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Deebster, 1 year ago to linux in What's your current favorite distro that isn't Arch, Debian or Fedora?

Can it still be a favourite if I haven’t touched it in a decade? I still love Gentoo but I have enough shiny things to burn up my time.

Deebster, 1 year ago (edited 5 months ago) to announcements in Lemmy Developer AMA and Dev Update, 2024-01-26, 1500 CEDT

IPs and access logs, plus email addresses aren’t public and are the kind of thing law enforcement wants.

Deebster, 1 year ago to selfhosted in Joplin alternative?

Huh, there’s a lot of us calling software “beasts” in this thread.

Deebster, 1 year ago (edited 5 months ago) to selfhosted in Joplin alternative?

It’s a very different kind of beast, but I’m very much enjoying it so far. Linking things is definitely Joplin’s weak point whereas this is a core strength for logseq.

I often used bullet points in my Joplin notes, so having that as the default works for me too. However, since Op has said they want plain text notes Obsidian seems like a better fit (although logseq does save pages as text it’s not what it feels like in use).

Deebster, 1 year ago to linux in Fish rewrite-it-in Rust progress: 100%

Large parts of the rewrite came from contributors who had never worked on fish before.

That’s pretty useful alone.

And there’s this:

Thread Safety

Allowing background functions and concurrent functions has been a goal for many years. I have been nursing a long-lived branch which allows full threaded execution. But though the changes are small, I have been reluctant to propose them, because they will make reasoning about the shell internals too complex: it is difficult in C++ to check and enforce what crosses thread boundaries.

This is Rust’s bread and butter: we will encode thread requirements into our types, making it explicit and compiler-checked, via Send and Sync. Rust will allow turning on concurrent mode in a safe way, with a manageable increase in complexity, finally enabling this feature.

Deebster, 1 year ago to selfhosted in Pi-Hole or something else for network ad blocking?

Oh yeah, that looks much better than any of the included themes. Nice work!

Deebster, 1 year ago to selfhosted in Pi-Hole or something else for network ad blocking?

Could you share a screenshot of your final result?

Deebster, 1 year ago to selfhosted in Self-hosted or personal email solutions?

Self-hosting email is not at all easy, and I’d recommend paying for hosted email from a service that lets you use a custom domain. Most will let you have multiple inboxes, although this may cost extra.

Then, just buy a domain (NameCheap is fine) and point your MX records at the email provider.

Deebster, 1 year ago to linux in Thoughts on this?

Huh, that’s weird: when I posted, I saw your your comment as a top-level comment but I now I see it as a reply. Maybe it’s a Lemmy bug; I’ll keep an eye out in future.

Deebster, 1 year ago to linux in Thoughts on this?

Yeah, that one is annoying.

What one?

Deebster, 1 year ago to programmer_humor in 4 billion if statements

Well yeah, if you allow cheating!

Deebster, 1 year ago to linux in Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them?

It is far too confusing what to use - even as someone who uses Linux on various servers, a media centre, WSL and used to run a Gentoo laptop I still don’t know which distro to use, let alone which of KDE/Gnome, X11/Wayland, init/systemd etc.

Deebster, 1 year ago to linux in openSUSE Logo Contest Concludes With Winners Selected

I like it, and I think the simplicity means it’ll be quite flexible.

Deebster, 1 year ago to linux in "We are looking for Text-To-Speak (TTS) expertise to help or advise us on improving the default voice of the Linux desktop."

Death by patent troll 😞

Deebster, 1 year ago to lemmyshitpost in Back in my day

We had a “kids tape” that had countless things recorded over each other. The second half was just a collage of the tail end of various cartoons and shows. When it got to the Abba-soundtracked documentary about a carnival it meant you were at the end of the tape.