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Edit: I’ve made an account here on lemmy.ml as I routinely can’t comment or post from my account on lemmy.world....

Hello, not sure if this is the right place, but here goes. I’m currently involved in automating a wastewater treatment process using a PLC. I’m in need of a SCADA system to control equipment, visualize data, and monitor each step of the process....

What do package managers do? Install packages, obviously! But that is not everything. In my opinion, package managers do enough to be characterized as general automation frameworks. For example:...

Edit: Fixed by this comment: lemm.ee/comment/8626267 Thanks!...

Followup to why you should switch to Nobara Linux. Also, some scripts I’ve compiled for distro hopping the fedora flavors.

Thanks to @redcalcium for providing a better link. This post originally linked to tomshardware.

Does anybody know why dbus exists? I’ve been wracking my brain trying to come up with a usecase for dbus that isn’t already covered by Unix sockets....

hi, I’ve been pretty happy with macOS recently on my m1 MacBook, really only because I’ve been paying for software from awesome devs who make great apps (plenty are open source, so most I use are not paid) and I’ve found my productivity increase like a lot....

I used to think I found the perfect, stable, boring system with Debian + KDE Plasma....

Notable changes:...

I understand they are important and are what makes linux relatively secure compared to windows....

I have this laptop getting tired sitting in a drawer and asks me to work 🤪...

Something ive been wanting for a while is a highly portable linux device like a phone or small tablet but obviously running fully flegde linux....

Is Termius the only cross platform emulator that includes Android as one of the platforms? It is quite good, in my limited experience, but too expensive for a hobbiest. I like that I can use my Linux desktop, MacOS laptop, and Android tablet/phone and the UX is the same across them all. The sync (trial for free, then charge) is...

This was written about 8 years ago. Do you feel the Linux landscape has objectively improved? Why? Why not?

The Register www.theregister.com/…/richard_stallman_cancer/ #GNU #Linux

Hello. I’ve been a window user from win95. I’d like to learn more about Linux but don’t know where to start. I had a brief intro when I was in highschool and recently I’ve been seeing more and more talk here on Lemmy. Mostly memes....

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Not that it’s bad. For me, it’s actually very useful, I just find it mildly amusing that an app for managing AppImages is packaged as a Flatpak, despite the two formats being widely known as competitors*....