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, (edited )

Literally same. My entire life has been striving to build a life where I don’t need a car. (mainly out of frustration with NJ’s toxic surcharge program).

Sadly, no one in NY was hiring and my dumbass moved to Austin. Now my drive is to get back to NY where there actually is a hope of using public transit.

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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.

    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, (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)

    bitwolf,

    It’s not my favorite option. But at least use Discourse.

    bitwolf,

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

    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.

    bitwolf,

    Wayland has been great for several years now. Things change, especially technology.

    I always found it so strange when the biggest tech nerds get upset about change.

    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,

    It is not getting new features anymore. Just because the distro is packaging it doesn’t mean it’s not dead.

    I heard Sway is very similar to i3. But I’m partial to hyprland myself

    bitwolf, (edited )

    While TeamViewer is definitely neglected I use it often on Wayland and it works well actually!

    In the past year or so it doesn’t shut down correctly. But the core functionality works well.

    I’ve been experimenting with Rustdesk as an alternative because I doubt they’ll update the Linux client anytime soon. The Windows version looks like an entirely different application at this point

    In terms of feature parity. I believe the only thing left is global hotkeys, which hyprland proved it can be done.

    bitwolf,

    Could.be useful to unlock shopping carts!

    bitwolf,

    I wonder how well PLA would work for food storage. I learned it’s made with beets and can break down very quickly.

    bitwolf,

    I got so heated watching one of the congressional hearings where I girl asked Congress to ban single use plastics.

    The politician was so condescending and finished off with “we need a solution before banning”.

    America had the solution before plastic… Cans and bottles.

    bitwolf,

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

    bitwolf,

    If you parents have a standard TV stick or Apple TV their devices support a variety of codecs.

    This means that you can “direct stream” content from Plex / Jellyfin with minimal CPU impact.

    At 1080p it should at least support ~4 direct streams when it doesn’t have to “transcode”.

    That said, even if it is weak by today’s standards it’s a good platform to learn the setup on. Then you can move to something else more powerful (but still cheap) once you understand it all.

    At least that’s how I did it, 3b+ -> Pentium J5040

    GNOME Sees Progress On Variable Refresh Rate Setting, Adding Battery Charge Control (www.phoronix.com)

    As pointed out in This Week in GNOME, there’s been some continued work on Variable Rate Refresh for the GNOME desktop. The VRR setting within GNOME Settings continues to be iterated on as the developers iron out how they’d like to present the Variable Rate Refresh setting for users. The developers have been discussing how to...

    bitwolf,

    I don’t think in any way that would lose an advantage over gnome.

    Having a Steam Deck, the only integration I see is the “Return to Steam” shortcut and a change to the logo.

    When you run the Steam Deck gaming mode it bypasses KDE entirely and uses its own game scope compositor.

    bitwolf,

    Bypass is maybe a poor choice of words. Both gamescope and Kwin are compositors so you can use one or the other.

    An advantage of making gamescope is that they can add features like VRR or HDR without having to wayiting for KWin to implement it

    Can this be replicated with opensource software?[p2p file transfer over thunderbolt, and extremely low latency Video and game streaming (no encoding)] (www.youtube.com)

    Further if this technology is open-sourced; can it be extended for use cases beyond that(Dual Motherboards sharing Compute power with low latency for working on a single process?); I know such solutions probably exist for servers and enterprises but i am talking about amateurs who don’t have 10K lying around for specialty...

    bitwolf,

    It looks as if you can do it, but it doesn’t automagically configure itself on Linux.

    Intel seems pretty good about standardizing their TB features so we may see it in a USB4.x or USB5 standard.

    That said, USB4 is TB4 capable so it may be able to be introduced into USB4 as is.

    bitwolf,

    Sync Pro (paid) Jerboa (free)

    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,

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

    bitwolf,

    With the rate at which Electron applications catch on? Nothing, you’ll end up using it all in a few years time.

    bitwolf,

    I need a lot of good CM4’s. I hope they’re still ramping those up 😞

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