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Holzkohlen, in What are people daily driving these days?

Garuda Linux. In just love arch, but I’m too lazy to do it myself. One day maybe

fujiwara, in what caused you to get into Linux?
@fujiwara@lemmy.zip avatar

Windows begging me to create a Microsoft account on start up everyday, even making me unplug my ethernet to get past it. I’m not obsessed with Linux.

timicin, in what caused you to get into Linux?

in the fall of 2002 the windows millennium installation on my computer broke, trapping an entire semester’s worth of work on the hard drive and i was a starving college student with less than $20 to my name, so i couldn’t afford to buy windows xp and didn’t know anyone where i could get a pirate copy from.

i bought a mandrake linux cd pack for $8 from circuit city and used google in the computer laboratory to learn how to mount the hard drive, install drivers for ntfs and copy my all my work to a usb drive and i’ve been using linux ever since. i switch to 100% only linux both professionally and personally sometime around 2010.

PlexSheep, in I Made Screen Brightness Control on Gnome Much Better

Didn’t know I wanted this, unfortunately I use Cinnamon, but this is a great feature!

cows_are_underrated, in I Made Screen Brightness Control on Gnome Much Better

I only use gnome on my laptop, where I luckily have buttons to control brightness, but this seems like a really good thing to get implemented.

avidamoeba, (edited ) in how can I customise my Ubuntu theme without breaking anything??
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca avatar

In short, it’s difficult. You have to be careful to only use themes that are are tested to work with your version of GNOME. That’s why while using GNOME, I’d stick with whatever stock theme variants come preinstalled. At least you get a few accent colors on Ubuntu. You can always change your wallpaper. 🥹

01adrianrdgz,
@01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world avatar

yes, thank you!! I can customise it as much as I’d like using GNOME Tweaks + preinstalled themes, like in Xfce, thank you!!

MangoKangaroo, in I Made Screen Brightness Control on Gnome Much Better

I run GNOME on my laptop and I’d definitely love to see more robust brightness control. Thanks for putting in the work to make this happen.

luthis, (edited ) in FOUND file in device by hex content using wxHexEditor

Tried a different way:


<span style="color:#323232;"> filefrag -v testfile 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Filesystem type is: ef53
</span><span style="color:#323232;">File size of testfile is 6 (1 block of 4096 bytes)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> ext:     logical_offset:        physical_offset: length:   expected: flags:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   0:        0..       0:    4660742..   4660742:      1:             last,eof
</span>

Went to offset 4660742 in wxhexeditor, but still when I copy out the hex and convert to ascii, it’s nonsense

otl, in Using an iPad as a second monitor (wired)

Time to turn your laptop into a router! Let’s say you’ve got 2 network interfaces on your laptop, eth0 and wifi0. wifi0 is joined to your university WiFi as normal. Connect your iPad to your laptop via ethernet (with a USB-C adapter).


<span style="color:#323232;">iPad -> usb-c-ethernet -> eth0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">wifi0 -> internet
</span>

Rather than setting up a DHCP server or IPv6 stuff, I’d just configure the wired interfaces manually. Let’s use the network 192.168.69.0/24. Laptop will be 192.168.69.1, iPad will be at 192.168.69.2. On the laptop:


<span style="color:#323232;">ip addr add 192.168.69.1/24 dev eth0
</span>

On your iPad, go to Settings -> Ethernet:

  • address: 192.168.69.2
  • subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
  • router: 192.168.69.1

Curious to see if that works. We haven’t set up DNS or DHCP or done any sysctl for IP forwarding or any nftables.

How can we test if it works? We can set up a TCP listener using nc(1) on the laptop that the iPad’s web browser could hit. On the laptop:


<span style="color:#323232;">nc -l 8080
</span>

On your iPad, open Safari and browse to 192.168.69.1:8080

Curious to see if that all works!

See also:

Adonnen,

Will try soon, thank you!

Adonnen,

Will I need a usb-c to rj45 adapter (or realistically, 2 since my laptop does not have an ethernet port)? I was planning to use my TB4 type c - type c cable and use an ethernet connection over usb.

bitwolf, in I Made Screen Brightness Control on Gnome Much Better

I can see you’ve gotten some code review so I will just eagerly watch as this gets worked out and eventually merged.

I never had an issue with the backlight curve or lack thereof however a friend recently demoed a similar impl they put together for hyprland and it is a very nice change.

Looking forward to seeing it in the next Gnome release 🤞

PlexSheep, in what caused you to get into Linux?

Had an old laptop which ran horribly slow on windows. Put Ubuntu on it without knowing anything about that stuff. Years later, I got interested in computer science and Cybersecurity, made some experiences with Kali Linux. Eventually switched my desktop to Linux mint iirc. My servers tun Debian

That old laptop? I used it for the first months of Cybersecurity lectures, until I bought a new laptop with my first salary. This weekend I put LMDE 6 on it. Debian is home.

cows_are_underrated, in what caused you to get into Linux?

I am interested in tech, and also watched a lot of YouTube videos about different topics. Somehow I realised how much data windows sends. Since I was planning to buy myself a new pc(my old one was a Celsius W370 from 2009 that took 20 minutes to boot windows) I decided to not install Windows on this pc but to install Linux. I went the classic way and chose Mint with cinnamon.

That was about 1.5 years ago.

I wouldn say that I’m somehow obsessed with Linux and there’s definitely no way back. I got completely sucked into FOSS. My next phone will be a Google pixel where I will install Graphene OS on. Fuck big tech.

Altomes,

Huge on lineage myself, think its dope

Reil, in what caused you to get into Linux?

Despite being an ECE major, I didn’t really bother doing anything with Linux until two things happened at the same time:

  1. I started having to work in several different build environments that were just easier to set up in Linux
  2. I started running Minecraft servers/doing server modding (starting back in the days of Hey0’s server mod and carrying up through Bukkit).

I wouldn’t call myself an evangelist at all. If you’re doing something that I think will be specifically easier to do in Linux (mostly servers and specific kinds of software development), I’ll point out how… but I find that a lot of people’s advice on “use Linux and X FOSS tool” ends up being akin to giving someone bike shopping advice on which welding torch to use to construct their bicycle frame.

lurch, in how can I customise my Ubuntu theme without breaking anything??

As long as you do not use root privileges (indicated by sudo or that password promt pkexec) you cannot destroy the system in a way that can’t be fixed by deleting a few files in the users home directory.

Vorthas, in what caused you to get into Linux?
@Vorthas@lemmy.ml avatar

Once Windows got rid of the gorgeous Aero theme starting in Windows 8, plus the shitty UI/UX that Windows got again starting in Windows 8, pushed me to Linux.

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