I'm pretty comftable with linux mint right now but i want to peruse the wares so to speak, what are some cool or interesting distros that do things differently than mint?...
You could always dip your toe into a tiling window manager instead of a desktop environment. Its got an initial learning curve, and it helps to have something to do to learn it, and not just playtesting it.
This is a robust, locally hosted web-based PDF manipulation tool using Docker. It enables you to carry out various operations on PDF files, including splitting, merging, converting, reorganizing, adding images, rotating, compressing, and more. This locally hosted web application has evolved to encompass a comprehensive set of...
I needed to write in fields of a pdf and ran this quickly only to find out there wasnt such a feature. If I missed something let me know, it looks like great software.
It is good for privacy but also has the nifty feature of not sucking and being reliable. It is so much better that Teams and my audio works reliability.
So I joined a new gym last year and was pleasantly surprised. They gave me a smart card to get in and out, that's it, no app, no accounts, no nothing. Well, today I got to the gym and saw the announcement that they are phasing out the access with the smart card and starting to use, you guessed it, an app....
Sometimes the app just shows a barcode that they scan. I always screenshotted the barcode and deleted the app. Better yet, save the barcode in catima https://catima.app/
Usually I rely on my network & haven’t needed this kind of document in ages, but I’ve been tasked with creating a résumé for myself. I’ve grown more privacy-conscious every year & I think it’s weird that we are expected to give out so much information about ourselves to companies that lie about their culture & don’t...
Most people don't validate anything on a resume, depends on industry. If you think its too personal, dont put it. Make it up. Dont put your phone number or address if you dont want to. Or lie. Most applications I applied for I put the address of the town center in the city I live in. They dont need to know my actual address until I talk with payroll.
The team is thrilled to introduce the much-anticipated release of Kdenlive 24.02, featuring a substantial upgrade to our frameworks with the adoption of Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6. This significant under-the-hood transformation establishes a robust foundation, shaping the trajectory of Kdenlive for the next decade. The benefits of...
It seems every good option is paid, and all others are either discontinued (trelby, fountain) or filled with commercial and AI tools (Story Architect)...
One of the problems with Yuzu (to nintendo) was that it contained the encryption keys pulled off nintendo switches. By removing commit history you actually can permanently remove this part of the code. There might be a more clever way to do this. Thats my best guess.
Open source to some extend, but their whole thing about these emojis is that they are 3d and animated. But the repo only contains png renders if the 3d models. So you arent able to modify or animate the 3d models directly.
Imo they released enough to call it "open source" and get good PR from it without actually giving the raw source files to the community (their competitors). I was not pleased with this when they announced it 2 years ago. Its still the same.
To be fair, you're taking on a lot of new things at once. You can spin up docker containers on windows too, all while using a UI. I think it's great your exposing yourself to self hosting, linux, command line interface, and containerization all at once, but don't beat yourself up for it taking longer than expected. A lot of it takes time. I encourage you to keep trying and playing. Good luck!
Hey, just wanted to drop this here. It's a technical follow-up to The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Static Sites which was reasonably popular, and explains the components of a static site's stack.
I use zola for my sites. It's got not as many templates as hugo but my sites don't use templates and I found it very straightforward to use from scratch.
I've done project rewrites. This minimizes the problem solving to mostly just syntax, sometimes a new paradigm if the framework is different enough. But in my experience a rewrites goes so much faster than I expect it, since theres a very clear goal to achieve while rewriting. If someone has an existing project to rewrite, I recommend it. If not, you could implement some project in a framework your comfortable with, and then do a rewrite in the new thing.
I think its best to move past bluetooth, if we can. I dont think it was ever a great protocol. But things like phones can't always have dongles either, so it's necessary.
They have resolved this exact problem. There is an "experimental" cli tool that fixes a lot of your complaints about nix-env, nix-channel, etc. Itcs wrapped together with "flakes". This newer feature is a little different, and working with or without flakes segments the community AND the types of articles about nix, like this one.
As far as I know though, nixos related thing still have a bizarre set of commands, and even with flakes "nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade" is still how you switch configs.
And as far as installation goes, using nix-env -iA really is a bad practice. Thats installing something ad hoc like you would in any other package manager. That defeats the point of nixos, where your configuration file explicitly defines all the packages you need installed, and nothing else. Nix will remove any packages you didnt specify.
Here's an example of a tutorial that uses flakes and the new cli. You might glance through here to see how the syntax compares: https://zero-to-nix.com/start
I've been researching NAS and am figuring out how one can play into my current home setup. There's a lot I don't know even after researching. Best I explain to clear things up....
I've been very happy with OMV, for the short time I've been playing with it. Its FOSS and the web interface makes it very clear all the layers of abstraction you can use to manage a NAS. I highly recommend it.
And proxmox is good too, also FOSS (proxmox VE). I also has another slick web interface to manage stuff. I like the web interfaces because, albiet intimidating, it exposes alot of options available to me, which give me opportunities to research and understand how it works.
But I'm still working on getting everything with it set up, so take my suggestion with a grain of salt!
My new overnight job unfortunately comes with a mandatory 1-hour lunch break (sitting destroys my back, and I'd also rather be earning money if I have to be there anyway), so I end up looking at random shit on my phone. I forget where I saw it, but I recently got reminded of those apps that let you completely catalog your...
Programs like paperlessngx do a great job for cateloguing and indexing documents. I would like something similar for tagging personal photos and videos. But I would think the idea behind paperless would generalize relatively easy, and there would be something like paperless thats more general purpose and not just for documents.
You could technically make paperlessngx work, since you could catelogue photos, for instance. But it's not flexible in the types of tags you can assign to it.
Something like metabasebaserow, like a database client with quality of life UI features, might also work for you. You could build your own table for articles of clothing, name the tags you want, and even add images inline with each row.
EDIT: sorry, not metabase. I meant baserow⋮ baserow.io
Thanks for sharing these feature. I run pihole but knew nothing about this. As my move my implementation to new hardware I'll definitely be adding this.
His original post , titled I can’t sleep, is some brilliant writing. When we talk about the chilling effect that criticism of Israel creates in industries everywhere (including ours) this is what that looks like.
I don’t mean to undermine anything when I ask this. The article was very good, thank you sharing. I wanted to ask if circleCI made any floss software, or if paul biggar was a contributor to particular open source projects.
Appimage for me ticks all the boxes for cross distro package as its very portable, simple to run, what are devs trying to do when creating snaps and flatpack?
Can you elaborate on update system? AppImage is just a format, right? Whereas flatpak is a format and an entire toolkit for downloading and running flatpaks.
I like it for all the apps. I got a cookbook app, forms app, rss feeder app, and more. It also lers me share a link to a file easily too. I also use syncthing, mostly since I sync more data than my VPS serving nextcloud can store.
[For those who don’t know: an Interactive Fiction, or IF for short, is a console game where the user has to write down a command like “take hammer”, “open door with the key”, “go north” etc, and the game will reply with what’s happening, for example “you took the hammer and put it in your backpack”]...
I never considered there could be libraries for building these games, just assumed any game would always start from scratch. I’ve not heard of any.
I made an attempt to build my own from scratch a long time ago, and I ended up with an engine in code and a yaml file to configure everything. I wonder if there are solutions where you dont write code directly, but you write plaintext configuration files and just pump it into the game engine.
I've recently aquired the hardware to build a home server/NAS. I'd love to know some community-guided advice on tools I should consider, and what best practices are?...
Perhaps I’m guilty of good luck, but is the trade off of performance for reliability worth it? How often is reliability a problem?
As a different use case altogether, suppose I was setting up a NAS over a couple drives. Does choosing something with COW have anything to do with redundancy?
Maybe my question is, are there applications where zfs/btrfs is more or less appropriate than ext4 or even FAT?
Can you elaborate more on deduplication? Is this a feature you setup, or does it sort of work out of the box? This is a new concept to me, but sounds incredibly useful, especially in that scenario.
How do you all handle this? I’m going to start poking around with NixOS but anticipate Python dev to be impossible on the base OS, so curious what sorts of options y’all use when connecting your configured editor to a container- e.g. if I have Neovim configured in my host, is it better to re-set-up Neovim again with the same...
In my experience, you still have your same path to your nix installed binaries in the distribox container, so you shouldnt even have to duplicate your configuration. I also dont suspect python dev to be that bad so long as you use venv or conda.
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That’s been the biggest deterent from me using it over the web clients. Sorry it hasnt worked for you. Ive never had it working either, but I hear some people can do it without issue.
Dust is a rewrite of du (in rust obviously) that visualizes your directory tree and what percentage each file takes up. But it only prints as many files fit in your terminal height, so you see only the largest files. It’s been a better experience that du, which isn’t always easy to navigate to find big files (or atleast...
If you have ideas please let me know. I’m preparing to hop distros so I’m very tempted to ignore the problem, blame the old distro, and hope it doesn’t happen again :)
I came across privacy.com, a service that generates virtual credit cards, like aliases for your real credit card that can be paused or discarded at any moment....
im thinking of getting an ereader, but cant find many foss devices. i dont plan on connecting it to the internet, so i suppose it doesnt matter if its controlled by amazon right? love to hear your thoughts…
I have a Kobo Clara HD. I’ve not put a new OS on it but I’ve added custom software and sideloaded books. Its been a wonderful experience. No matter what you pick I recommend it for the eink technology.
Mind-bending new programming language for GPUs just dropped... - Code Report ( youtube.com )
https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/Bend...
Cool distros to try
I'm pretty comftable with linux mint right now but i want to peruse the wares so to speak, what are some cool or interesting distros that do things differently than mint?...
Stirling-PDF: Locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files ( github.com )
This is a robust, locally hosted web-based PDF manipulation tool using Docker. It enables you to carry out various operations on PDF files, including splitting, merging, converting, reorganizing, adding images, rotating, compressing, and more. This locally hosted web application has evolved to encompass a comprehensive set of...
Nextcloud Talk is so good
It is good for privacy but also has the nifty feature of not sucking and being reliable. It is so much better that Teams and my audio works reliability.
Got annoyed by my gym
So I joined a new gym last year and was pleasantly surprised. They gave me a smart card to get in and out, that's it, no app, no accounts, no nothing. Well, today I got to the gym and saw the announcement that they are phasing out the access with the smart card and starting to use, you guessed it, an app....
Ask: How do you handle your résumés?
Usually I rely on my network & haven’t needed this kind of document in ages, but I’ve been tasked with creating a résumé for myself. I’ve grown more privacy-conscious every year & I think it’s weird that we are expected to give out so much information about ourselves to companies that lie about their culture & don’t...
Which of these VPS providers would you recommend?
Veeble | Webdock | Milesweb | Cloudfanatic | Time4vps | Hetzner | Vpsdime | Zap-hosting...
3D Printer projects for a homelab
hey,...
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[Hyprland] My new laptop setup! ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
I posted a few weeks ago my old hyprland config. Decided to go ahead and and remake it, switching from catppuccin color scheme to tokyo night!...
Simplelogin turning to a crap :(
Hi!...
Kdenlive 24.02 video editor released ( kdenlive.org )
The team is thrilled to introduce the much-anticipated release of Kdenlive 24.02, featuring a substantial upgrade to our frameworks with the adoption of Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6. This significant under-the-hood transformation establishes a robust foundation, shaping the trajectory of Kdenlive for the next decade. The benefits of...
Looking for a script processor that's completely foss and maintained
It seems every good option is paid, and all others are either discontinued (trelby, fountain) or filled with commercial and AI tools (Story Architect)...
Yuzu will lives under new name ( github.com )
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills
I installed a few different distros, landed on Cinnamon Mint. I'm not a tech dummy, but I feel I'm in over my head....
Stacks for Simple Static Sites ( fd93.me )
Hey, just wanted to drop this here. It's a technical follow-up to The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Static Sites which was reasonably popular, and explains the components of a static site's stack.
How do you approach learning a new programming language or framework?
Can't be too careful... ( lemmy.world )
PSA: Bluetooth vulnerability and PS3 Controllers on Linux in 2024
PSA: Bluetooth vulnerability and PS3 Controllers on Linux in 2024...
After 1.5 years of learning selfhosting, this is where I'm at ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
@selfhosted...
Everything about TOML format - Orchard Dweller ( www.youtube.com )
Visualizer:...
Thanks for my free therapist session
A story telling to save me from a therapist consultation....
Good Nix OS series: five articles for new users. ( feddit.it )
I found these interesting Nix OS articles series for users that want to try it and learn first things, have a good reading!...
Suggestions for NAS (or other hardware) solution to home setup
I've been researching NAS and am figuring out how one can play into my current home setup. There's a lot I don't know even after researching. Best I explain to clear things up....
Self hosted(Docker hopefully) solutions of personal inventory tracking?
My new overnight job unfortunately comes with a mandatory 1-hour lunch break (sitting destroys my back, and I'd also rather be earning money if I have to be there anyway), so I end up looking at random shit on my phone. I forget where I saw it, but I recently got reminded of those apps that let you completely catalog your...
Your favorite linux projects for weekend
I got a minimal setup with pihole and nextcloud. I was wondering what else I could do. Share your ideas🙂
[sowm] thorns ( lemmus.org )
dotfiles (wip)
9 days after writing in defence of a Free Palestine, Paul Biggar is dropped from his director role at CircleCI ( hachyderm.io )
His original post , titled I can’t sleep, is some brilliant writing. When we talk about the chilling effect that criticism of Israel creates in industries everywhere (including ours) this is what that looks like.
Flatpack, appimage, snaps..
Appimage for me ticks all the boxes for cross distro package as its very portable, simple to run, what are devs trying to do when creating snaps and flatpack?
Kiteworks acquires ownCloud & Dracoon - Nextcloud ( nextcloud.com )
cinereus alep ( slrpnk.net )
a quick update from my post a few days back...
Any FOSS Framework currently maintained to develop interactive fictions?
[For those who don’t know: an Interactive Fiction, or IF for short, is a console game where the user has to write down a command like “take hammer”, “open door with the key”, “go north” etc, and the game will reply with what’s happening, for example “you took the hammer and put it in your backpack”]...
What guides, wikis, or megathreads are available for those new to archiving and storing data?
I've recently aquired the hardware to build a home server/NAS. I'd love to know some community-guided advice on tools I should consider, and what best practices are?...
What's with all these hip filesystems and how are they different?
You know, ZFS, ButterFS (btrfs…its actually “better” right?), and I’m sure more....
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CLI Editors with Distrobox?
How do you all handle this? I’m going to start poking around with NixOS but anticipate Python dev to be impossible on the base OS, so curious what sorts of options y’all use when connecting your configured editor to a container- e.g. if I have Neovim configured in my host, is it better to re-set-up Neovim again with the same...
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Thanks to dust I deleted a 70 gig file on my drive
Dust is a rewrite of du (in rust obviously) that visualizes your directory tree and what percentage each file takes up. But it only prints as many files fit in your terminal height, so you see only the largest files. It’s been a better experience that du, which isn’t always easy to navigate to find big files (or atleast...
Do you use virtual credit cards?
I came across privacy.com, a service that generates virtual credit cards, like aliases for your real credit card that can be paused or discarded at any moment....
thoughts on ereaders/kindles?
im thinking of getting an ereader, but cant find many foss devices. i dont plan on connecting it to the internet, so i suppose it doesnt matter if its controlled by amazon right? love to hear your thoughts…