bitwolf

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What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

Tinkering is all fun and games, until it’s 4 am, your vision is blurry, and thinking straight becomes a non-option, or perhaps you just get overly confident, type something and press enter before considering the consequences of the command you’re about to execute… And then all you have is a kernel panic and one thought...

bitwolf, (edited )

The only time was within a VM. I accidentally wrote

rm -rf ./* while my cwd was /

I use absolute paths with -rf now, to prevent the error again.

Every other breakage I had was with apt shitting itself. It has always been fixable just annoying.

I now use Fedora, to prevent the error again.

bitwolf,

Gittea, codeberg, Self-Hosted gog, src.ht… have I missed any?

bitwolf,

Will you’re almost free from that. I saw 6.7 uses the GSP firmware, so if you have a newer Turing card noveou (can never spell it) will be able to run games.

I'm an idiot (arm)

EDIT: Putting this at the top because not everyone is seeing what I actually need. I can unpack the rar archive just fine. What I can’t do (on arm) is add to/update the files in the rar archive. I have unrar already installed. What I can’t install is the rar package to create/update rar archives....

bitwolf,

Can 7zip unrar? That’s my go-to form anything compression.

bitwolf,

The LG G12 used a Tegra but stopped getting updates very quickly.

bitwolf,

I sign on to YouTube and it’s 2am before I know it.

bitwolf, (edited )

It’s more targeted towards the DE developers.

Some use gnome but with their own theme and it can make normal apps look broken.

You can see this if you use an Elementary OS application while still using the default gnome theme as an example.

Or if you use Pop! Shell, and try to use a normal libadwaita app. (Although Pop Shell has gotten better about how they implement their theme)

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    bitwolf,

    I always felt the opposite. Gnome is a developed and cohesive experience whereas Plasma lets you configure literally everything with very little guardrails.

    That said, I agree with your sentiment for wanting the best of both worlds. I like that Kwin has more features for modern displays (Re: mutter-vrr still in merge review).

    A lot of the KDE apps are much nicer than the gtk equivalent (❤️ Kate).

    You can mix and match at the cost of disk space though. You could run Gnome Shell and use a few KDE apps. Or run Plasma shell and run all gtk apps.

    At least that’s what I do. I use Gnome Shell on my laptop (Gnome has the best laptop experience) and use some KDE apps on it.

    On my desktop I use Plasma (the best desktop experience especially for gaming), and use a select few gtk applications.

    bitwolf,

    Essentially they’re not doing feature work on the core codebase. I’m not sure if that’s true or not, but the packaging of it wouldn’t be up to the developers but the distro maintainers.

    bitwolf,

    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,

    Is that only for certain editors? Because at work, the second I go offline I’m forced to close Idea.

    How many of you run a Linux phone (Pine64, Librem etc) as your daily driver?

    I was going through Pine64’s page again after I found the latest KDE announcement. With that said, I seem to see a lot of issues with firmware on the Pine, whilst the Librem is just plain out of budget for me. Was interested in how many people here run a Linux mobile as a daily driver, and how has your experience been?...

    bitwolf,

    Hopefully when RISCv gets there it won’t be so bad.

    Now that manufacturers are getting called out for it they tend to follow the support cycle upstream. Now, much of it falls on the chip makers, Qualcomm specifically supports chips for 5 years iirc (and 8 years for their industrial chips).

    If the manufacturers can achieve vertical integration, like Apple has, with RISCv I think we’ll see a lot more mainlined support from them.

    I feel like the Steam Deck is the best proof of Gabe Newell's quote that "piracy is a service issue."

    They could have easily crammed the Steam Deck full of stuff to make it hard to use for piracy - locking down everything, making it usable only to play games you legitimately own, force you to go through who knows what hoops in order to play games on it. That’s what Nintendo or Apple or most other companies do....

    bitwolf, (edited )

    Hmm, I just tried to open it on the plane and it asked me to connect to the Internet.

    I’ll have to try again. Did you put steam into offline mode prior?

    bitwolf,

    Maybe there is an Oxford comma? I understood what you meant

    bitwolf,

    Agreed! For something as controversial as making another new DE (RIP Unity 7), it’s coming along very nicely.

    I can’t wait to try cosmic once it’s ready.

    bitwolf,

    Lmao I first read that as

    Yet another Newly Jank ass Linux Distro

    bitwolf,

    And the red garbage bag in the trunk!

    bitwolf,

    I believe it comes from a saying that most wear is in the first ten minutes of driving.

    Which I also believe assumes you don’t “wait for the car to warm up”

    That saying. I still find some truth to it. While modern cars can adjust fuel mixture to different conditions. There still is an unavoidable few minutes where the engine runs in an open loop and wear is greater.

    That said, in my vehicle when I listen for the engine to “close” it happens in less than 5 minutes.

    bitwolf,

    In certain instances that may not always be available.

    One example I can think of is when browsing on a NAS.

    bitwolf,

    So then they’re a publisher not a streaming service.

    bitwolf,

    That is how portals work in Wayland.

    For X there was only one protocol, so they all wrote for x.
    This also allowed some hacky things to be done that are questionable from a security standpoint afaik.

    bitwolf,

    Playing through games opens great on my desktop but I lose the steam overlay so I just use Wayland proper.

    bitwolf, (edited )

    It helped me to lean on the different principals as an example.

    The easiest being Principal of Induction. Substitute m and n with 1,3,5,7,9…

    After going through a few iterations you can see if it holds up enough to keep testing with other principals. (Super simplified).

    bitwolf,

    Does Mint carry on the snap stuff? Usually I recommend POP!_OS for new users.

    bitwolf,

    Ahem

    ~/.config/kde

    FTFY 🙂

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