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Scrath, (edited ) in Wayland-Proxy Load Balancer Helping Firefox Cope With Wayland Issues

Personally I didn’t have any problems with that yet fortunately.

My bigger problem right now is a bug that prevents me from copying stuff from the url bar when middle-click pasting is disabled in the KDE settings…

In X11 the bug doesn’t exist

Exec,
@Exec@pawb.social avatar

My bigger problem right now is a bug that prevents me from copying stuff from the url bar when middle-click pasting is enabled in the KDE settings…

What. For me it’s the opposite - I can’t copy stuff to other apps from Firefox if that setting is not enabled

Scrath,

Yeah sorry. I was half asleep while I wrote this. That is the problem I have as well.

One workaround I found is to use the separate search bar (if you have it enabled) as a buffer.

When I copy the URL I can paste it into the search bar but nowhere else. If I copy the search bar I can paste it everywhere just fine

Exec,
@Exec@pawb.social avatar

Ah. For me it’s not the search bar only but also if I select text and press Ctrl+C/press context menu Copy as well.
Interestingly, if sites put something in the clipboard (eg. Mastodon toot Copy link button) it works anywhere else.

1984,
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Is this on Fedora? My girlfriend has lots of similar issues on Fedora that disappeared on pop os.

Scrath,

EndeavorOS with KDE Plasma desktop

TheMadnessKing, (edited ) in Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them?

IMO ppl should be using W10 IoT LTSC. That’s the only right way to use W10.

Also, no Linux as Linux still can’t run SM Office. /s

corsicanguppy, in Looking for input regarding finding an IDE (spoilers: involves Emacs and Vim)

Vi (and other mode-switch vietnam-era editors with cult like followings of which there are none) really impaired my first few weeks of comp sci until a t-a showed me there are options. Modal editors were neat when required, but then we got full keyboards and control keys.

Man, does vi suck, but its thuggy PR volunteers do a good job of keeping people from assessing alternatives.

I’m glad there were options.

atzanteol,

Modal editors were neat when required, but then we got full keyboards and control keys.

Have you ever seen old Unix keyboards?

throwawayish, (edited )

How long did you try using Vi (or any other “mode-switch vietnam-era editors with cult like followings”)? Have you experimented with any starter kit/distribution/config (or whatever) to ease you in? What do you use now?

Btw, I agree that stand-alone Vi probably is too far of a departure from modern IDEs. As far as I know, it’s not even possible to give it IDE-like functionality apart from a few basic ones. Both Vim and especially Neovim do a better job at bridging the distance. FWIW, Vim only exists like for three decades now, while Neovim’s first release happened in 2014; almost 10 years ago.

TCB13, in Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them?
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Why not install Linux on them?

Because 1) it wont cut it and 2) when Windows 10 EOLs (and trust me MS will extend the current date) those machines will be trash either way.

NegativeLookBehind,
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It won’t cut…what

Flaky,
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Probably meant that Linux wouldn’t be appropriate for whoever’s needs. That can be true for some cases, not really for casual browsing use cases when pretty much 99% of all the major players in the browsing industry maintain a Linux port.

indigomirage,

Exactly. Personally, I’m relegated to Windows with a healthy dose of WSL. Wish it weren’t so, but it is so.

TCB13, (edited )
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not really for casual browsing use cases when pretty much 99% of all the major players in the browsing industry maintain a Linux port.

Those users couldn’t care less about if Windows is supported or not. They wont send their 240 million computers to the landfill, they’ll just keep using them.

Either way, Windows 10 22H2 EOL is set to 14 Oct 2025 and Enterprise LTS to 12 Jan 2027. I’m sure Microsoft will cave around January 2026 whenever the first 0-day for Windows 10 22H2 Pro goes into the wild and extends support for the Pro version to 2027 as well for no extra cost. For them this makes way more business sense than having 240M machines infected giving a poor image of Windows.

smileyhead,

For 240 million devices I think there would be some Linux can “cut it”. And second, no? My computer is 13+ years old and I am using it with basically no lagging, developing a couple of apps. Truth is all medium-tier computers made today and in recent years have reached the point where for normal use (that is daily tasks like communication, content consumption and calculations) only limiting factor for daily driver is software optimization.

bizdelnick, in Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them?

Many companies still use Windows XP, so…

someguy3,

Connected to the internet?

bizdelnick,

I hope, mostly no. It is needed to operate various old equipment.

TrickDacy,
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I tried to use XP in a vm a while back. The latest browsers that would run on it could barely view most websites. web standards are insanely different compared to 2005 or whatever, and a lot of sites weren’t even usable

Link,

Did you install Firefox or Chromium? As these support much newer standards than Internet Explorer on Windows XP.

TrickDacy,
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Firefox I remember. I feel like the newest version that would install on XP was like v7 or something. an incredibly old version, whatever it was. I think I tried chrome too and maybe couldn’t even find an installer that would work. Can’t remember for sure.

astraeus,
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Plenty of Windows embedded devices on the internet, running a flavor of Windows very similar to XP

astraeus, in Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them?
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240 million laptops stacked on top of each other is not going anywhere close to the moon, this is a masterclass in hyperbole.

lapommedeterre,

How many laptops before the bottom-most laptop fails from the pressure?

astraeus, (edited )
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If the bottom laptop is a Dell Latitude I think they don’t recommend stacking them at all, but with HP Elitebooks I think we got away with stacks about 15-20 high before we had the risk of getting damaged screens. Probably 10x that before structural failure, but they’d more than likely compress down instead of one side before the other.

TrickDacy,
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…as if the point ever neared actually doing it…?

lapommedeterre,

The thought of stacking them reminded me of this: brothers-brick.com/…/how-many-lego-bricks-stacked…

shikitohno,

If you assume they're all 13" wide laptops and stacked them on their side to get maximum height per unit, you'd still fall 305,752 km short of the average lunar distance. You normally only see this level of hyperbole in the estimated street value cops give for drugs they seize, pretty impressive.

digdug,

And even if the 240 million laptops were all 24" ultra wide behemoths, that's still only ~146,304 km; not even half the average distance to the moon.

I wouldn't even call the article hyperbole, but if we take the author in good faith, then they're just terrible at math.

astraeus,
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I get the reason for hyperbole, I just hate when it’s so clickbaity. I wish they would just be more honest with us. If you assume they’re all small form factor Dell Optiplex 3070 desktops, you could make a cube of computers as tall as the Burj Khalifa.

Pietson,

It could never reach the moon, the tower would fall over much sooner.

indigomirage,

Dang… Was hoping to kill two birds with one stone and solve that space elevator thing too…

/s

kawa, in Super Productivity Keyboard Shortcuts on KDE
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You need to add a shortcut to launch Linkedin, the ultimate productivity move.

AbidanYre, (edited ) in What's an elegant way of automatically backing up the contents of a large drive to multiple smaller drives that add up to the capacity of the large drive?

Git annex can do that and keep track of which drive the files are on.

git-annex.branchable.com

ricecake, in What's an elegant way of automatically backing up the contents of a large drive to multiple smaller drives that add up to the capacity of the large drive?

www.gnu.org/…/Multi_002dVolume-Archives.html

You might end up splitting files across drives, but I don’t think you’re likely to find a more “out of the box” solution. You might combine it with the compression flags to make sure things fit, and don’t forget to number your drives!

HiddenLayer5,
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Thank you!

BaldProphet, in LXD now re-licensed and under a CLA
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Thank heavens for Incus.

TCB13,
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The issue here is that this will stall the development of LXD/Incus. Two separate projects running in different directions no future feature parity and potentially less features in Incus than in LXD.

woelkchen,
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Currently LXC Incus is more active than Canonical LXD.

TCB13, (edited )
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

But it may never see much progress on the WebUI for instance while Canonical has paying customers pushing and asking for it. They may appear inactive and it seems there aren’t many people working on the project but who knows? Maybe they’re setting up their own image server, repacking images etc.

Again, I’m all in favor of this change and I’ve a couple of systems running on both and will obviously migrate everything to Incus but I can’t ignore the fact that enterprise money pushes Canonical todevelop things.

christos, in Cool fancy programs?
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possiblylinux127, in Cool fancy programs?

dd

possiblylinux127, in SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker

I might just go ahead and change the default port. Problem solved

SeeJayEmm,
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If someone going through the effort to target you with a MitM over the Internet, that’s not going to stop them.

Just diable the affected ciphers and/or update opened.

disheveledWallaby, in Cool fancy programs?

Cowsay, figlet, telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl, misfortune, cava, xscreensaver are a few that come to mind.

governorkeagan, in 2 years on GNU/Linux - a retrospective attempt

Reading this is making me want to try Arch on my second drive just so I can say “I use Arch btw” lol

Liz_thestrange,

Yeah that’s mainly the only reason why I installed Gentoo on a spared drive, I’m reinstalling it for been able to use a desktop environment tho

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