TCB13

TCB13 , 11 months ago to linux in GNOME Devs are rethinking the "Activities" button

Still a piece of garbage. Can’t they simply admit they were wrong and add a permanent panel with icons (like Windows or Mac) at the bottom of the screen and move on?

TCB13 , 11 months ago to programmerhumor in Sea++

The boat has wifi right? Modern developers can’t work for 10 seconds without installing packages from the internet.

TCB13 , 11 months ago to piracy in How is pirating software a thing?

Well actually some pirated software usually works better than their retail version. yewtu.be/watch?v=DEP_7_gx6M8 community.adobe.com/t5/…/12557832 community.adobe.com/t5/…/12934822

TCB13 , 11 months ago to linux in How do I change **User Interface** font of flatpak applications?

What OS? Maybe something similar to this? github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/119433

TCB13 , 11 months ago to linux in Why Personal Cloud Storage is so bad on Linux?

Nextcloud is everything other than minimization and stability. I bet if you take a quick look at their repositories you’ll find security-wise questionable stuff very fast and also tons of different pieces not a single thing.

TCB13 , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to linux in Why Personal Cloud Storage is so bad on Linux?

Syncthing is a very good piece of software, even when working cross-platform. Nextcloud, however, is the biggest and most cumbersome pile of garbage open-source produced in the last decate.

Currently I’m running Syncthing on my NAS and all my devices sync to it (no cross-device sync to avoid issues). Then I’ve an SMB share to allow access to the files on iOS devices and FileBrowser for a cloud-like web browser access experience. Works flawlessly uses very little RAM and its solid, private, secure and manageable open-source - not something like Nextcloud that calls home, breaks everything on upgrades, wastes ram and runs slowly to only deliver an inferior experience in all possible ways.

Some of my experiences with NC are described in detail at lemmy.world/comment/1571886 and lemmy.world/comment/346174

TCB13 , 11 months ago to selfhosted in any opensource Wireless AccessPoint ?

Okay, at the end of the day: DD-WRT does bad job even with Broadcom drivers (lack of recent device and wifi 6 support) + bugs and OpenWRT does a very good job software wise but it doesn’t support Broadcom at all.

TCB13 , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to selfhosted in any opensource Wireless AccessPoint ?

How much wifi and open-source do you really want?

If you are willing to go with commercial hardware + open source firmware (OpenWRT) you might want to check the table of hardware of OpenWrt at openwrt.org/toh/…/toh_available_16128_ax-wifi and openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_864_ac-wifi. One solid pick for the future might be the Netgear WAX2* line. One of those models is now fully supported the others are on the way. If you don’t mind having older wifi a Netgear R7800 is solid.

If you want full open-source hardware and software you need a more exotic brand like this www.banana-pi.org/en/bananapi-router/.

Both solutions will lead to OpenWRT when it comes to software, it is better than any commercial firmware but there’s a catch about open-source wifi. The best performing wifi chips are Broadcom and those don’t usually see open-source software support**. MediaTek is the open-source alternative and while they work fine they can’t, unfortunately, beat Broadcom. As most hardware is Broadcom they have hacks that go behind the published wifi standards and get it go a few megabytes/second faster and/or improve the range a bit.

DD-WRT is another “open-source” firmware that has a specific agreement with Broadcom to allow them to use their proprietary drivers and distribute them as blob with their firmware. While it works don’t expect compatibility with newer hardware nor a bug free solution like OpenWRT is.

TCB13 , 11 months ago to selfhosted in Cancelled Dropbox

There’s also www.skyjos.com/owlfiles/ and I’m not sure if its a successor and what are the differences between the two.

TCB13 , 11 months ago to selfhosted in Cancelled Dropbox

The main compromise I’ve had to make is on the iOS experience.

Me too. I’ve all my computers syncing with Syncthing to a local machine and access the data on iOS using FE File Explorer Pro via a SMB share pointed to the Syncthing data dir.

TCB13 , 11 months ago to selfhosted in Why is DNS still hard to learn?

I don’t get it. DNS is easy if you actually learn it and study the thing instead of simply trying to “make it work”.

TCB13 , 11 months ago to selfhosted in Proxmox and Minisforum - A Solution to Random Crashes

This kind of BS is why I buy second hand HP Mini units.

TCB13 , 1 year ago to selfhosted in What are people using for webmail software these days?

Roundcube always! I tried others and always went back to Roundcube. If you install it properly (using composer for everything) it won’t break on updates.

TCB13 , 1 year ago to selfhosted in What are people using for webmail software these days?

What a piece of crap of webmail that is.

• NC Webmail UI is poorly designed: compose window is just a small box on the center of the screen, there’s no way to have the markup tools permanently show up;
• NC Webmail UI is broken: if you select a bunch of text and turn it into a bullet list, the bullets won’t even show up on NC, other e-mail clients will see them tho;
• Integration/SSO with IMAP is cumbersome: not well documented, default configuration doesn’t even handle a simple “login with the email email and password as the IMAP account” type of setup that is commonly expected;
• WebUI is slow and fails often: if you open the browser console you’ll find lots of warnings and errors.

I do have a lot of complaints related to mail but if NC is any kind of useful replacement for MS365 / Google Workplace a decently working webmail is the bare minimum. RoundCube is WAY better than what NC is currently offering.

TCB13 , 1 year ago to linux in Plan on getting a Linux laptop: any suggestions?

I’ve been running Debian 11 and now 12 on an HP EliteBook 840 G5 (i7 8550U) and everything works out flawlessly out of the box. When I say everything I really mean everything, even special keyboard keys for brightness, volume working after install. Battery lasts way longer than under Windows and the computer runs much colder.