Gecko

Gecko , 26 days ago

Aren’t AppImages still limited to Xorg?

Also there’s no centralised update mechanism or dependency deduplication, no?

Gecko , 26 days ago

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Without the traditional distribution workflow […]

You are aware that the xz exploit made it into Debian Testing and Fedora 40 despite the traditional distribution workflows? Distro maintainers are not a silver bullet when it comes to security. They have to watch hundreds to thousands of packages so having them do security checks for each package is simply not feasible.

Gecko , 6 months ago

I wonder if that means it could be combined with DXVK to enable support on older DirectX versions as well. ^^

Gecko , 6 months ago

As someone who owns a PinePhone I can tell you that a lot more work needs to be done first. postmarketOS is ok but being Alpine based means you have to forever deal with all the issues that come with it including its primitive package manager. And mobian also kept breaking ever other half a year or so requiring manual config changes etc.

What we need IMO, is a more reliable spin like Fedora, maybe even something immutable like Silverblue to ensure the stability required for a daily driver device while also being quick to deploy the latest versions of releases.

There’s also the whole app ecosystem aspect but between advances in Waydroid and convergent GTK apps, I’m more concerned about the underlying base OS than the app ecosystem ^^

Gecko , 6 months ago

I wish something like .config would be a thing for storing configuration files in repositories. Instead we have a .vscode, .github, .gitlab, .idea, .vs, etc

Gecko , 6 months ago

Not to be that person but I’m curious what made you go with AppImage over Flatpak, given that you already mentioned using the Flatpak as an alternative ^^"

Gecko , 6 months ago

The easiest way to block an auto-upgrade to Win11 is to just disable TPM in the BIOS. That way Windows will see the PC as not Win11 compatible and not perform the upgrade.

Gecko , 7 months ago

YAML would such a nice language for config files but then it turns out that “no” is falsy and so a list of Scandinavian countries turns from

• se
• fi
• no

into

• "se"
• "fi"
• False

I wish there was like a JSON5 equivalent for YAML that just reduces its scope lol
(and no, TOML also looks ugly :P)

Gecko , 7 months ago

Looks interesting, I’ll check it out, thanks :D

Gecko , 7 months ago

They already use GitHub for a bunch of other projects. See github.com/mozilla/ and github.com/mozilla-mobile/

Gecko , 9 months ago

The linked message is from 2019, i.e. per-M1 Apple laptops and at a time when arm in datacenter was just starting out.

Tbh, I feel like it’s kinda pointless to discuss a comment made by someone over 4-years ago. Both the environment and the person itself can change a lot in that time.

Gecko , 9 months ago

Or just use long-forms like

<span style="color:#323232;">tar --create --file pics.tar ./pics
</span>

instead of

<span style="color:#323232;">tar -cf pics.tar ./pics
</span>

or

<span style="color:#323232;">tar --extract --file pics.tar```
</span><span style="color:#323232;">instead of
</span>

tar -xf pics.tar

<span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">which is honestly way easier to remember... ^^
</span>

Gecko , 9 months ago

So basically it’s just another GNOME release gotcha.

AFAIK, the extension developer needs to explicitly set each version of Gnome they support. Even when the Gnome version doesn’t have any breaking changes, the extension developer still needs to update their extension to enable their extension for the new Gnome version.

Gecko , 9 months ago

On that note, screen sharing worked just fine for me on Wayland Fedora 38 with Zoom Flatpak.

Gecko , 9 months ago

Convenience for end-users and avoiding link rot is probably one of the reasons.

Gecko , 9 months ago

So far, Fedora has been rock solid for me ^^

Gecko , 10 months ago

“X post” kinda also refers to “crosspost”. I’d suggest to instead use “Twitter/X post”. Otherwise, keep up the great work <3

Gecko , 10 months ago

As someone running a Framework 13 with Fedora 38 with 1.5 fractional scaling using Wayland I cannot say I experienced the same issue. Everything kinda just worked out of the box.

Personally I couldn’t go back from HiDPI screens. The lower resolution just makes stuff look blurry IMO.

Gecko , 10 months ago

I just really dislike the whole left/right tribalism. Politics is a lot more complex than left/right and just marking someone as either just increases polarisation…

Gecko , 10 months ago

yeah, tunneling into your local network and then calling WoL from there is the way to go.

Gecko , 10 months ago

Fedora has a KDE spin and gets some updates faster than even Arch (e.g. new Gnome releases) while also being considered stable. Heck even the the Asahi Linux project switched from Arch to Fedora as a base recently.

If you really need something from the AUR you can just use distrobox to generate an arch container and install the AUR package in there. You can then export it from distrobox to your application list with a single comment so that the fact that it’s running inside distrobox becomes completely transparent.

That way you have a stable but up-to-date base while also still having access to AUR.

That being said, in my 7 years on Linux I never needed something that was only accessible in AUR but maybe that’s just me ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Gecko , 10 months ago

Yup, this. Started update via Gnome Software, walked away from my laptop to make some coffee, restarted when I came back and it was done. ^^

Gecko , 10 months ago

Been using the PoC extension for a few days now and I’m absolutely in love with it <3

Gecko , 10 months ago

Note that the people behind the Asahi don’t yet recommend getting a MacBook for the sole reason of running Asahi on it.

Gecko , 10 months ago

ngl, I’m annoyed whenever someone creates an application but doesn’t want to publish their code cause it looks bad. Like no one cares that your code is bad and by publishing it, you can get others to help you improve it.

Gecko , 10 months ago

This. And even then there should be procedures in place to essentially make it impossible to send the wrong inputs.

It’s like when an intern accidentally drops the production database. It’s not the interns fault for sending the wrong command. It’s the managements fault for not restricting access in the first place.

Gecko , 10 months ago

Not selfhosted but I think Pocket also falls into that category of service.

Gecko , 10 months ago

Also, you can just download an older version of the toolchain and use that to compile the project. If the project is properly setup it’ll tell you the toolchain version it used. If not you can probably guess by the time of the last commit ^^

Gecko , 11 months ago

I can only hope that governments finally take that as hint to explore other platforms (Mastodon hint hint) for their public service announcements.

Gecko , 11 months ago

This. I hate the whole left/right tribalism.

Like I know that it can be used to get a rough idea of what political motivations someone might have and I know that where my own ideologies would mostly fall in that inaccurate one-dimensional linear spectrum but ultimately it is too inaccurate to use it to classify everyone’s political motivation.

Worse it creates a whole us-vs-them divide. “Oh you aren’t right, when then you must be a commie”. “Oh you aren’t left, then you must be a fascist”. So you might consider yourself in a different position on a political spectrum and just see the differences to someone on the other end of a political spectrum even though you might have more in common then you think. Heck, if you are on complete opposite ends you might even have more in common then you think.

Ultimately, the focus should be less on left/right and more on individual policies. Like should healthcare be public or privatized, should be build another road or another train track here, etc

Why does political debate always have to turn into this tribalistic mud fight instead of proper discussion on how to best address the needs of citizens?

Gecko , 11 months ago

This article is kinda misleading. Nearly 40% of Linux devices is the Steam Deck which is AMD only. Subtracting the Steam Deck AMD usage on Linux more or less matches that on Windows.

See the Steam hardware survey for the numbers that this blog spam article is reporting on: store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/?platform=linux

Gecko , 11 months ago

Yup, 40% of that AMD share is the Steam Deck.

Gecko , 11 months ago

Opt-out helps you capture the group of users that simply do not care about telemetry.

As someone who recently started developing an open-source GUI application for a few thousand users I cannot stress enough how instrumental telemetry has been in fixing a variety of crashes.

Gecko , 11 months ago

Why would you want to show all information stored on the frontend?

I’m gonna start out by saying that I don’t know how lemmy’s federation code works. So if I host another instance and federate do I only see the upvote count or also who upvoted? Cause if the only person that can see the count is the admin of the instance the user belongs to, then there’s no need to show it in the frontend. If however all you need to do to see upvote count of all lemmy users, is to host your own lemmy instance, then there should be an easy way to also access that information in the front end to indicate to the user that what they up/down vote is in fact not private.

So for me whether up/down voting is private is less of an issue as long as it’s clearly communicated. Again if only the instance admin the user is part of can see the count, then that’s essentially “private” as you are trusting that entity already ^^

Gecko , 11 months ago

However, I don’t fully understand this part:

there should be an easy way to also access that information in the front end to indicate to the user that what they up/down vote is in fact not private.

But it’s true that my brain today doesn’t really want to work. You mean by some kind of API call can reveal these information?

Basically what I meant is some way for the user to see who up/down voted what. Maybe hovering the up/down vote button shows a field you can click on that say votes or something and that then redirects you to a different page that shows who upvoted and downvoted that specific post/comment. The exact details don’t really matter. My point was basically that if something is accessible but only via hidden means that are not obvious to the end-user, they may wrongly assume that information is private. So by making it easily accessible to end-user, you also clearly indicate that that information is publicly accessible ^^

Gecko , 11 months ago

Nextcloud-snap is surprisingly easy to setup. snap install nextcloud is all you need to have a functioning setup. Then run a second command to setup HTTPS and you’re good to go :D

Gecko , 11 months ago

While Vaultwarden is great I would not suggest selfhosting your password manager unless you do regular backups. Losing all your password cause your server went down is a great way to ruin your day.

Gecko , 11 months ago

Any plans on moving to a different platform like lemmy here? Or is it something that might just happen organically?