flashgnash

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flashgnash ,

Definitely look at tofi as well, it's like rofi but it's almost instant to launch

flashgnash ,

Weird, I've been using hyprland on multi monitor for a while

Only issue I've ever noticed is that some games will insist on running on my second monitor for some reason and will stay locked at at 1080p when moved to the higher res one

flashgnash ,

Barrier

I miss being able to just use one mouse and keyboard for everything

flashgnash ,

I'm not sure as to how long ago you did this but it moves workspaces dynamically now when you unplug/replug monitors

I used to do this quite frequently, disabling laptop screen when plugged into monitors

That said it still has a stroke from time to time just not always

flashgnash ,

Ah right, probably not a new thing then

Switching monitor setups has seemed pretty unstable in hyprland to me but I assumed that was more to do with Nvidia than anything

flashgnash ,

Ah I see, might give this a go. For now I've just not got it plugged in

flashgnash ,

I've heard fastfetch is a lot better but I tend to have neofetch installed anyway because it's the known one

flashgnash , (edited )

Gaming was absolutely the only reason I didn't switch permanently

Switched all my machines over to Linux within a month or so of getting my steam deck and see no reason to go back

Can't imagine I'm the only one who was waiting for this, though that said I am fairly technical, I don't think most non technical people will see enough of a reason to switch

flashgnash , (edited )

Nvidia has caused me much suffering in both of my machines, only recently fixed hibernation killing the DE, latest driver version at the moment for many GPUs causes horrible stuttering in games

Most web games absolutely suck, think webgl isn't working

This is all on wayland though because I'm hopelessly addicted to hyprland

flashgnash ,

YouTube music in Firefox in a special workspace

I'd love a CLI on it but there don't seem to be any good enough to beat the UX

Can be themed with Stylus

Why is folder sharing between host and guest in KVM so hard?

I'm having the hardest tine setting up a shared folder between a Linux host and Win11guest. I want to get rid of dual boot, but there are a few programs that I use which are Win only. I have set up a VB VM, but I want a fine tuned KVM VM. On VB sharing is trivial, but I can't get it to work in KVM. I have the host sharing the...

flashgnash ,

I had thought spice was supposed to be really good for VMs, it's it just over hyped?

flashgnash OP ,

I tried soundux, within 5 minutes of running it it was eating cpu and froze my pc up

Tofi can do the sound searching stuff based on MP3 files in a directory, just need a way to play a sound on top of an input device from the cli

flashgnash OP ,

I think I'm using pipewire anyway, how are you thinking?

flashgnash OP ,

I'm using pulse, had thought pipewire ran alongside it but I suppose that's wrong. Will have a look anyway though

flashgnash OP ,

Last release being 2 years ago is a bit of a red flag for me, and being able to play funny sounds in voice chats is not worth a potential security issue

flashgnash OP ,

I don't have the expertise to spot if someone's able to pull some dark wizard shit and encode a binary in audio and get it to execute it or something

Seriously though I know enough to know I won't spot some obscure bad practice in someone else's code base, even without network access if someone gets onto my system some other way it could give them a route to escalate

flashgnash OP ,

Oh I have no doubt it's legitimate, my concern is just that it's unmaintained

flashgnash OP ,

Oooh fantastic thank you

flashgnash OP ,

I'm not that anal about my security but it's a very trivial thing and if I ended up getting any of my network compromised to make a soundboard there are several people in my life who would shoot me

flashgnash OP ,

Understood most of the words in that comment individually

What does PW stand for?

flashgnash OP ,

Ah fantastic, will have a look at this properly tomorrow

Turns out I am using pipewire with the pulse module so this should work

flashgnash , (edited )

Source goes in ~/Source and gets checked into git, important stuff goes into ~/Documents and (when I get around to setting it up) gets backed up somewhere, downloads go into ~/Downloads

Otherwise, stuff gets dumped in home and I use fzf, grep and jump to get around quickly

Whole system gets wiped and rebuilt when it gets to cluttered, anything I care about persisting is kept somewhere else and nixos puts my system back

I think organising more than the bare minimum is a constant waste of time when search tools exist

flashgnash ,

Reckon this could be done on nix/other distros?

flashgnash ,

If I hear a YouTuber pronounce it Lynux it immediately makes me skeptical of whatever they have to say

Unless it's satire of course

flashgnash ,

That's the neat part, you never finish

flashgnash ,

It was going so well until it started talking about white privilege and the Holocaust...

flashgnash ,

Easy way to verify, ask it about vaccines

flashgnash ,

Did it get taken down or something?

flashgnash ,

I'm still of the opinion all of these viewpoints should be heard out at least once even if you dismiss them immediately

flashgnash ,

I'm not sure a view or opinion can be correct or incorrect though except by general consensus

Absolutely things being presented as facts that are just incorrect should be blown out of the water immediately but everyone's entitled to their opinion whether it's well founded or not imo, censoring that's just gonna drive them into echo chambers where they'll never get the opportunity for someone to change their mind

flashgnash ,

I am a dotnet dev using Linux as my primary OS. Dotnet core fully works on Linux now, there's a native Linux dotnet cli that works almost identically to the windows one

SQL server I think has been able to run on Linux for a while anyway

You'll have to learn to live without full fat visual studio but honestly you're better without it anyway it just stops you from learning the stuff you really ought to know by doing it all for you

VSCode is a pretty good replacement and actually nicer to use if you know what you're doing, neovim if you want to end up spending all your time configuring it (said as a neovim user)

Gaming is absolutely not an issue unless you play certain competitive games with weird anticheat (valorant for example)

As others have mentioned, docker and VMs exist if you have a reasonably powerful machine so nothing should be completely inaccessible to you anyway, on the windows machine I have to use at work I ironically do most of my dotnet dev on a Linux VM anyway

flashgnash ,

True, not free though and I think IDEs like visual studio proper abstract things away that you should probably have some understanding of

flashgnash ,

I've found it's best for things you kinda already know the answer to or at least know what it should look like, it fills in the blanks

Also, for gpt 4 you can get it without the subscription if you do it through the API and use something like gpt-cli (you're still paying for it but unless you're talking to it hours on end it'll end up cheaper that way)

flashgnash ,

I use fish, have never once written a fish script. Just write bash scripts and they tend to work fine, otherwise run em in bash

flashgnash ,

Given how much of a fluke it was someone found it it makes you wonder what else is hiding in some core component of our systems

flashgnash ,

Sshfs afaik is used for a different purpose than the others

I usually use it when I'm working on a remote machine for a long duration and want to use my local tools (so I don't have to install them on the server, and because using neovim over SSH on a crappy connection sucks)

flashgnash ,

Would you? You can sshfs into anything with ssh, thought you had to set up nfs

flashgnash ,

It's good enough and everyone has it and knows it

I'm not about to even attempt to ask someone in a game if they've got matrix because the answer is going to be no

flashgnash ,

If you're using pulse you can use a cli called pactl to manipulate your audio devices pretty much however you want

You can also use it to change your current audio device which is one of the major sticking points for not going back to windows for me, hitting a button on my keyboard to toggle between speaker and headphones is unbelievably satisfying

flashgnash ,

I've tried out the closed source version, and I don't mind that part so much as all my messages apparently being unencrypted on their server

flashgnash ,

Does the whole encryption/decryption thing still bother you if you self host?

I tried out the app, the value there is that it's ready to go straight away, though I took it all down again because my messages being unencrypted on someone else's server makes me uneasy. May end up self hosting it for that reason and not using anything closed source

flashgnash ,

Kind of is though, if it quacks like a duck

flashgnash ,

Given it's all entirely self host able if you use a different client I'm not sure how they could be

Unless there's some binary blobs hidden in the repo but you'd think someone would have pointed that out by now

flashgnash ,

Discord's own Linux client is kinda ass and keeps breaking my build using old insecure electron versions/forcing you to update before you can use the app while not being up to date in my package manager

Gotta use a custom client anyway to keep my sanity intact

flashgnash ,

It's got the right level of sass at least

flashgnash ,

This is why I said fair enough to if it's on an existing steam deck, I'm absolutely for that as it was designed specifically for that hardware

I do think it's a bit dumb to put steamos on something other than a steam deck though

flashgnash ,

Chromebooks came out like 3 years ago riiight?

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