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beeng,

Self made Scylla for a year (it’s a dactyl type - split, tented, welled, ortho) and I’m cruising on it.

Still adjusting 1 or 2 keys on ZMK but from comfort its amazing.

Bluetooth, USB-C and battery. Enjoying life!

beeng,

This was a plant.

beeng,

Not a big fan of touchpads, leave you with sore wrists.

Put a ball or a track point on it and it would look interesting for me.

beeng,

Ahh looks nice!

But won’t drag me away from my concave Scylla and Elecom Huge anytime soon :)

beeng,

Printed it with MJF and then built and handwired it myself.

I used Brown cherry’s and nice Nanos boards running ZMK!

beeng,

Video link broken?

qkall, to linuxphones
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I feel like I've crossed some sort of line ...

@linuxphones @PINE64

beeng,

More pictures please!

beeng,

Looks like USB C to a pogo pin / magsafe type connector

beeng,

If less keys is better may depend on if it’s mac or not (apparently).

Could be lack of customisation available on Mac? (guess only)

beeng,

VLC for the everyday person, all the way until you get to enthusiast class, then you use MPV.

Shortcuts, lightweight, CLI etc…

beeng, (edited )

My nixpkgs list is something like

  • Firefox
  • Vim
  • WezTerm
  • Fzf
  • Zoxide
  • Starship
  • Copyq
  • mpv
  • Obsidian
  • Chromium
  • Xbindkeys
  • Xte
beeng,

Mac air was start of 2010s iirc

Any suggestions for cheap but decent laptops for coding?

I’m currently learning how to code (currently Python, then maybe JavaScript), but I’m not always around my desktop, and learning on my phone is not always an option (also, it can be quite cumbersome at times). Therefore, I’m looking into purchasing a laptop just for learning how to code and stuff....

beeng,

Some reason I have Chromebook Lenovo Thinka Pad 11e saved in my notes

Iirc it’s something that isn’t too difficult to unlock and get Linux on it, otherwise I wouldn’t have considered it.

beeng,

Admittedly I’ve never done it, but my 5mins of LLM’ing said chroot is only needed when keeping chromeOS on the machine side by side.

beeng,

Exactly

beeng,

You should have a local economy where you live…

beeng,

Companies have heavy commercial real estate bags. They are justifying their investments by forcing RTO

beeng,

It’s like buying a very expensive pool, even though it costs money to run and service, you already bought it and will invite people to come and swim in it to justify the purchase, even though it’s a giant money sink.

You can’t just give it back that’s also wasting money, so what are you going to do?

beeng,

Node red is for visual node programming. I don’t think you’ll need to be writing node.js

Ive used it for years and wrote more bash / python for those nodes than I even touched js.

beeng,

Make PWA’s the go to. Use them where possible and give feedback where possible

beeng,

Where’s the new rust version?

beeng,

Do you have experience with tree style tabs extensions also?

beeng,

I’m wary of those with so much confidence.

beeng,

Use as docker container

beeng,

LazyGit

For the lazy…

beeng,

Contemplating printing something, I’ve got the Scylla which is quite 3D, so would need some foam / material inside I think.

beeng,

Hmm I like the lunch box idea, like zip up. Maybe an insert into that for the bottom and do simular to you. Thanks for the ideas!

beeng,

Soo-seh

Soos-eh

Zoos-eh

Süße

SUSE

beeng,

PS when you see things prefixed with “win” it usually means its the windows counterpart to an already existing Linux tool ^^

beeng,

To add some nuance, all features in v0.5.0 should still exist in v0.9.0 in the modern software landscape.

If v0.5.0 has features ABC and then one was then changed, under semantic versioning which most software follows these days then it should get a breaking change and would therefore get promoted to v1.0.0.

If ABC got a new feature D but ABC didn’t change, it would have been v0.6.0 instead. This system, when stuck to,helps immensely when upgrading packages.

beeng,

I do it the other way around, get my Linux PC to scan via Webcam a QR code for wifi from my Android phone that’s already connected

beeng,

From their readme

github.com/uutils/coreutils?tab=readme-ov-file#gn…

beeng,

But Facebook bought WhatsApp in like 2015 was it?

So it wasn’t designed with Facebook datascraping in mind.

Headless VNC on Mint

I installed x11vnc on Mint and it works fine as long as I have a monitor plugged into the server. I want to run the server without a monitor though. That apparently doesn’t work with Cinnamon. I already bought a dummy plug to simulate a monitor but that seems clunky. Is there a better way? I’m also open to using a different...

beeng,

Not sure if it fits your use case, but I’ve been meaning to try this on my servers.

xrdp

digitalocean.com/…/how-to-enable-remote-desktop-p…

Mantis v0.3.3 Update (github.com)

I’ve been busy building a few Mantis v0.3.3 builds for friends and family. It took me way longer to build these than I had planned, and I still have a few more builds to go before I work on the next version of the design. But I’m getting better at this, and very happy with how these turned out. It’s nice to try out...

beeng,

Wow!

beeng,

Hey, curious why your themes need to be dot txt files?

beeng,

If you dev for Linux, you don’t need a file extension for text files!

beeng,

CopyQ

Help me choose a keyboard

I am in the market for a new keyboard. I really want something that is backlit, has a volume control and has the full layout with numpad. If I can’t find something with those 3 features I’ll just keep fighting with my shitty half working one because it’s not that bad and there not being a better option will just motivate...

beeng,

Hey you’re in “ergo” “mech”, both of which it sounds like you’re not really after…

Use work laptop as personal device by dual booting on a separate internal drive?

I currently have a Dell laptop that runs Windows for work. I use an external SSD via the Thunderbolt port to boot Linux allowing me to use the laptop as a personal device on a completely separate drive. All I have to do is F12 at boot, then select boot from USB drive....

beeng,

Want to elaborate on why it’s such a bad idea? I’m curious now

Provided the user doesn’t put their windows password in, then things should not be accessed.

beeng,

So you’re saying it will mess with the other partitions?

This is essentially OPs question, but I didn’t see you answer it in that way.

beeng,

I was more looking for a functional reason, not just a “cos I said so” from the employer.

I thought maybe some of you work in cybersec had a real answer or a cve/attack vector etc.

beeng,

You might need to, to know the windows partition has bitlocker (if the cybersec is worth their salt) of which is opened at windows login with a password.

So again, how is this accessed by the Linux partition?

Really just wanting to know how you see this happening… Presumably info being leaked from the work partition…

beeng,

I’ll come along with your scenario just for fun.

  • the decrypt part. Yes granted! But heavy workload
  • the overwrite stuff. Yes could be dd’d but this is like an nvme drive frying itself by itself. Not uncommon, eg a user spills coffee on the machine.
  • writeable. AFAIK with bitlocker they are hashed and salted and therefore would be corrupted if you opened again with manipulated data.
  • the phishing os, yes a possibility, but would need to be very spear fishing orientated to get the same profile photo, username etc, and then it would still be empty.
  • if you connect to wired company network, totally compromised. I am 100% remote so this one skipped me, but yes this one is completely cooked.

Thanks for saying an actual scenario also, most were like hurr dürr, don’t do it.

beeng,

OK… Which doesn’t satisfy OPs aim of the post. Check other replies to see the technical side of things.

beeng, (edited )

It’s all true, but the deleting of data is so common from the simple coffee on laptop trick that you’d think if your work was that important you’ve already got it setup with Dropbox/one drive on My Documents for the non-eng types and git for the rest.

Can’t lose too much.

I was more worried the data would get out, not corrupted.

beeng,

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beeng,

Try “lf”. It’s ranger written in go. == lots faster.

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