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Rockslide0482, in The Unity Desktop Environment an Underrated Masterpiece

I miss Unity. It never got the love it deserved from a praise nor development standpoint. My typical Gnome desktop typically ends up being a quasi-Unity layout. I need to spin up the latest Ubuntu Unity spin for nostalgia’s sake.

LeFantome,

Why not use Unity then? You still can.

dan, in Best practices in mounting NAS shares?
@dan@upvote.au avatar

If you do this, make sure you use snapshots, ideally taken automatically. You wouldn’t want ransomware to overwrite the files on your NAS.

TCB13, in Best practices in mounting NAS shares?
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar
possiblylinux127, in Best practices in mounting NAS shares?

I just mount the share in my file manager

merthyr1831, in The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores for nearly 20 years

Would’ve been nice of them to compile the kernel with a fix applied to see how much of an impact it has (though even in the post they seem to suggest that it’s not that impactful unless you run massive clusters)

macattack, (edited ) in 13" or smaller Linux laptop - best replacement for aging chromebook?

As of next month, I’ve been using Chromebooks for 10 years however I also came to the same conclusion re: Google/ChromeOS over the summer.

Initially, I bought a Windows laptop but the keyboard layout (specifically the function keys) felt absolutely foreign, even after I wiped it and installed Debian. In retrospect, my theory is that a $500 Chromebook has worse internals but a much better keyboard/trackpad than a Windows equivalent, and that the keyboard layout is more user-friendly in a browser-first world. Eventually, I went back to my Chromebook but with a twist.

I’m biased, but since you seem like you know your way around Linux and tinkering, one suggestion that hasn’t been mentioned is that you buy a new Chromebook and turn it into a Chrultrabook (aka a Chromebook w/ ChromeOS completely wiped & replaced w/ Linux).

I’ve been running one of the last few months and it’s been an overall pleasant experience. Perhaps most important for me is that the tutorial includes keyd to reprogram the keyboard shortcuts to mirror the Chromebook layout. The community is growing and responsive, especially on the Linux side.

Documentation website

Supported Chromebooks

Helpful Discord Chat

Brand new Forum that is still being built

Nimrod,

Thanks for the resources. I think this could be the way forward. I’ll do some research first, as I need something super stable, since I won’t be the final user. So if it breaks, I’m on the hook.

Do you have any suggestions on possible candidate Chromebooks?

macattack,

I just did some digging on Best Buy and Amazon for sales, but mostly came across larger models or models that were MediaTek/Snapdragon (the chrultrabook team almost exclusively works on intel devices).

I’d say your best bet is to go to the supported devices list, and Ctrl + F for ‘13’ or ‘11’ to highlight the smaller-sized chromebooks and then check to see what’s available, or to jump in the Discord and pose the question to those in the linux channel

Nimrod,

Nice. That’s the move. I am finding it more and more difficult to find smaller laptops/chromebooks these days. If I want a big screen, I’ll sit down at my desktop!

Thanks again for the resources

faethon, in Ubuntu is my daily driver but I'm thinking of setting this up on my never used Raspberry PI -- anyone using it? How tough do you think it will be as a first project?
@faethon@lemmy.world avatar

Looks like a pretty straightforward install! And a fun project to have a personal message space with friends. It includes the ability to launch gameoso you could maybe set it up as a personal lobby for gaming buddies.

wowwoweowza,

I’m ready to do something lower tech — retro.

I’m a big fan of this old BBS game called Space Trader — I loved it. Hoping to get one going.

HurlingDurling, in What are people daily driving these days?

Currently driving Fedora 39

eksb, in 13" or smaller Linux laptop - best replacement for aging chromebook?
@eksb@programming.dev avatar

used steam deck + bluetooth keyboard

darq,
@darq@kbin.social avatar

I would love to do something like this, except it's way too goofy with the attached controllers.

Steamdeck in a tablet form factor would be perfect.

kwozyman, in How to take actions on multiple docker containers at once

I don’t know if this works in docker (usually there is 1:1 equivalency between the two), but with podman you can do something like:


<span style="color:#323232;">podman stop --filter name=foo
</span>

man podman-stop tells us:


<span style="color:#323232;">   --filter, -f=filter
</span><span style="color:#323232;">       Filter what containers are going to be stopped.  Multiple filters can be given with multiple uses of the --filter flag.  Filters with the same  key  work
</span><span style="color:#323232;">       inclusive with the only exception being label which is exclusive. Filters with different keys always work exclusive.
</span>
luthis,

<span style="color:#323232;">Usage:  docker stop [OPTIONS] CONTAINER [CONTAINER...]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Options:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  -s, --signal string   Signal to send to the container
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  -t, --time int        Seconds to wait before killing the container
</span>

Unfortunately no filter here

floofloof, in 13" or smaller Linux laptop - best replacement for aging chromebook?

I’m running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on a Dell XPS 9360 with an 8th gen i7 and it works very well. Something similar should be within your budget.

registeredusername, (edited ) in Ipod problems
@registeredusername@lemmy.world avatar

I use VLC to download music to my ifruit. It’s access via a (browser) ip address and upload/download from there.

That’s once you enable sharing in the VLC app on your iPod, iPad or iphone

Bitrot,
@Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Think this model predates apps on the iPod.

sebsch, in What are people daily driving these days?

Debian Testing and Arch with KDE on the PC/Workstation.

Debian Stable on the server.

steeznson, in What are people daily driving these days?

Gentoo desktop but I have to use it over SSH a lot of the time since I’m stuck on my work macbook

BannanaLama, in what caused you to get into Linux?

It all started with my own Minecraft Server and an an offer on V-Servers at my Hoster at the time. Started to learn what SSH is, how to install Java and run my own Minecraft Server. And now I am running my Homelab on Kubernetes and do it for work. Life is funny

blujan,

I was 11 and had issues with bad ram sectors so Windows would shut down every few minutes.

I read up on it and used an Ubuntu live USB, back when unity was new, I loved that it wouldn’t have problems with my ram so I installed it and started distro hopping.

I now don’t have a computer so I only use Windows at work.

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