cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/28808772
Finally released an alpha build for the PeerTube recommendation algorithm!
Basic UI is complete. If you want to try it out, the link is here:
š github.com/solidheron/peertubeā¦New features since the last build:
- Sort by videos that share your time engagement similarity.
- Sort by videos that share your like similarity.
- Display of like similarity cosine values.
- Basic information shown for recommended videos (title, account, and channel names).
- 404 check for generated instance links (so you donāt get stuck clicking into dead videosāyouāll know which instance hosts the video).
- De-ranking for previously seen videos (simply a 0.5x multiplier on time and like similarity).Features from previous builds:
- Ability to input multiple instance domain names (DNs) and generate playable video links.
- Limit of 5 recommendations per channel to avoid floods (e.g., during testing, The Linux Experiment would dominate otherwiseāthis limit is more of a failsafe than a feature).Personal thoughts:
I still think cosine similarity beats chronological algorithms.
This algorithm also synergizes with other algorithmsāit's great for finding videos that appear next to or below what you're currently watching.You can also revisit videos you previously liked to help strengthen your like similarity vectors.
Moving forward: basic design philosophies and current issues
Thereās an issue Iām calling the āLinux pipeline.ā
Basically, Linux-related videos tend to dominate PeerTubeās well-produced content.
Since the algorithm relies on English words in descriptions, titles, and tags, Linux videosāwhich sometimes have fewer general keywordsāend up being more "orthogonal" to typical user vectors, causing lower ranking.Another challenge:
Itās really hard to properly combine like cosine similarity and time engagement cosine similarity.
You could add them, but it doesnāt fully make sense:
- High like similarity + high time engagement similarity = you probably like and will watch the video longer.
- But short videos can be liked even if they contribute almost nothing to time engagement (because time engagement is based on percentage watched Ć video length).If I combined them, it would basically enter machine learning territory:
You'd have to adjust proportions dynamically based on user behavior.
Since I want this algorithm scoped to one person only (no data sharing yet), that level of ML is out of scope for now.(Sharing data across devices could come laterāBrave browser has sync features, and PeerTube watch history syncing could be possible.)
Summary:
Most of the data structure is settling into place.
Future updates will probably focus on expanding the data structure and making small improvements.
currently just a browser extension that monitors your the peertube videos your watch and stores them locally - solidheron/peertube_recomendation_algorythmGitHub
like this
don't like this
I think open discovery algorithms are the way. We are against algos but sorting by like similarity would be beneficial.
What are you guys thinking? @dessalines@lemmy.ml @nutomic@lemmy.ml Are you optimistic about this or fuck any algorithms?
like this
A few years ago my wife and I built a computer out of old parts for her friend's then 10 years old son. Last month we were visiting them, and I heard the wife's friend say something funny that I thought I'd share with you.
They live on the other side of the city, this was the kid's first computer, and his mom doesn't have much computer experience either, so our goal was to build something that was easy to use and hard to break from the beginning. Originally I choose ElementaryOS since it seemed to fit the bill, but after a year or two it turned out that it couldn't be upgraded to a new major version without a full reinstall so it got stuck with an older version. We didn't visit that often, and the kid's games still worked so it wasn't a major issue until Factorio broke due to glibc incompatibility.
When his birthday was coming up last month we bought him a SSD to make the computer a little bit zippier without a major upgrade, and I thought I'd give him a brand new Linux experience too, so I asked for advice here and in the end chose Bazzite. While I was helping the kid with the installation, I overheard his mom saying in the other room:
This Linux thing.. We've never had any problems with it, he just clicks something to install it and it works. Unlike normal computers, where you always have to do things and fix them.
Perhaps not the most eloquent, but I consider it a very good review.
Recommend a distro for a 13-year-old gamer
Couldn't find a dedicated community for distro recommendations, I hope it's ok to ask here.A couple of years ago my wife and I built a computer and gave it to a friend's kid. We put ElementaryOS on it since that seemed pretty fool-proof, but it appears to require a re-install to upgrade major versions so it has been stuck with an old glibc and because of that he can't play Factorio.
For his 13:th birthday we bought him a SSD so it would be a good time to reinstall Linux, but is there perhaps some better choice than ElementaryOS? They live quite far away so I can't easily pop over to fix his computer if something breaks, we don't spend enough time there for me to teach him to fix things himself, and he doesn't seem very interested in learning how computers/operatings systems work either.
- Hardware: Some old Intel CPU with 8GB DDR3 and a GTX1080
- Usage: Gaming through Steam+Proton, Lutris and browsing.
- Requirements: Games work, OS never breaks on updates. Doesn't need to be "kid proof", I don't think he touches any stuff he doesn't know what it does.
I guess this would be with Arch, but technically it's steamOS beta
Probably will need console commands, but if there's flatpak software with this ability, that would be sweet.
Any suggestions?
pacman -Syu to update?
At the very least:
Yazi
Eza
Kitty
Fish
Fastfetch
Feh
Trash-cli
Micro
Spotify-player
Nmcli
Polybar
Rofi (fuzzel for wayland)
Librewolf
Like the title says I want to install a Linux distro on my old laptop. I am currently looking into installing a SSD, but I want to learn a distro for fun! I haven't been able to find a good current resource aside from the Linux Masters here, so I am actually asking for help on the Internet! What distro is the best!?
EDIT: thanks so much everyone for your recommendations and advice! I installed a couple of different systems before deciding that I think the laptop can support Fedora with KDE plasma, and I'm finding it really attractive and easy to use. You will see once I get some more disk space used how the performance holds up! If it runs into trouble I might switch the machine back over to mint with, that one seemed to run really well and was pretty familiar seeming from my Windows days, also seem more low end and booted a little faster. I think I might even end up switching to Linux on my desktop I had so much fun with it last night!! I really appreciate all the information and will probably be experimenting with a more lightweight build on this computer in the future! I'm a Linux user and it was easier than I ever thought! ā¤ļø
I want to learn a Distro for fun.
Are you just using this laptop to dip your toes into Linux and see if you like it? I would recommend Debian + XFCE. It's lightweight, it prioritizes stability over new features, and it's a fairly easy UI for a newbie to understand. Alternatively Linux Mint MATE Edition might be worth a try. It's also lightweight but is a bit more "up to date" than Debian feature wise.
Debian gets feature updates significantly slower than other distros, instead it focuses on insuring stability and security. It's rock solid.
Linux Mint is actually based on Ubuntu (which itself is derived from Debian), so for the most part the two are fairly similar. There are a few key differences but for someone learning Linux you don't need to worry about them. Pick one of them, get your feet wet, and then google the differences to see if you want to switch.
After all, endless Distro hopping is a right of passage for all fledgling Linux users! š
Objectives of learning and fun?
You do not state noobliness, ease of setup or time to install, number of failures/retries or anything like that.
**EDIT: you did state noobliness later on in comments so . . . i'd go stock debian +lxqt. ****
~~or all that I'd recommend arch. Do not use archinstall script , that reduces both learning and fun. Resource? follow the archwiki and go through lots of linked pages at each step. If you do wuss out and install stock debian (+lxqt)~~
maybe partition off a spare 10-20GB so you can play around with an arch install after you realise how boring and uneducational the others are (joke)
I remember some time ago installing an app that allowed me to film in the background whilst having another app open on top. I believe this was from f-droid. I actually have a legitimate use for this for crime evidence.
Could someone please suggest its name if they know, either from f-droid or a decent (trustworthy) app from the play store please.
Hi all, I'm trying to have my rpi5 running raspberry OS communicate with the Internet only through the tun0 interface (vpn). For this I wanted to create a ufw ruleset. Unfortunately, I've hit a roadblock and I can't figure out where I'm going wrong.
Can you help me discover why this ruleset doesn't allow Internet communication over tun0? When I disable ufw I can access the Internet.
The VPN connection is already established, so it should keep working, right?
I hope you can help me out!
This is the script with the ruleset:
sudo ufw reset
sudo ufw default deny incoming
sudo ufw default deny outgoing
sudo ufw allow ssh
sudo ufw allow from 192.168.0.0/16
sudo ufw allow out to 192.168.0.0/16
sudo ufw allow in on tun0
sudo ufw allow out on tun0
sudo ufw route allow in on tun0 out on wlan0
sudo ufw route allow in on wlan0 out on tun0
sudo ufw enable
This is a followup to my introduction of BlogOnLemmy, a simple blog frontend. If you haven't seen it, no need because I will be explaining how it works and how you can run your own BlogOnLemmy for free.
Having a platform to connect your content to likeminded people is invaluable. The Fediverse achieves this in a platform agnostic way, so in theory it shouldn't matter which platform we use. But platform have different userbases that interact with posts in different ways. I've always preferred the forum variety, where communities form and discussion is encouraged.
My posts are shared as original content on Lemmy, and that's who it's meant for. Choosing for a traditional blog style to make a more palatable platform for a wider audience, and in this way also promoting Lemmy.
Starting off I did not want the upkeep of another federated instance. Not every new thing that is deployed on the Fediverse needs to stand on its own or made from the ground up as an ActivityPub compatible service. But rather use existing infrastructure, already federated, already primed for interconnectivity. Taking it one step further is not a having a back-end at all, a 'dumb' website as it were. Posts are made, edited, and cross-posted on Lemmy.
The world of CSS and JavaScript on the other hand - how websites are styled and made feature-rich - is littered with libraries. Being treated like black boxes, often just a few functions are used with the rest clogging up our internet experience. Even jQuery, which is used by over 74% of all websites, is already 23kB in its smallest form. I'm not planning on having the smallest possible footprint*, but rather showing a modern web browser provides an underused toolset of natively supported functionality; something the first webdevs would have given their left kidney for.
Lastly, to improve maintainability and simplicity, one page is enough for a blog. Provided that its content can be altered dynamically.
*See optimization
Even before the browser completely loads the page, we can take a look at the URL. With our constraints only two types of additions are available for us, the anchor and GET parameters. When an anchor, or '#', is present websites scroll to a specific place in a website after loading. We can hijack this behavior and use it to load predefined categories. Like '#blog' or '#linkdumps'. For posts, '#/post/3139396' looks nicer than '?post=3139396', but anchors are rarely search engine compatible. So I'm extracting the GET parameter to load an individual post.
Running JavaScript before the page has done loading should be swift and easy, like coloring the filters or setting Dark/Light mode, so it doesn't delay the site.
A simple 'Fetch' is all that's required. Lemmy's API is extensive already, because it's used by different frontends and apps that make an individualās experience unique. When selecting a category, we are requesting all the posts made by me in one or more lemmy communities. A post or permalink uses the same post_id as on the Lemmy instance. Pretty straight forward.
When we get a reply from the Lemmy instance, the posts are formatted in Markdown. Just as they are when you submit the post. But our browsers use HTML, a different markup language that is interpretable by our browsers. This is where the only code that's not written by me steps in, a Markdown to HTML layer called snarkdown. It's very efficient and probably the smallest footprint possible for what it is, around 1kB.
When my blog was launched, I was using a Cloudflare proxy, for no-hassle https handling, caching and CDN. Within the EU, I'm aiming for sub-100ms* to be faster than the blink of an eye. With a free tier of Cloudflare we can expect a variance between 150 and 600ms at best, but intercontinental caching can take seconds.
Nginx and OpenLiteSpeed are regarded as the fastest webservers out there, I often use Apache for testing but for deployment I prefer Nginx's speed and reliability. I could sidetrack here and write another 1000 words about the optimization of static content and TLS handling in Nginx, but that's a story for another time.
* For the website, API calls are made asynchronously while the page is loaded and are not counted
All data being transferred on the internet is split up into manageable chunks or frames. Their size or Maximum Transmission Unit, is defined by IEEE 802.3-2022 1.4.207 with a maximum of 1518 bytes*. They usually carry 1460 bytes of actual application data, or Maximum Segment Size.
Followed by most server operating systems, RFC 6928 proposes 10x MSS (= Congestion Window) for the first reply. In other words, the server 'tests' your network by sending 10 frames at once. If your device acknowledges each frame, the server knows to double the Congestion Window every subsequent reply until some are dropped. This is called TCP Slow Start, defined in RFC 5681.
10 frames of 1460 bytes contain 14.6kB of usable data. Or at least, it used to.
The modern web changed with the use of encryption. The Initial Congestion Window, in my use case, includes 2 TLS frames and from each frame it takes away an extra 29 bytes. Reducing our window to 11.4kB. If we manage our website to fit within this first Slow Start routine, we avoid an extra round trip in the TCP/IP-protocol. Speeding up the website as much as your latency to the server. Min-maxing TCP Traffic is the name of the game.
* Can vary with MTU settings of your network or interface, but around 1500 (+ 14 bytes for headers) is the widely accepted default
\
Visualizes two raw web requests, 10.7kB vs 13.3kB with TCP Slow Start\
- Above Blue: Request Starts\
- Between Green: TLS Handshake\
- Inside Red: Initial Congestion Window
Icons are tricky, because describing pixel positions takes up a considerable amount of data. Instead SVG's are commonplace, creating complex shapes programmatically, and significantly reducing its footprint. Feathericons is a FOSS icon library providing a beautiful SVG rendered solution for my navbar. For the favicon, or website icon, I coded it manually with the same font as the blog itself. But after different browsers took liberties rendering the font and spacing, I converted it to a path traced design. Describing each shape individually and making sure it's rendered the same consistently.
If we sum up the filesizes we're looking at around 50kB of data. Luckily servers compress* our code, and are pretty good at it, leaving only 15kB to be transferred; just above our 11kB threshold. By making the code unreadable for humans using minifying scripts we can reduce the final size even more. Only... the files that make up this blog are split up. Common guidelines recommend doing so to prevent one big file clogging up load times. For us that means splitting up our precious 11kB in multiple round trips, the opposite of our goal. Inline code blocks to the rescue, with the added bonus of the entire site now being compressed into one file making the compression more efficient to end optimization at a neat 10.7kB.
* The Web uses Gzip. A more performant choice today is Brotli, which I compiled for use on my server
All good in theory, now let's see the effect in practice. I've deployed the blog 4 times, and each version was measured for total download time from 20 requests. In the first graph we notice the impact of not staying inside the Initial Congestion Window, where only the second scenario is delayed by a second round trip when loading the first page.
Scenario 1. and 3. have separate files, and separate requests are made. Taking priority in displaying the website, or the first file, but neglecting potential useable space inside the init_cwnd. We can tell when comparing the second graph, it ends up almost doubling their respective total load times.
The final version is the only one transferring all the data in one round trip, and is the one deployed on the main site. With total download times as low as 51ms, around 150ms as a soft upper limit, and 85ms average in Europe. Unfortunately, that means worldwide tests show load times of 700ms, so I'll eventually implement a CDN.
I'll be leaving up dev versions until there's a significant update to the site
Speeds like this can only be achieved when you're close to my server, which is in London. For my Eurobros that means blazing fast response times. For anyone else, cdn.martijn.sh points to Cloudflare's CDN and git.martijn.sh to GitHub's CDN. These services allow us to distribute our blog to servers across the globe, so requesting clients always choose the closest server available.
An easy and free way of serving a static webpage. Fork the BlogOnLemmy repository and name it 'GitHub-Username'.github.io. Your website is now available as username.github.io and even supports the use of custom domain names. Mine is served at git.martijn.sh.
While testing its load times worldwide, I got response times as low as 64ms with 250ms on the high end. Not surprisingly they deliver the page slightly faster globally than Cloudflare does, because they're optimizing for static content.
Essential for blogging in current year, Webmentions keep websites up-to-date when links to them are created or edited. Fortunately Lemmy has got us covered, when posts are made the first instance sends a Webmention to the hosters of any links that are mentioned in the post.
To stay within scope I'll be using webmention.io for now, which enables us to get notified when linked somewhere else by adding just a single line of HTML to our code.
Edit: GitHub | ./Martijn.sh > Blog
Feather is a collection of simply beautiful open source icons. Each icon is designed on a 24x24 grid with an emphasis on simplicity, consistency and readability.feathericons.com
like this
What he did was half a decade ago! The comment section is wiled, keep it down.
I saw this in my Mastodon feed and wanted to share, and that was a mistake.
Edit: I label myself an anarcho-syndicalist, and I donāt watch PewDiePie. I have my fair share of opinions about him from his early days but there is no need to label Felix as a nazi. I used my brain cells to check some of his latest videos and I donāt see any mention of nazism fascism or any political mentions! What I do see is Felix starting a family in Japan, traveling around Japan, and just being a human living his life!
I don't normally watch him but this popped on my feed, and I'm pretty impressed. Dude really fell the Arch+Hyprland rabbit hole and ended up loving it.
Probably one of the largest YouTuber switching to Linux, and is very positive about it.
That Hyprland rice is pretty sick too.
#ad - Shop Gfuel sale: https://creator.gfuel.com/pewdiepie š§#Subscribeš§š° Get "The Kjellberg Mail" (family newsletter w Mertz): https://the-kjellberg-mail....YouTube
It's good, and it's funny. So much so that I'm jealous.
With this potential critical mass combined with the gaming community it's all downhill for Windoze from here.
PS To force GPU on Steam games in Linux, because games might unknowingly perform needlessly bad.
-āÆ-
āļø arscyni.cc: modernity ā nature.
A sentient stack of stardust's thoughts on nothing and everything, influenced by Cynicism, pursuing modernity in proportion to nature.www.arscyni.cc
Today i took my first steps into the world of Linux by creating a bookable Mint Cinamon USB stick to fuck around on without wiping or portioning my laptop drive.
I realised windows has the biggest vulnerability for the average user.
While booting off of the usb I could access all the data on my laptop without having to input a password.
After some research it appears drives need to be encrypted to prevent this, so how is this not the default case in Windows?
I'm sure there are people aware but for the laymen this is such a massive vulnerability.
This is not that big of a deal most of the time, since you are the only person interacting with your computer, but it's worth remembering when you decide to recycle or donate -- you have to securely wipe in that case. Also bear in mind, if you do encrypt your drive, there are now more possibilities for total data loss.
Oh, fun fact: you can change a users windows password inside Linux. Comes in handy for recovery, ie, user forgot their password.
Yes, any laptop without an encrypted storage drive will have its data accessible by someone booting from a live USB.
It really is a massive vulnerability, but it's not well known because so few people even understand the concept of a 'live USB' to make it a widespread threat or concern.
So yeah, if you're ever in possession of a Windows machine that doesn't have an encrypted disk, you can view the users' files without knowing their password via a live USB.
It's also not limited to laptops.
#ad - Shop Gfuel sale: https://creator.gfuel.com/pewdiepie š§#Subscribeš§š° Get "The Kjellberg Mail" (family newsletter w Mertz): https://the-kjellberg-mail....YouTube
Wrapping up COSMICās main features before the first beta release.System76 Blog
The developer is just kind of insane. They reimplemented wlroots from scratch all on their own, a feat that cannot be understated, and the reason they did that is because of how massively they were outpacing wlroots development in terms of features.
just some things:
If the feature exists, hyprland has it, almost guaranteed, they are not minimalists, which I appreciate right now while wayland is still getting everything sorted out.
Oh they finally fixed the bloody dock. I used it ages ago when it was still oval and those square icons looked terrible on it. This is much better.
Have they given any updates on HDR support? I remember them mentioning years back that they planned it for the final release but I've not heard anything since.
Cool story bro. And I am one of the 9 people that worked on the team at Intel to implement your modern EFI/UEFI.
I just donāt have the time or energy to sit here and explain the whole fucking stack to a bunch of people who mostly could care less. But, Secureboot, itās a good thing, and the tools on linux get better every hour. Check out lanzaboote.
github.com/nix-community/lanzaā¦
Secure Boot for NixOS [maintainers=@blitz @raitobezarius @nikstur] - nix-community/lanzabooteGitHub
Fair. Although, I consider Microsoft's market "Most laptops" since Apple kind of does its own thing and Chromebooks are ultra-low end laptops. Thus Microsoft gets ~95% of the market for themselves.
Personally, I'd say that's a clear case of monopoly since MS controls this entire segment of "non-Apple, non-ultra low power laptop, PCs", but you're right - there are other players. The thing is, they have relatively tiny niches in which they thrive and in fact pose no threat to the monopolist.
But I now I see how you see it as an oligopoly, which is quite valid.
I recognize this post is mostly about windows, but I'd like the feedback of some Linux users who use windows, have had similar issues or can reproduce it. If nothing else, if anyone has seen this issue before, this thread will show the rest of how bad things have gotten.
TLDR: You can't install Firefox on certain windows versions unless you use the store, and even then, it's very difficult to find. I'm installing Mint on my friend's laptop Monday.
This all started with my friend having issues logging into a web portal on her personal computer. She was unable to do so on any browser on her home computer, and only on Firefox on her office computer.
When I tried to download and run the installer myself, windows refused, telling me something called s-mode was preventing me. Progressing through the dialogs, I realized the way to disable s-mode was in a greyed out foot note link a few pages back. Fuck you windows.
I go back, click the link, and I was redirected to the store with a prompt to disable s-mode, but the button to do so was greyed out and can't be clicked. It mentions you can do so by getting windows 11 pro. Fuck paying. I'll install Chocolately.
This is where it started to get REALLY. Press win key. Start typing powershell. It shows a link to me some automation app with the powershell icon. I must have mistyped something. I did it again. Powershell pops up. I wasn't convinced I typed it wrong, so I did it again. BACK TO THE AUTOMATION APP. I do it again. BACK TO POWERSHELL. I do this five or 6 times before I asked her to watch so I can confirm I'm not losing my mind.
So I click on the correct admin powershell and paste the chocolately install command. I didn't expect it to work at this point, and my suspicions were confirmed. Once again, I was redirected to the windows store. I look at the settings and several other things. Nothing. This was the point I said fuck it, I'll install it from the store. She's upset and needs it to work remotely.
I type in the search bar "firefox" and I am given 3 results: "firefox", "firefox browser", and "mozilla firefox". None of which have an icon. Everything below it, safari, chrome etc have icons! I look at every of the 'firefox' results. None actually have Firefox. But now their's Vivaldi and Duck Duck Go. It fucking had Thunderbird!
Ok. Now I am PISSED. There is only one thing left to do. Alphabetic lists. I am scrolling down the F's the rest of the day if I have to. I am finding this shit. But no alpha lists. My last hope is 'Free Apps' And I FINALLY found it!
Does anyone have any idea at all what the fuck is going on? Have you seen this or anything remotely close? Has the hive mind awoken? I do recognize this is version-dependent, and Microsoft does distributed versions and telemetry to test prereleases against hardware. I'll get her version number on Monday. And then I'm installing Mint.
The easiest, fastest way to update or install software. Ninite downloads and installs programs automatically in the background.ninite.com
Something I've wondered. One of those "too good to be true, it probably is" type things. With all the FOSS especially for linux, installing package after package because a web search said it would fix your problem, how is it Linux isn't full of malware and such?
Id like to understand better so I can explain to others who are afraid of FOSS for those reasons. My best response is that since it's open source, people can see what it's doing and would right away notice something malicious. I wouldn't, since I'm not that into code, but others would.
I've just upgraded to Fedora Workstation 42 and am now unable to activate any GNOME extensions. The little switches in the GUI do not respond and it's the same for all extensions. The Extensions and Extensions Manager apps are both installed as flatpaks - do I need to adjust their permissions in Flatseal? Is the problem due to something else? Thanks!
Edit/solution:
I totally missed the 'Use Extensions' switch at the very top. All my extensions are working on the current GNOME version (48) now. I am the most silly. Hopefully the other solutions in the comments will be useful to someone else in future š
like this
This is really annoying.
Iām trying to use as little extensions as possible so I only use 4. 2 out of them havenāt upgraded to 48 yet and arenāt usable for now.
This is especially annoying because Iām trying to respect GnomĆ©s philosophy with my extensions..
I get you, like "been there, done that"
Nowadays I have like 10 if not 15 extensions (most of which are not essential to my workflow) and they make the already wonderful Gnome base just better for me personally
this is why I usually wait with recent distribution upgrades, another upside is: it saves me a bunch of headaches too since ā by THW time I do upgrade ā all the little bugs have usually been fixed
OS: Ubuntu 24.04
I have searched this for a while and seems i can't get my search terms right.
Back when ifuo/down system worked custom scripts were put under '/etc/network/if-up.d' etc. Now ubuntu uses netplan. But where to put custom script? That would handle tc rules in my case.
/etc/networkd-dispatcher/routable.d was told by internet but that just trows error during boot; ERROR:Unknown state for interface.
Ahh I see, I didn't know what tc was and assumed it was a typo and ignored it. I searched for a bit for your specific problem and didn't come up with much other than this:
You could also try
/usr/lib/networkd-dispatcher/routable.d/
Looks like you can also specify the scripts directoy with -S flag
manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/nā¦
My other thought is: maybe the location for the scripts is correct, but you're having another issue thats causing the unknown state error?
I havenāt tried Linux in a while and only really played around with XFCE and Cinnamon and reviving my old laptops, but Iāve just tried KDE Plasma and GNOME for a bit and DAMN they look good. Modern looking and not the weird Mica effect that Windows has. Very clean!
They both look great and I wouldnāt say one looks better than the other, just preference probably, just that GNOME looks more bubbly + rounded + bit like MacOS in a good way and Plasma looks more blocky + similar to Win10 taskbar
The touchscreen buts still appear to need a bit of work, on both Plasma and GNOME I made it freeze. For Plasma I opened the launcher button and tried to use the onscreen keyboard, and it kept on opening and closing very quickly, for GNOME I did the three finger swipe up gesture and everything became unresponsive. Also, Bluetooth weirdly doesnāt work on KDE but does on GNOME. Huh. Maybe just my device?
I really want to switch soon, maybe during the holidays Iāll get round to it š
edit: I think itās pretty crazy that a relatively small team (compared to the likes of Microsoft) can offer such a good UI and overall user experience! Thatās insane! The people who help make the distros are doing very good work and I wish them the best of luck! Hopefully the weird quirks and compatibility issues will iron out and Linux becomes mainsteam š
Ich habe eine Linux-Einsteigergruppe auf deutsch erstellt! Das Ziel ist, ohne Sprachbarriere ausschlieĆlich bei Linux zu helfen und darĆ¼ber auszutauschen.
Fortgeschrittene willkommen, um Wissen zu teilen!
Ok dann fickt euch halt XD
Auf der cooleren Instanz gibts bessere Laune
Hi, I tried using an email client over a year ago, and after trying almost all of them in the span of a week I gave up in frustration. Would anyone have a recommendation ? For an email client :
- That is actively maintained
- That is not controlled by a company that could pull a Mozilla on it (Thunderbird)
- That doesn't need 77 dependencies and 450 GB (WTF KMail š )
- That is reasonably fast and light and not too bloated (I just want to read emails, I don't need a full app suite...)
- That supports POP
- That supports writing HTML messages (sorry Claws, I really liked you but occasionally I kinda need to write formatted messages to preserve other people's sanity š
)
- That supports reading HTML messages without showing the HTML version as attachments so that every single email has the paperclip icon and I can't tell which messages have real attachments (Sylpheed I think ?)
- That supports MailDir format for portability (why isn't it the default everywhere already instead of weird non-portable formats ? š )
- If possible, that doesn't have an interface that's so awful it's a pain to find anything (Thunderbird)
I also tested Geary and another one but I don't remember much about it... I can't find out whether Geary does support POP and maildir, its documentation page is... well it's a list 8 lines long, but on a page called "Documentation" so it's technically counts as documentation I guess ? š
wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary/Docuā¦
Any recommendation would be greatly appreciated !
Lmao that's what ChatGPT recommended after I ranted about all the email clients I had tried š
fetchmail/getmail6 to fetch the mails via POP3 in maildir format + a local roundcube server + CLI tool to still be able to read mails outside home
but I thought I might be a bit overkill š
Installing Nvidia drivers from official repos provided by the maintainers of your distro? Easy as pie.
Installing Nvidia drivers from nvidia's website? Good luck my friend, I hope you know what you're doing.
Barely a week later and I had to do the thing. My partner uses LMDE and Nvidia 535 is the newest version in their repos, but we need nvidia 565+ for Kingdom Hearts 3.
Installing from the website wasn't as hard as I remember.
Immich 1.132 self-hosted photo and video backup solution replaces TypeORM with Kysely, introduces SQLite support, and enhances sync performance.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
:ro (read only).
Is it still braking changes when upgrading to a newer version?
In the past it felt like I was running an alpha version, which I spend more time fixing it than enjoying its features.
It's not too bad once you get used to it. It's still a lot of "throw this color here, check results, looks shit, change color, rinse and repeat." QT theming is pretty similar.
I had just taken days to perfectly set up my homemade theme last distro, matching QT and GTK, only to find out I didn't like the distro. I gave up after that and just slapped Gruvbox Dark on everything.
When in doubt and the work to theme gets too much: Gruvbox, Dracula, Tomorrow/Tomorrow Night, or Solarized will cover just about everything.
Hey guys,
I use my laptop with a Windows 11 / Linux Mint dual-boot system.
Since I actually use Linux Mint 98% of the time, I wanted to ask if it is still necessary to do the system and security updates for Windows 11 as long as Windows is not needed?
Thanks for the answer. I was unsure whether it could be dangerous to the PC itself if you ignore the updates for both operating systems.
Yes, I've also read about problems with dual-boot systems after Windows updates, which is why I've refused to use Windows too often to make the updates worthwhile.
Yes, Iāve also read about problems with dual-boot systems after Windows updates, which is why Iāve refused to use Windows too often to make the updates worthwhile.
Sometimes Windows just overwrites GRUB (or whatever you use on your system) bootloader. But it's relatively easy to fix using your distro's installation media. Just in case this happens you need to refer to your distro's documentation or community forums to fix it.
I do recommend however in the future to not put Windows and Linux on the same disk, but have 2, each for respective OS. That way, there's no way Windows will touch your Linux bootloader on the other disk, and you can still allow GRUB (or other bootloader) to chain-load Windows boot manager from the other disk.
A thorough examination of the performance effects of using undefined behaviour in compiler optimizations.
Method:
1. Modifying clang to not use UB where this is possible
2. Run a large suite of benchmarks on different architectures, compare results for modified and unmodified clang
3. Do statistics on the results
4. Examine performance deviations
5. Discuss factors which could bias results.
Very good science!
Result in short:
Only on ARM and if no link-time optimization is used, a systematic small positive performance effect can be seen. For Intel and AMD CPUs, there are no systematic improvements.
Average effects are typically below 2%, which is the typical effect of system and measurement noise. Often, effects are even negative. In some cases, benchmarks show large differences, and many of these can be fixed by simple modifications to the compiler or program.
For me, this result is also not too surprising:
Well, Rust supports inline assembly as well, though it is rarely used.
Rust C++ g++ - Which programs have fastest performance?benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net
It's kind of ironic to me that Linux is all for free and open source, but still uses a proprietary platform, and a horrible one at that. Before the fediverse, I'd understand, but now, there is no excuse whatsoever.
I understand that we can't just get up and leave everything proprietary behind all at once, since we have iPhones and Android phones. We all use proprietary software of some form, but I am of the mindset of using the least amount of proprietary possible.
I will ALWAYS look for FOSS first. I also want to make it as hard as possible for any corporation to track me. They'll probably still be able to track me, but I'm not going without a fight.
I could say the same about the Linux kernel using GitHub, but I understand how massive of an undertaking it would be to move the whole kernel to another platform. I'm sure there are other factors, too. Anyway, I just wanted to start a discussion and hear people's thoughts.
Thank you
Hey all, I'm stumped for the first time since adopting Linux. I can't get Plex to see any of my folders and I cannot just move my movies to plexmediaserver because I don't have the permissions.
I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the permissions commands and I'm not sure what the simplest way to set up my Plex library is. Has anyone been through this process that can help me out?
I remember running into this as well. It's because Plex installs itself with its own user. So post-install, you need to add the Plex account to your user Group and restart the service.
sudo usermod -a -G plex
sudo service plexmediaserver restart
Two commands and bam! You're in business.
ref: askubuntu.com/questions/458547ā¦
I have tried adding a directory outside my home directory. /media/plex and soft linked my /Videos directory to it. I have also added plex to udev group and also to my user group uid=124(plex) gi...Ask Ubuntu
We all have opinions on how to procedurally get someone started using Linux. To mixed effect. I wonder if we could be more successful if we paid closer attention to the machine between the seat and the keyboard. What mindsets can we instill in people that would increase the likelihood they stick with it? How would we go about instilling said mindsets?
I have my own opinions I will share later. I don't want to direct the conversation.
Back in the mid 2000s, we (my company) were on Windows, including three Windows 2000 Server licences. And we needed to upgrade. But it wasn't sustainable for the small company to pay for all these licences, when a free option was available.
So we slowly moved all applications over to cross-platform alternatives, Outlook to Thunderbird (called Firebird in those days), office to OpenOffice (now LibreOffice), Internet Explorer to Firefox, Corel Draw to Gimp, Company software like accounting to a XAMPP stack etc.
Once this was established and running well, we just changed the underlying platform from Windows to Ubuntu/Gnome, cursed for a few days and went on with our lives. And it worked for the past 20 years and counting. Now I am cursing, when I am forced to use Windows and can't find my butt using it.
So the mindset, if you want, was that of methodical planning and going slow, step by step. This is likely different if you're a gamer, or you need some very specialised apps, but for me, this was not the case. The games that I play, like Sudoku and Solitaire, work on any platform.
i guess convenience seekers can have linux these days. ppl don't care for the os, only for "the programs" they "need". i was agnostic to e.g. office suites (i hate em from the bottom of my heart) long before i considered trying a switch. that helped, i guess. a feature, that can only be reprocessed with a certain version of licensed software is fundamentally bullshit.
i wish people hadn't told me abt dual boot but using wine properly (or running a vm?). for windows will fuck up your boot section and that's very scary the first time, alone.
the only problem i see, is the upcoming dependency on copilot ... just leave those ppl be.
instead teach the willing some fundamentals:
$ rg -li bsd /usr 2>/dev/null | wc -l
1035en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(ā¦
OS family: Unix-like, FreeBSD, BSD
But sure, it's not a true ~~Scotsman~~ bsd.
I'm new to #Lemmy and making myself feel at home by posting a bit!
My first Linux distribution was elementary OS in early March 2020. Since then, Iāve tried Manjaro, Arch Linux, Fedora, went back to Manjaro, and since early January 2023, Iāve landed on Debian as my home in the #Linux world.
What was your first Linux distro?
The thoughtful, capable, and ethical replacement for Windows and macOSelementary.io
I have used Debian for the past 3 years, who else uses Debian?
Also, what makes you use Debian?
Switched from Ubuntu to Debian this year. With one extra GNOME package install, its basically the same without snaps, so perfect for me.
@trk@aussie.zone @ing since you mentioned Ubuntu. I also switched from Ubuntu Server to Debian for the servers, too.
It also includes a mixer for managing multiple audio sources.
Isn't that just a normal part of the/any operating system?
Well, in this case you can have different audio profiles for each channel.
About two weeks ago, I posted my frustrations with Linux, and how it seemed unstable and breaks too easily. At the time, that had been my experience every time I tried Linux over the last 20 years.
But I made an effort to persist, tried some other distros, and found my happy place!
Thank you to the people who sent me on the path of "atomic" distros, and mentioning the likes of Bazzite, Bluefin, and Aurora (All from the Universal Blue group).
The last two weeks have been pure Linux joy on my daily-driver (Framework laptop), with only a few problem-solving expeditions.
I was looking for stability, and got it!
As a Windows user since the 90s, it's such a breath of fresh air to use an OS that's clean and designed to serve me (and not the corporation in charge!).
And I've also replaced windows on the minipc hooked up to our family room TV, and will also replace Windows that I've got on a lesser used desktop.
It's exciting to see just how far Linux has come, and even though I'll likely need to learn some terminal commands, I don't feel it's necessary for most people to even get into that.
The GUI in both KDE and Gnome already offer more than Windows. And I'll never have to see those goddamn pop-ups and banners about Office 365, OneDrive, or Xbox, at least not outside a VM!)
Freeeeeedom!
Thanks again!
Do you think Aurora is a good choice for beginners? A friend of mine wants to switch and I'm still looking for a good match.
It should be immutable, use KDE, have Nvidia drivers pre-installed (or a easy UI for installing them), not be maintained by a single maintainer and should not have non-OS applications like Steam pre-installed.
Aurora so far seems to be the best choice.
Bring the Affinity Suite to Linux - #AffinityOnLinux
like this
I'm trying to create a community on lemmy, called the Earth š Keepers. Due to some reason, the community is not getting created.
I'm new to this ecosystem.
Can you please guide me in the process ?
like this
don't like this
Basically the forced shift to the enshittified Windows 11 in october has me eyeing the fence a lot. But all I know about Linux is 1: it's a cantankerous beast that can smell your fear and lack of computer skills and 2: that's apparently not true any more? Making the change has slowly become a more real possibility for me, though I'm pretty much a fairly casual PC-user, I don't do much more than play games. So I wrote down some questions I had about Linux.
Will my ability to play games be significantly affected compared to Windows?
Can I mod games as freely and as easily as I do on Windows?
If a program has no Linux version, is it unusable, or are there workarounds?
Can Linux run programs that rely on frameworks like .NET or other Windows-specific libraries?
How do OS updates work in Linux? Is there a "Linux Update" program like what Windows has?
How does digital security work on Linux? Is it more vulnerable due to being open source? Is there integrated antivirus software, or will I have to source that myself?
Are GPU drivers reliable on Linux?
Can Linux (in the case of a misconfiguration or serious failure) potentially damage hardware?
And also, what distro might be best for me?
Will my ability to play games be significantly affected compared to Windows?
Depends. Single player games are basically a non-issue. Multiplayer games however? The major anti-cheat systems support linux but it's up to the Devs. They can (and many do) disable support for it regardless if it runs well on linux.
Can I mod games as freely and as easily as I do on Windows?
I'm not going to say "yes", because modding can be dodgy, but in my experience I have never had any difference.
If a program has no Linux version, is it unusable, or are there workarounds?
Could you narrow it down to some programs? The only answer here is "It depends".
Can Linux run programs that rely on frameworks like .NET or other Windows-specific libraries?
Depends on the framework, but .NET is open source and supported on Linux
How does digital security work on Linux? Is it more vulnerable due to being open source? Is there integrated antivirus software, or will I have to source that myself?
Ehhhhhh.....yes but no. OpenSource does mean you loose security through obscurity. But it also means you have a large community of people auditing the code for said vulnerabilities. The decentralized nature of the Linux ecosystem also means bugs can be fixed faster.
Ultimately it doesn't matter. The same rules apply as Windows. Keep your system updated, don't be an idiot, and you've solved most security issues.
Are GPU drivers reliable on Linux?
AMD? Generally yes.
NVIDIA? .....better than it was a few years ago. Best to ask around about your specific model
Can Linux (in the case of a misconfiguration or serious failure) potentially damage hardware?
Theoretically but that's true of all software (including windows). You'll be fine, don't sweat this.
How do OS updates work in Linux? Is there a "Linux Update" program like what Windows has?
You click the "Update" button in your Distros "App Store" (it's not an app store but....essentially the same thing) or type in the upgrade command into a Command Line. Then you walk away for a few minutes, brew a cuppa, comment on the weather, and then get back to it. Occasionally you might need to restart but it's not too common.
Now....there's a lot more complexity here that I almost wrote up, but for someone new? This is all you need to know.
And also, what distro might be best for me?
"Just tell me what to use": That would be Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition. It's simple, it has everything you'll want, it looks nice.
If you want some other options that are popular with beginners you can look at:
Watch some videos on them and decide which one looks like the one you would like to use. Just focus on the UI because that's the only real important thing you'd need to worry about right now. You can go into the more advanced options when you have a good foundation.
I'm a newcomer to Linux (only about a year in), but here's what I've got so far:
Will my ability to play games be significantly affected compared to Windows?
Mine wasn't at all. Valve has done a lot of work to make this seamless so that more games can be played on the Steam Deck. Check the Proton DB to see what your games look like.
Can I mod games as freely and as easily as I do on Windows?
I have very little experience with this, but probably. Linux users tend to be tinkerers.
If a program has no Linux version, is it unusable, or are there workarounds?Can Linux run programs that rely on frameworks like .NET or other Windows-specific libraries?
Same answer for both: There's Wine, and a whole bunch of setup scripts that can get even stuff like Adobe Creative Suite working with it. Worst case scenario, there's VirtualBox for the one or two apps you might need to run Windows for. But I find that the open source options, while they might have a learning curve, tend to be substantially better than either of those options.
How do OS updates work in Linux? Is there a "Linux Update" program like what Windows has?
More or less, but you can pick and choose what updates you want to install and when. Most distros have a package manager that'll let you update the kernel, the drivers, the middleware, the desktop environment, all your apps, and even the package manager itself on your schedule, from one interface. You can also just ignore it and never update anything, though I wouldn't recommend that.
How does digital security work on Linux?
Very well. It's much more locked-down by default, for one thing.
Is it more vulnerable due to being open source?
Quite the opposite. Open source projects are well known for being less vulnerable out of the box; Linux in particular is used by huge companies as a lightweight server OS, so it has a lot of highly-paid people committing security fixes back down to the open source project.
Is there integrated antivirus software, or will I have to source that myself?
Antivirus is a bandaid on Windows, provided because the OS was written with certain naive assumptions that let attackers get access they shouldn't have. On Linux, those assumptions were not made. No application can be installed without your root password, for instance; downloaded files can't even be executed without specifically making them executable; and access to edit system files is restricted by a very robust permissions system.
All of that, plus Linux's much lower market share, also means that no malware authors are really wasting their time trying to write Linux malware. The attack vector just isn't worth the extra effort.
So no, there's no integrated antivirus; but for most users in most situations, it's not needed at all.
Are GPU drivers reliable on Linux?
Your mileage may vary significantly, but anecdotally it seems like most architectures from AMD and Nvidia have good support.
Can Linux (in the case of a misconfiguration or serious failure) potentially damage hardware?
Maybe, but like with Windows, I assume you have to really go out of your way to do so.
And also, what distro might be best for me?
I've only used Ubuntu and Mint. Mint has so far been the easiest and most user-friendly of the two. It's also regularly touted as the best for newcomers.
I tried running a 2nd instance of Roblox simultaneously on macos 15 with another account but this shows up, if my mac can handle it then why can't it just let me do it? If I have two copies of an app like Roblox in separate User/Applications folders, macos moves them to the /Applications/ folder.
Sometimes it won't run apps claiming to be corrupted, so I then have to do sudo xattr -cr /Applications/someapp.app in the terminal and they run perfectly fine. It always nags me if I download apps from anywhere but mac app store. Some of these messages can only be gotten rid of by disabling system integrity protection, but then macos blocks you from running MAS apps due to having "permissive security".
I don't daily drive macOS anymore, I switched to Linux on my M1 mac where I can do whatever the hell I want.
There are many different signals the OS sends to applications which are kinda like "Can you kill yourself?" or "Please kill yourself" or "I will kill you" to close it. In computer teminology, there is "close", "terminate" and "kill" types of signals. These are used so that applications can have time to perform closing tasks (like saving) when neceassary and if they misbehave, just "kill" it.
Now both windows and linux have these types of signals. In fact every OS has it.
I beleive this is the reason this meme exists:
When the user tries to shut a app in windows (throught close button or task manager) windows will wait and not give any option to immediately kill the app. Hence some apps don't close even after using end task. Only if the app freezes for some time will it give the option for force quit, ~~no other way~~ (edit: it exists). In linux, its the same as windows and limux waits for app to close. But the difference is that option to kill is available anytime in linux and basically gives the user full control. Although kill option in linux may be hidden as a way for users not to use it unless necassary as applications may not like it.
Shutdown process of both OS is same, they wait for all apps to shut by semding "please close" signal and if they misbehave, option to "shutdown anyways" will be shown to the user, basically killing all apps.
The meme is not correct and is just a steorotype of different OSes. This steorotype comes from how people normally experinece different OS culture and practices. Both OSes have same process of managing apps. Both OSes will wait for process to close if it freezes and give option to user to force quit.
SIGKILL in the meme is coreect only for the right panel of the meme and the left panel is actually a SIGTERM (or something else which means "please close", don't remember)
The only thing the meme should emphasis is how the user is given full control to do in linux (even deleting the kernel) while windows is careful to not let users do something stupid.
Edit: Killing apps in windows can be done on demand through cmd using taskkill command
Happy Easter holidays!
we made fruitful use of this time to provide you a nice surprise.The independent, community controlled distribution OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 fixed point release (as opposed to the rolling release branch), is out right now.
Happy Easter holidays! we made fruitful use of this time to provide you a nice surprise. The independent, community controlled distribution OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 fixed point release (as opposed to theā¦OpenMandriva
Nice to see that Mandriva is still alive and kicking. Used it when it was still "Mandrake". Started as a recompile of RedHat optimized for 586, iirc.
What's the USP for Mandriva these days?
Mandriva is gone, but there's a couple of projects carrying its legacy. OpenMandriva is one of them, obviously. Mandrake was my first distro too, so I have a soft spot for it.
From my perspective, OpenMandriva's biggest strengths are that it's independent, non-derivative, community driven, and based in Europe. Unfortunately it's also small, but the people behind it seemingly do a lot with very little, so the community is passionate about the project.
Personally I'm just happy that there are smaller, non-corporate distros still out there providing alternatives. And OMLx seems like a pretty solid distro at that.
For their selling pitch, you can check their FAQ.
I first started using Manjaro after being on Debian/Ubuntu derivatives for years. Mint used to be my daily driver, then LMDE for a while. After struggling with Endeavour OS, through 2 or 3 breaking updates requiring a reinstall I made Manjaro with KDE Plasma my home for several years.
Manjaro was stable and, I thought blazing fast, compared to Mint. Everything just worked and was cutting edge. I thought my distro hopping days were over and I found the one that works for me.
Recently I've been reading about Cachy OS and decided to give it a whirl on my test Dell Latitude. Turns out that, I had no idea how fast and lean Linux could be on that off-lease business laptop! I know have it installed on my main Laptop and it's leaps and bounds faster than Manjaro, has none of the bloat and just works! I know it's early, but I think I have found a new home! I have timeshift set up just in case, so I'll see how stable it is over the next few months, but so far I am impressed.
Highly recommend everyone who's into Arch and rolling release to try it.
i get a little annoyed at posts that start with broad statements like "is linux actually ready for the average user?" but then it's just someone asking for help to fix a problem they have with their sources.list or whatever. it's not a massive problem, but it's misleading and it feels borderline inflammatory sometimes
please tell when you're asking for help
ty
A revolution is supposed to change things. Looking at things today, the only revolutionary idea left is to make society reflect the best of us instead of the worst. Most people prefer kindness and love. But lacking these values allows others to thrive in our world. They spend their time deceiving and exploiting the rest of us, people trying to enjoy life and things that bring joy and love. We can't do that by spending all our time dealing with the sad creepy weirdos ruining everyone's lives. So they're been able to shape the world. The only revolution left is to build something to undo what they've done. We need a force for love in the world.
This begins with anyone who thinks it's silly to to expect love to play a major role in society and our future. They have to question who taught them how the world works. They have to wonder why they think that way ā because the power of love is not a revolutionary concept. Something else convinced them.
Education is designed by politicians also responsible for war; news comes from corporations whose purpose is exploitation of anyone and thing possible. No wonder people think a more loving world seems like fantasy. Everything seems designed to make us think so.
The internet makes it undeniable that knowledge and tech are fueling hate, greed, ignorance in every heart, every family, community, country. What's not so obvious is how to teach people what's wrong: that knowledge should not be controlled by politicians and the rich.
If we want a revolution to actually change things, it means we need to liberate knowledge from politicians and the rich. A goal like that depends on people understanding why people don't understand it. So instead, we could hope the state of the world's enough to convince people what's wrong.
To literally free knowledge, we have to free the people responsible for it, every individual and group, all the research universities, all focused globally on the same goal: to save the future. What's more loving than that?
The key to a revolution based on love in the world is to build something free of the people who disagree, the hateful, greedy, ignorant, whatever. That's possible with the internet, where we can work together to organize ourselves, our knowledge, our resources.
The first, most important step in the only revolution we have left is to create our own democratic corporation. The only way we can confront the multinationals exploiting us is with our own. The concept of democorporation coordinates all people and groups worldwide, anyone free to share their knowledge how to build this future. It begins with whatever individuals, corporations, institutions of knowledge who don't require liberating to help. They can help free the others, they can set the foundation so Democorporation can challenge the multinational corporations pillaging the planet and threatening the future.
Democorporation can only begin in as a social network because that's how the people can best support it. Participation, data, advertising can help funding. But more importantly is to be democratic. People need this network to vote and express how to build their future. With online users, volunteers, donors, employees and investors all expressing their perspectives, they offer the most balanced democracy and leadership possible.
When we have a social network that we own, uniting the world in our own democracy, we achieve the goal of any great revolution: we establish our own republic. Interepublic has the benefit of a corporation being able to limit, exclude and fire people who don't want it to succeed. That overcomes the problem of real world countries: we're all stuck with people who want our governments to fail, who want others to suffer. As antidotes to the hate in society, Interepublic and Democorporation become outlets of love for the world. That's what we're missing, and it's all we need to change history.
This revolution is global resistance against everything dividing us and everyone exploiting us. It is the ārebellion of people coming togetherā. Interepublic and Democorporation use the internet to create leverage that's never been available before. But only if people agree love is necessary to fix what's wrong. Nothing else will bring us together.
That sounds good until you remember there is no planning how to capture love. You just express it and hope your love is reciprocated...but this isn't a teenager working up the courage to call his first love. This is the world, and all these ideas and plans that express my love only work if people understand the love I've already poured into it.
To make this revolution truly new, truly revolutionary, it begins with something as intimate and personal as love, one stranger to another. So when I profess my love for the world, I risk the worst kind of heartbreak imaginable. Maybe that risk is proof enough? To trust who I am, my motivation, I have to be honest even it's humiliating for me. That's how to explain what it took for me to do this. No one happy with the world would.
Because here's the thing...I do not want to do this. I think it's inhuman and inhumane to be put in a position like this. It is a constant fight against myself, doing what's right while ruining my life. I'm losing because the world keeps getting worse, so I feel sick with guilt and torture more ideas out of myself.
And I can't describe this inner conflict without describing my the kind of sad life that makes someone do this. If I loved myself enough, I would never be in this position. It is a living nightmare. Doing this means I love the world more than myself...too bad it feels like such an abusive relationship.
Think about it: someone's not gonna spend their life on this, decades of trial and error, if they've experienced the best of the world, love, family. My life began in stress. Now that I accomplished my goal, I'm left psychologically devastated by it. I'm in a place of responsibility no one should be. And worst of all it seems to piss people off that I even tried?
Your reaction decides if this love is reciprocated. If it is we create a love story like no other. And if not, I can hope failure and tragedy might do a better job of finding help than if I'm alive. A win-win for the world, just not for me...what's more loving than that?
For me personally, my love for the world would be reciprocated by freeing me from this stress and responsibility. Maybe the most revolutionary thing here is that I want nothing to do with politics or business. This is a first step in an ongoing process to remove myself from this insanely stressful situation, and it's quite elaborate.
The most genius thing I did was to create a story/fantasy/metaphor/game that lets me help without being directly involved. Two birds, one stone. If I can make it entertaining, I can earn money and raise attention. Four birds, one stone.
To put this in context, I've set up a political-economic-societal plan, but I also imagined a metaphorical story to promote knowledge the way religions promotes belief. It's a modern mythology, and it's for people how can't understand the liberation of knowledge. The goals for the real world and the fantasy story are the same: a search for a more loving world. And they begin the same: with your choice what happens to me.
Our world is built on the same choice we make whether to help others or not. If people form this bond with me and help me survive what's coming, those bonds, the knot of love and connection form the foundation for this revolution and the loving world it would create.
Love would be the seed for everything that grows from here, so Interepublic and Democorporation are literally born and grow shaped by love. And the world gains what it's missing most, a force to fight for the best of us against the worst.
like this
don't like this
like this
Hopefully this kind of post isn't too tired, but I figure it's my turn:
Finally decided to, after absolutely refusing to upgrade to 11, make the jump from Win10 to Linux! Been hopping around distros a bit and landed on EndeavourOS last night and I'm really enjoying it so far.
It's definitely tinkery and took me like 2 hours just to get my push to talk working in Discord (mostly due to my own lack of knowledge), but I love the level of control of everything you have (was on Pop!_OS before ~~š¤®~~, edit: no hate, just wasn't for me!)
There's definitely never been a better time to switch and I'm very excited for when I inevitably brick my shit and come back here for help, so thanks in advance everyone! š
Yea im about to switch myself. Been looking at suggestions and stuff, probably gonna start with Mint myself.
Many different sources advise putting it on a flashdrive first and loading from there, to start. Make sure I like it.
But the end goal, eventually, would be to remove windows from the comp entirely, right? Eventually installing my chosen distro as the OS on the computer itself? Does that sound about right?
For me, I've been throwing distros on a spare SSD so I could test run in a proper install, but I'm sure a thumbdrive would be fine. Just keep in mind that you might get some hangs and things will be slower due to the speed of the drive, rather than the inefficiencies of the OS you end up on. If you want to test out specific programs or games or something, you can always do what I did and put them on a separate faster storage drive (I'm on SATA SSD for my OS right now, but am putting other things on NVME).
As I mentioned elsewhere, I still have my Windows on another drive so I can boot to it if I need to, but I honestly haven't needed to even once since switching, so I'll probably end up just switching to VM only for anything that requires Windows fairly soon here.
The transition has been much simpler and smoother than I ever had imagined.
NVK is now a conformant Vulkan 1.4 implementation on NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs!Collabora | Open Source Consulting
Thanks for such a detailed explanations. That's what I meant, I would love to avoid official drivers headache that causes you to avoid recommend Nvidia. Still there are some things that you cannot avoid it. Things I have in mind are better than AMD / Intel GPU with Mesa:
- Blender
- ML / AI / CUDA and so on
- DaVinci Resolve (and other creative stuff like Blender above)
- RayTracing
- DLSS (FSR is catching up but this is #1)
I would love the Nvidia support just to be stable.
for the encoding and decoding I would choose Intel.
For gaming AMD as I'm currently right now with Bazzite.
At least the situation will get better.
Nouveau's kernel driver is a horrible mess, so I'm looking forward to Nova, if it ever gets ready.
For older (pre-about-RTX 2000-series) cards, the kernel driver had to do a lot, and Nouveau had to reverse engineer most things. Now, Nvidia has moved most of the proprietary magic into something called the GSP (GPU System Processor), which is a small processor (RISC-V, IIRC) which does many things the kernel driver did previously, like reclocking. This, in addition to the official open kernel drivers should make developing a new FOSS Nvidia driver a lot easier. RedHat's Nova (and I think Nvidia's open driver) only support cards with a GSP for this reason.
NVK is very impressive for such a new unofficia Nvidia driver in my opinion. If I remember correctly, they said that they'll focus more on optimization now that it's conformant.
When/if Nova is ready, it will finally be possible to use a Rust graphics driver stack on Linux outside of Asahi.
If you have any questions remaining, just ask.
Edit:
So the closed source GSP firmware blob has 3 "good" points:
1. The closed source parts are limited to inside the GPU.
2. It moves a lot of work away from the kernel driver.
3. It allows open source drivers to support HDMI 2.1 & later.
The HDMI Forum decided some time ago that HDMI was too open. Now, for the newer versions, the license doesn't allow open source implementations. Nvidia gets around this with proprietary GSP firmware inside the GPU (even with official open source drivers, not sure about Nouveau) and Intel with GPU firmware or an internal adapter, depending on the GPU (if I've understood correctly). Only AMD doesn't support the newest HDMI version.
Brief summary of the problem: I have a RX 6800 XT connected to a LG B9 TV via HDMI. As both...GitLab
This scoring system evaluates how decentralized and self-hostable a platform is, based on four core metrics.
| Metric | Weight | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Top Provider User Share | 30 | Measures how many users are on the largest instance. Full points if <20%; 0 if >80%. |
| Top Provider Content Share | 30 | Measures how much content is hosted by the largest instance. Full points if <20%; 0 if >80%. |
| Ease of Self-Hosting: Server | 20 | Technical ease of running your own backend. Full points for simple setup with good docs. |
| Ease of Self-Hosting: User Interface | 20 | Availability and usability of clients. Full points for accessible, FOSS, multi-platform clients. |
| Platform | Score | Visualization |
|---|---|---|
| š§ Email | 95 | š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š© |
| š¹ Lemmy | 79 | š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š© |
| š Mastodon | 74 | š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š© |
| š£ PeerTube | 94 | š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š©š© |
| š¼ Pixelfed | 42 | š§š§š§š§š§š§š§š§ |
| šµ Bluesky | 14 | š„š„š„ |
| š„ Reddit | 3 | š„ |
Total: 95/100
Total: 79/100
Total: 74/100
Total: 94/100
Total: 42/100
Total: 14/100
Total: 3/100
This measures how many users are on the largest provider (or instance).
Score = 30 Ć (1 - (TopProviderShare - 20) / 60)
ā¦but only if TopProviderShare is between 20% and 80%.
If below 20%, full 30. If above 80%, zero.
If one provider has 40% of all users:
ā Score = 30 Ć (1 - (40 - 20) / 60) = 30 Ć (1 - 0.43) = 17.1 points
These scores measure how easy it is for individuals or communities to run their own servers or use clients.
This looks at how technically easy it is to run your own backend (e.g., email server, Mastodon server) or User Interface (e.g., web-interface or mobile-app)
This is a work in progress and may contain mistakes. If you have ideas or suggestions for improvement, feel free to let me know.
Source: github.com/NoBadDays/decentralā¦
Check the factors that might make Bluesky significantly different from its competitors.Adam Warski (SoftwareMill)
like this
don't like this
The scoring system is basically there to put a number on "How free are users and hosts of a platform to move around?"
Or "How much power is in the hands of the people and not a few companies?"
For me Email scores very high in this regard.
As far as I know most Lemmy instances leverages paid-for or freemium services to have their instances work easily/properly
Then please update your category name to reflect that. Right now it says "Self-Hosting" which to the majority of readers means hosting it yourself, whatever the reason may be: privacy, configurability or just being safe from future enshittification.
As far as I know most Lemmy instances leverages paid-for or freemium services to have their instances work easily/properly
Yes but you can't compare a whole lemmy instance to an account on an email server that you share with others. The fair comparison would be hosting a lemmy instance to hosting your own email server and creating an account on Proton Mail to creating an account (or a community) on lemmy.world.
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/56496251
I'd like to add to suggest a couple of things regarding Mastodon and user onboarding/retention.
The Server Selection Problem^TM^
The single biggest problem with Mastodon adoption is the fact people see talk about a server and give up. As such, servers need to be removed from the conversation and onboarding process. A server still needs to be selected for a new user, however, which raises the question: How should we select a server for a new user?The obvious solution is to simply direct users to mastodon.social, which is actually what Mastodon already does to a certain extent. The issue with this is that the Fediverse is meant to be decentralized. As such, it's counterproductive to funnel people towards a single server. This causes maintenance bottlenecks and privacy/data-protection concerns.
As such, there needs to be some sort of method that ranks servers based on a few factors in order to select the optimal server for any given user, while keeping the decentralized nature of the Fediverse in mind.
Why any server?
First, it's important to answer the question of why would any given user pick any given server.Generally speaking, the server isn't a big deal, as in, any server allows users to interact with the whole of the network in its full capacity.
All servers are Mastodon, after all.
However, there are differences. The most significant ones are, I'd say: location, uptime, and language.
A user benefits from being registered to a server that's geographically close to them, as that leads to a better connection. Additionally, servers with high uptime and stability are preferred, as users may have different times they use the server and nobody likes to try and access a server and see that it's down for any number of reasons. Finally, users need to be able to understand the language the server is in (obviously).
I believe these three factors should be at the forefront of the decision-making process for deciding what server to be suggested to any given user on sign-up.
Auto-selector
With that, comes the solution: a server auto-selector. A game I play, DCSS, actually does something similar for online play.
(I have my location turned off and there are very few servers, as you can see, so listing them is trivial.)This isn't exactly a novel scientific breakthrough, but I think it's a significant notion for helping the onboarding process for new Mastodon users.
A server auto-selector should filter servers to suggest by following these steps:
- Detect the user's system language.
- Detect the user's location.
- Calculate the server's uptime score.
- Pseudo-rank user-count.I believe the first two points are self-explanatory. Being that Mastodon (and the Fediverse, in general) stands firmly against data-harvesting, location data should probably not be mandatorily collected. It should be easy to either ask the user for some vague information or simply allow them to skip this step entirely, even if it might affect the user experience. Additionally, there's the issue that many servers don't make it known where they're hosted. Ideally, this could change to facilitate server selection for the users, but there's always the point that, if a server doesn't say where it's hosted, it gets pulled down by the algorithm, which in turn encourages divulging that kind of information; this might a problem solved by the solution, if you get my meaning.
What I mean by uptime score is simply an evaluation of the server's uptime history. For example, it's not good policy to direct users towards servers that are often unavailable, it might be disadvantageous to direct users to servers with too-frequent downtime for maintenance, and so on. As such, the server auto-selector should calculate a sort of "score" for any server that fits the first two points. I can't say how this should be calculated, exactly, but I'm sure some computer-knowers out there can come up with a less-than-terrible methodology for this.
The last point is something that I think should be taken into account as well, regarding the user-count of the servers. As I mentioned, we can't funnel users towards a single server, but another issue is that we should actually encourage user dispersion over many servers. The outlined method might already do this to a sufficient extent, but I suggest doing some sort of randomization of filtered servers based on user-count. I think it's wrong to simply plug a new user into the least-populated server around, but I do think that over-populated servers, in a relative sense, should be discouraged by the server-selector.
Worst case scenario, a random server that passes the uptime score point can be selected for any new user.
The onboarding experience
Basically, this should be as simple as possible. The more questions need to be answered, the worse.I think a simple "Join Mastodon" button is the best. Just a big blue button in the middle of the homepage.
Server selection should start as soon as the new user accesses the joinmastodon website, and clicking the button simply redirects the user to the sign-up process for that server.
I believe this approach would increase adoption of Mastodon by streamlining the server selection process, as well as help the continuous decentralization of the Fediverse.
The Feed Problem
Another significant issue with Mastodon is the feed and community/discovery aspects.Creating a new Mastodon account yields... Nothing. An empty feed!
This is absolutely terrible and ruins user retention. I've had several people tell me that this first-experience emptiness completely turned them off from Mastodon. It's not intuitive, and it needs to be corrected.
A simple solution
Mastodon does have feeds, but they're all tucked away in the Explore and Live Feeds tabs.I think the single biggest change that Mastodon can make, as far as this goes, is to shift the Explore->Posts feed to the Home tab. Just do it like Twitter or Bluesky, make the discovery feed the first thing a new user encounters.
That, by itself, should make a difference in terms of user retention.
Maybe I'm delusional and severely underestimating how doable this is, but I really believe Mastodon needs to change the way it deals with new users if we want it to actually grow into a strong social media, keyword social (it needs people).
Thoughts?
Hello folks. I use many distro from Debian to Fedora to OpenSuse and Arch. I also use many window managers like i3, dwm and qtile. On desktop environment, I use XFCE the most. Currently, I am looking to try something new, hence KDE.
I am looking for something with a beautiful UI and works out of the box. So, something on the same spectrum as XFCE but more pretty.
So, I tried out the distros with preinstalled KDE: Fedora KDE, Manjaro KDE, Kubuntu.
The good: KDE is beautiful and very easy to use. I actually enjoy using my computer more.
The bad: it crashes.. a lot even when I turn off all the animations. My system is not that slow: AMD 7 Pro with 64 GB of RAM. Some examples:
As much as I hate GNOME, everything just works. I installed the GNOME flavors of above distros and never experience any hiccups.
If KDE works for you, do you use a preinstalled distro and which one? How about if you install KDE from scratch, like Arch?
KDE Manjaro running on 4 or 5 of my machines, pure stability. It sounds like a hardware issue.
Here are my suggestions to diagnose this.
Option 1. Setup an ssh server, connect from a second computer (or phone via Termux), execute $journalctl -fe, and observe the journal from your second device when the crash occurs. That should help pinpoint the issue.
Option 2. If you don't have a second device, use a non-gui tty, access via Ctrl+Alt+F1. (Usually terminals are available F1 thru F6). Once again execute $journalctl -fe and observe it during the crash.
Tbh option 2 may just be easier especially if you have minimal knowledge of ssh. Good luck, ping me back if you find this helpful and would like more perspective, and apologies if this doesn't help you.
If the entire computer crashes, boot into a terminal and browse journalctl history of previous boots, sorry I don't have these commands off the top of my head but if you need them and ask I will get them for you.
KDE just works on my machine, which is lower specs than yours. I've never had it crash. I use Endeavor OS, so it came with it by default (which was part of the reason I chose it).
Edit: I don't do much tweaking of the KDE settings other than the main color scheme. I also have never had an issue with waking from sleep on Endeavor (but I recall in years past that was an issue with most distros I tried and unrelated to KDE since I was less a fan of its style back then and didn't use KDE). My set up is a normal desktop PC that I use daily for everything, including gaming.
How did you partition your disk before installing Linux?
Do you regret how you set it up?
I'm looking for some real users experiences about this and I'm trying to find the best approach for my setup.
Thank you for sharing!
EFI
83:boot(e4fs)
8e:lvm(e4fs)
bf:zfsThis is just for /dev/sda or so, and implies non-redundant root disks because mirroring is done by the hypervisor. I've been 20 years doing virtualization, and I'm really starting to forget the last vestiges of my mdadm fdisk layout.
So many people in this thread have no idea why you'd want separate allocation for /home and /tmp and others. Are we missing proper mentorship?
Android 16 Beta 4 uncaps the disk resizing slider, allowing you to allocate your phone's entire storage to the Linux Terminal.Mishaal Rahman (Android Authority)
It's supposed to be available on Android 15, but only on 'select devices', so probably only on Pixel.
Thanks for trying it.
Does anyone have any clue?
My best guess would be some relatively passive notification stealing focus.
As reddeadhead mentioned, there's specific "don't steal focus" settings. I've had good luck with them.
I'm wondering if anyone made a fediverse like (aka multiple instances talking to eachother) for discord?
I know matrix exists, but it's only rooms instead of servers with channels, etc...
like this
don't like this
it's only rooms instead of servers with channels..
Literally the same thing but with different names. I use Matrix with Element, and it is exactly the same as Discord. Laid out the same, functionally the same (actually better since it encrypts everything), and even the UI is identical.
like this
From a chat standpoint, the two are near identical - yes - but Matrix lacks the "voice/video calls as persistent rooms" feature that Discord has. This was planned a while back, but has recently been pushed on the backburner^[1]^ as they work on Element Call.
Early on Matrix was sort of being built up as an IRC/Discord alternative, but recently they've pivoted more towards a WA/Telegram/Slack alternative as most of their financial support comes from European governments and companies looking for strong and secure internal communication solutions they can manage themselves.
So, TL;DR you probably won't see the exact Discord like features you want land in the spec any time soon as they're not being funded.
So that means, right now:
Having said all that, Matrix is brilliant and I highly encourage people to check it out. I use a Matrix <-> Signal bridge for most of my comms with my friends, and we voice chat on Mumble. Not ideal, but you get to avoid Discord and you get a very similar experience! Bonus points for Mumble as it's super lightweight.
~[1] It's not really on the backburner so much as it's something that will have to be worked on after the new VOIP stack - Element Call - is integrated in the wider Matrix ecosystem.~
like this
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/28546756
So Iāve completed the cosine similarity function, which means the script is now recommending videos in a raw way. Below is just a ranking of videos that match my watch history (all three are most likely videos Iāve already watched):2: {shortUUID: "saKY2TWfwNYgPUQFkE4xsi", similarity: 0.4955}
3: {shortUUID: "kk7x8GAs7gNvkzaPs6EPiU", similarity: 0.4099}
4: {shortUUID: "uXeAyVfX1WEzqSPsDxtH3p", similarity: 0.2829}Getting to this point made me realize: thereās no such thing as a simple algorithmājust simple ways to collect data. The code currently has issues with collecting data properly, so thatās something that needs fixing. Hopefully, once the data collection in this script is improved, it can be reused for future Fediverse algorithms.
There are countless ways to process the data. Cosine similarity is a simple concept and easy to implement in code, but it has a flaw: content youāve already watched tends to rank higher than anything new. So a basic "pick the highest cosine similarity" approach probably isnāt ideal. It either needs logic to remove already-watched videos, or to bias toward videos lower down in the ranking. But filtering out watched videos isnāt perfect eitherāpeople do like to rewatch things.
The algorithm currently just looks at how much time you spent watching unique segments of a video, then assigns a value in seconds to all the words in the title, description, and tags, and sums that over all videos.
The algorithm is actually okayāsubjectively, itās better than just sorting by date. I picked a few videos at random from the top 300 ranked by cosine similarity , and there was content interesting enough to watch for more than 30 seconds, and some that was just too weird for me. Here are a few examples:
- dalek.zone/w/7zifNjSwiafLnsoVVā¦
- peertube.1312.media/w/92B9U3DQā¦ (Japanese Spider-Man videoāI'm not into it)
- peertube.wtf/w/gmmi53JorcBQLEZā¦
- peertube.wtf/w/5eeLAVm5ZQBMK1Pā¦
Some of these links are across different instances because no single PeerTube instance has all the videos. I loaded metadata for over 6,000 videos across five instances during testing.
The question is: should the algorithm be scoped to a single instance (only looking at content on the userās home instance), or should it recommend from any instance and take you there?
funny thing to note is that there might be a linux pipeline in this algo
currently just a browser extension that monitors your the peertube videos your watch and stores them locally - solidheron/peertube_recomendation_algorythmGitHub
like this
watty doesn't like this.
I think it needs to work across instances, since we're concerned wit the Fediverse and federation is one of the defining mechanics. Also when I have a look at my subscriptions, they come from a variety of instances. So I don't think a single instance feature would be of any use for me.
Sure. And with the cosine similarity, you'd obviously need to suppress already watched videos. Obviously I watched them and the algorithm knows, but I'd like it to recommend new videos to me.
Please and thank you
Disclaimer ---- šššš š§šµš² šššš¼šæš¶š®š¹ š®š»š± š±š²šŗš¼ š½šæš¼šš¶š±š²š± š¶š» š§šµš¶š ššµš®š»š»š²š¹ š¶š š³š¼šæ š¶š»š³š¼šæšŗš®šš¶š¼š»š®š¹ š®š»š± ...YouTube
news.itsfoss.com/google-androiā¦
Within developer options natively now
It looks like Google is rolling out its native Linux terminal app for select Android devices.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
Updated my post I put wrong thing. Does it apply to LineageOS as well?
But thanks for that too. That will help with other devices that run regular Android
Thank you!!!
LineageOS 22.2 (on FP4) does not seem to have that option yet.
At least, it is not listed in the developer options.
You can find it if you tap on the search button within developer options (or just general settings, as that also includes results from developer options) and type "terminal" or "linux".
The (Experimental) Run Linux terminal on Android result shows up.
But after you tap on that, you see that toggle is greyed out. Can't be enabled.
I am interested in getting that to work, so any help is appreciated.
There is hopefully some ADB command or something that forcefully enables Linux environment.
Depends what you mean by "Linux" here.
It's probably not the kernel itself, so do you mean
Based on that then one can answer if Termux is sufficient (or "legitimate") or if something else is needed.
PS: You can read some of my notes on termux on different Android devices at fabien.benetou.fr/Tools/Androiā¦
Linux mint 22.1 and jackett is hogging 200+GB of virtual memory. I do have a couple -arrs running, and calibre server, but it seems a ludicrous amount of memory. Reading on the webs it seems people think 20GB is crazy.
Any help/thoughts where to look? Not using Docker.
Virtual memory is different from swap memory.
Swap memory is used when you run out of physical memory, so the memory is extended to your storage.
Virtual memory is an abstraction that lies between programs using memory and the physical memory in the device. It can be something like compression and memory-mapped files, like mentioned.
And yes, some swap is still useful, up to something like 4G for larger systems.
And if you want to hibernate to disk, you may need as much swap as your physical memory. But maybe thatās changed. I havenāt done that in years.
So, im IP banned from lemmy.world? Or is this cloudflare or smth locking me out? How do I proceed?
I have wanted to leave .world for a while, probably in favour of dbzero, but I would still at least like to delete my account and/or download some data beforehand?
I don't think I did anything wrong, and believe it is a cloudflare thing, but how will I contact the mods, if I cant open their front page to find their emails? Anyways. Any help is appreciated.
Also, sorry if this is the wrong community, but its the only one I know that maybe can help?
Edit 1: I can access the instance if I use a VPN, but I still dont know what to do. This kinda confirms it is cloudflare, but how can I get off their "naughty list"?
Edit the last: it seems to have solved itself after some time. I just used tgis instance for a while, and now its working again.
like this
don't like this
UPDATE: After hours and dozens of fixes it simple does not work. The Boss Katana Mini X seems to be completely incompatible with Linux. I'm gonna install Windows again on my Surface. W11 works like dogshit on it but at least I can use it to connect to my guitar amp.
Leaving the thread open in case a solution does eventually appear.
OP:
I'm having an issue with a BT speaker, well Guitar amp. actually. (BOSS Katana Mini X)
Device is a Microsoft Surface Pro 7.
It connects, but it wont play any sound at all. I'm now at the point where I'm considering installing W11 on that Surface again just so I can connect it to my amp to play some guitar with backing tracks and whatnot. I hate using my phone for this.
What I notice is there's only two configs I can chose from on the settings for the amp as an output device, instead of the long list I have on other devices. Possible cause?
pavucontrol
I have that one already, I'm gonna try the other one real quick!
like this
FabioTheNewOrder doesn't like this.
Mastodon is my go-to "shout in the void about my goings-on" platform.
Pixelfed is where I post my original photography and artwork.
Bookwyrm is for my book nerdery, mostly.
Edit: Oh and I have a Matrix account but despite the fact that I mentioned it to literally all of my friends, nobody uses it. I keep it around in case someone actually wants to send me private messages because Mastodon is kinda badly suited for that.
like this
Nanook likes this.
Edit: This worked for me in Zorin! Thanks for the ideas & discussion in the replies! zdnet.com/article/how-to-creatā¦
Hi, I'm looking to switch to Linux full-time on my desktop. Aside from my NAS, I'm pretty unfamiliar with Linux in general.
On Windows, I have apps pinned to the Start menu grid, with apps in groups/folders for easy access. I don't pin anything to the taskbar or leave icons on the desktop. For the apps I care about most - and there's around 40 of them - they're available with just 3 clicks maximum. I can reorder them and put them in groups (or pull them out of groups) anytime.
Here's what that looked like (note the top row): i.imgur.com/Y9PmYoG.png
On Zorin OS (Ubuntu-based) via Gnome, I haven't had any such luck. ArcMenu is great but offers no app group support. This also a feature that doesn't seem to be in very strong demand in general. I can use the Gnome menu editor (Alacarte, rebranded as "Main Menu" in Zorin) to hide the default categories & make my own. This would be a perfectly suitable solution... but doing so requires multiple steps per app - no copying & pasting, no drag & drop, each one has to be created on a per-category basis. The amount of effort is considerable. I don't mind doing it once of course, but if I decide to reorganize, it'll require all of that effort all over again.
I'm fully happy with Gnome, I'm looking for a productivity-first DE and the only issue is this app menu situation which is a hard deal breaker. I guess I just have three questions:
If this is the wrong community to post this, please point me in the right direction and I'll post there. Thanks in advance, I've been trying to find a fix for this for several hours and I'm not sure where to look for an answer.
With Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) now officially available, you can give the Applications Overview a helping hand in the efficiency department. Folders make this easy.Jack Wallen (ZDNET)
Thanks for the info! I'm already using ArcMenu, which is great - but as mentioned, it lacks app grouping support of any kind... not unless I want to go through the effort of editing categories. Doing that is a solution, but requires so much time and effort that it isn't really the solution.
A friend is recommending switching DEs or distros, would Plasma get the job done?
Has anyone successfully typed either European accented characters or Japanese Kanas on their physical keyboard?
For the longest time, I've been trying to get non-English characters to appear on my system. Specifically European accented characters. I've read about the compose key, but I could never make it work somehow.
I've also tried to make the Kanas to appear using the Japanese keyboard, but that too doesn't work.
I'm using mostly KDE system, on many different distros. As for the keyboard, it's almost always standard US QWERTY without the numpad, varying between various laptops (mostly Thinkpads) and USB keyboards. For the Japanese, it's a Thinkpad W530 (should also apply to X230, T430, and T530).
I've been using Linux for quite a while now. I'm familiar with most inner working of the system, but this the one thing I can never wrap my head around!
Has anyone successfully typed either European accented characters or Japanese Kanas on their physical keyboard?
For the Latin extended characters, I've used AltGr, Compose, probably at some point the GTK control-shift-u thing. I've also used various emacs text input methods to do so. I don't speak Japanese.
I don't use KDE, but it looks like you can set it up to bind Compose at a per-user level once you've logged into your account.
userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/Comā¦
EDIT: "Motƶrhead" --- that was typed using the Compose key, which on this laptop I have replacing the Right Alt key. On this system, which is Debian, I do it systemwide by editing /etc/default/keyboard, and adding:
XKBOPTIONS="compose:ralt,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,ctrl:swapcaps"Then I ran # dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration.
But if you're on a non-Debian-based distro, things may work differently.
We're pleased to announce the release of BotKit 0.2.0! For those new to our project, BotKit is a TypeScript framework for creating standalone ActivityPub bots that can interact with Mastodon, Missk...GitHub
like this
don't like this
like this
blargle doesn't like this.
| bat --language=help by default for the syntax highlighting and colored output... Or if you know a lower effort way to color the output of --help let me know.
There's no particularly smart way to accomplish this in the exact way that you want. I don't like the solution which searches your $PATH because now you're adding latency to search your entire $PATH for every command to add this functionality. It's a singularly better solution to tell the CLI what you want versus the CLI attempting (using logic) to figure it out.
The easiest solution here is to create your own command which calls the target application with --help;
\#!/bin/bash
$1 --help | bat --language=help$ script_name dockerdocker --help | bat --language=help. If you use this solution a lot you can try to use bash function which you call at the end of commands if they error;helpfunc() {
$1 --help | bat --language=help
}
trap 'helpfunc' ERR
cd into the directory you want to test commands.
bash
for i in ls
do
$i --help >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo $i
done
any command which honors a --help will get listed. I suppose you could add a >> /tmp/output after the echo $i to log it.
run it in /bin, /usr/bin, usr/local/bin
Strava is an absolute nightmare to use. My feed is absolutely chock full of ads and dog-walkers. Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy they're taking a 0.2 mile walk around their block and logging their progress, but I don't need to see it. Nike, TrainerRoad, Zwift, Peloton all have giant ads every time their users upload an activity. And I don't understand it because it's not an ad-supported network. Like I would happily pay to have all this shit hidden. It would be extremely simple for Strava to fix this, which would just be to provide me with a simple filter for what type of activities I'd like to see. The fact that they haven't done so, a long time ago, leads me to believe that they simply don't want to, for whatever reason. Plus they've already begun to enshittify by breaking integrations with third parties.
Are there any good options for this?
E: to be clear, I'm asking about the social aspect of Strava.
like this
don't like this
...yes, exactly. The brand of tool used is not relevant to the activity. Users are not adding those photos, they're added by Peloton. Not to mention the activity names.
You don't see Garmin or Wahoo adding in giant ads for their products when syncing rides.
Sensitive content
Less packages really doesn't mean much in terms of how easy the system will be to manage. If anything, I'd say a distro with more, but pre installed packages is easier to manage because the maintainers will make sure that those packages will be as easy to work with and upgrade as possible.
That said, I'm definitely not going to stop you from trying Arch though. You can even get similar (or better) optimizations by using the ALHP repos and a kernel like linux-tkg or linux-cachyos for example, although the difference really is negligible in most cases.
And now that I have made the post I got some search results:
1. Routers apparently still use MIPS
2. linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/MIPS-HOWTO-ā¦ has some MIPS systems you can run Linux on.
If you want to share anything about MIPS though please feel free to comment, I would interest me greatly what the rest of you have to say.
Adds all vim moves and modes to macOS text fields. Contribute to FelixKratz/SketchyVim development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
If I remember correctly, Wayland forbids to listen to keyboard inputs for security reasons. Each software receives its input, but there is no global listening.
So, in my understanding, this could mean that it's not possible.
Adds all vim moves and modes to macOS text fields. Contribute to FelixKratz/SketchyVim development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
github.com/cknadler/vim-anywheā¦
For your browser only, firenvim
Use Vim everywhere you've always wanted to. Contribute to cknadler/vim-anywhere development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Hi, so I want to building a pc for a home server (?) or NAS. I dont really know whats the most appropriate term but what I intend to build is a one pc for my household. currently my requirement is one work 'pc' capable of heavy 3d modeling one light work pc. two 4k gaming tvs. (they most likely wont be used at the same time)
my knowledge of technical stuff is bretty basic so please be patient with me.
before, i used my steam deck to stream my work pc using parsec but i thought i just want to jump all in on linux and using vm to use more niche 3d softwares.
my budget is flexible as long as i dont need to use enterprise hardware. also i heard nvidia is not good for linux so i'd like to confirm if that is still the case as im thinking of using 5090 if not, i hope amd releases an equivalent capable card or if any according my quick research suggest.
as for linux, the only distro (?) i ever used is the steam deck one and i love it. im not a programmer or even remotely capable one so i'd like to avoid anything that has to be manually typing commands at terminal but im open to surface level tinkering.
thank you for your time
It's actually very simple:
monitors-on:
#! /bin/bash
hyprctl keyword monitor DP-1, 2560x1440@144, 0x0, 1
hyprctl keyword monitor DP-3, 2560x1440@144, 2560x0, 1
hyprctl keyword monitor HDMI-A-1, disable
monitors-off is basically same thing but reversed:
#! /bin/bash
hyprctl keyword monitor DP-1, disable
hyprctl keyword monitor DP-3, disable
hyprctl keyword monitor HDMI-A-1, 0x0@60, 1
es-de
I'm still working out some kinks with audio so I don't wanna go down the rabbit hole hell that is pactl and pavucontrol in this post. But that's more of a universal Linux gripe I have than distro specific.
Obviously you'll need to tweak the script to what your specific setup is. The first numbers are x & y axis and the second is refresh rate. This is just an example. It's also Wayland only but you can do this in x11 no problem
As far as "remotely" switching, I just assigned the scripts to keybinds in the hyprland config file. Super easy.
After hours of trying understand how to set up VSCodium with Java extension, i found a solution so here it is, idiotproof (i hope) tutorial for future me and others like me ;)
flatpak install com.vscodium.codium
flatpak run com.vscodium.codium --install-extension vscjava.vscode-java-pack
flatpak install flathub org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.openjdk21
flatpak override --user --env=JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/sdk/openjdk21 com.vscodium.codium && flatpak override --user --env=PATH=/usr/lib/sdk/openjdk21/bin:/app/bin:/usr/bin com.vscodium.codium
flatpak kill com.vscodium.codium && flatpak run com.vscodium.codiumInstall button and after downloading open the app.Extensions pannel (on the left).Install button.
flatpak install flathub org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.openjdk213. Click `Enter`.
4. Close "Terminal".Install button and after downloading open the app.+ button (to the right from Variables) and paste:PATH=/usr/lib/sdk/openjdk21/bin:/app/bin:/usr/bin4. Click `+` once again and paste:JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/sdk/openjdk21PS
There is formatting issue with markdown but it's on lemmy side i think
This is overly complicated. Just install Java then run
flatpak --user override --env="FLATPAK_ENABLE_SDK_EXT=openjdk" com.vscodium.codiumDoesn't work so well for languages like C/C++ where you use your distro package manager to install dependencies. In those cases it's easier to install VSCodium inside a container where you do have access to a distro package manager.
like this
don't like this
like this
like this
don't like this
profiles to block
new "internet chick" profile that harrases the community:
@ etchant67 @ modalnode.club
I really wish that I was born early so I've could witness the early years of Linux. What was it like being there when a kernel was released that would power multiple OSes and, best of all, for free?
I want know about everything: software, hardware, games, early community, etc.
I want to create a USB gadget with a raspberry pi zero 2W. I'm starting with imitating a webcam I already have to see how much of this I can figure out. I've used the online documentation and a couple AI bots to get this far quickly, but I'm hung up on a ln command. It's telling me "ln: failed to create symbolic link 'configs/c.1/uvc.usb0': No such file or directory" when trying to create the link. This makes no sense to me though. I'm trying to create the link, of course it doesn't exist yet. That's what that command is supposed to do.
I've confirmed this problem in alpine linux and raspbian lite.
Below is the little script I have so far just to create the device:
\#!/bin/bash
modprobe libcomposite
cd /sys/kernel/config/usb_gadget/
mkdir -p fauxcam
cd fauxcam
echo 0x046d > idVendor # Logitech Vendor ID
echo 0x094b > idProduct # Brio 105 Product ID
echo 0x0200 > bcdUSB
echo 0x9914 > bcdDevice
mkdir -p strings/0x409
echo "111111111111" > strings/0x409/serialnumber
echo "Brio 105" > strings/0x409/product
mkdir -p configs/c.1/strings/0x409
echo "UVC Configuration" > configs/c.1/strings/0x409/configuration
echo 250 > configs/c.1/MaxPower
mkdir -p functions/uvc.usb0
ln -s functions/uvc.usb0 configs/c.1/
echo "usb0" > UDC
Edit: OK, I looked at the docs, and they sure do make a broken symlink there. I still think it's worth a try to create a non-broken link, maybe the docs are wrong. I would expect they would put a little note there, that yes, you really do want to create a broken symlink (if so, why not a regular file?), but then again its kernel docs and those aren't the most friendly.
I also thought you were OP for some reason, sorry.
Edit2: If you look at the file listing later in the docs, you can see this:
./configs/c.1/ncm.usb0 -> ../../../../usb_gadget/g1/functions/ncm.usb0Original comment, silightly edited:
You misunderstand. I suspect OP cannot create the symlink, because it would be a broken symlink, not because the symlink is relative. Maybe you cannot create broken symlinks in the sysfs for some reason.
I was just trying to explain that a relative symlink is relative to the directory in which it resides. The target to the symlink should point to ../../functions/uvc.usb0 if you want it to point to something that exists. The ln command in OP's listing would result in a broken symlink, since the specified path is not relative to the c.1 directory. It is relative to the working directory, but that's wrong, that's not what ln expects you to put there.
Maybe it needs to be a correct symlink, maybe that will solve the problem.
You can use this kitten to draw a GPU accelerated panel on the edge of your screen or as the desktop wallpaper, that shows the output from an arbitrary terminal program. It is useful for showing st...kitty
KiTTY is a fork of PuTTY - you can find it at http://kitty.9bis.net/ You may want to differentiate your product from KiTTY so that google knows the difference...GitHub
I am trying to update from Silverblue 41 to 42 (fully updated) but run into issues when attempting to update from both the software app and from CLI.
The problem using the software app is the same as what is described by this other user, who is using Fedora Workstation not Silverblue like I am:
discussion.fedoraproject.org/tā¦
When I click the download button, it looks like it's downloading multiple files since the progress bar goes from 0 to 100 several times, and then it gets up to 95% then suddenly returns to the download button. This happens in about 30 seconds.
Using the CLI method, I run the following command:
rpm-ostree rebase fedora:fedora/42/x86_64/silverblue
and get the following errors:
error: Could not depsolve transaction; 1 problem detected: Problem: conflicting requests - package dnf5-plugin-automatic-5.2.12.0-2.fc42.x86_64 from updates requires libcurl-full(x86-64), but none of the providers can be installed - package dnf5-plugin-automatic-5.2.12.0-1.fc42.x86_64 from fedora requires libcurl-full(x86-64), but none of the providers can be installed - package dnf5-plugin-automatic-5.2.12.0-2.fc42.x86_64 from updates-archive requires libcurl-full(x86-64), but none of the providers can be installed - package libcurl-minimal-8.11.1-4.fc42.x86_64 from @System conflicts with libcurl(x86-64) provided by libcurl-8.11.1-4.fc42.x86_64 from fedora
SOLUTION: Uninstalled layered packages in dnf-automatic, libreoffice, and rpmfusion and then restarted. Rebase command successfully completed thereafter.
Most of my machines seem to be working fine, but I have one critical one where I have the notification for Fedora 42 in the gnome-software updates window, but when I click the Download button, the progress bar shows up to about 4% and then quits withā¦Fedora Discussion
It worked! I uninstalled dnf-automatic, libreoffice, and rpmfusion and then restarted.
Thanks for your help! Will keep your tips in mind for the future and try to avoid layering.
Hey again.
Thank you again for all of the help with the dual boot and repartition a few weeks back. I am running Linux Mint.
I repartitioned the Linux side to about 25 GB and over the last few weeks just downloading updates,
I guess it has filled up. It tells me there is only 75 MB left. Is that normal or can I free up room again?
Also, the printer no longer prints. It just hangs when I try to print. It shows up correctly as the HP Deskjet 3510 but wonāt print. Any tips on how to fix?
You can use this kitten to draw a GPU accelerated panel on the edge of your screen or as the desktop wallpaper, that shows the output from an arbitrary terminal program. It is useful for showing st...kitty
urxvt (for X11) or foot (for Wayland) ranked highly there.
As users flee from Twitter/X, two visions of social media's future compete: Mastodon's community-controlled network versus Bluesky's venture-backed promises.phillipjreese@gmail.com (phillipjreese.com)
like this
don't like this
like this
supersquirrel doesn't like this.
Why are you on Lemmy? Or, why do you think the decentralised model works here, but not on mastodon?
Or is it only working because there is no third party VC-backed reddit clone?
like this
don't like this
As a user of both Mastodon and Lemmy, I think there are inherit differences between the formats that make Lemmy easily a capable replacement for Reddit, but Mastodon not at all a replacement for Twitter.
To get into specifics, Lemmy is more meme and news based, and as long as there are a few thousand users using it and some percentage of those posting content...it largely scratches the same itch.
Twitter was very much an active global conversation forum. It was nicknamed the hell site for a reason because if someone took issue with or was very amused by something you posted and you became "the main character" of Twitter for even an instant (something I experienced only very slightly) it was electrifying and even sort of scary at times.
In addition, the people that were active on there were very active, and it felt at times like you could talk to anyone who had been twitterized...which was a lot of people including prominent politicians, celebrities, and even experts of certain fields.
It was just an entirely different thing altogether. Mastodon is like many of the Twitter alternatives that have popped up from time to time. It's largely kinda the same with regards to functionality (though not having quote tweets is completely ridiculous IMO) but the engagement of it is very low, and the place largely feels very inactive. It feels like you're talking to dead feeds posted in syndication and there's nobody on the other end.
It's not the same as Twitter, and I doubt that Bluesky will even be the same as Twitter. Honestly, maybe all of that's a good thing. But the virality and the engagement and the discovery and everything on Mastodon is way turned down versus Twitter. Twitter was like the crack cocaine of social media...fast, cheap, addictive, and terrible for you. Mastodon is like a cup of tea by comparison.
like this
I've been on it for a few years now.
It's different from Twitter and that's fine. I have no real drive to join bluesky to see if it's similar because Twitter felt deeply unhealthy anyway. Crack cocaine isn't good for you.
Nobody needs to know about the existence of, for instance, "bean dad".
Jayjader likes this.
Lemmy is barely a thing. Lets not get ahead of ourselves.
People do prefer centralized platforms with shiny front-faces and easy-to-navigate corporate bullshit. The reason why that stuff is so successful is because it works.
People fled to Bluesky because advertisers moved to Bluesky.
I think it's "the algorithm", people basically just want to be force-fed "content" ā look how successful TikTok is, largely because it has an algorithm that very quickly narrows down user habits and provides endless distraction.
Mastodon and fediverse alternatives by comparison have very simple feeds and ways to surface content, it simply doesn't "hook" people the same way, and that's competition.
On one hand we should probably be doing away with "the algorithm" for reasons not enumerated here for brevity, but on the other hand maybe the fediverse should build something to accommodate this demand, otherwise the non-fedi sites will.
like this
Muyal_Hix doesn't like this.
Solution:
When I formatted all my drives to install Linux on one and Windows on the other, I kept both connected and they share EFI boot partition as a result. Every time I reinstall Linux it formats the drive and therefore deletes the Windows's EFI Boot as well. One way is to fix this is to reinstall Windows while disconnecting the drive you have Linux on. Or you can move the boot files if you don't want to do that.
I used this guide:
forums.tomshardware.com/threadā¦
OP:
Currently dual booting as I need Windows for a few tasks and ganes Linux just wonāt do. Since setting everything up Iāve reinstalled Linux twice, both times Iāve lost the ability to boot into windows and have needed to reinstall it.
Disk doesnāt show at all in Grub, tried all kinds of things but it just doesnāt show as a bootable OS. It doesnāt show in the boot options in the BIOS or the boot menu for my motherboard. Drive shows up and all the files are still on it. So my guess is the Windows bootloader somehow installs on the same disk that I have Linux on.
I run Linux(Fedora) and Windows on two separate drives.
Windows take forever to install. Anything I can do now to prevent this from happening if I need to reinstall Linux or if I wanna to some distro hopping?
Just to be clear, everything is working right now. But I want to prevent having to reinstall Windows every time I change distro or reinstall my Linux OS
I've recently installed Windows 10 on my new m.2 but when I unplugged my old HDD to perform an easier format on a different HDD, I only reached BIOS as the m.2 does have the OS on it but not the...Tom's Hardware Forum
This method shouldnāt have anything to do with what distro youāre gonna be using as the fix itself happens in Windows.
Itās a Windows fix relevant for dual booting Linux.
Edit: I used this exact method when I had two Windows installs on different drives and wanted to remove the original one from my system. Back in the Windows 7 days.
Hello ladies and gentlemen as a brand new user (installed yesterday on new computer) of Linux in general and Bazzite specifically. I had a bootable USB I was going to use for a different distro before I decided on using Bazzite with another USB.
I decided to use the first one to move my meme collection to the new computer but when I deleted the partition and reallocated it with the highlighted option (the one that is not ms-dos I can not remember the specific name) the drive now seems to have disappeared. When I plug it in now it does not auto detect anything and for the life of me I can not find any drives through Dolphin.
If anyone can tell me how I fucked it up and/or how to find it/ fix it I would be grateful. I can always do it in Windows since I have to set up the old one to access the memes anyway but I would like to know how to do it here for the future. Thanks in advance.
So Iāve tried Mastodon, Pixelfed and didnāt like them. Mastodon is nice if you wanna ātweetā, but thatās not for me. Pixelfed was dead.
I quit Meta because of tech bro fascism, and hated Twitter even before it was X because, letās face it - nobody has ever changed their opinion on anything because of a Twitter conversation (I know Iām exaggerating, to get my point across). I was in Reddit for a few weeks, and the conversations there seem mostly friendly and constructive, but I decided I donāt want to have anything to do with social media corporations. Besides, I noticed I could scroll endlessly. And thatās not good for me.
Lemmy seems nice. There are still some topics Iām interested in that donāt have active communities, and Iām still learning on how to have my feed from multiple instances. But still, this is the way to go for me.
Against algorithms, against fascism, for free internet. Thanks for coming to my boring Ted talk and have a nice day.
like this
don't like this
Kreza likes this.
The problem with Matrix to me is that it is simply too unstable. I can open it up on any device and half the messages won't load or are corrupted. Media won't show at all. In contrast Lemmy has been super reliable and "just works", so going from reddit to lemmy was no problem at all. And the communities are great too.
I just want working voice chat and group chats.
The entire streaming i don't really care about. There are other apps for that.
But yeah as it is I'm probably better off using discord until the enshittification is so bad no one wants to use it anymore.
EDIT:
This has worked, thanks for help:LD_PRELOAD="" VK_LOADER_LAYERS_ENABLE=VK_LAYER_MANGOHUD_overlay_x86_64 %command% --skip-launcher --vulkan
Hi, so I've been using Fedora 41 GNOME since release with no issues at all and I've decided to do a new fresh install of Fedora 42 yesterday.
Everything seemed to run well but I've encountered this issue in games that after around 30min I get this weird stutter. Until then everything runs smoothly.
As you can see in the video the stutter only occurs during mouse movement or during camera movement with keyboard. Once the camera moves on it's own and just tracks the character the frametimes are perfectly flat so it does not seem like the fault is on the game but somethings off with the system compositor?
This happens with or without VSync, I've tried with and without VRR, I've tried chaning game settings and also different Proton versions... only thing that helps is to restart the game but then I'll have to do it once again in about 30min.
My suspicion is on the new triple buffering in new GNOME 48 but I have no idea how to turn it off to test.
Any suggestions?
Is this launching games through Steam? I had a similar issue launching games through Steam using gamescope and had to set some launch options. Unfortunately I am at work and can't remember what those launch options are but when I get back home I will add them.
Edit launch options:
LD_PRELOAD="" gamescope -ef -W 3840 -H 2160 -r 144 --hdr-enabled --adaptive-sync --mangoapp -- gamemoderun %command%
As others have mentioned I think it was the "LD_PRELOAD=" that actually fixed the issue
Of course you have stuttering if you use that in the screenshot as your desktop.
Wait, wasn't there a real desktop environment that uses a game engine for rendering?
Update: Issue disappeared without doing anything. After just letting my computer sit turned off for a few hours I started it back up to troubleshoot. Now it works again. Something happened to break it and then to unfuck it again without any input from me. Something is unstable and Iām gonna try to figure it out.
Started my PC up today, logged in like normal, but my keyboard wont work after logging in.
Except for the calculator button. None of the keys will actually do anything. But logging in works normally.
Worked fine last night, no updates have run or anything. Where to start diagnosing this? In a way where I wonāt need a keyboard?
Fedora 42 KDE
Edit: Keyboard works fine in a live environment on the USB I used to install yesterday. Tried a different keyboard on my main install, and that didnāt work either. So itās not the keyboard itself at least
Already checked the i put and that looks to be right.
No slow keys enabled in settings and no response holding down keys for up to 15 seconds.
My keyboard can both use a dongle and BT. But I canāt find it on BT. Other keyboard is the same model, which isnāt ideal but it was worth testing out.
Also, mouse still works. And Iām logged into here on my browser so I can copy commands and stuff.
Tried turning stuff on, then off, then reset to default. Nothing.
Nothing, except function keys for volume etc. and the calculator keys work when Iām logged in. I can log out and write my password normally.
I can get to a console from the login screen, which tells me to login. But I get incorrect credentials even though they are correct.
This scoring system evaluates how decentralized and self-hostable a platform is, based on four core metrics.
Top Provider User Share (30 points): Measures how many users are on the largest instance. Full points if <10%; 0 if >80%.
Top Provider Content Share (30 points): Measures how much content is hosted by the largest instance. Full points if <10%; 0 if >80%.
Ease of Self-Hosting: Server (20 points): Technical ease of running your own backend. Full points for Docker/simple setup with good docs.
Ease of Self-Hosting: User Interface (20 points): Availability and usability of clients. Full points for accessible, FOSS, multi-platform clients.
Total: 45/100
Total: 60/100
Total: 55/100
Total: 14/100
Total: 3/100
This measures how many users are on the largest provider (or instance).
Score = 30 Ć (1 - (TopProviderShare - 10%) / 70%)
ā¦but only if TopProviderShare is between 10% and 80%.
If below 10%, full 30. If above 80%, zero.
If one provider has 40% of all users:
ā Score = 30 Ć (1 - (40 - 10) / 70) = 30 Ć (1 - 0.43) = 17.1 points
These scores measure how easy it is for individuals or communities to run their own servers or use clients.
This looks at how technically easy it is to run your own backend (e.g., email server, Mastodon server) or User Interface (e.g., web-interface or mobile-app)
This is Version 1.0 so there are likely flaws and mistakes in it, feel free to help create the best version we can I've put it on github.com/NoBadDays/decentralā¦
A scoring system to measure how decentralised a service is. - NoBadDays/decentralization-scoreGitHub
like this
don't like this
like this
Based on my brief searches yes, but I haven't looked into the example data in great detail.
If you have a good data point for me I can update the examples.
like this
don't like this
like this
like this
My laptop does support this feature since it was working on Fedora KDE. But jumping over to arch, it seems not to work at all.
power-profiles-daemon.service is enabled and running.ā power-profiles-daemon.service - Power Profiles daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/power-profiles-daemon.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since <time>; 12min ago
Invocation: 4f20b3d144584a759b4a6c5ea14aa739
Main PID: 608 (power-profiles-)
Tasks: 4 (limit: 6850)
Memory: 1.6M (peak: 2.8M)
CPU: 81ms
CGroup: /system.slice/power-profiles-daemon.service
āā608 /usr/lib/power-profiles-daemon
Apr 18 11:14:52 berserk-arch systemd[1]: Starting Power Profiles daemon...
Apr 18 11:14:52 berserk-arch systemd[1]: Started Power Profiles daemon.plasma-powerdevil.service is static and running.ā plasma-powerdevil.service - Powerdevil
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/plasma-powerdevil.service; static)
Active: active (running) since <time>; 12min ago
Invocation: 7d72f24a0e5e4a74889a3895b91eb51c
Main PID: 1074 (org_kde_powerde)
Tasks: 9 (limit: 6850)
Memory: 10.6M (peak: 11.4M)
CPU: 1.391s
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/background.slice/plasma-powerdevil.service
āā1074 /usr/lib/org_kde_powerdevilupower.service is enabled and running.ā upower.service - Daemon for power management
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/upower.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since <time>; 12min ago
Invocation: 7aa43a43146346e383c961ce12cc9ded
Docs: man:upowerd(8)
Main PID: 540 (upowerd)
Tasks: 4 (limit: 6850)
Memory: 5.1M (peak: 5.9M)
CPU: 251ms
CGroup: /system.slice/upower.service
āā540 /usr/lib/upowerdGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="amd_pstate=active"
TuneD is really cool, but a weird fix for that problem.
The lack of TuneD is one of the few things keeping me on Fedora and away from NixOS
The latest interim release of Ubuntu introduces ādevpacksā for popular frameworks like Spring, along with performance enhancements across a broad range of hardware. 17 April 2025 Today Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 25.Canonical (Ubuntu)
Snaps promise to do some really cool things. They just are a bitch to use and they are slow and tied too heavily to canonical.
Werenāt you supposed to be able to snap in and out a kernel by now? Like, not even needing a reboot?
Title is quite self-explanatory, reason I wonder is because every now and then I think to myself "maybe distro X is good, maybe I should try it at some point", but then I think a bit more and realise it kind of doesn't make a difference - the only thing I feel kinda matters is rolling vs non-rolling release patterns.
My guiding principles when choosing distro are that I run arch on my desktop because it's what I'm used to (and AUR is nice to have), and Debian on servers because some people said it's good and I the non-rolling release gives me peace of mind that I don't have to update very often. But I could switch both of these out and I really don't think it would make a difference at all.
I wanted a mainstream but not Ubuntu, and one that was preferably offered with KDE Plasma pre-packaged.
So I ended up deciding between Debian and Fedora, and what tipped me to Fedora was thinking: Well SELinux sounds neat, quite close to what I learned about Mandatory Access Control in the lectures, and besides, maybe it will be useful in my work knowing one that is close to RHEL.
Now I work in a network team that has been using Debian for 30 years, lol. Kind of ironic, but I don't regret it, now I just know both.
And fighting SELinux was kind of fun too. I modified my local policies so that systemd can run screen because I wanted to create a Minecraft service to which I could connect as admin, even if it was started by systemd.
Hello!
So, I live on a bus. We travel around, it's pretty great. I don't have a laptop or a mailing address that works, so getting certain things done is difficult, and I have two things I need help with.
I installed a solar system a while back, with an older charge controller a friend recommended. I more recently upgraded the batteries to lithium irons. So now this controller requires reprogramming, and to do so you have to plug an RJ45 (pretty sure that's the name) into it, and probably download some shitty chinese spyware program to fiddle with it. Their newer models bluetooth and require an app of course.
The other thing is either much trickier or impossible, and while I've booted up dumpstered laptops with thumbdrive linux before (and found the homemade blowjob video, heh) I've no idea how to even go about fiddling with this.
It's a (shitty chinese) dash/backup/security camera system. It's been referred to as a 'pizza box' system by someone who hates money. It might have a wifi chip onboard, but I can't figure out it does or not.
I'd like to flash it to run linux, if possible, and put some actually useable video monitoring/porting/editing maybe programs on there. The current UI is unusable even when it's cooperating. Like if there were an accident, I'd just basically be bluffing. Sure the data's probably there, but it's in a format that won't register on any device I've plugged the SD card into. I need it to export to filetype I can use with an ipad, which is the only computer we have aboard.
If any of this sounds like a fun or interesting challenge, I can throw some dollars at you. Or trade work! We do auto/diesel/bicycle mechanic work, welding, sewing, leather and general handy shit.
Sell it and get something with an existing FOSS firmware. And a laptop (dumpster ones work too). What you're asking for is $1000 upfront, at minimum, with no satisfaction guarantee.
If you're willing to do most of the work yourself, I'd suggest finding an official firmware update and running binwalk on it. Also take good photos of the PCB and look for datasheets of every chip. Then you'll be able to pose specific questions and maybe get decent help.
Still, it's probably best to set up ONVIF client software or something.
Hardware enablement highlights
Canonical continues to enable Ubuntu across a broad range of hardware. The introduction of a new ARM64 Desktop ISO makes it easier for early adopters to install Ubuntu Desktop on ARM64 virtual machines and laptops.
Qualcomm Technologies is proud to collaborate with Canonical and is fully committed to enabling a seamless Ubuntu experience on devices powered by SnapdragonĀ®. *Ubuntuās new ARM64 ISO paves the way for future Snapdragon enablement, enabling us to drive AI innovation and adoption together.
Leendert van Doorn, SVP, Engineering at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.*
The latest interim release of Ubuntu introduces ādevpacksā for popular frameworks like Spring, along with performance enhancements across a broad range of hardware. 17 April 2025 Today Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 25.Canonical (Ubuntu)
like this
EDIT: The bad solution is to unblock UDP port 5353 but the port has to be source port, not destination port. (--sport flag) See the now modified rules. The issue is that this is very insecure (see this stackexchange question and comments) but obviously better than no firewall at all because at least I'm blocking TCP traffic.
The proper solution (other than using glibc and installing nss-mdns package) is to open a port with netcat (nc) in the background (using &) and then listen with dig on that port using the -b flag.
port="42069"
nc -l -p "$port" > /dev/null || exit 1 &
dig somehostname.local @224.0.0.241 -p 5353 -b "0.0.0.0#${port}"-A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 42069 -j ACCEPTI want to setup iptables firewall but if I do that, it blocks multicast DNS which I need. I am using command
dig "somehostname.local" @224.0.0.251 -p 5353*filter
# drop forwarded traffic. you only need it of you are running a router
:FORWARD DROP [0:0]
# Accept all outgoing traffic
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [623107326:1392470726908]
# Block all incoming traffic, all protocols (tcp, udp, icmp, ...) everything.
# This is the base rule we can define exceptions from.
:INPUT DROP [11486:513044]
# do not block already running connections (important for outgoing)
-A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
# do not block localhost
-A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
# do not block icmp for ping and network diagnostics. Remove if you do not want this
# note that -p icmp has no effect on ipv6, so we need an extra ipv6 rule
-4 -A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT
-6 -A INPUT -p ipv6-icmp -j ACCEPT
# allow some incoming ports for services that should be public available
# -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
# -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 5353 -j ACCEPT # does not help
-A OUTPUT -p udp -m udp --sport 5353 -j ACCEPT # SOLVES THE ISSUE BUT IS INSECURE - not recommended
# commit changes
COMMIT
I want to make some simple iptables rules to deny all incoming connections and allow outgoing. How can I do that?Super User
As I said, Iām not sure about that.
Still, dig wonāt be listening on port 5353 for the answer, itāll open some random port, so the firewall rule for 5353 will not apply. And the conntrack rule, is my guess, also doesnāt apply, because what I think the conntrack module does is:
Since the outgoing packet is going to multicast, and the incoming packet (I suspect) is coming from the IP of the machine that answers (a different IP therefore), conntrack wouldnāt be able to figure that out. The answer doesnāt match the outgoing packet that dig sends. Since this is just a hunch, I would try to confirm this by looking at the traffic in e.g. wireshark.
Edit 2: Actually dig picks a random port to send the mDNS request from and sends it to 224.0.0.251:5353 (multicast IP). The correct host then replies from port 5353 to the previously picked random port from dig. But I found that you can specify the port with dig -b IP#port so I think that should help. I kinda don't have the time to try it out currently though.
end of edit2.
well I randomly solved it by adding
-A OUTPUT -p udp -m udp --sport 5353 -j ACCEPTEdit: Also thanks for your help!
Hi all. This is an update on my script extracting CRC32 checksum from the 7z commandline tool. The output should be similar to how the md5sum tool outputs, the checksum and the file name/path.
The initial version of this script was actually broken. It would not output all files if a directory was included (wrong counting of files through argument number). Also filenames that contained a space would only output the first part until the space character. All of this rookie mistakes are solved. Plus there is a progress bar showing what files are processed at the moment, instead showing a blank screen until command is finished. This is useful if there are a lot of files or some big files to process.
Yes, I'm aware there are other ways to accomplish this task. I would be happy to see your solution too. And if you encounter a problem, please report.
(Note: Beehaw does not like the "less than" character and breaks the post completley. So replace the line cat %%EOF with 
\#!/usr/bin/env bash
if [[ "${#}" -eq 0 ]] || [[ "${1}" == '-h' ]]; then
self="${0##*/}"
cat %%EOF
usage: ${self} files...
Calculate CRC32 for each file.
positional arguments:
file or dir one or multiple file names or paths, if this is a directory
then traverse it recursively to find all files
EOF
exit 0
fi
7z h -bsp2 -- "${@}" |
\grep -v -E '^[ \t]+.*/' |
\sed -n -e '/^-------- ------------- ------------$/,$p' |
\sed '1d' |
\grep --before-context "9999999" '^-------- ------------- ------------$' |
\head -n -1 |
\awk '$2=""; {print $0}'crc32sum - Calculate CRC32 for each file (Bash using 7z) - crc32sumGist
I was actually looking for something like this a few days ago. This is pretty useful as there's no crc32sum readily available on linux. Thanks for that!
I would personally change a few things, mostly small nitpicks to be fair.
1. Prefer [[ ]] over [ ] for tests. Source: shellcheck.net/wiki/SC2292
2. Use $0 instead of hardcoding crc32sum in the help messages. That way it will work even if someone names the script differently
3. You could exit 0 after the help and end the if there instead of having the whole work being done in an else.
As I said, nitpicks!
Agreed on your points and usually I do 2. (name) and 3. (exit instead else) sometimes. For the [[ over [, it usually matters only for word splitting and globbing behavior, if you do not enclose the variables between quotes I believe. But looking into the shellcheck entry, looks like there is no disadvantage. I may start doing this by default in the future too.
So thanks for the suggestions, I will update the script in a minute.
Edit: I always forget that Beehaw will break if I use the "lower than" character like in
cat %%EOF which requires to change that line. And the example usage is gone for the moment.
Edit2 (21 hours later): I totally forgot to remove the indentation and else-branch. While doing so I also added a special option -h, in case someone tries that. Not a big deal, but thought this should be.
New version for toarchive: gist.github.com/thingsiplay/88ā¦
(I have added a new version of the script. The old one is renamed to 'toarchive-old'. The new script has some guard rails and more checks. Also original files can be removed automatically on success, like gzip does. But an option -r must be explicitly given here, like toarchive zip -r file.txt. Directories can be removed too, but the option uppercase -R is required here, as in toarchive zip -R my_dir. Have in mind this will use rm -r system command. Although some guard rails are in place to prevent massive fail, you should be very careful. Note that no file is removed, if -r or -R are not used at all.)
I always write little scripts and aliases that help me from time to time. I just wanted to share some of my newest simple scripts. There are probably better or easier ways to do, but writing and testing them is fun too. Both make use of the 7z command, a commandline archive tool. Posting it here, so anyone can steal them. They are freshly written, so maybe there are edge cases.
(Update April 17, 2025: Note this is a new version that addresses some issues. The old version I had posted was broken.)
\#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Calculate CRC32 for each file.
if [ "${#}" -eq 0 ]; then
echo "crc32sum files..."
echo "crc32sum *.smc"
else
7z h -bsp2 -- "${@}" |
\grep -v -E '^[ \t]+.*/' |
\sed -n -e '/^-------- ------------- ------------$/,$p' |
\sed '1d' |
\grep --before-context "9999999" '^-------- ------------- ------------$' |
\head -n -1 |
awk '$2=""; {print $0}'
fi\#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Create one archive for each file or folder.
if [ "${#}" -eq -1 ]; then
echo "toarchive ext files..."
echo "toarchive zip *.smc"
else
ext="${1}"
shift
opt=()
stop_parse=false
for arg in "${@}"; do
if [ ! "${stop_parse}" == true ]; then
if [ "${arg}" == "--" ]; then
stop_parse=true
opt+=(--)
continue
elif [[ "${arg}" =~ ^- ]]; then
opt+=("${arg}")
continue
fi
fi
file="${arg}"
7z a "${opt[@]}" "${file}.${ext}" "${file}"
done
fi
crc32sum - Calculate CRC32 for each file (Bash using 7z) - crc32sumGist
I'll bring you straight into my mind: I was scrolling throught the n-th depressing post of the ~~day~~ hour and I thought "If I answer that post/comment by #negativity, will other people be able to filter out this content using my answer?" If not, how could we build some sort of blocklist for people to curate there experience on the fediverse.
I know I can block key word like "politics" "Trump" "Elon" but sometimes it doesn't have a precised word yet use human can categorise it easily.
like this
don't like this
I donāt agree with this particular usecase. Because Iāve personally experienced, people who shun ānegativityā meaning they just completely ignore peopleās suffering which often adds a devastating layer of invisibility to oppression. But probably hopefully this isnāt your case and itās more about ādoom and gloomā than peopleās reality of suffering.
But anyways, I do agree that blocklists are probably a feature that lemmy needs.
like this
don't like this
:tutor command, I'm almost done with it. Do anyone know if there are exercices to practice? Im looking something similar to Ruby koans, a list of excersices to solve like "puzzles" but to Helix.
Not quite what you were asking for, but there is tomgroenwoldt.github.io/helix-ā¦
It's quite good for letting you know about things you didn't know you could do, but sometimes it tells me I'm wrong because I'd do it a different way - e.g. I'd go to line 13 by :13 but it wants 13G.
Also, from within helix you can do space ? to get the list of commands and any bindings they're on.
Upon upgrading from Fedora 41 to 42, I noticed that the USB tethering just doesn't work
networkctl recognizes the device as "wwan" now, instead of "ether". If I load up a previous kernel, USB tethering works normally.
This seems to be a change in the kernel, and probably won't be reverted in the future. What do I do?
More detail in this comment
You know what? Fuck this. I just backed my shit up and installed Debian. Still, please try to look into this, this could be a problem for many others
I've been working on a phone tethering router so might have some insight here for you. Android can use CDC or RNDIS to tether. It depends on your phone which ones gonna be used. Try to figure out which one its using (can do this by watching logs when plugging in usb usually itll say there which type of device is connecting). When i was doing the router i had to make sure cdc_ether and rndis_host kernel modules were both loaded to ensure compatibility. It might be as simple as manually loading a module in the new kernel version. Although I'm not exactly sure how it'll work on fedora i was doing this all on OPNsense.
What i was doing was tethering the phone to a router (old thinkpad running router OS) then passing that connection on to its network and connecting to the Access Point on the network with my laptop. I still havent fully worked out the kinks yet but its going pretty well. Sorry i can't be more specific for your case, but hopefully it gives you some terms you can use to google more effectively at the least.
Below are the kernel logs for when I connect the USB on F42 (new kernel)
::: spoiler new(the one that doesn't work)
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora kernel: usb 5-8: USB disconnect, device number 6
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora kernel: rndis_host 5-8:1.0 wwp0s29f7u8: unregister 'rndis_host' usb-0000:00:1d.7-8, Mobile Broadband RNDIS device
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora systemd-networkd[2818]: wwp0s29f7u8: Link DOWN
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora avahi-daemon[1092]: Interface wwp0s29f7u8.IPv6 no longer relevant for mDNS.
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora systemd-networkd[2818]: wwp0s29f7u8: Lost carrier
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora avahi-daemon[1092]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface wwp0s29f7u8.IPv6 with address fe80::acfa:54ff:fee2:5884.
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora avahi-daemon[1092]: Withdrawing address record for fe80::acfa:54ff:fee2:5884 on wwp0s29f7u8.
Apr 17 hh:mm:20 fedora kernel: usb 5-8: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci-pci
Apr 17 hh:mm:20 fedora kernel: usb 5-8: New USB device found, idVendor=2717, idProduct=ff88, bcdDevice= 4.19
Apr 17 hh:mm:20 fedora kernel: usb 5-8: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Apr 17 hh:mm:20 fedora kernel: usb 5-8: Product: Redmi Note 11
Apr 17 hh:mm:20 fedora kernel: usb 5-8: Manufacturer: Xiaomi
Apr 17 hh:mm:20 fedora kernel: usb 5-8: SerialNumber: 2ce0eff1
Apr 17 hh:mm:20 fedora kernel: rndis_host 5-8:1.0 wwan0: register 'rndis_host' at usb-0000:00:1d.7-8, Mobile Broadband RNDIS device, 7a:03:3c:1e:05:d2
Apr 17 hh:mm:20 fedora mtp-probe[3287]: checking bus 5, device 7: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-8"
Apr 17 hh:mm:20 fedora mtp-probe[3287]: bus: 5, device: 7 was not an MTP device
Apr 17 hh:mm:20 fedora kernel: rndis_host 5-8:1.0 wwp0s29f7u8: renamed from wwan0
Apr 17 hh:mm:20 fedora systemd-networkd[2818]: wwan0: Interface name change detected, renamed to wwp0s29f7u8.
Apr 17 hh:mm:20 fedora mtp-probe[3291]: checking bus 5, device 7: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-8"
Apr 17 hh:mm:20 fedora mtp-probe[3291]: bus: 5, device: 7 was not an MTP device
Apr 17 hh:mm:24 fedora ModemManager[1186]: <msg> [base-manager] couldn't check support for device '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-8': not supported by any pluginAnd these are the logs on the old kernel that still works:
::: spoiler old(the one that works)
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora kernel: usb 5-8: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora kernel: usb 5-8: New USB device found, idVendor=2717, idProduct=ff88, bcdDevice= 4.19
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora kernel: usb 5-8: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora kernel: usb 5-8: Product: Redmi Note 11
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora kernel: usb 5-8: Manufacturer: Xiaomi
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora kernel: usb 5-8: SerialNumber: 2ce0eff1
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora kernel: rndis_host 5-8:1.0 usb0: register 'rndis_host' at usb-0000:00:1d.7-8, RNDIS device, 82:1c:ae:65:4a:34
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora NetworkManager[1495]: <info> [1744877835.2127] manager: (usb0): new Ethernet device (/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/7)
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora mtp-probe[4001]: checking bus 5, device 5: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-8"
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora mtp-probe[4001]: bus: 5, device: 5 was not an MTP device
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora kernel: rndis_host 5-8:1.0 enp0s29f7u8: renamed from usb0
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora NetworkManager[1495]: <info> [1744877835.2356] device (usb0): interface index 7 renamed iface from 'usb0' to 'enp0s29f7u8'
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora NetworkManager[1495]: <info> [1744877835.2456] device (enp0s29f7u8): state change: unmanaged -> unavailable (reason 'managed', managed-type: 'external')
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora NetworkManager[1495]: <info> [1744877835.2479] device (enp0s29f7u8): carrier: link connected
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora NetworkManager[1495]: <info> [1744877835.2484] device (enp0s29f7u8): state change: unavailable -> disconnected (reason 'carrier-changed', managed-type: 'full')
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora NetworkManager[1495]: <info> [1744877835.2497] policy: auto-activating connection 'Wired connection 2' (1cd60103-249a-3a35-b7e8-c2ac149f67ab)
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora NetworkManager[1495]: <info> [1744877835.2501] device (enp0s29f7u8): Activation: starting connection 'Wired connection 2' (1cd60103-249a-3a35-b7e8-c2ac149f67ab)
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora NetworkManager[1495]: <info> [1744877835.2502] device (enp0s29f7u8): state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none', managed-type: 'full')
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora NetworkManager[1495]: <info> [1744877835.2505] device (enp0s29f7u8): state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none', managed-type: 'full')
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora NetworkManager[1495]: <info> [1744877835.2566] device (enp0s29f7u8): state change: config -> ip-config (reason 'none', managed-type: 'full')
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora NetworkManager[1495]: <info> [1744877835.2579] dhcp4 (enp0s29f7u8): activation: beginning transaction (timeout in 45 seconds)
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora avahi-daemon[1380]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface enp0s29f7u8.IPv6 with address fe80::78eb:ce85:f0d8:dda6.
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora avahi-daemon[1380]: New relevant interface enp0s29f7u8.IPv6 for mDNS.
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora avahi-daemon[1380]: Registering new address record for fe80::78eb:ce85:f0d8:dda6 on enp0s29f7u8.*.
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora mtp-probe[4003]: checking bus 5, device 5: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-8"
Apr 17 hh:mm:15 fedora mtp-probe[4003]: bus: 5, device: 5 was not an MTP device
Apr 17 hh:mm:17 fedora NetworkManager[1495]: <info> [1744877837.2676] dhcp4 (enp0s29f7u8): state changed new lease, address=192.168.244.164, acd pending
Apr 17 hh:mm:17 fedora NetworkManager[1495]: <info> [1744877837.4372] dhcp4 (enp0s29f7u8): state changed new lease, address=192.168.244.164
Apr 17 hh:mm:17 fedora avahi-daemon[1380]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface enp0s29f7u8.IPv4 with address 192.168.244.164.
Apr 17 hh:mm:17 fedora avahi-daemon[1380]: New relevant interface enp0s29f7u8.IPv4 for mDNS.
Apr 17 hh:mm:17 fedora avahi-daemon[1380]: Registering new address record for 192.168.244.164 on enp0s29f7u8.IPv4.
Apr 17 hh:mm:17 fedora NetworkManager[1495]: <info> [1744877837.4400] policy: set 'Wired connection 2' (enp0s29f7u8) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS
Apr 17 hh:mm:17 fedora systemd-resolved[1315]: enp0s29f7u8: Bus client set default route setting: no
Apr 17 hh:mm:17 fedora NetworkManager[1495]: <info> [1744877837.4676] device (enp0s29f7u8): state change: ip-config -> ip-check (reason 'none', managed-type: 'full')
Apr 17 hh:mm:17 fedora NetworkManager[1495]: <info> [1744877837.4739] device (enp0s29f7u8): state change: ip-check -> secondaries (reason 'none', managed-type: 'full')
Apr 17 hh:mm:17 fedora NetworkManager[1495]: <info> [1744877837.4771] device (enp0s29f7u8): state change: secondaries -> activated (reason 'none', managed-type: 'full')
Apr 17 hh:mm:17 fedora NetworkManager[1495]: <info> [1744877837.4790] device (enp0s29f7u8): Activation: successful, device activated.{clock details changed to hh:mm for privacy}
One thing I notice is the new upgrade trying to use ModemManager rather than NetworkManager. The device is also defined as "Mobile Broadband", instead of "Ethernet".
Loading the kernel module with modprobe, as another commenter suggested, didn't make any change.
Another thing: An excerpt from the kernel changelog at cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kerneā¦
rndis_host: Flag RNDIS modems as WWAN devices
[ Upstream commit 67d1a8956d2d62fe6b4c13ebabb57806098511d8 ]
Set FLAG_WWAN instead of FLAG_ETHERNET for RNDIS interfaces on Mobile
Broadband Modems, as opposed to regular Ethernet adapters.
Otherwise NetworkManager gets confused, misjudges the device type,
and wouldn't know it should connect a modem to get the device to work.
What would be the result depends on ModemManager version -- older
ModemManager would end up disconnecting a device after an unsuccessful
probe attempt (if it connected without needing to unlock a SIM), while
a newer one might spawn a separate PPP connection over a tty interface
instead, resulting in a general confusion and no end of chaos.
The only way to get this work reliably is to fix the device type
and have good enough version ModemManager (or equivalent).
You're not alone in this:
discussion.fedoraproject.org/tā¦
discussion.fedoraproject.org/tā¦
bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cā¦
lore.kernel.org/all/e0df2d85-1ā¦
When Debian upgrades to this kernel version you might run into the issue again. Unless there is a fix deployed before then.
Tethering worked on my Moto G7 Plus on Fedora 41, but stopped working on Fedora 42. I did see similar thread, but I did not see any instructions on how should I report a bug for this thing.Fedora Discussion
pulido
in reply to NaNin • • •Zross?
X-Cross?
X-ross?
Oh, it's just pronounced Cross. Always unsure how people who make decisions like these get the jobs they do.