KrispeeIguana

KrispeeIguana OP , 9 months ago to linux in Issue with Network Manager

I have noticed other people with kwallet issues, but that only affects me when I restart my system (asks for password). Other than that, I can’t find a way to edit or disable kwallet without installing a 2-star app on the KDE Discover store that might not work and is reviewed as extremely annoying.

KrispeeIguana , 9 months ago to linux in Who does flatpak/snap benefit?

How do you know when to update an AppImage? I would use the Krita AppImage but I would have to hunt down the file in my file manager to open it and I can’t find a way to update it without straight up replacing the thing manually.

KrispeeIguana , 9 months ago to linux in Who does flatpak/snap benefit?

It benefits both devs and end users.

Many people don’t have the time or resources to manage a broken application especially devs who have to deal with that on several Linux distributions simultaneously.

Many distros use different package install scripts and repos to suit their specific needs. If I were to use a Debian-based distro, I would need to use apt to grab from a Debian-compatible repo. If I somehow got apt to work on Fedora, then not only would the program I installed not work, it would likely annihilate many of the preexisting dependencies and possibly brick the system.

I personally use Arch Linux which uses pacman, my package manager of choice, and a lot of times I’ll find an application that doesn’t work on my system due to mismatched dependencies. Arch is incompatible with .deb and .rpm files and does not use the Debian repo and its derivatives. It uses the AUR and its own derivatives of that repo. I don’t have the time or skill to get a program to work with a newly updated dependency on one distro nevermind however many exist on the internet. Many devs do that for free after they’ve been working at their job for hours and/or taking college courses.

What a Flatpak or appimage (ignoring goofy aah snaps) really does is allow a developer to update dependencies for their application at their own pace without having to play catchup when something inevitably breaks due to an update. It allows for a more stable system. As a Debian Bro, you might not need that, but on rolling-release distros like Arch and funky distros like Manjaro that can be very much welcome.

KrispeeIguana , 9 months ago to asklemmy in Do you pirate? And do you justify pirating? i.e., what is your piracy philosophy?

I pirate old stuff and overpriced stuff permanently. I refuse to pay an ebay seller $200 for an old GameCube game and I refuse to pay $700 dollars for all the Sims 4 dlc. You may also catch me pirating movies and shows as I strongly dislike subscription models.

KrispeeIguana , 9 months ago to asklemmy in How do you view your dreams?

I usually have lucid dreams in the third person where I’m not a character in the story. I instead control the other characters like in a video game and I can save scum to get a particularly hard to achieve outcome. Usually, I like to let events pan out by themselves though, as that leads to the most interesting results.

KrispeeIguana , 10 months ago to asklemmy in what are some great YouTube channels worth checking out?

I like Vsauce, but YouTube just never recommends his videos to me. Same with all the others except for Veritasium. I just haven’t seen enough of their content and schedule.

KrispeeIguana , 10 months ago to asklemmy in what are some great YouTube channels worth checking out?

Never really watched him much since I was more into minecraft content when I was younger, but I’ll take another look at the channel.

KrispeeIguana , 10 months ago to asklemmy in what are some great YouTube channels worth checking out?

That’s understandable. When I first saw The Linux Experiment, he felt almost like a 3D render rather than a real human being. Gamers Nexus can get pretty passive aggressive.

KrispeeIguana , 10 months ago to fediverse in What does this mean?

You can do that, but if you don’t want 20 different accounts, I would recommend signing up to just one. Lemmy and any other federated social media system should push posts from other servers to your feed depending on what servers are in region.

KrispeeIguana , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to asklemmy in what are some great YouTube channels worth checking out?

Gaming

• TheRussianBadger - gaming with good humor and editing
• Max0r - gaming with good humor, voice acting, and insane editing
• Scott the Woz - for that old YouTube feel
• RTGame - funny Irish gaming man
• Call Me Kevin - funny Irish gaming man
• Indeimaus - mostly horror and Metroidvania gaming
• Game Apologist - good Sonic content
• RadKing - Fallout content
• Iron Pineapple - From Software enthusiast
• MuYe - BeamNG content
• The Orpheon - good Metroid content

Tech Stuffs

• Louis Rossman - disgruntled business tech repair man
• Gamers Nexus - pc tech review
• Linus Tech Tips (and its other channels) - LMG has been making some very good changes since their first response to their recent controversies. If they actually deliver with them, then all of these channels should be good to watch. Mac Address should be fine to watch as it has been stated that the channel and group affiliated are kept somewhat separated from the rest of LMG for various reasons.
• Hardware Unboxed - Australian pc tech review
• Monitors Unboxed - Hardware Unboxed for Monitors
• Dave’s Garage - cool Windows tricks from the guy who made the Task Manager
• The Cherno - good Australian C++ channel

Open Source Stuffs

• Nicco Loves Linux - good KDE and GNOME stuff
• The Linux Experiment - Linux and open source news
• unfa🇺🇦 - open source audio solutions
• Mental Outlaw - the libre man
• Royal Skies - free and open 2d and 3d content and assets

Animation

• TerminalMontage - great animations
• Noodle - great story animator

Practical Experiments

• The Slow Mo Guys - slow motion videos of pretty cool stuff
• Hacksmith Industries - cool Sci-Fi irl building channel
• Shadiversity - medieval weapon and armour experimentation
• ElectroBOOM - shocking experiments
• Major Hardware - 3d printing and fan design showdown
• Donut - good car content

Music

• SilvaGunner - wacky game music
• Eurobeat Gems - great if you like Eurobeat music

Education

• Audio University - how your sound system works
• Kyle Hill - science with nerd Thor
• LockPickingLawyer - you will never look at locks the same way

Miscellaneous

• No Text To Speech - cool for Discord users
• Fact Fiend - miscellaneous facts and British banter
• Bosnian Ape Society - If you’ve seen Nvidia Bread, then you’ll understand.
• High Boi - movie summaries

There’s more that I could # recommend, but I couldn’t figure out how to describe them.

KrispeeIguana , 11 months ago to linux in Appimages, snaps and flatpaks

The problem here is that there are so many linux distros that are trying to do their own thing. Sure, a Debian-based distro would use apt, but a lot of the other distros like Void and Fedora use different package managers to suit their needs. I personally use Arch Linux, and that uses pacman which is my manager of preference. There are packages that I cannot find and/or install via pacman and the AUR due to them either not being built as an Arch binary, or being left abandoned by the developer who couldn’t bother supporting multiple distros and their package managers, or not having a compatible dependency built for my system.

Flatpaks and AppImages allow for a developer to place an application and all its dependencies in a neatly packaged group. This allows developers to only need to create one package that works on many distros and won’t be affected by dependency changes. I use a Flatpak package for Steam because, due to the rolling-release-nature of my distro, sometimes the native install breaks and/or doesn’t open properly.

In theory, Snap works in a similar way as the other two, but that is a proprietary package manager that doesn’t work on my distro without far much more effort than needed for any proprietary software should ever need to get working ever.

The only real downside to these package managers that I’ve seen is that the package size is larger than any native install. I am personally fine with this tradeoff however, as I have gotten quite used to building Python container environments recently.