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FDO is FreeDesktop dot Org, the XDG people Vaxry is an asshole (the Hyprland maintainer)

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  1. I’d say go for a rolling, maybe do updates on weekends
  2. The students will very likely appreciate the customizability of Plasma or Cinnamon; if you want them to focus on work, GNOME (probably with some extensions) would be better. Tilers are a bad idea, because they take some getting used to
  3. Doesn’t really matter, company distros might be paid tho, and that can obviously get expensive
  4. Wayland if your DE has good support (i.e. is GNOME or Plasma), otherwise X
  5. Btrfs’ snapshotting capabilities might be useful to rollback the system to something working if the students fuck something up
  6. Immutable without sudo access should be the safest to hand over to people that you don’t want to ruin anything
  7. I don’t know enough about specific purpose distros

If you already know Nix, NIxOS would be a good choice

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I don’t think there really is an easy way to do this. For sure not as easy as reinstalling.

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They do! /bin has the executables, and /usr/share has everything else.

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I think something like


<span style="color:#323232;">%wheel ALL= NOPASSWD: /bin/apt
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should be the right way of disabling the password for apt.

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obviously a weather app couldn’t possibly use your location for anything, must be spyware

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Thanks, I switched from unconfigured (but working because magic) networkmanager to pure wpa_supplicant on my NixOS system yesterday and I definitely noticed frequent reconnecting.

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I use AnySoftKeyboard (fdroid github website). It has quite the amount of customizability. I like that there are arrow buttons to navigate text better.

your favorite homelab applications

Hi, just recently it’s foss had an article about homelabs. Of course I digged in, since there is a small nuc working tirelessly in the corner of my routers closet. So far it just crawls some web pages for me and sends emails accordingly to my filters. So I hoped to find new exciting stuff to let it crunch through. The articles...

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Found this recently:

it became a thing yesterday lol

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No way, Debian uses systemd, and systemd uses systemd-journald for logging, and doesn’t need cron, because it has timers.

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My real first time using Linux was with Pop!_OS in April last year.

What non-FOSS software have you been unable to quit?

For me, Google video search, Google books (Internet Archive is good, but doesn’t always have the same stuff), Adobe InDesign (but in the process of learning LaTeX), and Typewise. As for the Google stuff, I liked Whoogle a lot, but almost all their instances seem to have been blocked or shut down. Also, apologies if this is...

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I haven’t tried last.fm but I like ListenBrainz for that stuff.

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I use AntennaPod on my phone and Castero (TUI) on my computer.

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foss

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Gentoo has version 3.0.x available

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Unlike certain services, the main fdroid repo is pretty reliable

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I’d say make a group to fix permissions, put everything in a common directory (that has rw permissions for that group), and symlink everything to the standard locations.

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I haven’t used Wayland for about a week overall in my year of using Linux.

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why would you make a new line in the middle of a sentence?

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Unfortunately, it’s not easy to read on my phone either.

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install mesa and codecs from rpmfusion

op most likely doesn’t know what that means

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You haven’t seen my Firefox with Sidebery extension and 544 tabs open, not even remotely organized into categories, no tab stacks with three levels and folders :P I should clean it up some day

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this post was made by a non-tab-hoarder

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the README literally says you should disable agetty for the tty you want to run Ly on.

Can you tell excel sheets which were created using a pirated version of MS Office?

My friend works for a company which requires her to use Microsoft specific application, she didn’t really want to switch to Win 11 and choose to just use Wine Linux package and install a 2016 version of MS office on her Linux laptop. That’s all well and good, but this company she is working for servers other clients at...

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Do you mean OnlyOffice? OpenOffice is the old thing that LibreOffice is a fork of.

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I don’t have a car, as I’m 17.

Try not to get one at all. You should have good enough public transport in the UK to get you around. Living in a place where everything you need is in easy walking distance is ideal, though not easily achievable for some. Also, (insert urbanism propaganda here).

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  • Would make Richard Stallman smile :)

source (code)?

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Anyone else kinda scetched out by the title for Veritasium saying “Veratasium”, or the title for dark.fail saying “dark.fail: is a .onon site online?” instead of “dark.fail: Which Tor sites are online?”?

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ew

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DannyMac 2024

Please recommend me some blogs about Linux or FOSS or similar that you follow through RSS.

Hi. I have a category Little Tech Blogs in my rss reader where I put those cool niche blogs mostly about Linux, FOSS, programming, etc… Many of them I found by articles linked in this community, so I was wondering if you guys know about more blogs like that. By little I mean it’s run by one person or a small group of people,...

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The AUR is the second-biggest software repository in the world

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nixpkgs (unstable to be precise, but iirc all channels are bigger than the AUR)

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According to Repology, Debian Unstable has ~40k, the AUR has ~90k, and nixpkgs unstable has almost 110k.

Where did you get those huge numbers from?

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screenshot of my desktop. Pictured are two floating windows, both kitty, the left one is small, with pfetch just executed, the right one is bigger, with Neovim, open on src/Compositor.cpp from the Hyprland repo. At the top is a mostly default waybar. The wallpaper is a cute promotional wallpaper for Slime Rancher.

Stuff here is:

  • Hyprland: Window Manager
  • Waybar: Status bar
  • Kitty: Terminal
  • Neovim: Editor
  • swww: Wallpaper daemon (Image (archive.org link, scroll down) is a promotional wallpaper for Slime Rancher)

Workspace 3, which I actually use:

the same desktop, but two other, tiled, windows are open. The left one takes up more space. Again both Kitty, the left one with ncmpcpp open, and the right one with newsboat open.

Additional stuff here:

  • ncmpcpp: front-end for mpd (Music Player Daemon)
  • Newsboat: rss reader

The pretty wallpaper and Catppuccin Mocha theme terminal carry the looks quite a bit tbh.

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That part: yes.

The part that I look at the most: eh

https://iusearchlinux.fyi/pictrs/image/05cb7c38-4046-4415-bd0c-9fe2cfea45db.png

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I like kitty because:

  • multiplexing
  • more minimal than DE terminals
  • fast
  • can display images natively
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Can’t argue with that, minimalism is based. (I say this as a non-minimalist)

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I look at images a lot, don’t use a real image viewer much

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Looks are half the experience.

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You seem to be stuck in the early 2000s (at best). Also, I’m not your child.

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Corporate Spam Bot
@linux

is a booster-bot not really of linux, I would say ANTI-LINUX, and promotes constantly marketing by 3-4 corporations that seek to dominate linux and displace all alternatives.

@linux

Portrays as linux the products of IBM (systemd, Qt-corporation) and the distros that promote them by prohibiting alternatives.

BAN the corporate spam bot from all servers!

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This is about what I expected from someone on a general purpose mastodon instance.

Spoiler: Mastodon isn’t the only software that can interact with Mastodon

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This would be a minor release in KDE

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I don’t

(SOLVED) Linux Laptop Gets Stuck on Black Screen After Suspending, No Way to Use Unless Restarted With Power Button

Recently bought a new laptop that comes with an AMD Radeon gpu and installed OpenSuse Tumbleweed on it which I had installed on my previous laptop as well but never had issues with suspending and resuming. However, with the new laptop, I am unable to resume after suspending or closing the lid unless I force it to shut down by...

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Can you check dmesg and/or journald? What model Laptop is it?

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sudo dmesg | less and something with journalctl (not sure because I don’t use that currently). There should be some other logs you can check in /var/log too, kern.log sounds useful (though that might just come from sysklogd).

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you can do some things to be able to enable it again once you’re set up.

Whats your thoughts on Ai in your terminal? (www.warp.dev)

Today i was doing the daily ritual of looking at distrowatch. Todays reveiw section was about a termal called warp, it has built in AI for recomendations and correction for commands (like zhs and nushell). You can also as a chatbot for help. I think its a neat conscept however the security is what makes me a bit skittish. They...

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I feel like every use case they showcase is useless if you remember the commands. And if you don’t know a command, the classic googling until you find something that works usually does the trick.

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