Helix

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Next time buy from vendors which support fwupd.

Helix,

Why not use fwupd?

Because they’re a Manjaro user and already lost.

Helix,

“Geofencing has solved a bunch of really major cases that were otherwise totally cold,” he wrote.

Citation needed. Solving a case for a police officer means finding a person who looks guilty, not that they’re actually guilty. Even if they’re convicted they could’ve just been convicted by being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Helix,

Actually, I use systemd because it just works for me and operating systems aren’t my hobby. Linux is my job, and things that work well cause less overtime for me.

I’m very excited for Debian 13 :)

Helix,

Just fork it and you can decide.

How many of you run a Linux phone (Pine64, Librem etc) as your daily driver?

I was going through Pine64’s page again after I found the latest KDE announcement. With that said, I seem to see a lot of issues with firmware on the Pine, whilst the Librem is just plain out of budget for me. Was interested in how many people here run a Linux mobile as a daily driver, and how has your experience been?...

Helix,

Which phone?

Helix,

Do you know what the word ‘example’ means? There are people who aren’t as superbly knowledgeable as you are.

(solved) I can't get my linux system to run properly

I chose to use opensuse tw kde based on some vm tests. The installation was easy but for some reason the video playback on youtube is terrible. It stutters. First thing I did after install was to use opi to install codecs. Then I used Yast to get the Nvidia repo. Lastly, I used the software manager to install the video g06...

Helix,

Do you have VAAPI installed and configured properly for hardware acceleration? Does video playback outside YouTube, e.g. with YouTube-dl and MPV, work?

Helix,

I like AnySoftKeyboard but it also doesn’t have great predictions. They’re very customizable though, so maybe you can get something out of it?

Helix,

Bruh this is needed

Alright, I'm gonna "take one for the team" -- what is with the "downvote-happy" users lately?

Title. “lmao internet points” and all, but what is the point of participating in a community that sees assumptions and other commonly non-harmful commentaries/posts as “bad” this easily? Do folks in here are really that needy of self-validation, even if it means seeking such from something completely insignificant like...

Helix,

Who cares, I don’t display them and am happier than you while doing it

Helix,

cba, can you upload a gif?

Helix,

Nice, thanks.

Helix,

SSDs lose charge over time. Within a year, bitflips might occur. I recommend going with an HDD with a shockproof case.

This ineo t2580 looks good but I can’t seem to find the maximum capacity. Try not to use HDDs over 12TB and you should be fine.

Helix,

Yeah it’s basically Pulseaudio, but better. The devs have done a great job on iterating upon the already pretty good pulseaudio!

100% vanilla distribution challenge

what does this consist of? Well, it’s easy, whenever you install a new distribution of Linux, don’t customise anything, nothing please!! Out of the box experience, you may install software but that’s all. And if you are already using a customised distro, then delete the .config file and reboot, but please be careful and...

Helix,

How would that work on Arch Linux which literally doesn’t come with anything out of the box?

And how would I add accounts or any settings without touching dotfiles?

Helix,

No, they’re not installed.

Once an admin I know forgot to install a text editor. Imagine the fun editing files with cat, grep, awk etc., now imagine you have to use it to browse the web.

Wanting to improve my Linux skills after 17 months of daily driving Linux

I’ve been daily driving Linux for 17 months now (currently on Linux Mint). I have got very comfortable with basic commands and many just works distros (such as Linux Mint, or Pop!_OS) with apt as the package manager. I’ve tried Debian as a distro to try to challenge myself, but have always ran into issues. On my PC, I could...

Helix,

Sure, if you want to send your CLI input to the cloud. What can go wrong?

Helix,

Breakage can be mitigated by root FS snapshots, e.g. with snapper.

Helix,

Sorry, I only know silly, goofy developers. Can’t recommend this to anyone.

Helix,

Or a funny one.

Helix,

We are really experiencing a cloud native generation. These Zoomers don’t even know how life was without a cloud over their heads.

Helix,

NixOS according to my local fetish community.

Helix,

Is that a fork of NixOS?

Helix,

The amount of times my Windows installation(s) broke is just as high as the amount of times my Linux installations had issues. The article you quoted seems to be from someone with more Windows experience than Linux experience.

One example: FileZilla is a capable GUI SFTP and FTP client, but so is nearly every file manager. I can drag and drop files from Dolphin into a fuse mounted FTP, SMB or SFTP folder just fine. Skill issue?

EDIT: omg, I just realised they use WinSCP for deploying applications. It really seems like a skill issue since you can automate that even without proprietary clouds. I can probably replace this person with a PowerShell script, which is even more efficient than them doing their job on Windows.

All operating systems sadly need lots of maintenance nowadays. The main reason I use Linux is that I feel in control of the system and the vendor doesn’t actively try to fuck with my installation.

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