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wesker, (edited ) in Upgrade vs Reinstall
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There’s nothing ignorant IMO about avoiding headaches, and keeping environments new-car-smell fresh.

Thade780, in Upgrade vs Reinstall
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It depends on what you need to upgrade/do. I usually upgrade stuff, but at the same time I also have templates in case I quickly need to spin up something new.

If that’s the case, I seed the new instance whatever conf files are needed and I am up and running quickly. Consider that in my work environment we rarely use containers (more of a philosophy at this point than a real reason, since we also have a relatively big K8s cluster for big data).

Linux sysadmin here, for the past 25 years.

chaorace, (edited ) in Where can I find work?
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If you hate job boards then you need to find individual company “Careers” pages and go from there.

How you go about this varies a lot by skillset and industry, but I’ll just throw out a random example: lots of Linux jobs exist in the DevOps space (think Kubernetes, Ansible, Chef, NixOps). It just so happens that lots of medium-sized software companies need DevOps people, so you can pretty easily find companies looking for DevOps hires just by browsing Y Combinator’s Startup Directory

With that being said, I get the impression from the way your post is worded that you’re looking to break into a new career without having yet established a concrete plan. My advice would be to step back and consider specific options first. Almost all jobs like these require industry-specific certifications (e.g.: CompTIA, ITIL, AWS, Azure, Cisco, etc.). You need to look at your options, pick a certification, earn it, then go job hunting. Certifications are great for securing entry level jobs and the standards body issuing these will often provide an online directory of partner companies who are currently hiring.

JoMiran, in Where can I find work?
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Can you be A LOT more specific about your skill set and experience?

SinningStromgald, in Where can I find work?

Sadly shitty websites is where you have to put your info to get a job usually.

lemmyreader, (edited ) in Where can I find work?

On the Fediverse with micro-blogging like Mastodon, Pleroma and similar there is a hashtag which is related to work. I forgot what the exact hashtag is but I saw other people recommending it whenever people ask for job opportunities. If you get a match you may be able to contact them directly via email. Good luck!

Bassman1805, in Where can I find work?

What is your background. “A job using Linux” is super broad and remote work only narrows it further. If you don’t have plenty of experience, it’ll be hard to get a remote position.

Rentlar, in best foss cad software?

Artistic modelling i use Blender but Parametric modelling I used FreeCAD.

Despite having worked with CAD software, both were a little hard to wrap my head around initially, but I watched like 2 hours of video tutorials each and I figured it out enough for my needs.

bitwolf, in GNOME 46.alpha Released

Online Accounts has been removed from GNOME Initial Setup and it now uses the default web browser for authentication, which is a more secure method to log into your favorite accounts.

This is great to hear! Geary has been locked out of my university email for almost two years now because of a lack of support for TOTP in online accounts.

Hoping this lets me pair my uni email again.

bitwolf, in Can this be replicated with opensource software?[p2p file transfer over thunderbolt, and extremely low latency Video and game streaming (no encoding)]

It looks as if you can do it, but it doesn’t automagically configure itself on Linux.

Intel seems pretty good about standardizing their TB features so we may see it in a USB4.x or USB5 standard.

That said, USB4 is TB4 capable so it may be able to be introduced into USB4 as is.

Petter1, in GNOME and AppIndicator/system tray

I like that initial installation is reduced to the max ant then you can add what you need rather than removing what you don’t want. I guess thats a design philosophy where the alternative KDE interface tries to put everything in on initial installation I like as well that GNOME creates rails for app developer to achieve continuity in user experience throughout all apps

RotatingParts, in best foss cad software?

For 2D CAD, LibreCAD

synapse1278, in best foss cad software?
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I have tried openSCAD and FreeCAD, they are both good in their own right, but utimatly they also both have very steep learning curves. I suppose Blender can also be used for CAD but I have no experience with it. I just want to quickly design some parts for 3D printing as a hobby and don’t feel like spending hundreds of hours learning those tools. I am current using Onshape.com, it works well on Linux/Firefox, suits my needs and free to use with some limitations. But it is proprietary :(

k4j8,

Came here to suggest Onshape. It spoiled me for all other CAD software. (But it is web-based and proprietary.)

thayer, (edited ) in GNOME and AppIndicator/system tray

The best and most official explanation I’ve read is the 2017 GNOME blog post, Status Icons and GNOME.

Essentially, tray icons are a throwback to the days before designated notification and media playback APIs, and they now create some ambiguity for app developers, in addition to being ripe for abuse.

It’s a worthwhile read and the writer makes several valid points, but doesn’t address as much as I’d like in terms of actual solutions for things like instant messengers.

Personally, I would be happy if most traditional tray apps could be displayed in the dash, with status indicators, and started in a minimized state, but I still see the benefit of having some always-visible panel icons, such as instant messengers and VPN indicators.

Strit, in GNOME and AppIndicator/system tray
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It’s part of the “focus” workflow. Having app indicators might distract you from your current task, so they don’t want them.

TheGrandNagus,

Not only that, but they aren’t standardised, and Gnome really likes adhering to standards and staying away from anything they consider unstandardised or janky.

System trays really are a complete clusterfuck.

Sometimes the icons have colour, sometimes they don’t, sometimes they’re minimalist icons, sometimes they’re not. Sometimes you left click on them to do something, sometimes you need to right click, sometimes it’s both, sometimes they have their own menu UI, sometimes they integrate with the system’s, sometimes you can exit an app via them, sometimes you can’t, sometimes they give you notifications, sometimes they just do it through your standard OS notification system, etc.

They are an inconsistent mess. And we all know how anal Gnome can be about UX consistency.

Gnome in the past has expressed a desire for a standardised, cross-desktop system tray that fixes these issues, but tbh I’m sceptical it’d catch on. Not because other desktops wouldn’t get on board, but rather because app developers will just go “meh, we’ll just stick to what we have” and it won’t gain traction.

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