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Jack of random trades at random times that randomly catch my interest for a random amount of time.

  • Hate Systemd? A New Init System(Nitro) Debuts as a Minimalist Process Supervisor for Linux

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  • I'm a very mid-level Linux user. I use systemd because I'm just not familiar with how init systems actually work. I love that the choice is there, but I think systemd has it's place with users like me that get confused.

    That being said, I did run Dracut on EndeavourOS because it was recommended for that distro. I never dived into it to see what the exact difference was, though I do remember running into some things I needed to do that Dracut did differently. There may come a day when I dive into inits, but for now I'm just happy if my system boots to desktop.

  • Do you guys just have flawless experiences or what?

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  • You're not wrong, though. If you want all your packages to work correctly, you gotta stay up to date. I know some of my packages will break if I go more than a week.

    Yesterday I read about RATs becoming more frequent in the AUR in some packages. They predict that they're going to become more frequent soon. I'm wondering if it might be time to switch my main machine to NixOS now. I may check out Bazzite and Nobara first, though.

    However, I guess Arch is doing something to protect against these? It's going to be part of BumpBuddy.

  • Do you guys just have flawless experiences or what?

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  • Yeah, that checks out. I think there's other ways of doing it, I just never manages to get it working. I'll have to check again, but I thought KDE had something in the system settings that let you swap versions. I could be just misremembering the kernel swap settings though.

    There's also some nvidia command hoodoo I tried and everything went well except at the end where I wound up with no graphical output at all, lol. I did a lot of messing around on fresh installs until the cord swap finally worked.

  • Introduction to Nix & NixOS

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  • Yeah, it does make sense that you can compare them in that sense, but as far as actual system setup goes, I don't think they're comparable. Don't get me wrong, I love NixOS. When I was learning nixlang and setting up everything to be modular and reproducible, I was having a blast.

    However, I also had a blast learning Arch and figuring out how my system works the way it does. I'll be honest, though, NixOS helped me learn how Home was separate from Root. That alone really helped me learn how the general Linux system file hierarchy worked.

    But there are also things I would have never learned about Linux if I never messed with Arch, such as essential system symlinks, how they work, and how to use chroot in the live environment to fix broken ones (thanks to a botched Arch update, lol).

    If you like it, learn it-use it. All this comparing and inter-distro warring seems pointless. There's not a distro I've used that I haven't had things I really liked and really hated.

  • Do you guys just have flawless experiences or what?

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  • I had some weird artifacting issues in an older version of Nvidia proprietary. While viewing certain windows or colors, my screen would flicker, or else I would get weird diagonal lines across my whole screen.

    I went nuts trying to figure it out. In the end since I started on Pop!_OS, I just easily rolled back to a previous version of the proprietary drivers and called it good. Well, later I wanted to try EndeavourOS. I was too noob to figure how to roll back the drivers there.

    So a friend asked me, "Are you using display port or HDMI? Try the other one." I highly doubted that would fix anything, but for the sake of trying everything, I switched to HDMI. And well... fuck me if it didn't work. I've just been running HDMI ever since.

  • Introduction to Nix & NixOS

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  • I'm more in the group of Nix != Arch. They're just different. I love them both, tbh.

    I would like to add that I have never recommended them to beginners. I usually like to recommend Pop!_OS.

    I really have been wanting to try Bazzite lately, too.

  • Introduction to Nix & NixOS

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  • You should try it.iusearchbtw

  • VOID — my FOSS second-brain app

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  • Note taking has it's place, but I agree. Once you go from note taking into crippling habitual hivemind its lost the main point. The time I spent on making my notes look amazing and growing my thought library rather than working on executing my actual ideas was getting insane.

    I've seen some of the Obsidian maxi's graphs in tutorial videos. There are people that have spent literal weeks of their precious time on these massive dot-to-line hoards. It really becomes literal e-hoarding. Like counseling levels of bad habit. Then they hold these humongous, continent-sized graphs up like a trophy. Mine's bigger than yours. Whip it out and prove it.

    Now I only jot ideas I want to remember later if I'm in the middle of something, write down dreams I may forget (or nightmares, as it helps me calm down and analyze them logically), and keep to my diet and shopping lists.

    I really don't need more than that. Any reminders or schedules go in my android FOSS calendar (Etar).

  • Piracy surges as streaming costs drive viewers away

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  • We may put up our hats for a while, but we never pull in the sails.

    Translation: I'm more than happy to pay for a fair service, but I'm not stupid enough to believe it will last.

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    Eyedust @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Airstatus Fork Update: Clean table, output refreshes instead of lists, and color-coded battery levels/charging status. Airpods battery levels for Linux

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    Eyedust @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    I updated Airstatus to accommodate Bleak 1.1.0 and the removal of Discover.

  • Syncthing 2.0 Launches With Major Database Overhaul

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  • I'm not sure how fast the pacman repo updates, but I'm using that plus Syncthing-Fork from F-Droid. I don't think they've dropped 2.0 in there, yet.

    Looks like the Arch Syncthing package upstream URL is the official Syncthing and is running 2.0.1 I can now confirm that 1.x from Syncthing-Fork works fine with Syncthing 2.0. I just set it up this morning, oddly enough.

  • choosing a version of Linux for my mom

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  • I've never really used Ubuntu, but I'm going to agree with others here. If its what you use, it would be better in the sense that it would be much easier for you to give her phone assistance when she needs it, rather than giving her something you're not used to and possibly having to go over and troubleshoot for her.

    If she wants something more in the line with Windows, you could try Kubuntu, but I think the rigging behind KDE is pretty complicated for a casual user. You may want to help her set up the way she wants her desktop to look at first if you go this route. The only other Windows-like desktop is Cinnamon, but Cinnamon-Wayland is still in alpha and once they officially drop it that could make more work for you later.

    Admittedly, I have 0 experience with the Unity DE, so that'd be your call if you think you can familiarize it for her.

  • Realizing Arch isn't for me after updating broke VLC

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  • Manjaro has been pretty quiet for a long time. There's gotta be a point where we forgive and forget. I like Manjaro and used it as my entry point to Arch. It sets a lot more up for you out of the box and has manjaro-specific package bundles that just work on install.

    According to Manjarno, its been just under three years since their last mistake, and that was just forgetting to renew the SSL cert for their archived forums. Probably about time we let it back into the Arch family.

  • A FOSS Android project looking for a 15-minute help

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  • I agree with you on that point. I got overly ambitious and have always wondered about making my own icon pack. When you do release, you should reach out to Delta icons in F-Droid and see if you can get your app requested! Everone gets one app request for free, and the project is completely free and open source.

    I'll post a finished product when it's done if you want to use it anywhere. You can freely have it and license it under your project if you wish. I'll try to finish it by tomorrow, and in the meantime if you have any other requests for art that you need, do not hesitate to ask. I think this is an amazing idea, and honestly could see other utilization for it.

    For example, a color naming tool for the colorblind. With the way AI is, it could present examples of things of that color. For example, a lime green could show a tennis ball, bright grass, and other such samples. Could possibly used in aiding colorblind individuals in painting or digital art (though the paintings that come from a fully colorblind artist are wild and really cool when they just pick from the grays that look good to them).

  • A FOSS Android project looking for a 15-minute help

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  • This was what I was thinking. Vectoring the continents takes a bit of time, but it's pretty fun, actually. I want to get some iris details in there, but would also like a bit of feedback from the community.

    If you already have something else, that's good as well. I honestly am having fun making this and I needed to get back into vector art anyway.

  • A FOSS Android project looking for a 15-minute help

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  • Let me take a fresh look at this in the morning. I'm having the itch to get up, boot up Inkscape and get something going via vector, but my sleep schedule will be completely screwed if I do that.

    I'll try to set an alarm or something, as I have pretty severe and unmedicated ADHD, but if someone could reply to this as well, as an extra reminder, I'd be grateful. I'll probably remember when I open the app tomorrow, but better safe than sorry.

    Its not often I get the itch to draw, but this really leaps out at me and I want to try. I have an idea of how I'd go about it. An eye looking slightly skyward with Earth as the pupil (if it hasn't been done for something else yet). I don't know if it's within my skill, though.

    Also, I believe there's a way to translate vector to XML. I think I did it once when I was making a custom theme for MusicBee, but I'll have to look again to be sure.

  • YouTube star Mikayla Raines dies by suicide at 29, husband blames online abuse

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  • There was a whole subreddit called "r/SaveAfoxSnark" that went private after the news came out. One reddit mod there got doxxed, panicked, and deleted their whole reddit history.

    Edit: The mod's reddit handle is/was KazeoLion. There are only quotes here about this, so take it all with a grain of salt until we know more. These are YouTube comments:

    MappleBunny 13 hours ago One of the people responsible for the bullying is a reddit user by the name of KazeoLion, who has since been doxxed and had to delete most of his reddit posts (which are still available in the wayback machine), he even made a post where he doubled down on his actions.

    We will neither forgive nor forget. Rest in peace Mikayla

    bluebowser3347 21 hours ago There was a whole subreddit called r/SaveAfoxSnark that was dedicated to bullying and harassing Mikayla. The moment the news came out that she had killed herself the subreddit switched to private.

  • Linux and FOSS Signal group chat

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  • I didn't mean to imply that you were suggesting Discord. I was just agreeing with you that channels would really help.

    Sorry about that. I meant that OP could check out Revolt for an open source chat that had channels.

  • Linux and FOSS Signal group chat

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  • I agree here. As much as I hate Discord, it would be much better geared for this. Have you considered Revolt? I haven't tried it myself, but it is the most prominent open source solution to Discord.

  • Bazzite: The Gaming OS Microsoft Doesn't Want You To Know About

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  • Got these written down in my Obsidian vault (alongside DIVI-DEAD, because I'll be damned if I forget that one again). Interaction is minor. I don't really play VN to interact with anything, but its cool if there's some sort of mechanic.

    For example, Kamidori Alchemy Meister actually has fairly compelling adventure, party building, monster catching, shop building, crafting, and shop sales mechanics (much like Moonlighter shop and sales mechanic). Its a huge game with a ton of characters, but still advertises as a VN.

    For me, I don't need all that as long as there's a compelling story. I know some VN out there literally don't have choices and just play as... well, as visual novels, lol. Thank you for the list. Pumpkin Eater actually stands out the most to me. It seems reminiscent of analog horror done in a VN watercolor. I like the aesthetic and it already feels unsettling.

    If you want some non-VN psychological horrors, my top two are Fran Bow and Sally Face. Sally Face is incredibly good, but Fran Bow is a very VERY close second. They're more point and click puzzlers, but that's another favorite genre of mine.

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    Eyedust @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    How I gave up a one-game addiction to switch to 100% Linux (long story warning)

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    Eyedust @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    As an older torrent gen, I tried Debrid for the first time.