trevor

@trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Hello, tone-policing genocide-defender and/or carnist šŸ‘‹

Instead of being mad about words, maybe you should think about why the words bother you more than the injustice they describe.

Have a day!

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The anti-AI sentiment in the free software communities is concerning. (lemmy.world)

Whenever AI is mentioned lots of people in the Linux space immediately react negatively. Creators like TheLinuxExperiment on YouTube always feel the need to add a disclaimer that ā€œsome people think AI is problematicā€ or something along those lines if an AI topic is discussed. I get that AI has many problems but at the same...

trevor,

Seriously. The Luddites were mostly correct about their objections to technology being used to replace humans and making exploitation more efficient, making OPā€™s misuse of the terms that much funnier.

trevor,

Midwestern democrats are actual democrats. If all democrats had their politics and approach, weā€™d be much better off.

Strava alternative?

I need to track cardio with terrain data, but Iā€™d rather not trust Strava with my privacy. I know there are some alternatives, but which one is the most reliable and feature-rich? I donā€™t have smart accessories, just and android phone. Preferably, Iā€™d like an app that letā€™s me track added weights for calorie purposes...

trevor, (edited )

Iā€™ve never heard of it before. Is it this? I donā€™t see any mention of it being FOSS or even where to download their app.

trevor,

They only just added the option to use a self-hosted instance a few weeks ago, if I remember correctly. If itā€™s not there now, it should be there soon.

Is there any way to turn my Linux machine into a docking station?

The thing is like this: I have a windows laptop I use for work, and a Linux desktop machine. I have a single screen keyboard etc. and I switch between the two using a docking station. But, I wonder if there is a way for me to ā€œcut the middle manā€ and just plug/unplug my linux machine....

trevor,

Be warned: Synergy doesnā€™t work with Wayland.

trevor,

Synergy doesnā€™t work with Wayland, sadly.

trevor,

This is all I want to know. If yes, Iā€™ll pass.

trevor,

An equivalent to iOS Shortcuts for Android and Linux.

trevor,

Maybe, but the thing that makes iOS Shortcuts so great is that it basically offers an extensive GUI to interact with all of the systemā€™s APIs.

trevor,

Actually, itā€™s quite surprising and disappointing how most leftists (or ostensibly left-leaning people) correctly shape their political views around being anti-exploitation and pro-liberation, only to immediately become reactionaries when it comes to ending animal exploitation.

trevor,

But itā€™s easier to whinge like a reactionary at the people demanding an end to the systematic breeding into existence of animals for the sole purpose of exploiting and killing when ending that unfathomably cruel system gives me the ickies šŸ˜­

trevor,

FYI: this is another FUTO app that uses their proprietary ā€œFTLā€ license, so itā€™s not open source.

trevor,

This needs to be plastered everywhere it can be on social media.

trevor,

No. Itā€™s a federal district court. You just have to be a US citizen.

trevor,

If felons canā€™t vote (they should be able to), they sure as shit shouldnā€™t be able to run for office.

trevor,

I hope if he has a red line for the SC, itā€™s actually real and unlike the fake one that Israel totally didnā€™t cross.

Pack that fucking court already.

trevor,

KDE is buttery smooth (165Hz, no stutters ever) for me and kwin is a much nicer compositor than mutter.

trevor,

I mean, Biden could choose to arrest him when he steps foot in the US, in accordance with international law, but heā€™s too busy enabling him, so on this issue, unfortunately, theyā€™re not that different.

On most other issues: sure theyā€™re different, but Biden really is doing everything he can to turn off decent people that oppose genocide.

trevor,

The one in which international laws exist and the country that claims to abide by a ā€œrules-based international orderā€ actually follows through on that? Yeah, dude. Itā€™s craaaazy.

trevor, (edited )

TIL itā€™s policing the world to abide by international law. Youā€™re right: when the perpetrator of a genocide walks into your house, you shouldnā€™t do anything about it. Genocidal clown.

trevor,

I played the demo for this. The atmosphere is excellent. Itā€™s like a cross between Silent Hill and the PSX Final Fantasy games. This is definitely worth a look if you havenā€™t heard of it before.

trevor,

While I generally agree with your skeptical attitude toward this, I think the fact that they were targeting Appleā€™s Metal graphics API to built the most performant possible IDE makes sense. You canā€™t just snap your fingers and have a Linux graphical stack start working with your software.

I think the reason they targeted macOS first is probably because many of the dev team uses Macs.

As a Linux user, Iā€™ll happily wait for software like this to get ported to native Linux APIs so we get performant text editors instead of more Electron crap.

trevor,

How do you get plain-text logs instead of the garbage binary format that journalctl forces on you?

trevor,

Thank you!

trevor,

Part of the problem also has to do with corporate-backed distros. Fully community-driven distros donā€™t suffer from that nearly as much, if at all.

I like Fedora, but stuff like that makes me worry about how itā€™s going to be as time goes on.

trevor,

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What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win šŸ˜Ž but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps youā€™d love alternatives for?

trevor,

For macOS, I recommend UTM.

andrew, to opensource
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trevor,

This is just straight-up wrong. Iā€™ve been using it for years and it does exactly what it says it does, and does it pretty well.

trevor,

Fair. I used it when the project was still very new and was basing that statement off of my admittedly flawed perception of time.

Thankfully, due to quirks of language, we have to say ā€œ1.5 yearsā€, so itā€™s not technically incorrect :p

trevor,

Just a very common case of leftists being anti-exploitation until it involves reconsidering what goes on their plates.

trevor, (edited )

Hereā€™s what I do in my docker images:


<span style="color:#323232;">mkdir -p /lib-your-executable
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ldd ./your-executable | tr -s '[:blank:]' 'n' | grep '^/' | xargs -I % cp % /lib-your-executable
</span>

Essentially, itā€™s the same thing that youā€™re doing, just automating getting the dependencies, and then copying everything in the lib-your-executable dir to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I donā€™t know of a better way, other than statically-linking the binaries.

EDIT: fix typo in commands.

trevor, (edited )

Yeah, and it even has inertial scrolling, which is badly needed in most applications. And yet, so few seem to support it.

trevor,

Funny that this info only comes out immediately after Schiff successfully crushed people that would actually represent us in the primaries.

Iā€™m so sick of corporate dem malfeasance. Absolute demons.

trevor,

Iā€™m using Bluefin, and itā€™s really cool, but sometimes I wish I could scrap the immutability because installing certain apps is excruciating.

Yes, I know how to use distroboxes and rpm-ostree, but certain applications straight up wonā€™t work if you canā€™t write to certain directories.

I hope they can solve this problem, although Iā€™m not sure how.

trevor,

For sure, immutability is a point of the distro, but I have other reasons for using it. Namely, hardware-enablement and nice dev experience additions.

Thereā€™s definitely value in immutability, but sometimes I wish I could temporarily disable it so I can do what I need to, while easily retaining those changes on updates.

The main program that Iā€™m unable to install is espanso. Itā€™s an open source text-expansion program that has become invaluable to me and the way that I type.

I can build it from source, create an RPM for it, and even try layering it with rpm-ostree, but even then, I have the problem of missing libraries, like wxGTK*. Sure, I can technically manually acquire those libs and use ldconfig to configure them in a writable directory, but at that point, youā€™re basically suffering through a dependency nightmare that isnā€™t worth maintaining.

For stuff like that, I really wish that I could just scrap the immutability and simply install some more system-level packages like that more easily.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that the reason I canā€™t simply layer the wxGTK* libs and the RPM manually: espanso requires slightly different versions of the libs, and if I could simply symlink the newer versions that are available in the Silverblue repositories to the slightly older versions that espanso requires, I could probably get it to work.

trevor,

I forget, to be honest. That was the first thing I tried but I did that weeks ago and have given up since then.

I want to say that it might have been the fact that Iā€™d have to install and enable a GUI environment in the container, which would be, at best, odd, but at worst, buggy, since espanso would be interacting with the GUI in the container environment, rather than my host.

trevor,

Fair enough. I have some other GUI applications in a distrobox container.

I should have clarified that this program, in particular, does more than merely display content: it has to interact with my Wayland session to inject key strokes, which doesnā€™t seem to work from a distrobox container from what Iā€™ve seen.

trevor,

You are an absolute king for this! I assumed it was too niche to have it included, but if youā€™re willing to consider bundling espanso in the Bluefin image, I can look into trying to solve for this.

trevor,

Thatā€™s a brilliant idea! I donā€™t know why using Nix didnā€™t occur to me.

What did you do to configure Nix on Bazzite (ujust nix, or something similar)? Iā€™m willing to rebase just to try it, if necessary.

trevor,

This is very pretty, in a unique way. Great job!

trevor,

I like restic because everything seems to happen client-side, and the client pushes the encrypted backups to the server without having to install restic on the back end.

That said, Iā€™ve never needed to restore my data with either backup solution, so I canā€™t speak to the validity of the backups.

trevor,

Iā€™ve been trying to create an AUR package for this, but canā€™t figure out how to build more than just the server backend (based off of the Dockerfile). Is there a way to build it without wails? I canā€™t get that to work in the PKGBUILD.

trevor,

Thank you for making a PKGBUILD for this!

I just tried it, but I have the same issue when I was attempting to build mine:


<span style="color:#323232;">...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  -</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">></span><span style="color:#323232;"> Downloading 1.0.0.tar.gz...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   100  331k    0  331k    0     0   408k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  880k
</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">=> </span><span style="color:#323232;">Validating source files with sha256sums...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    1.0.0.tar.gz ... Passed
</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">=> </span><span style="color:#323232;">Extracting sources...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  -</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">></span><span style="color:#323232;"> Extracting 1.0.0.tar.gz with bsdtar
</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">=> </span><span style="color:#323232;">Starting prepare()...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">go: downloading github.com/wailsapp/wails v1.16.9
</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">=> </span><span style="color:#323232;">Starting build()...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">/var/home/trevor/git/PKGBUILD: line 34: wails: command not found
</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">=> </span><span style="color:#323232;">ERROR: A failure occurred in build()</span><span style="color:#62a35c;">.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Aborting...
</span>

Iā€™m not familiar enough with wails to know how to build without it.

If you require it as a dependency, it would only work for Arch users with the AUR enabled, as it wails doesnā€™t seem to be in the main repositories.

trevor,

Regarding how to publish the package, there are a few GitHub Actions that make it easy, like this one.

trevor,

Ah. I see that youā€™re installing wails with go. I guess the problem is that $GOBIN may not be set for everyone, myself included.

anders, to linux

Enterprise Linux on desktop?

Anyone using enterprise Linux on their desktop such as RHEL, Alma, Rocky, CentOS etc.?

I'm curious if it's easy to use for this purpose or if the older packages are a pain.

@linux

trevor,

You can also use Ansible with just about anything, as long as you can connect to it over SSH or with a REST API. You donā€™t have to use RHEL, specifically. I use it for ā€œā€ā€œdeclarativeā€ā€œā€ package management on my Arch system.

trevor,

Skill issue. Biden should simply stop enabling the genocide.

trevor,

This person is a pro-genocide NPC and this is where their dialogue tree starts looping.

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