pricing is in line with the top ipad. I consider it kind of an activist move to buy one of these though, more about supporting a cause than getting a device with maximal functionality.
I like this approach of having a model locally and running it locally. I’ve been using the firefox website translator and its great. Handy and it doesn’t send my data to google. That I know of, ha.
You can’t run the linux I use (nixos) without the command line.
The mobile linuxes are way more GUI oriented. Android is first on that list. But also the various other linuxes that target phones, with UIs like phosh. On those I’d say you can mostly never touch a terminal.
But I don’t think you’ll ever be able to do ALL the things without touching the command line though. There’s a lot of software that’s intended to run in a no-GUI situation, like a headless server or embedded. Sometimes a GUI interface will be provided, but I doubt that kind of thing will ever be GUI-first.
Just wondering what people are using to meet the 2FA requirement GitHub has been rolling out. I don’t love the idea of having an authenticator app installed on my phone just to log into GitHub. And really don’t want to give them my phone number just to log in....
So I guess the implication here is apps written explicitly for libadwaita will not be usable on generic GTK. So a calculator, for instance, that uses AdwDialog won’t be executable on a platform that doesn’t support libadwaita, like windows.
Will an app dependent on libadwaita be usable on linux without gnome? Like xfce, or xmonad?
nixos is great - as long as the software you need is in nixpkgs, and it usually is. reinstallation is almost never necessary. You can switch your system to the unstable channel, and if you get tired of that, back to stable again, no problem. Experiment with software and remove it without a trace left in your system. If you mess up your config, you can roll back to the previous config in the bootup menu. Your system config is in a text file which you can put into source control if you wish, which allows you to replicate your config onto another machine, or revert to what you had 6 months ago, etc.
I’ve had a dell precision 5520 for several years now. Its been solid from a software support standpoint. Downside is the stock batteries swell up; I’ve settled for lower-capacity aftermarket batteries instead. On my second keyboard, second charge port and second power supply. Unfortunately a screw fell out and then the hinge broke as a result, and charging has gotten wonky, maybe since the charge port’s attachment point broke too. If you put the charge cable in just the right place it’ll charge, but sometimes I can’t find that position.
Pluses:
32g ram
nvidia graphic accel
replaceable keyboard, battery, memory
touchscreen, webcam, etc all work.
high dpi screen
good linux support.
daily driver for 5+ years
Minuses:
USB3 dock doesn’t charge enough, still needs power supply.
front edge of the laptop is a bit sharp
swelling stock batteries, keyboard and mouse gradually stop working.
should have used locktite on screws, some fell out and now hinge, power wonky.
I also have a thinkpad w520. Super solid, but gets hot when the gpu is enabled. Probably needs a thermal paste refresh. Still on the original keyboard. On second power supply, first one’s cable is getting sparky. Slow compared to the dell, short battery life, very heavy, still working though!
It reset my monitors and I thought my system was rebooting! Then things came back up, with windows on different monitors than before, lol. Its stuck on a splash screen that says “MIXXX”. I’m running nixos, xmonad, pipewire. Output at the terminal:
<span style="color:#323232;">[nix-shell:~]$ mixxx
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ConfigObject: Could not read "/home/pr06lefs/.mixxx/mixxx.cfg"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Loading resources from "/nix/store/q9y3q43nq50wwx7zvq9wz3bj1hlji7w6-mixxx-2.4.0/share/mixxx/"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ConfigObject: Could not read "/home/pr06lefs/.mixxx/mixxx.cfg"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ConfigObject: Could not read "/home/pr06lefs/.mixxx/mixxx.cfg"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">No version number in configuration file. Setting to "2.4.0"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">BroadcastSettings - Profiles folder doesn't exist. Creating it.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">BroadcastSettings - No profiles found. Creating default profile.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">warning [Main] faad2::LibLoader - Failed to load ("libfaad.so.2", "libfaad.so") , "Cannot load library libfaad.so: (libfaad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">warning [Main] SoundSourceProviderRegistry - SoundSource provider "Nero FAAD2" does not support any file extensions
</span><span style="color:#323232;">warning [Main] SoundSourceProxy - Failed to register SoundSource provider "Nero FAAD2"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1000:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ALSA lib pcm.c:2792:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ALSA lib pcm.c:2792:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ALSA lib pcm.c:2792:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ALSA lib pcm_route.c:878:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1000:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
</span>
Looks like you can adjust playback speed. But I don’t see where you can adjust pitch, nor do I see where you can select a section of a song for looping.
thx. and looks like you can set up an af-command for bumping the playback speed up and down with a keyboard shortcut. presumably that’s possible with pitch as well.
seems like libmpv would be a great back end for a specialized music practice tool.
Autohotkeys is cool but its a windows prog, so won’t work for me on linux.
When you speed up/slow down the recording, it has to process the whole file. That takes a while. You can’t just slide a slider to different pitches to see what’s right. Then you have to save the file someplace, think of a file name, put it somewhere reasonable etc. Or remember the pitch and do everything over again next time.
Got it working. The problem was really dumb: I use xmonad. When I run mixx, it opens a modal dialog where you have to select a file, or cancel. I didn’t notice the dialog, maybe too many windows or it ended up behind the main window. Dialog never returns, program never gets off the splash screen. 😅 Still get the warnings and errors, but apparently that’s normal.
Anyway, working now, definitely a lot of bells and whistles in this. Inspiring if I ever want to take up DJing.
Hi everyone! Due to so many projects I’m involved into, I need an easy way to organize and visualize tasks, dependencies, and durations in order to properly plan my week....
maybe its our instance but calendar sync is horribly broken for us. I use thunderbird on pc and fossify calendar on mobile, and events tend to make it to nextcloud but not to the other devices pretty frequently.
wonder why those elbows lock out instead of having 270 degrees of freedom. would be even more creepy. could have one arm in facing-forward mode and one in facing-backward mode, do the same with the feet. then googly eyes for the back of the head.
There are a bunch of laptops coming out with the snapdragon elite x processor this year, which is comparable to the apple M type.
The already-out thinkpad x13s has an earlier generation snapdragon cpu, and can run debian. Hibernation and sleep seem to be a bit of an issue, so can’t say ‘full support’ yet.
It seems probable that the elite X snapdragon will be able to run linux too, though there will be some lingering issues.
I have been thinking about self-hosting my personal photos on my linux server. After the recent backdoor was detected I’m more hesitant to do so especially because i’m no security expert and don’t have the time and knowledge to audit my server. All I’ve done so far is disabling password logins and changing the ssh port....
We don’t know. But if there were well known backdoors to mainstream security practices we might see more companies that depend on security shutting down, or at least shutting down their online activities. Banks, stock trading, crypto exchanges, other enterprises that handle money, where hacking would be lucrative.
I use xmonad. In that you can cycle through windows with ctrl-j or ctrl-k. I can switch monitors with ctrl-w and ctrl-e for left and right. Ctrl-1 2 3 etc for workspaces. ctrl-space to flip through 3 different tiling schemes: focus window fullscreen, focus window left, focus window top.
Nixos with xmonad and with xfce in no-desktop mode. Xfce gives me monitor positioning since I have two monitors and one is vertical. On a desktop, and on two laptops. Oh and I swapped my esc and capslock keys. Crazy I know.
Also I have nixos on my pinephone, ha. But I don’t use it.
Flakes on the system level aren’t too bad. You can pretty much just keep your configuration.nix, but now you call that from a flake.nix. The difference is you remove all your nix-channels and you specify your nixpkgs in your flake.nix. So its really using a flake instead of nix-channels.
The cool part is when you nixos-rebuild the first time, it will save your nixpkgs version in a flake.lock. Then it will stay that way until you choose to upgrade with nix flake update. Nice and stable.
My old procedure with the monitors, pre xfce, was an xrandr script. But I didn’t bother with positioning so the mouse goes straight across going from one monitor to another… you can probably do it but that was enough xrandr for me.
xfce-no-desktop also gives me media keys, although the audio keys are broken in pipewire now. At least screen dimming keys work.
I use xmonad/xfce which is not available on wayland, and I have no real desire to research alternatives and config them/learn their keyboard shortcuts/etc. Its unclear to me what the benefit is from switching, from a UI perspective. Probably nothing.
But I’ll probably give it a try anyway in a few months maybe, I hear they merged something to make nvidia less glitchy, so maybe wait for that to be in my distro.
Just missed a meeting today because I accepted an event on Thunderbird this morning, that should have synced to Nextcloud, and then to my phone running a calendar app from ‘simplemobiletools’. Never made it. After I missed the meeting I didn’t see the event on nextcloud, then went to look at the event on thunderbird, and...
Since nvidia drivers do not properly implement implicit sync, this protocol not existing is the root cause of flickering with nvidia graphics on Wayland. This MR being merged means that Wayland might finally be usable with nvidia graphics with the next driver release....
The thinkpad-x13s-snapdragon is fanless and uses a qualcomm snapdragon processor, so an ARM like the macs use but lower performance. Batttery life is reputedly in the 20+ hour range.
Caveats:
kinda pricey, 1K
this arm chip is slow compared to macs.
out of the mainstream so better do your homework on whether linux is well supported.
Laptops based on the snapdragon elite processors will come out this year, and performance should be comparable to the Mx macs. So maybe better to wait. Although, those may be considerably more expensive, and who knows what linux support will be like, especially at first.
Way back when I think it was SUSE for me after BeOS went under. Ubuntu, debian, arch, and then nixos maybe 7 or 8 years ago. Back to ubuntu for work for a few years, but nixos full time now.
I decided to dive heads first into window managers and need your input for your guidance. I’m absolutely not a Linux-pro. I basically never use the terminal, just started using Github, and only used Gnome (+ KDE for 1/8th the time) for now....
Personally I use xmonad with xfce in no-desktop mode. And I configure almost nothing.
Xfce gives me multi monitor setup/positioning, a shutdown dialog, and other niceties like mouse config. I have dmenu for starting GUI programs. Only thing that bothers me is nextcloud sync demands a taskbar in which to put its icon. Since there isn’t one, I have to cope with its login BS each time I boot up.
For pretty much anything else I go to the terminal. What time is it? type ‘date’ and press enter. Wireless? ‘sudo nmtui’. Etc. I started doing this as a way to brush up on terminal knowledge, and now I see no reason to change.
Personally I’m holding out for a laptop based on the snapdragon elite X arm chips coming out later this year. Should be great for battery life (like 28 hours) and very fast. We’ll see how the linux support turns out. And also which manufacturers pick it up - would like framework but haven’t heard anything about that from them. Lenovo already released a system based on the old snapdragon chip so seems likely they’ll release one based on the elite X too.
Purism (creator of FOSS friendly phones and hardware) 2023 financial report , income grew by 350% in three years and the company is profitable (puri.sm)
Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model" (hacks.mozilla.org)
New accessibility feature coming to Firefox, an “AI powered” alt-text generator....
Is it possible to use Linux without the command line?
We’ve all heard it before: People claiming Linux isn’t a viable alternative cause you can’t run it without using the command line....
How is everyone handling the 2FA requirement for GitHub? (docs.github.com)
Just wondering what people are using to meet the 2FA requirement GitHub has been rolling out. I don’t love the idea of having an authenticator app installed on my phone just to log into GitHub. And really don’t want to give them my phone number just to log in....
Schenker shows off a Linux laptop prototype with Snapdragon X Elite at Computex 2024 (liliputing.com)
Libadwaita: Splitting GTK and Design Language (tesk.page)
Stable, consistent workstation recommendations?
First, thanks for reading and commenting....
What laptop do you use/recommend?
Looking to upgrade from an old Latitude, curious as to what mobile hardware you folks use for writing your open source projects?
foss audio slowdowner?
I’m looking for an audio app for learning tunes by ear. Ideally would have:...
Suggestions for an organizer app
Hi everyone! Due to so many projects I’m involved into, I need an easy way to organize and visualize tasks, dependencies, and durations in order to properly plan my week....
All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics - YouTube (youtube.com)
Canonical and Qualcomm Collaborate to Bring Ubuntu to Qualcomm Devices (www.webpronews.com)
How do we know if there aren't a bunch of more undetected backdoors?
I have been thinking about self-hosting my personal photos on my linux server. After the recent backdoor was detected I’m more hesitant to do so especially because i’m no security expert and don’t have the time and knowledge to audit my server. All I’ve done so far is disabling password logins and changing the ssh port....
Cycle through windows | apps
Following is very subjective and probably varies from distro to distro, de to de, app to app, user to user....
Linux users with uncommon or unusual setups: tell us about it
I’ll start with mine. yes part of this was to brag about my somewhat but not too unusual setup. But I also wanna learn from your setups!...
Do you daily drive Wayland, if so since when, if not when will you?
I’ve been on Wayland for the past two years exclusively (Nvidia)....
OSS calendar servers/clients that don't suck?
Just missed a meeting today because I accepted an event on Thunderbird this morning, that should have synced to Nextcloud, and then to my phone running a calendar app from ‘simplemobiletools’. Never made it. After I missed the meeting I didn’t see the event on nextcloud, then went to look at the event on thunderbird, and...
Explicit sync Wayland protocol has finally been merged! (gitlab.freedesktop.org)
Since nvidia drivers do not properly implement implicit sync, this protocol not existing is the root cause of flickering with nvidia graphics on Wayland. This MR being merged means that Wayland might finally be usable with nvidia graphics with the next driver release....
She Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Fanless linux laptop
I’m looking for an Apple MacBook Air M2 alternative that could run Linux....
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Is there an easy way of starting up services with just the nix package manager and not using NixOS?
Hi, sorry if that title isn't very clear. I just started learning about nix a couple days ago; I'll explain what I mean....
Former distrohoppers, where did you settle down?
Which one(s) and why?
I started using tiling window managers. What tips do you have? What packages do you use to make yours fully functional? Lost noob needs some guidance...
I decided to dive heads first into window managers and need your input for your guidance. I’m absolutely not a Linux-pro. I basically never use the terminal, just started using Github, and only used Gnome (+ KDE for 1/8th the time) for now....
Laptop companies: which one?
Hello fellows,...