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Can this become the European Union's own Linux Distribution?
A new community-led initiative called “EU OS” to develop a Linux distribution initiative looks like a positive development. It is specifically created to address the unique requirements of the European Union's (EU) public sector organizations. For me, this initiative stands out for its commitment to the EU's digital sovereignty, reducing reliance on external vendors, and creating a secure, independent digital ecosystem.

Can this become the European Union's own Linux Distribution?

Can this Linux-powered operating system disrupt Windows' hold in the European Union?
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Can this become the European Union's own Linux Distribution?

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/36434036

A new community-led initiative called “EU OS” to develop a Linux distribution initiative looks like a positive development. It is specifically created to address the unique requirements of the European Union's (EU) public sector organizations. For me, this initiative stands out for its commitment to the EU's digital sovereignty, reducing reliance on external vendors, and creating a secure, independent digital ecosystem.

Can this become the European Union's own Linux Distribution?

Can this Linux-powered operating system disrupt Windows' hold in the European Union?
Community (It's FOSS News)
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9tr6gyp3

Just in case nobody reads the article:

EU OS is not an entirely new operating system and uses a Linux foundation based on Fedora and KDE Plasma as the desktop environment.

The main advantage of EU OS lies in its focus on standardization rather than creating something entirely new. It offers a shared Linux foundation that can be fine-tuned with additional bits, regardless of whether it be for national, regional, sector-specific, or organizational use.

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Episode 10 - Dansup - Pixelfed, Loops, Sup, etc - Livestream 2025-04-14

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/28252147

Fedicast / Podcast: audio.firesidefedi.live/@fires…

Episode 10 - Dansup - Pixelfed, Loops, Sup, etc - Livestream 2025-04-14

Welcome Fedi Friends to the episode 10 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse. I'...
Fireside Fedi

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Need help for very different fonts rendering on the same setup (i3wm + i3status) on 2 different machines (Fedora and Arch) with FontAwesome 6

Hi all. I am facing problems with fonts rendering on my 2 different laptops. The only difference is in the OS: one runs Arch and the other runs Fedora. Both run latest i3wm and i3status and use the same config files.

On Fedora, the fonts are rendered beautifully with colors. On Arch, it is just black and white line. You can see them clearly here: imgur.com/a/QtJyRiJ. Top image is Arch and the bottom one is Fedora's.

How do I get Arch to render just like the polybar on Fedora? For the font, on Arch , I installed ttf-font-awesome.
In LX Appearance, I would then have: Font Awesome 6, Font Awesome 6 Brands and Font Awesome 4 Compatibility.

On Fedora, I installed a bunch of stuff like fontawesome-6-free-fonts, fontawesome-6-brand-fonts and fontawesome-fonts-all.
Here, LX Appearance shows Font Awesome 6 and Font Awesome 4

In i3 config, I just have:

font pango:Font Awesome 12

to set the fonts. But the results are so much difference as you can see from the link.


Imgur

Imgur: The magic of the Internet
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Fedora Linux 42 released

What’s new?

We’ve promoted our KDE Plasma Desktop offering to “Edition” status. The Fedora KDE team has been hard at work making sure bugs get fixed and everything is polished just so. We’re confident that this can stand along our other amazing flagship offerings.

I know the naming is a bit confusing, with GNOME-powered “Workstation” using a generic label while KDE Plasma Desktop has the tech right in the name. We’ll get that figured out eventually. If you don’t know where to start, don’t panic. Pick one and see how it goes. They’re both excellent desktop environments with great upstream communities, and the same Fedora system underneath it all.

We also have a new alternative desktop choice: COSMIC. This is a modern, written-all-in-Rust desktop environment from our friends over at System 76.

Perhaps most excitingly, we have a new installation interface! The previous UI was designed to manage a lot of before-you-even-start configuration choices. Over the past decade, though, we’ve gone to “get the full system installed with no fuss, then set up what you need from a complete environment”. That made the “hub and spoke” model more confusing than helpful. The new UI is streamlined and sleek, just like the Heart of Gold.

Of course, there are other big changes, as well as the usual updates to thousands of packages. See the Fedora Linux 42 Release Notes for all of the details, and don’t miss the “What’s New?” posts here on Fedora Magazine.


The answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is. - Fedora Magazine

Fedora Linux 42 is officially released. Thank you so much to everyone who works so hard on Fedora and in all of our upstream projects.
Matthew Miller (Fedora Project)
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Omar

that would be awesome but i can't seem to get ram speed from /proc/meminfo or other files (i tried to look files in /sys and other directories for the ram speed) since they aren't there so i dont think i can really add that.. i tried to look online too but they seem to use lshw/dmidecode which i don't really wanna use
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Why did they make window control buttons smaller in GNONE 48?
I'm genuinely curious. Other changes are just following modern (and stupid) trends so nothing weird with that. This one though just makes the maximize, minimize and close buttons look smaller than others (new tab in Console etc) which imo creates inconsistency. Also it may not apply to all display resolutions but it does on mine.
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GolfNovemberUniform

All extensions are disabled. I use the adw-gtk3 theme for GTK3 apps but I'm not talking about those (though the latest version of the theme also has smaller buttons that means the GTK devs probably have indeed changed the size of the buttons).

On the screenshot there is a GTK4 app that hasn't been updated to the newest libadwaita version (Pipeline), and on the right there is a default GNOME app that has been updated (Console).

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How to Migrate a Mastodon Account to GoToSocial

How to Migrate a Mastodon Account to GoToSocial

One of the coolest things about GoToSocial is support for the Mastodon move command. Allowing you to migrate a Mastodon account to and from GoToSocial. We're going to go through how to do a migrati...
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don't like this

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JovialSodium

For those like myself who hadn't heard of GoToSocial and are curious what it is but don't want to watch a video, it is as you might guess an ActivityPub based microblogging platform. With a focus on smaller instances capable of running on low end hardware. According to their site, anyway. gotosocial.org/

GoToSocial - Fast, fun, ActivityPub server, powered by Go.

gotosocial.org
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zenpocalypse

It was the next sentence after the list of distros referenced in the response to you, and it is still very misleading at best.

But, yeah, the second sentence. There's a huge difference between an HTPC and an Amazon stick, Roku, or "smart" TV.

Those have apps and must be supported by "platforms" because they are limited hardware with a limited OS.

YouTube and Netflix don't need to "support" Linux any more than they need to support Windows for an HTPC.

If that's not what you're saying, you'll probably want to elaborate because I expect there are plenty of readers giving your comment a "wha...?"

"E" - since Buddy is trying to imply I changed my comment after he responded, no. I added clarity within a couple minutes, changing no ideas. Talk about gaslighting with this guy.

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Ulrich

It was the next sentence


You're just lying. And I don't know why because everyone can see it. You're not fooling anyone and you're not accomplishing anything.

There's a huge difference between an HTPC and an Amazon stick, Roku, or "smart" TV.


Yes there is, in that a PC is much more versatile. But streaming services are a basic function of HTPC.

YouTube and Netflix don't need to "support" Linux any more than they need to support Windows for an HTPC.


Yes...they do? And they do support Windows.

E: the comment above was edited and they continued to double down and argue instead of just admitting that they made a mistake.

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zenpocalypse

I'm... lying?

No, it's pretty clear now that you're quite confused about the difference between apps and services.

And they do support Windows.


Oh god, tell me you're not using the windows store apps for these services on a PC. Even my Alpha kids know better than that.

Seriously, how can someone be even a little familiar with Linux and be so wrong about internet services working on Linux?

And your attitude is just... something else.

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Ulrich

I'm... lying? No, it's pretty clear now that you're quite confused about the difference between apps and services.


Your lying has nothing to do with apps and services and everything to do with gaslighting people in this thread into believing you weren't wrong instead of just admitting you made a dumb mistake.

Seriously, how can someone be even a little familiar with Linux and be so wrong about internet services working on Linux?


That's a great question, how can you?

And your attitude is just... something else.


Sorry I don't take being gaslit very well.

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Ulrich

It's not gaslighting to explain how I interpreted your comment


Oh good now you're gaslighting me about gaslighting.

and it's starting to sound like your angry responses are to avoid explaining your position.


I'm not angry, and I've already explained my position.

Please explain


In the extremely unlikely case that you're legitimately just bad at counting, I advise you to scroll up and try again. If you cannot do that then I literally cannot help you. Restating my explanation will not help you.

We're done here.

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marauding_gibberish142

Thank you for the note. I'm been cursing myself for not being able to provide my devs with something similar (they don't complain but I know it will make their lives easier). I will start nix from scratch if I learn it but nixops definitely seems like it can help because terraform isn't that great at the example you provided. Thanks.

focused on security hardening


Could you elaborate?

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Help me list custom keyboard shortcuts from terminal on Linux [RESOLVED]

Background:

I'm using Bazzite Linux, Gnome, Wayland. As the title states, I'm trying to list my existing custom keyboard shortcuts. I know I can go to Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > View and Customize Shortcuts > Custom Shortcuts. I want to list my custom shortcuts in Terminal using gsettings.

I've gotten as far as listing the names of the custom shortcuts:

me@fedora:~$ gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys custom-keybindings
['/org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/custom-keybindings/custom0/', '/org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/custom-keybindings/custom1/', '/org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/custom-keybindings/custom2/', '/org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/custom-keybindings/custom3/', '/org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/custom-keybindings/custom4/']

How do I use this info to list the specific details (name, shortcut, command) of the first keyboard shortcut?

What I've tried so far:

I've tried following examples from the answers in this Ask Ubuntu post from March 2015, and I've tried turning to Duck.ai for help. I'm just not connecting the dots between the documentation I've read and what I'm trying to do.

me@fedora:~$ gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys custom-keybindings/custom0
No such key “custom-keybindings/custom0”
me@fedora:~$ gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys.custom-keybindings:/org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/custom-keybindings/custom0 name
No such schema “org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys.custom-keybindings”
me@fedora:~$ gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys custom-keybinding:/org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/custom-keybindings/custom0/ name
Usage:
  gsettings [--schemadir SCHEMADIR] get SCHEMA[:PATH] KEY

Get the value of KEY

Arguments:
  SCHEMADIR A directory to search for additional schemas
  SCHEMA    The name of the schema
  PATH      The path, for relocatable schemas
  KEY       The key within the schema

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: Thank you, @nmtake@lemm.ee, for your help!


How to set custom keyboard shortcuts from terminal?

How to set custom keyboard shortcuts from terminal for different Linux versions? Basically I want to know where Linux stores the keyboard shortcut files and how it can be edited. On my research I...
Ask Ubuntu
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Linux Gaming PC 2024 (with Coreboot-Support)?

Hi, I have never build a PC before, that is why I am asking you for your help and suggestions.
I have informed (or misinformed) myself about a few aspects of building a PC.
I will give my reasoning why I chose each part, and let you decide why I am wrong.

Usage:


The goal of this build is to create a Gaming PC which can play most games at least at lower resolutions and at sufficient frame rate.
I plan to build this PC with future software requirements in mind, to reduce e-waste and to leave room for possible upgrades.
This PC should support Coreboot to allow for firmware updates, even after the official firmware support has stopped.
This machine will run Linux as the main OS and probably Dasharo as the Coreboot-distribution.
The main use is playing games and emulation, but I also intend to use it for virtualisation.

Components:


  • Motherboard: ~~Pro Z790-P Wifi (DDR5 Variant)~~
  • CPU: ~~Intel Core i5-13600KF (Alder/Raptor_Lake-S)~~
  • CPU-Cooler: ~~Scythe Fuma 3 67.62 CFM CPU Cooler (4-30 dB)~~
  • GPU: XFX Speedster QICK 309 Radeon RX 7600 XT 16 GB Video Card
  • RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws S5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5 5600 (CL 28)
  • Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
  • PSU: SeaSonic FOCUS Plus 650 Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply


Why did I choose those parts?

Motherboard:


  • The main two reasons why I choose the Z790-P are, that the motherboard needs to support Coreboot and that it is DDR5 compatible.
  • I could not care less if the motherboard supports Wifi or Bluetooth, since the PC is not going to leave my desk, but I will not complain for having it.


CPU:


  • ~~Since I already decided on a motherboard, the manufacturer decided the CPU-brand for me. In this case Intel.
    The CPU-socket only allows for microarchitectures Alder and Raptor Lake-S, so my choice is limited.~~
    Intels 13th and 14th generation CPUs have many reported issues. Intel reported that many of those issues are due to faulty voltage configuration in the motherboard bios, which cause the CPU to degrade at an accelerated pace. They are due to release a microcode patch mid-august, which reportedly fixes the issue without a significant performance loss. Obviously, this patch will not fix already damaged chips.
    Another problem is, that they had some issues while manufacturing these chips in 2023, which caused oxidation and therefore degradation.
  • Generally you want more from everything, cores, threads and core clock, except power usage.
  • You also have the choice between a CPU with integrated graphics or without.
    ~~To save the environment and my bank account I will choose one without it.
    For Intel that is every CPU with the "F" designation.~~
    As thingsiplay and felsiq have pointed out there can appear several issues, when building a system without a integrated GPU. One which is, that it becomes harder to debug issues, since you can not just unplug your GPU, to test if the GPU drivers are at fault.


CPU-Cooler:


  • Check if the TDP matches your CPU, e.g. >=125 W for 125 W.
  • Check if it matches your motherboard and case, i.e. everything fits.
  • Lastly, make sure it is not to loud.


GPU:


  • Main OS is Linux, so I will spare myself the pain and choose AMD over Nvidia.
  • More demanding games use more video memory. I have read that 8 GB often is not enough anymore.


RAM:


  • Virtualisation often needs a lot of resources i.e. RAM.
  • For optimal performance your RAM-speed should match your CPU.
    Any more and you waste money, any less and you create a bottleneck.
    Since the i5 only has 5600 MT/s, any more is wasted.


Storage:


  • Since most games today use around 60-150 GB, this PC will need a lot of storage.
    About thirteen 150 GB games can be stored on a 2 TB drive. I hope this will suffice.


Power supply unit:


  • Deciding factors are form factor and power.
    You can not use your PSU, if it either does not fit in your PC-case or does not have enough juice to power your other components.
  • Your PSU should have a few more 20-30 % clearance in case of a spike. I think a 650 W PSU should be enough for a workload of 490 W idle. Please, correct me, if I am wrong.
  • Some people recommend buying a PSU with more power than needed to allow for upgrades with higher power usage, but apparently the PSU will not run efficiently in this case.
    I have read that a PSU should be most efficient at idle hardware usage to maximize power savings.
    E.g. do not buy a 1000 W PSU, when you only use around 400 W at idle.
  • Also important are the +12V-rails. You should make sure the supply at least 24 A.
    Lastly you should check which power plugs the PSU will/can use.

Since I plan something special for the PC-case, it will not be part of this post.
I hope this post can be used by others in the future, as a reference for building a Linux PC.

PS: This is my first post on lemmy. I am sorry for any formatting errors. I hope the post is legible.

Edit:
- added links for explanation
- fixed some grammatical errors
- added suggestions from the comments

It is getting late here. I will look into a substitute for intel tomorrow (8 hours from the latest edit) and add this here.


Intel finally announces a solution for CPU crashing and instability problems — claims elevated voltages are the root cause; patch coming by mid-August [Updated]

Patch is on the way.
Paul Alcorn (Tom's Hardware)
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Nanook

You can MANUALLY set the voltage on your motherboard lower, for me this is just part of installing a new system, I always use prime95 or mprime on Linux to fully load it and find the absolute minimal voltage the CPU is stable at. We did this with my sons i7-13900k and have never had an issue even though he beats the holy hell out of the machine with gaming and we got it early one right after the chips release. CPU's are a silicon lottery game and if you just let it set things you're going either give up efficiency or CPU life over what you get determining optimum settings manually. If you happen to get a chip near the center of the die it will run faster and at lower voltage than one near the outside, but since the manufacturer has to assume the worst, they will specify a voltage that is adequate to run the chip at the rated speed even if it is one of the poor quality chips from the outer edges of the die, the result is excessively cooking your CPU way more than you need to.

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Linux PC build (2025)

Linux PC build (2025)


Hello,

it's me again.
Some of you might remember me from this post,
in which I was asking for feedback to build a Linux PC in 2025.

Stuff happened and I didn't went through with it.
So this still my first attempt at a build.
Well now I've got time and want to try it again.

As you may notice,
I've ditched the Z790-9 mother board in favor of a MSI PRO B650M-P.
My dream of building a coreboot-system is officially dead,
thus I decided to build an AMD-System.

Short Listing:


If you notice anything wrong
or have suggestions/improvements don't hesitate to point them out.

Thanks in advance!!!

Specifications:



Patriot Viper Venom 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory (PVV532G600C30K) - PCPartPicker

Patriot Viper Venom 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory (PVV532G600C30K)
pcpartpicker.com
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HappinessPill

Why do you consider AppImages as last resort?

I can understand that in a distro the main repo need to be prioritized to avoid bloat of repetitive dependencies that could happen with a lot of AppImages.

I can't understand why so many people are opposed to it as an supportive role from a practical and complementary perspective.

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Determining the reason no one replied to your Lemmy post.

I was playing around with Lemmy statistics the other day, and I decided to take the number of comments per post. Essentially a measure of engagement – the higher the number the more engaging the post is. Or in other words how many people were pissed off enough to comment, or had something they felt like sharing. The average for every single Lemmy instance was 8.208262964 comments per post.

So I modeled that with a Poisson distribution, in stats terms X~Po(8.20826), then found the critical regions assuming that anything that had a less than 5% chance of happening, is important. In other words 5% is the significance level. The critical regions are the region either side of the distribution where the probability of ending up in those regions is less than 5%. These critical regions on the lower tail are, 4 comments and on the upper tail is 13 comments, what this means is that if you get less than 4 comments or more than 13 comments, that's a meaningful value. So I chose to interpret those results as meaning that if you get 5 or less comments than your post is "a bad post", or if you get 13 or more than your post is "a good post". A good post here is litterally just "got a lot of comments than expected of a typical post", vice versa for "a bad post".

You will notice that this is quite rudimentary, like what about when the Americans are asleep, most posts do worse then. That's not accounted for here, because it increases the complexity beyond what I can really handle in a post.

To give you an idea of a more sweeping internet trend, the adage 1% 9% 90%, where 1% do the posting, 9% do the commenting, and 90% are lurkers – assuming each person does an average of 1 thing a day, suggests that c/p should be about 9 for all sites regardless of size.

Now what is more interesting is that comments per post varies by instance, lemmy.world for example has an engagement of 9.5 c/p and lemmy.ml has 4.8 c/p, this means that a “good post” on .ml is a post that gets 9 comments, whilst a “good post” on .world has to get 15 comments. On hexbear.net, you need 20 comments, to be a “good post”. I got the numbers for instance level comments and posts from here

This is a little bit silly, since a “good post”, by this metric, is really just a post that baits lots and lots of engagement, specifically in the form of comments – so if you are reading this you should comment, otherwise you are an awful person. No matter how meaningless the comment.

Anyway I thought that was cool.

A stock image of a woman using a phone, looking disappointed.

Lemmy Explorer

Instance and Community Explorer for Lemmy
lemmyverse.net
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Coelacanth

I comment a shit ton and often with absolute banalities. Especially on posts with 0 comments.

My reasoning is twofold: first of all I want to encourage posters by engaging with their content so they don't stop posting. Second I want to invite others to comment and it's much more inviting to do so if a post has at least one comment. People tend to think it's dead otherwise and not bother.

I think at the current level of MAUs there is no comment too small, and every little bit helps just by virtue of breaking the silence.

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Why don't we build a kernel with "app" permissions?

I've been thinking. Android implements app permissions on top of Linux, Flatpak does it too. But why is it it's not part of the kernel?

Like all executable files would be sandboxed and would only be able to access syscalls and parts of the file system if they were allowed to. Making sandboxing the default instead of having to restrict programs.

I'm not a kernel developper so this question may be naive, but it bothers my mind. I guess part of it is because of historical reasons but are there any practical ones that make it not feasable?

EDIT : Thank you all for your answers, almost all of you were very nice and explained things clearly

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tal

The Linux kernel already has the infrastructure required for that. Heck, Android itself, including its permission system, is built atop the Linux kernel.

Making sandboxing the default instead of having to restrict programs.


What's missing for that is work on userspace software and app packaging. The kernel can't automatically know what a program should and shouldn't be allowed to do.

Some of that work has happened, like moving from X11, which really wasn't designed around sandboxing, to Wayland.

But a lot of it requires making a permission system the norm and creating a system such that software is normally distributed with restricted permissions and developers develop around that. Like, I can use firejail and disallow write access to parts of the filesystem or network access to a program, but there isn't a broad system of appropriate pre-created profiles that applications are distributed with and way to view this. We don't have a convention for an application-private space on disk and lack of access to most of the filesystem, which Android does and apps need to be written around.

IMHO, one of the largest jumps would be Valve doing this for Steam games --- a lot of games are going to be amenable to being sandboxed, don't need broad access to the system, and are closed source. There are some issues there; for Windows binaries run under Proton, WINE wasn't originally written around being isolated, and the game developers writing the software are writing to a Windows API that aren't under the control of people on the Linux side of things.

I haven't poked at snaps much or their technical underpinnings, but my understanding is that they distribute apps in a sandboxed form, so that might be the closest Linux-native approach.

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Admetus

Not surprised, it was a bit of a niche project that was quite hard to get into (the options took a bit of reading around to understand what they were on about). It is easy enough to find the flavour of UI you want and more from the arch distros out there (I just found I actually do need cups on my EndeavourOS gnome distro and that's something I didn't toggle (printing). Time to throw in some cups and foomatic packages in there). So again, it's about purpose and as much as I would have liked to have gotten into something about customisation, I've kind of already got a minimal-ish distro to work on.
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Follow libreddit with lemmy client
Is it possible to follow communities in an instance like libreddit.kavin.rocks/r/Profes… with a lemmy client?

ProfessorMemeology

View on Redlib, an alternative private front-end to Reddit.
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infeeeee

It's not a reddit or lemmy thing, generally backslash is used as an escape character in a lot of programming languages. Here and in reddit comments accept markdown and markdown uses backslash as escape character.

character which invokes an alternative interpretation on subsequent characters in a character sequence

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
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how to investigate unexpected power management behavior

I have a lowend netbook with debian-type linux only (no dualboot). Power management should be via XFCE4's xfce4-power-manager-settings.

I'm having weird behavior with suspend and trying to identify/troubleshoot it. It seems to be usually draining power and never charging when the lid is closed for many hours.

I tried explicitly entering power off, hibernate and suspend followed by unplugging then leaving it a few hours but couldn't replicate. It seems to be doing something on its own after being unplugged a long time.

What logs can I look at to see when my device changes its power modes, what were the triggers, what settings are governing it etc?

I can't tell if it's a software issue or there is some sort of power saving thing going on in the hardware or what.

Just hoping for some investigation tips here, I know its not enough info to solve.

Edit to clarify no dual boot.

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What the actual f is wrong with Linux?

I'm not a master pro Linux user. I've dabbled over the years several times. It's been about 6-8 years since I've last used it. I am having the absolute worst experience I have ever had with any OS so far, I have to be doing something wrong.

First. R7 5800x3d. 32gb ram. Rtx 3060. Nvme dual boot.

Problems so far, this is my first day. One, changing my monitors orientation and position cause my mouse to be on one screen and actively click on a different screen.

Whenever I open settings to change date and time the program crashes.

My mouse movement is that of a spastic child and is not smooth and I can't install ghub on Linux, so I'm forced to use the OS adjustments, which in turn crash the settings application.

The OS is SLOW! like insanely slow. I open discord and literally 3-4 minutes goes by before the loading pop up appears.

If I click in an icon, there is no indication that I clicked it until 1-2 minutes later, this even happens with like Firefox or chrome, file browser. Any app.

I have to have a password to do anything. Why? No one is going to steal my PC, boot it up and smash f11 to get into my Linux box where I'm just messing around.

I don't understand.. I have used Ubuntu before, fedora, mint and a few others. But it just seems like it's absolutely garbage right now.

Do I have to install certain things? Do I have to install Nvidia drivers? Doni have to install chipset drivers?

And honestly question, why do simple takes require you to "run a script"? Like why?

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solrize

I believe the Nvidia driver situation still sucks and maybe always will due to Nvidia incalcitrance. You could try pulling out that 3060 board. Next, what motherboard are you using? That might also have compatibility issues. Other than that, dual booting has sometimes been a pain, but if the system is coming up you've gotten past that. Your system is pretty powerful and should work well.
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[Solved] What just happened to 4 million posts?

Stats from here: lemmy.fediverse.observer/daily…

Like, has an instance gone down and if so, why hasn't there been a comparable drop in users and comments?

Edit: Thanks to @example@reddthat.com here for pointing to zerobytes.monster becoming more aggressive against bots as the likely culprit.

Graph showing the number of Lemmy posts over time, with a large drop from ~12.5 million to ~8.75 million between the 9 April and 11 April.

Fediverse Observer checks all sites in the fediverse and gives you an easy way to find a home from a map or list or automatically.

Lemmy Sites Status. Find a Lemmy server to sign up for, find one close to you!
lemmy.fediverse.observer
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don't like this

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sp3ctr4l

It may have been lemmy.zip

It did in fact go down for about 48 hours... prompting me to make this new account on dbzer0.

Basically, the admin attempted to update to a newer lemmy version... and it failed, multiple times, and they just rolled back, restored the old version, posted an explanation and apology, and they'll be further looking into ... exactly what went wrong.

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sp3ctr4l

¯_(😀_/¯


I don't know exactly how that post counter ... actually, technically counts posts, but:

1:

Zip going down could have uncounted all posts anywhere made by zip accounts.

2:

There could have been some kind of... propogating post count negation effect, as various other instances reacted differently to zip users posts on their instances could not pull them anymore, on different time scales.

3: If a zip user had a ... top level comment, on another instance, its possible all lower level comments responding to that comment may also have poofed out of existence, in some respect.

I may be using some terminology here, and this is just spitballing, but yeah.

Almost all of my .zip account's posts... are not on zip itself, and its possible that that is fairly common amongst .zip users.

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example

I think this is zerobytes.monster, one of the reddit mirror instances.

the post count fits and it also matches with the user count not significantly dropping.

that instance has been using rather strict waf blocking rules from time to time that likely also affect the crawler for fediverse.observer.

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This Week in Plasma: The beginnings of Wayland session restore

This Week in Plasma: The beginnings of Wayland session restore

Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in Plasma"! Every week we cover the highlights of what's happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more.
This Week in Plasma: The beginnings of Wayland session restore
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notanapple

KWin has gained support for the initial version of the Wayland session restore protocol


I found it interesting that they were merging support for a not-yet-merged protocol so I looked it up.

It seems the plan is to use the new experimental protocol thing that was introduced a while back:

gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland…


experimental: Add xx-session-management-v1 (!392) · Merge requests · wayland / wayland-protocols · GitLab

This is identical to the experimental version implemented by kwin and mutter. Signed-off-by: Jonas Ådahl jadahl@gmail.com Some notes:
GitLab
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Jure Repinc

Oh yeah. Can't wait for this. bad session management/restore is basically the only thing I still mis on Wayland. Hopefully Firefox and other apps will gain support for this soon (I guess all Qt/KDE apps will get support at once when they also add support to Qt and KDE Frameworks). Anyways I just opened the enhancement request for Firefox for this just hoping they will add support soon.

1959841 - Implement XDG Session Management Protocol support on GNU/Linux with Wayland

NEW (nobody) in Firefox - Session Restore. Last updated 2025-04-12.
bugzilla.mozilla.org

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AceCoding.social - Vibe coding on the social web based on the semi-formalic language ACE (Demo)

Combining vibe coding, attempto controlled english (ace) and the social web - form space on the social web through words, secured by attempto controlled english.

You are only able to run code based on attempto controlled english (ace), which is a formally defined subset of the english language.
In the future, admins could through this restrict certain kinds of code from executing for security purposes.
Additionally, it lessens the ambiguity of natural language and you can be sure that the resulting code will do what it should.

Here are a few example commands in ACE that could be run on AceCoding.social in the future:

  • Moderation: If a user posts more than 20 times in 1 hour then the system temporarily restricts the user's posting ability.
  • Look and feel: If a post contains an image then the system displays the image with rounded corners.
  • For content curation: Every post that has more than 50 likes is added to the "Popular Today" collection.
  • For notifications: If a user has not logged in for 7 days then the system sends a digest of missed interactions.
  • For accessibility: Every image in a post has an alt-text that is either provided by the user or generated by the system.

Repo: github.com/bluebbberry/AceCodi…

(Image from Veronica Casson, freethink.com/wp-content/uploa…)

GitHub - bluebbberry/AceCoding.social: Combining vibe coding, attempto controlled english (ace) and the social web - form space on the social web through words, secured by attempto controlled english.

Combining vibe coding, attempto controlled english (ace) and the social web - form space on the social web through words, secured by attempto controlled english. - bluebbberry/AceCoding.social
GitHub
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IngeniousRocks (They/She)

Not by default, but yea it is encrypted, I use almost exclusively encrypted chats through TG, even my voice and video calls are encrypted through TG.

E2e encryption is security theater though, a chance for companies to tell states "We'D lOvE tO hAnD oVeR tHaT dAtA bUt ItS eNcYpTeD".

In reality, it doesn't matter, if someone wants to snoop on your convos you can't stop them.

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IngeniousRocks (They/She)

Since you seem to understand it then:

How do two clients communicsting over a proprietary network negotiate an end to end encrypted chat channel without sharing keys in an easily decrypted manner?

It seems to me that some kind of handshake needs to occur where the clients need to agree on a cypher, so how does this happen securely?

I'm not worried about encryption being broken, it just seems like if you're handing the keys over the mail, it's pretty easy to xray the package and copy the key, is the same not true over digital communication?

Unknown parent

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hendrik

EDIT: See edit in my previous comment on how Bluetooth can do it.

I suppose along an iPhone? I mean Apple does the whole ecosystem. And this isn't really a technical limitation. Most phones have the audio stream connected to the processor. Theoretically they could forward it, or record it. But on Android, the often don't seem to allow any of that, and Apple doesn't allow third parties (like a Linux computer) to access "their" interfaces, so I don't know if you can forward it to arbitrary computers either.

I mean there are solutions. Other people here outlined that. For example mimicking a bluetooth handset. You could solder a cable to attach to a computer's AUX input. Or use a landline or different service to manage the calls whithin a PBX. But none of that is very easy to set up or proper forwarding. Maybe the best bet would be bluetooth.

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lemmy - Link to source

AceCoding.social - Vibe coding on the social web based on the semi-formalic language ACE (Demo)

Combining vibe coding, attempto controlled english (ace) and the social web - form space on the social web through words, secured by attempto controlled english.

You are only able to run code based on attempto controlled english (ace), which is a formally defined subset of the english language.
In the future, admins could through this restrict certain kinds of code from executing for security purposes.
Additionally, it lessens the ambiguity of natural language and you can be sure that the resulting code will do what it should.

Here are a few example commands in ACE that could be run on AceCoding.social in the future:

  • Moderation: If a user posts more than 20 times in 1 hour then the system temporarily restricts the user's posting ability.
  • Look and feel: If a post contains an image then the system displays the image with rounded corners.
  • For content curation: Every post that has more than 50 likes is added to the "Popular Today" collection.
  • For notifications: If a user has not logged in for 7 days then the system sends a digest of missed interactions.
  • For accessibility: Every image in a post has an alt-text that is either provided by the user or generated by the system.

Repo: github.com/bluebbberry/AceCodi…

(Image from Veronica Casson, freethink.com/wp-content/uploa…)

GitHub - bluebbberry/AceCoding.social: Combining vibe coding, attempto controlled english (ace) and the social web - form space on the social web through words, secured by attempto controlled english.

Combining vibe coding, attempto controlled english (ace) and the social web - form space on the social web through words, secured by attempto controlled english. - bluebbberry/AceCoding.social
GitHub
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wizardbeard

The amount of domain knowledge to even begin to parse what the fuck you're talking about is absurd.

Secondly, why would anyone want this?

I'm glad you've found yet another project to look nice for your github portfolio, but maybe be up front about that instead of drowning everyone in near gibberish and what seems like poorly written advertisement.

"Hey, I've made another quasi-social media network leveraging the fediverse, AI, and a programming language made to resemble normal english. Check it out!"

Otherwise this is just blatant buzzword salad. I'm going to guess you're also using AI to get project idea involving the latest buzzwords? Maybe even using AI to write this psuedo ad-copy?

Again, more power to you if you're trying to build a portfolio/github/resume where you can say that you've "created numerous projects leveraging federated social media and AI", but just be up front about what you're doing when you post about it here please.

No one needs more shit pretending to be something it isn't. It's okay for your little portfolio project to be just that.

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Very cheap VPS for hosting proxies

What are the very VPS cheap options for like <10$/year or maybe even less?

I want to host a large number of censorship-resistant proxy servers (XTLS) around the world.

The location does not matter (except it must not be in some shithole like China or Russia). Perfomance and reliability are not a priority either.

Being able to pay with crypto would be great.

(Not sure if a post about commercial services like this is allowed, if not, I will delete it)

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pmk

Dilemma: Fedora has introduced and worked on a lot of things that make "Year of Linux on the Desktop" more likely. Even if UNIX purists disagree with the direction, Fedora is what Ubuntu used to be back in the day. Linux for humans.

At the same time, it's possible due to corporate backing. American corporate backing even. A part of me thinks that if we can't get there as a community without corporate influence, then it's all for nothing. I want the community model to not just be an ethical alternative, but that this model of cooperation also produces the best results.

(PS. I'm open for having my view changed, maybe I'm thinking about this the wrong way.)

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notanapple

Currently most cooperate linux companies are not in the business of selling linux desktop itself. Rather its linux for servers, administration, embedded things (like cars), and other enterprisey stuff. So at least at the moment they are not looking to profit of linux desktop users directly which has saved us from enshittiffication attempts.

But even if they in the future attempt to do something fishy, that most users dont agree with, I think by the virtue of how stuff works on linux it will be very easy for people to move to something else or a fork, and still get 95-99% of the same experience. This in turn will force companies to think twice before doing something like this.

A good example here is canonical/Ubuntu who has made questionable decisions in the past and each time they had to take it back. Even now, Snap due to its use of a centralized store is almost universally shunned by the linux community and is only supported maintained by canonical. While Flatpak is supported by the wider linux community with people from different projects contributing to it (though I sometimes worry about everyone centralizing on Flathub to the point where they are actively discourage other projects from launching/maintaining their own stores/repos).

This is why we need to build and champion tech that is resistant to control and enshittiffication. Then we dont have to worry too much about who is developing it.

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BlogOnLemmy - I made my Blog using Lemmy's API
Lemmydocs 7:4 – Thou shall create a blog

Features


  • Linked to a user using Lemmy’s API, no authentication
  • Host content on any instance
  • Category filters: Set one or more community as the categories
  • Easy to adapt to your profile
  • One page constraint
  • Anchor navigation and permalinks
  • Responsive
  • Dark / Light mode
  • No cookies or tracking
  • Interactive “about me”
  • No backend: serving a single lightweight page that can be hosted anywhere, including GitHub
  • HTML, CSS and ES6 JavaScript. That's it.


TODO


  • Possible compatibility issues with older iOS devices. Let me know if you encounter an issue! I'll be cleaning up the code in the meantime.
  • The only class not written by me is the markdown-html translation layer for which I'm using snarkdown. It does so using regex queries. As to not completely re-invent the wheel I've forked it for this purpose, but I'd like to write one myself.

GitHub | ./Martijn.sh > Blog


GitHub - developit/snarkdown: :smirk_cat: A snarky 1kb Markdown parser written in JavaScript

:smirk_cat: A snarky 1kb Markdown parser written in JavaScript - developit/snarkdown
GitHub

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Krull (1983) - Mastodon watch party this Sunday evening!

Usually I only post these announcements on !bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world, but Krull... well it's not a GREAT movie, but it's not quite a B movie either. It had a video game tie-in, a respectable budget, and it was aimed at being a hit. It's more like a first-run movie that didn't quite come off. But it has nostalgia value! And parts of it are pretty good!

Anyway, if you want to watch it this Sunday with a pack of fediverse wits and wisealecks, read on...

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/20694076

Krull (1983) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
  • Just start watching that movie this Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
  • and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: mastodon.social/tags/monsterdo…
  • I usually open two web browser windows on a computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:
- Tubi (US, England, Canada, Australia, NZ?) (NOTE you may need to "enable DRM" if you're on Firefox; dunno if that disables uBlock Origin adblock): tubitv.com/movies/100029546/kr…
- someone plans to stream it on miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
- archive: archive.org/details/krull.-198…
- archive (low quality?): archive.org/details/krull_2024…
- youtube (Brazilian Portuguese dub playlist?): youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDT…
- if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: justwatch.com/us/movie/krull

Krull is a 1983 British[1] science fantasy adventure film[2] ... The story follows Prince Colwyn (Marshall) and a fellowship of companions who set out to rescue his bride, Princess Lyssa (Anthony), from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.

...

The film was a box-office bomb upon release, and critical opinion has been mixed, both upon release and in retrospect. Numerous reviewers have highlighted its visual effects and soundtrack, while several critics have criticized its plot as being derivative and nonsensical. In the years since its release, the film has developed a cult following.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krull_(f…

We discussed this movie here on B Movie Bonanza a year and a half ago!

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How to find a post labeled "lemmy.world" that was on another instance?

No idea how I got there but somehow I saw this post somehow on sh.itjust.works, about a prefab house that was found floating in the Pacific. I wanted to comment but the only login I have is on lemmy.world. Notice the post is from The Picard Maneuver, whose posts I've seen many times, and it says lemmy.world above their name.

Lemmy.world has a whitepeopletwitter community but the newest post is 2 months old. This one is from 10 hours ago. Search on the lemmy.world main page for "Minding" turns up a bunch of posts going back months, but this one isn't there.

I thought I understood how federation works but I'm stumped. Is this really a lemmy.world post? If not, what does the presence of "lemmy.world" on it indicate?

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originalucifer

moist.catsweat.com/m/whitepeop…

you would go to an instance, search for that sub/group (whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works)

im not on lemmy, but i think the significance of the 'lemmy.world' is the origin of the post... in this case the_picard_maneuver@lemmy.world posted it to sh.itjust.works

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insomniac_lemon

i think the significance of the ‘lemmy.world’ is the origin of the post… in this case the_picard_maneuver@lemmy.world posted it to sh.itjust.works


Close, it's where the image is hosted. The lemmy.world bit is a link to the image. Just like how any website link will say the domain of the destination.

I mean it probably is where a user is posting from, but sometimes it is not (not sure why but sometimes non-ml users will post images from ml)

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Lovable Sidekick

How could the_picard_maneuver@lemmy.world post to sh.itjust.works? They would have to login to sh.itjust.works. I'm not able to login there as lovablesidekick or lovablesidekick@lemmy.world.

Likewise, if you're originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com how are you replying to my comment on lemmy.world without logging into lemmy.world?

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geekwithsoul doesn't like this.

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originalucifer

They would have to login to sh.itjust.works.


nope. every instance can post to any other instances groups. my 'home base' instance (moist) has almost no local communities, but the users can interact with all of the lemmyverse

if you look at the group list you'll see they are all remote groups that local users can subscribe and interact with locally

my instance has a 'copy' of the remote content. when a local user interacts with that content, it is sent to the other instance.

its what the 'federation' in the fediverse means. all users can subscribe/upvote/interact with 'remote' instances. the actions of the users are federated between instances.


Subs - Moist: A Nonsense Aggregator

damp fediverse onramp
moist.catsweat.com
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Lovable Sidekick

Makes sense and I appreciate the help. But when I go to the post link on sh.itjust.works it says:

I'm currently logged in to lemmy.world, but apparently I do need to login sh.itjust.works. This is how I thought lemmy worked, but I also thought the content from sh.itjust.works would be repeated on lemmy.world as you described, and I would be able to find it here and comment. But the whitepeopletwitter community on lemmy.world is pretty empty and that post isn't there. Does this mean something's wrong, or maybe lemmy.world has muted that community, or some other explanation? Just trying to figure all this out.

Edit: I rethought what you said and found where I can remote-subscribe to the sh.itjust.works community. It says subscription pending. I will give it a while and see if this solves the problem. Again, I appreciate your help.

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riot

I wonder if you're running into the same thing that I've had quite a bit of issue with in the last few weeks on lemmy.world.

When I go to the 'copy' of a post on lemmy.world from another instance, I will get the same message of "You must log in or register to comment."
Only by searching for the post on lemmy.world, clicking through to it, and then also refreshing, does lemmy seem to acknowledge that I am in fact logged in! But only if I do those steps in that order.

EDIT: I've made it a bit easier for myself by setting up the search engine in my browser: https://lemmy.world/search?q=%25s
So that I can just copy any other instance link, go to the address bar and type ls (the keyword I chose for the search engine), paste in the link and then go to the lemmy.world version from there, and refresh the page.

I used to be able to just use the Instance Assistant for Lemmy & Kbin extension by cynber, but for the last few weeks I have to do the whole search and refresh dance instead.

GitHub - cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant: Browser extension to help make Lemmy & Kbin easier to use

Browser extension to help make Lemmy & Kbin easier to use - cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant
GitHub
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How do you guys manage your iOS device(s)?

Switched to Linux a little over a year ago and it's been great, but one thing eludes me. What's the best way to do the following when you don't use Windows or MacOS?

  1. Manage music collection - on Windows I used iTunes to sync my mp3's to the phone. Is there a linux solution?
  2. Manage SMS from desktop - I'd like to be able to read and reply to SMS messages on my iPhone from the linux PC right in front of me instead of this rinky dink iPhone soft keyboard. Is this possible?

And how the hell does anyone but a child type on an iPhone anyway, while we're at it? (rhetorical) Grrrr.

Thanks!

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lemmy - Link to source

_thebrain_

I don't have an iPhone but my daughter does.

For music I don't sync anything to her phone. I run a navidrome server and set up an account so she can stream whatever she wants whenever. I think she uses isub as her streaming app. It does allow you to download and cache files from the server to play if you are offline

As for sms, I don't know of any way to sync in Linux, but if you use Windows, the phone link app works, as several of my coworkers have set it up. I know it installs some piece of software on the iPhone you want to sync to, maybe you could do that and try running the phone link program with wine?

I also know kde connect has a link for iOS. It's not perfect but it will do the sms linking thing.

This entry was edited (3 months ago)

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Great take on "Why don't more people use Linux?"

Stumbled across this quick post recently and thought it was a really good tale and worth sharing.

A couple of weeks ago, I saw a tweet asking: "If Linux is so good, why aren't more people using it?" And it's a fair question! It intuitively rings true until you give it a moment's consideration. Linux is even free, so what's stopping mass adoption, if it's actually better? My response:

  • If exercising is so healthy, why don't more people do it?
  • If reading is so educational, why don't more people do it?
    • If junk food is so bad for you, why do so many people eat it?


The world is full of free invitations to self-improvement that are ignored by most people most of the time. Putting it crudely, it's easier to be fat and ignorant in a world of cheap, empty calories than it is to be fit and informed. It's hard to resist the temptation of minimal effort.

And Linux isn't minimal effort. It's an operating system that demands more of you than does the commercial offerings from Microsoft and Apple. Thus, it serves as a dojo for understanding computers better. With a sensei who keeps demanding you figure problems out on your own in order to learn and level up.

Now I totally understand why most computer users aren't interested in an intellectual workout when all they want to do is browse the web or use an app. They're not looking to become a black belt in computing fundamentals.

But programmers are different. Or ought to be different. They're like firefighters. Fitness isn't the purpose of firefighting, but a prerequisite. You're a better firefighter when you have the stamina and strength to carry people out of a burning building on your shoulders than if you do not. So most firefighters work to be fit in order to serve that mission.

That's why I'd love to see more developers take another look at Linux. Such that they may develop better proficiency in the basic katas of the internet. Such that they aren't scared to connect a computer to the internet without the cover of a cloud.

Besides, if you're able to figure out how to setup a modern build pipeline for JavaScript or even correctly configure IAM for AWS, you already have all the stamina you need for the Linux journey. Think about giving it another try. Not because it is easy, but because it is worth it.


Omakub

Turn a fresh Ubuntu installation into a fully-configured, beautiful, and modern web development system by running a single command.
Omakub
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lemmy - Link to source

Dimi Fisher

What issues are you all talking about? I m a Linux user for eleven years now, the only issues you may have with them are only in the beginning when everything is not installed or sometimes not everything is perfectly installed and set up, once you finish with that you may get bored by how extremely stable they are, you just do your work and that's it, and they stay like that forever, the only reason people are using windows is because they are pre installed, that's the only truth.

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Why aren't my friend's posts showing up on lemmy.world or lemmy.ml, even though she can post to communities on those instances unrestricted?

My friend, whose account is on the lemm.ee instance, is able to post to lemmy.world and lemmy.ml communities as demonstrable here

lemm.ee/post/60860312

lemm.ee/post/60860312

lemm.ee/post/60719211

lemm.ee/post/60533082

lemm.ee/post/60533064

However, another friend, who is on lemmy.world, said that her posts aren't showing up on lemmy.world.

lemmy.world/c/askmen?dataType=…

lemmy.world/c/askouija?dataTyp…

lemmy.ml/c/askgermany?dataType…

Her posts haven't been removed, otherwise they would've shown up in the modlogs lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&acti…

lemmy - Link to source

Are fake-bans on Lemmy a thing? My friend was supposedly instance banned from Lemmy.world, lemmy.blahaj.zone, dbzer0, sh.itjust.works and lemmy.ml but she can still post in some communities

It says she’s banned here lemmy.world/u/shinigamiookamir…

Modlog

lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&acti…

But as we can see here, she’s been recently posting in lemmy.world communities

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lemmy - Link to source

WatDabney

Those aren't actually lemmy.world communities.

Everything on that list is a community on that instance (whatever it is - lemm.ee I guess).

For example, a post from a lemm.ee account to AskLemmyWorld@lemmy.world is actually a post to an entirely separate community - AskLemmyWorld@lemmy.world@lemm.ee That lemm.ee community is a mirror of the lemmy.world community (and of all the other communities on all the other instances that mirror it.

That's how federation actually works. You never actually leave your home instance, and what seems like a post to a community on another instance is actually a post to a locally hosted mirror of that community.

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Thoughts on AlmaLinux bootc images?
Old post but I think it is still relevant. Fedora also supports this but Fedora doesn't have a LTS support window

Bringing bootc to AlmaLinux

bootc is a new deployment method that powers Image mode for RHEL and HeliumOS, a new Linux distribution. We are excited to announce that AlmaLinux now offers bootc images for Intel/AMD(x86_64) and ARM64(AArch4).
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Basic recommendation video algorithm for peertube

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/28011368

So I started by doing research and by research I mean watching two videos on YouTube about basic recommendation algorithms.

I did watch a 30 minute video on Netflix software engineer talking about using machine learning and complex matrix and these bandit style machine learning algorithms to recommend TV shows/movies really the base conclusion is that there's a 50% improve over doing all these complex things over their baseline measurement. Baseline will mean traditional pre neral network based algorithms.

The way I interpret it is that basics take you a long way and all the basics are is just organizing any peertube video into a vector and people watching into a vector as well. The idea would be that which videos are more similar to each other would be good recommendations if a watcher watch one of those videos, or if they didn't like it don't recommend any videos similar to that. Once these videos get vectorized then the watcher's vector can be updated in a basic way more watch time mean its more of what they want and a like would give it a boost, or comment could boost multiplier.

I'd say that the watcher's vector can be stored locally while videos vector is public. It will be a while to figure out a function/algorithm to adapt to watcher. Does the watcher taste change, do they multiple things , should the algorithm adapt fast or slow as new videos come in, novelty/consistency. I don't expect this problem to be solved anytime soon , but the recommendation algorithm will simply evolve and split as to have their own unique benefits and drawbacks.

To start foundation is to start a standard for video vector. Video can be quantified and qualified. There's only a few measurable quantities like video length and existing views. Qualitative attribute of videos like "is it a cooking tutorial, "is it a sports commentary ", or "is it a Livestream VOD" are going to require that the vector be stored in a format that can adapt to the expanding number of dimensions the quality a peertube video can have. Next issue is measure qualities to an actual number is something sports related or sports adjacent would a 1 mean yes or would a 0 mean neutral/agnostic or no.

The last simplist issue would be communicated the algorithm that updates the watcher's vector since that can be done via updates from peertube server or GitHub

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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.
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TheTwelveYearOld

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
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Byter

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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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.
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::: spoiler Animals
- Dermaleon - Bird watching
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::: 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.
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::: spoiler Comedy
- The Schuman Show - The Schuman Show uses comedy to make EU affairs more understandable for a global audience.
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::: 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!
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::: spoiler Entertainment
- ASMR of the Fediverse - CC licensed ASMR videos.
- Mr. Funk E. Dude's Place.
- Hotel Breakfast Review
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::: 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).
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::: spoiler Food
- Zalasur: Food and Cooking - Game playthroughs with no commentary.
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::: 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!
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::: 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.
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::: spoiler Kids
- ...
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::: 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
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::: spoiler News / Politics
- Surveillance Report - Weekly security and privacy news.
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::: 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.
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::: 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.
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::: spoiler Sports
- 3MoreReps - Yoga & Fitness - Fitness, Yoga Trapeze, Stretching and Flexibility Workouts.
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::: 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
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::: 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!
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ozoned

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

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ReversalHatchery

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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[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.

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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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

catloaf doesn't like this.

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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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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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Insurrection act — April 20th. Pls read!

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:

  1. “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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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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Pregnenolone

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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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/

Home - Beckn protocol

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
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[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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vortexal

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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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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Jumuta

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.
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John Richard

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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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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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.

Agent Karyo

2025-04-08 06:29:09

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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:

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

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

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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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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Vittelius

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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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
MasculineBeing@chinese.lol
RichWeird@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
DryCash97@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
AuthorizedChair@chinese.lol
SlimKiss@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
AromaticRoof78@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
BewitchedInterview@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
ImaginaryDraw@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
PertinentGround@chinese.lol
SinfulAssumption@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
AwkwardAnybody30@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
UnwillingRestaurant@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
InsubstantialOven@lemmy.doesnotexist.club
:::

A individual user airing their personal biases and manipulating lemmy isn't good for the community, regardless of how you feel about their target. This is a really bad thing (tm)


A Peculiar, Short-Lived Office at the Smithsonian Once Explored Reports of Bizarre Natural Phenomena - Hacker Talks

Lemmy
hackertalks.com

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FundMECFS

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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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:

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


@EDIT | don't follow!

standard mySQL procedures and comands

Change from standard SSH root user to enter mySQL management as root
rootname@VPShosting:~# mysql
create a DB with user and paswordMariaDB \[(none)\]> `CREATE DATABASE friendicadb;` MariaDB \[(none)\]> `CREATE USER 'friendica'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '';` MariaDB \[(none)\]> `GRANT ALL ON friendicadb.* TO 'friendica'@'localhost';` MariaDB \[(none)\]> `FLUSH PRIVILEGES;` MariaDB \[(none)\]> `EXIT;`

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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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degen

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
Gist
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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!
Gardiner Bryant (The Bryant Blog)

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InfiniteHench

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

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 ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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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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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

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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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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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

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

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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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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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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[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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LainTrain

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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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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Nanook

@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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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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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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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
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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..
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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:


  1. 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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  2. So, I need to boot into the desired snapshot from the boot manager itself.
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  3. GRUB has grub-btrfs, which lets you boot into snapshot from OS selection screen itself.
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  4. 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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  5. I use BTRFS Assistant with snapper to manage snapshots.
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  6. I am not seeing any way to restore the snapshot from live environment too.
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  7. I am using CachyOS (Arch) with Plasma DE.
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  8. I suspect the reason is my unusual /efi /boot partition layout. (attached below)
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  9. 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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  10. I also encrypted my BTRFS / partition
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  11. 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
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Quack Doc

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

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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Quack Doc

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

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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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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Zamundaaa

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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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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ikidd

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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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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BagOfHeavyStones

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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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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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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[✅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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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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MonkderVierte

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
GitHub
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[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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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:

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.
Tally Forms

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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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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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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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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."

source

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

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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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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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Markaos

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.
Manjaro Linux Forum
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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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LordKitsuna

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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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
:::

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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[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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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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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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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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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)
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