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This is giving me warm vibes, so I'd love to find a theme that is like this. Does anyone know any? I'm using GNOME, but any DE that can pull this off is fine.
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I don't know of a specific theme in the neubrutalism/neobrutalism style (names that are generally used to describe this style or aesthetic), but it shouldn't be too hard to make.
For anyone unfamiliar it's generally defined by flat, blocky layouts, with thick borders, single color drop shadows and a few bold high contrast colors (think CGA and EGA monitors if you're that old). It often features “unpolished” elements like flat simple shapes. Bold fonts and monospace fonts are pretty common.
There are a few resources out there if anyone wants to play around with this style.
I have a pretty old laptop with an AMD dGPU and I am trying to do OpenCL compute on it to make sure that device switching is handled correctly in some stuff I am testing. All the instructions I see to install amdgpu drivers is to have --no-dkms as an install flag. Doing amdgpu-install --usecase=opencl --no-dkms --opencl=legacy results in ERROR: using '--no-dkms' with '--opencl=legacy' is not supported
Specs:
HP Pavilion 15-br158cl
CPU: i7-8550u (HD 620 iGPU and this has working compute)
If I use no dkms and no legacy, I get the current clinfo result. No detected gpu.
Problem is that popos has their own thing that will conflict with dkms and every single tutorial or guide for installing amdgpu drivers uses no-dkms as an install flag.
I haven't found any documentation on this except "don't do it lol". Which is why I'm confused. How?
Edit: finding more info and discovering that people didn't have bricked systems after using dkms which leads me to assume that later versions of popos do not have the issue that people were trying to avoid.
I'm on Bazzite Linux 42 and was having some trouble with my 2.4GHz wireless keyboard disconnecting, so I decided to replace it. The new one is having similar issues despite being a different brand (new: XVX, old: Royal Kludge), so I suspect the culprit may actually have been software all along. I have a 2.4GHz wireless mouse connected to the same system that is generally reliable, so I don't believe it's an issue of 2.4GHz interference. The keyboards work well when connected to my Mac, so I don't believe it's faulty hardware.
This keyboard has one feature that may be helpful in troubleshooting: it flashes an LED when it’s trying to reconnect. (The previous one had no indicator.) I can clearly see that, after the keyboard has been idle for a bit, it starts trying to reconnect again. I suspected a power management issue, but I believe I’ve disabled that. I started with a rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/:
(These rules disable power management for both keyboard and mouse, just in case.) I got the IDs with lsusb. I’m assuming the part of the ID before the colon is the vendor ID and the part after is the product ID.
That didn’t seem to help at all, so I tried disabling USB power management with rpm-ostree kargs --append-if-missing="usbcore.autosuspend=-1". That made the problem better, but now it just seems to take longer (a couple of minutes) for the keyboard to lose connectivity. Also, now when it loses connectivity, it seems even disconnecting and reconnecting the dongle doesn't always fix it.
Since posting this, I've also tried installing powertop and checking the tunables. According to lsof -t, the dongle is connected directly to the root hub (under only xHCI host controller). I noticed in powertop that those controllers were still under power management, so I disabled them. That didn't seem to help. The keyboard still lost connection.
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File transfer progress bars generally aren't worth shit, I have no idea how this is still a problem. It dates back to the early 90's, and it's still not done properly. Almost everything to do with file transfer report it to be finished before it actually is, because it doesn't consider write back cache. So it's only the reading part that is finished, not the writing part. Meaning the transfer isn't actually finished. Never never never trust it is my motto. Personally I'd rather not have the dysfunctional progress bar, if I could have an actually accurate completion notification.
PS: I just switched back to KDE/Plasma after many years. Overall I'm pretty pleased, but also a bit puzzled about a lot of the simplifications. like inability to disable caps lock, and the inability to change double click speed for the mouse. So now I need a startup command for the caps lock, and I needed to edit an ini file for the mouse for such simple things, that used to be accessible through settings??? But they finally added the ability to use numpad for hotkeys, which I found out, and was what made me switch back to KDE. Now I only miss the ability to use the scroll wheel on hotkeys too. To finally have similar functionality like I had 10-15 years ago with Compiz. 😜
i bet MANY people are left with halfway stuff written on their usbs after being in a rush and removing it insecurely on linux after the transfer is “done”.
AFAIK it can actually destroy the USB if it's removed while being written.
You can use sync in terminal. But it's tricky because it sometimes returns even when the writing isn't finished. My method is to use sync multiple time, if it returns immediately 2 times it should be clear, Only then do i dismount the stick, because I don't like to dismount a device with pending operations. But when the dismount says the stick is ready to be removed, you should be clear.
Both don't ship with their own Wayland compositor, but there are enough to choose from.
Xfce comes with a wayland session using labwc out of the box, but was also tested with Wayfire. The devs state you shouldn't hold your breath waiting for the native window manager xfwm to be ported into a Wayland compositor, since they don't know if/when it will be done. Almost all other Xfce components support Wayland now, while retaining X11 compatibility.
LXQt's newest stable release has full Wayland support, with 7 different Wayland compositors to choose from within a GUI settings menu: Labwc, KWin, Wayfire, Hyprland, Sway, River and Niri
KDE Neon and kubuntu have Wayland as default. Just was trying them because I wanted Plasma 6. Took a bit of tweaking for a few things but I have all the things I need running fine with Wayland.
If you've been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.
Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they're excited about the idea. I've really enjoyed reading through them 😀
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Xorg global shortcuts will work for anything using Xwayland, but not in anything thats wayland native
For example, in a game (using wine, which uses Xorg by default currently) your global shortcut will work. But in a wayland native window like Firefox, it will not if its the active window
I hear this is a rite of passage. I made it 4 weeks before I rekt all my shit (it was nvidia related). Where do I claim my sticker?
In all seriousness, now that I understand better these commands that I've been haphazardly throwing around, Id like to do a clean install. God knows what else Ive done to it. Can i just reinstall to my root partition and have my home partition work as expected?
If you don't mess with the partitions during the install and don't format, and make the same username, you should be back to normal after a reinstall. Take a backup offline, of course.
I'm formally stepping down as a nouveau kernel maintainer.
I want to stress out this is only for the kernel side of things and has and will not have any impact on my involvement in mesa.
Besides Marcan resignation, not much on other recent turmoils, or, more importantly in my view, the use of "Thin blue line" in the language of the anti-rust dev
There's no way that isn't going to be abused. Some marketing or tracking agency will setup a fediverse server and just collect all data like this for free. Or worse, take advantage of a friendica instance to bombard it with requests for data collection purposes.
Like, of course; tho any sort of "accounting" should IMO start from the base that the intent of this entire thing is to publicly share public information.
Arch is aimed at people who know their shit so they can build their own distro based on how they imagine their distro to be. It is not a good distro for beginners and non power users, no matter how often you try to make your own repository, and how many GUI installers you make for it. There's a good reason why there is no GUI installer in arch (aside from being able to load it into ram). That being that to use Arch, you need to have a basic understanding of the terminal. It is in no way hard to boot arch and type in archinstall. However, if you don't even know how to do that, your experience in whatever distro, no matter how arch based it is or not, will only last until you have a dependency error or some utter and total Arch bullshit® happens on your system and you have to run to the forums because you don't understand how a wiki works.
You want a bleeding edge distro? Use goddamn Opensuse Tumbleweed for all I care, it is on par with arch, and it has none of the arch stuff.
You have this one package that is only available on arch repos? Use goddamn flatpak and stop crying about flatpak being bloated, you probably don't even know what bloat means if you can't set up arch. And no, it dosent run worse. Those 0,0001 seconds don't matter.
You really want arch so you can be cool? Read the goddamn 50 page install guide and set it up, then we'll talk about those arch forks.
(Also, most arch forks that don't use arch repos break the aur, so you don't even have the one thing you want from arch)
Any windows power user or dev on a mac can follow a wiki, read a bit and learn.
Good for beginners? I didn't describe a beginner right here. Anybody with experience in computing will find arch straightforward and satisfying. Heck, a CS student would probably go through a first install process faster than I do after 5 years.
What are the concept involved? Partitioning, networking, booting... These are all familiar fields to tons of very normal computer users.
Arch can be a good first distro to anyone who knows what a computer is doing (or is willing to learn)
The first Linux I used wasn't part of any distro. A few years later I compiled Slackware to run bind and Sendmail.
Last year I tried Arch in a VM. I got to where it expected me to know what partitions to create for root and swap and noped out. It's not 1996. I don't have time for those details any more. No one should. Sane defaults have been in other distros for decades.
On the contrary, I'd still argue it's a good distro for beginners, but not for newbies. people who are tech-sawy and not hesitant to learn new things.
I jumped straight into EndeavorOS when I switched to Linux, since arch was praised as the distro for developers, for reasons.
Sure, I had some issues to fight with, but it taught me about all the components (and their alternatives) that are involved in a distro.
So, once you have a problem and ask for help, the first questions are sorts of "what DE/WM do you use?... is it X11 or wayland? are you using alsa or pipewire?".
Windows refugees (like me) take so many things for granted, that I think this kind of approach really helps in understanding how things work under the hood. And the Arch-wiki is just a godsend for thst matter. And let's be real, you rarely look into Arch-wiki for distros other than Arch itself, since they mostly work OOTB.
The Arch-wiki was my main reason for switching to arch. When I used an ubuntu based distro I felt like I had to rely on forum posts to figure out anything whereas with arch everything is documented incredibly well
Any recommendations for a linux distro that i can set up and be reasonably sure my non techy SO won't break accidentally? The set up doesn't have to be easy it just has to not break once I leave her alone with it. My first thought was popOS.
My plan is to have 2 profiles and not give her access to sudo. I just don't want to have to go into it unless she needs a new program.
Fedora is a bit too eager to deliver new updates IMO, especially KDE. As much as I love KDE, their .0 releases have had serious bugs several times in a row now. It's always better to wait for .1 patch with Plasma. It may be hard for the user to break Kinoite, but it won't save them from bugs.
Fedora's mission have always been to push new stuff when it's "mostly ready" at the cost of inconveniencing of some users, so I wouldn't recommend it for non-tech-savvy people.
I know people say that it's 100% stable for them (as they do for Arch, Tumbleweed, Debian Sid, etc) but that's survirorship bias. As any bleeding edge distro, Fedora has its periods of stability that are broken by tumultuous transitions to the new and shiny tech (like it was with Pipewire, Wayland default, major DE upgrades, etc). During these times some people's setup will break and you don't know ahead of time if it will be yours.
1)DroidCam – Works on both Android and iPhone, connects via USB, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth. 2)EpocCam – Compatible with iOS and Android, supports wireless connection and works with many video chat apps. 3)iVCam – Supports Windows and lets you connect via Wi-Fi or USB, works with Android and iPhone. 4)Iriun Webcam – Cross-platform app supporting Windows, Mac, and Linux, connects over Wi-Fi. 5)Reincubate Camo – Offers high-quality video and lots of settings, works with iPhone and Mac/Windows.
Why do many people dislike Linux? Freedom and openness: Open source, No vendor lock-in, Many distributions Security: By default, more secure than Windows. Fewer viruses. Regular security updates.
And now briefly.
Control & Flexibility,Free, Developer Friendly, Productivity, Education & Understanding, Support & Community, Support & Community, Package Managers, Server & Cloud Friendly
Oh yeah, I forgot about our gamers! They will whine that you can't play games on Linux. It's very funny because for a long time there has been a program called lux-wine that allows you to open 95% of .exe programs and even more so you can choose any version of Windows without downloading anything, there is like proton and so on.
I am ready to talk to anyone about this topic, but not for the purpose of humiliation or insult.
What's Linux? Why are you making a strawman to found yoer disagreement, there is no inherent value to what you believe to be obvious.
"Linux the kernel" is a wonder of the software world. One free and open source kernel codebase to rule them all, a culture, a license that enshrines that culture. The kernel is great as it is.
"Linux the kernel packaged with software used on the desktop" is flaming garbage. That's not to say it's worse, modern windows is like using the lava from Chernobyl to keep warm on a brisk evening. MacOS is relatively acceptable but Apple isn't. Open source BSD based OSes are cumbersome on the edges of general computing. Android is all but Google OS at this point. Ultimately no practical, actually useful alternatives to linux on the desktop actually exist. This does NOT mean we have to convince ourselves it is actually good.
"Linux the kernel and a server OS package" is great, can't go wrong with this. Love it, genuinely.
"Linux for embedded devices" is a fucking travesty. Still happens.
Various opinion roundup:
nix is the only case of anyone ever truly imagining what they could do with a Linux system
"open source" does not provide value, the implications do, when true
Linux is as secure as your dedication to never using software from outside the package manager is. Oh you installed discord? steam? compiled something and fetched dependencies? Those aren't the package manager, oops! (Discord gladly downloads its own updates whether you think you've stopped that or not)
Fewer viruses you've heard of
Regular security updates is a low effort troll given the corporate OSes are paid to do so
My understanding is previously the kernel would crash on systems with more RAM than the address space, so there's now a patch to ignore the anything above the max address supported (e.g. 32bit without PAE, 36bit with PAE). More RAM was never supported, so I think the author of the article has misunderstood or oversimplified what's been done.
I have installed LMDE on my mothers Notebook and I like the feature for example mass rename and home folder encryption? What are those tools and how can I get them on Arch? Does someone has the source code?
So, I am one of those old school types who mains with Firefox and Noscript. And also a filthy casual that just goes on lemmy.world. But half the images are broken because I'm expected to allow scripts on like 30+ sites to see most of the posts. I'm literally expected to allow /all/ the scripts from a domain just so I can see a dang picture behind the thumbnail. That's the entirety of the scripting needed. That seems ridiculous. Is there, I don't know, a server/way that makes it so I don't have to blanket allow all these scripts? To put it in meme form (not sure I'm doing it right, never seen the show): "It's an image of a banana Michael, what should it take, one Raspberry Pi running Docker?"
I use the vger.app/ app / front end on mobile AND desktop and as far as I can tell it tunnels the images through their servers, so this is as minimal as you can get in regards to extra requests.
doesn't require allowing javascript of a million other servers?
half the images are broken because I’m expected to allow scripts on like 30+ sites to see most of the posts
software like noscript is not exactly beginner friendly. you're expected to understand the impact of your blocking and what you are blocking. the only domain you need to allow JS from on lemmy.world is lemmy.world. standard lemmy-ui does not load any js or css from third party sources, only the domain where lemmy-ui is served. your noscript configuration is blocking the actual images, not javascript that would be required to load images.
edit:
to expand on this, even in tor browser in safest mode, lemmy.world works totally fine when all you do is allow JS from lemmy.world on lemmy.world:
So, I agree with everything the other responders are saying. Whitelist the primary domain (and maybe a cdn domain that is hopefully nicely labeled) and a decent site should play decently. But it is also that I (generally) know when to pick my battles--or I at least keep my pointless battles to a small scope and fairly sporatic.
I'm asking for a solution to this from the lemmy community, not reddit or a big corposite. They would want a single domain or a few domains for opposite reasons than making the user happy: they would want to control the user experience and ensh**tify via dark patterns. I do not think we should need to blanket allow scripts from dozens of sites just to see images, that's the scope of this mini-battle I do not plan to fight beyond this post. I mention ensh**tification because I just happened to see this thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/05/26/… on this old.lemmy.world/?sort=Hot&list… (thanks, above suggester for reminding me of old.lemmy).
So open technology like the web is replete with disenshi**ifying add-ons. Ad blockers are running in more than half of all web browsers in the world. It's the most successful consumer boycott in human history, but there are zero ad blockers running in apps, because you have to reverse engineer the app first, and that's illegal under use of Bill C-11 and under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and Article 6, the copyright directive.
[Note, I censored those letters. I've been told you can swear on the internet, though.] One of my "old man yells at cloud" moments of late is when I have to deal with a very small company forcing an app down my throat when a website will do and the using of that company/service (and thus app) is being forced upon me by outside forces. If it's a small enough company, I will go through too many emails back and forth with their "CTO" telling them why it's a problem and why they should just have an app (a site that, yes, almost certainly would need javascript). Because that's the small act of protest some of us should be doing in my mind. That way the next time someone thinks, hmm, we could just do an app and only offer it, they'll then think, naw, there's going to be that one annoying customer, not worth it. Same with this issue, for me at least. I don't see why we /have/ to run javascript on secondary sites just to have a thumbnail and a resulting image. And I'm posing this, again, on lemmy not reddit. So, consider this my allowing myself a brief moment to yell at a cloud.
[EDIT: Escaped my asterisks. I worried there would be automatic markdown, but I didn't see the Preview button.]
Mentioned elsewhere, and a decent workaround. Doesn't do well with thumbnails, unfortunately.
[edit: someone below suggested removing the thumbnail sampling (I'll probably try via uBlock Origins). Honestly with that and a bit of zoom, might work fine. Will be testing it.]
I am going to buy a new graphics card and can't choose between Nvidia and AMD. I know that Nvidia has bad reputation in Linux community but how really it works? And I heard recently their drivers got better. What can you recommend?
P. S. I don't want any proprietary drivers (so I am talking about Nouveau or any other FOSS Nvidia driver if it exists)
Just not true anymore. Must have been years ago that you used Nvidia on Linux. As someone who has been using Nvidia GPUs under Linux (Manjaro KDE mostly), recently also under Wayland (since plasma 6), I can attest that the experience is very good, no "tons of small issues".
Still though, since OP wants no proprietary drivers, he has to go for AMD, since nouveau is dog shit.
So a bit under 3 years ago, I made my infamous Wayland rant post that is likely the most read post on this blog by miles. I should really actually write about music again one of these days, but that's a topic for another time. The language was perhaps a bit inflammatory, but I felt the criticisms I made at the time were fair. It was primarily born out some frustrations I had with the entire ecosystem, and it was not like I was the only sole voice. There are other people out there you can find that encountered their own unique Wayland problems and wrote about it.
With that post, I probably cast myself as some anti-Wayland guy which is my own doing, but I promise you that is not the case. You can check my mpv commits, and it's businesses as usual. Lots of Wayland fixes, features, and all that good stuff. Quite some time has passed since then, and it is really overdue look at the situation again with all the new developments in mind. To be frank, my original post is very outdated and it is not fair to leave it up in its current state without acknowledging the work that has been done. So in comparison to 3 years ago, I have a much more positive outlook now.
As this project appears to be fairly unknown in the fediverse still, I'd like to use this opportunity to advertise Flohmarkt. This Fediverse equivalent of Facebook Marketplace already has some instances up and running - see here: codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmar…
It's not that bad. It's just German for flea market. And English speakers shouldn't have an issue with at least "Markt". Not far from a cognate.
Definitely better names but I think the bigger hurdle is getting the critical mass to get something like marketplace to work in the fediverse even with the perfect name.
I really wish Wayland was more fleshed out & stable before all of this happened. Color management isn’t even yet finalized & putting accurate colors on the screen is like the most important part.
Arcan is a cool idea but you mostly hear about it from people complaining that Wayland is not ready. Of course, Wayland is already used by more than half of Linux users and Arcan does not really exist yet.
Just looking at this post as an example, on lemmy.world show it has 29 comments, but when i open it, there are now only 3 or 4. I replied to one comment, the user i replied to got banned, and the whole comment tree is gone from lemmy.world. Other instances still show all comments, including those from the banned user and my reply. I think it’s very confusing when a single post appears with different comments on different instances, and have no idea how this works.
Edit: why am i forced to upload a photo for a new post?
The developer behind Pixelfed, Loops, and Sup, open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, is now raising funds on Kickstarter to fuel the apps’ further development.
The trio is part of the growing open social web, also known as the fediverse, powered by the same ActivityPub protocol used by X alternative Mastodon. The latter saw increased signups and use after the company formerly known as Twitter sold to Elon Musk in October 2022 and during the X exodus that followed the U.S. presidential election.
In the months and years following that sale, open source and decentralized apps like Mastodon and Bluesky (which uses the newer AT Protocol), have continued to grow their user bases, as people sought alternatives to centralized social media apps controlled by billionaires like Musk and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg.
I hate when people say that they'll only move when it has 100% support
People who say 'cant wait for steamOS to come out so that I can move to it' is also very similar
They never will try Linux, even if what they want comes true
They won't do it, whether they just fear change or think it'll break stuff or they can't bother
And I'm not going to lie, I don't hate them or debate with them for it, I just hate the bold lies they tell just to get with the crowd
"Fuck you Microsoft, I'm moving to Linux" says the individual that would never move if they haven't already
Frankly, I probably wouldn't move either if Windows didn't permanently break my ethernet and WiFi drivers, and reinstalling windows wasn't harder than installing Linux, fucking hell
Either way, these people kick up hype for a Linux that will be so much bigger but they never arrive
Maybe they will, due in fucking 2028 or something when they invent a really easy way to use built in Linux tools to move your files from NTFS to Linux and then when you launch steam you have a perfect library of Linux compatible games that are as good or better than windows
And don't lie, even now with 80% compatibility it feels more like 60%, whether because it depends on the system one runs or because the performance drops just make it not worth it...
At least don't lie that you'll move to Linux at a goal post that you'll just move whenever you get close, maybe say that you'll move to Linux when you finally get a new pc with a new disk or something?
It's a little strange that you think "I want feature parity with what's working for me (from my perspective)" is:
1) A lie. 2) Unreasonable to ask for.
The healthy responses would be "Well, I hope either support grows or your needs change, because of some philosophical reasons you might not care about... yet" or, if they're open to it "Oh, it can do this if you put a little work in, let me help you."
The unhealthy response is to accuse people of moving goalposts as if someone's tool of choice is a political debate. It can be, obviously, given FOSS philosophies, but honestly this kind of screed just drives people away.
This week was all about the quality of life features! As we close in on Plasma 6.2 (the soft feature freeze is in four days, eek!), some great work that’s been in progress for a long time got…
So they were trying to patch systems that use GRUB for Windows-only installs? What a load of BS. Why would anybody install GRUB to boot only Windows with that? Or am I overlooking something?
Furthermore, if GRUB has a security issue, they should've contributed a patch at the source instead of patching it themselves somehow. I'm a bit stunned at the audacity of touching unmounted filesystems in an OS patch. Good thing Windows still doesn't include EXT4 and BTRFS drivers because they might start messing with unencrypted Linux system drives at this rate
@Nicht BurningTurtle The Pentium II is 32-bit and possesses an MMU, so provided you have adequate memory, pretty much any 32-bit distro such as puppy linux or antix should work fine. Newer Ubuntu which is now 64-bit only will not.
I've only ever used desktop Linux and don't have server admin experience (unless you count hosting Minecraft servers on my personal machine lol). Currently using Artix and Void for my desktop computers as I've grown fond of runit.
I'm going to get a VPS for some personal projects and am at the point of deciding what distro I want to use. While I imagine that systemd is generally the best for servers due to the far more widespread support (therefore it's better for the stability needs of a server), I have a somewhat high threat model compared to most people so I was wondering if maybe I should use something like runit instead which is much smaller and less vulnerable. Security needs are also the reason why I'm leaning away from using something like Debian, because how outdated the packages are would likely leave me open to vulnerabilities. Correct me if I'm misunderstanding any of that though.
Other than that I'm not sure what considerations there are to make for my server distro. Maybe a more mainstream distro would be more likely to have the software in its repos that I need to host my various projects. On the other hand, I don't have any experience with, say, Fedora, and it'd probably be a lot easier for me to stick to something I know.
In terms of what I want to do with the VPS, it'll be more general-purpose and hosting a few different projects. Currently thinking of hosting a Matrix instance, a Mastodon instance, a NextCloud instance, an SMTP server, and a light website, but I'm sure I'll want to stick more miscellaneous stuff on there too.
So what distro do you use for your server hosting? What things should I consider when picking a distro?
Always, always, always: Debian. It's not even a debate. Ubuntu is a mess for using as a server with their snaps bullshit. Leave that trash on the desktop, it's a mess on a server.
That's a frightening statement. I don't work in secret-squirrel shit these days, but I do private-squirrel stuff, and snaps are just everything our security guys wake up at night to, screaming. Back when I ran security for a company, the entire idea would have been an insta-fuckno . Please, carefully reconsider the choices that put you in a position where snaps are the best answer.
@communism Only difference between a "server" distro and a "desktop" distro are what packages are included, and given that most all distros put all the packages on their repositories you can start with any and tailor to your needs.
Serious question for you all. I too wish to see Linux use increase. I also want to see corporate social media die. I am thinking of requiring my students to create Lemmy accounts for a Lemmy group i create.
Do you think this might move folks away from essy corporate os and social media? How do You see it giving wrong?
I like it! Even if the majority of em completely abandon the accounts afterwards, it’ll increase the visibility of a fledgeling platform AND it’ll show a few folks that alternative social media platforms exist.
I mean, shit, if lemmy can suit my needs there’s no reason it shouldn’t work for at least some of em.
I remember a teacher requiring us to use Matrix for a coding class. We still mostly used Discord, and after that class ended, we never used it again.
You and I have a reason we use Lemmy: we don't want to use Reddit and want the Fediverse to grow. Simply forcing your students to make Lemmy accounts won't do anything, in fact it might make them hate it (Oke boomer).
I'm trying to get a job in IT that will (hopefully) pay more than a usual 9 to 5. I'm been daily driving Linux exclusively for about 2 1/2 years now and I'm trying to improve my skills to the point that I could be considered a so-called "power user." My question is this: will this increase my hiring chances significantly or marginally?
For what its worth, I know that while a lot of the hardcore Linux community seems to absolutely despise Ubuntu/Canonical because of snaps and whatnot, I don't think there is anything actually wrong with using Ubuntu if that is what works for you. Use the best tool for the job!
I had an Acer laptop once. I had Ubuntu on it. I had problems with random crashing after a few minutes, I ran memtest, it took a few hours for a full test and came back with a whole slew of faults. I sent it to Acer under warranty and they told me that Linux was the problem and I should leave windows on it.
@gpstarman I only use Asus and Gigabyte boards, both have the ability to flash the BIOS using the maintenance engine on the board without even having a CPU or memory installed, let alone an OS booted.
Well I was going to try Hyprland this weekend, but I think instead I will very much not do that.
I hope someone forks it from a good commit just before they replaced wlroots. I don’t know the specifics of compositor code at all, but I bet It’s going to cost them quite a bit of velocity to maintain their replacement.
Either self-hosted or cloud, I assume many of you keep a server around for personal things. And I'm curious about the cool stuff you've got running on your personal servers.
What services do you host? Any unique stuff? Do you interact with it through ssh, termux, web server?
Two old HP thin client PCs configured as 4TB SFTP file servers using vsftpd on Debian. Each one uses software RAID 1 with both an NVMe and SATA SSD internally, and are in two separate locations with a cron job which syncs one to the other every 24 hours.
People who actually know what they are doing will probably find this silly, but I had fun and learned a lot setting it up.
I am using lftp and mirror. One server functions as the "main" server, which mirrors the backup server to itself once per day at a specific time (they both run 24/7 so I set it to run very early in the morning when it is unlikely to be accessed).
In my crontab I have:
# # * * * /usr/bin/lftp -e "mirror -eRv [folder path on main server] [folder path on backup server]; quit;" sftp://[user]@[address of backup server]:[port number]
This isn't a gloat post. In fact, I was completely oblivious to this massive outage until I tried to check my bank balance and it wouldn't log in.
Apparently Visa Paywave, banks, some TV networks, EFTPOS, etc. have gone down. Flights have had to be cancelled as some airlines systems have also gone down. Gas stations and public transport systems inoperable. As well as numerous Windows systems and Microsoft services affected. (At least according to one of my local MSMs.)
Seems insane to me that one company's messed up update could cause so much global disruption and so many systems gone down :/ This is exactly why centralisation of services and large corporations gobbling up smaller companies and becoming behemoth services is so dangerous.
Latest Crowdstrike Update Issue: The issue seems widespread, affecting machines running various CrowdStrike sensor versions. CrowdStrike has acknowledged the problem and is currently investigating the cause.
I isn't even a Linux vs Windows thing but a competent at your job vs don't know what the fuck you are doing thing. Critical systems are immutable and isolated or as close as reasonably possible. They don't do live updates of third party software and certainly not software that is running privileged and can crash the operating system.
I couldn't face working in corporate IT with this sort of bullshit going on.
A while back there was some debate about the Linux kernel dropping support for some very old GPUs. (I can't remember the exact models, but they were roughly from the late 90's)
It spurred a lot of discussion on how many years of hardware support is reasonable to expect.
I would like to hear y'alls views on this. What do you think is reasonable?
The fact that some people were mad that their 25 year old GPU wouldn't be officially supported by the latest Linux kernel seemed pretty silly to me. At that point, the machine is a vintage piece of tech history. Valuable in its own right, and very cool to keep alive, but I don't think it's unreasonable for the devs to drop it after two and a half decades.
I think for me, a 10 year minimum seems reasonable.
And obviously, much of this work is for little to no pay, so love and gratitude to all the devs that help keep this incredible community and ecosystem alive!
I undertook a sizeable upgrade today, bringing a skylake era build into the 2020s with a 13th gen. All core components- memory, motherboard, GPU, everything must go... except the drives. We were nervous, my friend really felt we should reinstall. There was debate, and drama. Considerations and exceptions. No, I couldn't let my OS go. I have spent years tweaking and tuning, molding my ideal computing environment. We pushed forward.
Well I'm pleased to say it was mostly uneventful. The ethernet adapter was renamed causing misconfigured dhcp, but otherwise it booted right up like nothing happened. Sorry, linux is boring now.
I have tried Linux as a DD on and off for years but about a year ago I decided to commit to it no matter the cost. First with Mint, then Ubuntu and a few others sprinkled in briefly. Both are "mainstream" "beginner friendly" distros, right? I don't want anything too advanced, right?
Well, ubuntu recently updated and it broke my second monitor (Ubuntu detected it but the monitor had "no signal"). After trying to fix it for a week, I decided to wipe it and reinstall. No luck. I tried a few other distros that had the same issue and I started to wonder if it was a hardware issue but I tried a Windows PC and the monitor worked no problem.
Finally, just to see what would happen I tried a distro very very different than what I'm used to: Fedora (Kinoite). And not only did everything "just work" flawlessly, but it's so much faster and more polished than I ever knew Linux to be!
Credit where it's due, a lot of the polish is due to KDE plasma. I'd never strayed from Gnome because I'm not an expert and people recommend GNOME to Linux newbies because it's "simple" and "customizable" but WOW is KDE SO MUCH SIMPLER AND STILL CUSTOMIZEABLE. Gnome is only "simple" in that it doesn't allow you to do much via the GUI. With Fedora Kinode I think I needed to use the terminal maybe once during setup? With other distros I was constantly needed to use the terminal (yes its helped me learn Linux but that curve is STEEP).
The atomic updates are fantastic too. I have not crashed once in the two weeks of setup whereas before I would have a crash maybe 1-2 times per week.
I am FULLY prepared for the responses demanding to know what I did to make it crash and telling me how I was using it wrong blah blah blah but let me tell you, if you are experienced with Windows but want to learn Linux and getting frustrated by all the "beginner" distros that get recommended, do yourself a favor and try Fedora Kinoite!
edit: i am DYING at the number of "you're using it wrong" comments here. never change people.
On Monday, the Politico website published an analysis under the headline “Why has Elon Musk disappeared from the spotlight?” It found a sharp drop in the number of times that Trump posted about Musk on his Truth Social platform, from an average of four times a week in February and March to zero since the start of April.
In addition, White House officials no longer fill their social media feeds with Musk-related content. Reporters seldom ask about him at the White House press briefing. Members of Congress are giving his name a wide berth.
Musk seems to be taking the hint. This week, the Tesla chief executive confirmed that he had reduced his role as the unofficial head of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) to just two days a week, and will also cut his political spending substantially – the latest public signal that he is shifting his attention back to his business empire amid growing investor concerns.
The president’s billionaire backer was ever-present at the start of Trump’s term but is now pulling back from politics – and Republicans want to keep it that way
I was walking home yesterday and I just happened to come across an HP LaserJet p2035n sitting by the dumpster, waiting to be taken away. I've never owned a printer, but this thing looked like it came from an era when such devices were made to be reliable instead of forcing DRM-locked cartridges, so I picked it up and took it with me. After getting situated I started some online research and I figure this brand of printers was manufactured from about 2008-2012, and my printer has a 2012 date.
As it turns out, this tossed printer works perfectly fine. I plugged it into power and ran a test sheet, and it prints almost perfectly. I plugged it via USB-B into my PC running Fedora 41 and immediately it gets picked up and added as usable printer. I then plugged the printer into its Ethernet port and fortunately this thing is new enough to have Bonjour (i.e. mdns) services so once again my PC just immediately finds it and can print. Awesome!
My laptop is a MacBook. While it did detect the printer over the network, it couldn't add the printer because it couldn't find a driver to operate it. I honestly don't understand why that's a problem since I assume macOS also uses CUPS just like Linux. But at any rate, I found the solution:
With CUPS on Linux I can share the printer. After configuring firewall-cmd to allow the ipp service now my iPhone and my MacBook can also print to the shared printer using the generic PostScript driver. So, in conclusion, Linux helped me 1) use this printer with no additional effort of installing drivers, 2) share this printer to devices which were not plug-and-play ready, and 3) print pics of Goku and Vegeta. As always, I love Linux.
Apple bought and sponsored CUPS, essentially, until they no longer did. That story is very briefly touched on here phoronix.com/news/Apple-No-Mor…
I don't know the full history of mdns and zero config networking, but Bonjour is indeed Apple's implementation of it. In my printer's web config page it specifically lets me enable/disable Bonjour, so I assume they are using Apple's implementation. On Linux we have Avahi as a competing piece of software to provide the same service.
Back in 2007 Apple effectively acquired the open-source CUPS project and in 2017 then decided to no longer develop CUPS under the GPL but instead the Apache 2.0 license for this widely-used Unix/macOS/Linux print server
I've had no joy getting my Brother printer to share over the network with our macs... It seems like the mac sees it for a moment and then it vanishes. The closest Ive come is having the printer wake up when the Mac sent a job, but it didn't print anything. Prints fine from Linux USB.
@GnuLinuxDude I mostly use HP printers because with Linux they are always plug-in-play and because although they will provide a message telling me my ink is cheap third party ink, they will none the less accept and print with it.
The model I previously used, HP OfficeJet 5258 All-in-One Printer, the printer always worked well but the scanners kept breaking. I went through four of these before I tried an Epson. The Epson initially worked with 3rd party ink then after a software update didn't so at that point I trashed it and bought another HP, this time a HP OfficeJet 8015e Wireless Color All-in-One Printer which is much more robustly constructed. In fact while taking it out of the box, I accidentally dropped it from chest level and all it did was bounce, no pieces broke off, nothing. So far it has been reliable both for scanning and printing although the scanner is easier to jam but at least it doesn't break in the process of my unjamming it.
You can download Gutenprint on MacOS. An old friend was in such case, no driver for its rather old printer. I downloaded and installed the latest Gutenprint driver package, and it worked like a charm.
More good news - if you ever use up the current toner cartridge, that printer will take generic ones that cost $20 or less. Assuming you even print enough to need one.
Shuttle Nano AI Mini PC G1 is a Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered computer
After Qualcomm introduced its Snapdragon X processor family last year, nearly every major PC maker introduced one or more laptops that would use a Snapdragon X series processor. But it’s been harder to find desktop computers using the chips. Lenovo and GEEKOM have both introduced models, but for the most part they still seem to be listed as “coming soon” rather than available for […]
GNU Taler begins operating in Switzerland, distributed by the Taler Operations AG. Gnu Taler aims to be a “digital wallet” and has been used by the swiss national bank as well as the european national bank as a example for how a digital currency handed out by the state could work. It aims to be as privacy preserving as cash for the buyer while not allowing the seller to evade taxes.
Currently the Taler is brought out by a special organisation, the “Taler Operations AG”, and not the national bank, although both the national bank as well as the Taler Team have shown interest in a official digial currency by the national bank based on the Taler. But we need to relativate as the national council has stated that the introduction of a digital currency would probably take relatively major legislative changes and therefore take a bit of time.
I don't necessarily have to wait, it's more a generic advice.
Can you please expand though, as I'm curious, why you won't wait and you plan to use it?
Can you also comment on my follow up question, namely what are the limitations at the moment, both technically and legally? Basically does not living in Switzerland make a difference anyway for users?
I watched technical talks on GNU Taler ages ago so this might be out of date but the most difficult part to me would be the banks being interested in supplying the service necessary. You get money to your browser wallet by transferring it from your bank account.
I don't live in Switzerland and can't imagine banks or government supporting anything but their own version that gives them control.
Independent One-Click Payments!GNU Taler is an online payment system that uses Chaum's blind signatures to provide robust unbreakable privacy for customers a...
Thanks again, if the wallet is "filled" by a bank transfer then I imagine anything able to do so, e.g. my random European bank that allow IBAN transfer, would suffice as long as my wallet itself has an IBAN or that the service provider hosting that wallet has one and then "store" the then "money" for it and allow me to spend it with other GNU Taler wallets.
Anyway I'll explore through a recent technical talk indeed, good suggestion.q
It was mostly a playful comment on my part (indicated by the emoji) - I've waited this long so they might as well do it properly.
I would like to buy products/services online privately, "using cash" as it were. I also value software freedom and the Taler client is GPL. The API is LGPL but hopefully I can avoid using proprietary software for transactions.
I looked into setting up a method of donations on itch.io when I was focused on that hobby and the options of PayPal or Stripe just felt icky. I don't want to use them, or encourage others to do so.
I looked at this a looong time ago, but the basic idea is that the tokens (equivalent to cash coins/banknotes) are generated on the end user's device, through some public-key cryptographic back-and-forth protocol. The issuer (bank/central bank/payment provider) does not see these tokens (they're only on the end users device), but can verify that they're legit (i.e. issued by them) somehow.
You can take one of these tokens to them, and deposit it in an account. They won't know who it's from but they know it was legitimately issued by them. Depositing a token is also supposed to be the only way of figuring out if it is a legit token, the bank will not tell you if a token is legit unless you deposit it.
When someone pays with these tokens in a shop, the shop will want to immediately (during checkout) deposit them, to make sure they're legit, and also to make sure the token hasn't been double spent. A shop that doesn't do that makes itself vulnerable to fraud. This means shops will have a hard time hiding their revenue (to dodge taxes) compared to cash.
If someone you trust gives you a token (birthday money from your grandma, say), you don't have to immediately deposit said token, since presumably you trust your grandma to not give you fake or double-spent tokens. Since you trust you grandma, there is no need to deposit the token and involve the bank, and that transfer would be untraceable (it's literally just copying a number from her phone to yours).
The idea is that shop owners would have a hard time dodging taxes without opening themselves up to fraudsters using fake tokens, while the customer cannot be identified. You'd also be able to exchange tokens with family and friends in a way that isn't traceable, as long as you trust them to not screw you.
I'm expecting that if she has been scammed (and you can find out by depositing the token), you can report this token to the police and they might be able to ask the banking system in which account was this token deposited, to hopefully trace the scammer back.
If so, this looks much safer than the scams that ask grandmas to give them giftcard codes.
But that’s better than cash, where you can’t make a backup
Depends on threat model, eg police will seize phones/computers/devices all the time but will only seize money if they think it's related to a crime. As long as you're not being arrested for a money-related charge then your cash would most likely be untouched but your devices will be lost.
If the cops steal my USB drive with my encrypted bitcoin wallet, I just restore it from the backup and they've stolen nothing.
In the US, cops steal cash all the time. Sometimes tbeh steal it personally, but they have an incentive to "legitimately" steal it to add it to their budget. Its fucked.
I rarely wish for an opensource project to fail, but Taler is an exception. Offering a digital currency system for the government to use is like sending an efficiency improvement proposal to Auschwitz.
You might actually like Taler, it's fundamentally different from blockchain based systems, to the point of being a cryptocurrency only in the technical sense, but not having any of the properties people associate with that word culturally.
Taler doesn't use any kind of proof of work, and so doesn't consume excess power or other resources, at least not more than, like, visiting any normal webpage. It's also not decentralized, and only partially anonymous, so I can acquire money anonymously and no one can trace the money I got to a particular spend, but the only place I can reasonably spend it has to be registered to the centralized issuer and is firmly not anonymous. And the only things they can do with the tokens they receive is redeem them, which means there's no place for tax evasion because the issuing authority can track every dollar the registered vendors redeem with them. And you can't really transfer money from random person to person, so there's no black market opportunity, etc.
So basically the only thing Taler "protects" is that the buyer's identity can be anonymous, but any vendor accepting Taler must not be and are highly trackable.
These are things I actually don't like about Taler, but we may be on opposite sides of a few issues, which is fair.
How would one acquire tokens anonymously but in a way that you can verify that you acquired genuine tokens, and what keeps those tokens from being given to multiple people? This is really where the privacy aspects fall down. It’s a hard problem to solve in Bitcoin, but at least you can have Bitcoin ATMs that you can verify that you received the funds.
A Taler ATM it seems could issue invalid tokens or issue the same tokens to every client and there would be no way to know until you tried to spend it or deposit it in your account (thus defeating the anonymity).
I'm not 100% deep on the crypto, but my understanding is they use blind signatures (which have been around for a long time) to do their issuing. If you're unfamiliar, these are kinda like an envelope with a hole cut in it, so you can put a document in it with a hidden unique key, and they can see some info through the hole, and can stamp their signature through the hole to validate that it's legit without knowing the hidden info.
Then the user can remove it from the envelope (unblind) and now have a certified valid coin without the issuer knowing which coin is theirs.
So in the context of an ATM, the ATM wouldn't "issue" coins, it would be given a request for coins from your wallet, it would certify the validity of that request, and then give your wallet back that certification in such a way that the wallet could unblind it and have the anonymous secret. So ultimately your wallet is the one that's in charge of producing the unique parts.
It seems there's also a system for making sure you don't produce bad transactions by asking you to generate N, promping you to unwrap a bunch of them to prove there's nothing weird about them, and then signing one of the remaining ones under the assumption it's also legit. At least it sounds like it, but I'm even less familiar with that part. But even if you did spoof someone else's secrets... it doesn't allow you to steal their money I don't think... because in order to have your transaction validated in the first place you had to truly give the ATM your money... so you could I guess pay $10 to screw over your friend for $10 because it'll look like they spent money they didn't... but you still spent $10... so it's less like stealing their money and more like paying to throw their wallet off a bridge? You don't gain anything, but they lose something? Maybe there's another exploit I don't know about in the like "renewal" or "refund" or "transfer" protocols that make that more important.
Anyway, I'm still not a Taler fan, but in this case I think it's possible to do what they claim. Now, if the bank or ATM or whatever asks for ID or an account to use their services, they could track that you withdrew money, and how much. That's data they can collect. The anonymous buyer part just means they can't tie the coin they issued you to a spent deposit they receive later. So they know you got $10 out, and they can assume you probably spent it, but they can't know what you spent it on.
I think that makes some sense to me. I’m moderately familiar with signatures and encryption. I’m going to do some more research into blind signatures now since that’s one thing I have never had to implement.
Without doing that research, I still feel that the bank or whatever could store the signature info at the time of signing with the account that requested it, but perhaps the blind signing even protects against that if the verification process is done in some way that the original signing request info isn’t present in the same form.
Anyway, thanks for the response!
ETA:
Oh the other hole in the ATMs I was talking about assuming a malicious ATM. Since the coin can only be verified by depositing it, (without doing more research on this) I still don’t see a way to verify that the ATM actually gave you a valid signature. Maybe it’s possible to validate the signature before unwrapping the coin, then impossible to validate the unwrapped coin that is given to the merchant. I could see that.
Also presumably these could be bank ATMs and not sketchy Bitcoin ATMs so maybe the malicious case isn’t as much to worry about.
Digital currency without "blockchain", say it ain't so! This is why I think it might actually work. It's not based on some kind of Rube Goldberg experiment to run the world power into nothingness.
Just because it's built on a block chain doesn't mean they relinquished control and decentralized it. But it's a platform that allows you to decentralize.
Is this worth it as an upgrade to our existing centrally controlled currency? That's a different discussion.
Does it solve the problem blockchain provides a solution for? Does it allow for decentralization? It appears the answer is no.
Decentralized currencies will only actually make sense when the material incentives of our economic system would benefit from them. Capitalism is literally all about concentrating the control of capital and the means by which we produce things. Sadly, decentralized currencies will never be allowed to decouple themselves from these economic systems. There is too much material power to prevent that. And by material power I mean literally the enforcement of these concentrations of wealth through the use of violence.
The tech is cool. But it doesn't magically solve the problem by simply being invented. It's why no one is actually paying with these cryptocurrencies on anything but an extremely small scale.
A currency that cannot be manipulated by capitalist for their benefit has no place in our world. So, it will never reach any meaningful real use until those structures are dismantled. It will just continue to be a speculative asset that rich people dump their access wealth into and poor people play as the lottery.
We're referring to decentralized management, not decentralized distribution. Fortunately I don't think anyone in this thread is pretending that any kind of money is going to make the world better.
Customers will use traditional money transfers to send money to a digital Exchange and in return receive (anonymized) digital cash. Customers can use this digital cash to anonymously pay Merchants. Merchants can redeem the digital cash for traditional money at the digital Exchange. As Merchants are not anonymous, they can be taxed, enabling income or sales taxes to be withheld by the state while providing anonymity for Customers.
This is even worse that the current system as it essentially means flat tax regardless of your income. This means a poor person is paying the same income tax through purchasing items at a store who will be on the hook for the taxes so naturally will pass on to you and at the same time a rich person will pay the same price and tax. Further since it is centralized all the same issues of corruption and exploitation exist even if the intent today is good.
The taxing isn't determined by this tool, it's determined by the government. What this tool tries to prevent is hidden money exchanges, which affects both methods of taxing, not only flat taxes but also income-based taxes (since a hidden sale is giving the seller a hidden income).
Not really. Zelle seems to just be US banks implementing the payment and bank-to-bank transfer systems that other countries already have. Except, at least for Australia with our 'Osko' system it has the involvement of our Reserve Bank and is mandated to be supported universally, whereas Zelle is completely private. The traditional lack of that bank-to-bank transfer ability is why apps like Venmo and Cash App have been popular in the US, which I think explains why Zelle has had an app until last month, as consumers expect that, even though it's owned by the major US banks.
Taler on the other hand seems to be "What if crypto but with fiat currency and also the recipients aren't anonymous".
You know most cryptocurrency reciepts are super transparent, right? The blockchain is a public ledger. There is no anonymity on non privacy coins like bitcoin
You're right, I misspoke with the term anonymous, it's actually pseudononymous the same as Lemmy or Reddit are. It's not like there is a published index of names to wallet addresses.
KYC laws are basically that index, except they're only available to companies and governments and advertises and basically anyone else who pays for it from coin analytics companies
I'm not interested in defending bitcoin, but that is mostly misinformation. If you want to truly condemn bitcoin you should target it's actual harm, the fact that it's accelerated low-friction financialization of capitalist money, so therefore immiserates the working class faster than fiat. Come at it with the good old Marxist critiques of capital, because that's all it really is. If you argue against it with flimsy falsifiable claims like you just did, a true believer will make you look like a fool.
The first claim is the most incorrect, as bitcoin is a single permanent public ledger where all transactions are verifiable by anyone, and on/off ramps are almost 100% regulated. I would argue that it's actually the hardest currency with which to evade taxes, though in the early days where onramps didn't do KYC and government wasn't as aware of it, that would have been more true. Physical fiat or Monero (A crypto that anonymizes sender and receiver) are probably the easiest currencies with which to avoid taxes.
The third claim is conditionally incorrect. Bitcoin transactions all have a clear sender and receiver party. Though I figure maybe you refer to some kind of regulatory tax assignment, in which case that would happen outside of the protocol and is up to the local government to decide.
The second claim is just kind of ... Hard to parse? I'm not sure what you mean by centralized exchanges. Exchanges of any type are almost always private entities that are themselves a centralized organization, and most currency exchanges process both fiat and crypto. Guessing I just need more context for this one.
Excuse me but what did I write that's misinformation? I wasn't describing Taler, I was describing bitcoin / crypto. Nothing I said was incorrect, and I was correcting your own misinformation (Mind you it's not your fault that you were misinformed and I don't think you were doing so intentionally, it's easy to pick up misinformation about unpopular subjects because people are more likely to take facts at face value).
Regarding mixers, I have a friend in US gov that says they're not immune to targeted investigation. You can hide in them only until you catch institutional attention, wherein they have a big enough database of inputs and outputs to simply know who you are. However apparently Monero is truly a pain in their ass.
And saying "a ledger is public doesn't protect it from illicit use" is kind of silly seeing as you can use any currency for illicit use if you want. What matters is if you can be caught, and its extremely easy to be caught doing something illicit if you do it with bitcoin as the transaction history is right there in front of the world.
I want to have a dual-boot laptop where half is Windows and half is Debian. If i encrypt Debian during installation, will it break Windows? I just want to be safe. Thanks in advance
I got tired of windows updates breaking my dual boot. After some research I found that it's possible to have two uefi partitions: one for windows and one for Linux. It's not standard but there is nothing expressly written into the efi spec that prohibits it. And it just works. My bios doesn't care, and works with them both just fine.
I only use Windows for that 1% of business stuff I can't accomplish in a vm under windows. Invariably after I boot into widows once ever 3 months it installs so.e update and would kill my ability to boot into Linux. Since setting up 2 partitions I haven't had this problem.
My company uses a VPN where the client is so slow inside the VM it is functionally useless. 99%of the time I can still get away with it because my connection amounts to a couple of telnet sessions, but when I actually need data or a spreadsheet or something transferred local, I need to fire up windows directly to snag it.
Sonicwall has a VPN client that will run fine on Linux (or so they say), but the company won't switch over to it. And sonicwall considers the windows only version eol and won't add a Linux version
I have copied a DVD of an old family video to my computer but am having trouble playing or converting all of the video content.
If I open the DVD directory in VLC or MPV to play it I can see that the video is 1h46m but it will only play the first 14m53s, which seems to correspond with a 'chapter'. If I open the directory in Handbrake it will detect the full video length of 1h46m and a total of 8 chapters but will only convert the first chapter. Ffmpeg will convert the three main .VOB files to .mkv but the output files only add up to 30m or so of video, which is an improvement over opening the DVD directory in a media player or converting it using Handbrake but still doesn't pick up the full video length.
You need software (like MakeMKV) to read the metadata from the DVD and properly chop up or combine the video files. It should be able to export without any re-encoding.
On a separate note, if you want to shrink the files, I’d recommend av1an if you are comfortable with a little CLI and want the best possible encoding efficiency. In a nutshell it chunks videos and encodes them in parallel, hence its great for really long files like movies/TV on DVDs.
For many years, the SkyRC MC3000 has been considered one of the best chargers for round batteries. The user has full control over the charging process and can set not only the charging current but also many other parameters. It can also connect to a PC or smartphone for settings and data logging.
And here comes the new SkyRC MC5000!
I was really looking forward to the SkyRC MC5000: a modern design with a large color display, innovative scroll-wheel input, charging currents of up to 5 A per slot, Bluetooth connectivity and advanced analysis features.
All in all, everything has worked so far, but the range of functions still seems somewhat limited. Many enhancements could potentially be introduced through firmware updates, such as expanded parameter ranges, more effective use of the status LEDs and possibly even support for 1.5V Li-ion batteries. The absence of program memory slots is particularly disappointing. At this price point, a PC interface for control and data logging should also be included.
In its current form, the SkyRC MC5000 is still a long way from being a real successor for the MC3000. It is not a bad device by any means, but it does not yet fully meet the expectations I have for a professional charger in this class.
The manufacturer web site is almost unusable and doesn't have an ordering button. There's a "Where to buy" link way at the bottom, that doesn't work for me. Web search shows this is about a US$ 200 charger. Ouch. Thanks for the review but yikes. Also I don't want to install a phone app to use or update the charger. You are right that the missing features being important (PC interface, bidirectional USB charging).
@SammysHP That's great except just how many primary batteries do you need to replace before this thing pays for itself? Pricing is not justified. I spent a whole of $30 for a unit from popular mechanics of all places. it charges every chemistry except lithium ion, I have separate chargers for those, does so individually for each battery so I can put say an NiMH in one slot, an alkaline in another, and it will charge as appropriate for each.
I live in a world of mostly Li-ion batteries around me, NiMH come second. Primary (alkaline) batteries? Nope, never use them because of their poor performance, environmental problems and because they leak.
Not all of my devices can charge their Li-ion batteries. A simple charger is enough in most scenarios. You only need an analyzing charger if you want to monitor and maintain the performance of your batteries.
@SammysHP The reason I use Alkaline in some applications is I have some devices where voltage is important and they will not run on 1.35 NiMH voltage but they will run on 1.6 Alkaline voltage. But I agree, performance is bad. Unfortunately the 1.5v lithium ion cells aren't really 1.5v, they're 3.7 or so and regulated down. This causes two issues, the regular introduces a lot of RF noise, and the voltage is flat right up to the point of complete exhaustion so you can't tell when the battery is ready to crap out.
I have some devices where voltage is important and they will not run on 1.35 NiMH voltage but they will run on 1.6 Alkaline voltage.
It's presumably not your doing, but I have to note that's a terrible design. Under light load, an alkaline hasn't even expended a third of its energy by the time it hits 1.35V (example test result).
@SammysHP Again, the devices in question actually use three cells (4.5v nominal) will tolerate 4.8 but not 4.05. So can't substitute one cell for two in series. Could probably regulate down from a higher voltage but then you get the noise issues again.
Yup, this is huge. Wayland gaming is now a possibility. With Explicit Sync (needed for NVIDIA users) and VRR, there's now no excuse to keep gaming in X11 in both DEs.
I have been playing around with chmod, chown, setfacl and special bits trying to get multiple system/full users in same group correct access permissions to my media collection.
But I've messed it up somehow and now I'm having weird problems that are hard to track.
I would like to set my whole collection back to the defaults.
What is the best way to do this?
One problem I've had when making changes to so many files is the process seems to go forever without completing. Eventually it gets killed so my filesystem has variable attributes throughout. how can this be worked around?
I want everything to be owned by myuser, group media, everything else default I will sort it from there once I have a fresh slate.
And is there a way to backup these attributes only? I don't have enough storage to backup the files themselves.
It is Debian with ext4 filesystem.
Edit to add: Media collection is on its own separate drive/filesystem; this has no impact on anything else on the computer.
I'm fed up telling people not only to have backups but moreover to test their backups. This way seems to work better. It's not for OP; it's for my younger self and those like me.
I'm not familiar with chacl ("change the access control list of a file or directory"). Is is similar to setfacl ("set file access control lists")? A matter of preference/habit?
It seems like -B does "Remove all ACLs". Which I guess is what I am asking for? Files on linux are OK to have no ACLs?
About the find ... {} +, I see {} +
runs the specified command on the selected files, but the command line is built by appending each selected file name at the end; the total number of invocations of the command will be much less than the number of matched files.
So does it wait until it has found all the matches to run the command as a giant batch instead of running it as it finds matches?
So does it wait until it has found all the matches to run the command as a giant batch instead of running it as it finds matches?
almost. it runs the command in batches, if you have few enough files it may only run it once. this shouldn't make it slower, but actually faster.
and yes, linux does not use ACLs by default. ~~on ext4 usage of ACLs is not even enabled by default, but only if you set it up with the right mount option~~
As part of a UX/UI design project for my studies, I’m currently analyzing the user experience and interface of BookWyrm. The goal is to identify areas for improvement while respecting the platform’s core values (decentralization, simplicity, accessibility, etc.).
I’m looking to gather feedback from actual or potential users of the platform. If you have a few minutes, your answers to the questions below would be extremely helpful: - What do you like most about BookWyrm? Which features do you use most frequently? - Are there any features or interactions that you find frustrating or unintuitive? - What features do you think are missing or could be improved? - How do you feel about the interface (design, readability, navigation)? - Do you use BookWyrm (or similar platforms) mainly to manage your personal library (individual use), or to get recommendations, join discussions, and engage with others (social use)? - Do you mainly use BookWyrm on a mobile device or on a computer? And why? - Do you also use other platforms (e.g., Goodreads, StoryGraph, LibraryThing)? If yes, what makes you prefer one over the other? - If you’ve never used BookWyrm, what’s holding you back? And conversely, what might encourage you to use it regularly?
Thank you so much for your input. I’d be happy to share the results of this analysis here if there’s interest.
Discussing a breaking change in Python's setuptools.
The really interesting part is in the discussion section.... and it shows once more how incredibly well-designed the GNU Guix package manager is -- which solves these problems very very well, for arbitrary languages and with a fast growing distribution of, by now, about 50,000 packages.
I don't get that people constantly complain that the Guix project does not distributes or actively supports distribution of binary, propietary software. That is like complaining that Apple does not sells their Laptop with Linux, Microsoft does not sells Google's Chromebooks, or that Amazon does not distribute free eBooks from project Gutenberg, ScienceHub or O'Reilly.
And users can of course use the nonguix channel to get their non-free firmware or whatever, but they should not complain and demand that volunteers of other projects do more unpaid work. Instead, they should donate money or volunteer do do it themselves.
But guess what? I think these complaints come to a good part from companies which want to sell their proprietary software. Valve and Steams show that a company can very well sell software for Linux, with mutual benefit, but not by freeloading on volunteer work.
And one more thing, Guix allows to do exactly what Flatpaks etc. promise: Any company, as well as any lonely coder, team of scientists, or small FLOSS project, can build their own packages founded on a stable Guix base system, with libraries and everything, binary or from source, and distribute it from their own website in a company channel - just like any Emacs user can distribute his own, self-written Emacs extensions from a Web page or Gemini small-net page. And thanks to the portability of the Guix package manager, this software can be installed on any Linux system, resting on a fully reproducible base.
Guix is really making fantastic progress and is a good alternative in the space between stable and fully FOSS distributions, likes Debian, and distributions which are more up-to-date, like Arch.
And one interesting thing is that the number of packages is now so large that one can frequently install additional more recent packages on a Debian systems, or ones that are not packaged by Debian.
For example, I run Debian stable as base system, Guix as extra package manager (and Arch in a VM for trying out latest software for programming).
The thing is now Guix often provides more recent packages tham Debian, like many Rust command line tools, where Debian is lagging a bit. There are many interesting ones, and most are recent because Rust is progressing so fast. Using Guix, I can install them without using the language package manager, regardless whether iy is written in Rust, Go, or Python 3.13.
Or, today I read an article about improvements in spaced repetition learning algorithms. It mentioned that the FLOSS software Anki provided it, and I became curious and wanted to have a look at Anki. Well, Debian has no "anki" package - and it is written, among other languages, im Python and Rust, so good luck getting it on Debian stable. But for Guix, I only had to do "guix install anki" and had it installed.
This works a tad slower than apt-get ... but it still saves time compared to installing stuff and dependencies manually.
hi my dears, I have an issue at work where we have to work with millions (150 mln~) of product data points. We are using SQL server because it was inhouse available for development. however using various tables growing beyond 10 mln the server becomes quite slow and waiting/buffer time becomes >7000ms/sec. which is tearing our complete setup of various microservices who read, write and delete from the tables continuously down. All the stackoverflow answers lead to - its complex. read a 2000 page book.
the thing is. my queries are not that complex. they simply go through the whole table to identify any duplicates which are not further processed then, because the processing takes time (which we thought would be the bottleneck). but the time savings to not process duplicates seems now probably less than that it takes to compare batches with the SQL table. the other culprit is that our server runs on a HDD which is with 150mb read and write per second probably on its edge.
the question is. is there a wizard move to bypass any of my restriction or is a change in the setup and algorithm inevitable?
edit: I know that my questions seems broad. but as I am new to database architecture I welcome any input and discussion since the topic itself is a lifetime know-how by itself. thanks for every feedbach.
What? Problems like this usually come down to some missing indexes. Can you view the query plan for your slow queries? See how long they are taking? IDK about SQL Server but usually there is a command called something like ANALYZE, that breaks down a query into the different parts of its execution plan, executes it, and measures how long each part takes. If you see something like "FULL TABLE SCAN" taking a long time, that can usually be fixed with an index.
If this doesn't make any sense to you, ask if there are any database gurus at your company, or book a few hours with a consultant. If you go the paid consultant route, say you want someone good at SQL Server query optimization.
By the way I think some people in this thread are overestimating the complexity of this type of problem or are maybe unintentionally spreading FUD. I'm not a DB guru but I would say that by now I'm somewhat clueful, and I got that way mostly by reading the SQLlite docs including the implementation manuals over a few evenings. That's probably a few hundred pages but not 2000 or anything like that.
First question: how many separate tables does your DB have? If less than say 20, you are probably in simple territory.
Also, look at your slowest queries. They likely say SELECT something FROM this JOIN that JOIN otherthing bla bla bla. How many different JOINs are in that query? If just one, you probably need an index; if two or three, it might take a bit of head scratching; and if 4 or more, something is possibly wrong with your schema or how the queries are written and you have to straighten that out.
Basically from having seen this type of thing many times before, there is about a 50% chance that it can be solved with very little effort, by adding indexes based on studying the slow query executions.
First question: how many separate tables does your DB have? If less than say 20, you are probably in simple territory.
Currently about ~50. But like 30 of them are the result of splitting them into a common column like "country". In the beginning I assumed this lead to the same as partitioning one large table?
Also, look at your slowest queries
The different queries itself take not long because of the query per se. but due to the limitation of the HDD, SQL reads as much as possible from the disk to go through a table, given that there are now multiple connections all querying multiple tables this leads to a server overload. While I see now the issue with our approach, I hope that migrating the server from SQL server to postgreSQL and to modern hardware + refactoring our approach in general will give us a boost.
They likely say SELECT something FROM this JOIN that JOIN otherthing bla bla bla. How many different JOINs are in that query?
Actually no JOIN. Most "complex" query is INSERT INTO with a WHEN NOT EXIST constraint.
But thank you for your advice. I will incorporate the tips in our new design approach.
You really have to see what the db is doing to understand where the bottlenecks are, i.e. find the query plans. It's ok if it's just single selects. Look for stuff like table scans that shouldn't happen. How many queries per second are there? Remember that SSD's have been a common thing for maybe 10 years. Before that it was HDD's everywhere, and people still ran systems with very high throughput. They had much less ram then than now too.
With 8 GB of RAM and 5500 CPU passmark points, that's a good laptop for Linux Mint. Download their "edge" version of Mint, so you get the latest kernel (so it has more chances of supporting 100% that laptop).
GNOME Shell and Mutter had been covered by Ubuntu's GNOME MicroReleaseException 'MRE' policy that allows for new point releases to ship rather easily as stable updates to existing Ubuntu Linux releases
Linux hit 4% desktop OS marketshare not too long ago. But it's still far away from competing with Windows or macOS. Question is - how do you make Linux more ...
I just fucking can't with windows anymore. I'd preach about it but I imagine you've heard it all. I have minimal computer expertise.
I use my PC mainly for streaming, downloading torrent files who's copyright you don't need to worry about, and light gaming. Usually just messing with New Vegas mods.
If someone knows of a good YouTube channel or guide or something written for andelder millennial caveman I would be grateful.
Edit: after having been recommended mint OS and giving it a quick Google, I got this! I haven't fucked with anything linux scince the early aughts. And holy shit has that come a ways. Guess I remembered back and got a little intimidated. Mint is downloading now. As a small f.u. I booted up edge to do it. Ty you beautiful people!
One of the real downsides of ARM is, it seems, the relative lack of standardization. An x64 kernel? It'll run on most anything from the last ten years at least. And as for boot process, it's probably one of two options (and in many cases one computer can boot either legacy or EFI).
ARM, on the other hand...my raspberry pi collection does one thing, my Orange Pi does something else, and God help you if you want to try swapping the Orange kernel for the Raspberry (or vice versa)!
If the system is SystemReady then the EFI boot chain is fairly straightforward now. My current workstation just booted off the Debian usb installer like any other pc.
It's a weird time to live in, but not confusing. It's obvious to see that what you really want as a vendor is control over the operating system stack itself, and relying on Microsoft has become challenging.
In essence what NVIDIA is doing is bringing it's entire GPU driver stack open source side, so that entire industries say go on buying tons more hardware.
Us Linux enthusiasts get to reap the benefit, what with entire open source movements bringing libraries to Linux side first that can turn GPU hardware into whatever tool you'd like. Projects like PyTorch and ffmpeg run as first class citizens on Linux.
Windows still relies on either shared DotNet stack (which will make a monkey out of you - cough cough) or the nearly ancient MSYS2 build environment. Microsoft of course prefers you run all that software inside their Linux container system known as WSL - and there's a reason for that.
The Linux graphics stack is looking more "feature complete" by the month, bringing up the question of where you actually get the best hardware support. This is a good question to have.
Now, if only the open source desktop movements could clean house, figure out funding and get their stacks in order, we might finally, for the umpteenth time, maybe see the year of the Linux desktop.
I grow old with anticipation, but seeing what NVIDIA did in the before time versus what they do in the now puts a smirk on this haggered face.
It’s an Ubuntu downstream maintained by Linux box maker System76 which is targeted for both general usability and design/media applications. They will soon be debuting their own home-spun desktop environment, Cosmic DE, which is highly anticipated by the Linux community.
How does the community here feel about this distribution and the company that has brought it to us? How do you feel about the projects that they’re working on, and their goals for the distribution moving forward?
A semi-rolling distribution, with access to Ubuntu's many PPA's, and easily removable extensions that reveal the lovely vanilla Gnome experience, it's great!
Also they are making a Rust desktop, which I am currently running, though not daily driving.
Don't worry, you're not missing out on much, running video games, or any OpenGL thing including 2D games and GPU-accelerated terminal emulators is a bad experience, and alt+f4 isn't implemented, and f11 to fullscreen is janky, and theming for buttons and such is clearly alpha.
The promise of an Arabic-supporting, Rust based, GPU-accelerated terminal is too attractive, however, as I was teared between multilingual terminal, Wezterm, Alacritty and Kitty for a while.
The first is horrible at everything but supporting languages, the second is really janky, the third doesn't support tabs, the fourth has bad theming and customization.
The Stellaris 17 from TUXEDO is a new refreshed (their sixth version) high-powered desktop-replacement notebook, with a high price and a tease of more models in this series to come.
I am currently on win10 but have been toying with mint and liking it. I intend on fully switching over soon. I have also been toying with the idea of some simple 3D modeling, like making custom parts for projects around my house. Maybe using a CAD software to generate stls for a 3D print or using it to spec out parts for a design made out of aluminum extrusion (like 8020) little things like that. I was thinking about getting a solidworks hobbyist license for 45 a year but solidworks doesn't support Linux. I could keep a Windows dual boot HDD, but fuck that. Any suggestions on a CAD software that fits? Have a gaming PC with a 3060 and some beefy hardware.
Any "How To" that doesn't just use Rufus isn't worth the page its text is rendered on. Rufus can do Linux boot disks, but is indispensable for Windows boot disk utilities. It's one of the only ways I know of to make a Windows ToGo installation (equivalent of a Linux Live USB), which I used to install Windows on a friends SD card for their Steam Deck so they can dual-boot.
I'm thinking about building a desktop with one of my kids and I would really prefer to put Linux on it. My wife is not a fan of the idea, however.
I'm wondering are there any good Linux distros/utilities for children that include parental control features and things like that? And that are easy to use for a child who has only used basic Chromebooks in the past?
I abhor the idea of things made "for kids". I learned to program when I was 10 on a Commodore 64. And we would wear an onion on our belt which was the style at the time.... Sorry, where was I?
I'd just install a normal distro. Let the kiddo break shit and learn to fix it. Keep backups for recovery and probably isolate the system on your network for if/when kiddo does something stupid. Talk about security, being responsible, etc. We learn through mistakes not by playing in safe walled-gardens.
KDE System Monitor and the like have easy ways of monitoring how many bits per second are going in and out of your storage at a given time, is there anything similar for memory?
(ok i see, you're using the term CPU colloquially to refer to the processor. i know you obviously know the difference & that's what you meant - i just mention the distinction for others who may not be aware.)
ultimately op may not require exact monitoring, since they compared it to standard system monitors etc, which are ofc approximate as well. so the tools as listed by Eager Eagle in this comment may be sufficient for the general use described by op?
eg. these, screenshots looks pretty close to what i imagined op meant
now onto your very cool idea of substantially improving the temporal resolution of measuring memory bandwidth...you've got me very interested with your idea 😀
my inital sense is counting completed L3/4 cache misses sourced from DRAM and similar events might be alot easier - though as you point out that will inevitably accumulate event counts within a given time interval rather than an individual event.
i understand the role of parity bits in ECC memory, but i didn't quite understand how & which ECC fields you would access, and how/where you would store those results with improved temporal resolution compared to event counts?
would love to hear what your setup would look like? 😀 which ECC-specific masks would you monitor? where/how would you store/process such high resolution results without impacting the measurement itself? details pls 😁
I've gathered that a lot of people in the nix space seem to dislike snaps but otherwise like Flatpaks, what seems to be the difference here?
Are Snaps just a lot slower than flatpaks or something? They're both a bit bloaty as far as I know but makes Canonicals attempt worse?
Personally I think for home users or niche there should be a snap less variant of this distribution with all the bells and whistles.
Sure it might be pointless, but you could argue that for dozens of other distros that take Debian, Fedora or Arch stuff and make it as their own variant, I.e MX Linux or Manjaro.
HeliBoard keyboard is an improved fork of the now-unmaintained OpenBoard keyboard. It does not require internet permission, allowing it to be used 100% offline.
Features
Add dictionaries for suggestions and spell check
Build your own, or access them here, or in the experimental section (quality may vary)
Additional dictionaries for emojis or scientific symbols can be used to provide suggestions (similar to "emoji search")
Note that for Korean layouts, suggestions only work using this dictionary; the tools in the dictionary repository cannot create working dictionaries
Customize keyboard themes (style, colors, and background image)
Can follow the system's day/night setting on Android 10+ (and on some versions of Android 9)
Can follow dynamic colors for Android 12+
Customize keyboard layouts (only available when disabling system languages)
Multilingual typing
Glide typing (only with closed-source library ☹️)
Library not included in the app, as there is no compatible open-source library available
Can be extracted from GApps packages ("swypelibs"), or downloaded here
Clipboard history
One-handed mode
Split keyboard (only available if the screen is large enough)
Number pad
Backup and restore your learned word/history data
Hidden Functionality
Features that may go unnoticed, and further potentially useful information
Long-pressing the Clipboard Key (the optional one in the suggestion strip) pastes system clipboard contents.
Long-pressing keys in the suggestion strip toolbar pins them to the suggestion strip.
Long-press the Comma-key to access Clipboard View, Emoji View, One-handed Mode, Settings, or Switch Language:
Emoji View and Language Switch will disappear if you have the corresponding key enabled;
For some layouts, it's not the Comma-key, but the key at the same position (e.g. it's q for Dvorak layout).
When incognito mode is enabled, no words will be learned, and no emojis will be added to recents.
Sliding key input: Swipe from shift or symbol key to another key. This will enter a single uppercase key or symbol and return to the previous keyboard.
Hold shift or symbol key, press one or more keys, and then release shift or symbol key to return to the previous keyboard.
Long-press a suggestion in the suggestion strip to show more suggestions, and a delete button to remove this suggestion.
Swipe up from a suggestion to open more suggestions, and release on the suggestion to select it.
Long-press an entry in the clipboard history to pin it (keep it in clipboard until you unpin).
Swipe left in clipboard view to remove an entry (except when it's pinned)
Select text and press shift to switch between uppercase, lowercase, and capitalize words
You can add dictionaries by opening the file
This only works with content-uris and not with file-uris, meaning that it may not work with some file explorers.
Debug mode / debug APK
Long-press a suggestion in the suggestion strip twice to show the source dictionary.
When using debug APK, you can find Debug Settings within the Advanced Preferences, though the usefulness is limited except for dumping dictionaries into the log.
For a release APK, you need to tap the version in About several times, then you can find debug settings in Advanced Preferences.
When enabling Show suggestion infos, suggestions will have some tiny numbers on top showing some internal score and source dictionary.
In the event of an application crash, you will be prompted whether you want the crash logs when you open the Settings.
When using multilingual typing, the space bar will show a confidence value used for determining the currently used language.
For users doing manual backups with root access: Starting at Android 7, some files and the main shared preferences file are not in the default location because the app is using device-protected storage. This is necessary so the settings and layout files can be read before the device is unlocked, e.g., at boot. The files are usually located in /data/user_de/0//, though the location may depend on the device and Android version.
Planned features and improvements:
Customizable functional key layout
Will likely result in having the same functional key layout for alphabet and symbols layouts
A slew of modernisation are set to ship in next version of Linux Mint, which will be based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. First up, Linux Mint 22 will switch to using Pipewire as its default […]
After repeatedly suffering issues with scam apps making it onto the Snap Store, Canonical maker of Ubuntu Linux have now decided to manually look over submissions.
Alt Text: A screenshot of the tab bar and address bar of Firefox where twelve different fediverse websites are pinned. There is a new DuckDuckGo search being made in the address bar saying, "I think I might have a problem."
The 12 services are Mastodon, Glitch Edition, Misskey, IceShrimp, Akkoma, Friendica, Lemmy, Kbin, PieFed, Pixelfed, BookWyrm, and PeerTube.
I have many nerdy friends who have been Linux users for ages. But most of them don't know such a thing as Openwrt exists or have never bothered to give it a try. It's a very fun piece of software to play with and can be extremely useful for routing traffic. Wondering why it isn't more popular/widely used.
I've used OpenWrt, DD-WRT, and Tomato firmware on the various routers I've had. I don't think I've ever kept the stock firmware on any router I've owned.
I use pfSense at home now, but I've been considering switching to OPNsense. I still run OpenWrt on a portable router that I use when I'm traveling though. I won't ever buy a router that I can't run open source firmware on.
I am from india. These numbers are inflated due to our population and government and health sector office pc using linux (ubuntu). These office pcs just require a chrome browser and all the work is done on the browser Nobody here cares what os they use in their office pc. I don't see anyone here switching to linux on their personal pc other than the IT students who are forced to install kali linux. And most of them are running linux on virtualbox on windows.
Steam deck is not even officially sold here and imported ones that are sold cost 950$ for the 512 gb variant. So it is a ultra niche item here. .
People here buy desktops only for gaming/content creation, which means most households here doesn't need/require a desktop. And these people always prefer mac or windows.
Also gaming scene here is dominated by mobile games (because gaming pcs and consoles are too expensive and we have the cheapest internet and phone prices) As for pc games it is dominated by valorant, Minecraft and gtav (fivem rp).
Edit - Many consider this a huge win. But getting market share in the office space for basic browsing and word processing inflates the numbers for actual game/app developers who wants to support linux and they will disappointed seeing the actual usage and they will abandon the linux support. Also the indian market isn't buying laptop/desktops for browsing, they just use their phone because pc hardware is expensive and phones prices are cheap. And anyone who is buying desktops for serious tasks stick to windows and mac.
The Fediverse has been known to ban anyone who supports Musk's rhetoric as well as anyone who is registered with KF. I speak from experience with seeing a certain someone (dare we say whom?) being banned from multiple instances for being a KF user. She made it more than happenstance to rigidly adhere to the instance's rules. Perhaps there are unwritten rules within the Fediverse regarding alignment with the website I alluded to? Reaching out as a concerned lemming.
She only got banned because she was trying to make it seem like the harm Kiwi Farms did was minimal. Which is an obvious lie, Kiwi Farms is one of the biggest hives of villiany and scum; they've done so much harm to those they didn't like for petty reasons. Particularly going after trans people and piling an unending torrent of harassment on them until they either kill themselves or go beyond the reach of Kiwi Farms. Proof of my claim that Kiwi Farms caused harm to the Trans community
She tried to conflate Discord unknowingly hosting mass shooters with being their allies. (I noticed said something along the same lines, as you were trying to take the heat off of Kiwi Farms, sussy). That makes me wonder if this account is a sockpuppet, but I can't say for certain, as there isn't proof of that.
Statcounter, a website that tracks the market share of web browsers, operating systems, and search engines, is reporting that Linux on the desktop has over 4% market share for the very first time (Statcounter records ChromeOS as a separate operating system despite being based on Linux). Statcounter doesn’t provide any explanation about why the market share has increased but we can speculate what’s going on.
Linux’s march to its 4.03% market share has been a steady process ever since the final months of 2020 when Linux held just 1.53% of desktop market share. One of the biggest contributors to the growth of Linux is likely the stringent hardware requirements of Windows 11.
Statcounter is reporting that Linux on the desktop has surpassed 4% of market share compared to just 1.53% in October 2020. The reasons for the increase aren't known but we speculate about the cause.
With the Linux 6.15 kernel expected to be released as stable on Sunday unless Linus Torvalds has last-minute reservations, here's a look back at some of the most interesting Linux 6.15 changes.
AMD CPU improvements like INVLPGB for broadcast TLB invalidation, Zen 5 load latency filtering with perf, AMD P-State driver improvements, initial support for the AMD Versal NET SoC, and more.
Intel
On the Intel side is early work on the kernel-side preparations for Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and continuing to enhance the Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) support.
CPU
For both Intel and AMD there is also crypto performance improvements like faster CRC code for AVX-512 CPUs and faster AES-CTR with modern x86_64 CPUs.
Graphics
Over on the graphics side there is the very preliminary NOVA driver code merged for the future Rust-written open-source NVIDIA kernel driver. Linux 6.15 also brings Shared Virtual Memory support for the Intel Xe driver, standardized reporting to user-space for hung GPUs, Intel Xe EU stall sampling, AMDGPU support for the OEM i2c interface for RGB lighting and more, and AMD Radeon RX 9070 series fan speed reporting.
Bcachefs
Linux 6.15 also brings many enhancements to the Bcachefs file-system as it works on its "soft frozen" state and working to remove the "experimental" flag from the file-system in the not too distant future.
Other
Some other fun enhancements to Linux 6.15 include IO_uring network zero-copy receive, the new FWCTL subsystem, various Apple driver enhancements, MSEAL protection of system mappings, the new "hugetlb_alloc_threads" option to help boot times on large servers, various kernel scheduler improvements, continued work on Rust programming language abstractions, and landing the Zstd 1.5.7 compression code into the kernel.
Not the first time this has happened, but recently the Snap store from Canonical hosted a scam bitcoin app that claimed to be "Exodus wallet" that caused a user to lose money.
Over the weekend, hackers targeted federated social networks like Mastodon to carry out ongoing spam attacks that were organized on Discord, and conducted
I've been an IT professional for 20 years now, but I've mainly dealt with Windows. I've worked with Linux servers through out the years, but never had Linux as a daily driver. And I decided it was time to change. I only had 2 requirements. One, I need to be able to use my Nvidia 3080 ti for local LLM and I need to be able to RDP with multiple screens to my work laptop running Windows 10.
My hope was to be able to get this all working and create some articles on how I did it to hopefully inspire/guide others. Unfortunately, I was not successful.
I started out with Ubuntu 22.04 and I could not get the live CD to boot. After some searching, I figured out I had to go in a turn off ACPI in boot loader. After that I was able to install Ubuntu side by side with Windows 11, but the boot loader errored out at the end of the install and Ubuntu would not boot.
Okay, back into Windows to download the boot loader fixer and boot to that. Alright, I'm finally able to get into Ubuntu, but I only have 1 of my 4 monitors working. Install the NVIDIA-SMI and reboot. All my monitors work now, but my network card is now broken.
Follow instructions on my phone to reinstall the linux-modules-extra package. Back into Windows to download that because, you know, no network connections. Reinstall the package, it doesn't work. Go into advanced recovery, try restoring packages, nothing is working. I can either get my monitors to work or my network card. Never both at the same time.
I give up and decide it's time to try out Fedora. The install process is much smoother. I boot up 3 of 4 monitors work. I find a great post on installing Nvidia drivers and CUDA. After doing that and rebooting, I have all 4 monitors and networking, woohoo!
Now, let's test RDP. Install FreeRDP run with /multimon, and the screen for each remote window is shifted 1/3 of the way to the left. Strange. Do a little looking online, find an Issue on GitHub about how it is based on the primary monitor. Long story short, I can't use multiple monitor RDP because I have different resolution monitors and they are stacked 2x2 instead of all in a row. Trust me I tried every combination I could think of.
Someone suggested using the nightly build because they have been working on this issue. Okay, I try that out and it fails to install because of a missing dependency. Apparently, there is a pull request from December to fix this on Fedora installs, but it hasn't been merged. So, I would need to compile that specific branch myself.
At this point, I'm just so sick of every little thing being a huge struggle, I reboot and go back into Windows. I still have Fedora on there, but who would have thought something that sounds as simple as wanting to RDP across 4 monitors would be so damn difficult.
I'm not saying any of this to bag on Linux. It's more of a discussion topic on, yes, I agree that there needs to be more adoption on Linux, but if someone with 20 years of IT experience gets this feed up with it, imagine how your average user would feel.
Of course if anyone has any recommendation on getting my RDP working, I'm all ears on that too.
I read the first paragraph and saw your prerequisites included working with nvidia.
That is a non-starter, right there. You can blame Linux for a whole lot of little flaws, but most of the blame should go to your hardware vendor for providing shitty support for Linux.
With modern CPU's supposedly shipping with 'AI cores': How long do you think it will take for a proper opensource, privacy respecting productivity tools(Something like whatever M$ copilot is supposed to be?) to be available?
Personally, i would love to see something like 'Passive' OCR integrated with the display server: the ability to pause any video and just select whatever text(even handwritten) there is naturally like it was a text document without any additional hassle will be really useful Also useful in circumventing any blocks certain websites put on articles to prevent text from being copied
Or an AI grammar checker running natively for LibreOffice.
What are some AI tools you think should be developed for desktop Linux?
Some of the AI related apps I've been using that are both Free Software and offline (where it runs on your computer without using network services in the cloud) are:
OCR: "Frog" can take screenshots, select images, accept drag and drop, and you can paste an image from the clipboard. It'll read the text on the images and immediately have a text area with the result. flathub.org/apps/com.github.te… — it's powered by Tesseract. Note: The completely optional text-to-speech that Frog has does use an online service. But the rest is offline.
Speech to text: "Speech Note" does text to speech, speech to text, and translations... all locally on your computer, and it supports GPU acceleration (which isn't needed, but it makes it a little faster). flathub.org/apps/net.mkiol.Spe… — This is basically the all-in-one "Swiss army knife" of ML text processing. Thanks to being a Flatpak, you don't have to do anything special for the dependencies. It's all taken care of for you. It also has tons of different models (for different voices, different backends) all available from within the UI, which just needs a click for downloading.
Upscaling images: There are two that do something similar, using some of the same backends. A nice and simple one is "Upscaler". flathub.org/apps/io.gitlab.the… Another one that's cross platform is "Upscayl" flathub.org/apps/org.upscayl.U… — these both use ESRGAN and Waifu2x in the background.
Closed captioning: "Live Captions" uses an ML model to transcribe text realtime. It's wonderful for when a video doesn't have subtitles, or when you're participating in a video call (which might also not have CC). There's also a toggle mode that will transcribe based on microphone input. The default is to use system audio. flathub.org/apps/net.sapples.L…
Web page translations: Firefox, for the past few releases, has the ability to translate web pages completely local in-browser. It does need to download a small model file (a quantized one around 20 megabytes per language pair), but this happens automatically on first use. All you need to do is click the translate icon (when it's auto-detected) or go to the menu and select "Translate page...". Firefox is located in your distribution already (and is usually installed by default in most Linux distributions) and is available as an official package from Mozilla on Flathub as well. Newer versions keep improving on this, improving speed (it's pretty quick already), improving accuracy, improving reliability (sometimes you have to try to translate a couple of times on some pages), and adding languages. But what's there in the release of Firefox is already great.
Chat and image generation (more advanced)
While all the above are graphical apps and on Flathub (some may have distro packages too), there are some additional AI/ML things you can run on Linux as well:
Chat ML: "Ollama" (ollama.ai/) is a friendlier wrapper around llama.cpp and lets you run a variety of models (some FOSS, some just source-available-and-gratis, some not at all).
You can run Ollama in a container to make it even easier. Even a Podman container on your user account works. (You don't need to set it up as a system container.) The instructions for Docker work on Podman (just swap the docker command for podman instead).
While the official instructions only list CPU (which is fine for some of the smaller models) and NVidia, it's also possible to use an AMD GPU too:
# Enable device as user (run once per boot)
sudo setsebool container_use_devices=true
# Set up the ollama server for AMD acceleration (run once per session)
podman run --pull=always --replace --detach --device /dev/kfd --device /dev/dri --group-add video -v ollama:/root/.ollama -p 11434:11434 --name ollama ollama/ollama:0.1.22-rocm
# Command-line interaction (run any time you want to use it — the last part is which model you want to use)
podman exec -it ollama ollama run llama2
llama2 is the default ML; there are so many others available. Mixtral is a good one if you have enough vram on your GPU. Whatever you specify, it will auto-download and set it up for you. You only need to wait the first time. (The ROCm version of takes a while to download. Each model varies. The good thing is, it's all cached for subsequent uses.)
If you want a web UI like ChatGPT, then you could also run this instead of the command line interaction command:
When done, run podman stop ollama and podman stop ollama-webui to free up resources from your GPU.
There are also integrations for text editors and IDEs, similar to GitHub's CoPilot. Neovim has a few already. VS Code (or VS Codium) has some too (like twinny and privy).
Image generation: "Stable Diffusion" is the go-to here. There are a bunch of forks. Some of the better ones are:
"Fooocus" github.com/lllyasviel/Fooocus/ — an easy to use streamlined app (with some advanced settings) where you don't need to prompt as much or tweak settings to get a good result by default.
"SD.next" github.com/vladmandic/automati… — A fork of the Automatic111 fork of the default Stable Diffusion web app that uses the Gradio UI.
"ComfyUI" github.com/comfyanonymous/Comf… — A node-based UI for Stable Diffusion. ...and there are a ton others. Forks of forks of forks.
Krita, GIMP, and Blender all have plugins that can interface with some of these too (usually using a SD Automatic111 API).
For Stable Diffusion on AMD, you need to have ROCm installed and might need to set or use an environment variable to make it work with your card. Something like: HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=11.0.0 or HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=10.3.0 (depending on your GPU). Prefixing means just putting that at the beginning of the the command with a space and then the rest of the command. Setting it as a variable depends on your shell. You might need to export it for some (like for bash). Prefixing it is fine though, especially when you use ctrl+r to do a substrang search in your shell history (so you don't need to retype it or remember silly-long commands).
As using these image generating apps pulls down a lot of Python libraries, I'd suggest considering setting up a separate user account instead of using your own, so the app doesn't have access to your local files (like stuff in ~/.ssh/, ~/.local/, your documents, etc.). Setting up containers for these is not so easy (yet), sadly. Some people have done it. And they do run in a toolbox or distrobox podman container... but toolbox and distrobox containers don't really contain so much, so you're better off using podman (with a "docker" container) directly or running it as a separate account for some type of isolation from your user account files.
There are some graphical apps on Flathub for connecting to Stable Diffusion and a ChatGPT AI (which ollama now has)... but in the course of setting them up, you basically have a web and/or text-based UI to interact with.
There where Times when Ubuntu was Marks baby, but nowadays with pro, advertisement and tracking in the terminal an AppStore, everything has to have a businesscase.
I would recommend just plain Debian either with flatpak or in the testing branch. It's almost the same, stable as a rock and driven by a community.
I jumped ship from Ubuntu to fedora last year and fedora is awesome. Fedora has a bit newer packages and the default felt right (albeit I missed system tray plugin from Ubuntu). Some hardware work better OOTB on Ubuntu, so always try with a live distro first.
*Please read the whole text before commenting. (There are some passages where you might want to add something, because you didn't see that it's written in a different passage.) If you read alll of it, I'm open for custructive feedback and hope there will be a constructive discussion. There was a similiar post some time ago: feddit.org/post/10309044*
I not only recently had to watch a painful infight evolving in Lemmy's comment sections. Discussions which weren't real discussions anymore and felt like an endless comment fight of people who usually have so much in common.
I think I speak for most of Lemmy if I say the following:
Fascism is on rise around the world, has grabbed power in the United States of America and threatens all of us. We –mostly leftists– were able to create a democratic oasis of digital solidarity among like-minded people. A place where everyone can raise their voice, without getting suppressed by our worst digital enemy: BigTech, a tool and puppet of global fascism. For being threatened by fascism, you don't even have to be a leftist, nor a highly political person at all, all that matters is to believe in democracy. All democrats are welcome, no matter what political attitude they have, we are united by democracy. We are people of all genders, ages, nationalities, languages and religions, agnosticism or atheism. Everyone can talk freely about every topic, as long as one accepts other opinions (may even change their own opinion) and shares the spirit of democracy and consideration. We built this oasis, we are united by democracy, antifascism, freedom, tolerance and independence.
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And still we can't stop fighting against each other? No one here supports the rise of what hates this great community. We should stand together and share the spirit described. We certainly do to some extent, but every time we don't and instead of discussing start fighting against each other, the fascists will jump for joy, since we support their rise. To based on facts discuss topics together is essential for us, it also is fascism's worst enemy. But to verbally tear us apart is fateful, it is one of fascism's best friends. What divides us the most is something we have the least power to change. It's the ongoing war in Gaza. The Middle East conflicts have divided the minds of leftists/democrats like us for decades and since October 7th, 2023, one of them does even more. Everyone has their own opinion, it's the way of democracy. Every democrat really interested in a discussion should be allowed to communicate their position. As democrats, we should discuss this topic. But let's not do it in a way that makes fascists to triumph and us to peter out in an endless fight regarding this topic which we can't really change. There are so many topics we could influence, one of the most obvious being to be a digital alternative to BigTech's platforms.
Generally:
The most important Usenet-rule for us: Don't feed the troll. If it's obvious that your discussion partner doesn't want to discuss constructively, don't answer. The most obvious trolls are those with accounts younger than a week (sometimes just insulting). If such an account appears in a discussion: Ignore + report. It might be a good idea to check the account age before discussing with someone.
What seems obvious is to argue in good faith.
Do not insult anybody, it won't help you nor anybody else. No lemmy user is a nazi/etc. At least I didn't see one so far. If you want to insult a lemmy user e.g. as nazi, first calm down, maybe wait some time before responding. If you still want to insult this user, it definitely is the better choice to ignore that user. Calling someone a nazi or insulting in another way is nothing that will help us in any sense. If a user actually advocates nazi ideas, it is a troll. If you want to start insulting: Don't do it. If it's a troll: Don't respond, don't feed it, just report it and shut up.
Please (!) use sources. If you state something which isn't your opinion or an obvious fact, don't say "Uh, I heard it somewhere", but name a reliable source.
If there's already an ongoing discussion between two users, only join it if you have something important to say. It's not very helpful if there are four people discussing with one person at the same time.
Now to Middle East:
What we should definitely agree on is the meaning of "Zionism". The simple definition I have in mind is: Zionism is to advocate for the foundation of a Jewish national state (as a result of the Jewish experiences during the holocaust and centuries of persecution) and thus the approval for Israel to exist (which is one of the two conditions we need for a 2 state solution). That's the most common German definition, but it doesn't really fit e.g. the US-American definition. We might distinguish between zionism and neo-zionism, etc. German "Zionismus" does NOT mean killing all non-Jews on the territory you want to establish your state. If we can't find a solution, at least keep in mind that Zionism is defined differently by different people and maybe ask the person you're discussing with, what they mean by "Zionism". I saw way to many arguments among fellow lemmings who just had different definitions of Zionism and weren't aware that their counterparts didn't have the same definition.
Another difference: Comparing some genocide like the current one in Gaza to the Holocaust/Shoa may be a different thing outside of Germany. But from a German perspective: Claiming some genocide to be like the holocaust is to trivialise the holocaust. Hear me out. The holocaust was exactly one genocide during nazi Germany's 12 years, an industiralized and detailly plannend murdering of more than 6 million people. A genocide with so many victims hasn't happend again and since nazi Germany conducted it, Germans are especially aware of the holocaust. There are no "holocausts", because it's just this single event. Holocaust remembrance isn't about ranking human suffering, it's about preserving the truth of a uniquely horrifying event so that it is never repeated — in its actual form. If you compare the holocaust and some other genocide, then the holocaust starts to be just one genocide among many others. And there's not even need for comparing them. Every genocide is a tragedy, every death. At the same time, actual German neo-nazis and/or antisemites constantly try to trivialise the holocaust, also by comparing it to other genocides or comparing the millions of German deaths during the second world war. German source. For the reasons described, most Germans (myself included) do not compare the holocaust with anything else and perceive comparsions as antisemitic. Outside of Germany this perspective doesn't seem to be shared. But now you might understand why comparsions are perceived like that by Germans. If it's forbidden in German communities to compare holocaust and Gaza, it's not because criticizing the genocide in Gaza isn't allowed. Criticizing this current genocide of course is allowed, just comparsions to the holocaust aren't.
And more concrete for the current war in Gaza, I hope we can find an agreement on the following, I copied the first part (1-49) from here and edited some minor sentence-parts.
Some Jews are shitty and awful people.
Some Muslims are shitty and awful people.
Some Christians are shitty and awful people.
Some Arabs are shitty and awful people.
Some Americans are shitty and awful people.
Some Israelis are shitty and awful people.
Some Palestinians are shitty and awful people.
Not all Jews are Israelis.
Not all Israelis are Jews.
Not all Jews are white.
Not all Israelis are white.
Not all Muslims are Arabs.
Not all Arabs are Muslim.
Not all Palestinians are Muslim.
Not all Arabs are Palestinian.
Not all Palestinians are Hamas.
Texans are not Arizonans.
Germans are not Dutch.
Palestinians are not Jordanians.
Egyptians are not Palestinians.
Where you are born does not actually determine anything about you.
Israeli governments have committed acts of terror and violence [=> ongoing genocide] against the Palestinian people.
Palestinian organizations have committed acts of terror and violence against the Israeli people.
US leaders do things that we do not agree with (Trump).
Israeli leaders do things that Israelis do not agree with.
Palestinian leaders do things that Palestinians do not agree with.
What happened to the Israeli civilians on 10/7 is fucking awful, and Hamas has earned every fucking thing that the Israeli military throws at them. [This point is about Hamas, not the genocide. Hamas supresses the Palestinian people and doesn't care about them dying, but it's still genocide by Israel which uses the Hamas as excuse. Hamas has earned it, but the civilians are victims of a genocide.][I personally just advocate for peace, but fine.]
What is happening in Gaza to civilians is fucking awful, and not the smartest thing for Israel to do, and some aspects of Israeli military activity ~~may be~~ are war crimes, and it doesn’t have to be genocide for it to be tragic. [As far as I know, meanwhile several international organisations like UN have declared it a genocide, so that part is obsolete.]
You can advocate for Palestine without being a racist, antisemitic piece of shit.
You can advocate for the existence of Israel and some of its actions without being a racist, anti-Arab piece of shit. You can also call the current Israeli government right-wing nationalists since that's a tenable opinion.
People like to have sex with each other, and they sometimes procreate with people outside their tribes.
No one in the Levant is indigenous. Every fucking empire in history has fucked their way through the Levant. There is no pure indigeneity. And let’s be honest: the entire planet has been colonized by hominids from the Great Rift Valley.
Palestinians and Israelis share paternal Bronze-Age DNA. Yes, even Ashkenazi Jews.
Stop with the fucking history lessons about what the Israelites did, or what the Ottomans did, or what the British did, or whatever. IT IS FUCKING IMMATERIAL. There is a pile of dog shit in the living room. Instead of arguing about whose dog took the bigger shit in the living room, maybe focus on how we clean up the dog shit.
Any people have a right to group together and self-identify as whatever-the-fuck-they-want-to-self-identify as. When they get large enough as a group, those people have the right to self-determination and self-respect and a state where they can control their own destinies.
Whether you like the idea or not, the Israeli state exists. It will also continue to exist until the ISRAELI PEOPLE decide they don’t want it to exist. Your opinion on this matter (if you are not Israeli) is fucking immaterial.
Whether you like the idea or not, a Palestinian state will exist at some point, and it will continue to exist until the PALESTINIAN PEOPLE decide they don’t want it to exist. Your opinion on this matter (if you are not Palestinian) is fucking immaterial.
You cannot bomb a people into true submission — the Blitz did not ‘soften’ British morale.
You cannot fight a war and kill a people’s desire for safety, freedom, and self-determination. You can stifle it. You can try to ignore it, but one way or another, you will have to deal with it. This is as true for my Israeli friends as it is for my Palestinian ones.
The solution to the Middle East conflict will not be found on Threads, or TikTok, or [Lemmy or] in the streets of any city that isn’t within a 2-hour car ride from downtown Jerusalem. [Of course we can still discuss solutions, but we're not the diplomats who one day will solve it.]
If you want to be an ally to Palestinian people, please feel free to continue to advocate for peace, security, and self-determination, but do it without dehumanizing or stereotyping Israelis and Jews.
If you want to be an ally to Israeli people, please feel free to continue to advocate for peace, security, and self-determination, but do it without dehumanizing or stereotyping Palestinians and, Muslims, and Arabs.
If you just want to advocate for peace, try to be a voice for reason, and don’t inflame or over-simplify an already chaotic, complicated, and deeply emotional issue. Help people find common ground and help bring the temperature down. You can be moral and stand up for what you believe in without being an asshole.
Yes, an amazing one-state liberal democracy where Palestinian boys & girls could fuck Israeli boys & girls & make cute babies, & everybody spoke Hebrew & Arabic & we all agreed that hummus and falafel are delicious and Palestinian and sufganiyot are delicious and Israeli would be awesome. But this wonderful future has about as much chance of happening in the near term as this 5'8" 53-year-old Palestinian has being a starter for the Golden State Warriors. A two-state solution is the only workable one.
Screw Hamas.
Screw the current Israeli government.
Screw the war criminal Netanyahu and his fascist friend Trump.
Screw all the wars of aggression against Israel in the last decades.
Screw the current Iranian dictatorship which btw. supports terror organizations like Hamas.
Screw Hisbollah.
Screw Taliban.
Screw terror organizations in general.
The only ones suffering are the people of Middle East, who would suffer less with a democratic two state solution.
We as Lemmy-users should act as described earlier, constructively discuss the topic. Middle East is one little topic we do not agree on in comparsion to all the great things we can agree on. I hope this post establishes a basis we as Lemmy community can discuss on. There's so much worse in the world than fellow democrats who don't share your opinion. Don't let it divide us, let's fight fascism together.
Sekundärer Antisemitismus ist jede Art von Holocaust-Leugnung und -Relativierung. So bezeichnete die rechtsextreme NPD die Luftangriffe auf deutsche Städte im Zweiten Weltkrieg als "Bombenholocaust".
More often than not, internet fights have little to no direct effect on the real world. We all love drama. And fighting some rando on the internet genuinely feels like you stuck it to someone. That's the thing with them. But we all need to ask ourselves if it did something for the people, or the cause we claim to support. If yes, it might be warranted, if no it was just mire selfish than helping.
Firstly, i want to start off my comment to state a few things. I am arab living in the middle east myself, so i am very biased.
Look, i get where you're coming from; i do. But this there's a reason why we have such heavy disagreements. I'm going to comment on a few things, but know i'm not trying to come off as rude or accusative; just trying to discuss.
(I'm going to assume by your use of "democrat" you mean people who desire democracy, and not a US democrat)
And still we can’t stop fighting against each other? No one here supports the rise of what hates this great community. We should stand together and share the spirit described. We certainly do to some extent, but every time we don’t and instead of discussing start fighting against each other, the fascists will jump for joy, since we support their rise
Well, genocide is naturally going to have a lot of fierce debate around it. We can fight zionism and fascism at the same time, we don't have to stop the world for each and every single issue and solve them one by one; we can try to solve multiple.
It’s the ongoing war in Gaza
Genocide*
But let’s not do it in a way that makes fascists to triumph and us to peter out in an endless fight regarding this topic which we can’t really change. There are so many topics we could influence, one of the most obvious being to be a digital alternative to BigTech’s platforms.
I heavily disagree. Apathy is just exploited by the enemy. Even if our total impact is small, it is worth it.
Generally:
The most important Usenet-rule for us: Don’t feed the troll. If it’s obvious that your discussion partner doesn’t want to discuss constructively, don’t answer. The most obvious trolls are those with accounts younger than a week (sometimes just insulting). If such an account appears in a discussion: Ignore + report. It might be a good idea to check the account age before discussing with someone.
What seems obvious is to argue in good faith.
Do not insult anybody, it won’t help you nor anybody else. No lemmy user is a nazi/etc. At least I didn’t see one so far. If you want to insult a lemmy user e.g. as nazi, first calm down, maybe wait some time before responding. If you still want to insult this user, it definitely is the better choice to ignore that user. Calling someone a nazi or insulting in another way is nothing that will help us in any sense. If a user actually advocates nazi ideas, it is a troll. If you want to start insulting: Don’t do it. If it’s a troll: Don’t respond, don’t feed it, just report it and shut up.
Please (!) use sources. If you state something which isn’t your opinion or an obvious fact, don’t say “Uh, I heard it somewhere”, but name a reliable source.
If there’s already an ongoing discussion between two users, only join it if you have something important to say. It’s not very helpful if there are four people discussing with one person at the same time.
I wholeheartedly agree.
What we should definitely agree on is the meaning of “Zionism”. The simple definition I have in mind is: Zionism is to advocate for the foundation of a Jewish national state (as a result of the Jewish experiences during the holocaust and centuries of persecution) and thus the approval for Israel to exist (which is one of the two conditions we need for a 2 state solution). That’s the most common German definition, but it doesn’t really fit e.g. the US-American definition
That's debatable, since zionism is about advocating for an ethnostate. But your latter comment, it not fitting the "US-American" definition is false. It's the most widely used definition. Hell, it's literally the original definition. Zionism is about the Palestine region, not just anywhere.
Why am i bringing this up? Because there were already people there. No matter what, they don't just have a right to establish their own ethnostate, claiming the land where there were already people of different ethnicities/cultures living there for an incredibly long time.
This is afaik about zionism and i may be missing something. So, if i got something wrong here, then please correct me.
What is happening in Gaza to civilians is fucking awful, and not the smartest thing for Israel to do, and some aspects of Israeli military activity ~~may be~~ are war crimes, and it doesn’t have to be genocide for it to be tragic. [As far as I know, meanwhile several international organisations like UN have declared it a genocide, so that part is obsolete.]
"Not the smartest thing to do" is a bit of an understatement, it's a genocide after all 😁
Stop with the fucking history lessons about what the Israelites did, or what the Ottomans did, or what the British did, or whatever. IT IS FUCKING IMMATERIAL. There is a pile of dog shit in the living room. Instead of arguing about whose dog took the bigger shit in the living room, maybe focus on how we clean up the dog shit.
The first thing that should be done first and foremost, is stopping the violence and genocide. But to claim history has absolutely no stake/meaning in this is wrong.
We as Lemmy-users should act as described earlier, constructively discuss the topic. Middle East is one little topic we do not agree on in comparsion to all the great things we can agree on
I'm sure this is worded wrong, but one little topic? There are hundreds of thousands of human beings suffering and dying because of these conflicts, It is not a little topic. This isn't a small disagreement to have with someone.
That's it. Apologies if i sounded rude anywhere, it's 9pm and i'm tired 😁
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Maybe not all that close, but it's the best I can think of right now.
I think it has the general old school vibe, maybe you could tweak the colors to be a bit brighter like your example?
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in reply to InFerNo • • •XFCE looks closest shape-wise. it also has the advantage that you can customise it using css.
while not exactly what you're looking for, DesktopPal97 may be worth looking into as a base for your own theme.
DesktopPal97 for XFCE
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in reply to InFerNo • • •Looks like the design of LCARS (Star trek).
So you may like this theme or similar to this one.
LCARS-Desktop
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in reply to James R Kirk • • •Well, those windows reminded me of this old VLC skin.
And no, not a bot. Just a random internet user.
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in reply to InFerNo • • •I don't know of a specific theme in the neubrutalism/neobrutalism style (names that are generally used to describe this style or aesthetic), but it shouldn't be too hard to make.
For anyone unfamiliar it's generally defined by flat, blocky layouts, with thick borders, single color drop shadows and a few bold high contrast colors (think CGA and EGA monitors if you're that old). It often features “unpolished” elements like flat simple shapes. Bold fonts and monospace fonts are pretty common.
There are a few resources out there if anyone wants to play around with this style.
github.com/ComradeAERGO/Awesom…
dribbble.com/shots/20764973-Ne…
nngroup.com/articles/neobrutal…
Neobrutalism: Definition and Best Practices
Hayat Sheikh (Nielsen Norman Group)sudo_halt
in reply to InFerNo • • •Neubrutalism?
I was developing a widget toolkit that implements neubrutalsim but it's defunct now... Fuck life