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Cronjobs: When First Connected to Internet

Hi folks, Does anyone know how to instruct cron to carry out a command when a connection to the internet is first made after boot? I have a few jobs that only need to be done once per day and require an internet connection e.g downloading the weather forecast and my rss feeds. I’m not always connected to the internet on boot...

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Yeah, I needed something similar and made a new target that checks whether the system can reach a common website like google

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I loaded NixOS on a 2014 macbook air, copying over my config from my framework laptop (just switching the hardware config), and it just works. I think pretty much any modern linux distro will work fine.

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OpenSUSE -> Ubuntu -> Windows for like a decade -> MacOS -> Arch -> Manjaro -> Arch -> Debian -> NixOS -> Nobara

Currently running NixOS on my laptop, Nobara on my Desktop, and Debian on my VMs under Proxmox.

I’ll probably jump from Nobara to Bazzite as soon as I start to have problems.

I’m gradually settling on immutable distros.

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Same. It’s what drove me away and took me a week of free time to get back up and running on Arch. Manjaro makes me sick now.

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Yeah, the Nvidia bug caused me A LOT of headache. I love Debian, but I really only use it as a server OS. On my workstations, I prefer to have easier compatibility with new hardware and software.

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Alacritty is really nice and easy to configure, and isn’t “tied” to any desktop environment, like Konsole is. Kitty is really cool for its implementation of image display. Foot is a Wayland-native alternative that is also really nice to use.

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Are you me? <3

You took the words right out of my mouth.

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Yeah, I’m really not looking forward to that day.

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The article explains that, yes, they did plan to move…in April. The Taliban government did, in fact, shut them down ahead of that schedule.

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It’s not lost on me lol. The news site is also a .CO domain.

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It’s not cheap by any means, but MNT Research has done a lot of work for you. You can buy their Reform and Pocket Reform laptops, but also all of their designs are open source, so you can start there and tweak it to your own design if you really want.

mntre.com

source.mnt.re/reform/reform

Stop using gitlab.com for projects - Credit card info required for new registrations

If your IP (and possible your browser) looks “suspicious” or has been used by other users before, you need to add additional information for registration on gitlab.com, which includes your mobile phone number and possibly credit card information. Since it is not possible to contribute or even report issues on open source...

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I would LOVE to switch to codeberg for work, but my work requires that all data be hosted in the US, so I recently pitched GitLab as an alternative to GitHub, even though it’s not perfect.

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That’s eventually the plan, but I expect that process to take on the order of a year, unfortunately.

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Looks cool. Their hosted service is still in Alpha, so I doubt my work would go for it.

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Yet another project that claims to be open source, but isn’t actually licensed under an open source license. This one doesn’t even have an explicit license, so it’s “all rights reserved”

Neat, though.

EDIT: I really appreciate that hackster.io didn’t perpetuate that claim in their article. More news outlets need to be better at this.

EDIT 2: The creator has added a GPL 3 license to their repository :)

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Came here to link to this. Open hardware computers are a thing, they’re just really pricey.

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When I was in high school, before smartphones, I would sit on the left side of the classroom, put my flip phone in my left hand next to my thigh, and play Tetris one handed. I’d have my pencil in my right hand to make it look like I was taking notes and would pause periodically to look up and look like I was paying attention. It got me through the vast majority of classes haha.

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I used it 2012-2014. It was fairly decent at that time.

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I’m excited for the premium RSS feed. 404media has some of the best reporting in recent memory, and being able to read the full text of all their articles on my RSS reader, plus having access to an ad-free podcast RSS feed with bonus content makes the $100/year membership price entirely worth it.

Now if only aftermath.site had a full-text premium RSS feed, I’d be all set.

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The COPR package didn’t work for me on Nobara, so I had to build from source, but it works great. There are a couple of things I don’t like, but overall seems pretty neat.

If I can get Xwayland to work nicely for steam with high refresh rates, then it seems like this might be the WM for me until COSMIC-DE comes out.

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Keen, Cmdr.

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I’m looking forward to Ara: History Untold, but I’m biased bc my buddy is developing their AI system.

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I’m in. The multiplayer games that I mostly play are Civ 5/6, BG3, and Tetris Effect.

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I’ve just been using fzf with a floating terminal window, and it’s been great. I don’t understand the need for rofi/wofi/dmenu.

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Here is an example: erfur.github.io/2021/11/20/fzf_as_dmenu.html

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This is my plan as well. I’ll miss some of the discovery aspect of youtube, but it’ll be nice to have a way to continue watching the channels I enjoy

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Constant connection to servers required to play, even if the entire game is being run locally.

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Always online single-player is the dumbest thing. It’s disgusting.

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Obsidian is the best thing I’ve been able to find for my use case. I’m able to fudge collaboration for the things I need by using separate files and dataview to combine. As soon as someone comes out with an open source alternative that has plaintext storage, local-first editing, and live collaboration, I’m switching to that.

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Another great example of why proprietary connectors are stupid as hell. I’m going to be upset when my 2DS XL charger breaks and I can’t get an easy replacement.

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They are for now

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Then they could have released an open standard instead of creating a proprietary connector.

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I am asking for specifications to be released without patents or have patents signed over to an organization like VESA. Whether it becomes popular or not is another story.

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Another data point: I have a Ryzen 5900x and an RTX 3080. In BG3 I average 80-90 fps with 1% lows over 60fps on a 4k screen with ultra settings and DLSS quality setting.

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I have an Nvidia GPU and I use it with Linux, even with Wayland, but it’s still not quite there yet, and because all the fixes have to come from proprietary Nvidia driver changes, nobody really knows when/if everything will be fixed. AMD has been much better with support and switching to AMD for your next.card will save you a lot of headaches.

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The feature is translation. Just say that, OMGUbuntu.

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I imagine it being done similarly to Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal. I doubt a Hollywood studio would back a feature film done in that way, but I think if it was, it could be faithful to the game, impactful, and beautiful.

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I think that 404 Media is a great example of a recent independent media organization that has a great user experience and a monetization strategy that doesn’t make me feel gross. A lot of their pull is the excellent journalism and writing, and the fact that the journalists that started it are respected and have a decent following. I don’t know how feasible this type of setup would be without that head start.

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I remember seeing this project on Reddit a while ago, but I was very confused about why some guy’s wooden cyberdeck got a huge article in The Verge until I got to this sentence:

One of the people who liked the Mythic I was Max Novendstern, who is, among other things, a co-founder of the crypto startup Worldcoin.

Ah.

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