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Is it possible to manage Apple devices on Linux?
I have Linux Mint installed on my work PC. As I work with IT I am sometimes tasked with doing stuff like restoring Iphones and such, which is normally done through Itunes. But there's no Linux support for Itunes, and I haven't been able to install it through Wine. I also can't use a VM as my PC isn't powerful enough for it. I'm hoping there's a solution for this, as I will have to re-install Windows if I can't get it to work on Linux, and I really want to avoid that.
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LoveSausage

A few options

1,Getting a Mac with apple silicon and install asahi , dual boot.
2. Add a new SSD and some ram to your current one and enable virtualization in bios. Might need a bios update as well.
3 Dual boot windows , might want to check out ameliorated.io/
4 Get a old crappy Mac just for the itunes.
5. Use the Linux tools mentioned earlier


Ameliorated

Completely transform your computer in minutes. Simply download a verified Playbook, or use your own, and run it in AME Wizard.
ameliorated.io
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utopiah

Absolutely, but OP will have to explain a bit to their boss why. Maybe we can help OP there?

Fuck that walled garden is not a business value added task so can we, as a community who cares how openness, translate that to C-suite MBA speech?

  • Apple devices are more expensive to manage (source? time from OP to do so? additional hardware?)
  • Apple devices are less compatible with software solution we use in the company (examples?)
  • Apple devices ...
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lemmy - Link to source

the whole system disappeared

cross-posted: feddit.org/post/12443313

Hello, I'm still a noob when it comes to computers.
I had a dual boot Windows 11 and OpenSuse Leap 15.6.
My problem is that I was using my laptop as always and I was simply searching through internet when the system glitched. So I tried to restart my laptop, but then it showed screens with sth like Bios corrupted, blue screen etc. And then it restarted but only with Windows 11.
When I check the settings partition has fully free memory, so it means that my OpenSuse is gone.

What could have gone wrong?

Sorry for the noob question and thanks for any help. I'm just really davastated.

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Divine D. project is developing a Linux phone with a RK3588s processor


The Rockchip RK3588 processor family has been around for a few years now, and it has proven to be a popular option for single-board computers, laptops, and other devices that generally run Android or Linux-based software.

More recently we’ve started to see folks tap this chip for use in Linux smartphones. The first was the Liberux NEXX that was announced earlier this year ahead of an […]

#dawndrums #divineD #linuxSmartphones #mobileLinux #tunisia

Read more: liliputing.com/divine-d-projec…

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lemmy - Link to source

GDM not honoring custom monitor config

So, for context, I have an HDMI dummy plug that is disabled most of the time, but enabled through command-line to use as a virtual display for game streaming with Sunshine.

In GNOME settings, the display is disabled, and that works just fine. I can enable/disable it at will whenever I want to stream games using the new gdctl utility added in GNOME 48.

I want this “monitor” to be disabled in GDM as well since it keeps trying to use the dummy plug as the default display and I can’t see and of the UI elements and have to type my password in blindly. I’ve copied over my monitor config from /home/user/.config/monitors.xml to /var/lib/gdm/.config/monitors.xml as per the Arch Wiki’s recommendations, but when I log out/reboot, nothing changes on GDM. It still tries to show the password entry UI on the dummy plug and my actual display just shows a gray screen.

I know the configs are different for X11 and wayland, but both GDM and GNOME are running under wayland, so that shouldn’t be the issue.

Any help would be appreciated.

I use Arch btw.

Sunshine | LizardByte

A LizardByte project
LizardByte
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lemmy - Link to source

EccTM

Yeah, seems like it should just be working...

You've probably already got this covered, but when you created your user monitors.xml config, did you have the dummy plug connected and disabled?

Maybe the config:

  • has it included as a monitor and enabled as part of the screen layout
  • or possibly doesn't include it at all, and then GDM just assumes it can/should use it as a new option?
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lemmy - Link to source

echo

Yes. Here’s the contents I currently have in /var/lib/gdm/.config/monitors.xml:

<monitors version="2">
  <configuration>
    <layoutmode>physical</layoutmode>
    <logicalmonitor>
      <x>0</x>
      <y>0</y>
      <scale>1</scale>
      <primary>yes</primary>
      <monitor>
        <monitorspec>
          <connector>DP-1</connector>
          <vendor>SAM</vendor>
          <product>Odyssey G93SC</product>
          <serial>HNTW700164</serial>
        </monitorspec>
        <mode>
          <width>5120</width>
          <height>1440</height>
          <rate>239.997</rate>
        </mode>
        <colormode>bt2100</colormode>
      </monitor>
    </logicalmonitor>
    <disabled>
      <monitorspec>
        <connector>HDMI-1</connector>
        <vendor>FUN</vendor>
        <product>Evanlak8K V2</product>
        <serial>0x00006410</serial>
      </monitorspec>
    </disabled>
  </configuration>
</monitors>

The disabled dummy plug is the “Evanlak8K V2” device while my functional monitor is my Samsung Odyssey OLED G9. This config is the same as the one currently running on my GNOME desktop config, but in GDM still defaults to the enabled dummy plug, even with the fixed ownership.

At this point, do you think I should issue a report on GDM’s repository? Maybe the devs there would have more insight

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lemmy - Link to source

EccTM

My monitors.xml has two <configuration> blocks, with the only real difference being that one has <layoutmode>physical</layoutmode> and the second has <layoutmode>logical</layoutmode>. I don't really think that'd be the issue here though, because if the dummy plug is listed as disabled it shouldn't be trying to use it anyway...?

I think you're right in reporting it to the GDM repo, at a minimum someone there will know where to point you towards figuring this out. Maybe the GNOME Mutter repo might be a related stop for this too, seeing that's the part generating the monitors.xml...

The things that are supposed to be simple are always the bits that suck the most!

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lemmy - Link to source

echo

Very well said. Thank you very much for your help. I wouldn’t have known to check the ownership issues or if GDM were properly running Wayland were it not for your help. I’ll reach out to the GNOME devs on the relevant repositories and see if they might be able to point me in the right direction. Thank you for your time and expertise.
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lemmy - Link to source

Help with Preseed commands for Autostart and Vino

I’m working on a custom Linux Mint ISO (using Cubic) for a dedicated system with auto-login. I’m trying to automate Vino (VNC server) setup during installation using preseed, but I’m running into two issues:

  1. Changing Vino settings in preseed commands

I need to set org.gnome.Vino authentication-methods to ['vnc'] for the autologin user. I’ve tried variations of:

in-target su -c "gsettings set org.gnome.Vino authentication-methods \"['vnc']\"" username

But the setting doesn’t persist. I’ve also tested in-target sh -c and direct gsettings calls without luck.

What’s the correct way to apply gsettings changes for a specific user during preseed?

  1. Autostarting Vino Server

I need /usr/lib/vino/vino-server to start automatically after login. Since this is an auto-login system, I’d prefer a method that:

  • Works via preseed (e.g., adding to startup apps).
  • Can be toggled later via Cinnamon’s startup settings (if possible).

What’s the best way to set this up? .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart/? Or another approach? Preferably, it would be more easily configurable in userspace, but if this is the only option then I understand.

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lemmy - Link to source

Daily driving a GNUIX or some of those super libre OSs.

I have a thinkpad lying around. I have used Linux over the last 5 years and I an NOT a power user. I use Mint and it gets the job done for me.

Lately though, the whole libre software bug bit me and I want at least one machine that is libre compatible through and through. I have heard some stuff like Parabola and GNUIX or something like that, but thought it best to ask around first before even thinking about something like this.

My work essentially involves writing documents (LaTeX and LibreOffice), doing statistical analysis, and making lectures. I access emails via Thunderbird. That's it.

Does anyone here daily drive a fully libre laptop?

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LeFantome

You can absolutely use Linux without any GNU software. I use Chimera Linux for example (no Glibc, no GCC, no GNU utils). I even get away from some software that Red Hat created according to your definition like SystemD. However, even still, I know that Red Hat is responsible for much of the software I run since I use software like X, Wayland, Mesa, Podman, KVM, PulseAudio, and PipeWire.

It is VERY hard to run a Linux system without using code contributed by Red Hat.

No, Red Hat did not “create” glibc, GCC, or GNOME. They just contributed tens of thousands of lines of code to them. Perhaps more than anybody else over the last 20 years. Ever heard of Ulrich Drepper?

Actually, it is impossible to use Linux without using code contributed by Red Hat as they have been one of the biggest contributors to the Linux kernel itself for multiple decades now.

And to clarify, the Linux kernel is absolutely NOT a GNU project. Very few packages in a typical Linux distro are actually. The full list of GNU packages is here:

gnu.org/software/software.en.h…

Compare it with this list:

redhat.com/en/about/open-sourc…

GNU has been influential but is not essential as you can create a complete Linux distribution without any of it (again see Chimera Linux). Code contributed by Red Hat however is totally unavoidable and completely essential. It is not possible to run a Linux system without it. All the distributions you listed heavily rely on code contributed by Red Hat.

To say otherwise is not just misleading. It is wrong.

I do not use any Red Hat distributions. I do benefit from their contributions and am thankful for them.


Red Hat community contributions

Red Hat community contributions description
www.redhat.com
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lemmy - Link to source

LeFantome

Very impressive. The M1 Macs at least seem to be quite functional at this point and everything either has been or is in the process of hitting the mainline.

Lots of work to do of course but many would have bet against getting this far. But there is a big difference between “could be better” and “stuff doesn’t work”. Getting the Rust based GPU driver into the kernel is a major achievement on its own and may do a lot to silence the “Rust isn’t used for anything real in the kernel” crowd as well.

With all the recent drama, I think some assumed the project was on the ropes. But the updates on the M2 and the reduced support burden of their past work leave me pretty hopeful that good progress will continue.

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lemmy - Link to source

In 2025 Fedora Silverblue has better plug and play than OSX....

I'm upgrading my builds and I decided to get a new monitor so I splurged on the Samsung G9 49" Curved OLED.

My personal and work ARM MBP's require significant tweaking to get the G9 working with a good DPI and font rendering.

I finally booted up my desktop tonight and it just works. I literally didn't have to touch anything.

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Linux: How to use energy better in general by fine-tuning laptop battery?

Hello,

I just found out about TLP - a module to download with apt, which is a good utility for maintaining the laptop battery.
You can set a minimum charge value, and a maximum charge value.
But it is not sufficient for my use case.
My question is - is there any utility I can use to discharge the battery WHILE connected to AC?

The reason behind this is:
I want to use the solar power during the day to charge up the battery to 80 or 90% and then discharge the battery in the evening to 15-20%. Afterwards use AC power again.
The solar energy during mid-day is cheaper and available in abundance.

On a big level with many computers this could make a good impact on the energy network, or am I wrong?

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lemmy - Link to source

Simple Bash Script To Always Disable Laptop Internal Monitor When Using AR Glasses

I created a simple Bash script that will always disable the default/internal monitor on your laptop when using AR glasses (or any other external monitor). I find this useful for when using AR glasses such as the XReal One which allows you to change the mode from regular mode to ultra-wide mode and when doing this, it will act as your unplugging the XReal ones and plugging in XReal one again in a new mode, causing the interal laptop display to become enabled.

To keep the laptop display always off, weather the laptop lid is either closed or open, this simple bash script will always disable the laptop screen every X seconds (You can change it by changing the wait variable)

Simply copy this script and create a new bash script such as disable-display.sh, make the script file executable and add it to your startup applications and it will run in the background. You will need to run xrandr command with all of your displays enabled to get the names of the displays and change the variable names in the script accordingly.

NOTE: This script may not work with a full Wayland setup and may only work on X11.

Enjoy

\#!/bin/bash

\#RUN xrandr TO GET THE NAMES OF THE DISPLAYS AND SET THE VARIABLES TO THESE NAMES

readonly default_display="eDP"
readonly external_display="USB-C-0"

readonly wait=5

while true; do
    #Check if there is an external display connected
    if xrandr | grep -q "$external_display connected"; then
        #Disable the internal display
        xrandr --output $default_display --off
    fi

    sleep $wait
done
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lemmy - Link to source

trymeout

What company do you work for in XR?

I got the XReal One as a portable ergonomic monitor and I may use them as my main monitor going forward. I have a sit/stand desk with monitor arms which I can adjust the height and position for an ergonomic design to always look straight at the monitor and not looking down.

From my research currently the XReal Ones are the best AR/XR glasses on the market due to the chip built into them, not needing any other devices or software to run, just plug in play. The XReal One Pros which I think are coming out soon have some better specs but to me, not worth the extra money.

I been using them for regular desktop/laptop task and coding and I prefer to use the anchor mode when doing this. I sometimes also use the ultra-wide mode to simulate 2 monitors. I also been using them for gaming and I will either have it in follow or anchor mode but never use ultra-wide mode for gaming.

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lemmy - Link to source

utopiah

Mine, we're one in it, me ;)

Interesting, thanks for sharing the use cases and clarifying your choices.

I do also have a standing desk with a relatively large screen on a monitor arm. I also have a walking pad under the standing desk. The goal being to ergonomically have as much freedom as possible while still being efficient.

I did try the XReal months ago but I don't think I tried the Pro.

Otherwise I worked with pretty much everything (Google Glass, Vision Pro, Quest (all models), Monocle/Frames, my own DIY ones, etc) but my main focus is WebXR and 6DoF, so not really replacing a screen. I do understand it is useful, and sometimes as I travel I use the Quest 3 or Vision Pro to work in there but that's typically a temporary measure. My professional perspective is that 6DoF with hand tracking and accessories (6DoF pens, BT keyboard, etc) is the most novel way to interact with information hence why I build open-source WebXR prototypes on that topic.

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lemmy - Link to source

stormio

Does the rolling release model mean Nobara is based on Fedora Rawhide now?

Edit: I found the answer from the developer on Reddit.

the VERSION updates are rolling. (N41->N42->N43+)

nothing is changing in the update process. we still do a monthly snapshot of fedora and provide that to users. we are -not- using rawhide.

the "rolling" simply means when its time to go 42->43 you'll receive those updates as standard package updates without needing to do any specific commands/changes.

Reddit - The heart of the internet

www.reddit.com
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lemmy - Link to source

Distro for a new user

Jesus. Another one of these? Every freaking day. (Promise it's different)

I personally like mint and pop!os for new users, but for this user I want to try something windows like with more sex appeal. I don't want to have to touch this computer again. Proprietary software is not an issue/consideration. User is techier than most. What has your experience been with kbuntu? Pros/cons? Other suggestions?

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lemmy - Link to source

yeehaw

I know I'll get down voted for this, but from that site:

"Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer.

But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?"

Kind of a sensationalized statement. I've upgraded tons of machines from 2015 and newer to windows 11 without issues. Sure, not all of them, but I'd say a majority of them, and the "upgrade" is free.

I guess I wanted to point out this piece isn't as doom and gloom as it seems.

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lemmy - Link to source

vandsjov

I think you underestimate how many computers that are in use today that can’t be updated to Windows 11.

I, and many others, have run Windows 10 on unsupported hardware. Difference is that Windows 10 didn’t care and Windows 11 actively try to stop you from doing so. So, what is this if not Microsoft now forcing people to buy new hardware, if they have unsupported hardware?

Edit: What where the CPUs on the 2015 computers you upgraded?

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edition v.01a

Image/photo

@ studio0@tumpambae.org
Projekt [Vorschlag passend zum] #Karnavalswahlkrampf2025
#communityMediaProjektIdee iniziert von @aiquez und @jesuiSatire …ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ basierend auf einer Idee von @aiquez aufgrund eines toots von @ chrisstoecker@mastodon.social

#FallVonMerz
Delenda die Ideen des foFritz Merz by @aiquez
Bild aus Wikipedia ueber die Szene des Iden des Ceasar, als dieser aus den eigenen Reihen heraus im Senat zur Strecke gebracht wurde. In das Originalbild der Wikipedia wurden jede Menge fediLogos eingebaut.
ein Lied odar gar mehrere Lieder bis ihn zu einem ganzen Album:
-> Soundtrack zur Wahl/Nichtwahl von Merz / CXU

Themen:
Asozialität
Elitismus von Merz.

- hoffnung auf #FallVonMerz
- Ideen des Merz (sind Shyze ..)

-> Fall von #Brandmauer
-> #FallDesMerz #Merz epic fail

soundtrack [01(?)]:
Vorschlag -> Zeilen einer Strophe

Hochgeflogen
auf #BlackRock gelandet
alle Demokraten verprellt
sich Freundschaft mit Alice eingehandelt
#NiemandWillMerz und seine unfähige Rasselbande .. (Linnemann, Klöckner Spahn, CXU)
deren w'politische Ufähigkeit passt auf keinen Bierdeckelin edition

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Publicacion scheduled for monday 2025-02-03 18:00
Dear studi0 community

We decided to add an #element #matrix #privateSpace #chatRoom to our setup and called it: tupambaeORGstudi0
Please be patient in any case as this is complete #Neuland for the admin in charge.

At least he managed to onboard a filmmaker, photographer and writer as the first step to understand how invites work!

So, hi there!
.. self-hosting based in Paris, France newbie @ elena@aseachange.com, director of The Illusionists documentary and #FOSDEM2025 traveler for your new proyect:
💌 #TheFutureIsFederated
The one who host's here 📷 photos apparently at @ ele@photos.elenarossini.com.

To begin with we created 3 rooms:

In the @EDIT | don't follow! profile we creatd already a postString for that Projekt with a very limited time horizon.

Next step will probably be creating a activityPub #podcast handle on cast.tupambae.com by @utopiArte, the admin over there, as content colection and conversation about the idea itself in the EDITing post is already up and running.
Part of the details concerning the cast domain is to figure out how to organize the tools #castopod gives us at hand as it looks like it has quite interesting options to organize cooperation, as stated briefly in a tutorial page created on that site, result of the #learningBYdoing process while installing it: brief Castopod tutorial

Last but not least, we are still trying to drag @lizzischmidt the creator and promotor of the #sundayGimp community experience that is alive and running for over a decade on #diaspora* on to our shores, but federation with diaspora, from a technical point of view, definitely has seen better times in the past. Maybe this very cross community chat option, added right here and now, can help to improve the communication for all of us.

This inicial publication will federate quite well out into the vast space of the #fediVerse, but to see comments from the diaspora bubble and the #activityPub sphear, youll have to visit this original page on this friendica server.
Unless of course you are friendican yourself.

So, with no more further introduction, let's jam the #fediFolks!

tube.tchncs.de/w/u7q2ddpNfv6cU…

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(friendica post, please visit the originating page in desktop to get a full glimpse)
// v.03
Link to previous versions of this proposal

Red the Bean wrote:

Interesting... I shall contribute 😈
..
I am confused

Mina is your friend wrote:

As long, as it is easy like that, I shall be the bouncer (patobica).
..
I am confused myself.

Daniel Prieto wrote:

I must confess that this thread is quite confusing for me too.
..
Some mushroom experience got me here. I kinda guessed...

bitPickup wrote:

That's good!


A first audio take that somehow sums up "life, the universe and everything" of @bitpickup:

Mindmap created with freeplane to increase confusion summing up in a graphical way, goals, realities and tools at hand.

Trying to drag others into this we mentioned:
@aiquez who had joined forces in the first @studi0 project #fallVonMerz and re-shared the first version of this post already.
@crossgolf_rebel - kostenlose Kwalitätsposts, a decade long contact out here in the fedi, kinda reference, who does audio recordings and has experiences with podcasts publishing on funkWhale. He fav'ed the first version of this post and added a thinking face to it.
@Mina became the self-proclaimed patovica bouncer, a contact that owns all three involved languages (spanisch/german/englisch), has apparently real life knowledge of the region down here (or there, or anywhere), and claims to see everything.
@Red the Bean, a confused squirrel.
@Daniel Prieto, a quiet confused local interested in mushrooms.

Right now mysteriously we might have gotten our hands on a local contact that can or could help, as pointed out in the initial audio take, when it comes to check the truths behind our virtual reality out here.

As a means of tools, besides ourselves and our very own skills, we do have:

fediVerse profileseach and every ones profile(s)
peerTube profileshere and there and everywhere
media pages the subdomain concept as exemplified in the fallVonMerz project
podcast instances tupambae dot.org and dot.com
phpBB permacultureforumThe Permacultureforum added actually forum and image sections related to aspects that came up in this thread and that actually were overdue.
element/matrix matrix channels
the tupambae principlesas defined in Impressum and TOS
common ground | CC-BY-SA-NC
Terms of Service
unknown
contain lot's of small written rules
change every day
depend on the country you are posting from and the country you are posting to
can't be breached until declared in the very moment
Rules
be kind to each other
do not intent to be rude
do not intent to be hurtful
try not to suppose


To begin with, this sounds like a lot, what do you people think?

layout consideration to work onAs a howTo proposal, let's try to make this post a comprehensive communication about a project. Instead of adding a eternal list of comments, let's try o edit and reedit our comments here so we keep this kinda compact and tidy. We can even come up with posting links to new conversation strings on specific topics or off-topic conversations.

Let's play and reinvent another wheel!

(we mentioned the @permaCulture community profile to reach more people that are involved in the underlying goal which is to preserve and evolve the earth of our grand children, creating a permanent human culture based on principals that enable in the first place a permanent agricultural development)
((please feel free to reshare, spread and comment))

Rachel E. S. Lösche

2025-04-05 02:12:00

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@utopiarte @CStamp @tutorial @studi0 @howto @Captain_Jack_Sparrow Interesting... I shall contribute 😈

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jeSuisatire …ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ

En hora buena, llego el mensaje que mando la patronal guardado por #fediLab la primera noche que el @bitpickup estaba en el hospital para que el supiera cuando hay omnibus de regreso. Se lo mandaron la misma noche que llego cuando estuvo pensando de salir rajando despues de que le dieron el antidoto porque tenia la perra en el coche en la policlinica del pueblo y no solo que es rearisca, estaba por estar al sol encerrada por un par de dias. Sin agua, ni comida ni nada, por no decir .. lindo panorama.

@mina @resl @dprieto @crossgolf_rebel @aiquez @sinmisterios

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mʕ•ﻌ•ʔm bitPickup

Just stumbled in the very same channel that harbors the #Kleene inviting to play a first sum up of pictures and data that came together on that "event" for editing and content creation. Not sure if this was posted yet somewhere here.
tube.undernet.uy/w/iZPwbDx7cxn…

@jesuisatire @mina @resl @dprieto @crossgolf_rebel @aiquez @sinmisterios

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bit Pickup

@mʕ•ﻌ•ʔm bitPickup
#bitPickedBookmark'ing this here and now out of several reasons:

  • primary #doDo right now @bitpickup is working on the #bothrops snake bit information at the phpBB forum reptiles section (see embedded link).
  • the peertube initial material sum up is to slow and should be seen at least at speed 1.5. Also It actually could need a remake cutting it down to a 5 minute short attention span tictoc version by anyone who'd like to help out and btw add to the @studi0 proposal of cooperating in content creation and working out on how to do that.
  • The final language of the sum up has to be spanisch and in any case a dubbing into Brazilian language too, as those represent the main public to address and an important audience for the entire project to catch.
  • Why didn't anybody responded to the #Houston distress call?
  • What happened to: "Quien la vuelve a molestar ( @SinMisterios ), se liga una. Je je." ?
  • There is still floating around a claim that some transcript of the initial audio take exists some where in time and space, is there any truth to or prove for that claim at all?
  • Who did the mention of the mastodon.uy admin and what for?

@Mina @aiquez @jesuiSatire …ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ @crossgolf_rebel - kostenlose Kwalitätsposts @Resl @Daniel Prieto

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mʕ•ﻌ•ʔm bitPickup

@bitpickup@tupambae.org
> Who did the mention of the mastodon.uy admin and what for?

troet.cafe/@bitpickup/11449719…

> What happened to: "Quien la vuelve a molestar ( @sinmisterios ), se liga una. Je je." ?

No idea ask the bouncer @mina. It was @jesuisatire who started bitching around again ..

@crossgolf_rebel @aiquez @dprieto @bitpickup@tupambae.com @resl

mʕ•ﻌ•ʔm bitPickup (@bitpickup@troet.cafe)

> @dprieto@mastodon.uy is still into mushrooms, has already decided to ignore our virtual illusions, or maybe even denounced us to his landlord @admin@mastodon.uy .
troet.cafe - Mastodon
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mʕ•ﻌ•ʔm bitPickup

> admin didn't complain

Yeah that profile play's quiet quiet.
Probably the best an admin profile can do. In any case I guess they would need to contact @admin first. At least that's how it should be.
Those security checks became quiet common since the mobbing incident on diaspora. That one left the venom deep down in the psyches of more than one out here.
Oh, and the call of attention by the social.tchncs team in the early stages on @jesuisatire.

@crossgolf_rebel @aiquez @dprieto @resl

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la tierra de nuestros nietos

> admin didn't complain

Mas les vale @bitpickup!
Forma parte de nuestro contacto local, y tiene datos importantes como de sessiones IP y datos de pago para apoyar la instancia y los esfuerzos de @ santiago, asi que mas les vale que se comportan como la gente.
Por no decir:
"¡ Que hizo @jesuisatire ahora ?"

@sinmisterios @dprieto @aiquez @resl

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Daniel Prieto

Suillus luteus: sobre hongos comestibles de Uruguay

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la tierra de nuestros nietos

> Sobre #hongos comestibles de #Uruguay

Ante que nada, genial @dprieto, gracias por el aporte. A ver si lo podemos integrar aun mejor a nuestros hilos y documentación. Por cierto, se agrego al reubicado sitio de huerta, ahora con nombre #permacultura y apellido #tupambae.com una sección "Fungi | Hongos | Setas":
permacultura.tupambae.org/view…

Por el momento sin tema ninguno, sin embargo con la idea de ir agregándole contenido, así que, si te parece bien usaremos estos textos tuyos con enlaces hacia aquí, o mejor, te damos acceso y lo aprovechas como mas te place. De hecho siempre esta la opción de hacer una copia completa del y pasártelo así como viene. Probablemente borrando a lo que no corresponde pasar, pero en si la idea y la oferta esta es es bien simple. Los sitios phpBB se pueden cambiar bastante fácil de dominio y son de código abierto. De hecho undernet monto uno recientemente. El de tupambae.com es un sitio cerrado, no solo que los foros han muerto, abierto se llenan de SPAM y si realmente ay gente que quieren participar con invitación por mail alcanza y sobra. Y actualizaciones a versiones mas nuevas tampoco tiene mucho sentido. Así como esta funciona, el diseño aun copa y ta. Tiene todo lo que hace falta, incluyendo robots.txt que manada a los crawler a donde corresponde, el internet de hoy ya no es lo que era. Por decirlo de alguna manera.

@mina
> Un poco embolante el tema de tener que sacarles la cutícula

Si, aunque sale bien fácil.
Habrá que volver a hacerlo, el primer intento este año si bien aporto una forma nueva y excelente de secado, usando el coche al sol, por razones de urgencia medica se nos complico y se perdió la muestra.

@bitpickup @jesuisatire @sinmisterios @aiquez @resl

Semillero del Tupambae • Ver foro - Fungi | Hongos | Setas

permacultura.tupambae.org
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utopiArte

@la tierra de nuestros nietos

"¡ Que hizo @jesuiSatire mʕ•ﻌ•ʔm :verified: ahora ?"


Dificil decir, nunca se sabe.

Lo que si parece que @Daniel Prieto se recontra confundio de boliche aqui, en realidad sus cometarios deberian ir en el siguiente hilo, eso al menos parece desde el punto de vista de aca:
mastodon.uy/@tierranietos/1143…

(y no, no importa mucho, mas bien una nota aparte ..)

@mʕ•ﻌ•ʔm bitPickup @jesuiSatire mʕ•ﻌ•ʔm :verified:@social.tchncs.de @Mina @aiquez @SinMisterios @Resl

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la tierra de nuestros nietos

En el fondo "la culpa" es del formato que plantea mastodon. Es friendica que lo evidencia de verdad. Al menos que mires estas cosas desde pantalla de compu y desde un punto de vista de "hilos secundarios" tampoco que importa mucho.
Ejemplo, el hilo de #buenosDias de este perfil:
mastodon.uy/@tierranietos/1144…

Todos los dias simplemente actualizo el tema inicial con la(s) imagen(es) del dia. Una respuesta diaria incial despues aranca "el hilo del dia". Si abris el ultimo comentario de este hilo veras solo el contenido de este dia onda "en una sola pagina web":
mastodon.uy/@bitpickup@troet.c…

mastodon.uy/@remindme@mstdn.so…

Sin embargo, si lo miras desde el tema inicial se transfoma en un eterno hilo poco comprensible y de poco encanto.

Por ello en parte la propuesta tanto de friendica como ademas de un sitio tipo foro, o las paginas html del projecto subdominio "media" o paginas wordpress.
Microbloging es tipo rollo de papel de cocina. Arancas una hoja, la usas y la tiras. Para el chiveo diaria es genial, sin embargo, para textos y contenidos elaborado bien "y con cariño" es un insulto.
(en mi humilde opnion)

@utopiarte @bitpickup @mina @aiquez @sinmisterios @resl


la tierra de nuestros nietos (@tierranietos@mastodon.uy)

Adjunto: 1 imagen #díasDeLuto en el #Uruguay https://troet.cafe/@bitpickup/114502647133623984 ---------------------------------------- * En el correr del mes de #mayo este mismo tema se actualiza editando según el día y la ocasión.
Mastodon Uruguay
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SinMisterios

@tierranietos @bitpickup la verdad que como no estoy interesada en tener friendica y estoy bien con mastodon desde el celu, todo estas complicaciones que veo innecesarias desde mastodon, me aburren, ni siquiera me dan ganas de entender cómo funciona el sistema que solo vos con tus 47 cuentas activas usás, me agobia. Me gusta mastodon por la simplicidad, esto lo veo como uan complicación innecesaria. Preferiría que el contacto cin friendica fuera como otros mensajes con mastodon. Por ejemolo al ver cuentas de pixelfed no se ve todas las fotis oero eso no me interesa, el resto se ve como mastodon
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Mina

Vos dijiste lo que estuve pensando todo el tiempo:

"todas estas complicaciones que veo innecesarias […] me aburren, ni siquiera me dan ganas de entender cómo funciona el sistema que solo vos con tus 47 cuentas activas usás, me agobia."

Y ahí está el secreto del "éxito" de Mastodon entre todos los sabores del Fediverso:

Es la sencillez.

Llámenme tontita, pero a mí me gusta lo simple.

@tierranietos @dprieto @utopiarte @bitpickup @aiquez @resl

Mafalda le lleva a su nueva amiga Libertad a conocer su amiga cheta Susanita. Mafalda: Hola Susanita, te presento a Libertad Susanita (sonriendo): Hola Libertad. Espero que seamos buenas amigas. Libertad: A mí me gusta la gente simple. Susanita: ¿De veras? ¡Me parece fantástico! Libertad: Sé simple. ¿A ver? ¡Dale! Susanita, primero dudando, hace una figurita de ángel con cara de tonta. Libertad (con cara de decepción): ¡Sonamos!
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jeSuisatire …ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ

Que me gusta contexto y coherencia no implica que no sepa apreciar chiveo y las pavadas.

Es mas, voto @pranger para @utopiarte no solo porque usan, comprenden y explican las redes libres, incluso montan instancias y construyen puentes interconectando gente e informacion.

Deben de ser unos atrevidos sabelotodos que solo quieren hacerse ver de aquellos!

@dprieto @aiquez @resl

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jesuiSatire

Yo 🥰 a #friendica @jeSuisatire …ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ,

.. porque con su quickcomment puedo definir mis #gifComments preferidos para seleccionarlos sencillamente con un par de clics y dejar un comentario de puta madre, envés de escribir un montón de palabras como tu para explicar lo evidente en un mundo de mentes enshittificados.

Escene de la película idiocracy. El personaje principal observa consternado los intentos de los demás participantes en un test de inteligencia de hacer lo evidente.

Por cierto:

porque no solo usan, comprenden y explican las redes libres,


Me parece que debería decir:

no solo porque usan, comprenden y explican las redes libres,

@aiquez @Resl @Mina

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jeSuisatire …ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ

> no solo porque usan, comprenden y explican las redes libres

Si fue eso lo que escribi, que decis, acaso no sabes leer?

Y ya que estamos @jesuisatire@tupambae.com:
Ahora que te haces el friendicano, que por cierto marca textos escritos en castellano como si fueran escritos en aleman para que el sistema de traduccion no funciona y por lo tanto @resl no entiende nada, te crees algo mejor?

@mina @aiquez

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Daniel Prieto

Gymnopilus spectabilis: hilo sobre hongos comestibes Uruguayos

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Daniel Prieto

Gymnopilus spectabilis: hilo sobre hongos comestibes Uruguayos 2

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@Friendica Support
As for my knowledge this intended newbee speaks fluently german, englisch and spanisch, tho maybe du/you/tu is a little bit to shy to ask for help .. not sure.

What is your setup and what have you tried till now @Mina to install your #friendica server, maybe we can figure out what's your problem with the installation.
🤔

Mina

2025-05-14 16:04:33

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@jesuisatire@social.tchncs.de

A mí me interesa el tema de Friendica por las mejores posibilidades de expresarse, pero hasta ahora siempre me falla la instalación.

@jesuisatire@tupambae.com @resl @aiquez


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utopiArte

@Mina

Not sure what is the actual state of the art of the installer is. Last I "heard" and experienced is that it was broken and that the best way to install is thru the console commands detailed in the helpers page:
/help/Install#Option+B%3A+Run+the+automatic+install+script

tupambae.org/help/Install#Opti…

And yes, it's recommendable to use the git install form, that way you will be able to easily update the installation.

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[Solved] move files older than 30 days from one computer to another using rsync

I have a laptop and a phone in which termux is installed.
I want to move files from my phone to my computer using rsync if all files are older than 30 days. I think I should use find command with -exec rsync.

find . -mtime +30 -exec rsync something

but the problem is my phone's IP address is always changing so how do I transfer file?
I have to run this script in my laptop

solution

i wrote a script which move files and runs in my laptop
1. i can't use hostname because I am on android 9 and don't want to install anything else.
2. most of the time I am offline so using any internet service is not a good idea ( my devices are connected in themselves )

here is my script

\#!/usr/bin/bash

\#checking if script not already running and exit if already running
[ "${FLOCKER}" != "$0" ] && exec env FLOCKER="$0" flock -en "$0" "$0" "$@" || :

set -e

TARGET_MAC="d2:1c:3c:3d:6a:a7"
RSYNC_LOG="$HOME/log/rsync_log.txt"  # Rclone log file


function get_ip() {
  # need to edit sudoers file to run    sudo nmap -sn 192.168.43.0/24 without password
  # Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
  # %sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
  # 'username' ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/nmap -sn 192.168.43.0/24


    sudo nmap -sn 192.168.43.0/24 | grep --before-context=3 -i "$TARGET_MAC" | tail -n 3 | head -n 1 | awk '{ print $6 }' | sed 's/[()]//g'; }


# run command only if wifi is connected
if echo $(nmcli general status) | grep -q -w "connected" ; then

  # for ssh to work in a changing IP address, a configuration line has to be enabled so that it does not ask for yes/no while connecting to a changed ip address
    TARGET_IP=$(get_ip)
  ssh -p 8022  "$TARGET_IP" 'find /data/data/com.termux/files/home/storage/shared/Pictures/ -mtime +30  -type d,f -printf %P\\0' | rsync --append --update --times --atimes --mkpath --verbose --human-readable --remove-source-files --log-file="$HOME/log/synced.log" --exclude='.dtrash' --files-from=- --from0  -e "ssh -p 8022" "$TARGET_IP":/data/data/com.termux/files/home/storage/shared/Pictures/ $HOME/Pictures
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Pine64 ALPHA-One is a fanless RISC-V mini PC with up to 20 TOPS of AI performance


Pine64’s upcoming ALPHA-One is a small, fanless computer that stands out for a few reasons. One is that it’s made for AIL: the computer has an NPU with support for up to 20 TOPS of AI performance ad ships with a 7b Deepseek/Owen LLM pre-loaded and Pine64 says it supports about 3.5 tokens per second using that model.

Another reason is that the ALPHA-One doesn’t have an Intel, AMD, or Qualcomm […]

#ai #alphaOne #fanless #llm #miniPc #pine64 #riscV #starpro64

Read more: liliputing.com/pine64-alpha-on…


Pine64 ALPHA-One is a fanless RISC-V mini PC with up to 20 TOPS of AI performance - Liliputing

Brad Linder (Liliputing)

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Trakt to increase prices to $60 for all users, including those on legacy, promotional, and grandfathered pricing

I modified the title to make it more descriptive

I also think it's time for the open source and/or fediverse Trakt alternatives to get some love.

The price change is listed as going from $30 a year to $60 a year, and they're also changing everyone to that price:

Starting May 20, 2025, all VIP renewals will move to a standardized price. This means that any legacy, promotional, or grandfathered pricing will no longer apply to renewals processed on or after that date. Instead, all VIP memberships will renew at the new standard rate going forward.


People are not happy on their forum:

forums.trakt.tv/t/upcoming-vip…

This user poll suggests that around 97% of respondents (at the time of making this post) will not renew

forums.trakt.tv/t/poll-will-yo…

[Poll] Will you keep your VIP membership at $60?

Just out of curiosity. Please answer if you are a VIP user. Will you keep your VIP membership at $60? poll
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I've built an app... With AI..... Hear me out!

Edit: I think I need to clarify further that this is a one off thing. I've never had AI build anything for me. This is just one time that I wanted to test it out, and the test came out with a good app that I thought I could share to maybe benefit some. Just to be clear, it's not thinking for me, I still learn on my own, and have AI ONLY explain concepts for me, not code, and it does very well. Asked for opinions, got downvotes. lol

Hi all,
I do code on my own without AI, but in all honesty, I'm not that great (I'm a junior dev at my job, and don't have a lot of experience). I always use AI to explain things to me, not code for me. I made that my mission, so I don't let it think for me because I want to learn. It explains things very well and I've been learning a great deal.

Today, I decided to test it out. I asked it to build an app for me that works on KDE Plasma, my favorite DE.

I use some appimages for some apps. I tried appimagelauncher and gear lever and had some issues with them.

I want to integrate appimages into my system. So, I did a small workaround where I created a small script in ~/.local/bin that has one line after the shebang exec /<path to app image>/<appimage>. Then created a .desktop file that points to that script. I made one for Suyu and VIA and they both worked. I wanted to do it for more apps, but it got repetitive, so I gave AI some requirements and told it to add what's necessary if needed.

I've never programmed in Python, and it chose Python. lol. Ok, let's go with it. It made a pretty nice app. The app does 5 things:
1. Creates that little script I mentioned earlier
2. Creates the .desktop file for that app and makes it point to the correct things (script, icon, startupWMClass(this is so the app will still launch after pinning it to the panel)....etc)
3. Copies the appimage into a "appimages" folder in the home directory
4. Adds an icon of your choosing to the app
5. It makes everything executable

I had it package the app into an appimage (that's something I've never done before and it was pretty freaking cool to learn) and I'm planning on making an .rpm and a .deb packages of it, too.

The honest part. I feel a tiny bit of shame deep inside. But then I look at it and I see an app that could help some people. Who cares how I created it? I have always wanted to contribute something to the Linux world, and this feels like it.

What I'm asking for: your honest opinion. Should I feel that little shame? Should I put it up on GitHub? It would of course be GPL licensed. Maybe some folks want to make it better or contribute or fork it. I love open source and I feel like this could be useful to some.

So, hit me.
Thank you

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DonutsRMeh

It was a one time test. One off. Never happened before and won't happen again. I just wanted to test it, and the test came out with a nice app and I thought maybe I should share it. I could've just not said anything and put it on GitHub and no one would've have known. I am not sure how to say it better and make it make more sense. Is my English really that bad that people aren't getting what I'm saying? lol
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Lemmy.one will be shutting down

This post serves as notice that Lemmy.one will be shutting down in 90 days.

Unfortunately, the moderation features in Lemmy never progressed to the point required to continue maintaining this service, and Lemmy simply does not have the userbase to justify the cost of this service. Myself and the moderation team apologize for the inconvenience this will cause.

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Lemmy.one will be shutting down
cross-posted from: lemmy.one/post/27858506
This post serves as notice that Lemmy.one will be shutting down in 90 days.

Unfortunately, the moderation features in Lemmy never progressed to the point required to continue maintaining this service, and Lemmy simply does not have the userbase to justify the cost of this service. Myself and the moderation team apologize for the inconvenience this will cause.



This is sad news. Hopefully the comms can migrate to other smaller instances.

Edit: just saw this

jonah

2025-05-13 14:29:20

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Lemmy.one will be shutting down


This post serves as notice that Lemmy.one will be shutting down in 90 days.

Unfortunately, the moderation features in Lemmy never progressed to the point required to continue maintaining this service, and Lemmy simply does not have the userbase to justify the cost of this service. Myself and the moderation team apologize for the inconvenience this will cause.


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Die4Ever

Everyone thinks the moderation/admin features need to be improved. I'm curious which improvements people are really needing. Whenever I see big complaints about it (beehaw, lemmy.one) I never see any specifics. Link the filed Github issues for them otherwise the feature requests don't really exist, and I'd like to give them thumbs up reactions so they get prioritized more.
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Die4Ever

we have a game mode called "Zero Rando" (no randomization) that's basically vanilla with QoL improvements and bug fixes

the Randomizer had so many compatibility fixes, QoL improvements, and bug fixes over the original game, this ended up being really useful for new first time players

since you've played before we also have "Zero Rando Plus" which is the same thing, but also includes the balance changes we've made for Randomizer

and we also have "Rando Lite" and "Rando Medium" to get started with the randomization stuff before going up to Normal Randomizer or Full Randomizer

youtube.com/watch?list=PLZIQTa…

mods4ever.com/ | !deus_ex_randomizer@lemmy.mods4ever.com


Deus Ex Randomizer But You Don't Want A Randomizer (how to run Deus Ex in 2025+)

0:00 Vanilla Fixer: automatically applies compatibility fixes without changing the game at all.0:21 Zero Rando mode: features many quality of life improvemen...
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Die4Ever

Transcended seems good. I haven't played it, but it sounds like it still has changes from Revision left over in it (it was forked from Revision). Like cameras seeing bodies, pawns reacting to unconscious bodies, and dogs having the jump attack. But idk if those can be turned off. If they can be turned off then it's pretty similar to our "Zero Rando".

But we have more QoL features available that you can enable which aren't included by default in "Zero Rando". A big one being Password Autofill which isn't enabled by default in "Zero Rando" but it's huge for Steam Deck players.

We also allow selectively enabling balance changes. Like auto augs, or general aug balance changes, there's an option for skill changes, map changes. Here's some of the settings menus:

Also we're open source

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Scrubbles

A built in auto mod is the largest thing. A way to say that this common pattern is spam and to block it system wide, right now we just don't have that. A nice to have stretch goal would be to use some model to fight actual gore or csam material, which just doesn't exist. A moderation dashboard would be great to see users with their comment history, vote trends, high level to see if a person just had an off comment that might be taken the wrong way, or if there is a trend of trolling behavior

These have been opened on the GitHub and either sit open forever or are just closed.

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Scrubbles

Why compare us to reddit? We feel like Reddit but from a hosting and admin perspective it's a whole different ballgame. Mods of reddit at worst run the risk of their communities being taken down for a bit if they let content slip through. Here on Lemmy us admins are legally liable for content that is posted. We don't have a large limited liability corporation that will take the hit for us. We need these tools, or we are the ones that will have boots through doors.

sneakyninjapants doesn't like this.

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Die4Ever

github.com/RikudouSage/LemmyAu…

I think it's better as separate software. It means it can be developed more efficiently. And this seems to have a lot of features, so it seems it is efficient to develop this way.

GitHub - RikudouSage/LemmyAutomod

Contribute to RikudouSage/LemmyAutomod development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
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fireweed

"Joining the fediverse isn't hard bro, your instance doesn't matter, just pick one."

"Stop using Lemmy.world, we need to redistribute to smaller instances."

The number of times I've heard these fucking lines when people discuss why Lemmy/the Fediverse isn't growing like corp-owned alternatives...

don't like this

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utopiah

you cannot transfer is your imaginary internet points


Ironically enough, even though "imaginary" this aspect might be key to moderation. Assuming (and that's a flawed assumption) that people would upvote/downvote based not on their opinion but rather on how healthy/unhealthy to the discussion a comment is, then those "points" would be useful to see above/below a threshold one would want to interact, e.g. show content or not (or even now show even as to unfold).

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Dr. Moose

Nah the points are laughably easy to game even in centralized reddit since this moderation aspect never made any sense. As if bad actors can't upvote themselves, buy upvotes or just repost any random garbage to /r/funny.

Its a terrible system that turned Reddit into a content desert. Once you decline some new person because "they dint have enough karma" they're never trying to contribute again and you end up with power users who have a moat around content production.

Shared moderation lists already do all of this in an actually functional way. You can subscribe to Bob's list of douchebags and have the client block them. This is something bluesky added quite recently but it already exists on fediverse to instance admins tho afaik not individual users yet.

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Luke

As someone who uses GIMP very effectively for commercial work, I am increasingly feeling like people who say that GIMP isn't a capable alternative are simply ignorant of it's capabilities. Yeah, it doesn't work like Photoshop. Yeah, it doesn't work like Affinity Photo. Yeah, it doesn't work like Photopea.

But yeah, it does work, and works well. If you apply a bit of patience to learn how it works, then it's also very easy to use, eventually. Maybe it doesn't cover all the use-cases, but it's ignorant to say that it categorically isn't capable for commercial use.

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daniskarma

I have never used any of those other softwares in more than a decade.

I still only use GIMP for image editing out of principle.

Still have to check every time for GIMP shortcuts because they are so counter intuitive. And there are so many counter intuitive things about it.

IMHO it have the same issue that Libreoffice. It was really made decades ago and never really updated. It's like that meme about workflows. In their efforts not to break workflows they have gotten behind in UX compared to other software.

Also development seems to be stopping to a halt with each release compared to other more modern foss projects. I suppose it's due an ancient codebase that's probably really hard to work with.

I use it. It can do a lot. But UX and development speed in GIMP is not up to par with projects like Krita, Inkscape or Blender (to name a few).

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When did you start working around with Linux?

Yes, im doing le funy Meme. And yes, I am an autist, with some signs towards something adhd adjacent

I first tried Linux Mint when I was 12, eventually changed to Ubuntu when I was 13 or 14 because I saw the Windows 11 copilot button, installed arch at late 14, and got to gentoo when I was 15.

Can anyone beat me to it?

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eldavi

in 2002 when my windows me computer start looping on the blue screen of death, with all of my college papers/essays/tests/assignments trapped in it.

the recovery media refused to work because i had upgraded the computer several times and i couldn't afford the $180 windows xp cd. so i bought a linux magazine for $5 that included a copy of mandrake linux installation media and used paper printouts from my college's computer labs to help me rescue my work from the computer.

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cymor

I first heard about it in about 1994 when a Unix guy I knew told me about a type of Unix that could run on regular computers. He loaned me a POSIX book, but I didn't really hear anything until 98. I started getting fed up with all the problems with Windows 98, and I started installing it and breaking it on any machine I could get access too. I don't know how many floppies I formatted with each disk image of RedHat and Debian. I broke the school network a few times with things like accidentally setting up a DHCP server. I sent a patch to the kernel. I Learned a whole lot those first years.
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XZ Utils Back Door in Linux - Analysis of the Attack
A video by SavvyNik that covers some of the highlights from the following recently published scientific article - Wolves in the Repository: A Software Engineering Analysis of the XZ Utils Supply Chain Attack

Wolves in the Repository: A Software Engineering Analysis of the XZ Utils Supply Chain Attack

The digital economy runs on Open Source Software (OSS), with an estimated 90\% of modern applications containing open-source components.
arXiv.org
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solrize

At least here in the US, lots of mobile phone plans have free or cheap international calls, depending on the countries involved. Example. Some home landline plans also have that. So far that has been enough for me on the few occasions when I've wanted to make an international call. If more frequent, I'd use a VOIP provider, maybe Twilio (I'm sure there are others too, but I know Twilio supports this and has a decent API).

VOIP providers will often also sell you inbound phone numbers in the destination country, if you want the other person to be able to call you from their landline without it getting rung up as an international call for them. Those aren't always so cheap, but there are obvious use cases.


Tello Mobile | The mobile carrier you deserve

Build your own plan with minutes, texts and data starting at only $5/month. No contract, no lock-ins! You can also buy a new phone from Tello or bring your own. It's all up to you.
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Using DVD slot for second 3.5" drive?

I’ve found an Inspiron with an FX8800P and 1 3.5” slot and a DVD slot. I intend to use it in my 3-2-1 backup with two drives (one hot, one warm) and the third backup in AWS Glacier (inb4 fuck Amazon - it’s cheap). It will also function as a NAS.

Have you placed a 3.5” drive in the 5.25” DVD bay? I understand you may need an adapter. Not sure if I can skip that.

The reason I can’t use a consumer NAS is because I want to power one of the drives off for power, longevity, and I don’t want to use RAID (also they’re quite $$$).

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New quantum theory of gravity brings long-sought 'theory of everything' a crucial step closer
Although the theory is promising, the duo point out that they have not yet completed its proof. The theory uses a technical procedure known as renormalization, a mathematical way of dealing with infinities that show up in the calculations.

So far Partanen and Tulkki have shown that this works up to a certain point—for so-called 'first order' terms—but they need to make sure the infinities can be eliminated throughout the entire calculation.

"If renormalization doesn't work for higher order terms, you'll get infinite results. So it's vital to show that this renormalization continues to work," explains Tulkki. "We still have to make a complete proof, but we believe it's very likely we'll succeed."


New quantum theory of gravity brings long-sought 'theory of everything' a crucial step closer

At long last, a unified theory combining gravity with the other fundamental forces—electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces—is within reach.
Aalto University (Phys.org)
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solrize

ToE is generally taken to mean a theory that accounts for all four fundamental forces in physics, 1) strong nuclear force, 2) electromagnetism, 3) weak nuclear force (unified in some way with electromagnetism now), 4) gravity. The "standard model" only handles the first three, with gravity being separate and very mysterious. I'm skeptical of this new paper on various grounds but who knows.

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Unofficial mainboard for the Lenovo ThinkPad X200 turns a laptop from 2008 into a modern machine


The Lenovo ThinkPad X200 is a laptop that was released in 2008. But its classic design still appeals to some long-time enthusiasts who appreciate the laptop’s iconic keyboard with a TrackPoint nub in the center and 12.1 inch display with a 16:10 aspect ratio.

The notebook’s aging specs don’t really cut it in 2025 though. So developer FranckDeng has designed a modern mainboard that can be […]

#lenovo #mods #thinkpad #thinkpadX200 #thinkpadX201 #upgrades #x210ai

Read more: liliputing.com/unofficial-main…

Unofficial mainboard for the Lenovo ThinkPad X200 turns a laptop from 2008 into a modern machine - Liliputing

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Xanza

If you want to support a *nix distro, that's awesome and I fully support you. What you shouldn't support is distributions locking features behind a paywall.

This is how you get Microsoft Windows and Copilot.

Absolutely proprietary

To answer your question--Windows is destructive to *nix boot sectors. When you update Windows, it will bork your *nix install. Dual booting with Windows is a real PITA.

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InlineStyle, open fediverse based cloud

Hey folks,
We have been working on a project called InlineStyle

A European, open-source, fediverse based alternative to the Google ecosystem.

It’s a single platform with these services:
* 📧 Email address @inlinestyle.it
* 📹 Video sharing via PeerTube
* 🎵 Music streaming with Funkwhale
* 📝 Docs and Drive via Collabora/NextCloud
* 📒 Markdown based notes
* 🎮 Browser-based FOSS games (Celeste Classic, Tyrian, SuperTux, etc.)
* 🌍 Static personal site hosting

All hosted in Europe. No telemetry, no ads, no corporate BS.

It’s not a startup pitch, just something we built because we got tired of being locked in.

The idea is to keep it sustainable with a simple support plan (€1.90/month) that unlocks upload features and personal email/webspace.
Free tier available too, no login needed to browse.

🔗 inlinestyle.it/

Would love your thoughts.
What should I improve? What’s missing for you to consider switching?

Our goal is to try to build a real #DeGoogle fediverse based path that doesn’t feel like a downgrade.
It will take time, but we are willing to try and stay committed to the mission.

InlineStyle, your open cloud

The easiest way to access open-source software in the cloud for everyday life and business.
www.inlinestyle.it
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InlineStyle

We’ve been exploring the idea of adding a chat service.
But we haven’t yet decided which protocol would provide the most value for most people.

Right now, we’re considering XMPP and Matrix — both are solid, privacy-respecting options.
Our goal is to offer something that lets people communicate with their existing contacts, not start from scratch.

We’d love your input: what would you actually use? What works best in your daily setup?

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Mike

Sadly when the EU regulates, it's the same for everyone across the board.

It's a mess. They require that small, one-man operations or simple corner stores treat personal data with the same diligence that banks do, under the GDPR.The concept of scale is something that is foreign to the EU.

I have a few friends that work for the government in their countries and they say GDPR requirements is destroying their local municipalities.

The only regulation from the EU that I've seen makes a distinction at scale, is the Digital Markets Act.

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Phoenixz

Yeaaahh, but does it though?

I've put loads of regular users on Linux and on average they have less issues than they had with windows

That is ignoring the installation. Linux install is download iso, burn it on USB, boot computer with said USB, run the install program, go through the 5-6 pages which takes about 15 minutes, reboot and the machine is done.

Windows 11 install is downloading ISO, burn it on USB, boot computer with said USB and then the boot up immet fails with this vague error. Spend a good hour on Internet searches to find that it's some bios setting which is fine for Linux, but whatever. Make setting, reboot USB! Setup now crashes again on other gauge error. Spend another 4 hours on sraxhes only to find out that windows iso burning requires a special windows only burning program that will "fix" it and is totally not done on purpose to sabotage Linux users, but fine, were only 5 hours in and still have to start so boot up a VM in Linux, find that usb burner somewhere, download and install that, then download the iso again, burn it, dump it again in the machine and presto, er have an installer, yay!

Go through the pages, and more pages and more crap and install this sponsored content and watch ads and now you need an account at Microsoft and more pages and do you love me? Please let me know that you love me, more feedback because I'm Microsoft and I need feedback and now do you want these games that you hate, and you must install office you will love it even though you'd rather commit sepuku, and a fucking hour of clicking a thousand times later, windows is finally installed ..?

Seriously, if I say that installing Linux was ten times easier than windows, it would be the understatement of the year.

In it's general use, nobody will run into weird shit like they do on windows and to top it off, you got no issues with viruses, no ads nor spyware in the operating system itself, and shit just works.

Yeah, Linux has bugs, just like windows, but the experience is ten times better, I'll die happily and proud on that hill

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At least 10 people sickened in US listeria outbreak linked to prepared foods

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Saturday that federal, state and local officials are investigating the outbreak linked to foods produced by Fresh & Ready Foods LLC of San Fernando, California. The FDA says the 10 people who fell ill were in California and Nevada, and required hospitalization.

The agency said the products were sold in Arizona, California, Nevada and Washington at locations including retailers and food service points of sale, including hospitals, hotels, convenience stores, airports and by airlines.

Federal officials said they started investigating the recent outbreak last year but didn’t have enough evidence to identify a source of the infections. They said the investigation was reopened in April when FDA investigators found listeria in samples collected from Fresh & Ready Foods that matched the strain from the outbreak.

https://apnews.com/article/listeria-outbreak-food-sick-c11ddb49f357f227797fe42c468115f5

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10 YEARS OF HATE - Documentary about Orbán's politics of hate - English subtitles

Length: 1:39:20

Immigrants, populism, border fences, electoral autocracy.

If you are interested about how and why Hungary is as it is, this is a documentary just released by Partizán, the most viewed Hungarian news outlet independent from the Hungarian government.

The subtitles are not autogenerated but hand-made by the news outlet.

The outlet has a decidedly leftist slant even by European standards, but are considered mainstream in Hungary.


10 ÉV GYŰLÖLET | Film az orbáni gyűlöletpolitikáról

Laki Gergely és Klopfstein-László Bálint filmje, a 10 év gyűlölet tucatnyi szakértővel járja körbe és mutatja be, hogyan betonozta be a hatalmát Orbán Viktor...
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Hamas and U.S. reach deal. “I think we'll have to detox from US security assistance,” says Netanyahu

Ryan Grim
May 11, 2025

[this is a 2-part article, the first is very short and is about the Hamas-US deal.]

"#Hamas and the United States announced an agreement today that will lead to the freeing of #Israeli soldier Edan Alexander, a dual #American citizen, ahead of President #DonaldTrump’s trip to the region. #Israel was reportedly not involved in the discussions, but informed about the deal afterward. "

[The second, much longer part, :]
"[Michigan AG] Dana Nessel continues to do damage control in the wake of her failed prosecution of student protesters at the University of Michigan...This week, in public remarks on the prosecution, she claimed without evidence that Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell of Michigan had been the one who urged her to charge students involved in protests over Gaza."


Hamas and U.S. reach deal. “I think we'll have to detox from US security assistance,” says Netanyahu

Hamas and the United States announced an agreement today that will lead to the freeing of Israeli soldier Edan Alexander, a dual American citizen, ahead of President Donald Trump’s trip to the region.
www.dropsitenews.com
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Hamas and U.S. reach deal. “I think we'll have to detox from US security assistance,” says Netanyahu

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/29969507

Ryan Grim
May 11, 2025

[this is a 2-part article, the first is very short and is about the Hamas-US deal.]


"#Hamas and the United States announced an agreement today that will lead to the freeing of #Israeli soldier Edan Alexander, a dual #American citizen, ahead of President #DonaldTrump’s trip to the region. #Israel was reportedly not involved in the discussions, but informed about the deal afterward. "

[The second, much longer part, :]
"[Michigan AG] Dana Nessel continues to do damage control in the wake of her failed prosecution of student protesters at the University of Michigan...This week, in public remarks on the prosecution, she claimed without evidence that Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell of Michigan had been the one who urged her to charge students involved in protests over Gaza."


Hamas and U.S. reach deal. “I think we'll have to detox from US security assistance,” says Netanyahu

Hamas and the United States announced an agreement today that will lead to the freeing of Israeli soldier Edan Alexander, a dual American citizen, ahead of President Donald Trump’s trip to the region.
www.dropsitenews.com
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0) Yes, and in that time you would visit a website with your own IP address likely, likely over HTTP without SSL/TLS, likely with your vulnerable browser fingerprint. Point?

1) Privacy, not anonymity. Two completely different things.

2) Because the way Signal is built hosting it requires a lot of resources (storage especially), so they want spam prevention and fewer accounts per person.

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1) I haven't seen a non-TLS website in years.

2) Your asserting "two completely different things" doesn't make it true. Privacy and anonymity are not synonyms but they are overlapping areas. Also ISTM you are redefining terms to suit your purposes. Anonymity to me means the message recipient can't tell who you are. If a THIRD PARTY (the server operator) can ALSO tell who you are, that's a privacy failure, not just an anonymity one.

3) Why does it take so much storage per user? Does it have video uploads or anything like that? A user account should basically just be a row in a database.

From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(… :

In August 2022, Signal notified 1900 users that their data had been affected by the Twilio breach including user phone numbers and SMS verification codes.[105] At least one journalist had his account re-registered to a device he did not control as a result of the attack.[106] ...

This mandatory connection to a telephone number (a feature Signal shares with WhatsApp, KakaoTalk, and others) has been criticized as a "major issue" for privacy-conscious users who are not comfortable with giving out their private number.[142] A workaround is to use a secondary phone number.[142] The ability to choose a public, changeable username instead of sharing one's phone number was a widely-requested feature.[142][144][145] This feature was added to the beta version of Signal in February 2024.

[146]Using phone numbers as identifiers may also create security risks that arise from the possibility of an attacker taking over a phone number.[142] A similar vulnerability was used to attack at least one user in August 2022, though the attack was performed via the provider of Signal's SMS services, not any user's provider.[105] The threat of this attack can be mitigated by enabling Signal's Registration Lock feature, a form of two-factor authentication that requires the user to enter a PIN to register the phone number on a new device.[147]

privacy-focused encrypted messaging app

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They are overlapping areas, but they are "two completely different things". They overlap by sharing common goals, not by being interchangeable.

Anonymity to me means the message recipient can't tell who you are.


Right. And Signal doesn't provide that at all, it ties your private messages to your identity (phone number), it explicitly does not provide anonymity. In fact, it proudly advertises you as a signal user to other signal users that have your number saved. It allows you to post public status updates, it encourages you to save your first and last name on your account.

If a THIRD PARTY (the server operator) can ALSO tell who you are, that's a privacy failure, not just an anonymity one.


Okay? And? In this hypothetical world where Signal offered anonymity but still tied you to your number for other practical reasons, then you're be correct that it would be a privacy concern.

But they don't offer anonymity, they offer private conversations.

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solrize

They are overlapping areas, but they are “two completely different things”. They overlap by sharing common goals, not by being interchangeable.


They aren't interchangeable but they intersect. Completely different means they are disjoint.

it proudly advertises you as a signal user to other signal users


That sounds terrible, a private message service shouldn't advertise anything to anyone. If I subscribe to a subversive magazine, it shouldn't advertise me to other subscribers. It's a terrible invasion if they do. Signal and PGP are both comparable to subversive magazines in that regard, even if the PGP manual tried to say the opposite.

I think most of us these days recognize that the whole concept of public key directories and signature chains on PGP keys was a conceptual error in how people thought about privacy back then (they only cared about encrypting message content). We like to think we know better now, but maybe we don't.

Okay? And? In this hypothetical world where Signal offered anonymity but still tied you to your number for other practical reasons, then you’re be correct that it would be a privacy concern.


According to Wikipedia, they do record some of that info and report it to the government when required. In fact there is further disclosure to them (they might not retain or use the info, but they do receive it) every time you connect to the Signal server.

Anyway the Wikipedia article indicates they have introduced usernames as an alternative to phone numbers, so they have finally acknowledged the problem and done something about it.

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Because your status updates and messages are encrypted and stored (until retrieved, of course) once for every recipient, and that includes your other devices and their other devices.


I'd like to see a numerical estimate of how much data this is. But, it sounds to me like more reason to want to self-host.

I don't see any point to rehashing the other stuff. Non-TLS websites mostly went away once DNS spoofing at wifi hotspots became widespread.

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rottingleaf

But, it sounds to me like more reason to want to self-host.


So do that. You can do that with Signal.

I don’t see any point to rehashing the other stuff. Non-TLS websites mostly went away once DNS spoofing at wifi hotspots became widespread.


Maybe I wasn't clear, someone said that back in the day registration on a website was a new and bad thing, connecting it with privacy and comparing to Signal asking for phone number. I answered with the idea that not much commonly thought from that time about privacy has aged well. You wouldn't register on websites, but you would communicate with them over plaintext. I hope that makes it clearer.

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solrize

So do that. You can do that with Signal.


Do you know of anyone doing it? Other people have said there are difficulties.

You wouldn’t register on websites, but you would communicate with them over plaintext. I hope that makes it clearer.


It is ok, in that era (dialup or wired internet) unencrypted http was basically as secure as unencrypted landlne phone calls. People still have unencrypted phone calls all the time. Typicalally sites would show public content (like product pages on an e-commerce site) by http, then switch to https for checkout to protect stuff like credit card numbers. Encrypting everything became important when wifi became widespread. Wifi hotspots would hijack DNS and spoof entire web sites to steal credentials. Also, LetsEncrypt made it possible to bypass the CA scam industry, making https-everywhere more popular. Public awareness also increased due to Snowden's disclosures.

The RSA encryption patent also expired in 2000. Before that, US website operators were potentially exposed to hassle if they didn't use a commercial server with an RSA license ($$$). But, it didn't apply outside the US and FOSS SSL servers existed for those wanting them.

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Lemmy seems to have an LLM issue

or something of the sort. It's the only explanation I've got...

One or two days old accounts with a single post related to something that will generate replies for sure (AMA has a lot of them, like "I'm a Romanian girl that has lived most of my life secluded, ama" or something or the sort...) and both the post and account are deleted 24h later.

Latest suspicious one is about the guy who is short with long feet, second time it's posted by the same account who deleted the original but has no other comment history in-between.

One week ago on the shit post community, Dad ranking Instagram screenshot from "op's kid school", called it in the discussion, OP replied it was nothing of the sort, account and post are now deleted...

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Chozo

It's not an LLM, at least one of the accounts you're referring to. The person you're talking about has a fetish, and they like telling fake stories about unusually-sized non-sexual body parts. They have a few accounts on Reddit on 9gag where they do the same thing. There's a few different versions of their disfigurement that they tell, but they're all fake and by the same guy.

4shtonButcher doesn't like this.

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catloaf

Is that the same guy with the big belly? I remember a couple posts about him claiming to have sympathetic weight gain with a pregnant wife. Pretty sure it was just a male pregnancy fetish.

There was also someone who paid women with long feet to step on pizza, but he was very clear about it being a fetish and he wasn't weird about it.

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Newbie to BTRFS- how do I use Timeshift to create backups on another SSD?

Hey there, folks! Currently playing around with a laptop that's got three SSDs. Running Arch but that isn't quite related. I have everything configured on one SSD, the other two are totally fresh. What do I need to do to setup one of those fresh SSDs for Timeshift backups? Please walk me through it from the very start- I think I understand some parts but I'm not too certain.

I can format the drives using mkfs.btrfs without any issues, but I'm confused about how I can add subvolumes and configure their root permissions properly to allow Timeshift snapshots.

EDIT: I see now that I misunderstood what Timeshift does. New question- which tool can I use to make a backup of my entire filesystem onto another drive such that it can be restored?

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catloaf

github.com/linuxmint/timeshift

For btrfs snapshots, storage on other disks is not supported.

Timeshift is designed to protect system files and settings. It is NOT a backup tool and is not meant to protect user data.

GitHub - linuxmint/timeshift: System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be restored while system is runni

System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be re...
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Clamonacc doesn't start due to "could not add element to hash table" errors

Trying to set up clamonacc to watch /home, /tmp and /storage (where I mount other drives). It keeps failing due to ERROR: ClamInotif: could not add element to hash table for ... that causes ERROR: ClamInotif: issue when adding watch for /home/lojcs and ultimately ERROR: ClamInotif: could not watch path '/home/', Invalid argument passed to function.

The initial error was triggered by the steam folder, empty cache directory of starship, firefox cache directory, my 'Games' folder and after that I stopped excluding the directories. I don't see the point in having on-access scan if I need to carve out large chunks of the filesystem to make it work for reasons I don't understand. I don't see anything common with those directories or what makes them different than the ones it has no problem watching.

Has anyone successfully set up clamonacc? This is like the 3rd time I'm trying in the last couple years and it never works.

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How to backup around 200 DVD

Hi everyone!

I have around 200 DVD (with movies) that I’d want to backup in order to save them from rotting or physical media disappearance.

My most powerful computer with a DVD drive is a 2012 MacBook Pro upgraded to 16gb of Ram with an SSD running Fedora 42.

If possible, I’d want to keep all the bonuses of the movies, but I could also just backup the movies if keeping the whole disc is too difficult.

My goal would be to keep the original quality.

Also 6-7 discs are already skipping scenes even if the disc shows no damage.

I’ve bought some of these discs 20 years ago with my teenager pocket money so I wouldn’t want to lose them.

Thanks for the help.

As I own these discs and nothing would be illegal in my country, I thought it would be better to post here instead of the piracy community.

Edit: I guess I’ll use Make MKV Beta as it seems to work well and VLC can open the MKV files. Thanks for your help!

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Tippon

Automatic Ripping Machine can pull the main movie off a disc automatically, but I'm not sure about imaging the full disc. Once it's set up, you just put a disc in and wait.

github.com/automatic-ripping-m…


Automatic Ripping Machine

Headless Blu-Ray/DVD/CD-ROM Ripping. Automatic Ripping Machine has 5 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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What SATA (or PCIe+adapter) SSD for a Debian laptop?

Basically want something with decent performance and durability. Cost matters, but I'm not trying to hit rock bottom. I'm particularly wondering, is an HMB-type PCIe SSD ok combined with a SATA adapter? I think HMB is supported if your machine can use a PCIe or NVMe disk directly, but I'd be using an older Thinkpad with a 2.5" SATA slot at least for now. So I'm wondering if I'd lose a lot of performance if the SSD combo doesn't have its own RAM buffer.

I see good deals by today's standards for PCIe SSD's at of all places, Office Depot.

Thanks.

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App recommendations for CalDAV VJOURNAL?

I'm experimenting with raidcale. I'm trying to find some client apps for Linux and Android.

So far, I have:

Desktop
- Calendars: GNOME Calendar
- Contacts: GNOME Contacts
- Tasks: Errands
- Journals: Unknown

Android:
- Calendars: Probably just default Calendar app
- Contacts: Not sure yet
- Tasks: Tasks.org or jtx board
- Journals: jtx board

Apps working with VTODO seem to be common enough, but does anyone know desktop apps that work with VJOURNAL?


GitHub - mrvladus/Errands: Todo application for those who prefer simplicity.

Todo application for those who prefer simplicity. - GitHub - mrvladus/Errands: Todo application for those who prefer simplicity.
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Zelaf

One thing I've had troubles with when trying to implement accessibility is in web dev. There's so many attribute tags and I think a few different software based standards as well? I'm not entirely sure. The documentation on it felt a bit hard to follow and implement. Then I'm not sure how to go about testing it fully either without having those proprietary softwares either. I'm on an all Linux machine and the only accessibility software I know of is Orca and it's so and so last time I tried it.

While I slowly figure that out however I make sure to follow tag recommendations and keep things in sections, only one h1 tag per page, descriptive and short alt tags, and so forth. At least that helps a tiny bit.

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dan

Web is a bit easier than native since the browsers handle all the platform-specific details across all common platforms, and you mostly just have to follow some guidelines that aren't overly technical or arcane. Some examples:
- Use ARIA roles where appropriate
- Ensure sufficient contrast between text and background colours. Should at least meet the WCAG level AA which is a 4.5:1 contrast ratio, but ideally meet AAA which is a 7:1 ratio for body text and a 4.5:1 ratio for headings.
- Ensure you use <label> tags for all your <input>s, alt attributes on all images, title attributes where appropriate (e.g. on <table>s to describe the data contained inside the table), etc.

If you use Firefox, its developer tools have an "Accessibility" tab that can audit for common issues - things like missing labels on checkboxes and radio buttons, colours that don't meet WCAG contrast ratio requirements, etc.

It's a good time to learn more about building accessible sites and apps given it's becoming a legal requirement in some jurisdictions. For example, the European Accessibility Act (EAA) goes into effect later this year, and it mandates that sites and mobile apps for various industries (like ecommerce, airlines and other transport, media streaming, social media, banks, and some others) meet accessibility guidelines.

I’m on an all Linux machine and the only accessibility software I know of is Orca and it’s so and so last time I tried it.


It's probably worth spinning up a Windows VM to test in NVDA. It's one of the most popular screen readers and probably the most popular open-source one, but only works on Windows since it deeply hooks into the Microsoft Speech API, accessibility APIs, and and other Windows APIs.


WAI-ARIA Roles - ARIA | MDN

ARIA roles provide semantic meaning to content, allowing screen readers and other tools to present and support interaction with an object in a way that is consistent with user expectations of that type of object.
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Nuked my system [recovered]

Edit: I was able to recover my partitions by creating new partition starting and ending from same exact sectors.

I was copying files from my previous installation to my new Gentoo installation. After I was done. I ran wipefs on /dev/nvme0n1 thinking it is my old nvme drive which is connected through usb. I am in disbelief. Lost all of my configuration files. My perfect installation of gentoo. Just gone. How do I never make such mistake again? Thankfully I had backup of passwords file. Rest is gone. I am sad.

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lemmylemonade

Guys, I managed to recover my partitions. I used test disk to write the detected efi partition which was of 500MiB. The gpt partition table backup uses 33 sectors to I created second partition starting from where the previous ended to totalsectors-33. I was able to luksDump the header after this and successfully decrypt and mount my device. I had to grub-install and now my system is up and running. Thank you so much everyone for their help and their kind words.
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Aiwendil

On-screen keyboard was already mentioned, but there are some other small things that might be useful for some:

Reboot/shutdown without having to login (Your husband/wife/partner can shutdown your computer without first having to login and be greeted by the porn folder on your desktop...nah seriously, this can be useful at times when your turn on the computer, get called away and someone else can easily shut down the computer after you didn't return for some hours)

Keyboard language selection before password entry. Very useful in multi-language households/companies.

The WM selection also allows kiosk-like behaviour in special cases...like you don't start a WM but start in kodi media player for a movie evening or you create your own WM session file for a single game that runs as soon as you login.

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DigDoug

I don't know whether it's me or my hardware, but display managers seem to absolutely hate me. I've tried quite a few, and I've always encountered some sort of issue within a few days. Even on distros that install and set them up automatically for me.

Since I'm the only user of my computers, I've set mine up to log me in and startx (well, now the Wayland equivalent) automatically, bypassing DMs altogether. If I decide to experiment with other window managers/desktop environments, I just change the line in my bashrc.

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Looking for a distro that creates users on first boot after installation
I've started to collect good computers that are stuck on Windows 10 that are being discarded. I want to put Linux on them and give them away to less fortunate people in need of a computer. It would be easier if user names and passwords were not part of the install process but part of the first boot after installation. What distros should I look at?

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Cheapest new device that can run linux?

More of a thought exercise/game than anything else. I saw the news that 486 support was getting cut from linux, and I was curious just how cheaply someone could replace a desktop 486 system with something new (provided the device had all the connectivity they needed).

Rules:

  1. Device must be able to run linux.
  2. Device should be cheap as possible. A good starting point is probably sub 40usd.
  3. The device must in someway support a mouse, keyboard, display, and the internet. If adapters are necessary for this connectivity, that cost should be included.
  4. Power supply should be included in the cost of the device. (in the case of most SBCs this is just the cost of a USB cable and wall wart)
  5. The device must be new & still in production. I know used devices like laptops would probably have been king here, but I don't think that would be nearly as interesting.

I suspect that SBCs and other arm devices will be the most common suggestions.

I personally know about the Raspberry Pi Zero which can be had for ~$10, and with all the added accessories necessary to make it a full computer (usb splitters, usb power, usb to rj45, storage) it costs around ~$35. Not bad at all but I'm pretty sure we can do even better!

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the16bitgamer

What I did was I went to the thrift store and I found a laptop. It was the Asus Transformer Book T100han.

I had one when it was new. It was a POS but hey it worked really well in my use case I was thinking of.

Got it home booted it, has Windows 10 1501 installed on it. Refused the update. (The perfect windows machine does exists)

Updated it to 22h2 bricked it by running out of the limited 32GB of storage.

Said screw it got Linux Mint on a USB installer. Installer crashes. Tries Ubuntu… also crashes. Tries OpenSuse, also crashes. Tries Fedora also crashes.

Turns out the installer requires more than 2GB of ram. Laptop only has 2 and it’s soldered. (The e waste special)

Gets Debian installs it. Gets to desktop, no Bluetooth, no audio, but everything else runs better than I ever saw it. Needs older distro.

Gets Q4OS installs fine, runs as well and audio works. No Bluetooth. My very specific use case requires Bluetooth.

Forces myself to go back to windows. No recovery image. Downloads from MS, can’t create media because my PC is on Linux. Boots into VM, makes installer. Installs Windows. No audio no Bluetooth.

Gets drivers from asus website. Everything works but audio. Calls asus support gets drivers. PC is back to when I got it.

Pair Bluetooth controller, installs auto hotkeys, installs libre office. Best teleprompter I’ve ever used.

Shoves into box until it’s needed again.

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secret300

Stop looking for cheap new stuff. Buy cheap used stuff. I got a high quality Thinkpad T530 for $99. I got a T15 Gen 1 as well but honestly is worse than the T530 even though it's newer.

My friend got a used computer with a 4th Gen i5 and a 970 for $45. Old but gold. We upgraded the CPU and it runs everything great.

Stop contributing to e-waste and buy used

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Linux kernel is leaving 486 CPUs behind, only 18 years after the last one made
I didn’t know whether to mark this NSFW or not but it’s time to buy a new computer if you haven’t upgraded in multiple decades.

Linux kernel is leaving 486 CPUs behind, only 18 years after the last one made

Linus Torvalds sees “zero real reason for anybody to waste one second” on them.
Kevin Purdy (Ars Technica)
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_edge

Actually, most devices today run an amd64 kernel (amd or intel cpus in typical desktops or servers) or arm (phones, some modern notebooks). Those architectures never supported 486 cpus.

I assume, the code removed is in the x86 branch, excluded when compiling for other architectures. As others said, I guess this is mostly about maintainance effort and testing.

(But then i don't know much about the kernels. Maybe there's some interplay between amd64 and ~~x64~~ x86 architectures.)

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Oinks

In this case it's more of a switch away from the last cool new thing. Totem (like Music) was built around a media library navigated from within the app. By default Totem doesn't even support opening videos from the file manager, which is something you would probably expect of a video player. It also crashed for me when I tried using it as intended so I'm not surprised to see it replaced by an app that really is just a video player.

That said many apps get replaced not for feature reasons but just by being GTK3, and they tend to get replaced by their own forks to GTK4 (such as the upcoming replacement of Evince). Why their devs choose to upgrade toolkits this way I cannot say.

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SSH managers on Linux?

Curious what folks are using to organise their remote connections? I liked WinSSHTerm and have tried replacing it with Remote Desktop Manager, but it seems a bit broken (fonts look terrible in a terminal, sftp doesn't work, RDP sort of works, but it's not great).

RDP is not a must. Folders, ssh, key auth, sftp and scp are the main things I'm looking for. Currently considering Remmina but though I would check if ppl have strong views on this topic before trying the next app.

I'm using cinnamon with mint 22.

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PSA: PlaytronOS

Playtron has made some waves in Linux gaming. They have lots of big names in Linux working on the project. Recently they were featured by Framework today in their presentation. However, I think it's abundantly clear that anyone who cares about FOSS should stay far away from this.

I was intrigued by this as well some months ago. I even ignored when they blatantly lied about Valve/Steam locking down their OS to only play Steam games. So I gave it a try and installed it. On setup they wanted me to agree to a EULA. That was red flag #2. Never seen that before. Then they wanted me to agree to their privacy policy. It is a very typical corporate user-hostile privacy policy. Some highlights

  • Like many website operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Website. This includes Log Data, such as your computer’s IP address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics, and whether you reached our page via a social media or email campaign. This information may be collected via several technologies, including cookies, web beacons, clear GIFs, canvas fingerprinting and other means, such as Google Remarketing and Facebook Pixel.
  • If you access our Sites through third parties (e.g., Facebook or Google), or if you share content from our Sites to a third-party social media service, the third-party service will send us certain information about you if the third-party service and your account settings allow such sharing.
  • "Professional, employment, or education information, such as your industry and job level, for news personalization, or copies of your resume or CV and any other information required to verify your qualifications, for recruitment purposes"
  • "Commercial information, such as a record of purchased products or subscriptionsInferences about your consumer preferences or characteristics."

How we use personal information:
- To market our products and/or services to you
- With respect to website cookies, to share with third-party marketing partners to provide tailored advertising on our Website and other websites that you may visit

We share your information with our third-party service providers and any subcontractors as required to offer you our products and services. The service providers we use help us to:

They even admit to not respecting "Do Not Track" signals.

Privacy Policy

www.playtron.one

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Usernames using randomized nonsense

I've been noticing an influx of users with anonomized usernames (ie: fjdasklfpudiosa722104891fdaf20j.srv.us).

As a moderator this concerns me because it immediately triggers a 'this is a bot or nefarious actor' instinct. Is there any reason not to be wary these accounts?

don't like this

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symbolic

I've been using Fedi for a long time and from the very beginning I've been afraid of spam and bots ruining it, at least temporarily. Spam is still a problem with e-mail, and it's been around for 40 years and they've developed very sophisticated anti-spam mitigations for it.
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Secret Music

The problem is that most of the 'spam' comes from official things like websites that you've signed up to and didn't realise would also include dumb fkn emails periodically. And they don't always do it right away either. I've had emails suddenly start arriving from somewhere that I signed up to like a year before.

Personally, my spam mitigation is to have one email address for signing up to shit with. Then these assholes can email me until they're blue in the face and I don't care because the only time I ever visit that inbox is for verification. And then I have another email address for personal use that never gets used because who uses email for personal use these days?

In conclusion. Email is for signing up to things and collecting trash that I'll never look at.

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snooggums

A ton of things I have signed up for spam me with trash emails that they don't put in the 'sales' or 'offers' categories I unchecked. Just because I was forced to create an account to buy one thing doesn't mean I have a 'business relatiotionship' that justifies multiple daily reminders of what they have in stock.
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paequ2

😆😂🤣 Uuuuhh... Aaaah... I normally generate a random password and use it as my username for most services. Like even my bank.

This is because I've realized the username is mostly useless and is just a handle for my account. It doesn't matter to me if my username is jsmith, meow123, or kekxbek. In fact, it's easier if I don't have to come up with something novel or cool.

I'm a real boy. I promise. Not a malicious bot.

Although... If I were a malicious bot, that's exactly what I would say! 😲

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LibreOffice is pretty damn good
Today I did my first advanced spreadsheet on LibreOffice after switching to Linux, and it handled itself pretty well. I had to search for some features on the web at first, but after I got it down, I felt comfortable using it. Also, LibreOffice's default menu layout is not pretty, but I can find all of the functions with just a click, unlike MS Office's ribbon menu where I had to click around to find what I was looking for. Sorry for bad English.

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Linux for a Windows & Android person (Advice needed)

I need to install an OS for someone whose first impulse upon seeing a screen is to touch it, because they are young and their first assumption is a touchscreen.

They know their way around Windows and Windows is probably tought to them at school, so Windows might actually be the smart move…
but I fucking hate it.

Is ZorinOS or similar polished enough that I can leave it to someone whose tech literacy is centered around Roblox, TikTok and evading parental locks? I don't want to normalize the Windows-bullshit. But I don't want their first Linux-experience to be frustrating.

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mina86

He made an edgy/abhorrent¹ joke years ago for which he apologised and Lemmy is even worse than Reddit so people still lach onto that.

¹ Whether it was just edgy or much worse than that I leave to the reader to decide. The joke was that he paid some guys in Africa to make a sign saying ‘Hitler did nothing wrong’ or something to that effect. This one of the things that likely contributed to adpocalypse on YouTube.

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sorrybookbroke

Well buddy it's a bit more than that. Personally, I'm not holding it against the guy maybe he's changed so I'm not gonna freak every time I see him but pretending that's it is wild.

The man in anger called some guy the n-word. No joke to it. Straight up, I'm angry so I'll call this guy a racial slur. This, along with the constant (and it was constant) skirting with racism and Hitler which were framed as jokes made it clear that it wasn't just a bunch of jokes. Wearing a military uniform that was as close to the Nazis as possible, constant talk of a final solution, jokes about 'them', German speaches, zieg heils, dog whistles, and alot more were commonplace in his videos at the time

You don't just randomly shout the n word in anger for the first time on live stream.

The guy was obviously going down the pipeline a d people still don't like him because o that. Not one joke but a constant stream of them along with a very telling instance

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What file explorer does qBittorrent use? (Debian/KDE)

I really like its format over Dolphin's, I find it much more intuitive. It shows the whole filetree from root and double clicking a folder just expands the it further. This is different than how Dolphin works, which only shows one folder at once like how Windows does in the main windows of File Explorer.

I think I might be autistic.

Specifically qBittorrent used with Debian and KDE. Not sure of it looks different elsewhere.

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dblsaiko

sudo is MIT also (or something that looks like MIT at least). sudo.ws/about/license/

The more critical part wrt license is real coreutils which they also want to replace.

Sudo License

Sudo is distributed under the following license: Copyright (c) 1994-1996, 1998-2025 Todd C. Miller Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright…
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Hey Installer Devs - an installer feature -- copy another system's install?

Please let me know if there is already an accepted way to do this.

Early in the install process, you'd have a field to type a hostname of a local machine that you'd like to install like. The installer would download an "Install facts" file and install the new machine like the model machine.

The "install facts" file is created at install time. it contains things like timezone, language, percentage of disk space for each partition (to handle disk space of differing sizes) Optional files selected, username/password for root and for first user - anything needed to make the install a two click operation.

Note that this would be a full new install - not a clone of a machine that has been in use for a while.

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jutty

For Debian there's Preseed, for Arch there's archinstall, for a Fedora/RHEL there's Kickstart, for Alpine there's setup scripts, for distros with fully manual installs, you could just write a script?

Automating your install is something any sysadmin and mainly any distro developer will quickly reach towards, so it is something almost certain to exist.

Though, if I understand you, you'd want that to be "sourced" from an existing system, yes? I can see the use of that...


[f36] Automating the Installation with Kickstart

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Linux gaming hardware/software

Background


I use Mac as my daily driver for my work and personal machines, but for gaming I use my Playstation 5 for online or supposedly AAA games (think Call of Duty or Helldivers 2) and I use my Steam Deck for more indie titles. I've got some Linux experience, primarily via my old Mac Mini running Proxmox with mostly Debian VMs and messing around briefly with NixOS.

I love our Steam Deck, but it does feel a little underpowered, the battery isn't as strong as it once was and I don't love the docking experience with the official dock.

My wife is really into Civilization and similar games and I'd love to setup a desktop connected to our TV to use with a keyboard and mouse on our LG CX. Although I'm tech savvy, I'm not great with knowing what hardware/software to get. It's especially more complicated with the looming tariffs and trying to make sure I don't overspend on something I don't need.

Question


Looking for some guidance on hardware and software to setup for this living room gaming desktop. It's only purpose is to play games, primarily from Steam and it should have hardware which would benefit speed and performance for the type of games I'm going to list. Obviously we want the graphics to be good, but I don't need a beast RTX 5090.

What are some hardware and software recommendations in today's financial climate for playing these games on Linux?

What other accessories would you recommend for couch based keyboard and mouse gaming?

Honestly the game I'm most eager to get into is Dwarf Fortress, but for my wife it's having a smooth experience with Civ6 (she was playing the Switch version for far too long!)

Games


  • Civilization games
    • My wife loves 6 and I'm a fan of 5, but we do want to eventually try 7, hoping it'll improve with DLC updates


  • Dwarf Fortress
  • Rimworld
  • Battletech
  • Into the Breach
  • Brotato
  • Vampire Survivors
  • Balatro
  • FTL
  • Caves of Qud
  • Persona 5 Royal (although I'm struggling to get into it, pushing through)
  • Blue Prince
  • ANIMAL WELL
  • Factorio
  • Return of the Obra Dinn
  • Anno 1800
  • Project Zomboid

This is a partial list of some of our libraries and wishlists. As you can see, some of them are more graphically, memory and processor intensive, but a lot of them are low performance indies.

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gradual

It's in a great state if you look back and play old games.

I recommend getting comfortable with emulators. Using them isn't immediately straightforward, but with a bit of experience they become easier.

Some games I'd recommend just off the top of my head are:

Star Wars Jedi Power Battles

Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga

Resident Evil 5 & 6

Divinity Original Sin 1 & 2 (1 goes up to 2 players, 2 goes up to 4)

A Way Out

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (short, but fun)

Legend of Mana is absolutely spectacular and any gaming duo would be delighted to play it.

Dynasty Warriors is good for some mindless fun, but don't be fooled by how many games they have; they're all pretty much the same thing.

I think Super Mario Wonder is actually 2-player, but I haven't tried it yet. I plan too, though.

Super Mario Bros U goes up to 4 players and you can play with the Cemu, the Wii U emulator.

Cuphead

You're right that couch co-op games are mostly on consoles. Thankfully we can play console games on PC for free.

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Are people blind on PeerTube?

I read many comments on how PeerTube isn't sustainable as a YouTube alternative and, while it's certainly true right now, are we sure it will be the same in the near future?

The platform is growing and the new mobile app is making great progress; I can certainly see some people investing in a major instance some day, accelerating the platform adoption.

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nimpnin

Hosting video requires a lot more resources than hosting text, hyperlinks, or even pictures. It might be too much for individuals to self host video on a scale that could even distantly resemble how we use youtube today.

Then again, maybe there are ways to make that burden smaller. IIRC Peertube does do some p2p stuff to try and share the burden a bit but I’ve also heard that it’s not really feasible to rely on that to scale.

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I have Updated my CC:BY Wallpaper GitHub

# Spring has arrived in all its glory


So why not adorn your desktop with a floral background?

Over the past few months, I haven’t had any significant amount of time to either sit in Blender and create or engage in other creative pursuits for that matter. But the other day, when the sun was shining and the bumblebees were gently buzzing around the garden, I got the idea to photograph some of the flowers that had blossomed. When I later looked at these creations, it felt only natural to add them to my Wallpaper git-repo.

For full transparency; I am not a photographer and these pictures were taken with a mobile phone.

Image

Image

Image

Image

These images are some of those found in the "Nature" folder. All wallpapers in the entire repo are CC:BY — free to use, share, and modify as long as the creator, in this case me, is attributed.

GitHub - FoliumCreations/Wallpapers: A place where I upload creations I deem worthy of being called a wallpaper. They are free and released under CC:BY

A place where I upload creations I deem worthy of being called a wallpaper. They are free and released under CC:BY - FoliumCreations/Wallpapers
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Pixelfed Server Directory 2.0 is here!

Pixelfed Server Directory

Find the perfect Pixelfed community to join with our Server Directory
Pixelfed
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Chris

I found this handy snippet to enable these keys in GTK 2 and 3 (not sure of the equivalent for GTK 4 but I guess that's the one which has been updated anyway): forum.colemak.com/topic/1438-d…

Unfortunately I've found this whilst I'm not at the right computer so I haven't been able to test them.

Edit: I tested this and it doesn't appear to have helped.

DreymaR's Big Bag of Keyboard Tricks (Linux/XKB files included)! - User contributions - Colemak forum

forum.colemak.com
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Massive data backup question: What Linux software do you folks recommend for helping sort out and organize terabytes of files and remove duplicates?

I've got a whole bucket full of old hard drives, CDs and DVDs, and I'm starting the process of backing up as much as still works to a 4TB drive.

It's gonna be a long journey and lots of files, many prone to being duplicates from some of the drives.

What sorts of software do you Linux users recommend?

I'm on Linux Mint MATE, if that matters much.

Edit: One of the programs I'm accustomed to from my Windows days is FolderMatch, which is a step above simple duplicate file scanning, it scans for duplicate or semi-duplicate folders as well and breaks down individual file differences when comparing two folders.

I see I've already gotten some responses, and I thank everyone in advance. I'm on a road trip right now, I'll be checking you folks recommend software later this evening or as soon as I can anyways.

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SayCyberOnceMore

There's BeyondCompare and Meld if you want a GUI, but, if I understand this correctly, rmlint and fdupes might be helpful here

I've done similar in the past - I prefer commandline for this...

What I'd do is create a "final destination" folder on the 4TB drive and then other working folders for each hdd / cd / dvd that you're working through

Ie

/mnt/4TB/finaldestination
/mnt/4TB/source1
/mnt/4TB/source2
...

Obviously finaldestination is empty to start with so it could just be a direct copy of your first hdd - so make that the largest drive.

(I'm saying copy here, presuming you want to keep the old drives for now, just in case you accidentally delete the wrong stuff on the 4TB drive)

Maybe clean up any obvious stuff

Remove that first drive

Mount the next and copy the data to /mnt/4TB/source2

Now use rmlint or fdupes and do a dry-run between source2 and finaldestination and get a feel whether they're similar or not, so then you'll know whether to just move it all to finaldestination or maybe then use the gui tools.

You might completely empty /mnt4TB/source2, or it might still have something in, depends on how you feel it's going.

Repeat for the rest, working on smaller & smaller drives, comparing with the finaldestination first and then moving the data.

Slow? Yep. Satisfying that you know there's only 1 version there? Yep.

Then do a backup 😉

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over_clox

The way I'm organizing the main backups to start with is with folder names such as 20250505 Laptop Backup, 20250508 Media Backup, etc.

Eventually I plan on organizing things in bulk folders with simple straightforward names such as Movies, Music, Game ROMs, Virtual Machines, etc.

Yes, thankfully I already got all my main files, music and movies backed up. Right now I'm backing up my software, games, emulator ROMs, etc.

Hopefully that drive finishes backing up before the weather gets bad, cuz I'm definitely shutting things down when there's lightning around...

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Since you guys asked about this...

Since Some of you guys asked about more details of how I migrated the entire school's infrastructure into Linux Mint, I made a small neocities website where I retell the story with a bit more details as much as I can remember them, took me around a week to make it so go have fun there and enjoy (the website is under the AGPL license, if you are interested you can check out the source code under "License" in the website or go here github.com/Ace120C/my-personal… )
there is more things to improve upon so lemme know if there is anything I should be adding etc.

once again, cheers!

EDIT: The post is in the blogs tab, as now the latest button takes you to the videos tab instead


GitHub - Ace120C/my-personal-website

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Fedora Atomic is the bomb

I've been feeling gushy about my setup lately, I think I've finally found my home on Linux. For decades I've distrohopped each year and never was really happy with it all, but Fedora Atomic has changed that.

Some things I can do with Fedora Atomic that I cannot do with other Linux distros:


  • I can rebase to Bazzite for gaming performance when I feel like having a long gaming session.
  • I can rebase to Secureblue when I think I will not be gaming and would prefer a more secure linux setup.
  • I can update my system and not have to worry about special instructions, its extremely stable. Many times in the past, running a small ma-and-pa distro with most things pre-configed for performance would end with it breaking after a couple of major updates. This isn't true for configs like Bazzite and Secureblue, they are remarkably stable across many major updates due to how rpm-ostree functions.
  • Distrobox and Flatpak are more than enough at this stage for most programs and they help you avoid making too many alterations to the base image, greatly speeding up the swaps between major images.

The kicker? Your user configs and home files are never changed when you 'image hop'. It always feels like you just installed a fresh distro whenever you upgrade, and the performance benefits are noticeable. You don't have to tinker and do the same changes over and over, its all handled for you by rpm-ostree.

10/10 this is the future of Linux. I hope for a future where I can rebase entire Linux distros while maintaining my configs with one simple command, but for now, Fedora Atomic is fantastic.

The downsides:


  • There is one major downside, and its that all of your system files are read-only. Personally, I've found a dozen ways to get around this, it requires thinking inside the Distrobox. It is a notable issue for many people, though. This means you cannot make specific tweaks without making a whole new image for yourself. Though in practice, I have found the ecosystem has grown a lot. Other people have already made the best tweaks available for you with only a few simple commands.
  • Rpm-ostree also is slow to update because its essentially building a whole git tree to make sure your updates never break and are as stable as possible. You also have to reboot each time you alter it, which can be annoying, but if you stick to flatpaks and distroboxes, this issue is mitigated significantly.
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RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]

Ok I've spent a few hours now tinkering and figuring things out, and I totally see the power here. I wanted to install the 1password Linux application and discovered I could do it easily using distrobox, and I wouldn't even know that's how it was running considering the GUI experience is the same as if I had installed it directly on the system.
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marcie (she/her)

It really depends on the game. Old games often run better on Linux than on windows. Check protondb to see how supported the game is, may be a driver issue. Old Nvidia parts use proprietary drivers which suck in comparison to old AMD parts which use open source drivers on Linux. New Nvidia parts use open source drivers, though these drivers are new and still having the kinks worked out. Sometimes laptops even have specific proprietary drivers that must be used for the laptop which can break compatibility with Linux or reduce performance. I'm pretty sure Intel is in the same boat, it's proprietary.

Personally, for games I enjoy, I saw a small 5fps performance increase over windows on a newish desktop.

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Which X11 software keeps you from switching to Wayland?

For me AutoKey is absolutely essential to my workflow. I have tons of text expansions and shortcuts to "remap" keys. E.g., respectively, typing dAt expands into 2025-05-08, 13:47:40 CEST, and pressing alt + k simulates the arrow down key.

Secondly there's XScreenSaver which has so many wonderful (mathematical) visualizations that it would be a damn shame if these eventually get lost as Wayland gets more adoption.

None of these have Wayland alternatives as far as I know. For text expansion there's Espanso, but it doesn't support keyboard shortcuts yet.


GitHub - autokey/autokey: AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11.

AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11. - autokey/autokey
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Removal of Deepin Desktop from openSUSE due to Packaging Policy Violation
cross-posted from: feditown.com/post/1318835

Removal of Deepin Desktop from openSUSE due to Packaging Policy Violation

At the beginning of this year we noticed that the Deepin Desktop as it is currently packaged in openSUSE relies on a packaging policy violation to bypass SUSE security team review restrictions.
Matthias Gerstner (SUSE Security Team Blog)
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barryamelton

that has barely nothing to do with packaging standards, and packaging policy violations..

Compare this: debian.org/doc/debian-policy/

With this single page: en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packa…

In case you think "but those policies are not needed, they are superfluous" (like some Arch devs). They are not. Packagers send their fixes upstream, and then, other distros, with lower standards, consume the already fixed upstream releases, and sometimes pretend that this work was not needed nor present, not realizing that all distros benefit from it even if your policies are more relaxed.

There's a reason why the Deepin Desktop Environment was never part of Debian, and only available via their own ppa repositories, even if the Deepin distro is based in Debian.

openSUSE:Packaging guidelines - openSUSE Wiki

en.opensuse.org
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Update: About the BLOBs in Ventoy · Issue #3224
The author addresses the issue.

About the BLOBs in Ventoy · Issue #3224 · ventoy/Ventoy

In #2795 there are some discuss about the BLOBs in Ventoy. For a long time, I devoted my limited spare time to adding new features and fixing bugs and didn't get around to considering this. It shou...
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I [they] bought a Linux Magazine from 2000!

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/21842806

Recently came across this magazine from the Linux Format on a second hand vintage shop and obviously had to go for it! These magazines are still produced these to this day btw. However, when I went to linuxformat.com after receiving my magazine to check out some of their other ones, I saw that they were in fact just celebrating their 25-year anniversary and have put out a digital version of the very magazine I bought - for everyone to view digitally!

Their announcement:

25-years ago in this month of May, back in 2000 (just after the giant Y2K meltdown that flipped every plane upsidedown) Linux Format was first published. To help celebrate and remember this momentous pinnacle of publishing prowess (and while we still have server access) we'll be popping out a few classic issues of Linux Format in PDF format. As we already have it to hand here's issue LXF001 with a very young looking Nick Veitch.


The magazine can be found digitally at: linuxformat.com/files/pdfs/LXF…


Either way, I had no idea of the timing but thought it was a fun experience and worthy to share here. Enjoy a step back into memory-lane!

Have a great rest of your day!

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codapine

I used to subscribe to Linux format! I got the back issues on exactly/Exact Editions too, so for a while I could also view every issue on my android tablet. Those were the days.

I don't even know if Exactly is still around anymore.

Edit - nope, I was thinking of New Humanist magazine, oops. But I did used to get Linux Format through the door. I remember they used to have rackspace ads on the plastic weather cover

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Anybody running Kinoite having problems booting the 6.14.5-300 kernel?

When I last updated Kinoite (1-2 days ago), the only packages that were updated were kernel related things. Going from 6.14.4-200 to 6.14.5-300.

When I try to boot into the new deployment, the system just hangs on the plymouth boot screen and I have to do a hard reset on the computer. No logs are generated, so I'm either not getting out of grub or I'm stuck in the iniramfs stage (but that usually prints some errors and drops you into a rescue shell). It's so weird. It just sits there.

My old deployment works fine though. Anybody else experienced something similar? Or know of a way I can get some more info out of the system?

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In regard to Hyprland and Fascism

Like y'all keep posting about it, praising it and what not.

But the dev is a fascist, the discord server is a fascist bar, and the project thus is fascist.

I've met people who were harassed, I browserd through now deleted messages of Vaxry using slurrs and more.

So I wonder is if the people who post constantly about it know and are complicit, or just don't know and would act otherwise?

FDO's conduct enforcement actions regarding Vaxry

drewdevault.com
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Charlxmagne

This is akin to MAGA calling the pope marxist cuz he disagrees with them, some people are so one-dimensional its comical, you cant fight stupidity with stupidity, this is how actual fascists justify all of their extremist views, extremism just encourages extremism on the other side and gives those who are indoctrinated a bigger reason to support their indoctrinators. Tunnel vision is one crazy phenomenon 🤡

Regardless of his views I'll continue using it and supporting it.

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Charlxmagne

Claiming transgender ppl are mentally ill is not fascist, it's a fact, and the fact MAGA are rinsing it is only cuz its the only thing they can agree on with the people who actually have braincells unlike Trump or his fascist minions, gender dysphoria is a real diagnosable condition, although under no circumstance is violence against them acceptable. I've got no qualms with your sexuality, but why are you trynna trick me? They're not girls, they're mandem in disguise and they need professional help.
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What text-to-speech application do you use?

I'm trying to find a replacement for NaturalReader in Linux but I'm not finding anything as good.

I have played around with different engines, such as Espeak (too robotic), Mozilla TTS and Coqui, and Piper. But I'm looking for an application, not just an engine, something that would allow me to open up a PDF, pick a spot and read from there, then be able to move back and forth on the document. Ideally, I would like to also be able to tell the application how to pronounce certain words.

I haven't figured out how to make Okular use The best I have found is ReadAloud, but it's just a browser addon. Okular doesn't seem to be able to use something like Piper.

Any ideas?

(I use Debian btw 😛 )


Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader for Firefox. Read out loud the current web-page article with one click. Supports 40+ languages.
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A_norny_mousse

The AUR used to have a version of Android's TTS.

Then there's flitevox or just flite (should be in most distro's main repositories) which imho is much better than espeak(-ng), but not as good as datamining-funded Google's TTS.

In any case, you should check out voices that are often available as separate downloads, they might sound much better than the default.

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tip for xfce users (about rounded corners in the whisker menu)

i've been having problems with xfce where themes with rounded corners show a black box behind the whisker menu and even with the following code in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

}#whiskermenu-window { border-radius: 10px; border: none; box-shadow: none; border-image: none; background-image: none; outline: none; }

searches on duckduckgo returned nothing but after a few months with this problem i found a solution on google on the zorin os forums

the modifications:
first, in the gtk.css file:
__#whiskermenu-window frame>border { border-radius: 10px; border: none; box-shadow: none; border-image: none; background-image: none; outline: none; }_

then in the whisker menu properties, turn the opactiy to 99

no idea how or why this works but it just works 😀

XFCE Theming, help modifying Whiskermenu & Notification dialog buttton

By default it's at 100. I slide it all the way to zero and here is the result:
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howdy facial recognition with fedora workstation 42

I had a bunch of issues setting it up to work on my laptop, but now that I have I would like to compile all the bits and stuff together into one guide!

source: copr.fedorainfracloud.org/copr… and github.com/boltgolt/howdy/issu…

  1. install dependencies

downloading:
SEE GITHUB ISSUE SECTION “DOWNLOAD DEPENDENCIES”
(I can’t post the links!)

installing:

cd ~/Downloads

sudo dnf install \
python3-elevate-0.1.3-3.20240124git78e82a8.fc41.noarch.rpm \
python3-keyboard-0.13.5-3.fc41.noarch.rpm \
python3-pyv4l2-1.0.2-3.20240124gitf12f0b3.fc41.x86_64.rpm

installing opencv (note that I had to use pip install for opencv-python, so try that as well!)
sudo dnf install -y opencv opencv-devel opencv-python

sudo dnf install -y v4l-utils

When I tried to install howdy from “howdy-beta, an error pops up with “nothing provides python3dist(ffmpeg-python)...”

BettridgeCameron on GitHub is the holy saviour with this fix:

dnf install https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/python-ffmpeg-python/0.2.0/8.fc41/noarch/python3-ffmpeg-python-0.2.0-8.fc41.noarch.rpm

  1. installing howdy

remove non-beta howdy (it doesn’t seem to work for Fedora 41+)

sudo dnf remove howdy

sudo dnf copr remove principis/howdy

install beta howdy
sudo dnf copr enable principis/howdy-beta

sudo dnf —refresh install howdy

  1. use sudo howdy config

device-path: use ls /dev/video* or v4l2-ctl —list-devices to see all device paths and test each of them using sudo howdy test (for me it was /dev/video2)

settings to change “freedy237” recommends:
(note that howdy-beta uses different words e.g. “abort if” rather than “ignore”, make sure you have howdy-beta! This stumped me for a while)

detection_notice = true
timeout_notice = true
no_confirmation = false
suppress_unknown = false
abort_if_ssh = true
abort_if_lid_closed = true
disabled = false
use_cnn = false
workaround = input
certainty = 4.0
timeout = 10
device_path = /dev/video0 # Replace with your detected device
warn_no_device = true
max_height = 480
frame_width = 640
frame_height = 480
dark_threshold = 80
recording_plugin = opencv
device_format = v4l2
force_mjpeg = true
exposure = -1
device_fps = 15
rotate = 1

  1. use sudo howdy add to add a face.

Name it anything you want, I go with names like “glasses” and “no-glasses” since…I wear glasses. Some random person on GitHub with a multi-monitor setup has it set to looking at different monitors. Whatever you want, doesn’t really matter.

You can use sudo howdy test to check if it works. A red outline means it’s an unrecognised face, a green outline with the name means it is a recognises face. no outline means not a face. Also check that whether it is a “dark frame” or not vs a “scan frame”. You might need to set the dark threshold higher using config. (this was an issue I faced as well, for me 80 works)

  1. howdy on login

sudo nano /etc/pam.d/gdm-password

add: auth sufficient pam_howdy.so

a similar thing can be done for gnome’s password pop ups (e.g. when installing an app) by going to “polkit-1”

  1. howdy on sudo (you might not want this!)

sudo nano /etc/pam.d/sudo

add: auth sufficient pam_howdy.so no_confirmation

  1. permissions

sudo chmod o+rw /dev/video*

sudo chmod -R o+rx /usr/share/howdy/dlib-data

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/howdy

sudo usermod -aG video gdm

sudo chmod 666 /dev/video*

sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib64/security/pam_howdy.so

  1. fix SELinux perms for login screen

create “howdy.te”
sudo nano howdy.te

add: (as seen on fedora copr repo)

module howdy 1.0;

require {
    type lib_t;
    type xdm_t;
    type v4l_device_t;
    type sysctl_vm_t;
    class chr_file map;
    class file { create getattr open read write };
    class dir add_name;
}

\#============= xdm_t ==============
allow xdm_t lib_t:dir add_name;
allow xdm_t lib_t:file { create write };
allow xdm_t sysctl_vm_t:file { getattr open read };
allow xdm_t v4l_device_t:chr_file map;

compile and insert it
checkmodule -M -m -o howdy.mod howdy.te

semodule_package -o howdy.pp -m howdy.mod

semodule -i howdy.pp

Installed howdy can't upgrade Fedora 42 · Issue #1004 · boltgolt/howdy

Hey! I was installed howdy(3.0 beta) on my Fedora 41,but I trying upgrading Fedora 42.howdy requires the python3dist(dlib).As a result,I can't update Fedora 42.Howdy and Fedora 42 incompatible?
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The FOSS 'Someday' Thread: Projects On Your Radar But Not Your System (Yet)

Fellow open-source enthusiasts,

We all have that mental backlog of promising projects — those distros, tools, and systems we keep tabs on but haven't yet deployed. Perhaps you're waiting for that mythical free weekend, lacking a spare/compatible device or just holding out until that one killer feature drops.

FWIW, my 'someday' list includes:

Operating Systems/Distros:
- Gentoo – Source-based meta-distribution driven by Portage and USE-flags for near-granular control; binary packages also available if you'd rather skip marathon compile sessions.
- Guix System – GNU's functional, declarative distro built with Guile Scheme.
- MocaccinoOS – Image-based, container-built distro that originated from Gentoo/Sabayon but now uses the Luet package manager and OTA-like updates.
- NixOS – Declarative Linux distribution using the Nix package language.
- Qubes OS – Security-focused OS that uses Xen virtualization to compartmentalize your digital life into isolated environments with a unified desktop.
- Spectrum – In-development security-oriented OS built on Nixpkgs using KVM-based microVMs for compartmentalization.

Desktop Environments/Window Managers:
- COSMIC - System76's comprehensive Wayland-native desktop environment written in Rust.
- Hyprland – Dynamic tiling Wayland compositor with scriptable layouts and impressive animations.

System Security/Firmware:
- coreboot – Open source alternative to proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware (though recent x86 still needs vendor blobs such as FSP/AGESA).
- Heads – coreboot + Linux payload providing TPM-measured, tamper-evident boot for select laptops.
- nix-mineral - NixOS module for convenient system hardening.
- TrenchBoot – Framework for dynamic root-of-trust (DRTM) launches via Intel TXT, AMD SKINIT, or SEV-ES.

Applications/Tools:
- Android Translation Layer - Run Android apps natively on Linux (still in early development).
- Emacs – The self-extensible Lisp machine masquerading as a text editor; someday I'll embrace the config rabbit hole.
- Olive – FOSS non-linear video editor in alpha.
- systemd-sysext – Overlay read-only /usr and /opt (or /etc via confext) with extra images; extensions auto-activate at boot or can be merged/unmerged/refreshed live with a single command. Handy for immutable distros, though it’s additive-only and not a full package manager.

What open-source projects are you admiring from afar? Time to compare notes!


GitHub - cynicsketch/nix-mineral: Conveniently and reasonably harden NixOS.

Conveniently and reasonably harden NixOS. Contribute to cynicsketch/nix-mineral development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
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pathief

I run Hyprland, I love it but I find it very hard to recommend to other people.

Hyprland is basically unusable out of the box (by design). You don't have wallpaper, notifications, system menu, task bar, lock screen, screen saver, idle lock, a launcher... You have to install, configure and style all these components by yourself.

Why do it, then?
- Tiling window, obviously. It takes a while to get used to it but I can no longer live without it
- Absolute control on how your entire system looks
- Feels lightweight, smooth and honestly very nice
- Documentation is great

Personally I wish they'd invest into a meta-package "Hyprland DE" where it'd install all the components with some sane defaults. It takes a lot of time to make your system look decent, especially if you have no sense of style like myself heh. I found it to be very worth it, but I haven't personally met anyone willing to do all this work.

This is where I feel COSMIC will shine in the future. The tiled experience with sane defaults.

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Mastodon doesn't like Addy aliases

It appears to be an unauthorized provider.

Addy aliases are temporary email addresses (aliases) that forward messages to their primary email account. This can help protect a user's real email address from spam, unwanted marketing, or potential data breaches.

redshift doesn't like this.

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The FOSS 'Someday' Thread: Projects On Your Radar But Not Your System (Yet)

Fellow open-source enthusiasts,

We all have that mental backlog of promising projects — those distros, tools, and systems we keep tabs on but haven't yet deployed. Perhaps you're waiting for that mythical free weekend, lacking a spare/compatible device or just holding out until that one killer feature drops.

FWIW, my 'someday' list includes:

Operating Systems/Distros:
- Gentoo – Source-based meta-distribution driven by Portage and USE-flags for near-granular control; binary packages also available if you'd rather skip marathon compile sessions.
- Guix System – GNU's functional, declarative distro built with Guile Scheme.
- MocaccinoOS – Image-based, container-built distro that originated from Gentoo/Sabayon but now uses the Luet package manager and OTA-like updates.
- NixOS – Declarative Linux distribution using the Nix package language.
- Qubes OS – Security-focused OS that uses Xen virtualization to compartmentalize your digital life into isolated environments with a unified desktop.
- Spectrum – In-development security-oriented OS built on Nixpkgs using KVM-based microVMs for compartmentalization.

Desktop Environments/Window Managers:
- COSMIC - System76's comprehensive Wayland-native desktop environment written in Rust.
- Hyprland – Dynamic tiling Wayland compositor with scriptable layouts and impressive animations.

System Security/Firmware:
- coreboot – Open source alternative to proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware (though recent x86 still needs vendor blobs such as FSP/AGESA).
- Heads – coreboot + Linux payload providing TPM-measured, tamper-evident boot for select laptops.
- nix-mineral - NixOS module for convenient system hardening.
- TrenchBoot – Framework for dynamic root-of-trust (DRTM) launches via Intel TXT, AMD SKINIT, or SEV-ES.

Applications/Tools:
- Android Translation Layer - Run Android apps natively on Linux (still in early development).
- Emacs – The self-extensible Lisp machine masquerading as a text editor; someday I'll embrace the config rabbit hole.
- Olive – FOSS non-linear video editor in alpha.
- systemd-sysext – Overlay read-only /usr and /opt (or /etc via confext) with extra images; extensions auto-activate at boot or can be merged/unmerged/refreshed live with a single command. Handy for immutable distros, though it’s additive-only and not a full package manager.

What open-source projects are you admiring from afar? Time to compare notes!


GitHub - cynicsketch/nix-mineral: Conveniently and reasonably harden NixOS.

Conveniently and reasonably harden NixOS. Contribute to cynicsketch/nix-mineral development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub

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[Help!] Audiojack on BD790i X3D not working

Board: Minisforum BD790i X3D
OS: EndeavourOS

I purchased a motherboard from minisforum, it's a mobile-on-desktop (MoD) board with the chip directly on the board,

I love it, my build runs amazing, super small and everything i ever wanted

However the one thing that doesn't work is audio

The device in my audio list is "Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio Controller Pro"

Pipewire seems to work and playing a video attempts to play audio on that, but the audio never makes it put of the jack.
Not even static just... nothing.
And yes, I am using the jacks on the back of thr motherboard and not on the case itself.

The manufacturer's response was "Install Windows and let us know if it works" which does irk me.

My hypothesis is that the pins are not mapped correctly, and that Windows does something to pre-configure pins and the linux kernel doesn't do that in the same way so I've been trying hdajackretask to try and fix it however no matter how I set it up I never get any audio at all.

I've asked on 3 different forums, no replies beyond another person saying try it on Windows.

The only thing I can find out line that might be something useful is downgrading the kernel to 6.7 worked for someone, but I don't think that's the best option for someone who wants basically 1-step-from-bleeding-edge because that's over a year old and I'm unsure of the ramifications of downgrading.

I would really really appreciate any help in actually trying to iron this out because right now I'm using Bluetooth earbuds and it's terrible.

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nyan

The 6.6.x kernel series is LTS and should be fine as a downgrade target (6.7.x not so much so). Unless there's something specific from the newer kernel versions that you need to drive that system, there shouldn't be any issues. I'm still on a 6.6-series kernel.

That being said, you could try troubleshooting this from the bottom up rather than the top down.

First, use lspci -v to verify that the device is being correctly identified and associated with a driver.

Next, invoke alsamixer and make sure everything is unmuted and your HD audio controller is the first sound device. The last time I had something like this happen to me, the issue turned out to be that the main soundcard slot was being hijacked by an HDMI audio output that I didn't want and wasn't using, and that was somehow muting the sound at the audio jack even when I tried to switch to it. A little mucking around in ALSA-level config files fixed everything.

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DeadMartyr

The driver that appears is "snd_hda_intel", the intel part is apparently just what they decided to name it, doesn't matter that the board is centered around an AMD Chip

I've disabled the other two devices I have
"Navi 31 HDMI/DP Audio" and "Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio Controller"

The former is for Audio through my GPU(?)'s HDMI which i didn't even know was a thing

The latter I thought might be the one I needed but apparently its for the hdmi of the board itself

I will try your advice with alsamixer and see if I can get anything out of it

Update: Alsamixer I flipped everything off of mute, some things were muted, I also disabled auto-mute but nothing changed.

Audio from youtube tries to play out to the right card but I have no idea what's wrong. I'm back to my hdajackretask idea and messing with that

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Refurbished Lenovos in general (and LinuxPusher.dk, in particular)
Hey all - what’s your experience with refurb Lenovo laptops for Linux from companies/shops that specialize in this as a service? I’m looking at LinuxPusher.dk but am also curious about other EU-based shops. It seems like a good, affordable way to get a Linux machine if you’re a novice, like me (some experience with Ubuntu and Kubuntu about 10 years ago).
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MalReynolds

Thinkpads have long had first tier linux support, in fact many models have shipped with linux for at least a decade (?), checking that is a really good way to be sure, but you're going to be fine with W, P, T, X lines, many enthusiasts make light work. They were deployed (might still be) to Red Hat kernel devs for a long time, which helps things along. Fingerprint drivers tend to be proprietary and hit or miss, but passwords work.

Honestly learning to install linux yourself, and configure it to your liking, is actually, imo, a really important path to learning and you're likely doing yourself a disservice avoiding it. It's part of the avoidance of vendor lock in you want. Installation is surprisingly easy now, start with something simple, Mint is often recommended these days, find a decent, recent, youtube and you'll probably be up and running in an hour. Find the apps you need for your workflow (which will take considerably longer). Get familiar with the terminal. Best thing you can do after that is burn it down and install a new distro, leaving any mistakes behind, keeping your list of apps. Arch if you want to get really deep into it, or Fedora / Bazzite are good choices and very stable. Best of luck.

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End of 10 – find someone local to help you install Linux
Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. If you bought your computer after 2010, there's most likely no reason to throw it out. By just installing an up-to-date Linux operating system you can keep using it for years to come.

Installing an operating system may sound difficult, but you don't have to do it alone. With any luck, there are people in your area ready to help! Find someone to help you.

End of 10

endof10.org
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Eyedust

Plus, the first step to learning Linux is figuring out how to install Linux.

If you can't do the easiest part of Linux you're going to have a bad time with the rest of Linux.

Edit: Well, wait up. Doing it for someone is one thing, teaching them enough to get by is another.

The way the post is stated, my brain went, "here's your PC with Linux on it, bye."

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golden_zealot

I might have agreed 10 years or so ago, but Linux has changed and this is entirely dependent upon the distribution and use case. Linux will hold onto the image of being a "difficult" OS for some amount of time of course, but I really don't believe that is necessarily the case any longer.

I installed Mint for my parents who are in their 70's ~4 months ago, showed them how to run updates, configured automatic backups, and I haven't heard a peep since except for the few times they told me they liked it a lot more than windows because they feel like it's a lot easier to find where stuff is. They can browse the internet as needed, work in Libre office as needed, get to all of their emails as needed, etc - they have actually 0 problems with it meeting their needs.

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I tried Debian, I tried Fedora for my Lenovo Legion 5 Pro RTX3060: Framerate issues, stuttering in browsers, stuttering in simple 3D programs

Hi all,

The quick and dirty questions is: Which distro should I try next?

I tried Debian X11 and Fedora with Wayland, but I did not have a great experience with them for my Lenovo Legion 5 Pro RTX3060. I installed proprietary drivers on both systems since people say that they're better than Nouveau, but the framerate stutters even in simple browser game.

I use some software to slice 3d models for printing, and that one stuttered too. I tried various fixes but none of them worked, and I'd really like to switch to Linux from Microsoft for my daily driver.

What distro can I use to have a better experience? Any advice is welcome, but please make it as specific as possible and if you can, address why that distro would be better than Debian 12 and Fedora 42.

Thanks in advance!

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jonion

Distros are a red herring. I used debian 12 (first gnome, then xfce) for more than a year with no problems, and the current version of Bazzite is also problem-free for me when it comes to nvidia prime (apart from a KDE-specific memory leak). Basically, this should be easily fixable without a fresh install.

I don't know what distro you're on atm, but set up prime-run and try running programs with that.
I also recommend going onto the uefi and disabling secure boot. You can get it to work with proprietary nvidia drivers, but it's a bit of a process and unless you really need it you might as well leave it off for now.

PRIME - ArchWiki

wiki.archlinux.org
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