Jack of random trades at random times that randomly catch my interest for a random amount of time.
Yeah, I was just thinking this needs a lot more upfront info. I mean, kudos for the site that harkens back to the 90’s infomercial era and keeping it comfortable for those generations, but a page with some specs and actual info would go nicely with that.
I mean, I just plug the drive in once every week or so, move any new personal, irreplaceable files to the drive via whichever file manager I fancy at the time, and then set it aside for next backup.
There’s no replacement for physically backing up your data. Automation can even be the cause of file loss. Take it from someone who has spent days recovering their files via disk recovery tools.
External drives are camping kits for PCs. If you have one, then it doesn’t matter if you lose your system, just reinstall or install something new, open your camping kit and make camp. Make a dotfiles repository if you want to save your home and app configs.
Windows and Mac is like a long term home ownership with a car, kids, partner, and too many bills to be free again. Linux is a nomad life. Nothing is for certain and you could lose your tent in a thunderstorm if you don’t stake it down properly.
Also, Timeshift is a very rudimentary and first-layer protection. Something that got configured wrong could have been configured wrong months ago and you may not have caught it at the time and all the restore points you’ve kept could have the same problem.
I’m not trying to be mean here, but if I’m reading the meaning of this post correctly, it feels like you really haven’t dived that far into open source. There are thousands of FOSS projects that do exactly as you say, and yes, some get branded and bloated.
But like… that doesn’t mean that what is out there needs to strip away anything. It just means that you have to keep looking and possibly contributing even if its just reporting bugs.
For example, Firefox. Have you even checked around? Falkon, Qutebrowser, Ladybird (still in alpha), Nyxt; there’s a handful of QTWebEngine browsers already doing just fine. Not to mention the plethora of stripped down Firefox forks for both desktop and Android like Fennec, Ironfox, Floorp, Firedragon, and Zen. There’s also a stripped down base Chromium browser, which I believe is de-Googled.
I’m just not quite sure what you want to achieve here.
Yeah, it really speaks volumes about the devs. It means that no matter how innocent the package may be or how long its been there, they still pick through it all multiple times to make sure their users are safe and happy.
But RIP Deepin users. Tbh though, I’ve been hanging around Linux forums a while and still have yet to see someone who actually daily drives Deepin, lol.
There really wasn’t a lot of ramp up to it but there were Discord screenshots of his toxic personality being put down in r/feedthebeast at the time and (iirc) one of the devs that actually did do work on the project quoted the whole “poly” thing. Dunno if there was a screen of it, though.
But even before that, there was apparently some horrible stuff that MultiMC did that resulted in PolyMC and other forks in the first place. That whole application has a shady past, tbh.
I’m just trying to say, use Hyprland if you like Hyprland. There WILL be a fork of it someday. That is always guaranteed to happen when a dev becomes a piece of shit. Its all about when it is going to happen, but by all means move over to the fork when it does.
As long as its open source and money does not change hands, you are in no way directly supporting a fascist dev. Once that software is on your PC that software is yours to do what you want with it, not the dev’s. By all means, design your Hyprland as pro-trans with trans flag colors. I endorse that wholeheartedly, in fact. 🏳️⚧️
I just don’t like when people get auto-labeled for something they use or do. Its basic stereotyping and it drives me nuts. A lot of people just don’t want to give the benefit of the doubt to others before even getting to know them. Getting branded because of a piece of software you enjoy is just… its up there, at any rate. I really can’t put words to how frustrated it makes me. I don’t even use Hyprland (I did try it, though). I run KDE because I’m a dirty mouse user. I’m much too smoothbrain for a tiling WM.
Absolutely this. Too many people think that because you use some open source software from some fascist dev that “obviously you’re fascist, too”.
Bigotry: obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction, in particular prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.
Hating on Hyprland users that know what’s going on but still really like the software fits this definition. Plus, isn’t the biggest kick in the face having the exact people you hate use and enjoy your software?
This is exactly why I switched from PolyMC to Prism Launcher. The PolyMC dev was a fascist prick and an anti-gay/trans activist. His fear was that PolyMC was “going to get taken over by the gays due to the name having Poly in it (as in polysexual)”, so he started banning all the devs who disagreed with him or even made a joke about it.
Those devs forked the project and, to rub salt in the wound, made the icon rainbow. But guess what? Its the same software. They forked it because they still liked it and wanted to use it. The software itself had absolutely nothing to do with the dev.
That is quite a while, lol. To be fair though, there are an insane amount of lines in most packages. Quietly adding a brief line in a seemingly innocent features package is like hiding a needle in a haystack.
Its easy to overlook things when you have a pile of packages to review during every routine. Its especially true if they missed it the first time, since its easier to review changes in a package rather than go through the whole thing again.
It was an installation to two different PCs. I don’t think it has to do with NixOS rather than the installer software.
When I looked around on the web for solutions I found these tricks on a bug report, so at the time it had already been reported.
If it fails again, try these two tricks:
I installed last October and had to do this, so it could be fixed now. For some reason NixOS mounts the swap immediately after creating it, which bugs the install process.
You have to be prepared to dive deep into configs and set a lot up yourself if you want to get into any tiling WM, but the payoff is crazy customization with nearly every shortcut designed by you to fit your needs. Its something you do if you want to be keyboard-centric. If you know how to touch type, it’d be well worth the time invested.
I went as far as making my own waybar in CSS on NixOS using home-manager. Crazy stuff, but its not too hard once you can understand what you’re looking at. Which honestly doesn’t take long at all. Bare minimum a couple weeks, really (unless you go NixOS and want to learn Nixlang and home-manager, then I’d say a month or so learning time).
Fedora is still good for now, but that’s the same for any distro. Any dev can pull shady shit. I really want to check out Nobara, which is Fedora based and designed for gaming. I believe it’s developed and maintained by GloriousEggroll, who we all know from GE-Proton.
But I’m too happy with vanilla Arch and NixOS.
Lmao, I suppose that’s true. But think of the snazzy fetch ascii.
I guess if I want to learn the inner workings of Linux it’d have to be LFS. Iirc, LFS is just like, “here’s a kernel, good luck”.
Pop will make sure you’re nice and comfortable. Its in the top two for great starter distros alongside Mint. Both will take care of you and your driver/dependency needs, regardless of GPU.
Honestly, unless you have any real problems running Nvidia, I’d say upgrading now would be a waste. Unless you need more vram for something like localhosting large AI LLMs. Nvidia is getting better at just being supported and stable out of the box, even on Wayland.
Definitely something to keep in mind when you actually need an upgrade, though. AMD and Linux just pair well without any extra steps, like coffee and cream.
But Nvidia is as easy as selecting proprietary drivers on install these days and has very little issues. At least not enough issues to warrant upgrading such a newer card. I’d just save the cash up for the next big AMD release.
As someone who started his tabletop experience with Star Wars 3.5 and moved to D&D 3.5, I agree. Its hard to find a group in my area, though.
I should try to get something going. I have the complete 3.5 D&D collection as well as a complete GURPS set.
It has been one of the best choices I’ve made. The itch to play does go away after a while once you break the routine.
I started out customizing my Neovim shortcuts, too, since my keyboard layout is set to Dvorak, but after realizing that I’d have to do that for everything that used Vim shortcuts I forced myself to get used to the defaults. I used to use Vimium, a browser extension/addon that incorporated Vim shortcuts into your browsing. You don’t even need to touch the mouse. You just hit “f” and bring up letters by links and type the letters to go to them. “Shift-f” would bring up link letters that open in a new tab. j and k scroll up and down. Things like that.
Eventually, I moved to Qutebrowser instead; a browser that comes built in with vim-like commands. O will bring up “:open -t” for new tab. Lowercase will bring up :open which would open in the same tab. You can make quickmarks, too, which allow for custom site abbrevations. So I hit “o” and type lmy to go to Lemmy now. It’s quite a nice browser. Open source and runs on QT-Webengine. You can use Vim commands, too. :q will quit, of course, but :wq will quit while saving your open tabs. It’s actually really smooth and has built in dark mode for websites. :Ss will take you to the huge settings list, but you can opt for python config (or hybrid config) as well. You can use brave-adblock, python-adblock or both and add your own adblock lists in.
There’s a cheatsheet for it here.
I’m going off topic now (I love Qutebrowser), but I decided not to change the shortcuts because there are so many applications that use Vim commands that it would take forever to change them all. I recently went back to my old custom shortcuts and found that I hated them.
Its good to have multiple confirmations anyway. I only know from what I’ve heard and seen that it works, you actually know it works from experience.
Ahh, I’ll have to give it another try. My first attempt was years and years back. I was trying out different MOBAs at the time, like Heroes of the Storm and Heroes of Newerth.
Yeah, the Steam Deck launched at a loss to the company, with the business model that the income would come from the influx of Steam users buying games. It was a very well executed business plan that was fair to all involved. I just don’t want to see what happens when Gabe is no longer president of the company…
Godless heathen here.