theshatterstone54

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theshatterstone54 ,

You only ... try Linux Distros?

Oh.

Year Of The Linux Desktop.

What proton games are: completely ownable with no nonsense and a solid community?

I'm old-naughties internet café crew from around the era of the original Counter Strike through CoD MWF3 and Battlefield 2042. I wouldn't mind reliving the nostalgia of that era, and have more than enough machine to do it now. I have zero tolerance for micro transactions, gatekeeping, or software as a service business models. I...

theshatterstone54 ,

Is there a simple guide to Bottles? I have used Arch and NixOS, I use a tiling Window Manager, and I use the terminal daily, and even then, I still find Linux gaming to be quite confusing (probably related to the fact I'm not the paying type; I'm more of a "sail the seven seas" type).

Am I the only one preferring low quality media over high quality one?

I have a very slow Internet connection (5 Mbps down, and even less for upload). Given that, I always download movies at 720p, since they have low file size, which means I can download them more quickly. Also, I don't notice much of a difference between 1080p and 720p. As for 4K, because I don't have a screen that can display 4K,...

theshatterstone54 ,

I usually go for 720p to 1080p, as my monitor is at 1080p. I wouldn't really compromise quality further. But even if I had a 4k screen, I probably wouldn't go for 4k cuz downloads take too long. What I'm saying is I like balance

theshatterstone54 ,

And it runs great! Only solution for YT on TV.

theshatterstone54 ,

Can you give me a tldr or a source for a tldr of setting up real-debrid with stremio?

theshatterstone54 ,

proceeds to get std

theshatterstone54 ,

Omg it's Computerphile and Dr. Mike Pound! He's a lecturer at the Uni of Nottingham where I'm studying! Met him and other Computerphile lecturers a few times (I even had some of them as my lecturers) and they're all a wonderful bunch!

theshatterstone54 ,

Good stuff! COSMIC is one of the major tech releases I'm actively looking forward to this year!

theshatterstone54 ,

I'd argue that no system truly works for larger groups.

more susceptible to corruption

I couldn't disagree more. Any system is very susceptible to corruption. It's all about accountability and transparency, which those in power will never make themselves do, because it is actively harming them by stripping them of opportunities to amass more power and influence.

And that is true in any system. Communist states became totalitarian dictatorships, while Capitalist nations also grow more corrupt because of greed and power lust, to the point where you see things like "the revolving door" in the USA, or the Tory party donors essentially paying for peerages in the UK. And of course, there's also lobbying.

Corruption is everywhere and the common man gets screwed over regardless of the system or people in charge, because the good people are always too good to compete, fight, and play dirty against these politicians so the winners are always the evil ones.

theshatterstone54 ,

That's not what I said. I said everywhere is terrible.

And to be honest, yes, other places have it worse. I used to live in arguably the worst nation in Eastern Europe and I like in the UK now. I sure as hell know which one gibes me more life opportunities, higher quality and diversity of jobs, better education and higher quality of life.

And that's without even considering the places that are at war.

So yes, people in other places have it much much worse.

Now in terms of nihilism, I actually see myself as more of an absurdist, as ultimately I'll carry on living in this meaningless universe in spite of its lack of meaning and I will achieve a level of success and satisfaction with my own achievements, (hell, I kinda already have) in spite of the aforementioned bastards politicians.

theshatterstone54 ,

Best alias confirmed

proceeds to add it to .bashrc and .zshrc

theshatterstone54 ,

Wait, what?

theshatterstone54 ,

I HAVE heard about thefuck!

theshatterstone54 ,

How are you running COSMIC? I'm on Fedora.

theshatterstone54 ,

And it works and seems to be regularly updated! Thanks for bringing this to my attention!

theshatterstone54 , (edited )

You're not missing out on much

Seems that you're right. It's almost usable currently, but it lacks some essential things for me, mainly some further snappiness and customisable key binds (old habits die hard and I'm not adapting my habits and workflow to new keybinds).

But after these get fixed, I can see myself potentially running COSMIC. This makes me even more excited for what the future will bring.

Edit: Also, sloppy focus aka focus-follows-mouse

And an option for static workspaces i.e a set number of workspaces that are constantly there, instead of dynamic workspaces that close with your windows and change your workflow because you closed the window on Workspace 4 so workspace 5 is now workspace 4 so when you go looking for the window on workspace 5, it's not there.

theshatterstone54 ,

I don't like light themes because they can be too bright, even on lower brightness but this... I kinda like it. In fact, it reminds me of this Brodie Robertson video on Light Themes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95dYgp3f-7w (I'm counting on the Piped bot to offer a more private way of playing the video)

TLDW: Modern Light themes are bad because they're blinding and too bright. A good light theme will not be just white but something that isn't as bright while still looking good and not blinding you.

theshatterstone54 ,

GNOME doesn't break, extensions do.

theshatterstone54 ,

*he says as GNOME is literally THE desktop to go against EVERY OTHER DESKTOP on Wayland issues and to keep on delaying major fixes further for bullshit reasons. Delaying or not adding features users want, for ideological reasons is the exact reason that Wayland is still not ready even though development started in 2008.

theshatterstone54 ,

Okay, I agree with that. CSD/SSD is a great example

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theshatterstone54 ,

Is Blackrock a major investor in either or both of them?

theshatterstone54 ,

Not really. They just get replaced by the people leading the revolution (there are exceptions of course, like Robespierre in the French Revolution).

theshatterstone54 ,

Github-associated emails

I hope this gets taken seriously by CISA and they are ntact Microsoft and the email providers to see what sort of information can be found out about these "individuals". I'm usually against tracking but in this case, it can help us understand more about the malicious actors, like, are their IPs coming from a certain state, or are they all isong a VPN, and if so, which one? And then, if applicable, getting in touch with the VPN provider and getting as much data as possible.

How about using that data to aid in investigations (as it jas beem done mamy times before)? I mean, imagine this turns out to be a state actor! We need to know what's happening. We need to know if these are connected. And this information can help predict their next move.

To quote Gandalf from the LOTR films (not sure if that quote is in the books):

"Send word to all our allies... The enemy's moving against us. We need to know where he will strike".

Also, first they tried to strike Linux systems, then they tried to strike the Web. What's next? If anyone has any ideas, feel free to share them here, as we can get an idea of what projects need to be more vigilant.

theshatterstone54 ,

They're not yet switching to GTK3. They're backporting GTK3 features to GTK2.

theshatterstone54 ,

While not necessarily related, this article reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlRxMUb-1MA

theshatterstone54 ,

Adding to that, I'm not sure if it's just me, but Android, even with root, feels so restrictive compared to a Linux distro. A good example is that I tried to remove a system file the other day (notification sounds, I hated them and wanted them gone for good) but even when I found what the file was, I couldn't delete it using conventional methods aka file managers. I even tried using Zarchiver with root privileges, and it failed. The same happened when I had to deal with recent Android versions making the Android/obb dir read-only. The only way I could access these is via Termux and that is just kinda disappointing for a system that claims to be supposedly open.

Now, I'm not expecting this to be possible on mobile Linux, but the expectations there are different.

Anyways, rant aside, what I'm really saying is I'm excited for Mobile Linux, specifically Plasma Mobile (as I already tried Phosh and it was pretty good, but I haven't got a device Plasma Mobile). I hope that I can daily drive it one day, just using Waydroid for some apps like WhatsApp, Banking Apps, and other essential proprietary apps.

theshatterstone54 ,

Yeah, but actual Linux, even immutable, still feels more open. I don't like the default look and feel of the system? There's only so much I can do on Android, while on mobile Linux, I can even install SXMO, which is a mobile tiling window manager.

theshatterstone54 ,

I've been wondering about how feasible an all-systemd system would be. Like, take Arch and do a manual install but replace everything possible with systemd. Resolved, networkd, (whatever the fstab alternative is called), systemd-boot (of course) etc. And just have everything replaced by systemd as much as possible. It's an interesting idea and ClearLinux essentially did just that so I might check it out for inspiration.

theshatterstone54 ,

Holy crap, that dude is just next level. He's talking about getting absolutely everything encrypted, and here I am, not even having my root partition encrypted.

theshatterstone54 ,

Like honestly, what the fuck is wrong with people? I remember adding random people on Snap (back then, I used it a lot for scambaiting so I'd talk to deposit scammers a lot) and in my recommended, there was a person called "(name-of-girl) Dog" so you would think maybe it's just a person posting pictures of their dog on their stories, right? Wrong. (Content warning) >! It's a girl selling videos of her fucking her dog !< I just noped out of there, didn't even try to find out if it was real (should hopefully be fake, as regular pic sellers usually are, but you never know).

theshatterstone54 ,

So in short, does the evidence linked mean that Jewish history and origin don't align sith the Bible? Shocker. As if anything in there shouldn't be taken with a bucketful of salt.

theshatterstone54 ,

So... the origin aligns with the bible, but what happened after that, doesn't? Sorry if I'm being annoying, I'm still a bit sleepy and trying to make sense of this.

theshatterstone54 , (edited )

I really like the idea of user-friendly selfhosting (which is essentially what this company is offering, I mean hell, I've had similar business ideas floating around in my head too) BUT any company that has:

  1. an in-the-know marketing team

  2. Any employees that are somewhat technical enough (which should be guaranteed for a company with this sort of product

  3. NOT a scam

Would know what a HUGE risk reputation-wise it is to showcase crypto-related selfhosting on the FRONT page. It's like a "build-a-red-flag" or "destroy-our-reputation" speedrun. Even IF you want to offer this, anyone in-the-know with at least 3 braincells would bury this deep in the page and make it difficult to find (if they were well-intentioned in the first place) because at this point anything crypto, especially being the main offering, is a huge red flag.

If instead, they offered a nextcloud instance, for example, or Pihole as an adblocker, or some other good and common services, maybe a selfhosted VPN (or maybe not, because of the stupid and misleading ads of VPN companies), they would be seen as 100% more legit.

Edit: Just checked their marketplace and they have:

Jellyfin

Vaultwarden

FreeGPT-2

Gitea

Matrix

Nextcloud

Their own service for TOR pages

Ghost (a blogging platform)

SearxNG (a search engine)

I mean, add Wordpress, Pihole and some other friendly services, and advertise THOSE!!! Build your own Google (SearxNG)! Build your own MS Office online and OneDrive (Nextcloud)! Build your own Github (Gitea)! Build your own Discord (Matrix)! Build your own password manager (Vaultwarden)! Build your own Netflix (Jellyfin)!

theshatterstone54 ,

Fair point. But even if they were legit in any way, I'm already positioned not to trust them.

theshatterstone54 ,

IIRC, the original "blood is thicker than water" quote is actually "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" which means those that stand by you and fight and struggle with you, and are there for you, are more valuable than those biologically related to you.

theshatterstone54 ,

The day Louis pets the cat will be a legendary one

theshatterstone54 ,

Here's the thing: I'm excited about the tech and its potential uses. BUT there's a reason why I still steer clear of any project that hasn't built up reputation for years. If the project is worthwhile, early adopters will find out and eventually, it will grow over many years. Then it could be considered somewhat "trustworthy".

theshatterstone54 ,

There is no perfect Linux distro.

If your current choice (of anything eg. partners) is 90% of the way there, don't spend all your time chasing for those last 10%, as if you do, more often than not, you will lose the other 90% for the sake of these 10%.

theshatterstone54 ,

Well then good for you! Can you compromise on those 10%?

theshatterstone54 ,

Yes. Numerous COPR repos not updated aside, my sddm theme broke and doesn't detect Qtgraphicaleffects (which is installed). You know what the weirdest part is? There are 2 "dependencies" for the theme: quickcontrols and graphicaleffects, and luckily, quickcontrols was detected properly. I ended up rewriting the theme, and while it works, it is far from where it needs to be. Safe to say, I'm very annoyed.

Edit: I actually did a clean install, as I tried some other distros a few days before F40 released.

theshatterstone54 ,

I don't use plasma so definitely not plasma issues. I use SDDM on the Sway Edition and then install Hyprland as my Wayland Compositor of choice.

Enabling Tap-to-click in SDDM Wayland (Fedora 40 Sway)? (SOLVED)

Essentially as the title says, I'm running SDDM with the Wayland backend on Fedora 40 Sway edition and I want to enable tap-to-click for my touchpad. Any ideas on how I can do that? I tried doing it in the xorf config but then I realised the x server isn't even installed so SDDM is actually running on Wayland, and I don't know...

theshatterstone54 OP ,

I should have clarified, as I don't have plasma installed, I don't think sddm can use kwin.

In fact, the docs say it normally uses "weston --kiosk" by default

theshatterstone54 OP ,

What AI service did you use to get this? It doesn't work, but ChatGPT (3.5) just told me to edit the xorg config to add tap-to-click (which I did but it didn't do anything, probably because X11 is not installed)

theshatterstone54 ,

Everyone I've heard mention it pronounces it as antics so I guess that's the right one

theshatterstone54 ,

And that's why It's great to have choice. Also, if you start off in CLI, it can be quite overwhelming. The first time I had to partition my drive I was super scared not to mess it up. A few months later I knew exactly what I was doing.... when I was using a graphical installer or Gparted. Earlier today, I partitioned my drive using cfdisk (fdisk feels kinda painful; press this, then this, and if, like me, you don't know the commands by heart, it can take too long), and I installed Arch manually cuz I was bored. It was my first time doing a manual install with systemd-boot (always did grub in the past), so I didn't realise I had to write my own boot entries for all 3 kernels (mainline, zen and lts), and because of font issues, I just switched back to Fedora (going up a version from 39 to 40 in the process) where I had an issue with a qt component that meant my sddm theme was not working. It isn't the theme's fault, that's for sure, as it worked perfectly on Fedora 39 and elsewhere, and because pretty much all themes I could find relied on this qt module (it's qtgraphicaleffects, packaged as qt5-qtgraphicaleffects on Fedora) , I got a bit angry and then sat down and rewrote the theme, removing any dependency on graphicaleffects (was only used for drop shadows in some popups), though for some reason some of the colours also got a bit funky but it works and it works well (I also had to hide one of the popups but it wasn't an essential one).

But I digress. Point is, if it's more comfortable for you, you'll use it. If it isn't but you want it to be, then to ill force yourself to use and get better. If you don't, you just won't. That's the power of choice in Linux.

theshatterstone54 ,

I agree that standardisation is good, but sudo is already a standard. If anything, I think this might, once again, split things further by creating another competing standard. It's like that XKCD. But to be honest, I'm not an admin or enterprise customer yet, so I don't know if this might not be an improvement. On an individual level, I'd be okay with run0 becoming a standard if it's good enough, as long as we get a sudoedit or "sudo -e" replacement too, as I only discovered it about 2 months ago, but I already use it a lot.

theshatterstone54 ,

If RHEL is as shit as you say, what do you recommend companies switch to?

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