lemmyvore

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lemmyvore,

Because if I install bluetooth it’s because I have some bluetooth devices I want to use?..

lemmyvore, (edited )

Out of curiosity, what’s the point of installing Bluetooth but keeping it disabled?

I imagine the opposite would be the default most people wanted (enable it by default and let power users with a bizarre use case disable it manually).

lemmyvore,

Why doesn’t it start automatically anyway?

Is there a "universal" web UI for custom Linux NASes?

Got me thinking, cuz I’ve done my own solutions (not the popular ones, like OMV and the likes) and they work just fine, I really have no trouble managing them through the terminal, but I thought about other people (maybe people that like more managing things though a web UI) and I was like “is there something like this...

lemmyvore,

There’s things like Unraid and Synology that have their own UI. But they have some limitations, for example Synology requires one of their devices, doesn’t run on generic ones.

lemmyvore,

“Linux” is not an entity with well defined goals, it’s a community that mostly does whatever it wants. That has the fortunate side effect of producing labors of love in software, that prove really useful in the real world. But it also ignores things like user experience, which affect things like the desktop the most.

On Linux the user is a second-class citizen, because worth in the community is determined by how much a person contributes (in code, testing, artwork, documentation etc.)

The Linux mindset is best expressed by a quote from Simon Travaglia (which I paraphrase because I don’t remember it verbatim): “We’re tasked with the well-being of the servers, not the users. They’re lucky we even let them log in since users technically upset the smooth operation of the servers.”

lemmyvore,

What are the dependencies? I always have trouble figuring those out. It could be any obscure combination of stuff to install, with specific versions. Yeah bottles makes it easy to install them but what’s the use of you don’t know which.

lemmyvore,

It is, it’s what restart: always does. It will restart a container on failure and start it on boot, unless explicitly stopped.

lemmyvore,

With other init systems you don’t have to write any custom config files. You just have to start docker; it already has container maintenance built-in.

I’ll never understand why they had to complicate it and require every container to also have a unit of explicit management.

lemmyvore,

Screen recording/screen sharing and keyboard/window automation are the big ones missing for me.

lemmyvore,

I’m using Claws Mail. It has a plugin that can do notifications in many ways, including a tray icon. You can configure it to start hidden in the tray, configure how often it checks email and on which accounts, to which folders the notification should react etc.

lemmyvore,

That’s a feature, stop buying hardware from vendors that treat GNU/Linux and *BSD users as second-class citizens and locks them into proprietary drivers.

Nowadays I buy a new graphics card maybe twice a decade. I’m not changing the card for software.

Also, we’re all using proprietary hardware. Be serious. If you tried to never use anything proprietary you’d never use anything. You’re using like a dozen of them right now.

lemmyvore,

But many of those are actively used by people. I use screen recording, screen sharing, global menus, key automation and window automation every day. Even if I wanted to use Wayland I couldn’t. What exactly is it that you want me to do?

lemmyvore,

The real dependency problem is that when an AUR package updates and Manjaro’s packages are not new enough for the update, it will cause breakage.

How many AUR packages do you use? I have about 70 installed right now. Never had a source-level incompatibility happen. You’d have to let system updates lapse for years to lose source compatibility with a current AUR package.

lemmyvore,

You can use Fuse to encrypt files on the fly using a wide assortment of schemas. The trick is to make it available at the right time to all the desktop apps (as the environment is starting up).

All of this is available already, for example I’m encrypting the files I sync to Dropbox and I mount the decrypted version to a dir on my desktop on startup. It’s not the entire home dir but you get the idea. It’s just gonna need some polish to become really smooth and user friendly.

lemmyvore,

And if I wasn’t there for the notification?

lemmyvore,

How do you tell when you’ve got mail, or someone messaged you?

lemmyvore,

I still don’t understand why Microsoft dropped Blink. Surely there’s nothing for them in letting Google own the browser engine, and it’s not like they cannot afford to keep developing their own. Weird.

lemmyvore,

There is a profile GUI but it’s true that it isn’t integrated into Firefox. You have to start it with firefox -ProfileManager. On Windows I recall it used to add a start menu entry for it but not on Linux.

lemmyvore,

Swap holds memory pages which are not currently used. Putting them out of the way will optimize the main RAM for normal operations.

It’s not a huge difference on a modern fast system with lots of actual RAM but it can be felt on older systems and/or less RAM.

lemmyvore,

They go hand in hand. Given enough RAM you can keep the swap in RAM rather than on disk to make it faster, but you still need swap.

lemmyvore,

So what should happen when the user installs a service that needs an open port in order to work? Presumably the whole point of installing it being to, you know, use it.

lemmyvore, (edited )

I also have 64 GB and yes, it gets used. For very low quantities, mind you, we’re talking couple hundred KB at most, and only if you don’t reboot for extended periods of time (including suspend time).

Creating a big swap is not needed, but if you add one that’s a couple hundred MB you will see it gets used eventually.

You don’t have to create a swap partition, you can create a swap file (with dd, mkswap, swapon and /etc/fstab). You can also look into zswap.

Swap is not meant as overflow “disk RAM”, it’s meant as a particular type of data cache. It can be used when you run out of RAM but the system will be extremely slow when that happens and most users would just reboot.

Subtitles for the despecialized Star Wars fan remakes?

Hi, I’m trying to find the subtitles for Harmy’s “Despecialized” Star Wars remakes and I was wondering if anybody has any ideas. The original website for Project Threepio points at a blog that seems abandoned and an old private tracker (MySpleen) that never opens to public anymore. Even just the English subs would be...

lemmyvore,

swisstransfer.com is what I typically use.

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