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TCB13 , 1 year ago to linux in GNOME Devs are rethinking the "Activities" button

Again, extensions aren’t as polished as built in stuff. A prime example of this was when they ditched desktop icons, the extensions that followed fail sometimes.

TCB13 , 1 year ago to programmerhumor in Sea++

Okay, can’t argue with that :D my point was that development is so fuck up nowadays that nothing can be done offline anymore (at least easily) and this new generation of developers don’t even know how their hardware works, the basics of an OS and their favorite tools. They can’t live without pulling a few docker images and whatnot.

TCB13 , 1 year ago to linux in GNOME Devs are rethinking the "Activities" button

Yes ironically desktop environments “revolutionized” computing by not having a way to type what program we want to then, after decades re-introduce that :D

TCB13 , 1 year ago to linux in GNOME Devs are rethinking the "Activities" button

Besides, Plasma is much more like Windows. It has panels, lots of windows and bugs.

On that we can agree. And let me add more: inconsistent design.

TCB13 , 1 year ago to linux in GNOME Devs are rethinking the "Activities" button

No, KDE is even worse than GNOME. GNOME has some sense of design and things are properly designed most of the time, consistent spacing between elements and whatnot, KDE fails on that. GNOME fails on providing a basic desktop experience to those familiar with Windows and macOS.

TCB13 , 1 year ago to linux in GNOME Devs are rethinking the "Activities" button

Yes but extensions work to a degree and not out of the box. For instance, when they abandoned desktop icons a long time ago we never had and extension that delivered the same polished experience.

TCB13 , 1 year 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 , 1 year 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 , 1 year 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 , 1 year 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 , 1 year 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 , 1 year ago (edited 1 year 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 , 1 year 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 , 1 year ago (edited 1 year 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 , 1 year 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.