UmbraTemporis

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

Have you tried changing what the applets do when you click? Most of the time you can set whether it should create a new instance, cycle windows or raise or lower existing ones from the applet settings. See if changing that could help?

I use XFCE/Budgie (flick between the two) so not too familiar with cinnamon.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

Arch installs aren’t too bad, it’s the post-install setup that’ll get you though since a fresh install is guaranteed to detonate if you don’t disarm it.

It doesn’t even have to be complex anymore thanks to archinstall.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

Pretty much everything in the General Recommendations section.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

Satire, the stereotypical “Arch just breaks after some time” trope. I’m saying that trope is correct if you don’t fix it.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

XFCE doesn’t support Wayland yet, however a lot of the components will run under it. They’ve got a tracker on their site.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

To be fair, most users are just gonna go the new user route. Download the Fedora media writer, set it to download and flash Fedora, boot to the stick and install.

I was a decent ways into my Linux experience before I learnt about Ventoy, but I don’t use it as I prefer flashing a whole ISO. There’s no hand-holding once you leave Mac or Windows, so you have to count points of failure yourself, Ventoy wasn’t worth it.

I suggest you take the normal new user path, and after that start trying things. Learn to walk before you try running :)

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

I love this, adorable!

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

Piped?

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

Really depends on what you want your system to be, if you want a lightweight system choose a barebones distro like Arch, Gentoo, Void or any server spin such as Fedora Server. Then, during installation you only get what you need. If you are going lightweight you’d probably want something like Sway WM, Hyprland or XFCE.

If you don’t care for minimalism, then choosing a distro focused on a graphical interface such as Fedora Workstation will be much better for you, since that distro will be maintained with the idea of users using whatever DE it is, the distro maintainers probably contribute to upstream of the DE too. Support will also be easier since you’ll find that these distros, while maybe having smaller communities, those communities ask more questions and get more solutions due to the Linux inexperience.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

Every OS requires setup.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

I’m a Proton slave, all my eggs are in their basket so I’ll go ahead and provide some free marketing for them. ProtonVPN is pretty good since it’s ran by a good company that cares about you, getting Port Forwarding setup on Linux is a bit of a chore but I believe they’re working on automating it, the Windows app does have it automated already by the way.

I do worry about the long-term practicality of ProtonVPN because of this manual process, since as far as I can tell there’s no way to automatically hand your assigned port to the torrent client…

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

From the one time I tried MacOS in a VM, setup is similar to Windows with somehow even fewer options and stronger 1984 vibes.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

At least you can use Windows without an account, on MacOS you can’t even install an app without one I don’t think.

Just to be clear, I hate both of them, I’m a Linux user.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

Well at least a Local account doesn’t require internet access.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

Linux is not a prerequisite nor is it a required side effect of digital privacy, sure the two go hand-in-hand thanks to FOSS but you can have one without the other.

Red Star is a Linux distro, but it’s the embodiment of the antithesis of privacy.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

Oh you’re gonna make me act up 💳

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

You’d better hope that be pretty close to zero before attempting repairs.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

I use Hetzner exclusively and have just one complaint. You don’t get much choice as to where your VPS is hosted country-wise nor the OS it runs. You do get the standard list of options, as you would with any other provider, except that list is quite small on Hetzner. It’s good enough, I use Fedora everywhere and they support that so I’m good. Anyway, it’s obviously free to create an account so there’s no risk in case your setup isn’t supported.

Apart from that, they’re brilliant. The web console is nice, clean and well-designed, great value (1TB of storage clocks in at a few euros/month), room to scale and a decent company. Can’t comment on customer support since I’ve never needed it.

For the services you’ve specified, that’ll run you maybe 3 - 4 euros a month (that’s with automatic backups of your entire server + tax) since you can run all of that under one server.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

Oh wow, that’s pretty awesome.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I ran SSHFS for a while maybe half a year ago? I quite liked it cause we obviously already use SSH so setup was quick and easy, performance was good too. Then I learnt it’s no longer maintained so switched to NFS.

NFS is good, if you aren’t accessing from Windows I would go for that. Setup is pretty simple too, just change /etc/exports and a few permissions or ownerships (after installing the package obviously) then start the systemd service.

Can’t comment on Kerberos, but considering NFS popularity I can’t imagine it being difficult.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

In my experience, just making sure the directory you’re sharing is owned by nobody:nogroup is enough.

sudo chown -R nobody:nogroup /path/to/nfs

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

I think so.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

I’m not an expert with this stuff, I just do whatever works. This works, so I do it and when people ask me or just in general how to do it this is what I tell them. Most of the guides I’ve come across, including one from DigitalOcean, recommends doing this.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

Printing flip-books for the videos and keeping that in essentially a time-capsule. With a vacuum if you can afford it. Not perfect but will definitely last for hundreds of years. Look at the Magna Carta for inspiration.

For the audio, vinyl and kept in an even stronger container, instruct everyone to use gloves before touching it.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

Seriously, I’m not a heavy software developer that partakes in projects of that scale nor complexity but just seeing it from the outside makes me hurt. All these protocols left-right and center, surely just an actual program would be cleaner? Like they just rewrite X from scratch implementing and supporting all modern technology and using a monolithic model.

Then small projects could still survive since making a compositor would almost be trivial, no need to rewrite Wayland from scratch cause we got “Waykit” (fictional name I just thought of for this X rewrite), just import that into your project and use the API.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

What was stopping X just undergoing some gutting? I get it’s old and covered in dust and cobwebs but look, those can be cleaned off.

“Scoop out the tumors, and put some science stuff in ya”, the company that produced that quote went on to develop the most advanced AGI in the world and macro-scale portable on-demand indestructible teleportation.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

How do I link a markdown format that well into a sentence?

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

Agree, call me unreasonable or whatever but I just don’t like Rust nor the community behind it. Stop trying to reinvent the wheel! Rust makes everything complicated.

On the other hand… Zig 😘

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

Zig!!

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

I have experience with this, from a friend…

You can download without an account, but if I remember correctly it’s only certain types of media with a quality restriction.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

I will never see mouse cursors the same. Thanks random internet person!

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

I had similar behaviour when testing KDE 6, so it’s not just a Gnome/GTK/Libadwaita/I hate that entire project issue.

I solved it by downloading a custom cursor theme, putting it in ~/.local/share/icons and then giving each Flatpak app access to that directory (for some reason, on KDE, they didn’t by default).

You may need to log-out log-in to see the changes.

UmbraTemporis OP , 2 months ago

See, torrent availability is more or less directly correlated to the size of the artist / band in question. So when you get someone who’s into some rather niche stuff and has quite a few small bands in their streaming library, torrenting is just not an option.

UmbraTemporis OP , 2 months ago

That was looking really good, however it doesn’t seem to download into separate sub-directories which is rather annoying. I’ll keep my eye on that though, thanks :D

UmbraTemporis OP , 2 months ago

Yeah, of course I shoot some support over their way. It’s just if I do that it also comes down to the whole ownership thing too, hence the downloading.

UmbraTemporis OP , 2 months ago

Yeah I’m aware of Spotify’s 320k MP3 cap, but for the equipment I’ve got that’s fine. Thanks :)

UmbraTemporis OP , 2 months ago

Seems like most of the tools I’m finding are CLIs, so iPhones or just phones in general are definitely a no-go I’m afraid.

If you listen to popular artists, you could try Soulseek. Not sure on how easy it is to access it on an iPhone though, I’ve never owned any Apple devices since I went off them at a young age so I’m really firing off into the dark.

UmbraTemporis OP , 2 months ago

Thank you! Seems like Opus doesn’t work though which is a shame. I made an issue on the Github page. I’ll make a script to do that after and preserve the cover art.

I’ve now got it going with real-time downloads, this is going to take days 😭. However this tool is the best out of a set of compromises so I’ll make the most of it.

UmbraTemporis OP , 2 months ago

I’ve got it downloading non-real time right now cause I was able to fix the Opus issue (PR is open on Github “Effective libopus support”), so I want to stress-test my changes a bit.

I’ll switch it back to real-time soon, and I’ll turn on the archive :P.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

If you ask me, I say Hetzner is a seriously underrated provider. I love using their services. Cheap as chips too.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

• Easier to setup
• More control
• Easier to maintain
• Dirt cheap
• Low power
• Space efficient
• Zero downtme

Need I go on? This is clearly the future. Friendship ENDED with Network Hardware now PEG is my best friend.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

But the server is still operational, it’s just moved.

• Resilient
• Durable
• Secure

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

For now, the integration is a minor gesture, as it’s only a one-way connection from Threads to the Fediverse.

Could someone explain what this means? It it like he can see us but we can’t see him? I didn’t know the Fediverse / ActivityPub could work like that.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

Ah right, thanks :)

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

No.

A notification, in the tray and elsewhere across the OS, with a short description like “Updates are crucial to the security of you and your device, they also provide the freshest experience.” would get the point across. What would be even better is if there was a one-click NQA button to initiate the update, perhaps even included on the notification.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

In Windows’ case, this is the truth. But certified corporation momentos are not a required side-effect of this approach to updates.

UmbraTemporis , 2 months ago

First time I’ve heard someone call Gnome Software fast. In my experience that app feels like it’s on it’s last legs; the Flatpak CLI is far better than any desktop GUI.