I have 2 different resolution monitors (2560x1440 and 1920x1080) and I dislike that my mouse gets stuck at the transition where the smaller display is not aligned with the bigger one. I use cursr to fix that but I can’t find an alternative that works on wayland and that’s pretty well the only thing stopping me from making...
Maybe you are just dealing with the new Plasma 6.1 feature for multi-monitor setups? It’s pretty useful, but I find it annoying too, and thankfully this is KDE, so there’s always the possibility to make it your way.
Noticed this on Fdroid recently, it has a really nice UI and auto generates real barcodes from images. Their document scanner app is pretty nice too. It seems like early development so I’m excited to see it improve from here!
It definitely is useful, I use it for train tickets, or user QR codes for things such as IKEA, supermarkets, gas stations… It’s quite literally a virtual wallet where you have all your “cards”, but they are QRs.
This way, for example, you don’t have to install every single app to get the QR code that identifies you in every market. You just paste them into this wallet and you are good to go!
NFC payments require a transaction platform and these things are only possible with banks or huge, “trusted” companies like Google/Apple.
Although things might start changing in Europe (for now) with GNU Taler.
With the recent WWDC apple made some bold claims about privacy when it comes to so called Apple Intelligence. This makes me wonder if they did something to what Microsoft did with Recall feature, would people be less concerned and to an extend praise their effort?...
I am curious why you’d think that is a good idea. I find it absolutely useless, as anything that I’d like stored… We can already easily store. But recording EVERYTHING that happens in my computer??? What kind of data hoarding obsession is this?
That is a small vulnerability away of being the biggest mistake of your life, IMO.
Hi! I know many Apple users, and 100% of them bought it because “bro, it’s Apple”. It’s basically the “im not poor” message that the Apple logo gives. They don’t care about anything else aside that it’s Apple and it plays CandyCrush.
Believe me, poor kids will save for an iPhone too. But yes, the Mac audience is a bit more professional, although I still know of a couple of dumbasses using Mac because of the aesthetics at Starbucks.
Once you find out we’ve had fuzzy finders for 40 years your mind is going to be blown.
I am not saying AI is not useful. It will be an amazing use case to sprinkle some AI into fuzzyfinders, but don’t let it have everything that has ever been played on screen… Passwords, private windows, one-time messages… You must be very young if you don’t see the problems with that.
There is a reason why we have password protected folders and files, or how we keep some stuff locked online, or how we use private browser windows. And you want to feed all that to an AI.
Don’t worry, they’ll kill the project after naming it Chrome Recall, Google Recall, Google Watcher, GWatch (with chat), Chat&Watch, Google Watch (new) in the span of a year.
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....
LPT: If you’re not a fan of where Android or iOS is going but have to use one, buy a used phone to avoid giving money directly to ill-intentioned manufacturers. Then use some of the savings to support Linux Mobile Distro development!...
I am also thinking of starting an open source project, and honestly, will do it on Github, because so far, GitHub does not require microphone or location access, yadayada… And the AI thing would happen anyway. Do you think Google has not used GitHub repos for training Gemini?
I am very interested in syncing the repo with a federated git server, but from what I am reading Codeberg/Forgejo still don’t have federation working?
Second of all: no, Arch is not as easy to install, specially for someone who is looking at Manjaro as a possibility.
And believe me, I was once a Manjaro user.
And for 99% of Manjaro users, what they really wanted was Arch with an installer. Which is what Endeavour OS is. (Although I’ll never understand why Endeavour people didn’t just develop the tools FOR Arch instead of wrapping it all up as their own).
What I mean is that anyone (in fact there were projects that did this) could make an image with an installer GUI for Arch Linux that installed Arch Linux and some opinionated software like Endeavour does. But at the end you just got an easy Arch installation. What bothers me is that instead of pushing for Arch Linux’s brand, Endeavour created their own, virtually wrapping Arch Linux as theirs, and I don’t believe it is enough work to consider it a different distro, because it is LITERALLY ARCH with a couple of extra packages (that could be on the main repos or the AUR).
And I am saying all this as an Endeavour user myself!
I have 0 knowledge of these things, but I do know that people always comment that sudo is bloated, that nobody is truly using everything that sudo can do, only one basic command.
I was kinda referencing warp, a supposedly new terminal that was also written in Rust, had AI stuff, started on Mac, and finally got a Linux version, which lasted 30 seconds on my computer once I saw there is no option to use it unless you make an account. Yes. For a LOCAL terminal. Nuts.
I was reading GitLab’s documentation (see link) on how to write to a repository from within the CI pipeline and noticed something: The described Docker executor is able to authenticate e.g. against the Git repository with only a private SSH key, being told absolutely nothing about the user’s name it is associated with....
Public SSH keys don’t contain any user information at all. They could have some metadata for users to easily read, but that can be deleted without repercussions.
I’m no expert, and this is probably how it does NOT work, but if you have a private key, it can generate the public key, so that could be a way to tell the server “this is me”, now try me.
I was using the Plasma Vaults feature for the first time on my Linux computer, and it worked nicely (GoCryptFS), but when I wanted to sync that folder on my Android… I just couldn’t find the right tool on Android for the job....
I was literally fighting with this these last 4 hours, and here’s my conclusion:
What a goddamn mess Samba is. How in the world is it so hard to make this thing work?
I eventually realised that for my usecase minidlna would work, at least for a while, and it was amazing how simple it was.
This is all I can say about the subject. I am surprised there are no simple ways to setup Samba folders such as a GUI that asks you “what ya wanna share? Oh, okay, you want people to write things on it? Cool! It’s working now. Don’t forget to check these ports on your firewall, bye!”
As Telegram ads are getting more misleading and dangerous than ever (specially crypto ads) just wanted to know is there a way to block them? I’m mostly worried for my more elderly family members getting affected
Wayland cursr equivalent
I have 2 different resolution monitors (2560x1440 and 1920x1080) and I dislike that my mouse gets stuck at the transition where the smaller display is not aligned with the bigger one. I use cursr to fix that but I can’t find an alternative that works on wayland and that’s pretty well the only thing stopping me from making...
YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes (www.youtube.com)
PostmarketOS v24.06: The One With Over 250 Devices (postmarketos.org)
New OSS Android Card Wallet app (apt.izzysoft.de)
Noticed this on Fdroid recently, it has a really nice UI and auto generates real barcodes from images. Their document scanner app is pretty nice too. It seems like early development so I’m excited to see it improve from here!
Do you think people would be okay with 'Recall' if Apple did it?
With the recent WWDC apple made some bold claims about privacy when it comes to so called Apple Intelligence. This makes me wonder if they did something to what Microsoft did with Recall feature, would people be less concerned and to an extend praise their effort?...
Google is Working on a Recall Feature for ChromeOS - Thurrott.com (www.thurrott.com)
SponsorBlock (and DeArrow): "YouTube is currently experimenting with server-si…" - Fosstodon (fosstodon.org)
cross-posted from: lazysoci.al/post/14579120...
FOSS File Transfer Program?
Like Localshare but works over the internet?...
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Wait... why does Linux-libre (and #Freedo) exist?
Is Linux not free software itself? I thought propietary stuff was added downstream....
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....
[Question] Feeling stuck and don't know what to do.
Hi privacy community. I genuinely want to hear from both people who are very private and those who didn’t go to such an extent....
ReviOS (www.revi.cc)
Alternativ OS for those which can’t or won’t use Linux...
VLC Player
VLC is the supreme of all open source projects, you used it in school, college, work and home....
Here's a way to support linux mobile development even if you're forced to use android or ios
LPT: If you’re not a fan of where Android or iOS is going but have to use one, buy a used phone to avoid giving money directly to ill-intentioned manufacturers. Then use some of the savings to support Linux Mobile Distro development!...
Is it possible to do calculations with GNU Octave using measuring units?
Hello! In qalc I can do calculations using measuring units like this:...
The May 2024 Organic Maps update with bookmarks and tracks sorting by name, better paved/unpaved paths colors, GPX import fixes, drive-through, and many other changes (organicmaps.app)
Why FOSS projects are using proprietary, privacy invasive infrastructure?
As you can easily notice, today many open source projects are using some services, that are… sus....
Manjaro 24.0 Wynsdey released (forum.manjaro.org)
Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Systemd Looks to Replace sudo with run0 (news.itsfoss.com)
Zed Decoded: Linux when? - Zed Blog (zed.dev)
KDE Plasma needs stability (www.youtube.com)
SSH login without user name? (docs.gitlab.com)
I was reading GitLab’s documentation (see link) on how to write to a repository from within the CI pipeline and noticed something: The described Docker executor is able to authenticate e.g. against the Git repository with only a private SSH key, being told absolutely nothing about the user’s name it is associated with....
What is your GoCryptFS/CryFS workflow for syncing (let's say) Nextcloud encrypted folders on Android?
I was using the Plasma Vaults feature for the first time on my Linux computer, and it worked nicely (GoCryptFS), but when I wanted to sync that folder on my Android… I just couldn’t find the right tool on Android for the job....
Ideas for a federated anime tracker
Hello Lemmings....
SMB Share - Help Before I Rip Out What's Left of My Hair :)? (Edit: Solved!)
Fedora 39...
telegram ads
As Telegram ads are getting more misleading and dangerous than ever (specially crypto ads) just wanted to know is there a way to block them? I’m mostly worried for my more elderly family members getting affected