TCB13

TCB13, 2 years ago

Too bad that to have homelessness in the first place you usually require communists doing their communist shit.

TCB13, 1 year ago

I don’t have an opinion on DivestOS. Never used nor audited the thing so I can’t comment.

TCB13, 1 year ago

I’m not actually against or for systemd, in fact, I am not really sure why I should even care - maybe it is because I’m still not on to the level of a power user.

tadeubento.com/…/systemd-hidden-gems-for-a-better…

TCB13, 2 years ago

Well at least they’re going to usei something decent and not the Apache Allura crap.

TCB13, 2 years ago

I actually want to create a macOS clone, hahaha. That is one of the reasons I started this project.

Well it seems I’m not the only one then :P

TCB13, 2 years ago (edited 1 year ago)

Lets see if I got this right, you (the OP), the creator of Louvre, managed to create an example compositor that looks like a better desktop experience than the entire KDE and GNOME teams could ever develop with their infinite wisdom and funding? Fucking amazing. :)

I know this is an example, but seriously following the “copy apple down to the last pixel” approach you should consider creating a DE for Linux that doesn’t have themes or any user tweaks, just a simple and pixel-perfect copy of macOS. The problem with GNOME and KDE is that they both fail in simple design principals such as proportions, item spacing and whatnot while Apple, and you by extension, excels in that aspect.

Furthermore my personal opinion is that GNOME tries to reinvent everything and ends up fucking things up and creating situations like the lack of desktop icons going into the activities view by default etc. KDE however does some other stuff right but they fail really badly in terms of proportions and item spacing. Their taskbar is also a shame, for a group that says they want to copy Windows’ style they aren’t doing that well.

Desktop experiences when it comes to design peaked with macOS Monterey (after that Apple did changes to the settings that are still not polished) and in terms of usability they peaked with the release of Exposé, Spaces and later their integration on Mission Control (initially bad but now they seem better).

If you do create a 1:1 copy of macOS desktop experience (and keep it updates) as a new DE you’ll most likely become very popular in no time. It doesn’t need themes, customization and all the personalization that would make it really hard to create, just a simply pixel perfect copy of macOS.

TCB13, 2 years ago (edited 2 years ago)

I’ll instead “un-sell” you on Linux: tadeubento.com/…/linux-desktop-a-collective-delus…

Given your job I wouldn’t do it:

People who need MS Office because once you have to collaborate with others Open/Libre/OnlyOffice won’t cut it. If one lives in a bubble and doesn’t to collaborate with others then native Linux apps might work and might even deliver a decent workflow. Once collaboration with Windows/Mac users is required then it’s game over – the “alternatives” aren’t just up to it.

Windows licenses are cheap and things work out of the box. Software runs fine, all vendors support whatever you’re trying to do and you’re productive from day zero. Sure, there are annoyances from time to time, but they’re way fewer and simpler to deal with than the hoops you’ve to go through to get a minimal and viable/productive Linux desktop experience.

It all comes down to a question of how much time (days? months?) you want to spend fixing things on Linux that simply work out of the box under Windows for a minimal fee. Buy a Windows license and spend the time you would’ve spent dealing with Linux issues doing your actual job and you’ll, most likely, get a better ROI.

Linux desktop is great, I love it but I don’t sugar coat it nor I’m delusional like most posting about it.

TCB13, 1 year ago

Wayland xdg-shell Protocol is tailored only for GNOME needs.

What why is this a problem at all? For what’s worth GNOME is the only actually half designed and half usable thing out there. Yes they could add desktop icons and drop the “go into activities after boot” bullshit but how well, they’ve 1M€ in funding to reinvent the DE in all the unnecessary ways possible.

(And this comment is how you offend both the GNOME fans and haters at the same time. Probably also anyone else who cares about having alternatives.)

TCB13, 2 years ago

You most likely do not want to run a mainline kernel / system. Run Armbian instead, it is Debian optimized for SBCs, it has a very good track record and sometimes is the only option after manufacturers stop creating images for their old boards.

Generic images / mainline kernel might underperform in your board, the GPIO and other low level components will, most likely, not work and you might burn your storage as logging and other I/O intensive operations aren’t tweaked for SD/eMMC. Armbian aims to fix all those issues and provides continuous system and kernel updates long after the manufacturer stops doing so.

TCB13, 2 years ago

Never ever going to buy Seagate again after the crap they’ve pulled on their Exos drives.

They simply decided to completely trash SMART and spin down commands. The drives simply won’t give you useful SMART data nor they won’t ever actually spin down, you can’t force it, the drive will report is as if it was spun down but in reality its still spinning.

TCB13, 1 year ago

You’ll find this at macbb.org. Just register and search for it.

TCB13, 2 years ago

Absolutely obliterated.

TCB13, 2 years ago

Choo choo proprietary stuff and holding security unless you subscribe to services. :P

TCB13, 2 years ago

Choo choo debian+flatpak. Rock solid OS with the latest software. :)

TCB13, 2 years ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/52becf7b-9b27-4b56-86e6-5bed7c670057.jpeg

TCB13, 2 years ago

What a fucking shock. #not.

This is what you get when you use questionable open-source.

TCB13, 2 years ago

Forget about those, for 100$ you can get a second hand HP Mini that has a full i5 8th gen CPU and 16GB of RAM. Way better in all possible ways. Those systems also run very well with Linux.

TCB13, 2 years ago

Here, a bit more for you: tadeubento.com/…/systemd-hidden-gems-for-a-better…

TCB13, 2 years ago (edited 2 years ago)

You mostly don’t because Linux desktop is kind of a “collective delusion”. You either assume you’ll be using alternatives that aren’t compatible with your current applications and potentially deal with collaboration issues with users of such apps or stick with Windows.

If one lives in a bubble and doesn’t to collaborate with others then native Linux apps might work and might even deliver a decent workflow. Once collaboration with Windows/Mac users is required then it’s game over – the “alternatives” aren’t just up to it.

tadeubento.com/…/linux-desktop-a-collective-delus…

When it comes to distros I suggest you keep to Debian and use Flatpak to install software - this will give you a rock solid OS with all the latest version of the applications you might want to use. Flatpak apps can be installed from the GNOME Software “store” GUI which makes things really convenient.

Speaking about office, LibreOffice is great, however it isn’t as good as people like to sell it. Take for instance this simple documented I created in MS Word, side-by-side, it can’t even properly display a simple document with some headings and a few bullet points:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1ddb19c4-f7b9-432d-a795-ced58f11e5ba.jpeg

Things like that print screen and what is written on the article are the hard facts that people like to avoid and downvote, but it is what it is. Linux is great, but not in most desktop use case scenarios.

TCB13, 2 years ago

It’s not just about being simple, it’s about 1) still using transmission - because some people like decent and simple torrent clients and 2) a systemd enforced network restriction is way safer than whatever bind to interface / IP setting a program might come up with.

TCB13, 2 years ago

Its simpler than having to learn another torrent client or whatever, at the end of the day what I’m suggesting is adding a line to a text file with the interface.

TCB13, 2 years ago

:)

TCB13, 2 years ago

In you case setting bind-address-ipv4 and bind-address-ipv6 to your VPN IPs should work. According to this under macOS settings are stored in $HOME/Library/Preferences/org.m0k.transmission.plist. Not sure if the format is the same tho and don’t forget that editing a plist on macOS isn’t just always just editing a text file, it might be encoded and cached by the system, do your research.

TCB13, 2 years ago

Well Facebook tried that.

TCB13, 2 years ago (edited 2 years ago)

Great news! Maybe now they’ll spare a day of work to get desktop icons going again. No more funding excuses for the fanboys now.