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smileyhead , (edited )

Ugh, I hate all those people making some compromises to live a healthier lifestyle and are talking about their changes so maybe someone can do it too making the group larger and easier to live for everyone. The worst ones.

smileyhead ,

I have learned much how the networking works, how programs are made and how computers do stuff. And not because I had to with Linux, but it was actually fun to learn without the roadblocks.

smileyhead ,

I’ll just comment this with some cherrypicked screenshots of the year 2024 showcasting user friendlyness:

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smileyhead ,

I have OnePlus 6T with Droidian and must say it is this close to daily drive for me.

Everything works and there are apps for almost everything I need. As someone who uses only FOSS social media and things, there is Mastodon and Matrix client, I just lack maps with navigation (can use Organic Maps via Waydroid). Beyond that what is left is polish and tiny things, like for the performance or support for controlling media via buttons on bluetooth speaker.

I also tried PostmarketOS, that is adapting real Linux to phones (when Droidian is taking Linux kernel and drivers from Android and building on that). It is great if someone can get around lack of camera support etc., but for me now it can act like a second device or RPi alternative.

The ability to… you know, just use normal SSH and all the commands, Flatpak apps, all Pipewire tools, not fiddling with Android Studio and it’s stupid SDK or customizing my UI with just CSS is magical.

Seriously, fuck Google and Qualcomm for creating such hostile drivers ecosystem. There are brands like Fairphone that I think would happly support Linux but can’t because of Qualcomm only releasing their own vendor kernel prepared only for Android.

smileyhead ,

Droidian uses vendor’s Linux/Android kernel and patch it a little, then uses binary-only drivers taken from Android through libhybris translation layer (something similiar to Wine or Box64). It is the same tech that Ubuntu Touch uses, but Droidian gives you root access and uses normal desktop Linux stack (Flatpak, Pipewire, APT, etc.). So yes, you do “sudo apt”.

It is more of a mess than upstream-first PostmarketOS and the kernel do not get updates after manufacturer drop the device, but it works. On my OP6T everything hardware works (including day-long battery and reliable waking up on a call or alarm), but there is still a long list of things to polish.

smileyhead ,

cmus

So fast and satisfying to navigate around

Where did you learn partitioning? And do you need a guide everytime you install a distro?

I have been using linux about 4 years now and in that time i’ve done a bunch of installs. Lately i’ve been setting up luks and lvm, but each time i install a distro ive set up bodhi and nixos with this setup but the issue i have is that each time ive done it i’ve had to follow a guide....

smileyhead ,

I recommend trying to install ArchLinux

smileyhead ,

I wouldn’t count ChromeOS just as we don’t count Android.

smileyhead ,

I use Arch too, BTW.

smileyhead ,

If so, then why we cannot boot other Linux distributions on Chromebook devices and cannot run standard Linux apps/programs without using Crostini virtual machine?

Android just use Linux kernel, that was trawled by Google, then SoC manufacturer, then device maker.

ChromeOS is better, as it is based on Gentoo, but is incompatible with the rest of ecosystem and most devices do not have drivers for mainline Linux kernel.

If you don’t believe me, look at the community effort to reverse-engineer some Chromebook laptops to run normal Linux distro on them: wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

Thus I think we should not mix them in statistics. It would be like mixing MacOS with FreeBSD…

Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. (www.theverge.com)

Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.::95.57 percent of surveyed Steam users are already on Windows 10 and 11, with nearly 2 percent of the remainder on Linux and 1.5 percent on Mac — so we may be talking about fewer than 1 percent of users on these older Windows builds. Older...

smileyhead ,

When no longer supporting Ubuntu 16.04: No big deal, just update, duh…

When no longer supporting Windows 7/8: How dare you!

Make Inkscape installed through Flatpak callable in the terminal as 'inkscape'?

I have a Python-package that calls Inkscape as part of a conversion process. I have it installed, but through Flatpak. This means that calling inkscape does not work in the terminal, but rather flatpak run org.inkscape.Inkscape. I need the package to be able to call it as inkscape....

smileyhead ,

You can do an alias for the shell you use or make a symlink to /usr/local/bin/ for the entire system.

There are importany reasons why this is not the default, but you can do it as long as you are away you have done it. Like when programs installed via package manager and flatpak starts conflicting, you’ll know why.

smileyhead ,

Okey, I don’t get it. What’s wrong with DNS?

smileyhead ,

Okey, I understand this is fundamental and when not working can cause the service to stop working. But I don’t yet know how does it break or is not easy to troubleshoot?

Haven’t hosted anything big yet, so I always just had to check the records via “dig” command if they are served correctly.

smileyhead ,

The amount of help on forums and chats says otherwise.

How they could help with this?

Oh, I paid some company for approval to use their software I don’t have rights to change or use how I want, can you guys somehow make it work they way we want? I know the licence makes it illegal, but why aren’t you guys doing it?

Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them? (gadgettendency.com)

With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be...

smileyhead ,

But a ton of people can open a PDF and will be able to select an USB stick from menu and click next, next, next… It’s not completely different, you still use a mouse, a keyboard, you click on things, you get some feedback from it… When a new kind of mobile app arrive, I can see someone using no more than 5 apps in life having problems, but this doesn’t mean only them exists, we do not talk about switching everyone here. People change houses, how are they figuring out where is the toilet if doors have different color and are in different positions?

Also a reason why any software like Microsoft Windows or Office should be banned from public education, especially primary schools.

smileyhead ,

Marketing is monopolized with Google and Facebook. Manufacturers and Microsoft won’t make one-click installs happen. Tech support would be chicken and egg problem. Ugh…

smileyhead ,

Your DAW and audio interface doesn’t support Linux.* Yeah, it’s a bummer, but you are in a small portion of effected computer users, still others can benefit from longer support.

smileyhead ,

There are many many outdated patterns how to do things in Windows that are cemented in public knowledge. Running random executable installers from the web giving them superuser permissions is I thing the most popular one.

How to share all user settings between system installations? How to change the logo in the desktop bar? How to add a directory to an applications bar? How to change system build-in keyboard shortcut? How to reinstall just the system keeping the programs? How to make a file run on a shortcut? Those are things I use daily, that are impossible or need some hacky programs to work on anything other than Linux, I would die if I had to switch back now.

smileyhead ,

Use whatever is popular and has a cool logo. Distro is basically a software library, preinstalled programs and default settings. You can transform any distro to behave like the other one.

KDE, Gnome, XFCE…? Which is looking better for you or which one was default. Init system? Which was the default. X11/Wayland? Wayland. Go with X11 only if Wayland is having problems with your graphics card.

smileyhead ,

For 240 million devices I think there would be some Linux can “cut it”. And second, no? My computer is 13+ years old and I am using it with basically no lagging, developing a couple of apps. Truth is all medium-tier computers made today and in recent years have reached the point where for normal use (that is daily tasks like communication, content consumption and calculations) only limiting factor for daily driver is software optimization.

smileyhead , (edited )

And this is a huge barrier for a lot of users, a massive roadblock. But the article talk about houndres of millions of computers, my point was just about that even if millions like you cannot switch, still in this statistics are millions that can especially non-professional that do not make audio or video, but that are going to throw away a working machine.

I feel like you might feel being personally directed by my comment, because of your respond with “YOU’re not compatible”. Maybe it was bad wording, sorry. What I ment was that it can be frustrating to see “Linux doesn’t support …” when actually it has everything needed to support this software and the burden to make it available is on the software developer. Like saying that USB-C doesn’t support iPhone 13. Lack of it still hurts the Linux side anyway, but I just don’t want misconsaptions about which side should make a port happen.

smileyhead ,

Ori 😍

smileyhead ,

FIREFOX!

Got two shit tablets for free, want to install mobile linux distros on them. Any reccomendations?

Hello! I’ve got 2 alcatel 1T7 tablets completely for free from my internet provider some time ago, didn’t use them at all because the thing is lighter than a rasppi. Want to tinker on it now, thinking of installing a linux OS for more freedom on what to do and also to degooglify the tablet. Any recommendations on OS...

smileyhead ,

Most… Um… Almost all tablets aren’t. At least in the ARM world.

smileyhead ,

I believe (and this just a believe) that one Linux-first phone with actually working hardware could tip the nonstopping swing. Not for “average” user anytime in maybe even next decade, but there are a lot of people bored with current smartphones, tinkers or just wanting more privacy above than unverificable and unproven promises from Apple and Google.

smileyhead ,

But it won’t integrate that much. You won’t get exactly the same app on mobile and desktop in environment mixed like that.

smileyhead ,

I am glad logo on which we knows what animal is on it won.

smileyhead ,

It is part od the Fediverse, so commenting, likes, following, etc. should regarless of what ActivityPub-enabled service you use for interactions (for example can comment from Mastodon account).

The “Peer” part of “PeerTube” means that the video player itself is based on torrent technology. It is not saved on your device (unless you decide to), just when you watch you also send the video to cut off some of the server’s bandwidth. Videos are not shared between servers, only the information that they exists, only on uploader’s server and between user’s devices.

It is not to preserve videos online, for that we have other tools like proper torrents, this is ment to be alternative to YouTube. TLDR Here ActivityPub is for statuses, Torrent is for helping the servers.

smileyhead ,

It uses just the same as other video sites plus some upload bandwidth that is usually unused anyway. Also there is an option to download the video purely by HTTP without torrenting if someone wants to.

smileyhead ,

They invest in open source

Where? Like, no. Maybe they somewhat support software they have in the chain of usage like any other company and that’s it. Yes for taking the challenge, but like Spotify, complaining about roadblock of another company, does not make them good.

But not to say this should be the place to trash on Epic.

smileyhead ,

Tauri is much better than Electron, but still not near close just native program. Let the web be simple, please.

smileyhead ,

Suprise, if going the other way around it also would be broken.

smileyhead ,

No wonder when installing anything on Windows have so much friction compared to Linux and MacOS. Every program have it’s own installer and updater, bundling dependencies with no deduplication making simpliest program heavy. Like, when writing a Python program you are supposed to bundle Python or user would need to install it manually.

GNOME created awesome app ecosystem recently. I have hundreds of them installed, no slowdowns or problems with space, all updated in single menu with quick search which one I want. Apps on desktops have even more sense than on mobile, as they can benefit from less isolation and more integration with rich filesystem and system functions.

smileyhead ,

Can completely agree. On Apple systems I can find a ton of productivity and editing software, but no luck doing things like file operations or automating. On Linux I can find absolutely anything related to processing data, customization, science or protocol clients, but no luck finding good note taking tool.

smileyhead ,

It is a great app, but you cannot fit everyone into a single app.

Examples why I personally sometimes don’t want to use Signal:

  • no native desktop app, just a half-baked Electron based thing
  • no versions for systems other than Android and iOS
  • requires phone number (common argument)
  • hard to integrate bots, notifications and automatic services for the future use
  • when Signal foundation do something stupid, it would mean me having to migrate all friends yet another time

Signal is super giga great, the cons list is short, but if we want everyone to use something it has to be an universal protocol, not one app.

smileyhead ,

WhatsApp works on Android (AOSP), while RCS only works on Google-approved versions of Android. But I am not about to use both.

smileyhead ,

To be fair, signal is an open source protocol that anyone is free to implement.

“The Signal Protocol (formerly known as the TextSecure Protocol) is a non-federated cryptographic protocol that provides end-to-end encryption for voice and instant messaging conversations[…]”

Signal is an encryption protocol, not messaging protocol. My comment was about a messaging one like XMPP or Matrix.

Cloud storage for encrypted backups recommendations

Hi! I’m looking for a good cloud storage provider for my backups. I will encrypt them locally and rclone them, so integration is important. I’ve been looking through reddit, and every single provider has something behind their ears (closes accounts, scans files, sketchy, blah blah blah), so I’m having a bit of an analysis...

smileyhead ,

Hetzner Storage Box and rsync.net are the best because can work like a normal storage, super simple. Hetzner is cheaper while rsync.net have better managment (no-javascript panel, normal 22 port, normal installation of ssh keys).

smileyhead ,

Mumble is great real time voice chat. For just chat why not use standard Internet-based messaging?

smileyhead ,

Good may mean different things for different people. Lemmy user base are mostly those who outside of pure practical usage look at how service treats users.

smileyhead ,

Both XMPP and Matrix can be used for real-time messaging, but they are very different unerneath.

smileyhead ,

But hope this would be the last time we would need to do it.

smileyhead ,

Matrix and XMPP are in progress to support MLS, which is now accepted as an Internet standard for E2EE.

So encrypted messaging between chat protocols would be possible… Someday.

web/low memory alternatives to Krita and GIMP please

recently I bought a Chromebook, I love it so much, it has Linux container enabled and I downloaded Firefox, GIMP, and Krita, but my Chromebook is only 64GB, so that can be a lot!!! So what web apps or low storage alternatives can I use?? I know Photopea, but what about drawing? Thank you!!

smileyhead , (edited )

64GB is very, very low for even a phone these days. Usually web apps are even more heavy than regular ones.

Get more storage, a proper computing device or rent a VPS to connect via remote desktop.

smileyhead ,

Fairphone, but with full Linux kernel support including drivers.

smileyhead ,

The reasons to use Linux phone are very similiar to reasons for not being used by WhatsApp.

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