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cows_are_underrated, in Metal music with Linux?

Djing on Linux is also not a big deal. With mixx you we have a great software for this.

You999,

Mixx is alright if you are a bedroom dj but it’s still a long way from the completion

t_378, in find, grep, sed, and awk

What software did you use to put the slide deck together? It seems to work so nicely when placed on a webpage, too…

westyvw,

I don’t know what OP used, but it could be any one of the Markdown presentation tools.

I like reveal.js

Your presentation can go in git, looks good anywhere, and easily shared. It’s just html rendered.

bizdelnick, in How to keep all email locally in a useful format that can be searched across devices?

It is the POP3 workflow, not IMAP. Maybe setup your client to use POP3 and remove mails from server after receiving? However I don’t recommend Thunderbird, its POP3 support was very buggy when I used it (many years ago). Try Sylpheed or Claws Mail, for example.

crank,
@crank@beehaw.org avatar

I want to keep mail on the server at about 80-90% of quota. Because when I am outside of my home, that will continue to be what I have access to. So the local copy will only be as a backup in case I delete something that I later realize I need to refer to. Since most emails are very small individually I should be able to keep the majority of them on the server. I will selectively delete either very large emails, or emails which there are so, so many of like notifications, which I will probably never need to look at.

I have used Sylpheed a bit in the past. I prefer it and a very similar project called Interlink to tbird. I just said tbird because I figured everyone would know it. But also I thought all of those were forks of tbird and wouldn’t differ much in how they work. Do they have much different internals?

bizdelnick,

You are wrong, there are no widely used forks of Thunderbird AFAIK. Thunderbird is based on Mozilla and has a huge codebase that is very hard to maintain. All other popular email clients have totally different code and based on other libraries. They can be similar in how they appear, but not in what bugs they have.

crank,
@crank@beehaw.org avatar

Now that I look, I see I am wrong.

A while ago I was trying out betterbird which actually is a TB fork and I guess I kinda just generalized from that. But looking through a list of linux email clients it is clear that only a couple are related to TB.

Pantherina,

Thunderbird has actual funding now, so please test before advising against software

bizdelnick,

It is not the question of funding. Thunderbird has always had a number of long standing bugs. Speaking about such rare use cases, I don’t think someone care about them. Anyway, I recommend using software that I know it worked correctly, not that worked incorrectly and could be fixed but requires further testing.

tun, in Open Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver NVK Reaches Vulkan 1.0 Conformance

I have been reading news about NVK release 1.0

Only this time I see NVK mentioned as open source Nvidia driver.

d3Xt3r, in This week in KDE: Panel Intellihide and Wayland Presentation Time

Plasma Panels have now gained a new visibility mode: “Dodge Windows” aka “intelligent auto-hide!” In essence, the Panel auto-hides when touched by a window, but is otherwise visible

Finally! With this, we can now have a panel behave like a proper dock.

turbowafflz,

That is actually so exciting, I am so tired of the weirdly buggy behavior of “windows can cover”

Goingdown, in Non-root user that (suddenly) has elevated privileges in a specific command (only). [Have I been hacked?]

Do you run docker container in privileged mode? phoenixnap.com/kb/docker-privileged

And do you run nano inside the container?

Docker container running in privileged mode has root permissions to host filesystem and devices (limited by said restrictions).

azertyfun, in Linux Audio Nerds, Take Notice — The Fedora Audio Creation SIG is being revived

Personal anecdote: I connected my guitar to my shitty sound card a few weeks ago, ran guitarix (because real DAWs are overwhelmingly complicated and I just want an amp, a compressor, and some reverb), and thanks to PipeWire and pipewire-jack everything ran perfectly. Low latency, no crackling, no messing with jackd or ALSA, no restarting audio daemons, I could simultaneously play audio through Firefox and hear my guitar. I dare say that that part of the audio stack is now a solved problem.

I’m not a musician though so I can’t comment on hardware support for exotic sound/midi cards or the maturity of FOSS DAWs.

kelvie,

You didn’t have to tweak PIPEWIRE_LATENCY or adjust the latency in guitarix? In my setup the latency isn’t great out of the box.

azertyfun,

Right, I did do that. Even without it the latency is noticeable but not catastrophic IMO.

pH3ra,
@pH3ra@lemmy.ml avatar

I didn’t know about the existence of guitarix, thanks

princessnorah,
@princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

As far as exotic stuff goes, I only buy stuff that’s class-compliant so I don’t have to worry about the manufacturer sunsetting support in the future. Supporting those sorts of devices should be a priority over anything with weird proprietary issues (fuck you IK Multimedia!).

PlexSheep, (edited )

Personally, I use Bitwig studio. It’s. It not Foss, but it’s well build, not as expensive as others, and it fulfils the “no Tux no Bux” requirement.

Kid_Thunder, (edited ) in Non-root user that (suddenly) has elevated privileges in a specific command (only). [Have I been hacked?]

The directory you are creating your files in likely is set to immutable or append only.

lsattr -d /path/to/directory

if you see i or a, then that's the issue.

You can remove them with
sudo chattr -i /path/to/dir immutable
sudo chattr -a /path/to/dir append only

Same goes for files but if it happens to all files in a directory, then that is probably it.

Frederic, in find, grep, sed, and awk

Using un*x since the 90s, this is all I know. I like awk but it can go fucking complicated, I once maintain a 5000 lines script that was parsing csv to generate JavaScript…

JoeKlemmer,

Someone used the wrong tool for the job. If an awk script gets more than a few dozen lines, it’s time to use another language/tool to process that data.

palordrolap,

At that point I'd be looking for languages that have libraries that do what I need. Both Python and Perl have online repositories full of pre-written things. Some that can read CSV and others that can spit out JSON. It's then a matter of bolting things together, which, hopefully, is a few lines of code rather than 5000.

There are even awk repositories, but I'm not sure there's a central, official one like PyPI or CPAN.

featherfurl, in I'd just like to gush about Swayland for a sec

Sway is just well made, solid and reliable. It does what you need it to do, and it does it properly.

vluz, in Pyradion, internet radio TUI client, with recording functionality, written in Python
@vluz@kbin.social avatar

Lovely! I'll go read the code as soon as I have some coffee.

christos,
@christos@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks, any feedback would be welcome!

it_a_me, in find, grep, sed, and awk

I’ve gotten tired of weird regex stuff in awk, sed, and grep, so I’ve moved to perl -E for all but the most basic of things.

bizdelnick,

In most cases extended POSIX regexes are enough and looks the same as perl regexes.

I also used perl until I needed to write highly portable scripts that can be run on systems without perl interpreter (e.g. some minimal linux containers). Simple things are also simple to do with grep/sed/awk, more complex things can be done with awk but require a longer code in comparison with perl.

SpaceNoodle,

I’ve dealt with systems that lack sed and awk. Bash builtins and other standard tools like cut and tr take care of … well, everything.

bizdelnick, (edited )

Systems with bash but without standard POSIX utils? I know some without bash (freebsd by default, busybox based distros etc.) and with grep, sed and awk, but not vice versa.

SpaceNoodle, in find, grep, sed, and awk

I’ve only ever found a use for sed once two decades into my career, and that was to work around a bug due to misuse of BigInt for some hash calculations in a Java component; awk remains unused. Bash builtins cover almost everything for which I find those are typically used.

find and grep see heavy daily use.

palordrolap,

If you're using find all the time, check to see if you have or can have some variant of locate installed. It indexes everything* on the system (* this is configurable) and can be queried with partial pathnames, even with regex, and it's fast.

SpaceNoodle,

I use locate when I don’t know where the files are. Find has finer controls and can differentiate between regular files, links, directories, etc.

bizdelnick,

sed is not for daily use, it is for reusable scripts. For other purposes interactive editors are more convinient.

nyan, in would it be illegal to download Ubuntu on a Chromebook?

If the Chromebook is your property, you can do whatever you want with it, and it’s unlikely that anyone will notice or care. I assume you’re in the US, since you appear to be worried about DMCA encryption-related provisions. Don’t be. Even if it were 100% guaranteed illegal with all necessary precedents, Google has better things to do with its time than track down individual jailbroken Chromebooks. It isn’t like you’re going to be selling them in quantity or using them to facilitate ransomeware attacks or something.

However, I’d invest in a used laptop instead, since it’s likely to have more internal storage even if it lacks the !!shiny!! factor. Chromebooks are meant to store as little as possible locally, and that isn’t how a normal Linux works. I suspect you’d start to get data claustrophobia pretty quickly.

Dariusmiles2123, in Framework 13 With AMD Ryzen 7040 Makes For A Great Linux Laptop (Review)

I love the idea of such a computer so I wish that project the best.

It should just ship with Linux preinstall as their ethos aren’t compatible with windows for me.

TheGrandNagus,

It certainly seems strange to me that it officially supports Ubuntu and Fedora, yet doesn’t offer the option of having it preinstalled

flashgnash, (edited )

I think pretty much anyone buying one those laptops who wants Linux already knows how to install it and let’s be honest if it ships with any given distro I think most would install their preference over it anyway

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