jlow

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jlow,

Im pretty happy with KDE Fedora (though constant updates make me anxious something breaks every reboot, lol) but if I had to change I would probably check out LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Ed). I’m not really a fan of Cinnamon/Mate but I’d give it another go …

jlow,

Ok, premium features, In think that’s a good business model for FOSS and closed source companies.

jlow, (edited )

I have a NVDIA GPU and no idea what could be the problem here, unfortunately. The only thing that comes to mind is that when you bake textures you need to disconnect the metallic node or turn it to 0, otherwise the bake will be completely black. No idea if this is related but it looks like it might be a problem with reflection?

You tried to uninstall and reinstall the GPU drivers? Are there different versions of the drivers (for NVDIA there are) that you could try?

jlow, (edited )

Recently found out about

listenbrainz.org

But when I log in via my Musicbrainz account it just loads indefinitely. Seems to be a bug with some server cache on their side at least someone said so in the forum. Maybe it works with another account.

jlow,

Mh, that sounds less bad that I thought it would be judging from the headline.

It’s basically Lineage with MicroG and a bunch of preinstalled apps (like one of the many Linux distros based on Ubuntu ^__^).

I think I’d still go for Lineage and install MicroG myself if I have the option, though.

And that name … it’s just so bad …

jlow,

It does get a bit of getting used to (esp having only one sidebar) but I’m quite happy with Dolphin in dual panel mode.

What dock do you use in Wayland?

I moved over to Wayland full time a couple of weeks ago (using KDE on Arch). I have finally rid myself of any X11 hangups apart from one. Latte will NOT respect my primary screen when changing monitor arrangement (ie. turning my projector on and off) and seems to randomly pick a screen to call the primary....

jlow,

Ah, ok. Thanks for the clarification ^__^

jlow,

Does xrandr work on Wayland? I thought it was an X11 tool. That would be so cool, I use it to change the brightness on my laptop’s monitor when KDE’s gui thing stops working (after sleep, I think). I think I looked for a replacement for Wayland but did not find anything a while back

How to check a direct downloaded mkv file

Decided to dip my toes in so I followed the guide to a website where I can download some content via google drive. Like an idiot, I didn’t research the risks of direct downloads before and so I’m now a bit paranoid. I understand the chances are low and my media player needs to be exploited but is there a way to be certain? A...

jlow,

Yeah, I think if videofiles where a common (or even feasable, I’ve never heard of it) way to distribute malware we’d know about it (and phishers would not need to rely on MS Word macros so much 👌).

jlow,

Yeah, tried that a few days ago and gave up on it after trying change the date format to something that wasn’t in their (horribly designed UX wise) options which basically mangled the whole thing. It sounds like a really cool system but I think I’ll wait a few years.

jlow,

What I’d want is to do Ctrl-F anywhere to search everything, then get a list of results, click on an entry and get to the line in the note where the searched phrase is, having it highlighted.

Instead you have to click on “All notebooks” on the top left, search, which returns all the notes that have the phrase, click on one of them, search again and hope that it was the correct notebook or try the next one

Ctrl-P does what I want but it’s not highlighting the result which is just a minor inconvenience.

jlow, (edited )

I have a friend who (just like me) has had a FP3, we were both very happy with it. Not sure why but he needed to replace it, got the FP5 but it was to clunky for him. Replaced it with a Pixel with Graphene likes it a lot.

I’d still still perfectly happy with my FP3 running Lineage/MicroG but my SD-card slot seems to be broken and I’m running out of space. I’m getting a FP5 in about a week, let’s see if it’s too clunky for me as well ^__^

jlow,

I don’t trust e (that name 🤦‍♀️) not sure why but they pulled some weird stuff in the beginning that I can’t remember and at least back when I checked years ago they shipped a weird store that got it’s apps from shady apk sites which is a strange move to push on everyday consumers. I hope they changed but …

jlow,

Another alternative is OrganicMaps which people seem to like. I can’t stand then colors and it hasn’t as many features but it’s nice otherwise

jlow,

Do old versions of Linux (Ubuntu in this instance) run better on really old hardware? That might be a reason if so.

jlow,

That would be wild if true. Wikipedia is sceptical about this, the findings have not been formally published, so aren’t verified:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunung_Padang

jlow,

Just as a tiny nitpick: PDFs can be just a collection of images. If there’s text I would hope that they’re embedded as text or vectors, which is what would usually happen if you export a document from a program (that isn’t completely bs). So texts / vector graphics etc should not be images usually (unless you scan a document as a PDF - which I hate with a passion but can see that people prefer a single PDF over a collection of image files). Even then you could OCR the imges / PDF to make it searchable etc. Anyway in this case it seems to be a collection of images indeed ^__^

jlow,

Obviously use at your own risk but maybe ntfsfix can help:

man.archlinux.org/man/ntfsfix.8.en

jlow,

Thanks for the writeup, that’s far more advanced than what I need to do in my work sometimes ^__^ But cool that it looks like there are options on Linux.

jlow,

I would really like to know of my feeling that these should be even fuller of microplastics than other food os right or wrong …

jlow,

Is Libredirect working good for you? Every few month I turn it on for a couple of services (YT, Wikipedia, Reddit, Github, Twitchan) and turn it off after a few days because I can’t be bothered trying to find instances that work, it’s just a constant pain for me.

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