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N.E.P.T.R @ Neptr @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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I'm the Never Ending Pie Throwing Robot, aka NEPTR.

Linux enthusiast, programmer, and privacy advocate. I'm nearly done with an IT Security degree.

TL;DR I am a nerd.

  • WinBoat is a new Linux app to run Windows apps with "seamless integration"

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  • It requires rootful Docker, KVM, and AppImage (FUSE2). As long as those requirements are met, it should work. Should be as simple as using ujust or rpm-ostree to install the necessary packages.

  • What are some good shell tweaks?

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  • Seconding fish shell. Very nice experience and the only real downside (or upside depending on perspective) is the non-POSIX syntax for some things.

  • SilverBullet v2 released: open-source, self hosted, programmable notes

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  • If all you need is a simple note taking app, I recommend Notesnook. It is free and open source and offers E2EE cloud syncing. That is what I used as a Google keep alternative. Silverbullet is good, but may be too feature-full for something as simple as a Keep replacement.

  • How are you "supposed" to download your treasures? Download managers? Or just let the 100GB file sit in firefox download list and potentially get cut off mid-download?

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  • I use Varia as my graphical download manager. It has download acceleration built in thanks to aria2. I get often double or triple the download speed (depending on the website). For example, when I downloaded the Fedora Workstation ISO from fedoraproject I got download speeds from 18mbs normal to 60mbs with Varia. Free and open source of course, available on Windows and Linux.

    Website: https://giantpinkrobots.github.io/varia/

  • Why NixOS is the Future - YouTube

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  • Individuals can make there own custom images using blue build and templates for the starting image.

  • Should I Exclude or Include for Split Tunneling for Proton VPN?

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  • Include mode, selecting your Torrent app.

  • Tails 7.0 Now Available for Testing, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie” and GNOME 48

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  • XFCE is still on X11 so it is not a good choice for a secure private OS. GNOME both secures privileged Wayland protocols and has sandboxing for its thumbnailer, among other important security features. KDE is another option, but is kinda over the top for an amnesic distro.

  • how is linux for gamers?

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  • Pretty good unless your game doesnt enable anticheat support for Linux like the battlefield games or fortnite for example. Performance per game is either on par or better than Windows. Game support can be checked on https://protondb.com/

  • Distribution Release: Proxmox 9.0 "Virtual Environment"

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  • Most of it isnt libvirt but instead LXC containers.

  • Google Preparing To Ship Chrome With "--ozone-platform-hint=auto" For Wayland

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  • It doesn't have default support but can with environment variable.

  • Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About

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  • Varia is a download manager written using GTK4. Simple, easy, and best of all speeds up downloads significantly on most sites. There also is a extension for Chromium and Firefox, but I haven't tried them.

  • Lingmo OS???

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  • Website's style breaks without 3rd party scripts permission. Not that that's indicative of the quality of the distro, but I don't like websites that depend heavily on Google, Cloudflare, and external CDNs for scripts since it makes the website less secure.

  • Immutable Linux OS to run Incus

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  • Very cool, love Incus. Wish it had better security options, such as supporting GVisor application kernel.

  • Bazzite or Suse?

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  • I'd pick openSUSE Slowroll. Easy, monthly updates, comes with YaST system tooling.

  • (Yet another) help me choose a distro post

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  • It will have some challenges but the documentation is decent. If security matters to you, it has better protections than any other Linux distro (Qubes OS isn't technically a distro). If you have a problem, first check to see if it is a Secureblue issue then check if it is an upstream Fedora atomic issue.

  • (Yet another) help me choose a distro post

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  • Secureblue eliminates many attack vectors. It is also recommended by PrivacyGuides. Worth trying if you can find davinci resolve as a Flatpak or Fedora RPM.

  • Wayland Will Never Be Ready For Every X11 User

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  • I did a fresh install of fedora in a VM given 4 cores, 16gb ram, and storage on an NVME SSD. Finally I am getting a reasonable boot time of 6.5 seconds. But on bare metal I can't get anywhere close to that. Firmware alone takes 15 seconds. Either way, now I know that it isn't a "Systemd problem", just that only Systemd gives me this problem.

  • Wayland Will Never Be Ready For Every X11 User

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  • Idk what is wrong but every fresh install on any Systemd distro (Arch, Fedora, Debian, openSUSE) has the same slow boot on every device I have tried. I have never seen a 5 second boot on anything else but dinit.

    Oh, and my disk is a modern M.2 SSD for my workstation.

  • Wayland Will Never Be Ready For Every X11 User

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  • I have tried. Nothing worked. I also experience the same slow booting on every machine+systemd, with the same resulting slow boot up. Even friends have mentioned to me the slow boot times compared to Windows.