-install scripts. Tool to easily select different kernels and schedulers. Currently another very popular choice. Like the above, this just works. There's some debate about how significant the optimizations really are, but they're there nonetheless.
Nobara: Traditional Fedora. Like Bazzite, just works. Has a custom update manager that acts as a GUI wrapper for your usual cli tools. Maintained by GloriousEggroll, a widely respected user that maintains the GE versions of Proton.
PikaOS: Debian (not Ubuntu). Combines the philosophies of Nobara and CachyOS and puts them atop Debian. Better setup scripts than even CachyOS, a more user friendly update tool than Nobara's, and has the same kernel selection and scheduler tools as CachyOS, plus the same package optimizations. Don't let the fact that it's Debian underneath fool you. This has the latest kernel and drivers.

I would try all of those in a VM and see what you like about them. They're all unique and worth a look.

ETA: all of these have Nvidia versions, so all of them should work with your card.

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vintageballs

in reply to Lanske 2 months ago

I am running Manjaro KDE on two general purpose PCs, both with Nvidia graphics, both without problems.

On my living room gaming setup (also Nvidia), I am running Bazzite, which also runs very nicely.

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off

in reply to Lanske 2 months ago

wow is one of the easiest things to run and has ran pretty much fine since it came out in 2004 lol

The newer battle net launcher is more difficult to run, but lutris auto installs all that for you.

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DigDoug

in reply to Lanske 2 months ago

Any reasonably modern, well maintained desktop distro should be fine; whether they're "for gaming" or not shouldn't matter. I've successfully run WoW on both Debian Stable and Arch.

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gpstarman via Linux

2 months ago

gpstarman
2 months ago

rEFInd doesn't show BTRFS snapshots.

What I want:

To boot into a BTRFS snapshots from rEFind boot manager. But rEFInd doesn't show the snapshots.

Additional Info:

So, apparently, to restore the BTRFS snapshot of a root subvolume, I shouldn't do it with the root partition being actively used.
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So, I need to boot into the desired snapshot from the boot manager itself.
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GRUB has grub-btrfs, which lets you boot into snapshot from OS selection screen itself.
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rEFInd has refind-btrfs, which should do the same as grub-btrfs. But it didn't in my case. I am not seeing any way to boot into a snapshot from rEFInd.
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I use BTRFS Assistant with snapper to manage snapshots.
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I am not seeing any way to restore the snapshot from live environment too.
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I am using CachyOS (Arch) with Plasma DE.
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I suspect the reason is my unusual /efi /boot partition layout. (attached below)
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I did my partition this way because, my initial EFI partition had less storage (as seen on image), so , I created another boot partition and mounted my pre-existing EFI partition to /boot/efi. I did this by referring a Youtube video (I know, I should've known better)
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I also encrypted my BTRFS / partition
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If you need any other info, please ask.
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I know this is a general community, but this is the 7th community that I'm asking this 🥲

Some people suggested Limine bootloader, but I like rEFInd for its versatile theme support.

GitHub - Venom1991/refind-btrfs: Generate rEFInd manual boot stanzas from Btrfs snapshots

Generate rEFInd manual boot stanzas from Btrfs snapshots - Venom1991/refind-btrfs

^GitHub

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Eugenia

in reply to gpstarman 2 months ago

From arch's site:

Tip: make sure btrfs_x64.efi driver is installed, it can be installed manually by copying from /usr/share/refind/drivers_x64/btrfs_x64.efi to esp/EFI/refind/drivers_x64/btrfs_x64.efi, or you can install all drivers with the refind-install /dev/sdx --alldrivers option.

Warning: btrfs_x64.efi does not support raid1c3/4.

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gpstarman

in reply to Eugenia 2 months ago

Thank you.

But, its already there. Also, I don't do any raid.

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Leaflet via Linux

2 months ago

Leaflet
2 months ago

On brightness, and calibrating your displays

Many people are, understandably, confused about brightness levels in content creation and consumption - both for SDR and for HDR content. Even people that do content creation as their job sometimes get it really wrong.

^{Xaver Hugl (Xaver’s blog)}

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Quack Doc

in reply to Leaflet 2 months ago

This makes a numerous amounts of incorrect assumptions.

For one it assumes all sRGB monitors utilize gamma2.2 for decoding images. This is bluntly put, completely wrong. A large amount of displays utilize the inverse OETF (the peicewise srgb transform) for decoding sRGB. (for some more information from a somewhat authoritative body, filmlight's "srgb we need to talk" video on youtube goes more indepth but TLDR is 25-50% of displays use the inverse sRGB oetf)

this is why windows HDR uses the inverse oetf. Decoding content graded on a pure 2.2 display with the inverse oetf is way better then decoding content graded on an inverse oetf display with a pure 2.2. Windows took the safe route of making sure most content looks at least OK. I would not say that windows HDR is wrong, it's not right, but it's not wrong either. this is just the mess that sRGB gave us.

Another time you should be using the inverse sRGB OETF to linearize content when the original content was encoded using the sRGB oetf and you want to go back to that working data, but this applies less to compositors and more to authoring workflows.

Another wrong assumption

When you use Windows 11 on a desktop monitor and enable HDR, you get an “SDR content brightness” slider in the settings - treating HDR content as something completely separate that’s somehow independent of the viewing environment, and that you cannot adjust the brightness of. With laptop displays however, you get a normal brightness slider, which applies to both SDR and HDR content.

People have been adjusting monitor brightness for ages. Sometimes manually, sometimes with DDC etc.

Another issue that is brought up is "graphics white" BT.2408 is a suggestion, not a hard coded spec, many different specs or suggestions use a different "graphics white" value. A good example of this is JXL. 2408 also very explicitly says 'The signal level of “HDR Reference White” is not directly related to the signal level of SDR “peak white”.'

this is important to note because this directly contradicts the some of the seemingly core assumptions made in the article, and even some of the bullet points like "a reference luminance, also known as HDR reference white, graphics white or SDR white" and "SDR things, like user interfaces in games, should use the reference luminance too"

if your application has some need to differentiate between “SDR” and “HDR” displays (to change the buffer format for example), you can do so by checking if the maximum mastering luminance is greater than the reference luminance

This needs to be expanded upon that this does NOT correlate to what the general user understands HDR and SDR to be. HDR and SDR in the terms of video content is no more then a marketing term and without context it can be hard to define what it is, However it is abundantly clear from this quote here that how they are interpreting HDR and SDR (which is a very valid technically inclined way of interpreting it) does NOT fall inline with general user expectation.

Anyone reading this article should be made aware of this.

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Zamundaaa

in reply to Quack Doc 2 months ago

For one it assumes all sRGB monitors utilize gamma2.2 for decoding images

Assuming that all monitors do anything specific at all would be a folly, no.
There are no assumptions there, the sRGB spec has no ambiguity when it comes to the transfer function of the display.

That a certain percentage of displays don't behave like expected is annoying, but doesn't really change anything (beyond allowing the user to change the assumed transfer function in SDR mode).

this is why windows HDR uses the inverse oetf. Decoding content graded on a pure 2.2 display with the inverse oetf is way better then decoding content graded on an inverse oetf display with a pure 2.2. Windows took the safe route of making sure most content looks at least OK. I would not say that windows HDR is wrong, it’s not right, but it’s not wrong either. this is just the mess that sRGB gave us.

The most likely actual reason Window uses the piece-wise transfer function for HDR is that it did that in SDR mode too - where however the default ICC profile was also piece-wise sRGB, so it canceled out on 99% of PCs, and had no negative effects.

Another time you should be using the inverse sRGB OETF to linearize content when the original content was encoded using the sRGB oetf and you want to go back to that working data, but this applies less to compositors and more to authoring workflows.

Makes sense.

People have been adjusting monitor brightness for ages. Sometimes manually, sometimes with DDC etc.

That's a very different thing. Pushing viewing environment adjustments to the display side makes some amount of sense with SDR monitors - when you get an SDR display with increased luminance capabilities vs. the old one, you change the monitor to display the content comfortably in your environment.

With HDR though, if the operating system considers PQ content to be absolute in luminance, you can't properly adjust that on the monitor side anymore, because a lot of monitors completely lock you out of brightness controls in HDR mode, and the vast majority of the ones that do allow you to adjust it, only allow you to reduce luminance, not increase it above "PQ absolute".

Another issue that is brought up is “graphics white” BT.2408 is a suggestion, not a hard coded spec, many different specs or suggestions use a different “graphics white” value.

I didn't claim that PQ had only one specification that uses it, I split up SMPTE ST 2084, rec.2100 and BT.2408 for a reason. I didn't dive into it further because a hundred pages of diving into every detail that's irrelevant in practice is counter productive to people actually learning useful things.

A good example of this is JXL.

Can you expand on what you mean with that?

2408 also very explicitly says ‘The signal level of “HDR Reference White” is not directly related to the signal level of SDR “peak white”.’

That "directly" is very important, as it does very much make both these signal levels the same. As I wrote in the blog post, the spec is all about broadcasts and video.

Other systems do sometimes split these two things up, but that nearly always just results in a bad user experience. I won't rant anymore about the crapshow that is HDR on Windows, but my LG TV cranks up brightness of its UI to the absolute maximum while an HDR video is playing. If they would adhere to the recommendations of BT.2408, they would work much better.

this is important to note because this directly contradicts the some of the seemingly core assumptions made in the article, and even some of the bullet points like “a reference luminance, also known as HDR reference white, graphics white or SDR white” and “SDR things, like user interfaces in games, should use the reference luminance too”

No contradictions at all. The Wayland protocol defines these things to be the same, so for application developers they just are the same, end of story.

This needs to be expanded upon that this does NOT correlate to what the general user understands HDR and SDR to be. HDR and SDR in the terms of video content is no more then a marketing term and without context it can be hard to define what it is, However it is abundantly clear from this quote here that how they are interpreting HDR and SDR (which is a very valid technically inclined way of interpreting it) does NOT fall inline with general user expectation.

That's just absolute nonsense. The very very vast majority of users do not have any clue whatsoever what transfer function content is using, or even what a transfer function, buffer encoding or even buffers are, the only difference they can see is that HDR gets brighter than SDR.

And again, this too is about how applications should use the Wayland protocol. This is the only way to define it that makes any sense.

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Assuming that all monitors do anything specific at all would be a folly, no. There are no assumptions there, the sRGB spec has no ambiguity when it comes to the transfer function of the display.
That a certain percentage of displays don’t behave like expected is annoying, but doesn’t really change anything (beyond allowing the user to change the assumed transfer function in SDR mode).

the video goes more indepth, but it's a very true statement to say that "some displays decode with the inverse oetf and some don't" this issue has been plaguing displays for decades now.

There are no assumptions there, the sRGB spec has no ambiguity when it comes to the transfer function of the display.

You are 100% right in saying "the reference display is gamma 2.2" however, we can only wish this is what displays do, Color.org themselves got this wrong!!! color.org/srgb.pdf and leads people astray.

The most likely actual reason Window uses the piece-wise transfer function for HDR is that it did that in SDR mode too - where however the default ICC profile was also piece-wise sRGB, so it canceled out on 99% of PCs, and had no negative effects.

I don't actually believe this to be the case, if it was people who use custom ICCs would get extremely wonky results that don't typically happen. On the other hand it is very true that colors when doing it the way they do, you get the "least offensive" results. Though IMO the best solution would be to simply be to default to the pure 2.2 and allow users to override the transfer. the Color protocol allows for explicit peicewise sRGB anyways, so doing this should fit right into a fleshed out colormanaged setup.

That’s a very different thing. Pushing viewing environment adjustments to the display side makes some amount of sense with SDR monitors - when you get an SDR display with increased luminance capabilities vs. the old one, you change the monitor to display the content comfortably in your environment

I think I am a bit confused on the laptop analogy then, could you elaborate on it?

With HDR though, if the operating system considers PQ content to be absolute in luminance, you can’t properly adjust that on the monitor side anymore, because a lot of monitors completely lock you out of brightness controls in HDR mode, and the vast majority of the ones that do allow you to adjust it, only allow you to reduce luminance, not increase it above “PQ absolute”.

How monitors typically handle this is beyond me I will admit, But I have seen some really bonkers ways of handling it so I couldn't really comment on whether or not this holds true one way or another. Just so I am not misinterpeting you, are you saying that "if you feed 300nits of PQ, the monitor will not allow it to go above it's 300nits"? IF so this is not the case on what happens on my TV unless I am in "creator/PC" mode. In other modes it will allow it to go brighter or dimmer.

My current monitor is only a 380nit display so I can't really verify on that (nor do I have the hardware to atm)

I didn’t claim that PQ had only one specification that uses it, I split up SMPTE ST 2084, rec.2100 and BT.2408 for a reason. I didn’t dive into it further because a hundred pages of diving into every detail that’s irrelevant in practice is counter productive to people actually learning useful things.

ah I see, I was a bit confused on what you had meant then. My apologies.

Can you expand on what you mean with that?

Keep in mind this was based on the above misinterpretation of what I thought you meant.

With libjxl it doesn't really default to the "SDR white == 203" reference from the "reference white == SDR white" common... choice? not sure how to word it... Anyways, libjxl defaults to "SDR white = 255" or something along those lines, I can't quite remember. The reasoning for this was simple, that was what they were tuning butteraugli on.

That “directly” is very important, as it does very much make both these signal levels the same. As I wrote in the blog post, the spec is all about broadcasts and video.
Other systems do sometimes split these two things up, but that nearly always just results in a bad user experience. I won’t rant anymore about the crapshow that is HDR on Windows, but my LG TV cranks up brightness of its UI to the absolute maximum while an HDR video is playing. If they would adhere to the recommendations of BT.2408, they would work much better.

I think this is an issue of terminology and stuff, reference white is something the colourist often decides. When you assume that HDR graphics white == SDR white this actually causes more problems then it solves. I would say that it is a "good default", but not a safe value to assume. This is something the user may often need to override. I know personally even when just watching movies on MPV this is something I very often need to play with to get a good experience, and this is not even counting professionally done work.

That’s just absolute nonsense. The very very vast majority of users do not have any clue whatsoever what transfer function content is using, or even what a transfer function, buffer encoding or even buffers are, the only difference they can see is that HDR gets brighter than SDR.
And again, this too is about how applications should use the Wayland protocol. This is the only way to define it that makes any sense.

this actually isn't really that true. It is indeed the case that users wont know what transfer function content is using. but they absolutely do see a difference other then "HDR gets brighter then SDR" and that is "it's more smooth in the dark areas" because that is also equally true.

Users have a lot of different assumptions about HDR, but they all follow some sort of trend "it makes the content look more smooth at a greater range of luminance" and if I were to give a "technical definition that follows general user expectations" the definition would be something along the lines of "A transfer that provides perceptually smooth steps of luminance at a given bit depth up to at least 1000 nits in a given reference environment" which is bad for sure, but at the very least, it more closely aligns with general expectations of HDR given it's use in marketing.

(I really hate the terms HDR and SDR btw, I wish they would die in a fire for any technical discussion and really wish we could dissuade people from using the term)

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Zamundaaa

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I don’t actually believe this to be the case, if it was people who use custom ICCs would get extremely wonky results that don’t typically happen

They wouldn't, because applying ICC profiles is opt-in for each application. Games and at least many video players don't apply ICC profiles, so they do not see negative side effects of it being handled wrong (unless they calibrate the VCGT to follow the piece-wise TF).

With Windows Advanced Color of course, that may change.

I think I am a bit confused on the laptop analogy then, could you elaborate on it?

What analogy?

How monitors typically handle this is beyond me I will admit, But I have seen some really bonkers ways of handling it so I couldn’t really comment on whether or not this holds true one way or another. Just so I am not misinterpeting you, are you saying that “if you feed 300nits of PQ, the monitor will not allow it to go above it’s 300nits”? IF so this is not the case on what happens on my TV unless I am in “creator/PC” mode. In other modes it will allow it to go brighter or dimmer.

Yes, that's exactly what happens. TVs do random nonsense to make the image look "better", and one of those image optimizations is to boost brightness. In this case it's far from always nonsense of course (on my TV it was though, it made the normal desktop waaay too bright).

unless I am in “creator/PC” mode

Almost certainly just trying to copy what monitors do.

With libjxl it doesn’t really default to the “SDR white == 203” reference from the “reference white == SDR white” common… choice? not sure how to word it… Anyways, libjxl defaults to “SDR white = 255” or something along those lines, I can’t quite remember. The reasoning for this was simple, that was what they were tuning butteraugli on.

Heh, when it came to merging the Wayland protocol and we needed implementations for all the features, I was searching for a video or image standard that did exactly that. The protocol has a feature where you can specify a non-default reference luminance to handle these cases.

It is indeed the case that users wont know what transfer function content is using. but they absolutely do see a difference other then “HDR gets brighter then SDR” and that is “it’s more smooth in the dark areas” because that is also equally true.

That is technically speaking true, but noone actually sees that. People do often get confused about bit depth vs. HDR, but that's more to do with marketing conflating the two than people actually noticing a lack of banding with HDR content. With the terrible bitrates videos often use nowadays, you can even get banding in HDR videos too :/

When you play an HDR and an SDR video on a desktop OS side by side, the only normally visible differences are that the HDR video sometimes gets a lot brighter than the SDR one, and that (with a color managed video player...) the colors may be more intense.

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Quack Doc

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I should elaborate on why the "Peak white" stuff is wrong, they give this math here for mapping linear luminance. This can be really confusing, "what do we map the references to" well if PQ "graphics white" is 203, should we map sRGB to 203? clearly not, at least not always as implied by BT.2408.

the question as to what we map SDR content to in an HDR space is complex, and in many cases almost certainly not some number that we can do 1:1 mapping with, which is why specifications for inverse tonemapping exist. for instance BT.2446 defines multiple tone mapping algorithms to go from SDR->HDR->SDR or HDR->SDR->HDR or any step inbetween with minimal content loss and fidelity loss.

we cannot do a simple one size fits all function and expect everything to be hunky dory

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Again, the reference luminance mapping is all about how applications should use the Wayland protocol.

How to map SDR to HDR can indeed be made much more complicated, from simple gamma adjustments to some full blown ITM meant for images or videos, like what BT.2446 suggests, but as far as applications are concerned, those are edge cases that they don't really need to be prepared for.

It's not like they have a different choice - unless the compositor supports custom reference luminance levels (which KWin does, but not all others do), and they support custom reference luminance themselves, then they need some logic to calculate peak luminance levels. If the compositor steps outside of those common expectations for reference luminance mapping, then the result may not be ideal, but there is no way for the application to do better.

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2 months ago

gronjo45
2 months ago

GUI Programming Recommendations

Hello all,

I'm trying to get into GUI programming, but am hesitating on using a Python library to make my first barebones program. My goal is to code basic buttons and understand how operating systems implement the way they draw windows for applications.

I have coded mostly in scientific libraries or high-level languages that are fairly simple (Python, Matlab, Julia)... Also am familiar with basic concepts and syntax from C.

Looking for recommendations to start. I am happy to learn a new PL. Interested in writing code for legacy hardware and mobile. Bonus if the codes are general enough to be written for most displays one could interact with.

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zolar

in reply to gronjo45 2 months ago

Not directly programming or coding GUI from scratch with a library or something: Have you considered using a game engine like Godot ( godotengine.org/ ) ?

You would have a toolbox for several essential GUI-elements. You could visually create the GUI and add functionality by script. Also, there are several possibilities to handle different screen sizes and touch.

You would have to learn the UI and concepts of Godot but the documentation is ok and there are plenty of tutorials available.

Godot Engine - Free and open source 2D and 3D game engine

Godot provides a huge set of common tools, so you can just focus on making your game without reinventing the wheel.

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KindaABigDyl

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Slint

I really like Slint.

It has Python bindings, tho you wouldn't know it from the docs as it's brand new bindings.

However, it does WORK, and it works well.

Just look for python files in the examples and reference the slint docs (it uses its own UI lang for that stuff anyway).

I'm currently making an application in Python using Slint, and I really like it.

Godot

Other than that, I second Godot.

HOWEVER

Godot's GD Script is not Python but rather a Python-like language. (in fact, in some ways, I'm glad it's not; there are things I prefer in GD Script).

This is important as you may want to use specific Python libraries!

Iced

If you're not tied to Python, then I recommend the Rust library Iced as it is a very intuitive system. I really enjoy working with it.

Although, that said, Slint has great support for Rust, so maybe I'd recommend Slint anyway if you were gonna change language.

Warning Against Legacy

Avoid GTK, Qt, and TK at all costs imo. Also WinForms if ur on Windows.

They're old and crusty, and their APIs suck to use, even modern versions, and despite being aged, they're buggy still, not robust "tried-and-true" methods.

It's also hard to do dynamic stuff with them.

Just not well designed systems. Important, valuable to know bc they're used all over, but not well designed

Immediate

I would also try ImGUI.

It's meant more for gamedev UIs rather than Apps themselves (tho I've made a couple in it)

BUT

It's a totally different way of doing UI called "Immediate" bc you program the elements in a big loop, rather than event driven.

It's interesting and worth trying as a learning experience

React

And ofc, the Javascript/Electron world is huge and React is very popular with lots of tools. At least read up on it.

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fossphi

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Very interesting of you to call gtk and qt legacy . Is this a common belief? I'm surprised to see this and never came across it before

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KindaABigDyl

in reply to fossphi 2 months ago

The modern version of Gtk and its APIs started with the switch to Cairo back in Gtk 2.8 circa 2005. While Gtk 3 and 4 have undoubtedly improved upon Gtk 2, they fundamentally still work in a similar paradigm and still have all the crust of a 20 year old library. Like most old software projects, it has some level of backwards compatibility and deprecates and adds slowly. Gtk is, like, the definition of legacy, and Qt is in a similar boat. They're OLD old.

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ikidd

in reply to gronjo45 2 months ago

I've been using Flutter, I like how it's cross-platform, mostly. I've generally built things for Android, but the desktop (Linux and Windows) and web versions usually compile fine with no tweaking. Couldn't speak to the iOS versions as I can't be arsed to jump through Apple's hoops. You can make a nice looking app with it for whichever platform you're targeting.

It's very well supported, lots of examples, well documented. Not as much out there as Python for examples and troubleshooting, but not bad.

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MonkderVierte

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web versions usually compile fine with no tweaking

Isn't Flutter basically a webapp anyway?

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Jiří Král

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Flutter uses its own UI engine. It does not rely on any webview AFAIK.

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pyqt5 or tkinter

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2 months ago

irelephant [he/him]🍭
2 months ago

What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?

Every time I go to the piefed frontpage I'm blown away by how much more polished it is. It has all the bells and whistles that lemmy is sometimes missing.

Whats the catch? Why aren't we recommending everyone goes to piefed instead of lemmy?

App support is one thing I can think of.

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I never knew what it was because I'm a bit desensitised to new apps / app names.

Edit: using phtn.app/ has made Lemmy extremely pleasant to use too. I haven't had a better experience on any platform.

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For me..

Because the PWA font is too small and can't be enlarged.

Because there's no 'back to top' button so have to kill the app to refresh.

Because there's no app.

But sometimes I use it anyway because the combining of articles is so much better than seeing the same article three or four times in a row in Voyager.

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DonutsRMeh via Linux

2 months ago

DonutsRMeh
2 months ago

Life After Microsoft Windows: Linux Rises

This just warms my heart. The year of the Linux desktop isn't here, but the decade of it is.

Life After Microsoft Windows: Linux Rises

Life After Microsoft Windows Cutting The Cord Series: A tech revolution is shaking up governments worldwide—Windows 10’s looming end of life, increasing Micr...

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cm0002 via Linux

2 months ago

cm0002
2 months ago

Qt 6.9 released

Qt 6.9 is here! This release brings exciting innovations, enhanced graphics performance, and new platform capabilities to help you build exceptional applications.
Highlighted improvements in Qt 6.9 include:
* Qt Graphs: Interactive 2D panning, zooming, and dynamic 3D graph injection. Printing support now available!
* Qt Quick: GPU-accelerated SVG animations and Variable Rate Shading for improved graphics performance.
* Qt Quick Controls: New context menu support enhances desktop integration and user experience.
* XR Enhancements: Haptic feedback added for creating richter immersive virtual interactions.

Qt 6.9 Released

Qt 6.9 is now available, highlighting emojis, Graphs, OIT, better OAuth2, and many more new improvements for application developers and device creators!

^{Volker Hilsheimer (The Qt Company Oy)}

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mox

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Qt is still the only excellent cross-platform desktop GUI framework.

It's a pity that it's current custodian's commercial licenses:

are subscriptions
are painfully expensive for a solo developer or small group
have a reputation for triggering legal threats and badgering from The Qt Company if one ever wants to end their subscription or (separately) use the open-source license for a FOSS project

This situation makes me afraid to use their commercial offerings, which in turn means they won't get any money from me at all; I feel that I can safely use their libs only in open-source code. Their business model is their decision, of course, but I can't help wondering if their whale-hunting approach actually nets them more money than a more accessible, lower-cost, one-time (or one-major-version) license option would. In many other industries, high sales volume reaps more profits than high price.

Thank goodness for the KDE Free Qt Foundation.

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utopiArte

2 months ago

utopiArte
2 months ago

Q&A profile page options

v.01
@Friendica Support @Tutorial

Hi there!

A question about the different page option settings of accounts (friendica 2024.03).
/settings/account/basic

Screen of the account type options in the advanced account page type settings.

Right now this page want's to merge from a standard personal profile page to kinda community profile page where only specific defined profiles can publish thru it's wall to the rest of the followers.

First thought was to stay as a single profile page, allow mutual friend relations to publish/write to this wall, and change all contacts that do not belong to the inner circle of profiles to followers only. Apparently this setting doesn't work, or doesn't work as expected.
Security and privacy settings in:
/settings
Screen of the setting that allows friends to post to the profile page wall of a personal page.

Is this a known issue or some kind of misinterpretation of this option?

Next possible option would be to choose to become a public community group page.
Screen of the community group options in the advanced account page type settings.

This option would imply a continuous attention to change every new contact to followers only, if in fact this would mean that the followers would not be able to publish to the group but receive publications. Also this setting would include the risk of being exposed to unexpected posts into the community of followers whenever the administration of the profile lags behind for some reason.

The option private group looks more promising in this regard and actually would be the same than being a personal profile page that checks new follow requests and than could change the setting to allow mutual friendship to post to the profiles wall or simply define a follower relationship. The [Experimental] notice, that actually exists like lot's of years already is a little bit confusing, or creates a certain reluctance to try this option. How experimental is this still as of now or could we perhaps ask the community to run a general test on all the options of the account settings in general together with a general feed back to sum this up and come to some definite setup, wording and explanations on the matter?

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utopiArte

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Account type:
Community page

Screen of the community group options in the advanced account page type settings.

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utopiArte

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Apparently community pages can't restrict access to posting onto the wall of the forum page, so this wouldn't be an option for the proposal.

Screen of the security and privacy settings for forum/community pages.

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utopiArte

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Account type:
Channel relay

Screen of the channel relay option in the advanced account page type settings.

Instantnudel via Linux

2 months ago

Instantnudel
2 months ago

[✅Fixed]Monitor drops to 30% brightness after suspend

Hey, I hope someone can help me.

Problem:

When I wake my PC from suspend, my monitor is always set down to 30% brightness for some reason.

These are the brightness settings of the monitor itself, which can only be accessed via the monitor settings using the buttons on the monitor. I do not mean the brightness settings of my desktop environment.
These are still set to 100%, even though the monitor is darker.

The problem also arises in a second case. When I lower the brightness in the brightness control of my DE, my monitor brightness is also lowered in the monitor settings down to 30% again. I can then no longer increase the brightness in the DE settings, because 100% in the DE now equals 30% in the monitor. So if I set the brightness to 50% in the DE for example, this is 50% of the 30% set in the monitor. So actually only 15% in real terms

I hope I was able to explain the problem clearly. Please ask if you don't understand something. It's really annoying because I need to turn up my screen brightness with the Buttons on the Monitor every single time I wake up my PC.

Technical data:

Nobara Linux 41 (Based on Fedora)
KDE Plasma 6.3.3
Wayland
Desktop PC. So a external monitor. Not a laptop monitor.
I have a 2nd monitor on which this does not happen.

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psychothumbs via Fediverse

2 months ago

psychothumbs
2 months ago

A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse

A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse | TechCrunch

A new security fund aims to help apps in the fediverse — like Mastodon, Threads, and Pixelfed — to pay researchers for disclosing security bugs.

^{Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)}

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FundMECFS

in reply to psychothumbs 2 months ago

Was the first paragraph written by the Meta marketing department?

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PhilipTheBucket

in reply to FundMECFS 2 months ago

Yeah, there's also this:

A more recent issue came about when Pixelfed’s creator, Daniel Supernault made the details of a vulnerability public before server operators had a chance to update, which would have left the fediverse vulnerable to bad actors, she says. (Supernault has already apologized publicly for his handling of the issue that had affected private accounts.)
In the case of the Pixelfed issue, for instance, the Hachyderm Mastodon server, which has over 9,500 members, decided it needed to defederate (or disconnect from) other Pixelfed servers that hadn’t been updated in order to protect their users.

It is weird to spend almost half the words in this, pretending that something in Pixelfed that wasn't a problem on Pixelfed's side was. This is the weirdest "vulnerability" in the world to pick if you want to pick one to hold up extensively as an example.

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troed

in reply to PhilipTheBucket 2 months ago

Regardless whether you want to pretend that not caring about Mastodon is a valid defense when implementing software using the ActivityPub protocol, that still doesn't change anything regarding how Dansup handled the disclosure of the effects it had.

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PhilipTheBucket

in reply to troed 2 months ago

This is nothing to do with ActivityPub. It's to do with Mastodon's custom implementation of "private" posts.
Making it extremely clear to everyone that random server software can expose Mastodon's "private" posts is absolutely the right way to handle disclosure here. Dan didn't even try to do that, he just fixed the bug, but if he had made a big post saying "hey this is not my fault Mastodon private posts are not private, here's full explanation about what's going on" I think that would have been completely fine. This is not a "vulnerability" in the traditional sense like a buffer overflow, it's just a design flaw in Mastodon which other softwares are by convention agreeing to cater to. I think the culture of security (and the level of clue in general) in the Fediverse has wandered into territory where "let's all pretend that these posts are secure and get mad at anyone who reveals that they are not" is widely accepted now, but that doesn't make it right.

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troed

in reply to PhilipTheBucket 2 months ago

It has everything to do with ActivityPub since if you follow that protocol strictly you will cause this behavior. It still doesn't change that Dansup was told that this caused Bad Things(tm) and yet he didn't follow normal procedure in how you handle it.

Vulnerabilities don't need to be buffer overflows.

/cybersec researcher

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PhilipTheBucket

in reply to troed 2 months ago

It has everything to do with ActivityPub since if you follow that protocol strictly you will cause this behavior.

Absolutely not. Which part of the spec? I linked up there to quite a thorough explanation of what the spec does and doesn't dictate in this area. What part of my explanation did I get wrong? Are they violating 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, some other part? How?

/cybersec researcher

I do not believe you. "I'm sending things out which need to be handled carefully in a protocol-nonstandard way by the recipient server software (which could be literally anything), or else my user's private posts will be exposed. If someone talks about that situation and lets people know what's going on, that's irresponsible disclosure."

If you actually are a cybersec researcher, you are bad at your job.

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troed

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hahahahaha

Watch and try again ;) I post under my real name.

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Walkthrough of how the security of the Minut M2 IoT sensor was defeated. Contains both hardware attacks as well as cryptographic analysis.This is part 1 in t...

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PhilipTheBucket

in reply to troed 2 months ago

Okay. What part of the spec did Pixelfed violate? Where in the spec is Mastodon's implementation of private posts justified?

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troed

in reply to PhilipTheBucket 2 months ago

Read more, post less. I've said nothing about any spec violation. That's not relevant.

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PhilipTheBucket

in reply to troed 2 months ago

I’ve said nothing about any spec violation. That’s not relevant.
It has everything to do with ActivityPub since if you follow that protocol strictly you will cause this behavior.

That's what I was going by. I guess I could re-read this now and interpret "this behavior" as Pixelfed's side, instead of Mastodon's side as I initially read it, and decide that you are agreeing with me that Mastodon's behavior was (and is) out of spec? Do I have that right?

It still doesn’t change that Dansup was told that this caused Bad Things™ and yet he didn’t follow normal procedure in how you handle it.

It is normal procedure to fix a bug when you are notified about it.

The design flaw in Mastodon that managed to bite Pixelfed in this situation still exists. People were writing about it back in 2017 when this was all being first implemented. The idea that "normal procedure" needs to include keeping it a secret that Mastodon's "private" statuses can be exposed by any server software that doesn't handle them in the way that's expected, is 100% wrong.

I'll rephrase what I said earlier: Since you're a security researcher, and you apparently think Dan should have played into the idea of keeping it a secret that Mastodon's private statuses are not secret by obfuscating the information about how he was fixing Pixelfed to more effectively hide them, you are bad at your job. In this instance. The fault lies with how private statuses are implemented, and nothing about that needs to be kept secret as would a normal vulnerability. In fact, it is extremely harmful to let users believe that these privacy settings are anything other than vague recommendations, specifically because of the risk they will act accordingly and expose some of their private posts to the world. They should know exactly what's going on with it, and Dan accidentally failing to keep that a secret is in no way causing bad things.

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Blaze (he/him)

in reply to PhilipTheBucket 2 months ago

I usually agree with you, but here @troed@fedia.io is right.

Full disclosure
With the full disclosure approach, the full details of the vulnerability are made public as soon as they are identified. This means that the full details (sometimes including exploit code) are available to attackers, often before a patch is available. The full disclosure approach is primarily used in response or organizations ignoring reported vulnerabilities, in order to put pressure on them to develop and publish a fix.
This makes the full disclosure approach very controversial, and it is seen as irresponsible by many people. Generally it should only be considered as a last resort, when all other methods have failed, or when exploit code is already publicly available.
Responsible or Coordinated Disclosure
Responsible disclosure attempts to find a reasonable middle ground between these two approaches. With responsible disclosure, the initial report is made privately, but with the full details being published once a patch has been made available (sometimes with a delay to allow more time for the patches to be installed).

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Vulnerability Disclosure - OWASP Cheat Sheet Series

Website with the collection of all the cheat sheets of the project.

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PhilipTheBucket

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Hm... maybe. The exact nature of the problem in Pixelfed means that anyone with a Pixelfed account on a server which is getting private statuses can choose to follow someone who's set to "approve followers" and then read all the private statuses. I do see how that's significantly worse than just the normal lay-of-the-land of the problem, which is a little more random, and laying that out as a little roadmap to read someone else's private statuses before there's been a nice responsible length of time for things to get fixed could be seen as worsening the problem.

The point that I'm making is that anyone who's posting private statuses to Mastodon and expecting them to stay private is making a bad mistake already. The structure of the protocol is such that they can't be assured of staying private regardless of what Pixelfed did or even if Pixelfed didn't exist. They're getting federated to servers whose behavior is not assured, in a way where a conformant ActivityPub implementation can expose them. People who are posting private statuses need to understand that.

That whole blog post where the person is talking about her partner writing private statuses, and then the gut-wrenching realization that they were being exposed on Pixelfed... but then the resolution being "Pixelfed fucked up I hate Dansup now" and then continuing to post the private statuses, is wrong. That person's partner needs to stop treating their private posts on Mastodon that way. The timer for responsible disclosure started circa 2017 or whenever Mastodon decided on how to implement their private statuses. It's been and gone.

Like I say, I get the harm-reduction aspect of saying it would have been better if Dansup was a little more discreet about this particularly bad attack vector until a few more days went by for everyone to upgrade. But it hardly matters. There are still server softwares our there that are going to be exposing people's private Mastodon posts. It's just how federation between untrusted servers works. Giving people the illusion that if Dan had just been more discreet then this harm would have been reduced is lulling them into a false sense of security, in my view.

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troed

in reply to PhilipTheBucket 2 months ago

If you know of other ActivityPub servers that expose private posts the same way I suggest you make a responsible disclosure to the developers.

I don't know of any, but you claim they exist so ...

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PhilipTheBucket

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Are you hoping to restart our disagreement through sheer passive-aggressiveness? Okay, sure.

In my view, this is a Mastodon design flaw (or a user-expectation issue or whatever you want to call it.) I already said that, and you're involved in the unproductive-arguer's pastime of pretending not to understand that that's my position, and just aggressively repeatedly reframing things according to your position and hoping I'll knuckle under to it through sheer force of repetition.

I'm not super invested in trying to track down each and every software that might manage to expose the "private" statuses in this way. I just know that as things come and go there are guaranteed to be some. If you have an mbin account and Mastodon account, though, we can try a little experiment. I don't know the outcome, I'm just curious after taking a quick look down the FediDB list and a quick grep through mbin's source code. You can be the one to responsibly disclose to mbin how their ActivityPub-conforming behavior is a problem, if indeed it turns out that it is, since you seem to be extremely committed to the idea that the model of "vulnerability" needs to be applied to this particular ActivityPub-conforming behavior. Since you're a security researcher, having that as a CVE you discovered can be an achievement for you. It's all yours, you can have it.

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troed

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There are still server softwares our there that are going to be exposing people's private Mastodon posts.

You could've saved yourself a lot of typing there by just admitting to claiming things you actually didn't know.

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PhilipTheBucket

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Because it is transparently obvious that it's going to happen.

If you're sending your users' private statuses to an ActivityPub server, and just hoping that it's going to choose to keep them private according to certain parameters even though that's not what the spec stays it needs to do, then you're fucking up. The fact that we know that particular instances of particular software are exposing them is a nice demonstration of the harm, a confirmation that you're fucking up when you're doing that, but it's not really needed. It is the absolutely predictable result of some basic principles of security which, as a security researcher, you should absolutely be aware of.

I've repeatedly explained this. You've repeatedly explained your position. We've both had our say. You seem addicted to the concept of "winning" the conversation and wanting to just go back and forth. In that case I would really encourage you to state your position again, and I can state mine again, and we can both have fun doing that for a while. Want to? It sounds like a productive use of both of our time. It's fun, too.

Edit: Actually, I didn't even realize you are on fedia.io when I was typing this. You can test for yourself whether mbin does this, too, by coordinating with @Irelephant@lemm.ee. Follow his user, then have him post one of those private statuses, then fetch his user profile via fedia.io from an incognito window and see whether the private statuses show up. I have no idea whether they will, but if I had to guess, I would say it's better than even odds.

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Matt

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...that will pay those who responsibly disclose security vulnerabilities that affect fediverse apps and services.

If it is straight to the project, then I'm all for it. Otherwise, it seems sus.

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PhilipTheBucket

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It is to the person who discovers the vulnerability. That's fairly normal... how would giving it to someone else motivate the result they're trying to get?

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Coelacanth

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The fediverse, also known as the open social web that includes Mastodon, Meta’s Threads, Pixelfed, and other apps (...)

Mention Lemmy for once 😠

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irelephant [he/him]🍭

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We are tiny in comparison to the rest of the fediverse.

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r.EndTimes

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But its actually usable, pixelfed sucks, prob way more actual engagement and conversation here, pixelfed is hella ppl posting with no likes or views

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maduncle via Linux

2 months ago

maduncle
2 months ago

A month with LFS (Linux From Scrath) + musl + eudev + libressl + qi package builder helper. What a great experience.

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MonkderVierte

in reply to maduncle 2 months ago

I'm currently trying seatd+turnstile+greetd on dinit. s6 usersv would be alternative for turnstile+dinit but i see s6 more on server, personally.

This reminds me, i wanted to try mdev for a long time (there's mdev like a boss).

GitHub - fff7d1bc/mdev-like-a-boss: This repo is a stash for notes, scripts and configs for the system running with mdev as a udev replacement.

This repo is a stash for notes, scripts and configs for the system running with mdev as a udev replacement. - fff7d1bc/mdev-like-a-boss

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GustavoM

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You will go back to your "usual" linux setup when you realize that most packages you set up with LFS are now broken and you'll need to redo the whole process again.

t. arch linux minimal installation only master race

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kylian0087

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If you still like some manual dependency control. Slackware is your friend 😁

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maduncle

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Meh, archlinux is overrated.

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dino

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I agree, AUR and pacman (syntax) suck. Apart from that Arch is one of the best.

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MonkderVierte via Linux

2 months ago

MonkderVierte
2 months ago

[solved] How to backup a bunch of blu-rays?

Seeing that DVD are slowly going end-of-live and that you can't buy a lot of my childhood favorites in german anymore and streams are compressed-to-death (and DRMed), i had a streak of preservia. Which is why i rip a bunch of discs from the library on Linux (yes, legally not ok, but morally just ease of access, i wouldn't sell them). Since it's only to watch them when nostalgia hits, i want them in a ready-to-watch format, chose AV1 webm for small size. My burner is LibreDrive-ok ootb, meaning makemkv goes automatically in that mode.

I have the discs for a limited time, so i used to use dvdbackup for DVD and later feed the folder to handbrake for conversion. Now i got a bunch of blu-ray:

ripping one takes even longer; whole 25 hours; i don't have the time for the whole LotR series with bonus disks.
makemkvcon backup needs only about 2 hours per disk, but the resulting folder is 80 GB big; i have only about 250 GB free space
** and the makemkv backup somehow has no audio streams, while handbrake does

While i write this, handbrake is loading the chapters (that alone needs more than 1 hour for blu-ray); i'm trying if a lossless FFV1 mkv conversion (for later re-conversion) takes less long.

Now:

Any better approach?
Any way to fix makemkv having no audio? (i could juggle with external disks) I think i have all libraries and the KEYDB.cfg.

Edit: nope, handbrake suddenly has unable to decrypt unit (AACS)

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janNatan

in reply to MonkderVierte 2 months ago

I've had no problems compressing Blu Ray MKVs into MP4s with handbrake (using MX Linux). My drive is a branded, internal one (I want to say LG or Asus.) I am at work right now, by I can look at the model number when I get home if you want. Interestingly, I have actually used it on both German Blu Rays and North American ones.

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MonkderVierte

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Yeah, just now someone answered the comment on the shop mentioning libredrive compatibility, that the vendor changed the drive and you have to flash it now.

Edit: nope, i have the Toshiba one.

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data1701d (He/Him)

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I’ve done it with ffmpeg before - I think the command’s on the Arch wiki. I preserved subtitles as well. I overall remember it being pretty reasonable since I didn’t set it up to re-encode, just pass through original video.

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inlandempire via Community Promo

2 months ago

inlandempire
2 months ago

Lemmyvision 2 song contest - Voting is now live!

cross-posted from: jlai.lu/post/17384631

Hey everyone, thank you again for participating, and for your submissions!
I'm glad to announce that the voting form is completed, and you can now cast your votes and select your favourite songs. Everyone is welcome to vote, even if your instance or community did not participate! This is a great opportunity to discover new music, cultures, and bridge the lemmyverse together.

**The voting form is available here: tally.so/r/wvzg8d**
I created a playlist so that you can easily listen to the submitted songs, it's available at the following links:
Piped: watch.leptons.xyz/playlist?lis…
Invidious: inv.nadeko.net/playlist?list=P…
Youtube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzn…
The form will be available until around the 8th of April, I will then collect the results and publish them shortly after. I hope you'll have a lot of fun listening to the 11 songs submitted for this edition. Don't hesitate if you have any question!
Cheers!

Lemmyvision 2 Voting

Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.

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inlandempire via Fediverse

2 months ago

inlandempire
2 months ago

Lemmyvision 2 song contest - Voting is now live!

cross-posted from: jlai.lu/post/17384635

cross-posted from: jlai.lu/post/17384631

Hey everyone, thank you again for participating, and for your submissions!
I'm glad to announce that the voting form is completed, and you can now cast your votes and select your favourite songs. Everyone is welcome to vote, even if your instance or community did not participate! This is a great opportunity to discover new music, cultures, and bridge the lemmyverse together.

**The voting form is available here: tally.so/r/wvzg8d**
I created a playlist so that you can easily listen to the submitted songs, it's available at the following links:
Piped: watch.leptons.xyz/playlist?lis…
Invidious: inv.nadeko.net/playlist?list=P…
Youtube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzn…
The form will be available until around the 8th of April, I will then collect the results and publish them shortly after. I hope you'll have a lot of fun listening to the 11 songs submitted for this edition. Don't hesitate if you have any question!
Cheers!

Lemmyvision 2 Voting

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pseudo

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Il faut un compte ou quelque chose ? Quand je clique sur le lien, j'arrive sur une page de présentation de Lemmyvision qui se finit par un bouton start. Quand je clique sur le bouton start, un nouvel onglet s'ouvre qui me présente la solution de production de formulaire et me propose de me connecter ou me faire un compte.
Je suis sur Firefox et Android. Je n'utilise que l'interface Web pour Lemmy.

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Mazesecle

in reply to pseudo 2 months ago

Ρε, ψήσου να μιλάς κι εσύ αγγλικά, όπως έχουμε ψιλοσυμφωνήσει όλοι στο Διαδίκτυο

Αλλιώς δεν βγαίνει η φάση να μιλάει ο καθένας τη γλώσσα του

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pseudo

in reply to Mazesecle 2 months ago

Entschuldidung aber ich war nicht über dieses Referendum informieren. Bitte, benutzen Sie sich ein Online-Übersetzer.

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Mazesecle

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Δηλαδή θέλεις να μου πεις ότι εσύ όταν είσαι στο Διαδίκτυο κάθεσαι και κάνεις αντιγραφή-επικόλληση κάθε πράγμα που βλέπεις σε υπηρεσίες μετάφρασης;

Μπορείς απλά εσύ που κάνεις το σχόλιο να κάνεις τη μετάφραση για τους άλλους

Το να γράφεις μόνο στη γλώσσα σου είναι ελιτιστικό, περιμένοντας είτε όλοι να ξέρουν τη γλώσσα σου, είτε ότι μόνο όποιος ξέρει τη γλώσσα σου είναι άξιος της πληροφορίας που γράφεις

Σε κάθε περίπτωση, κάνει την διαθεσιμότητα περιεχομένου στο Διαδίκτυο χειρότερη

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inlandempire

in reply to Mazesecle 2 months ago

This is a francophone instance, you should expect to see some french being spoken by coming here. If anyone shows up with a question in a language - other than English - that I can speak, I will automatically assume it's easier for them that way and respond in their language if possible ; that has also been my approach in advertising this event.

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Mazesecle

in reply to inlandempire 2 months ago

francophone instance

But, the community is hosted on lemmy.world, is lemmy.world francophone? 🤔 (Or you mean the original post?)

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inlandempire

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!lemmyvision@jlai.lu is hosted on jlai.lu, this particular post is a cross post from that instance, this might be the source of confusion yes haha

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BluesDriveAmelia via Fediverse

2 months ago

BluesDriveAmelia
2 months ago

Federated Blogging Options

What are all the federated blogging options available? I know of a few that are mostly clunky in my eyes.

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JubilantJaguar

in reply to BluesDriveAmelia 2 months ago

Even more interesting IMO: what are the options that do not involve self-hosting (thus avoiding the PITA of babysitting a domain and server security)?

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Microw

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Hosted Wordpress with ActivityPub plugin

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JubilantJaguar

in reply to Microw 2 months ago

Full DB-driven monster for a few bytes of text. Sledgehammer to crack a nut if you ask me. But sure, this is the obvious answer.

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Flax

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Wordpress (with plugin)

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Jure Repinc via General Programming Discussion

2 months ago

Jure Repinc
2 months ago

Qt 6.9 released

Qt 6.9 is here! This release brings exciting innovations, enhanced graphics performance, and new platform capabilities to help you build exceptional applications.

Highlighted improvements in Qt 6.9 include:
* Qt Graphs: Interactive 2D panning, zooming, and dynamic 3D graph injection. Printing support now available!
* Qt Quick: GPU-accelerated SVG animations and Variable Rate Shading for improved graphics performance.
* Qt Quick Controls: New context menu support enhances desktop integration and user experience.
* XR Enhancements: Haptic feedback added for creating richter immersive virtual interactions.

Qt 6.9 Released

Qt 6.9 is now available, highlighting emojis, Graphs, OIT, better OAuth2, and many more new improvements for application developers and device creators!

^{Volker Hilsheimer (The Qt Company Oy)}

Jure Repinc via Linux

2 months ago

Jure Repinc
2 months ago

Qt 6.9 released

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/28018658

Qt 6.9 is here! This release brings exciting innovations, enhanced graphics performance, and new platform capabilities to help you build exceptional applications.
Highlighted improvements in Qt 6.9 include:
* Qt Graphs: Interactive 2D panning, zooming, and dynamic 3D graph injection. Printing support now available!
* Qt Quick: GPU-accelerated SVG animations and Variable Rate Shading for improved graphics performance.
* Qt Quick Controls: New context menu support enhances desktop integration and user experience.
* XR Enhancements: Haptic feedback added for creating richter immersive virtual interactions.

Qt 6.9 Released

Qt 6.9 is now available, highlighting emojis, Graphs, OIT, better OAuth2, and many more new improvements for application developers and device creators!

^{Volker Hilsheimer (The Qt Company Oy)}

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mexicancartel

in reply to Jure Repinc 2 months ago

Yeah new feature less bloat I guess

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
Probably blocked by firefox focus because it might be a remote resource
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Leaflet via Linux

2 months ago

Leaflet
2 months ago

"color-management-v1: new protocol" merged in wlroots

color-management-v1: new protocol (!4962) · Merge requests · wlroots / wlroots · GitLab

References: wayland/wayland-protocols!14

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Mactan

in reply to Leaflet 2 months ago

truly a blessing every time that can jpg makes an appearance

cmgvd3lw via Linux

2 months ago

cmgvd3lw
2 months ago

Linux Kernel Plan To Commit Web3 Integration

There has been discussions with-in the development circles regarding a potential integration of Web3 functionalities into the mainline kernel. Exploring the feasibility of incorporating features like decentralised application (dApp) support and smart contract execution directly into the kernel.

Early proposals suggest leveraging the NPUs in new processor families for secure on chain data validation within the kernel space. This means better fraud protection by validating signatures while booting up using the zk-SNARK cryptographic proof.

The developers at Linux Fundaytion notes that this plan requires extensive re-architecture of the codebase. They say that after this, Linux would only run supported systems with dedicated NPU and will simply refuse to boot on other systems, making a significant breakthrough in system security.

The timeline for the proposed changes have already been laid out. With chip manufactures already including dedicated NPUs, developers now have more freedom than ever. Linux communities have always welcomed Web3 technologies like NFT, dApp games etc. and with the kernel integration, Linux will be making a huge leap into the future. One developer put it aptly, "Imagine running my own ETH node directly within Linux kernel."

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common random string shared between the prover and the verifier is enough to achieve computational zero-knowledge without requiring interaction

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marauding_gibberish142

in reply to cmgvd3lw 2 months ago

Rage-read until the third paragraph lol

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mazzilius_marsti via Linux

2 months ago

mazzilius_marsti
2 months ago

Need advice on my setup: msata and 2.5 ssd.

I have an x220, yes it is old but I prefer the keyboard and the repairability. Anyway, it has 1 x msata SSD (2TB Orico) and 1 x 2.5 inch SSD (2TB Samsung).

What I want:

to take advantage of 2 drives.
no windows. I go full Linux now.
some forms of backup if system fails.

What I managed to do:

/, swap and all system directories on the msata
/home is dedicated to the entire 2.5 ssd.
fully encrypted. I.e the msata has a LUKS partition that mounts /, swap and others. The 2.5 inch also has a LUKS partiton for /home. My /home is on its own, so if system fails or I need to distro hop, I can keep all of my data.

System runs fine but is this a good idea in the long run?

Should I have it the other way? Root and swap and systems on faster 2.5inch SSD. Home in the smaller msata?

What about everything on the faster 2.5 drive, then use the slower msata for backups? Since I have 2TB, I'm thinking partition the msata into 2 so I can do: Timeshift backup on one, and Borg backup for my personal files on the other?

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Dr Jekell via Linux

2 months ago

Dr Jekell
2 months ago

Ram in use after suspend issue

So I recently built a new computer to replace my 7 year old one but I have noticed a strange problem with it.

When I boot up the computer and use it as normal it sits around 8-10 GiB of ram in use plus about another 9 GiB committed.

But when I suspend the computer then un-suspend it later the in use ram starts creeping up even if I have less running than I did when I originally booted the computer.

Last time this happened it went from 10 GiB all the way up to about 43 GiB in the space of a few hours.

If I reboot then things go back to normal behavior.

Anyone have any ideas about what I could look for to fix it?

Specs:

Manjaro XFCE 25.0.0 Zetar
6.13.8-2 Kernel
Gigabyte B860I AORUS PRO ICE ITX Motherboard
Intel Core Ultra 5 245KF CPU
64GB DDR5 RAM
2TB M.2 NVMe

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Dr Jekell

in reply to Björn Tantau 2 months ago

Here is what I started with:

And what I have today after 3 suspends:

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Markaos

in reply to Dr Jekell 2 months ago

xfwm is XFCE's window manager, and it's eating almost 30% of the total system memory, so that's the prime suspect (I'm not exactly sure how much it interacts with other apps, so it's possible something else is forcing xfwm to use all that memory, but that is IMHO unlikely).

An ugly "fix" is to log out and log back in (yes, not much better than just rebooting), or you could try to somehow restart xfwm - running xfvm --replace in terminal might work.

Edit: there's an issue on the Manjaro forums that might be related: forum.manjaro.org/t/xfwm4-memo…

Xfwm4 memory leak since 4.20?

Option --replace suggests that xfwm4 is replacing another window manager Option would be needed to run xfwm4 on another DE (e.g.

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Leaflet via Linux

2 months ago

Leaflet
2 months ago

Building native packages is complicated | Packaging Anubis as native packages

Anubis provides protection against bots scraping websites and DDoSing projects.

This blog post is about Xe's reasoning for originally only providing docker packages and their work to provide native packages.

Building native packages is complicated

Especially if you want a UX as good as Docker images give you.

^xeiaso.net

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LiveLM

in reply to Leaflet 2 months ago

I have detected bloat, you YAML merchant you! Reject complexity! Return to native packages!

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LordKitsuna

Unknown parent 2 months ago

Do you just assume that any cartoon character is underaged? There's literally no indication that that character is in any way underaged whatsoever, it appears to be a standard chibi-style depiction of a generic adult.

I think you may need to consult a therapist or other mental health professional if literally every depiction of a cartoon character in a Chibi art style causes you to see pedophilia

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onlinepersona

in reply to Leaflet 2 months ago

There must be a tool that allows you to build packages for multiple systems in multiple formats (deb, rpm, nix, flatpak, snap, etc.). Does that not exist? After 20 years of these systems existing, somebody must've tried...

Also, it's clear that once again, open source needs some kind of funding model, because it's a little crazy that a project like this can get so popular so fast, the dev flooded with praise, thanks, and issues but not money to maintain and develop it.

Anti Commercial-AI license

Deed - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International - Creative Commons

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corsicanguppy

in reply to onlinepersona 2 months ago

a tool that allows you to build packages for multiple systems in multiple formats (deb, rpm, nix, flatpak, snap, etc.).

Given flatpaks and snaps are toxic, the other ones - deb, rpm, pkg - can be packaged relatively easily. It's all a separate effort with files and meta-info that doesn't often intersect, but it's manageable. It lends itself incredibly well to the trivial 'automation' that gitlab, forgejo and other major git suites provide.

Source: did this for the entirety I built and maintained a software suite for linux and unix, for like 15 years. I built some code, I packaged it. Because anything less isn't really ISO27002.

TL;DR - the 'tool' is a simple script and your brain. the biggest hurdle is the unknown itself and, once you get to it, the work can be pretty straightforward.

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ElectroVagrant via Fediverse

2 months ago

ElectroVagrant
2 months ago

Resources for discovery across the open social web/fediverse

This is a more focused revision of a post I made a few months ago, with an aim to help with discovery across the fediverse.

:::spoiler List of various directory/index-style sites to help find people/communities of interest
Software overview
* Fediverse Party

Finding instances/software-agnostic
* FediDB
* Fediverse Observer

Microblog specific
* Fedi Directory
* Fediverse Info - Note: also includes Pixelfed people.
* Trunk
* Guppe Groups - Workaround to post to groups across microblogging sites, useful to push posts to remote instances.

Forum/link aggregator specific
* Lemmyverse
* !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca
* !newcommunities@lemmy.world
* !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
* !lemmy411@lemmy.ca

Video/Streaming specific
* Sepia Search
* Owncast Directory
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Searching and Following methods
This will vary across software, and may change as it changes, so take note of when this was written (end of March 2025).

By default, ActivityPub sites don't know of other, remote sites. Any remote site stuff you're seeing is because somehow the site your on was made aware of the other's stuff. Typically this may be that a user learns of a remote site's stuff in some way and decides to follow from their home site by looking it up via their site's search then subscribing/following.

All of the above format-specific links I've provided above are means of finding some remote sites' stuff to follow on one's home site. Below are some additional tools and methods to further help when using some of these different sites.

:::spoiler Microblog Tools and Methods
Tools
* StreetPass for Mastodon - detects Mastodon accounts on websites visited.
* Graze for Mastodon - Firefox Add-on - enables remote instance interactions for when viewing another instance.
* Graze - Chrome Extension - for those using Chrome variants.
* Phanpy frontend for Mastodon - has a variety of features that may help find what the default interface doesn't help to find.

Methods
* On Mastodon: follow hashtags to surface other accounts you might want to follow.
* Also make use of its keyword/hashtag filters to cut down on the sorts of posts you don't want to see by going to account preferences, filters.
* On Misskey & forks: create custom feeds via the "antenna" feature by choosing keywords and hashtags to track while using the same to exclude/filter out posts with other keywords/hashtags.
* Also make use of its mute/block settings to cut down on the sorts of posts you don't want to see by going to settings, under other settings, mutes and blocks.
* Post with hashtags more to help others searching by or following them find your posts. Even if it's just someone else on your home instance, if they share (boost/repost) your post and they have remote followers, it may help increase your visibility across the network.
:::

:::spoiler Forum/link aggregator Tools and Methods
Tools
* Lemmyverse Communities
* Piefed Feeds - if you're not on Piefed, these may still be helpful for finding different communities by viewing a feed's collected communities.
* Quiblr frontend for Lemmy - a unique frontend with a privacy-respecting recommendation engine.

Methods
* Follow the aforementioned communities under Forum/link aggregator specific above, or ask in !lemmy411@lemmy.ca or !communitypromo@lemmy.ca about communities.
* On Piefed/Mbin sites, use the keyword filtering feature to filter out posts you're uninterested in.
* On Lemmy sites use clients (e.g. Interstellar - Mobile/Desktop, Thunder - Mobile, Voyager - Mobile/Web) that provide keyword filtering, as default UI lacks this useful feature.
* Browse Local or All with sort set to New to see if any unfamiliar communities show up that you may want to follow.
* Block communities/instances you're uninterested in to help improve potential communities of interest visibility as you browse.
:::

If you're aware of other resources, tools, or methods that I've not mentioned here, please mention them in the comments! There's undoubtedly more to add that I've not come across.

Graze for Mastodon – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Graze for Mastodon for Firefox. Graze is 1-click follow, favorite, boost, bookmark, reply for Mastodon, no matter what instance you call home.

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Listen to Bernie:

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Ulrich

in reply to ElectroVagrant 2 months ago

Wouldn't it be cool if these were built into their respective platforms!?

I think Sepia Search was actually integrated into PeerTube in the last update (7.1)

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Mavvik via Linux

2 months ago

Mavvik
2 months ago

GoboLinux lives again

I discovered GoboLinux not long ago and was disappointed to see it was no longer being maintained. It's exciting to see some folks are picking it back up again.

Announcing GoboLinux 017.01 - Passing the Torch 🔥

^{gobolinux.org}

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navordar

in reply to Mavvik 2 months ago

First Amarok 3, now this‽

Edit: The previous release was four years ago? I was pretty sure it was abandoned earlier

Amarok 3.0 "Castaway" released!

The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.0 "Castaway"! The new 3.

^{Amarok 3.0 "Castaway" released!}

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balsoft

Unknown parent 2 months ago

Not sure I follow you entirely, but I think we agree.

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balsoft

Unknown parent 2 months ago

I think the main premise is that every version of every software has its own installation prefix. This allows you to mix&match different versions, perform atomic upgrades, etc. You can think of it as a proto-Nix. TBH I don't see much point in it now that Nix(OS) and Guix exist, or, if you don't like their purity, stal/IX.

Nix & NixOS | Declarative builds and deployments

Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.

^nixos.org

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balsoft

Unknown parent 2 months ago

No, not quite. Flatpak is containers - it just stuffs every dependency that an application needs in a directory with no way to deduplicate or update independently. Gobo is a bit more nuanced, since dependencies are shared between applications when the versions match.

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rice

in reply to balsoft 2 months ago

so a bunch of versions of stuff to be compatible.. like what flatpak does?

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rice

in reply to balsoft 2 months ago

flatpak does indeed deduplicate. The stuff is updated to whatever is required as a dependency to whatever programs are installed. And versions are shared between applications when versions match as well..

So I am guessing it is just like flatpak

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jws_shadotak via Linux

2 months ago

jws_shadotak
2 months ago

[Solved - VSYNC/screen tearing] Stuttering on Nobara with 3080 Ti

SOLVED - "Allow screen tearing" was ON and caused this issue.

I have some constant stuttering on my current setup. Every 4-5 seconds, almost like a hiccup, I drop about 100 ms worth of frames.

Video:
picoshare.jau.nz/-VnpPP8z6xR

Full specs:

5600X

3080 Ti on 570.124.04

Nobara with KDE

Wayland

This has been persistent through several GPU driver updates and I'm tired of trying to troubleshoot it. I don't know what the exact cause is. Any ideas?

Also, related note, how easy is it to migrate from one distro to another? I am thinking about trying something else - maybe base Fedora or Arch - to hopefully have better performance.

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Sean Tilley via Fediverse

2 months ago

Sean Tilley
2 months ago

FediForum Has Been Canceled

In light of recent controversy and its handling, the twice-a-year FediForum unconference for April 1st and 2nd has been canceled by its organizer.

FediForum Has Been Canceled

FediForum is a virtual "unconference" that meets twice a year to showcase new developments, hold community discussions across a variety of important subjects, and give members of the wider Fediverse a

^{Sean Tilley (We Distribute)}

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flamingos-cant

in reply to Sean Tilley 2 months ago

Sex isn’t a “gender orientation” it is really simple biology.
Gamete size – its really simple.

Congratulations infertile people, you are now officially sexless.

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LostXOR

in reply to flamingos-cant 2 months ago

That is usually how males and females of a species are differentiated in general: males have the small gamete and females have the large one. (As you said, some individuals may not produce gametes so it only applies in general).

Of course humans are a lot more complicated. We have a concept of gender which doesn't necessarily align with biological sex, and many people modify their sex characteristics to match their perceived gender, so applying generalizations blindly gets you nowhere.

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rowinxavier

in reply to LostXOR 2 months ago

Indeed, just as gender is a spectrum so is sex. I love when someone says "Its basic biology" because the best response is "and this is intermediate biology".

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Skiluros

in reply to rowinxavier 2 months ago

With all due respect, sex is not a spectrum.

It's a clearly a binary. Yes, there are many exceptions and edge cases, but they are all based around a universal binary biological structure.

You don't have say three distinct sexes required for reproduction outside of sci-fi. It is a binary with some edge cases and variations in how exactly the two parts of the binary interact.

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Ada

in reply to Skiluros 2 months ago

It is a binary with some edge cases

So in other words, not a binary? What you're describing is more accurately described as a bimodal distribution.

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Skiluros

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It's far closer to a binary distribution than a bi-modal distribution. You can be pedantic, but that's not a real arguement. I admitted there are edge cases.

This is not tied to pure outcomes and is derived from actual earth bio-chemistry.

There is no triple helix or quadruple helix as a foundational system of genetic bio-chemical reproduction.

When you flip a coin, there is a chance that it will land on the side, yet we still use a coin flip for a 50:50 probability scenario because it is close enough.

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Ada

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I admitted there are edge cases.

Then it's not binary.

When you flip a coin, there is a chance that it will land on the side, yet we still use a coin flip for a 50:50 probability scenario because it is close enough.

Absolutely. For day to day life, "there are two outcomes" is safe way to describe coin flips. But given that a coin landing on its side can happen, it's not a binary system. It only becomes binary when we ignore the edge cases. Just like sex...

And that's before we get to the point that there isn't even a single definition of sex that accounts for all scenarios. People can change their legal sex, people can change their morphological sex, "genetic sex" isn't foolproof, as it doesn't always correlate with morphological sexual characteristics, or even gamete production.

Calling sex binary is either a generalisation, or something you want to be true. At no point is it reality of the situation though...

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Skiluros

in reply to Ada 2 months ago

I strongly disagree. I am only happy for people to be the best version of themselves and to feel comfortable in their skin.

Changes in legal or morphological sex is not relevant. This is not what we are discussing.

I already mentioned that there are edge cases. Edge cases do not discredit foundational frameworks that define reality.

The bio-chemistry of terrestrial life is built upon a binary sex framework. This has been true for hundreds of millions of years. There is no such things as a triple helix or quadruple helix in terms of reproduction. Even trees and plants have a binary sex.

You claim that this is something I want to be true. I would argue the same (on a vice versa basis) for you and that you're framing the discussion using irrelevant examples (how is a morphological change in sex even relevant to what we are discussing).

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Ada

in reply to Skiluros 2 months ago

Changes in legal or morphological sex is not relevant. This is not what we are discussing.

Of course they're relevant. Sex being immutable, easy to define and binary is at the core of the tactics that transphobes use to exclude and legislate against trans folk.

So the fact that it's not easy to define, has multiple definitions in different contexts, and has no single definition that works in all instances is very relevant.

You talked about "genetic bio-chemical reproduction" earlier. There are women who have literally given birth, who have XY chromosomes. Similarly, there are XX men with SRY genes. Using your "genetic sex is the truth" approach, they are both folks with a different genetic sex to their physical and legal sex. A transphobe would catch those people and throw them under the bus too whilst they target trans people.

The bio-chemistry of terrestrial life is built upon a binary sex framework

Yep. I'll agree with that. But the framework it is built on is not the end result. There is no meaning or intent behind the framework. There is nothing about it that is more "real".

The real part isn't the genetic plan that was used to create someone. The real part is the body they're actually walking around in.

To you, this is all an interesting argument. You're arguing about things in black and white, because none of it actually matters to you. So you can argue for how you think things should work.

The very same arguments you are using are being weaponised and turned against gender diverse folk and intersex folk. Your re-use of them, arguing about some sort of ideal that exists only in your head isn't harmless. The fact that sex is nuanced, that gender is nuanced, that they both have multiple, contradicting definitions, and neither have a single definition that is more true than the others is incredibly important, because the only reason to ignore that is either to hurt people, or because you're so far removed from the reality of what's happening, that you place a higher priority on things being neat and tidy than on the people that false belief hurts.

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atro_city

in reply to Sean Tilley 2 months ago

I don't understand why people don't keep such comments to their anonymous, unofficial accounts. You can hold such views in private and still treat people with respect, but saying these things officially changes everything. The co-organiser is in a space where she should know better. She then even doubled down

When asked whether she still held her more problematic views in a follow-up comment, Young responded ambiguously with “I fully stand by the statement you are commenting on.”

In for a penny, in for a pound, eh?

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GrumpyDuckling

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In pshych 101 they teach that sex and gender are two different things.

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atro_city

in reply to GrumpyDuckling 2 months ago

That's great. Since when and does everybody take psych 101?

And just to give a wider perspective (regardless of her origins), not every language makes the distinction and some up until recently did not. Look at the translations on (wiktionary). Many of them are transliterations of the English word. Which is not a surprise since the concept of gender is quite recent (1950-1960s) and was most likely very US-centric.

social concept which distinguish the different gender categories

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beleza pura via Linux

2 months ago

beleza pura
2 months ago

want to clone my debian install so i can test updating to trixie

i want to test debian trixie (13) so i can report bugs and troubleshoot before the release later this year. i thought about simply installing trixie alongside my current bookwork installation, but that won't be my scenario when the time comes, since i've been updating my system instead of reinstalling it since debian jessie (8) and this time it won't be different. how can i clone my current system so i can simulate an update to trixie? do i simply create a new partition and copy my files over, then chroot to it and install grub?

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beleza pura

in reply to mina86 2 months ago

rsync has a ton of options. any specific setup you'd recommend me?

EDIT: seems like rsync -av src/* dst is working for me

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mina86

in reply to beleza pura 2 months ago

src/* will skip hidden files. You want rsync -avAXUNH src/ dst which copies contents of src into dst. Notice the trailing slash in src/. Without the slash, src is copied into dst so you end up with a src directory in dst. The AXUNH enables preserving more things. You might also add --delete if you’re updating the copy.

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juergen via Linux

2 months ago

juergen
2 months ago

Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - 2025 Priorities: Reliability, Audio, Cameras and More (- You can Donate to support this work!)

2025 Priorities: Reliability, Audio, Cameras and More

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

^postmarketOS

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shellington via Linux

2 months ago

shellington
2 months ago

Any Female Linux Youtubers?

Can you guys recommend any female Youtubers?

I currently only have Bread on Penguins and Nixie Pixel hasn't posted any videos for years.

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mexicancartel

in reply to django 2 months ago

What is a VTuber? Is that some form of peertube instance?

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chronicledmonocle

in reply to mexicancartel 2 months ago

VTubers are people who use avatars instead of being on camera. Typically the avatar is lip synced to their voice.

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rc__buggy via Linux

2 months ago

rc__buggy
2 months ago

Remember x2vnc and win2vnc? What can I use now? [possibly solved]

Basically title. I want to control a bare metal debian machine on a separate monitor (that always has this debian machine) from my windows gaming machine.

Edit: it's called Synergy and the apt package is called deskflow. I'll try it later and see if I can make it work.

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Nanook

in reply to rc__buggy 2 months ago

Personally, I use x2go to graphically access my servers remotely. It redirects X protocol over ssh and it also short circuits many of the X round trips making it much more responsive than bare X-windows. It also supports sound, remote printing, and file transfers.

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rice

in reply to rc__buggy 2 months ago

Yea that's their new project they just "started funding". Synergy used to be open source and it went closed source 10? 15? years ago.

Since then several forks have existed. Most notably github.com/debauchee/barrier which died a few years ago and was forked to github.com/input-leap/input-le… which while getting plenty of updates, and merges from the other project.. never released a version for years. I think at that point synergy felt sorry for them and so they changed their repo name from synergy to deskflow github.com/deskflow/deskflow and now they have their open source version lol

I have to assume usage got so stagnant when close sourcing it (it's so insanely niche software, is it not?) that they felt the need to bring it alive again.

GitHub - debauchee/barrier: Open-source KVM software

Open-source KVM software. Contribute to debauchee/barrier development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

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BrikoX via Linux.zip

2 months ago

BrikoX
2 months ago

Linus Torvalds admits 'pure incompetence' for missing the new Linux 6.14 kernel deadline but all is forgiven as the update is great news for non-Windows gaming

And it's all down to an improved NTsync driver.

Linus Torvalds admits 'pure incompetence' for missing the new Linux 6.14 kernel deadline but all is forgiven as the update is great news for non-Windows gaming

^{Nick Evanson (PC Gamer)}

Blaze via Linux

2 months ago

Blaze
2 months ago

Linus Torvalds admits 'pure incompetence' for missing the new Linux 6.14 kernel deadline but all is forgiven as the update is great news for non-Windows gaming

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/35294960

And it's all down to an improved NTsync driver.

Linus Torvalds admits 'pure incompetence' for missing the new Linux 6.14 kernel deadline but all is forgiven as the update is great news for non-Windows gaming

^{Nick Evanson (PC Gamer)}

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TwilightKiddy

in reply to Blaze 2 months ago

It's a bit sad how everybody talk about the new NTsync. Most games, like, 90% of them, are not bound by sync. You would get exactly no performance benefit in them. What's better about it is the correctness of the implementation, more programs will work under WINE as a result of switching to NTsync. It's a good thing, but media clearly seems to miss the point and only focus on a few cases where it would give an impressive performance benefit.

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refalo

in reply to TwilightKiddy 2 months ago

And even if the game did greatly benefit from it, most people are already using esync/fsync in lutris/proton/etc. and so they also won't really see a difference from what they're used to.

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BigTrout75

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He's even though with himself

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ffhein via Linux

2 months ago

ffhein
2 months ago

Recommend a distro for a 13-year-old gamer

Couldn't find a dedicated community for distro recommendations, I hope it's ok to ask here.

A couple of years ago my wife and I built a computer and gave it to a friend's kid. We put ElementaryOS on it since that seemed pretty fool-proof, but it appears to require a re-install to upgrade major versions so it has been stuck with an old glibc and because of that he can't play Factorio.

For his 13:th birthday we bought him a SSD so it would be a good time to reinstall Linux, but is there perhaps some better choice than ElementaryOS? They live quite far away so I can't easily pop over to fix his computer if something breaks, we don't spend enough time there for me to teach him to fix things himself, and he doesn't seem very interested in learning how computers/operatings systems work either.

Hardware: Some old Intel CPU with 8GB DDR3 and a GTX1080
Usage: Gaming through Steam+Proton, Lutris and browsing.
Requirements: Games work, OS never breaks on updates. Doesn't need to be "kid proof", I don't think he touches any stuff he doesn't know what it does.

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hendrik

in reply to ffhein 2 months ago

I think Nobara is the other most(?) popular choice by gamers.

I don't have much experience with gaming distros. I just think whatever it is, a computer shouldn't bee too locked down for a kid so they can also install other things, try other tools like an office suite, video editing or content creator stuff and maybe even have the experience of messing up.

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The Bard in Green

in reply to ffhein 2 months ago

Mint.

I use that on my gaming rig. Most everything runs fine through Proton or Lutris (Stellaris, Mass Effect, Fallout New Vegas, the Witcher, Age of Mythology, lots of classics). Minecraft Java Edition runs fine natively, including mods. Old games run great through Dosbox.

Mint itself is super stable Linux for your grandma (my dad's been running it for five years and he doesn't know the difference between an OS and a word processor (he keeps calling LibreOffice "Linux"). It was also my son's first OS when he was about 8.

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Charlxmagne

in reply to ffhein 2 months ago

Majority of AAA games run invasive software like kernel-level anticheat, I'd personally recommend js buying him a PS5 or running them in VMs (Linux or windows).

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suoko

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Kubuntu, the best of the two worlds: all Ubuntu repos + KDE

24.10 for better Wayland support.
Appimages for software, then winegui could be enough for gaming

MickeyMice via Linux

2 months ago

MickeyMice
2 months ago

Wi-fi not working on Pop os 24.04 cosmic desktop

Hii to all linux users, hope you can help me.

I updated my system a couple of days ago, pop os 24.04 LTS and wifi stoped working.
The problem is i dont have wire so wifi is only connection to the internet curently.
And i managed to lose it..
So i tryed to fix the problem by switching to older kernel but it didnt fix the problem unfortinetly.

I gave up and reinstalled whole system thinking it will fix it.
And since i do it i decided to try new cosmic alpha system.
So i downloaded that and i like it despite its not finished and it has bugs and missing features.
But that didnt fix my wifi problem! Its still not working.

I have two ssd-s, so on my main one 1TB i have linux and thats what im using, but on second one 500GB i have windows 10 for some games that doesnt work on linux.
So i was using that to download latest pop os and my wifi card works so its obviusly not dead or anything.

I plan to get wire but i have some drilling to do for that and i would like to fix wifi card before that if possinble.

Almost forgot, my wifi card is Asus pcie card, with two antenas, its red and wery beautifull.
Tryed to uploud picture of it but my acount is new so that wasnt possible.
I dont know exact model number but this one looks exactly like mine so meabu its that one.

duckduckgo.com/?q=asus+wifi+pc…

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MickeyMice

in reply to MickeyMice 2 months ago

I was enough of it and i called one friend to drill the hole and make cable connection finaly so its all good now. But i want to have wifi just in case because you newer know. So the list of well suported wifi cards will be of great help.
And i was curios what was the problem at first place anyway..
Thank you all for hel, you are the best. ❤

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Sinfaen via Linux

2 months ago

Sinfaen
2 months ago

Linux Mobile OS experience 2025?

Has anybody attempted to daily drive linux on their smartphone? like sailfish os, postmarket, librem, etc. I've been getting more interested in them as my pixel 4a is starting to look real old

How was it it? Were you able to run banking apps? battery life? experience with using CJK keyboards?

As far as I can tell, RCS messages are not supported anywhere, in addition to NFC payments (no surprise there). 5G seems also iffy

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smeg

in reply to Sinfaen 2 months ago

!linuxphones@lemmy.ca and !linuxphones@lemmy.ml aren't the busiest communities but there do seem to be a few people giving it a proper go

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FriendBesto

in reply to Sinfaen 2 months ago

Was in the market for a new phone and was thinking of getting the latest Pine phone, and upon research, I found that like others have stated, it is more of a piece of kit to tinker with and not a daily driver. The OS is still being baked and at the current rate it might take a few years before it is as responsive and as useful as Android is day in, and day out. There is just no contest. Which was a bit disappointing as I actually though the OS was far more developed.

I do hope that progress is made, but, if you need a phone that works well, then stick with Android for now. Hardware on latest Pine is better than on the first phone but still Mid, at best, and it is not cheap for the hardware you get.

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bitcrafter via Fediverse

2 months ago

bitcrafter
2 months ago

How do I discover the Pixelfed content that is out there when so many big instances block exploration?

I realized that I haven't spent time on Pixelfed in a while, and that it would be great to find more content to add to my feed! So I logged in to my instance (social.photo) and then... hit a wall.

With Lemmy and Mastadon, it is super easy to peek at what is going on at other instances and find communities to subscribe to, but it looks like Pixelfed does not make this easy. The biggest issue I have run into is that many of the largest servers do not seem to let you explore what is on them unless you first create an account, and the main Pixelfed Server Directory at https://pixelfed.org/servers does not indicate which servers can be explored or not, so you have to click a few times (since the link takes you to the registration page) to even find this out for a given server. It also does not help that navigating to an instance does not show you the content for that instance, like it does for Lemmy or Mastadon, but for a login page that may or may not have an "Explore" tab at the top.

Am I missing something here? I just logged into Tumblr for the first time in years and my immediate next thought was, "Gee, I should be using Pixelfed instead!" But if in practice it is simply not possible to find content I am interested in without a great deal of hassle then it is not a realistic replacement. In particular, it seems like the way Pixelfed is set up requires me to register on particular instances to get a better view of what content is available (not just locally, but pulled in from other instances). This seems contrary to me to one of the biggest advantages of the Fediverse, which is that you are able and encouraged to pick an instance that best suits you rather than the one where all of the content lives; in particular I could not imagine self-hosting a Pixelfed instance without being left out of most of the content available.

And just to be clear, I am willing to put up with some degree of hassle resulting from the inherently decentralized model of the Fediverse, since I switched completely over to Lemmy from Reddit about a year and a half ago after the API fiasco (and the only reason why I do not use Mastadon more is because I was never that into Twitter-style content to begin with). But having to go out of my way to get through artificially constructed walls to even find content to subscribe is a bit much.

However, again, maybe I am missing here. If someone is willing to point me to a resource that solves this problem problem and makes this entire rant sound completely ignorant then that would be great! 😀

Edit: Fixed silly typo.

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ocean

in reply to technomad 2 months ago

So lost in anti-big tech social media that they forgot that algorithms are actually good and helpful!

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Elevator7009

in reply to ocean 2 months ago

Kind of surprised this is the take. Algorithms in general, just sorting by highest to lowest or whatever common problem that needs to be solved, aren't bad. "Algorithm" has become a dirty word mostly because of the stuff pushing short-form content over long-form content, outrage that generates engagement over something you would enjoy that doesn't enrage you enough to make you type fifty paragraphs and keep coming back to fight in the comments, etc. So I agree with the literal statement that algorithms aren't always bad.

But as for what you meant, I'm super surprised at all the people who want an algorithm to feed them content and aren't satisfied. I looked for the stuff I was interested in, subscribed, and am happy. When I run out of content I either log off and do something else or go seek out stuff I'm kind of interested in. In my most charitable possible assumption, people who want algorithms are probably a lot less suspectible to getting pulled in by outrage and scrolling all day, and just want to be able to discover cool stuff fast, and the algorithms somehow worked to show them the cool stuff. In my experience I had to strictly stick to my Home feed with just stuff I subscribed to on Reddit to not see outrage porn, could never poke my head into Popular or anything without seeing some outrage sub like r/noahgettheboat or /iamatotalpieceofshit. And then they started forcibly sorting my Home feed by Controversial… yep. Stopped regularly browsing there really fast.

I am just really wary of asking for algorithms back because I really don't want the Fediverse to become another place catered towards outrage porn for max engagement. I really want users to have options if this is implemented, so as not to force this algorithm on users like myself who like the "chronological order of stuff you purposely followed only" algorithm. And for that option to not be taken away from me in an effort to "drive growth!" and all that.

I don't want to refuse others a good thing just because it's not for me, but I also have been burned by social media algorithms that were once nice chronological, and later became catered towards outrage and showing you content you never signed up to see without having an option to switch back to chronological and opt out of having RandomInfluencerYouDontFollow in your feed. Looking at you, Instagram. I signed up with my elementary school classmates, liked chronological feed, liked having Explore just be friends of friends… I still only follow people I know in real life but now Explore is a bunch of controversial memes, people selling stuff, and influencers who want me to form a parasocial relationship with them. This is also what my feed turns to once I scroll past maybe 7 posts my friends made. Have not fully deleted but also haven't touched the app in months now.

I guess the real solution is giving people options and not taking them away because you decided to go public and need maximum eye-on-advertisement time. Hopefully Lemmy stays open source and different instances stay popular, so in case someone does try to take it public we can all flee to different servers and keep talking.

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Airportline via Fediverse

2 months ago

Airportline
2 months ago

Introducing Roost: Robust Open Online Safety Tools

Although this is a talk an ATProto-related conference, this has direct applicability to Mastodon and Lemmy instances.

Introducing Roost: Robust Open Online Safety Tools, Christopher DiBona, ATmosphereConf

Chris DiBona https://bsky.app/profile/cdibona.bsky.socialROOST https://roost.tools, profile https://bsky.app/profile/roost.toolsATmosphereConf Seattle 2025 h...

^YouTube

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MoLoPoLY via Linux

3 months ago (Received 2 months ago)

MoLoPoLY
3 months ago (Received 2 months ago)

Autocomplete custom scripts?

As my time with linux, I created a lot of scripts. Some of them have input parameters and sometimes I just forget this parameters.

So I wonder if there is some way to create autocomplete parameters, like i autocomplete a path by pressing the tab key?

For example a script. ./test.sh can be completed with parameter-one, eg. ./test.sh parameter-one or ./test.sh parameter-two. If i type now ./test.sh followed by tab it should add parameter-one if i press tab again it should change to parameter-two.

How can I do that? I'm on bash…

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Flagstaff

in reply to trevor (he/they) 3 months ago (Received 2 months ago)

Did you put in a request for this? And sure, I'm always interested in seeing how others use it—especially to complex levels.

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trevor (he/they)

in reply to Flagstaff 3 months ago (Received 2 months ago)

It took me a while to get around to this so I could sanitize some of the highly-personal stuff there (mostly just a bunch of URLs because I don't use browser bookmarks lol), but here's a condensed version of what I like to use Espanso for.

The second half is ...interesting. I wanted a way to autofill passwords from my password manager in any application, not just a browser. It's a very homebrewed solution, and it only works on Windows and Linux because macOS blocks tools like Espanso from viewing or modifying login input fields.

Did you put in a request for this?

For a Wayland Flatpak or RPM? I haven't looked in a long time, but I believe there's an open issue for a Wayland RPM.

Edit:
Found them: Flatpak issue and RPM issue.

RPM support (Red Hat Distributions) · Issue #1948 · espanso/espanso

Description I would like to improve support to the Red Hat distributions. Among the tasks: to have an RPM package to release in every new version of espanso. There has been some works, but to my kn...

^GitHub

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Einar via Linux

2 months ago

Einar
2 months ago

Which areas of Linux would benefit most from further standardization?

The diversity of Linux distributions is one of its strengths, but it can also be challenging for app and game development. Where do we need more standards? For example, package management, graphics APIs, or other aspects of the ecosystem? Would such increased standards encourage broader adoption of the Linux ecosystem by developers?

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Mihies

in reply to Einar 2 months ago

I'd say games. I'd that really takes off, Linux would replace Windows and all other standards will follow.

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Overspark

in reply to Mihies 2 months ago

That already happened though. Tens of thousands of games on Steam can be played by hitting the install and then the play button. Only a few "competitive multiplayer" holdouts with rootkits and an irrational hatred of Linux don't work.

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Fecundpossum

in reply to Overspark 2 months ago

Yep. Two solid years of steady gaming on various Linux distributions. No issues aside from no more pubg, no more valorant. Oh wait, that’s not an issue at all. Fuck their rootkits.

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LouSlash

in reply to Fecundpossum 2 months ago

Two solid years of steady gaming on various Linux distributions.

And in some cases, even better experience than on Windows (f.e. older games compatibility or higher FPS alongside smoother gameplay)

Tbh, about a year ago i checked the price difference between various laptops with Windows preinstalled and without any OS. The difference wasn't actually a flat amount of money, it was like +10% (price of the laptop 500$ --- ~ +50$ for Windows | price of the other laptop 1000$ --- ~ 100$ for Windows).

So because of the actual state of gaming on Linux (and overall experience) i wouldn't pay that 10% and spend it on other things

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ikidd

in reply to Einar 2 months ago

Domain authentication and group policy analogs. Honestly, I think it's the major reason it isn't used as a workstation OS when it's inherently more suited for it than Windows in most office/gov environments. But if IT can't centrally managed it like you can with Windows, it's not going to gain traction.

Linux in server farms is a different beast to IT. They don't have to deal with users on that side, just admins.

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fxdave

in reply to ikidd 2 months ago

I've never understood putting arbitrary limits on a worker's laptop. I had always been seeking for ways to hijack them. Once I ended up using a VM,
without limit...

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Lka1988

in reply to fxdave 2 months ago

TL;DR - Because people are stupid.

One of my coworkers (older guy) tends to click on things without thinking. He's been through multiple cyber security training courses, and has even been written up for opening multiple obvious phishing emails.

People like that are why company-owned laptops are locked down with group policy and other security measures.

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Lv_InSaNe_vL

in reply to ikidd 2 months ago

Ubuntu Server supports Windows Active Directory. I haven't used it for anything but authentication (and authentication works flawlessly) and some basic directory/share permissions but theoretically it should support group policy too.

It'd be cool if there was a mainstream FOSS alternative though (there might be, I've done literally 0 research), but this works okay-ish in the meantime.

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Lovable Sidekick

in reply to Einar 2 months ago

Small thing about filesystem dialogs. In file open/save dialogs some apps group directories at the top and others mix them in alphabetically with files. My preference is for them to be grouped, but being consistent either way would be nice.

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fxdave

Unknown parent 2 months ago

I agree that flatpak is not there yet. The API is limited, and it is also hard to package an app. But I really want to see ot succeed

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IHave69XiBucks

Unknown parent 2 months ago

Flatpak is very useful for a lot of things, but i really dont think it should be the default. It still has some weird issues. For example if you run a seperate home and root partition flatpak by default will install things into your root partition which quickly fills up. You have to go in and do a bunch of work to get it to use the home partition.

Or for example issues with themeing and cursors. Its a pretty common issue for flatpaks to not properly detect your cursor theme and just use the default until you mess around with perms and settings to fix it.

They also generally get updates slower. I guess maybe if its adopted more that would change but flatpak is already pretty widely used and thats still an issue. Especially for smaller programs not used by as many people.

Keeping it as just something that is good to use for the ones who like a GUI experience and want something simple and easy is great. But if we were to start doing like what ubuntu does with snaps where theyll just replace things you install with the snap version then im not in favor of that at all.

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Mactan

in reply to Einar 2 months ago

interoperability > homogeneity

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Ferk

in reply to Mactan 2 months ago

interoperability == API homogeneity

standardization != monopolization

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HiddenLayer555

in reply to Einar 2 months ago

Where app data is stored.

~/.local

~/.config

~/.var

~/.appname

Pick one and stop cluttering my home directory

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itslilith

in reply to HiddenLayer555 2 months ago

it's pretty bad. steam for example has both
~/.steam and
~/.local/share/Steam
for some reason. I'm just happy I moved to an impermanent setup for my PC, so I don't need to worry something I temporarily install is going to clutter my home directory with garbage

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corsicanguppy

in reply to Einar 2 months ago

find something Lennart built. Eg. systemd
remove that
go to 1

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Lka1988

in reply to corsicanguppy 2 months ago

Systemd is fine. This sounds like an old sysadmin who refuses to learn because "new thing bad" with zero logic to back it up.

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chaoticnumber

in reply to Lka1988 2 months ago

As a former sysadmin, there is plenty of logic in saying that. I have debugged countless systems that were using systemd, yet somehow the openrc ones just chug along. In the server space systemd is a travesty.

In the desktop space however, i much prefer systemd. Dev environments as well. So yes thst is where "it's fine". More than fine, needed!

I just hate this black and white view of the world, I cant stand it. Everything has its place, on servers you want as small a software footprint as possible, on desktop you want compatibility.

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Lka1988

in reply to chaoticnumber 2 months ago

You're not wrong; I was just being hyperbolic.

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gandalf_der_12te

in reply to Einar 2 months ago

I'm not sure whether this should be a "standard", but we need a Linux Distribution where the user never has to touch the command line. Such a distro would be beneficial and useful to new users, who don't want to learn about command line commands.

And also we need a good app store where users can download and install software in a reasonably safe way.

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AugustWest

in reply to gandalf_der_12te 2 months ago

Why do people keep saying this? If you don't want to use the command line then don't.

But there is no good reason to say people shouldn't. It's always the best way to get across what needs to be done and have the person execute it.

The fedora laptop I have been using for the past year has never needed the command line.

On my desktop I use arch. I use the command line because I know it and it makes sense.

Its sad people see it as a negative when it is really useful. But as of today you can get by without it.

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SwingingTheLamp

in reply to Einar 2 months ago

One that Linux should've had 30 years ago is a standard, fully-featured dynamic library system. Its shared libraries are more akin to static libraries, just linked at runtime by ld.so instead of ld. That means that executables are tied to particular versions of shared libraries, and all of them must be present for the executable to load, leading to the dependecy hell that package managers were developed, in part, to address. The dynamically-loaded libraries that exist are generally non-standard plug-in systems.

A proper dynamic library system (like in Darwin) would allow libraries to declare what API level they're backwards-compatible with, so new versions don't necessarily break old executables. (It would ensure ABI compatibility, of course.) It would also allow processes to start running even if libraries declared by the program as optional weren't present, allowing programs to drop certain features gracefully, so we wouldn't need different executable versions of the same programs with different library support compiled in. If it were standard, compilers could more easily provide integrated language support for the system, too.

Dependency hell was one of the main obstacles to packaging Linux applications for years, until Flatpak, Snap, etc. came along to brute-force away the issue by just piling everything the application needs into a giant blob.

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steeznson

in reply to SwingingTheLamp 2 months ago

I find the Darwin approach to dynamic linking too restrictive. Sometimes there needs to be a new release which is not backwards compatible or you end up with Windows weirdness. It is also too restrictive on volunteer developers giving their time to open source.

At the same time, containerization where we throw every library - and the kitchen sink - at an executable to get it to run does not seem like progress to me. It's like the meme where the dude is standing on a huge horizontal pile of ladders to look over a small wall.

At the moment you can choose to use a distro which follows a particular approach to this problem; one which enthuses its developers, giving some guarantee of long term support. This free market of distros that we have at the moment is ideal in my opinion.

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JuxtaposedJaguar

in reply to Einar 2 months ago

Each monitor should have its own framebuffer device rather than only one app controlling all monitors at any time and needing each app to implement its own multi-monitor support. I know fbdev is an inefficient, un-accelerated wrapper of the DRI, but it's so easy to use!

Want to draw something on a particular monitor? Write to its framebuffer file. Want to run multiple apps on multiple screens without needing your DE to launch everything? Give each app write access to a single fbdev. Want multi-seat support without needing multiple GPUs? Same thing.

Right now, each GPU only gets 1 fbdev and it has the resolution of the smallest monitor plugged into that GPU. Its contents are then mirrored to every monitor, even though they all have their own framebuffers on a hardware level.

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AugustWest

Unknown parent 2 months ago

lose sight of their humanity

Ok this is now a stupid conversation. Really? Humanity?

Look, you can either follow a flowchart of a dozen different things to click on to get information about your thunderbolt device or type boltctl -list

Do you want me to create screen shots of every step of the way to use a gui or just type 12 characters? That is why it is useful. It is easy to explain, easy to ask someone to do it. Then they can copy and paste a response, instead of yet another screenshot.

Next thing you know you will be telling me it is against humanity to "right click". Or maybe we all should just get a Mac Book Wheel

Look, I am only advocating that it is a very useful tool. There is nothing "bad" about it, or even hard. What is the negative?

But I also said, I have been using a Fedora laptop for over a year and guess what? I never needed the command line. Not once.

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AugustWest

Unknown parent 2 months ago

You blocked me over a difference of opinion?

Wow.

All I am trying to say it that it is a tool in the toolbox. Telling people Linux needs it is not true, telling people it's bad is not true.

Quit trying to make it a negative. I would encourage anyone to explore how to use this tool. And when trying to communicate ideas on the internet it is a very useful one.

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muusemuuse

in reply to Einar 2 months ago

Rewrite the entire kernel exclusively in rust!

-hehehe-

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steeznson

in reply to muusemuuse 2 months ago

There is a separate kernel which is being written entirely in rust from scratch that might interest you. I'm not sure if this is the main one github.com/asterinas/asterinas but it is the first one that came up when I searched.

By the tone of your post you might just want to watch the world burn in which case I'd raise an issue in that repo saying "Rewrite in C++ for compatibility with wider variety of CPU archs" ;)

GitHub - asterinas/asterinas: Asterinas is a secure, fast, and general-purpose OS kernel, written in Rust and providing Linux-compatible ABI.

Asterinas is a secure, fast, and general-purpose OS kernel, written in Rust and providing Linux-compatible ABI. - asterinas/asterinas

^GitHub

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muusemuuse

in reply to steeznson 2 months ago

I'm of the opinion that a full rewrite in rust will eventually happen, but they need to be cautious and not risk alienating developers ala windows mobile so right now it's still done in pieces. I'm also aware that many of the devs who sharpened their teeth on the kernel C code like it as it is, resist all change, and this causes lots of arguments.

Looking at that link, I'm not liking the MPL.

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mina86 via Linux

2 months ago

mina86
2 months ago

Is Ctrl+D really like Enter?

Response to a recent claim that Ctrl+D in the terminal is like pressing Enter. It kind of is but it’s also misleading to say so without further explanation.

Is Ctrl+D really like Enter? — mina86.com

^mina86.com

tuna

2025-03-20 03:05:22

Linux Terminal: CTRL+D is like pressing ENTER

Honestly I had no idea what ctrl+d even did, I just knew it was a convenient way for me to close all the REPL programs I use. The fact that it is similar to pressing enter really surprised me, so I wanted to share this knowledge with you :)

https://hackarcana.com/article/ctrl-d-is-like-enter

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Nanook

in reply to mina86 2 months ago

Control-D gives a hex value of 0x04, where as ENTER or CR gives a hex value of 0x0d,
they are not the same. Control D returns the carriage on old tty machines, on many modern linux platforms it is treated as CRLF, that is carriage return and a linefeed. Control-D indicates end of file or end of transmission.

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perishthethought

in reply to Nanook 2 months ago

Leaflet via Linux

2 months ago

Leaflet
2 months ago

Understanding AppArmor User Namespace Restriction

Understanding the AppArmor user namespace restriction feature Ubuntu 23.10 and 24.04 LTS introduced new AppArmor-based features to reduce the attack surface presented by unprivileged user namespaces in the Linux kernel.

^{Ubuntu Community Hub}

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moonpiedumplings

in reply to Leaflet 2 months ago

I despise the way Canonical pretends discourse forum posts by their team members* are documentation.

I've noticed they have been a bit better lately, and have migrated much of the posts to their documentation, but it seems they are doing it again.

As this is developed, we will update this post to link to the new documentation and feature release notes.

Pro tip: You could have just made the documentation directly, with the content of this post. Or maybe a blog post. But please stop with the forum posts. They are very confusing for people not used to these... unique locations.

*Not that people are easily able to find this out when they don't give any indication that the forum post is something other than just another post by a rando. Actually, I'm just guessing here, based on the quoted reply, for all I know this could be a post by someone unrelated to Canonical. The account is 3 months, and the post itself is identical to a regular forum post from a regular forum member...

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notanapple

in reply to moonpiedumplings 2 months ago

They should at least make a docs tag or similar and tag all these documentation like posts with it.

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Leaflet via Linux

2 months ago

Leaflet
2 months ago

Benchmarking a distribution (and some \-O3 results) | Why Ubuntu reverted move to -O3 compiler flag

Benchmarking a distribution (and some \-O3 results)

In our previous Foundations update @mclemenceau shared an update on some of the experiments we conducted during the Plucky Puffin cycle, in particular about our decision to revert the change to the -O3 optimization level by default on amd64.

^{Ubuntu Community Hub}

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InvertedParallax

in reply to pipe01 2 months ago

There are 4 core romes, no idea why anyone would buy one (think they keep most of the ddr and pcie links) but still.

dustinhome.se/product/50200334…

4 core Milan.

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Markaos

in reply to InvertedParallax 2 months ago

That was my deleted comment, but then I realized the article specifies they are Rome CPUs (Zen 2), while the 4000 series of EPYCs is based on Zen 4

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petsoi via Linux

5 months ago (Received 2 months ago)

petsoi
5 months ago (Received 2 months ago)

Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 1 released

Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 1 Has been released!

We are ecstatic to announce that we have released the first experimental version of Pidgin 3.0!!! This is a pre alpha release with an official version number of 2.90.0. We will continue releasing in this fashion until we are ready for 3.0.

^{Instant Messaging Freedom's Discourse}

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Termight

in reply to petsoi 5 months ago (Received 2 months ago)

Also dino, blabber, gajim, psi+, or conversations, but will go back to pidgin when it adds xmpp to v3.

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learnbyexample via Linux

2 months ago

learnbyexample
2 months ago

I wrote an ebook on GNU awk with hundreds of examples and exercises

Hello!

I am pleased to announce a new version of my CLI text processing with GNU awk ebook. This book will dive deep into field processing, show examples for filtering features, multiple file processing, how to construct solutions that depend on multiple records, how to compare records and fields between two or more files, how to identify duplicates while maintaining input order and so on. Regular expressions will also be discussed in detail.

Book links

To celebrate the new release, you can download the PDF/EPUB versions for free till 06-April-2025.

Or, you can read it online at learnbyexample.github.io/learn…

Interactive TUI apps

80+ exercises: github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-…
Brief tutorial: github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-…

Feedback

I would highly appreciate it if you'd let me know how you felt about this book. It could be anything from a simple thank you, pointing out a typo, mistakes in code snippets, which aspects of the book worked for you (or didn't!) and so on.

Happy learning :)

TUI-apps/AwkExercises at main · learnbyexample/TUI-apps

Terminal User Interface (TUI) apps. Contribute to learnbyexample/TUI-apps development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

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enkers

in reply to learnbyexample 2 months ago

Could someone perhaps explain the major use cases or give a real life example of a time you've needed to use awk? I've been using Linux casually for quite a long time now, and although I learned the basics of the tool, I can't recall having ever felt I had a need for it. If I want to glue a bunch of cli stuff together and need to do some text processing, it generally seems like it'd be easier to just use a simple python script.

Is it more for situations that need to be compatible with most *nix systems and you might not necessarily have access to a higher level scripting language?

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learnbyexample

in reply to enkers 2 months ago

Well, if you are comfortable with Python scripts, there's not much reason to switch to awk. Unless perhaps you are equating awk to Python as scripting languages instead of CLI usage (like grep, sed, cut, etc) as my ebook focuses on. For example, if you have space separated columns of data, awk '{print $2}' will give you just the second column (no need to write a script when a simple one-liner will do). This of course also allows you to integrate with shell features (like globs).

As a practical example, I use awk to filter and process particular entries from financial data (which is in csv format). Just a case of easily arriving at a solution in a single line of code (which I then save it for future use).

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Baldur Nil

in reply to learnbyexample 2 months ago

Also AWK is made to be fast, right? I suppose doing something in CPython in a non efficient way might not be noticeable with a bit of text, but would show up with a large enough data stream.

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Danitos

in reply to enkers 2 months ago

I manage some servers and awk can be useful to filter data. If you use commands like grep, and use the pipe operator (the " | " command), awk can be very handy.

Sure, a Python script can do that as well, but doing a one-liner in Bash is waaay faster to program.

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MonkderVierte

in reply to learnbyexample 2 months ago

Btw, there's asciidoctor-epub3.

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Matth78 via Linux

2 months ago

Matth78
2 months ago

New refugee from Windows / Need advices about image system backup, excel, vscode

Hey there I am another refugee from windows with the forced push to windows 11. I thought it was time I tried once again linux. So far I am pretty satisfied.
I installed Fedora with KDE and successfully migrated my syncthing server, sftp server. Correctly mounted my nft disks and successfully installed mullvad with all split tunneling I needed.

Now I need advices about 3 things which I sorely miss and which keep forcing me to boot on windows :
- is there any equivalent to macrium reflect, allowing to schedule weekly image backup for system disk. So it could be restored in case something really goes wrong.
My system disk is brtfs. Time machine looks nice but it's not working because I have no @home and @root volume identified. I found explanations which explain how to do it but I am not too sure it's a good idea to do so.
I also found rsync. Didn't explore enough this solution but I am not sure an image backup can be done if system is running ?
- for vscode it's easy and I got it running for my linux environment. Yet I have programs which are meant specifically to run on windows and so I can't develop and test them on linux
- at last for my work I need to be able to use excel. Libre office is not a solution, it's ok for basic usage but it's far behind if you're using it professionally. Please don't turn this about an arguments to say calc is good, really there is something that are just impossible with it. (Like using arrays, power query or data models)

For the last 2 points I feel like my only solution would be to use a virtual machine running windows. Is there a way to run them on it but make it looks like it's a linux app? Somewhat is it what docker is doing but for linux apps ?

Well I feel like I have not many options if I want excel and vscode on windows environment. So sadly I think that will settled it. Please share your thoughts.
I would also really appreciate people sharing what they do to backup their system disk.

Thanks for your advice !

in reply to Matth78

dono

in reply to Matth78 2 months ago

Timeshift is great for getting your system back after a major fuckup. But i dont think it works as a backup solution that can be transplanted to other systems, but i never tried.

I use Kup to backup my important stuff. It comes with a kcm that integrates into KDEs settings menu and can do automated timed backups. Its a wrapper for bup. It also does Incremental backups.

Kup

Backup scheduler for KDE's Plasma desktop

^Kup

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spaghettiwestern

in reply to Matth78 2 months ago

Sounds like you've got a good handle on most of it. FWIW, here's how I deal with some of the same issues:

For Windows apps I've found a virtual machine is the easiest solution. It's set it up to share folders between Linux and the Windows VM so moving things between OS's is easy. I've tried other methods like Wine, and for the Windows apps I need the VM works best by far.

Did you mean Timeshift? (Time Machine is Apple software.) Timeshift works great for incremental backups and is easy to use so you should get it working, but in my case I also do full system backups every few weeks because setting up my systems from scratch is a PITA and really time consuming, especially for my server.

For those full backups I've set up a bootable persistent live USB SSD with Ubuntu. The persistent SSD is fully configured with all software, including VNC, SSH and Clonezilla. Creating a backup requires plugging in the SSD, rebooting and running Clonezilla either locally or remotely. Clonezilla is also also preconfigured so it requires only a few steps to start the backup. Full system backups take about 20-30 minutes to complete but my SSDs aren't that big.

Enjoy your move to Linux. It's well worth the effort.

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Lonewolfmcquade

in reply to spaghettiwestern 2 months ago

I do something similar but my live USB is just bootable Clonezilla. I'd like to hear more about why you use a live Ubuntu ssd.

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spaghettiwestern

in reply to Lonewolfmcquade 2 months ago

I started with a Clonezilla USB a few years ago, but Ubuntu is more flexible and can be used for everything with both VNC and SSH. The GUI is easier for some tasks, and Nautilus, Disk Usage Analyzer, Gparted, and other utilities are all available on the same SSD used for backups.

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Nanook

in reply to Matth78 2 months ago

I do use rsync when backing up remote computers, locally I use dump/restore. I prefer it because of the ability to get a directory listing from the backup, pick and choose files or restore the entire file system as necessary.

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Lonewolfmcquade

in reply to Nanook 2 months ago

This process sounds very flexible. Got a link about how to set this up?

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zygo_histo_morpheus

in reply to Matth78 2 months ago

If you want to test windows programs on linux, you're probably going to want to do that in a virtual machine, or even a spare computer just for testing on windows. Depending on how much you need to use excel, a virtual machine could be a good option for that as well, but if using Microsoft Excel™ is a big part of your job, maybe it makes more sense to just stay on Windows for work at least

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MentalEdge

in reply to Matth78 2 months ago

I haven't found anything that is quite like Macrium. Mostly, because something that works the same way is a bad idea on linux. Because as you suspect, an image backup cannot be done while the partition being imaged is live.

Macrium creates restorable images of your entire boot partition or disk, as-is, which can then be restored onto the same, or an entirely different, disk.

This isn't really something you can do in linux, with a system that is live. Hence, partition images should be done offline, when the given partition isn't booted.

That said, everything that matters can be backed up simply by copying the relevant files. For this, I use Kopia.

As for making sure you always have a bootable system, for this I use Timeshift on btrfs.

For MS office, you might try winapps. Sounds like what you're hoping for.

GitHub - winapps-org/winapps: Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. Hard fork of github.com/Fmstrat/winapps/

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WhyJiffie

in reply to MentalEdge 2 months ago

Because as you suspect, an image backup cannot be done while the partition being imaged is live.

can't it, though?

macrium reflect's normal operation is to run when the ststem is running normally. it creates a volume shadowcopy of your filesystem, and backs that up. a BTRFS/ZFS snapshot is basically what a volume shadowcopy is on windows, but with a less fancy name. if you make a snapshot, you can back that up, either with zfs send, btrfs send, rsync, borg backup, whatever. the difference is that on linux it's not possible to notify programs that a snapshot will happen please sanitize your databases, while windows does that too, so if you restore on linux that's like if your computer crashed because power went off

sure, it can't be done with other filesystems, but OP said they have BTRFS. I think the boot partition can be safely imaged too: remount as read only and make a normal image.

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MentalEdge

in reply to WhyJiffie 2 months ago

Sure.

But there's no program that just creates a handy partition image. You'll have to get into the weeds of how your filesystem actually works.

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Lonewolfmcquade

in reply to MentalEdge 2 months ago

Regarding Timeshift on btrfs, is the idea that Timeshift makes it easier to backup to a different disk versus using Snapper?

I'm also on btrfs and miss the wonders of Macrium Reflect. For now, in addition to Snapper, I've been using Clonezilla to make a disk image on occassion. I'm in the process of figuring out something like Vorta to replace that process.

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MentalEdge

in reply to Lonewolfmcquade 2 months ago

I don't think there's any effective difference between timeshift and snapper. They're both essentially just GUIs for features supported by the underlying btrfs filesystem.

Timeshift backup to another disk, is just rsync.

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linuxPIPEpower via Linux

2 months ago

linuxPIPEpower
2 months ago

look for symlinks pointing at the contents of directory?

I want to move a directory with a bunch of subdirectories and files. But I have the feeling there might be some symlinks to a few of them elsewhere on the file system. (As in the directory contains the targets of symlinks.)

How do I search all files for symlinks pointing to them?

Some combination of find, stat, ls, realpath, readlink and maybe xargs? I can't quite figure it out.

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IsoKiero

in reply to linuxPIPEpower 2 months ago

I think it's easier the other way round, find all symlinks and grep the directory you want to move from results.

Something like 'find /home/user -type -l -exec ls -l {} \; | grep yourdirectory' and work from there. I don't think there's an easy way to list which symlinks point to any actual file.

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mina86

in reply to IsoKiero 2 months ago

~~You want readlink -f rather than ls -l.~~ ++OK, actually not exactly. readlink won’t print path to the symlink so it’s not as straightforward.++

Also, you want + in find ... -exec ... + rather than ;.

At this point I feel committed to making readlink work. ;) Here’s the
script you want:

\#!/bin/sh

want=$1
shift
readlink -f -- "$@" | while read got; do
    if [ "$got" = "$want" ]; then
        echo "$1"
    fi
    shift
done

and execute it as:

find ~ -type l -exec /bin/sh /path/to/the/script /path/to/target/dir {} +

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bizdelnick

in reply to linuxPIPEpower 2 months ago

find / -lname '/path/you/are/looking/for/*'

Note that the -lname option is a GNU find extension and may not work with other find implementations.

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2 months ago

colgate_treedom
2 months ago

Google Input Tools on Linux

So I want to type in my native language, and the easiest tool i know of is this:

google.com/inputtools/try/

It's not available offline for Linux though.
I have tried running some windows executable from archive.org under wine, this didn't work. I also tried some random alternative (Varnam), but it was way too complex of a setup for me. (It kept telling me to compile libraries, and none of it worked in the end)

I want something that can take in english character input and turn it into proper devnagari typeface. If I type in "namaste", it has to come out as नमस्ते. And It has to be Offline.

I haven't found anything that fits to all these categories

Turns out Google Input is my best bet. Is there a way I can get it working?

Try Google Input Tools online – Google Input Tools

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Joe

in reply to colgate_treedom 2 months ago

What is the typing experience that you want, and for which language(s). It's not clear to me, sorry.

It is possible to map keyboard input in various ways. For more complex use-cases, many programs support character substitution as you type (eg. gx could become ĝ automatically).

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colgate_treedom

in reply to Joe 2 months ago

I don't just want character substitution.

It's for an Indic language. I want it to be so when I type in "namaste", it types it out correctly as: नमस्ते
I want it to be offline.

(afaik this is readily available on android devices using google's input software)

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Admetus

in reply to colgate_treedom 2 months ago

Are you asking for Sanskrit? Why not fcitx5.

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colgate_treedom

in reply to Admetus 2 months ago

Not as good as Google's thing, it's a pain to use. "namaste" (नमस्ते) comes out as "naa-maa-saw-tae"(नामासते), and that's the least inaccurate example

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Who tf put a gnome logo on the sidewalk?????

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bonsai
2 months ago

Laptop for Linux

Hey all.

I've booted Linux Mint Debian Edition and Arch on to a couple old machines including my old laptops. The performance is still rather brutal because these machines are so old and their battery lives are rough. They are also bulky and uncomfortable to carry around.

So, I've been thinking about getting a more modern laptop and putting Linux on it but I've been out of the laptop market for so long now I have no idea what's good and what's not anymore. Any recommendations?

I think I've heard decent things about Chromebooks but how's the hardware of those? Are they relatively locked down and don't play nice with Linux? I'm just looking for a machine for daily use (browser, light coding, remote connecting to my desktop for heavier stuff)

Thanks in advance

EDIT: Thank you to everyone for responding, I did not expect so much discussion! I've certainly changed my mind on Chromebooks and will look into the options recommended below in the coming months. Thanks!

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mina86

in reply to bonsai 2 months ago

Tuxedo

TUXEDO Computers

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hydraulic_elliptical

in reply to mina86 2 months ago

Gonna have to anti-recommend tuxedo unfortunately. Never had a "Linux" laptop before and never had any issues, but two of the newest Infinitybooks have a number of issues with fan control, clock sometimes stuck at 800MHz, weird-ass Ethernet NIC with no upstreamed drivers and so on. It's like a trip to 15 years ago in terms of weird little issues popping up every now and the .

The tuxedo kernel modules are a mess and not currently upstreamable, their interfaces are inconsistent across lineups/generations which they solve by building a unified Electron monstrosity "control center" on top.

The idea is nice but any mainstream manufacturer works pretty well these days, and the Schenker laptops with tuxedo software not up to par :/

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Mike

in reply to hydraulic_elliptical 2 months ago

Were you using it with their custom OS, or did you try to install something else like Linux Mint?

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hydraulic_elliptical

in reply to Mike 2 months ago

I'm on NixOS right now, but another person on Arch is reporting similar things. Don't get the point of their custom distro instead of just making their stuff portable and easier to set up honestly.

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Mike

in reply to hydraulic_elliptical 2 months ago

I 100% agree. Whenever these companies start with their own projects I immediately get suspicious that their goal is to enshittify down the line with vendor lock-in.

The only reasons why I'm seriously considering a Tuxedo are 1. European brand and 2. Double SSD.

Not a lot of laptops seem to be offering double SSD while being Linux compatible, so my hands are kinda tied.

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hydraulic_elliptical

in reply to Mike 2 months ago

My primary needs were a big HiDPI screen, lots of memory, good CPU and it meets all of those. The only other devices meeting those are the high end ThinkPads that are no doubt nicer, but also double the price sooo it's all good.

But someone who buys primarily for great Linux support might be disappointed.

I also have to say I haven't spent much time investigating the issues I faced for time reasons, maybe some of them can be fixed easily.

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data1701d (He/Him)

in reply to bonsai 2 months ago

I've been enjoying my Thinkpad E16 1st gen AMD on Debian 12. You do have to run a newer kernel to get it working. I ran into a bit of Wi-Fi trouble because I accidentally got a Realtek model, but I've long since fixed the issue entirely - I've posted the solution elsewhere here.

On another note, maybe we should just have a yearly hardware recommendations post pinned on this forum - it feels like we get a question like this every week or so and they sort of clutter the forum, no offense intended to OP.

Edit: Here's my Linux Hardware probe from when I first got the laptop linux-hardware.org/?probe=1e50…

HW probe of Lenovo ThinkPad E16 Gen 1 2... #1e50fb1862

A database of all the hardware that works under linux

^{linux-hardware.org}

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2 months ago

sebastiancarlos
2 months ago

How To Become A Hacker: A Step-By-Step Guide

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TribblesBestFriend

in reply to eraor 2 months ago

Have you seen Blackhat from Micheal Maan. (I’m no hacker/programmer/or whatever techie)

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eraor

in reply to TribblesBestFriend 2 months ago

Yeah I did. Honestly, it's not worth your time.

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tkw8 via Linux

2 months ago

tkw8
2 months ago

Looking for YouTube Tutorials on Arch

I'm moderately experienced with linux. Been using it as my daily driver since 2018. Mostly using Fedora but also have a Debian server. I'm pretty comfortable with systemd but don't love the bloat.

Anyway, I've decided that I'd like to try Arch. So I'm looking for tutorials to help me learn or get familiar with Arch instead of just diving in head first like a madlad.

So what Arch tutorials do you like and are there any that you'd recommend that I watch?

Edit: lmao you guys are brutal. yeah i know about the arch wiki, rtfm and all that. I know i'll be spending a lot of time with the wiki. I just wanted to get a rough intro first. Well, I guess I'm off to read the fkin wiki now.

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www-gem

in reply to tkw8 2 months ago

As others said, the Arch wiki is so well made that it should be the only source you need. Videos will not bring you anything given your background. The main difference with other distros will be the package manager.

A video about the install process will just be someone reading the wiki to you, and a video to "explain" pacman to you will be overkill ;)

Installation guide - ArchWiki

^{wiki.archlinux.org}

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pogodem0n

in reply to tkw8 2 months ago

Arch Wiki is all you need.

ArchWiki

^{wiki.archlinux.org}

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mazzilius_marsti via Linux

2 months ago

mazzilius_marsti
2 months ago

If you have to pick only one Desktop Environment and use it till your computer breaks, what would you choose?

I know Gnome is the default on popular distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, Rhel, Pop OS (it's Cosmic Desktop yes but it is still based on Gnome)...etc. But Gnome just doesnt work for me. I would pick XFCE - stable and no BS.

Before Manjaro and their cetificate shenanigan, I used to use their XFCE version. At the time, it was marketed as the "Flagship Manjaro version". I went 4 years without any problems and I did tinker a lot, just couldnt get their XFCE to break.

After a tough Arch or Gentoo installs, I just want to put XFCE on and call it a day.

What about you guys?

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KindaABigDyl

in reply to mazzilius_marsti 2 months ago

Well, it's gotta be a tiling system. And a good one. At this point I can't function in a non-tiling environment. Specifically a manual tiler with an auto-tile a la i3 w/ i3-alternating-layout or a dynamic tiler that still let's you break stuff (doesn't really exist).

It's just a better way to use a computer, and I can't go back. It's so much nicer. I would stop using a computer before I go back to dragging windows around.

And that rules out most DEs. It rules out Mac OS and Windows, as well, but at least on Windows I can almost get by with Fancy WM. It's "okay."

And speaking of just getting by, that's Polonium with KDE. KDE is pretty good as an "environment," but it doesn't have a tiler that meets my needs, or at least I thought it didn't until recently. Then I discovered Polonium. It works pretty well. Used it for several months (and still do on one machine). It's very bare bones tho, and is hard to configure the handful of floating windows I do want like popups. So KDE is just scraping by.

GNOME on the other hand has the excellent Pop Shell 2. But well, GNOME is GNOME. It's buggy when you try to use it a different way than intended. God forbid I want Qt, Gtk2, Gtk3, Gtk4, and libadwaita apps to all look nice on my system! It's clunky, but the tiling is excellent at least.

Now you mention XFCE. So what about that? You could use i3 as the WM for Xfce. I used i3 for years and years and years as my WM and know how to build a DE around it. Why not use Xfce + i3?

Well, the thing is X11 is as good as dead, and while XFCE now supports Wayland, you can't use a tiling system with the Wayland version of XFCE.

So what does that leave me?

Nothing. At least for a full on DE, which is what you asked.

There is not a single (pre-made) Desktop Environment that suits my needs. Not a one. Either it doesn't support good tiling, is too rigid, or hasn't switched to Wayland.

My only options are:

Roll my own DE built around Hyprland/Sway, and since I'm on nvidia, those aren't fantastic options (albeit Hyprland works a lot better on Nvidia these days), and that's what I'm using.
Deal with the slight annoyance of the under-implemented Polonium in KDE

Right now I'm on Hyprland. May go back to KDE bc multi monitor is being weird on Hyprland rn.

My one hope is that COSMIC polishes itself up and gets to its first real release.

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Dr. Wesker

in reply to mazzilius_marsti 2 months ago

I settled on herbstluft in I think around 2015 and 10 years later have still never felt the need to migrate anywhere else.

I did about a year ago give up lightDM for emptty, but that doesn't really count.

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Lemmchen

in reply to mazzilius_marsti 2 months ago

I'd rather not use a computer at all than use GNOME for the rest of my live.
For me it's KDE Plasma all the way.

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jimmy90

in reply to Lemmchen 2 months ago

why do you think gnome is the default on everything?

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lengau

in reply to jimmy90 2 months ago

Because distros have a sick sense of humour.

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jimmy90

in reply to lengau 2 months ago

And there was me thinking because it's really good?

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lengau

in reply to jimmy90 2 months ago

It's not though.

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jimmy90

in reply to lengau 2 months ago

The most popular de is no good

Baffling

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jimmy90

in reply to lengau 2 months ago

DE is no good

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jimmy90

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totally

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Photuris

in reply to Lemmchen 2 months ago

It’s wild to me how GNOME evokes such strong opinions in folks. It really is a love it or hate it kind of deal (I’m in the “love it” camp).

I wonder why that is. I like KDE ok, but it doesn’t elicit a strong emotion from me. KDE works fine, I just really like GNOME.

There must be something about GNOME in particular that some people love, and others hate.

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Semperverus

in reply to Photuris 2 months ago

For those of us that expect room to breathe and make our machine work for us rather than the other way around, we feel like Gnome takes a lot of liberties away for the sake of "simplicity." There is so much missing from Gnome that is present in most other DEs and even custom WM setups.

The primary contributors who work under The Gnome Foundation also come off as controlling and arrogant in a lot of cases, and refuse to take community feedback to heart, whereas KDE has literal summits to get user feedback on major core features we want to see which then later get added to their backlogs and sprints as Epics. Gnome acts a lot like Apple in the sense that they're very much "we know what's best for you better than you do."

Now, the singular area I can give Gnome true props in is their accessibility functionality, but that's primarily it. KDE's accessibility is fairly behind by about a decade in comparison.

That's just my take, take it as you will.

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Semperverus

in reply to ☂️- 2 months ago

I miss old Gnome. I wish they'd stuck with the old Gnome 2 design philosophy but breathed new modern design principals into it, instead of trying to go the Ubuntu Unity route. Maybe something like Cinnamon but even more flexible and feature-rich.

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ikidd

in reply to Photuris 2 months ago

Honestly, that defaulting to the Search field in the Save dialog when I'm trying to save something just gets me wild. It beggars the imagination why the developers think that's a reasonable thing to do and it colors my whole perception of the DE.

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Ohh

in reply to ikidd 2 months ago

This and shortcut for creating a subfolder doeesnt work in save dialogue.

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ikidd

in reply to Ohh 2 months ago

I haven't lasted long enough after the Search piss-off to notice the tomfoolery of that. Well, you probably shouldn't be creating new folders from there, don't you understand how the workflow-as-handed-down-by-Jehosaphat is supposed to be used?

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Nanook

in reply to mazzilius_marsti 2 months ago — (Shoreline, WA, USA)

I've been using Mate ever since Gnome-2 transitioned to Gnome-3 and I didn't like the transition.

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Lka1988

in reply to mazzilius_marsti 2 months ago

Cinnamon by and far.

I've used so many distros and DEs I don't even know where to begin, but Cinnamon got me hooked for the long run. It's legitimately the most polished and "ready to run" DE I've ever used, yet still allowing for far more customization than Windows ever offered.

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statler_waldorf

Unknown parent 2 months ago

Plasma's not that old, it just came out a few years ago...

2008?

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ThunderLegend

in reply to mazzilius_marsti 2 months ago

XFCE. It's lightweight, easy to tweak and looks great. I run it on my 6 y.o. potato laptop

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AugustWest

in reply to ThunderLegend 2 months ago

The surprising thing is that KDE would run on there just fine too. If you don't add all the PIM stuff, it's almost a wash in memory usage and just as snappy.

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non_burglar

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AugustWest

in reply to non_burglar 2 months ago

Lol, yep. It's always funny to see xfce as being light weight.

Is this where I continue the meme and say I use arch by the way?

On the other hand KDE discover... Yikes. The software manager uses as much memory as XFCE.

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Part 1: On April 20th, 2025, the United States may Cross the Point of No Return.

THIS WILL BE THE POINT OF NO RETURN.

THIS IS HOW DEMOCRACY ENDS: HERE’S THEIR PLAYBOOK

PROJECT 2025 AND THE INSURRECTION ACT: THIS WAS ALWAYS THE PLAN

The Only Way to Stop this Coup is by Exposing It

We need to spread this narrative far and wide so that when the moment comes, no one can claim ignorance.

WHAT IF WE DON’T STOP IT?

muusemuuse via Linux

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