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juli, in Promoting Linux: An End-User Manifesto

Is there a peertube bot? 😅

simple,
@simple@lemmy.world avatar

Dunno, but I suppose you can use piped: piped.video/watch?v=98kFh3JpIXk

juli, (edited )

Thx, I don’t need piped, I use a vpn

Flaky,
@Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

I don’t think PeerTube would work here, unless you mean a bot that posts PeerTube stuff from certain channels every so often.

There is a bot around here that converts YouTube links to Piped ones.

juli, (edited )

Haha, I just mean a bot that posts the peertube link instead of youtube just like the piped bot. It was a joke but it would be cool if there was one - but it should remind OP to post on peertube as well - probably a bad idea! 😅

grue,

There is no such thing as “the peertube link” (emphasis added) because (a) as with Lemmy, there is no single canonical Peertube instance, and (b) unlike Piped etc., Peertube isn’t designed to mirror Youtube, but instead be its own platform.

In other words, in order to post a Peertube link, somebody would have to explicitly choose to upload the Youtube video to a specific Peertube instance and then post the link to that.

GalacticTaterTot, in Why do you use the terminal?

I wanted to see what all this talk about vim was and now I’ve been stuck for 3 years.

harsh3466,

:wq

;)

andrew,
@andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun avatar

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lemmyvore, in Why do you use the terminal?

Tell him you can “talk” directly to the computer that way.

azimir,

One of the other commenter made the analogy of being in a restaurant. With a mouse you can only point and grunt at things to communicate when you want. A terminal let’s you speak out your order and any other requests you might have.

Alph4d0g, in Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them?

That’s the MS business model in partnership with PC makers. It’s a juggernaut. They’ve operationalized it.

Floshie,

TIL that MS can be either mean MicroSoft or MassiveShit and that they would still mean the same shit

elbarto777,

Did you learn that just today???

violetraven,
@violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

WinTel 2.0 🤢

AnonTwo, (edited ) in Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them?

...What does the writer think support end means? Microsoft bricks the PC as soon as the support period ends?

They're going to just keep using Windows 10, security be damned. Probably a good number of users who weren't keeping their PC up to date even when Microsoft was forcing updates on them.

Biorix,

I still see XP pcs in the wild sometimes

Mugmoor,
@Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Hell I’ve spotted some old systems still running a Telex exchange and Windows 3.1

Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug,

Lots of hospitals seem to be running XP

Neil,
@Neil@lemmy.ml avatar

I work in the behavioral health field as an IT security admin and network with hospitals/health clinics all all the time. The amount of them using XP and 7 in some capacity should scare everyone. The other security admins know it’s an issue, but they just laugh it off.

I tell them if I were an immoral man, their company would be compromised just based off of that information.

kautau,

Yeah I work for an emergency management SaaS company and we block outdated OSs and browsers and it’s wild how we will occasionally get pushback from potential new customers who are surprised we don’t support their outdated IT infrastructure due to the security risk

ElBarto,
@ElBarto@sh.itjust.works avatar

“what do you mean you don’t service tin cans on a string?!”

Mountaineer,
@Mountaineer@aussie.zone avatar

Windows XP is basically firmware at this point, and has been for over a decade.

Lots of proprietary hardware that works perfectly, will not work on newer versions of Windows due to lack of drivers.

I see it constantly in factory situations with scales, scanners and robot controllers, it would only be worse for million dollar x-ray machines.

EuroNutellaMan, (edited )
@EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world avatar

This. A lot of our lab’s instruments are proprietary garbage. I wish the people buy these extremely expensive instruments would actually research if there’s open source alternatives or help pressure the government’s into forcing the code to be open. A lot of (public) spending for research is due to this sort of bs “instruments which only works with its own proprietary software” btw. The other good portion is eaten up by scumbags like Elsevier and other publishers.

As long as that machine is disconnected from the internet it’s OK but as soon as you connect it you are cooked.

Thwompthwomp,

It’s been getting absolutely worse and worse with hardware as they shovel crap at you and then also expect you to buy subscriptions to make it usable. Keysight/agilent/ whoever they are had been really annoying about this.

MetricIsRight,

Yep. Came across a computer recently still running Windows 2000 on it. Fan sounded like a truck with a bad lifter tick 😂

Thwompthwomp,

We have a piece of test equipment that runs windows 2000. It has to be quarantined on its own subnet isolated from the rest of the network.

PixxlMan,

Looking forward to more, bigger ddos attacks with so many unsecured computers sitting around… :(

blotz, (edited ) in How can I migrate my existing /home/ directory to another drive?
@blotz@lemmy.world avatar

Log in as root to avoid trying to make sure no files in /home/ are being read/written to.

Step 1: copy data to new drive. Mount new drive to /mnt/. cp -ra /home/* /mnt/. -a means that all permissions remain the same which will mean that your user can still read them. Check the man page for more details. This command will take a while. Use -v to see progress. You should see a folder with your username appear.

Step 2. Prepare /home for new drive. Move the files to a new folder. This is done to make sure you can still easily go back. mv /home/ /home-bak/ keep your old home dir safe in case a mistake was made. mkdir /home/.

Step 3. Mount your new drive. Mount your drive to /home/ and check if you can login. If everything went correctly, you should be able to just login. Finally you need to update your /etc/fstab to include this new drive. This will make sure your home drive mounts when you start your os. If everything is working, you can delete your home-bak as well.

blotz,
@blotz@lemmy.world avatar

This is a rough guide written on mobile. its probably best if someone double check some of this stuff before op tries it.

EdgeRunner,

I dont like the MV home. 😅

My advice :

  • login as root.
  • rsync -av /home, on the new disk.
  • fstab : comment the old home’s line, don’t delete, and copy it to change the identifier (path or uuid).
  • noob tips, add a new file in the new home.
  • login to check it is ok (with su - user), and check there is the new file.

You can now delete or keep it as a save.

blotz,
@blotz@lemmy.world avatar

the mv home is just renaming the folder so you can mount home in the same space. Rsync is probably better than cp but I didn’t want to suggest tools that op doesn’t have installed.

EdgeRunner,

Oh ok I see why no use of rsync. Clever.

I’ve read your solution, OP, you can go. Good tuto written on mobile.

PerogiBoi, (edited ) in Flatpack, appimage, snaps..
@PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca avatar

Just download .exes for windows and run them with WINE. Don’t have a single snap or flatpack application. If it doesn’t run then u didn’t need it in the first place 👉😎👉

Edit: someone DMed me and took this comment seriously. Bless ur heart

lemmy_nightmare,
@lemmy_nightmare@sh.itjust.works avatar

🤣

Squid,

You should quit in “satire”

PerogiBoi,
@PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca avatar

No

Squid,

Calm down ok

PerogiBoi,
@PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca avatar

My dude I have always been calm haha

aard, in Wayland-Proxy Load Balancer Helping Firefox Cope With Wayland Issues
@aard@kyu.de avatar

Would be interesting if this is more on Firefox side, or on compositor side. I’ve been running Firefox in Wayland for about 9 months now, without any issues.

drwankingstein, (edited )

this is a wayland issue. Due to how wayland works, it cannot drop messages, this means if the messages stop being accepted (IE. the program becomes very slow and not very responsive) the application will wind up dying. EEVDF helped resolve a lot of these issues. but they arent gone yet.

a fairly easy replication cause is to start a large rust project compile since cargo will thread to oblivion if it gets the chance, then use the PC on wayland. Applications can frequently die, Firefox, MPV, Kate, gnome web, chromium, games, etc. it also doesn’t matter what compositor you use right now as gnome, kde sway all share the issue

EEVDF really does help stop a lot of these crashing though

aard, (edited )
@aard@kyu.de avatar

You’re describing Wayland running into issues due to overall high system load, and not been given enough scheduler time to accept messages?

edit: This issue? gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/…/159 - didn’t find anything else matching the description, and personally have never seen that, both on my low specs notebook or my workstation, which probably counts as higher spec.

drwankingstein,

correct, this is the same issue, this generally really only happens with a sustained all core workload that will consistently leave you cpu at 100%, since if it’s not sustained, the kernel will allot some time to the programs, and the crash wont happen

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

the program becomes very slow and not very responsive

BeOS solved the issue of unresponsive GUIs in the 1990s. The GUI just must never run in the same thread as the logic.

FuckBigTech347,
@FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml avatar

I agree. The proxy solution they’re proposing seems like a band-aid on a fundamental design issue to me. It’s easier to just tack yet another library onto a big project than to refactor large amounts of code. This is exactly why a lot of software is getting more and more shit.

lemmyvore,

Also this is the kind of issues Wayland will be facing now that it’s starting to see widespread adoption, issues that arise from more and more complex situations created by interconnecting more apps with it in more ways.

How the devs handle this will be crucial and imo it can make or break the project in the long run. It’s one thing to successfully run a hobby project at a small scale, it’s another to shoulder the entire Linux desktop for the foreseeable future. That’s the bar that X had to meet; if Wayland intends to be the Linux desktop it has to step up. “Not our problem, deal with it outside Wayland” will not do.

drwankingstein,

while this is good on theory, when your CPU is being absolutely hammered, you need to re-adjust priorities to make a system responsive again, it’s actually not a simple thing to do without a context aware scheduler. Even though EEVDF is pretty good, it still struggles some times

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

My PC with a 133MHz Pentium 1 processor was pretty responsive all the time back in the day. It’s definitely a solved problem.

geekworking, in Recommendations

Does the group have any archive, mailing lists, ticket system, etc, where they work on and document the work that they have been doing?

Past questions and answers will tell you common issues, solutions, should point you towards the areas where you need to focus.

ransomwarelettuce, (edited )

The group till recently was pretty much a cult thing, even tough they hosted large foss events associated with others groups.

I entered into a kinda of redesigning fase since now they have a budget they have to document everything.

Short awser kinda off, but not really.

TunaCowboy, in Recommendations

“The Linux Command Line” by William Shotts is a fairly comprehensive guide to basic use, you can find a link to the .pdf here: linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

bionicjoey,

This is my go-to recommendation for anyone wanting to learn the Linux CLI

ransomwarelettuce,

I am familiar with command line, but will check it out, still ought explore the full potential of journalctl.

brax, in Flatpack, appimage, snaps..

I hate all three. Why do we need to the same dependencies in a thousand different places? There’s gotta be something better between typical software repos and these stupid packed applications.

superbirra,

debian repos are ok w/o using all this shit

subwoofer,
@subwoofer@lemmy.gockandgum.party avatar

Flatpaks work by using a shared runtime, you don’t have the same dependencies in a thousand different places

Rustmilian, (edited ) in How can I migrate my existing /home/ directory to another drive?
@Rustmilian@lemmy.world avatar

In what way? Like a home partition?
Home should just be a folder you can copy over in most cases.
If it’s a separate partition, most distros can just install to the other partitions without overwriting the home partition.

eleitl,

SELinux rights can be a problem.

zkrzsz, (edited ) in Live (Animated) wallpapers programs for linux

There’s a KDE plugin for Wallpaper Engine

store.kde.org/p/1475528

Github: github.com/catsout/wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin

manito_manopla,
@manito_manopla@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m looking for something more universal, that works in any DE or WM and that doesn’t necessarily have to depend on kde plasma

leopold,

Plasma supports animated wallpapers out of the box. No need for third party plugins that rely on proprietary software like Wallpaper Engine.

lemba,

My top choice: KDE Plasma Wayland.

ryannathans, in Intel Core Ultra performance in Linux is 15% higher than in Windows

True, as we just found out, the performance of Meteor Lake is significantly influenced by the BIOS.

What’s that supposed to mean?

pivot_root,

There was an issue with the BIOS limiting the power available to the processor during benchmarks. It has supposedly been fixed since.

GuyWithLag,

You sure this isn’t just anti-rowhammer et al mitigations?

OmnipotentEntity,
@OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org avatar

It’s a website that seems to digest other websites and spit them out badly. Here is the original article: phoronix.com/…/intel-meteorlake-windows-linux

ExtremeDullard, in Flatpack, appimage, snaps..
@ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Aah yes, appimage, flatpak, snaps, progressive web apps, electron apps… The cross-compatibility of the lazy 21st century developer, where a simple IRC-like chat client comes with an entire operating system or an entire browser (which itself is an entire operating system too nowadays), takes up half a gig of disk space, and starts up in over 10 seconds with a multi-gigahertz multicore CPU.

Just perfect…

jack,

Ok boomer

Squid,

Its a massive industry problem where code is so much more heavier where devs are reliant on brut hardware force rather than refining code to be light.

Not boomer sentiment at all

Joker,

It’s been that way since the dawn of computing. Developers will push hardware to its limits and the hardware people will keep making a faster chip. A lot of software was laggy as hell back in the day. Not to mention, it didn’t have any features compared to the stuff now. Plus our shit would crash all the time and take down the whole PC. Sure, you run across some shockingly fast and good apps but those have always been few and far between.

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