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mvirts, in Redox OS - an OS built entirely out of Rust

Slap a Firefox on top (and time travel to when ff is all rusted) and we’ll be coming for ChromeOS. But will windows be completely rusted first? 🙃

ChiefSinner,

I think the main reason Firefox isn’t on there is because redox os doesn’t use Wayland and x11. Porting firefox would be a massive effort unfortunately.

normalexit, in Why do you use the terminal?
  1. Scripting is easier. Apps and commands can be composed together in simple repeatable scripts.
  2. looks cool.
  3. Remotely administer machines with the same interface and little lag.
ProdigalFrog, (edited ) in Linux Mint vs... Linux Mint (Debian Edition) | Veronica Explains

Interesting aside for anyone interested; you can subscribe to her Peertube account with your Lemmy account by searching !veronicaexplains in your instance’s search bar (or clicking that link). Then any video she uploads in the future will show up in your lemmy feed, and any comments you leave on lemmy should show up on the peertube video! :D

GenderNeutralBro,

The link you posted seems to have the full url embedded so it doesn’t work in my client. I think this will work, pasted as plain text: !veronicaexplains

ProdigalFrog,

Ah, you’re right, it autocompleted with the full URL. Edited the comment to match yours. ^^

otter,

Have there been many posts in the past month? I only see one 3 weeks ago, not sure if it’s a federation issue

ProdigalFrog, (edited )

I’m not sure if the lemmy page will fill out with her previous uploads, I can only see the one about SSH on my feed too. She seems to upload fairly regularly, and this latest video about Linux Mint was uploaded 20 hours ago. I suspect if you’re the first person to subscribe on your instance, only future videos will show up on it, but I’m not entirely sure.

otter,

Makes sense, I was subscribed from a previous post but I’ll see if the new stuff shows up soon :)

Bahalex,

I believe she made a post/video a bit ago saying that she was taking a break from the videos for a bit, after quitting her job. She said she was going to focus more on her channel(s) as her main focus, to do something she enjoys.

I see a lot of her YouTube stuff posted a month ago, a couple of new ones, my guess is that her break is over and there will be more stuff coming.

Though I may be misinterpreting the question…

GammaGames,

Neat, does this work from other peertube channels too?

ProdigalFrog, (edited )

I believe so, should work with any peertube channel.

noodlejetski,

yes

heyfrancis,
@heyfrancis@lemmy.ml avatar

and any comments you leave on lemmy should show up on the peertube video!

This is cool to see. Unfortunately, we from Lemmy can’t see comments posted by peertube or mastadon users. AFAIK, federation in Lemmy still needs improvement to interact with mastodon posts/comments.

Cralder,

Is that supported by any Android apps or can I only do that via web?

mvirts, (edited ) in What would be the best way for me to recover data from my old laptop's hard drive, which seems to have a bad superblock?

The quick and dirty way I’ve used is…

Use the nbd system (network block devices) and qemu to create a qcow2 image with your defective device as the base device. Serve this qcow2 image with qemu-nbd and attach it as a NBD device locally. Then run fsck or testdisk on the NBD device. This will let you repair the filesystem Linux sees without writing to the disk. Testdisk can scan for any filesystems left on the device if the partitions no longer match filesystems.

Also, if all else fails use photorec to slice the file types you need.

Also, ddrescue can try to read any actually failing sectors and work out what they contain, but puts a lot of stress on the device.

Beware, any method that puts more wear on the disk should not be used unless you’re willing to accept the risk that the drive could get worse.

vortexal,
@vortexal@lemmy.ml avatar

I don’t know how to do any of that first part. All of the data on the drive is replaceable, it’s just going to be very tedious and time consuming. I’m currently trying one other method and I think after I’m done with that, that I’m just going to skip trying to recover the data. I had some other plans for what I wanted to do with this device and I think trying to recover the data isn’t worth it at this point.

neytjs, in Why do you use the terminal?

I use the terminal in a variety of circumstances (like working on Node.js and other programming projects) where there is either no good GUI alternative or using a CLI is actually faster. I’ve been using computers since 1989 and my first operating system was MS-DOS, so the thought of using a CLI when necessary doesn’t bother me.

sashanoraa, in NixOS beginner resources

The :nixos.org room on matrix is a great place to ask questions if you get stuck.

Mandy, in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?

Arch

Reason: arch

ReakDuck,

Thats a pretty bad reason

Mandy,

Okay fine, I bite for once

There are two KISS principles for me

  1. Easier to use for everyone, I.e. simple to use
  2. “Fuck convenience, fuck ease of use and fuck you”

Arch subscribes to the latter, use endevouros if you want the former

ReakDuck,

Well, for the tech illerterate. Arch is pretty simple and excellent to manage as everything is simple in the system together with the Arch Wiki.

But this is only for those who tinker and manage their systems or want to learn more about the Linux system. Endeavour is better for the normal user who doesn’t want to break their head. Its definetly not the KISS 1. Which you mentioned

Jean_Lurk_Picard, in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?
@Jean_Lurk_Picard@lemmy.world avatar

Linux Mint. There was just too much crap on the desktop

Andy,
@Andy@programming.dev avatar

Haha it’s all good, but it sounds like selling the house to avoid cleaning a table.

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

Well I ended up building my own house from scratch (in terms of this analogy). I don’t use any DE at all haha

Dogeek, in File transfer to USB drive fails after 4.3 gb

People suggested formatting to exFAT which is valid, but first you could just try either compressing the file (tar czvf file tarball.tgz for instance). FAT32 cannot handle files larger than 4GB, and compression might just make your file small enough.

As a workaround you could also split it in half and stich it back on the target machine

pingveno, in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?

Gentoo: I hated constantly compiling and configuring. It was incredibly time consuming. If I was compiling for uncommon cases it might make sense, but I am dealing with a pretty standard dev machine.

NixOS: The configuration is kind of a pain and never really got the extra features you get beyond package management working correctly.

RickyRigatoni,
@RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml avatar

I refuse to believe there are people who use Gentoo seriously. There is no possible way it’s not just a joke about how goofy a true stallman-esque approach to FOSS is.

moonsnotreal,
@moonsnotreal@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I can see it being ok if you cross compile for something like an old power pc mac. Even then there are still some distros that support power pc (Maybe bsds too?).

pingveno, (edited )

I used it on an old potato chip of a Pentium 4 (this was nearly 20 years ago). It took days to compile what I wanted, which was a basic system plus KDE. I don’t know what was going through my 17 year old brain. But hey, it walked me through some details of a Linux system that I wouldn’t have encountered otherwise. Now I would recommend Linux From Scratch for learning and a nice, stable distro with a large, supportive community for a daily driver.

pete_the_cat,

Are you me? I just posted the same thing above. I attempted to get KDE working during my freshman year of college (2004-2005) on what was either a high end P4 or Athlon X2, it would spend 10-15 hours compiling X and then break, leaving me no clue what to do but I went from using Ubuntu for about 5 months to a stage 2 Gentoo installation. I never did get it working.

pingveno,

I got it working, but KDE just didn’t work well with the resource constraints. I should have picked something more lightweight. Oh well.

racketlauncher831,

I’ll give you one reason for using Gentoo: option of no systemd.

Gentoo is one of the few distros which still offer a systemdless setup given its nature of high configurability. You can tell the system-wide config file to exclude systemd support in every package it attemps to compile.

I hope you or anyone who just enjoys their linux machine running fine and happily, now be able to see what freedom can mean in the open source universe. Cheers.

technologicalcaveman,

I use it, been using it for a while. Both my desktop and laptop run it. I like it a lot and find it really easy to use. Amytime I find an issue I can pretty quickly fix it and keep my system clean. Games run great, my music production software is great, it's fast, and just overall very enjoyable to use.

Grass, in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?

Alpine. I actually really like it, but it just doesn’t fit any of my use cases.

atk007, in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?

NixOS … loved the idea but doing configuration all the time for every little thing became too much of a headache.

pruneaue, (edited ) in NixOS beginner resources

Im on my own NixOS journey right now, so i cant fully vouch for all this yet. Here are my bookmarks for Nix/NixOS learning resources:

Apart from all this, ive learned the most from a mix of looking at other people’s configurations and reading source code. The documentation is super messy, especially if you want to make use of flakes (which i personally recommend from the get go).

torgeir,

+1 for these! I’d also add nixos.asia/en

ozoned, in D-Bus overview
@ozoned@beehaw.org avatar

This is an amazing article for folks interested in the low level IPC dbus. systemd, network manager, and or applications are leveraging dbus and with the new dbusbroker I expect more and more applications leverage it. It’s MASSIVELY confusing at first, but this is such a great article I hope it helps anyone interested in thr low level communications of userspace level linux applications.

bogdart, in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?
@bogdart@lemmy.world avatar

After Debian removed wifi, bluetooth, mouse and added lags after simple “sudo apt upgrade”, it became not for me

kattenluik,

They didn’t do any of those things and apt upgrade does not lag on any system I know of.

kenopsik,

Sounds like you had a corrupt installation.

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