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B20bob , in Liftoff! - šŸ’ A mobile client for Lemmy (Android/iOS/Windows/Linux)
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Iā€™ve tried just about all of the current apps that are available for lemmy over the last two days and so far liftoff feels the most like a usable app to me. To ve fair, I know that a lot of rhe apps I tried are still in alpha or beta, so Iā€™m not trying to talk bad about them, I get it. Liftoff is pretty good though.

PCChipsM922U ,
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Yep, agreed. Just tried it, and if it wasnā€™t for the Subscribed feed not loading bug, Iā€™d use this instead of Jerboa.

zachatrocity ,
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Which bug is that? I havenā€™t seen that in the issue tracker, could you share details and Iā€™ll prioritize that.

PCChipsM922U ,
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The Subscribed feed is showing up empty. Other settings regarding the feed work fine, but the Subscribed feed is broken. Also, replies showing up as double replies, one below the other, once you reply to a post.

And you could make the search menu a bit moreā€¦ friendly. Currently you have to add instances in order to search for communities in them. Not practical at all, there are hundreds of instances, if I had to add each one in order to search in them, that will just take way too long. Why not have instance and communities auto-discoverable, like in Jerboa (type in search the community youā€™re lookimg for, results pop up).

zachatrocity ,
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About the search menuā€¦ unless Iā€™m mis understanding thatā€™s just how Lemmy works. You have to be subscribed or at least have search for a community outside of your instance before you can interact with it within your instance.

PCChipsM922U ,
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Actually, no. If at least one user from your instance has subscribed to a community of another instance, that other instanceā€™s communities show up in your search results (they are federated)ā€¦ at least that is how it should work 100% of the time, but it doesnā€™t. In most cases, it doesnā€™t actually show all of the communities that would show up during a search, meaning the web UI would return a lot more results.

The method youā€™re using is actually a safe bet: specify the instaceā€™s URL and donā€™t have to rely on whether that specific instance is federated with my instance, just search for communities there as well. That approach is easier if you actually have a link to the community which youā€™d like to add and the instance on which it resides. But, if you have no idea on what instance that community might reside, itā€™s easier to actually seach for it via the web UI, which I hoped would be implemented in an app sooner or later (having relevant results I mean).

zachatrocity ,
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Yeah Iā€™m wanting to implement that into liftoff. Thatā€™s the main feature Iā€™ve been wanting in apps.

To clarify this app is a resurrection of an abandoned Lemmy app, when this app was active Lemmy was not as popular and we didnā€™t have massive instances like Lemmy world. Working through this is a fun challenge but itā€™s also a user experience challenge. What instance are you having issues with?

OldFartPhil , in Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams
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This seems like a golden opportunity for distros like Suse and Ubuntu, who offer enterprise support for their free product, to poach some RHEL customers.

AgreeableLandscape OP ,
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I wish Olā€™ Debian would get the love it deserves, especially for enterprise where their ā€œstability over the latest flashiest softwareā€ philosophy should really shine. People on the desktop side criticizing how slowly Debian packages update is generally responded with ā€œwell itā€™s a server OS first and foremost, the Debian derivatives are more suited for desktop,ā€ so why does no one use Debian for servers? And as far as I know Debian has always prioritized stability and reliability above anything else, and have never pulled any sort of corporate antics even close to what Canonical and Red Hat have pulled.

this_is_router ,
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Iā€™m using it. Almost 200 servers at work. No problems whatsoever. I almost smile reading news like this, because it shows me I did the right thing betting on debian

vanderbilt , in Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams
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I literally just got Rocky installed on two servers. We were going to field test before migrating to a paid subscription. That sure as hell isnā€™t happening now. If IBM cannot help but to bite the hand that fed it, then I have little confidence they arenā€™t going to turn into another Oracle.

Laser ,

If IBM cannot help but to bite the hand that fed it

Which hand was feeding them and how are they biting it?

Idc about IBM but the saying makes little sense to me here. Itā€™s not like Ubuntu annoying Debian which at one point was their upstream. They find upstream up to fedora and beyond.

If anything, Distros like Alma and Rocky bite the hand that feeds them by offering paid support contracts. Nothing is illegal about that. But I think the saying fits the reverse better.

vanderbilt ,
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You make a good point. I imagine RedHat is doing this less because of Rocky/Alma, and more so because of Oracle.

Mars7x , in Moving away from RHEL based distros, whats good ?
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I havenā€™t been keeping up, what happened?

pezhore ,
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www.jeffgeerling.com/ā€¦/dear-red-hat-are-you-dumb

TL;DR - RedHat is going to wall off all their code/packages behind a paywall meaning the only way to use RedHat is with a paid subscription.

Mars7x ,
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Well that sucks.

Do you know if they will still contribute upstream?

shreddy_scientist ,
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Based on my understanding, Fedora will be unaffected but Rocky & Alma are in some hot water along with Scientific Linux. RHEL is based on Fedora while the others are based on RHEL.

ema_sideproject , in Moving away from RHEL based distros, whats good ?
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You canā€™t go wrong with Debian

VE3VVS , in NixOS is Mindblowing by Chris Titus
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Just because Iā€™m interested in the hole NixOS thing, I was wondering how much difference there is between NixOS and Guix, I know Iā€™ve spun both up in a VM and while they are similar, Guix is different enough that I canā€™t find the main config file. So can someone give me a quick description of the difference?

choroalp ,

Guix is NIx but its configured in Lisp.

MentalEdge , in Liftoff! - šŸ’ A mobile client for Lemmy (Android/iOS/Windows/Linux)
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Looks like this is a combination of lemmynade and limbo? Which were both forks of Lemmur.

lemmy.world/c/liftoff

Fizz , in Desktop environment Ram consumption: Cinnamon, Gnome, KDE, Mate, LXDE, LXQT
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I want me de using ram to make everything smoother and load faster. Ram is there to be used.

Mereo , in KDE Social - Friendly lemmy instance for the KDE community

Woohoo! I hope a lot of FOSS project have their own Lemmy/Kbin instance. Reddit, a capitalist platform, is no place for them.

PainInTheAES ,

Klemmy/Kbin lol

20gramsWrench , in Desktop environment Ram consumption: Cinnamon, Gnome, KDE, Mate, LXDE, LXQT

I wish there was a better way to judge the lightness of full desktop environements than just ram consumption, because speed and smoothness can vary greatly regardless of ram, so we know whether of not it runs well on shitty laptop, lxqt being no faster than xfce in my experience is pretty telling of that

M_Reimer , in Gentoo-based distros

Isnā€™t Gentoo all about compiling everything?

Maybe you should search for some rolling release distribution. Iā€™m using Arch since many years and am quite happy with it. You rarely have to build anything yourself. Only if you have to use the AUR.

Mereo ,

I second this. It sounds that you want a rolling release distro. Suse Tumbleweed is also a good choice.

Krafting , in Immutable Operating Systems: Yay or Nay?
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In my opinion: Yay for people not tech savy, so they canā€™t bork their system, and it prevent most malware to do damages. Or for special devices, like the Steam Deck!

Nay for thinkerer like me, if I want to uninstall the boot loader, I need the option!!

simple , in Is the out-of-the-box quality of desktop-focused Linux distros declining recently?
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  • Kaldo ,
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    Linux Mint is also good, but it does feel a little outdated.

    Just aesthetics or do you mean from the technical side?

    simple ,
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    Mostly aesthetically, but also since Linux Mint is a very stable distro updates are usually slow and the packages it uses are often a little outdated. If you're the type of person to want to update to the newest thing as soon as it's out, then it's probably not for you.

    erik1984 , in On Monday morning we (Mozilla) detected a very large crash spike affecting Firefox users on Linux, specifically on an older version of a Debian-based distribution
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    Nice to see a good example of telemetry use

    ono , in On Monday morning we (Mozilla) detected a very large crash spike affecting Firefox users on Linux, specifically on an older version of a Debian-based distribution

    Highlights:

    The crash started apparently out-of-the-blue, hitting thousands of Argentinian users on a Debian-based distro called Huayra, and specifically on version 5 which was based on Debian 10.

    Everybody seemed to crash while searching for images on Google.

    Googleā€™s code was allocating 20000 variables in a single frame.

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