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HawkXero , in Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its 'Minimal' Install Option
@HawkXero@lemmy.one avatar

Clickbait title… But

I think this is a good idea; giving folks, by default, more control over what is going onto to their systems. Reduces the bloat and the ISO size is definitely useful in certain situations. Power of choice to the users!

saba , (edited ) in Good dumb TV for my living room media center?

i searched for 55 inch dumb tv on amazon and found this: www.amazon.com/…/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?crid=3CGW6YLKH5VB…

not sure how much you’re wanting to pay, but this doesn’t sound too bad. I’m looking to upgrade soon myself. I have a 40 inch dumb 1080 Element TV. It works well still, but wanting bigger and 4k. I’ll probably move the one i currently have to my son’s room.

edit: there are some better deals I think. That was just one of the first links. It’s only 60hz, you might find one that’s 120hz for not much more.

TCB13 , in Chinese distro (OpenKylin) made to provide independence from western technologies releses its first stable version
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

At least, unlike GNOME, they got the font rendering, the spacing across icons and the desktop icons right. lol

MisterDigital , in Drive (s) wrecked?

Have you tried it with a different enclosure or directly connected to your PC? My last two “faulty” HDDs actually just had a faulty controller in the enclosure. Drives were fine.

waspentalive OP ,

This enclosure was working up till when I stopped a dd to try something faster.

BrownianMotion , in Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its 'Minimal' Install Option
@BrownianMotion@lemmy.world avatar

Until we see what this actually means, it’s just speculation.

But I will say this, I dropped Ubuntu when they forced snaps on me, I only needed super slim server installs that I could make into what I needed. As a result this actually doesn’t mean much to me, other than its clear that Ubuntu has been making bad decisions in the last few years.

However, If I couldn’t install a minimal desktop with no apps like libreoffice, firefox and a bunch of stupid games, I would be pissed right off.

inasaba , in Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its 'Minimal' Install Option

Oh no, but I always use this… :(

TCB13 , in RustDesk (Open source TeamViewer / Citrix alternative) 1.2.0 released
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

One more version without the obvious UPnP. At this point I think they’re not implementing UPnP in order to somehow profit from the lack of it in the future. Who on their right minds wants all traffic going over a server when in most cases you can simply use UPnP? This makes no sense.

packetloss ,
@packetloss@lemmy.world avatar

Also yet another version with the address book not implemented, but I bet the sign in button is still on the client to continue to confuse new users. Almost 2 years that button has been there to do nothing.

TCB13 ,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar
  • the inability to deploy to macOS with a custom server (they allow this for Windows with a renamed executable). rustdesk.com/docs/en/self-host/install/-confi…
LucidDaemon , in Share your favorite Linux Desktop Environment

Sway or GNOME (Wayland) with Pop shell extension.

lynny , in Drive (s) wrecked?
@lynny@lemmy.world avatar

Try in another computer if you have one. The fact dd is limiting you to 5GB though doesn’t sound good, not going to lie.

waspentalive OP ,

I do not have another available, nor do I have an internal SATA slot available.

warmaster , in Do any modern desktop environments support a grid layout of virtual desktops?
guigs44 , in Drive (s) wrecked?

Have you checked SMART?

waspentalive OP ,
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Device Model:     WDC WD20EZRX-00D8PB0
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Local Time is:    Fri Jul  7 04:43:34 2023 PDT
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">SMART support is: Enabled
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Total time to complete Offline 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">data collection:                (27360) seconds.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Offline data collection
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">                                        Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                                        Suspend Offline collection upon new
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                                        command.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                                        Offline surface scan supported.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                                        Self-test supported.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                                        Conveyance Self-test supported.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                                        power-saving mode.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                                        General Purpose Logging supported.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">recommended polling time:        ( 276) minutes.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Conveyance self-test routine
</span><span style="color:#323232;">recommended polling time:        (   5) minutes.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">SCT capabilities:              (0x7035) SCT Status supported.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                                        SCT Feature Control supported.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                                        SCT Data Table supported.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   089   089   000    Old_age   Always       -       8602
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   097   097   000    Old_age   Always       -       3624
</span><span style="color:#323232;">192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       100
</span><span style="color:#323232;">193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   088   088   000    Old_age   Always       -       338427
</span><span style="color:#323232;">194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   119   104   000    Old_age   Always       -       28
</span><span style="color:#323232;">196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">SMART Error Log Version: 1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">No Errors Logged
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      8602         -
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    1        0        0  Not_testing
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    2        0        0  Not_testing
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    3        0        0  Not_testing
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    4        0        0  Not_testing
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    5        0        0  Not_testing
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Selective self-test flags (0x0):
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
</span>
Azrael , in Do any modern desktop environments support a grid layout of virtual desktops?

@mikegioia kde and xfce support it natively. For gnome you have the material shell extension that brings a similar experience
light wm does not necessarily provide layout out of the box, but it may be scriptable

mikegioia OP ,
@mikegioia@lemmy.ml avatar

Thank you so much! I’m going to try those first two today. Appreciate it!

pglpm , (edited )
@pglpm@lemmy.ca avatar

Confirming: KDE/Plasma has it natively. You can configure number of rows and columns, whether movement should be cyclic or not, and shortcuts to change desktop and to bring windows to other desktops. You can create and remove new virtual desktops on the spot by right-clicking the tray icon. Also shortcuts to get an overview of all desktops at once.

KDE also has a slightly different way of separating workspaces: “Activities” (which can co-exists with virtual desktops); although I don’t use it.

Sleep4288 ,

I have shortcuts to move to a desktop dx sx up dw, and i use activities to separate in the third dimension.

I have 2 monitors, and i use a grid 5x4. Activities are used to separate home / work.

I also use bismuth for tiling, so each desktop generally have only one window in it.

ThreeHalflings , (edited ) in How to create a sandbox folder, restricting write access to all files contained in it to that folder itself?

The old answer is a chroot jail, the new answer is a Docker container or VM if Docker won’t cut it.

I’m lazy, so Virtualbox is my VM software of choice. I keep a machine with a fresh debian install and just Clone it to make throwaway VMs.

Keep in mind that malicious software on a VM might be isolated from the host in many ways, but if it’s allowed to communicate on your network then it can still be dangerous, especially if you have samba shares, or services you don’t expose to the outside internet with weak or default passwords. (Did you change the admin password on your router’s Web interface?)

Creating a VM with no network interfaces is “mostly safe”, but you hear about VM bust out exploits now and then.

In reality, gold standard is a separate physical computer with no network connections to anything but other untrusted physical computers, and no wireless adapters (Bluetooth or WiFi). This is an “air gapped” network, but if you’re dealing with shit that makes you want an air gap, either you already know more than you’re gonna learn on Lemmy, or you’re bout to get your door kicked in by men in black suits :D

ThreeHalflings ,

Also worth saying 99.9% of air gap failures are due to some idiot getting lazy with a usb stick or a phone. They’re a bitch to work with.

(Another 0.09% are someone plugging the wrong cord into the wrong switch by accident or stupidity)

pglpm , in Is there a clipboard manager with killring-like functionality?
@pglpm@lemmy.world avatar

If you right-click on the Klipper tray icon, select “Configure…” and then “Shortcuts”, you can assign shortcuts to move back and forth in the kill ring, and to paste. I have assigned S-v for backwards and S-C-v for forward. Then the usual C-v will paste. The tray icon also shows you the current selection (and the ones above and below) in the killring, as you move through it.

eyolf OP ,

That’s more or less what I do, but it’s not quite killring’y. The workflow I’m looking for is: paste as usual with ctlr-v, then press some shortcut to replace the pasted with the previous item in the “ring”, without having to go through the backwards process of first enabling klipper, then choosing item, and only then entering it.

But I’ll play around with it some more and see what I figure out.

pglpm ,
@pglpm@lemmy.world avatar

Gotcha. Yes, haven’t found anything that allows that specifically. But in my case I don’t need to enable klipper; it’s always active. No matter which windows I’m in, pressing C-v will paste whatever it’s in the clipboard; whereas pressing e.g. S-v C-v will choose the previous item in the clipboard and then paste it.

pglpm ,
@pglpm@lemmy.world avatar

PS: there’s also another functionality of Klipper that I use from time to time: you can make the whole “killring” appear, and choose the entry you want to paste with the mouse: as you click it it’s entered. This is also bound to a key (in my case S-w) and works no matter which window I’m in.

eyolf OP ,

Which functionality is that? I haven’t found anything that enters the selected item directly, without having to C-v it afterwards. Besides, the mouse is a thing I want to avoid… I played around with some other functions, however, and I found out that cycling through the history items works fairly well for me.

pglpm , (edited )
@pglpm@lemmy.ca avatar

For the list of all clipboard items, ready to be chosen: Klipper tray icon, right-click → Configure clipboard → Shortcuts→ “Open Klipper at Mouse Position”. You can choose from the list either with the up/down keys, or with the mouse.

Klipper’s item-cycling doesn’t require more keystrokes than Emac’s. For example, what I achieve in Emacs with C-y M-y M-y I achieve with Klipper with H-v H-v C-v (no need to operate with the mouse). H is the “hyper” or “super” key – but the keys are fully customizable.

pglpm ,
@pglpm@lemmy.ca avatar

PS: actually with Klipper I can go back and forth in the clipboard history too. I don’t know if this is possible in Emacs. For example, if I go back two history steps, and then realize that I went too far by one step, I’d type H-v H-v H-C-v C-v. The H-C-v is “undoing” the last H-v.

nyan , in Share your favorite Linux Desktop Environment

TDE (for those who haven’t encountered it before, the Trinity Desktop Environment forked from KDE3 more than a decade ago). It might not be the flashiest or the newest, but it has a decent selection of features and applications, and presents a traditional desktop environment whose interface doesn’t get changed for the sake of change. In other words, it stays out of the way and lets me get things done.

(If I’d liked Gnome 2 better than KDE 3 rather than vice-versa, I probably would have gone for MATE instead.)

Audacity9961 ,

Correct me if i’m wrong but doesn’t TDE depend on the undermaintained qt3?

nyan ,

The TDE crew have also taken on responsibility for maintaining TQT (formerly QT3). If you’re aware of any open bugs, go ahead and file them to the TQT3 repo on TDE’s Gitea and someone will have a look.

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