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Just tried Pop!_OS with it COSMIC Alpha 4 even there is lot of wrapped GTK applications yet, and UI looks raw a bit, seems finally found new perspective desktop environment for myself!
💬 1 like · Dec 15 · 2 days ago
I Hate Gnome — A recent post about a Gemini browser built with libadwaita got me curious and I wish it hadn't. Every time I look at the tech under Gnome it makes me vomit a little, so I don't. But then time goes by and I forget. Then I look again and I vomit yet again. Gtk is just a terrible monstrosity, a Frankensteinian monster with bizzare bolted on object model that clearly stinks, and a weird xml layer to describe GUI objects what we used to call "controls", and some weird html/css like...
💬 13 comments · Nov 22 · 4 weeks ago
tags by using xattr. first of all, why tags? did you try to organize a book or music or movie collection in a file system? what directories to create? sort by country? language? director? with tags you can even tag as directors: woody allen and actors: woody allen. i have been written this tool: [https link] it currently only works on linux, the dependency it requires, [https link] has only linux implementation. but it is possible to add implementations for bsds, illumos, macos. you can...
💬 6 comments · 2 likes · Oct 03 · 2 months ago
Well, I botched my system trying to upgrade from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 ahead of release schedule and at this fork in the road I decided to back up the disk then flash a new OS on it. This is raising all sorts of questions like, Which OS should I run and What does my data backup/restore strategy look like? I could have spent time troubleshooting the system, fiddling with config files and reading log files. But I'll be honest, part of me wanted a fresh start. Since I started this draft, I've...
💬 9 comments · 1 like · Aug 31 · 4 months ago
Debian upgrade...to bullseye — Today I learned there hasn't been security updates for buster since June 😮 so I urgently upgraded my server, which was a bit risky to do in the evening - I might have ended up all night trying to fix it... Main thing I was worried about was my mail server (dovecot + postfix), as that's not stuff I know off the top of my head, but thankfully that part of the setup had no issues ! My php websites didn't come back - but all I had to do was install lib-apache2-mod-...
💬 1 comment · 3 likes · Aug 11 · 4 months ago
I am thinking about going terminal only. however I don't know how could I achieve it since I need some GUI apps for work and university. for IRC I could use weechat which would work fine but what about youtube,telegram,github? there is no way I could use them inside terminal. but what I could do is use as much terminal as I can!
💬 22 comments · 8 likes · Jul 17 · 5 months ago
Linux-time 0x66666666 approaching fast! — Looking at Spellbinding log, yikes! The dreaded timestamp corresponds to: June 10, 2024, at 02:35:18 (UTC) Take appropriate measures - garlic, salt, break glass, sprinkle holy water, whatever, to ward off Satan. You've been warned.
💬 7 comments · 5 likes · Jun 09 · 6 months ago
Favorite command/program? — does anyone else have a command they like using the most? for me, its btop just because it works really well as a screensaver and saves me a ton of time.
💬 14 comments · 2 likes · May 30 · 7 months ago
Recommended email client — Thunderbird is getting on my nerves recently. It tries to be helpful when I’m composing a plain text email and in result it completely breaks my formatting. Update after update I need to fish for some hidden config to disable a yet-another feature which tries to be smarter than me. And now it started crashing… And crashed twice when I tried to write one email… In plain text… I don’t want email client which fails at managing emails but tries to be everything (IRC...
💬 14 comments · 3 likes · May 28 · 7 months ago
The Teensy Files: a collection of programs and writeups on creating the smallest possible Linux ELF executables. [https link]
💬 2 likes · May 17 · 7 months ago
quallcom snapdragon x elite mainlining — thats the chipset in lenovo yoga c 630, lenovo flex 5g, lenovo thinkpad x13s.
💬 5 comments · May 14 · 7 months ago
TSAC: Very Low Bitrate Audio Compression — from fabrice bellard.
💬 2 comments · 2 likes · Apr 12 · 8 months ago
Various symbols in the 3rd level and up — There is a feature in Linux that allows you to enter various Unicode symbols by typing level 3 key + letter or level 5 key + letter (possibly with shift also held). DEs usually have an option to turn on additional typography characters or Unicode arrows on numpad this way. That wasn’t enough for me, so I made my own, err, table or whatever files in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols are called. It has superscript and subscript digits, Esperanto letters,...
💬 View post · Mar 25 · 9 months ago · #symbols #Unicode #XKB
So, I tried to fumble a little with Linux syscalls and tried to implement a program that restarts the computer. [preformatted] After a quick, successful test, I checked how others implement the reboot. To my surprise, busybox tries to send a signal to init instead of using the reboot syscall, like I did. This makes me wonder, why that is.
💬 4 comments · 1 like · Mar 05 · 9 months ago
Void Linux! So far so good! — I've become a distrohopper in spite of myself. And so I blew away Alpine and installed Void, which, so far, is great. Installing it was actually a lot easier than getting Alpine from barebones to XFCE. I had to rerun the ncurses-based installer a couple of times because of some disk partitioning confusion, but it was about 30 minutes from nothing to LibreWolf and Lagrange working. I don't know if it's really more minimal than Xubuntu, but at least it's a...
💬 6 comments · 3 likes · Jan 22 · 11 months ago
Alpine: No tor-browser? No librewolf? — The honeymoon is over. I tried to install librewolf, my go-to browser with no telemetry, but could not get it to work, even with libc-6 compatibility apk installed. Next I tried to install tor browser. There is a tor package which ran once, but apparently it is just the transport, no browser, which is a serious security problem. And after a ctrl-c, I was unable to restart tor at all. All of it is weird: I know Firefox is a bit weird with libc, but...
💬 9 comments · Jan 22 · 11 months ago
Alpine Linux it is... — Well, I moved my main machine to Alpine Linux. I installed XFCE for now, to get a better sense of it. Alpine seems to not automount USB drives, which was something that annoyed me to no end with FreeBSD... Maybe there is a way to do it, as I have a stack of backup drives that I need to work on... I botched the XFCE install a little by screwing around with X a bit, so the login screen flashes for a second and disappears... It's still there and I can log in, but I can't...
💬 13 comments · Jan 22 · 11 months ago
Ubuntu Pro: WTF? — I've been using XUbuntu for over a decade now, I think... Mostly OK, my main complaint was that it's getting bigger than I am comfortable with - way too many processes running that I cannot explain, etc... But it appears that it is hoding back released updates of opensource software unless I pay them, or at least register (why?) as an individual. I think it's time for me to go to a simpler distro that is not collecting personal information.
💬 16 comments · 2 likes · Jan 19 · 11 months ago
Wanted: a step up from dwm... — I am looking to upgrade from dwm to something a little bit easier to configure. I love dwm, and am generally happy with it. But I need a little more flexibility -- just a little. Maybe different kind of layouts in different windows (or tags or whatever). And while I am fluent in C, I find the way configuration works clumsy and hard to maintain, especially when patches are involved. However, it seems that every time I look at other tiling wms, they instantly...
💬 12 comments · Jan 11 · 11 months ago
Experiment: /etc/ in Git — I’ve read about NixOS and I like the idea of putting OS configuration in Git. But I’m not sold for the package management of NixOS, it seems like kind of wrapper for traditional Linux? I’m not fan of wrappers as they usually are lacking some functionality of wrapped environment or simplify things too much and lacks flexibility in result. But is there anything preventing me from creating Git repository for whole /etc/? I’ve decided to test it on my Arch machine. The...
💬 7 comments · 1 like · Jan 09 · 11 months ago
Linux Foundation now spends only 2% of their revenue on Linux. The Linux Foundation has released their 2023 Annual Report... and it is an absolute doozy. The first big headline? As of 2023, The Linux Foundation now spends just 2% -- that's two percent -- of their revenue on their namesake: The Linux Kernel. "Ask yourself this: If there is a foundation named after a specific thing... what percentage of that foundation's revenue would you expect to be spent on said thing? Let's say... "Save...
💬 7 comments · 3 likes · 2023-12-28 · 1 year ago
Suggestions for Trinity Desktop — I am planning to reinstall the OS on my ThinkPad T400, and I'd like to try using the Trinity desktop environment. Can you suggest some distributions that work well with TDE?
💬 3 comments · 1 like · 2023-12-11 · 1 year ago
Pinebook Pro — Background: I've been a desktop Linux user for the past 10+ years. I've had an ARM Chromebook for the last 6. My Chromebook is basically just a web browser/ssh terminal with a keyboard attached, I don't use it for anything else. I'm thinking about replacing the Chromebook with a pinebook Pro, mostly in anticipation of chrome not allowing adblockers anymore, but also as part of a longer term goal of degoogling my life. Does anyone have any experience with the pinebook? My main...
💬 15 comments · 1 like · 2023-12-03 · 1 year ago
Newsboat RSS reader acting weird — Hi there! Any Newsboat users here? I'm trying to force myself to learn how to use the Terminal, and Newsboat is the first app I installed... But there's a command that doesn't seem to work... Hitting Shift + E is supposed to open the urls file in a text editor, but nothing happens... As I'm very new to all of this, I have no idea what I should be looking for in order to fix this... Any ideas please? I'm on an Ubuntu based machine... Thank you in advance....
💬 13 comments · 2023-11-04 · 1 year ago
Fedora SilverBlue first try — I spent some time trying out Fedora SilverBlue today. That is a version of Fedora the has an immutable system install. You install apps on top of the system as Flatpaks or containers so you aren't modifying the base system itself. I had installed it on a Zima Board PC which has a lower powered Celeron with 8GB RAM. I did this last month, so when I fired it up again today there was a system update available. I ran the upgrade via command line and it went well,...
💬 1 comment · 2 likes · 2023-10-07 · 1 year ago
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