Hominine

Hominine , 8 days ago

You can also install wallpaper plugins from the KDE store for your lock screen background. I’m a fan of City Grow.

Hominine , 26 days ago

Sunshine/Moonlight works well for me also.

Hominine , 28 days ago

I have an 8 year old Acer aspire and it works great for coding. I’ve learned a lot about both of those languages with zero worries and recently moved the OS over to nix with excellent results.

Hominine , 1 month ago

Well, I’ve got good news, you can do both at the same time with the patented cyber-bullet! When it implants, it implants 100 percent of the time.

Hominine , 1 month ago

He’s gone from suck to blow.

Hominine , 1 month ago

I run a SearXNG instance myself and while it is a fine aggregator, it’s important to note what it is and isn’t. For instance, Sear does not have a dedicated search index and leans on third party API calls (to indexes such as the aforementioned Google and DDG listings.) This is my understanding, feel free to correct it.

For my money, I like the anonymity that Sear can afford and that it hides the AI bullshit pouring into the UIs. My son and I were talking over the weekend about how unreliable he is finding the move to AI search.

Edit: A list of public SearXNG instances for anyone that doesn’t want to spin up their own.

Hominine , 1 month ago

I use kde connect and/or sunshine myself.

Hominine , 1 month ago

Unfortunately, no, I assign one monitor that stays asleep unless I intentionally wake it. Most of my use case these days is streaming my desktop remotely over wireguard. Good luck tinkering!

Hominine , 2 months ago

People with jobs.

Hominine , 2 months ago

I also care that whatever company I work for moves to take corrective action as well. This isn’t at all difficult to think through.

Hominine , 2 months ago

Consideration is required; it’s much easier to be a knee-jerk contrarian one supposes.

Hominine , 2 months ago

Thanks for this.

Hominine , 2 months ago

Awesome info in this thread, thanks!

Hominine , 2 months ago

Welcome back.

This weekend I finally joined the club of folks that install Mint on their parent’s aging laptops. I’m a Nix/Arch user btw and am very impressed with the ease of use and flexibility that Mint brings to the table.

Hominine , 2 months ago

Are you running Cinnamon? I was impressed with the customization options out of the box and had to stop playing with it as I wanted to keep things fairly plain. Looking forward to later dropping it on a burner laptop for my own twiddling.

Hominine , 2 months ago

Yay, more live-service microtransaction bullshit to avoid.

Hominine , 2 months ago

As a seven-plus year Linux vet I’ve known about OpenWRT for some time but only made the switch about 3 months or so myself to breathe some life into an aging Linksys.

I’m very impressed with the kit so far, it runs well (snappy even) and the amount of options provided are a bit overwhelming at first. Eventually I’ll move on to prosumer hardware, but this is a nice middle ground in the interim.

Hominine , 2 months ago

Strava has continued to enshittify the app to the point that I’m getting ads after every activity. Anyway, I decided to delete it after yesterday’s run and will keep an eye on this project. Thanks!

Hominine , 2 months ago

Thanks for the recommendation, looking into it as well.

Hominine , 3 months ago

Same, proxmox + lxc is a gift.

Hominine , 3 months ago

What timing.

Hominine , 3 months ago

There was an actual terroristic action unfolding today in Moscow.

Hominine , 3 months ago

It says vagina, but they really want us to eat nuts.

Hominine , 3 months ago

Excellent, thanks for this!

Hominine , 3 months ago

I also like to keep a text editor open and paste everything I’m doing, as I do it, into that window. Clean it up a little, and you’ve got documentation for when you eventually have to change/fix it.

Smart stuff that is leaving me feeling dumb for not having thought of it myself, shell history is a poor substitute.

Hominine , 3 months ago

Thanks!

Hominine , 3 months ago

Following with interest (as I am a newbie myself), but if I were in your shoes, I wouldn’t want to re-invent the wheel in the middle of classes. That said, I am loving the process of jumping in feet first on laptop hardware, but the slog is real.

In other news, Arch continues to be rock-solid, even during the Plasma 6 update cycle I’ve had nothing but success where it is concerned. Best of luck!

Hominine , 3 months ago

bpytop, it’s just too pretty to pass up.

Hominine , 3 months ago

Oof, I’m a dumdum. Thanks for the correction.

Hominine , 3 months ago

Hey look another “Epic exclusive” wants to pick up some scraps. Nope.

Hominine , 3 months ago

This.

Hominine , 3 months ago

Excellent, thanks for this info.

Hominine , 4 months ago

I still have major problems with presence detection and notifications (in Webcord. Love it on Deck tho.) Could be me. Vencord is a project I just stumbled on and it seems really solid in just about every area. Check out those plugins.

Hominine , 4 months ago

Shell Commands are the primary tool I use to go about doing these things. I write the scripts to perform the action(s) desired and drop them on the local PC. The shell commands are then fired off from Home Assistant via SSH (either directly in the HA dashboard a la human interaction or through automations) or via my phone through Tasker or KDE Connect (as mentioned elsewhere.)

The trickiest bit for me was setting the correct environmental variables in the scripts but then it was an excellent learning opportunity! Best of luck OP and let me know if I can provide any more info.

Hominine , 4 months ago

While we are here, does anyone know of an open source implementation of a recommendation algorithm? I currently pay for YTM for my family and while it is the Bee’s Knees now, I can see the coming enshittification and would like to start planning ahead. Thanks!

Hominine , 4 months ago

Thanks!

Hominine , 4 months ago

Crickets

Small wonder. A tangent, but I’m also of the opinion that someone shouldn’t put their child’s photo (or any information) on the internet if they don’t want to distribute it in the first place.

Hominine , 4 months ago

Teamocil

Hominine , 4 months ago

Consider, the first syllable of Winchester is “Win”!

Hominine , 4 months ago

Skip the bullshit and go straight to Arch. archinstall for a good time.

Hominine , 4 months ago

I’ve not had problems but nothing is fool-proof and I have proved myself a fool in the past.

In all seriousness I followed the Manjaro - Endeavour - Arch pipeline and don’t see much value in the other flavors outside of a little handholding that can introduce problems of its own.

Hominine , 4 months ago

Went to buy my son and I copies (we’ve been waiting for this release) and was gob-smacked to see this. After reading about the monetization we’re out.

There are too many quality indie titles to play in lieu of having to bend the knee in this way.

Hominine , 4 months ago

You are appreciated.

Hominine , 4 months ago

This is why I continue to buy 90 day increments, Stremio+debrid is too good to last.

Hominine , 4 months ago

Haven’t looked at the audiobook player scene on Android since stumbling over Smart Audiobook Player some years ago. I bought the full edition after enjoying it. It has a scraper for images and works well with titles downloaded from audiobookbay.

Hominine , 4 months ago

Yes

Hominine , 4 months ago

Absolutely. I don’t think Steam is exactly malicious (particularly when compared with publicly traded corporations,) but that said the framework is firmly in place to screw over the vast majority of non-console gamers with a snap of the fingers or a meeting of the board.

The community is slow walking into horse armor (or paid mods if one prefers,) again.

Hominine , 5 months ago

I was certain you had to be joking in this post, holy shit.