Matt :opensuse: :kdelight:

Linux and FOSS advocate. Writer and Historian by trade. Weekly podcasts at thelinuxcast.org and Linux related videos on Youtube!

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2024-09-07 23:37:12

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@npub127e…sjmm the issue with elementary is that it doesn't ever get updated.

2024-09-06 05:37:58

On September 5, 2020, I started The Linux Cast YouTube channel. In the four years since then the channel has grown further than I ever imagined it would. 9.9 Million views, 53,000 subscribers and over 1000 videos.
Thanks to everyone who has supported me along the way.

2024-09-04 02:58:43

So my editing experience with Resolve is excellent. I really, though, need to get it working on openSUSE, where I have way more RAM available.

2024-09-03 02:28:08

Please don't cancel #NaNoWriMo. I know the AI shit was a bad take, but surely we can work around that?

2024-09-03 02:06:08

Hmm. To edit a video or play a video game? That is the question.

2024-08-31 22:12:13

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@npub1xsl…ku66 I wish that the moonlander used vial like this one does. It is so much better than the way zsa does it

2024-08-30 22:46:07

I now have six videos recorded and ready for editing.
Three more today.
On a roll.
Will edit one to post tonight.

2024-08-24 05:50:29

So, I'm returning to Firefox for a video I'm planning and goodness is it slow. IDK if it is just something going on on my PC or if Vivaldi is just that much faster.

2024-08-12 05:34:54

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@npub1372…950w I'm hoping that I can stick on Wayland as it works better with multiple monitors

2024-08-12 05:15:54

So I have decided to buy an Nvidia card for my main rig instead of buying a laptop. It was the cheaper option. I do need a different laptop, but that can wait, and I can then just buy old and used like I normally do.
This means that I will be going with an NVIDIA card in my daily driver for the first time in several years. It may also mean going back to xorg, but we'll see. There may be some content possibilities here, too, to talk about the progress that NVIDIA has made. We'll see.

2024-08-08 22:05:06

Share your home screen.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/928/194/627/481/549/original/e1387235a5f3a0e7.png

2024-08-08 01:50:11

So, I am getting faster on my new keyboard. It is no longer painful to type out a toot or a message in Discord. Monkeytype says that I'm around 40 words per minute. Definitely faster than I ever got with the moonlander.
Overall, I'm liking it a lot. I need better wrist rests, but that will be for later. The ones I have are too light and move around.
The biggest issue that I'm having is with the space and enter keys. I am so used to those having stabalizers on them. They are now way too light

2024-08-05 20:51:43

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@npub1372…950w its not by keychron

2024-08-05 20:00:35

Ooooh boy.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/910/718/155/687/388/original/801c24f06157d4c8.jpeg

2024-08-03 01:02:04

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@npub1372…950w plus that price. That's horrible

2024-08-03 00:42:31

Lol. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2040844

2024-08-01 16:00:59

Spelling "yeah" "yah" must me a new Gen Z thing.

2024-07-28 19:05:29

Apparently my merch shop has been down for about a week. I had no clue. I've worked on it, and the problem is (of course) DNS. I've emailed Fourthwall support, we'll see how long it takes them to get back with me.

2024-07-28 07:31:27

The bluefin and aurora isos are huge.
I think the days of "itty bitty" isos is over.

2024-07-21 21:08:02

So what's going on in the world? I'm sure there's nothing big that I've missed.

2024-07-20 07:17:28

If anyone knows of an easy (as in for dummies) way of getting large files from Windows to Linux, I'd be appreciative. Something that isn't Samba.
Samba hates me. I do have it set up, but the permissions are fucked. I"ll keep working on it, but I think that if Samba was a person it would murder my family.

2024-07-20 01:20:58

With Immich going paid, I will probably not make a video about it. I know they say that nothing will change if you don't pay, but really, how many times have we heard that when a company has been aquired.

2024-07-19 19:00:27

Good day to be a Linux user.

2024-07-18 05:22:51

New Blog Post - A Trackball Problem - https://thelinuxcast.org/posts/2024/ATrackballProblem/

2024-07-15 19:55:03

YouTubers confuse the hell out of me. Given that I are one, that says a lot.
Content creators who don't cover politics, decide that they need to add their two cents to the current political atmosphere, and then get all upset when their comment section blows up with people on both sides fighting each other. If you cover tech, cover tech. If you cover sports, cover sports. Stay the fuq out of politics.

2024-07-13 08:19:52

Somehow, and I'm not sure how this is even possible, Apple has made notifications in iOS 18 even worse than they were before.
I'm using the beta, and if they don't get at least back to where they were, I'm switching back to Android.
At least the stupid "siri summary" of notifications can be turned off.

2024-07-10 22:51:50

Of course every Debian/Ubuntu user things apt is WAY faster than Zypper. They get 4 updates a month.

2024-07-07 00:15:52

After being back in a tiling window manager now for a few days, I have to admit, that there are quite a few things that I really miss about being in a desktop environment.

2024-07-05 07:42:13

Don't tell anyone.
I bought another keyboard.
#MechanicalkKeyboard

2024-07-04 08:20:18

So this was the result of my day of ricing. Also, just a few days from 1 year. #2YearLinuxChallenge #openSUSE
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/726/770/375/338/149/original/875a7611f79d6a21.png

2024-07-02 02:58:08

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@npub1z50…uchn That's awesome! /s
I guess I can roll back. Any clue what package broke it? Pipewire..something something?

2024-07-02 02:38:47

Was going to make a nice video about #KDE Plasma 6.1 tonight. Got to the point where I wanted to *show* plasma, and the damn screen capture isn't working. No clue why.

2024-06-30 06:02:38

I'm going to start doing something that @npub1v5g…uu94 talked about on the last podcast: keeping my own documentation.
I may not distrohop anymore, but I still do stuff, and it would be nice to have a record of how I did stuff.

2024-06-30 05:18:09

I need a better backup solution than rsync. That's the lesson I've learned today.
I didn't lose anything, at least not anything important, but my rsync destination directory is a mess.

2024-06-29 21:49:09

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@npub1s6a…9skl Yes, that was a little bonus for people. I know the audio was bad.

2024-06-29 20:54:10

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@npub1s6a…9skl you mean the LUG? Yeah we should have muted Jerry

2024-06-29 09:09:57

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@npub14nh…50uw is that with 8gb of RAM or 16?

2024-06-29 07:24:47

So maybe not a Mac? IDK yet. I can literally get two mini PCs with Nvidia graphics (which Resolve will love) for the same price as a Mac mini with lower specs.
But I'd have to run Windows. 🤮

2024-06-29 05:54:13

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@npub17z2…dlsy my current system doesn't support GPU passthrough. Sadly.

2024-06-29 05:19:25

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@npub1t78…9kwd I just downloaded it, for some reason it won't let me connect to the internet to create an account. lame.

2024-06-29 05:14:38

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@npub1zja…zx8p Yeah, that's what I've been looking at. Though I admit that I did glance at the Mac Studio.

2024-06-29 03:57:00

So because I truly am sick of kdenlive, and all the other video editing options on Linux are not good, I think I am going to start researching setting up a Mac Mini or Studio to do my editing on.
What I need to decide now is just how much I really want to spend. Fuckers are expensive, and I really don't want to do it at all. But I've been burned so much lately by kdenlive.

2024-06-29 03:47:54

I've spent a couple of hours trying to get Davinci Resolve to work (both natively and with distrobox) and have mostly failed. I did get it to launch, but actually doing anything with it seems to not work at all.
kdenlive is stil broken. And it doesn't have anything to do with long clips. Shorter videos have the same issue. Will play fine for a little bit and then about 5 minutes in, it stops playing and a horrible sound replaces all audio. If you do a cut, it will start playing again.

2024-06-29 02:18:20

Moving from a finger tracker to a thumb tracker trackball is not as easy as I thought it would be.
My Elecom HUGE died and I didn't find another finger tracker version that I liked. I love the HUGE, but they do not last long at all.

2024-06-28 22:37:18

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@npub18tc…e06t https://youtu.be/P6IW6bJX0j0?si=7Shkhzxd-vN0Sq6m
I didn't watch so maybe it's just cliclbait

2024-06-28 19:39:45

For those of you who disabled Packman to get around the MESA bug this past week on #openSUSE, it is now safe to re-enable it. You may or may not need to reinstall codecs. Also, make sure you --allow-vendor-change on zypper dup.

2024-06-28 19:27:03

Anyone who uses openSUSE know if it's okay to re-enable the packman repo now? Is the mesa version where it needs to be? I think the issues I've been having with kdenlive and VLC have to do with lack of codecs.

2024-06-28 18:59:45

I am not going to open up Steam until after the Summer Sale is over. I don't need more games and I know if I see a sale, I'd break my promise not to buy any new games.

2024-06-28 13:43:16

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@npub1m9m…vxlm nope.

2024-06-28 10:14:41

I have now started to render the LUG for the fourth time. This last time, it rendered a completely white screen as the output.
I'm getting a Mac. I'm going to do my editing on there. I am so effing done with Kdenlive.

2024-06-28 07:53:00

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@npub196g…6gjh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6IW6bJX0j0

2024-06-28 07:52:48

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@npub196g…6gjh Chris Titus Tech

2024-06-28 05:31:15

There is a video for today. It isn't rendered yet and I will have to re-render it because I couldn't do the edits I wanted to do because kdenlive is a PoS, and doesn't like videos over 2 hours. So it will be uploaded after midnight.

2024-06-28 01:23:01

I just #read Storm Front. Here's a cool #infographic about it made with #booklyapp
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/691/155/903/096/960/original/f2ab27833b22da69.png

2024-06-27 22:23:00

Are we ever going to get quote toots? I know they said yes, but that was well over a year ago. #mastodon #fosstodon

2024-06-27 04:07:25

I've been on Plasma for a little while now, and one thing I will say, Gnome's apps are prettier.

2024-06-27 02:41:45

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@npub1s6a…9skl That still means they go down about a day every couple of months, that claim would still be true. Every ISP says that

2024-06-27 02:36:33

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@npub1s6a…9skl They're okay. They have outages like all the rest do, but it works most of the time. Good customer service most of the time too

2024-06-26 09:07:21

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@npub1r9e…ks8r lol, I know. But it's video material.
Also, I was bored with Gnome. At least the bugs in KDE make life interesting.

2024-06-26 07:20:41

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@npub1s6a…9skl Yeah we have WOW. It's all we can get here.

2024-06-26 01:38:57

We'll be podcasting in about 45 minutes! Come join us live - https://youtube.com/live/BrVM1KqeAgU?feature=share

2024-06-25 19:24:51

This right here is why Linus comes across as so unlikable. I even unsubscribed there for a bit because he kept bragging about his multi-million dollar house three or four times a week.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/678/422/950/162/777/original/7f56d5306b07e317.png

2024-06-25 06:11:39

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@npub1evc…l0jt Push pins.
I don't think that's the best way, but most of the ones I had to hang were really hard to reach, so it was easier for me.

2024-06-25 05:50:47

The hardest thing about hanging acoustic panels is hanging them straight and even.
A task I have completely failed at. But they won't be on camera, so I don't care for right now.
When I get my new desk, and I can actually stand close to the wall, I'll hang them up better.

2024-06-25 03:27:13

Tiling Shell Update Adds New Keyboard Shortcuts + More
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/06/tiling-shell-extension-adds-new-keyboard-shortcuts #Gnome

2024-06-25 03:19:19

Yes, I hung some acoustic panels up. So my next video should sound better.
I did, hang them up with thumbtacks. Not the way you're supposed to do it, I know. But double-sided tape is about as sticky as used saran wrap.

2024-06-25 02:03:36

It's always delicious irony when I see a warning like this on a #FanFiction
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/674/328/213/800/258/original/c42980e073fbf766.png

2024-06-24 07:27:40

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@npub15p4…6j42 At least then, you get the toenail!

2024-06-24 05:53:16

Now this is a must have. :rofl:
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/669/569/418/388/556/original/da008f6617dde413.png

2024-06-23 05:27:00

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@npub1s6a…9skl nice. It’ll probably probably be better than the Google Wi-Fi that I have.

2024-06-23 03:34:53

New Blog post: Things I'd Do Differently - YouTube edition. https://thelinuxcast.org/posts/2024/Youtube%20Things%20I%20would%20do%20different/
Patrons get these blog posts early! https://patreon.com/thelinuxcast

2024-06-22 23:51:16

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@npub153d…8wks I thought so too, but none of them show up with lsblk or blkid. They do show up under hardware in the VM settings, which is why I could pass them through.

2024-06-22 21:09:57

For those of you who use Proxmox, can I mount USB external hard drives to the Proxmox itself (ie not a VM) and then use those as an NFS share to the VMs I create? Right now I do usb passthrough to a VM and then use that as an NFS server, but i am having connectivity problems.

2024-06-22 09:09:17

My audio has been terrible lately.
Working on fixing that.

2024-06-21 07:55:46

Does anyone know in Gnome if there's an alternative to the icons representing the pinned favorites in the panel? I'd like something similar to the Window Task list on KDE (ie. old school way Windows did it).

2024-06-21 03:50:46

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@npub1dvv…0lsd I used to be that guy. Then I got multiple monitors with different resolutions. Wayland handles that *much* better

2024-06-21 03:21:07

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@npub150q…k9uu It's not perfect, but it works. Why? No clue.

2024-06-21 03:01:15

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@npub150q…k9uu Scrub with cold water and while doing so rub your hands all over with a metal spoon. At least that works with onions

2024-06-21 01:52:52

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@npub10k3…7au2 Wayland support?

2024-06-21 01:52:40

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@npub196g…6gjh I did. Forge is good, paperwm is just confusing

2024-06-21 01:43:19

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The funny thing is, I just wrote a blog post and posted it on Patreon about how much I really missed window managers.

2024-06-21 01:37:34

Don't tell anyone, but I kind of miss Gnome.

2024-06-20 18:03:38

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@npub1m9m…vxlm It won't remove any packages, it just prevents them from updating. When you do dup, make sure you use --allow-vendor-change

2024-06-20 16:56:27

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To disable a repo in openSUSE:
sudo zypper lr
That will list the repos you have. Find the number next to Packman. Then:
sudo zypper mr -d
#of the repo

2024-06-20 16:53:43

For those of you who have been waiting to do an update on #openSUSE, you can now do so. HOWEVER, make sure you disable the PACKMAN repo. If you don't, you'll still get the messed up version of MESA

2024-06-20 11:51:40

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@npub1eaz…rd9t 45 days.

2024-06-20 09:24:37

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@npub1vf2…nm06 Unsure. All Iknow is that panels were not showing up, and even deleting the extension files did nothing.
Was a good excuse to leave Gnome behind in any event

2024-06-20 09:09:41

So I tried to go back to KDE, but it is completely borked right now. Not sure if it's due to the update mess that's going on with openSUSE or not, but it was a no go. So snapper rollback, and I'm going to try to go back to Hyprland. I don't trust it, but we'll see.
Honestly, I'm about half a jig away from just saying screw it and finding myself an XOrg window manager that I can curl up in.

2024-06-20 09:03:44

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@npub1as5…q2dh if you're on openSUSE avoid it. It's completely borked.

2024-06-20 08:11:10

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@npub1as5…q2dh I will probably end up on KDE again. I can manage its bugginess better than I can handle Gnome's limitation and the fickleness of the extensions.

2024-06-20 06:32:59

My Gnome experiment ended after 45 days.
Dash to panel broke and I couldn't get it to work again. I don't care for dash to dock, and the vanilla layout does nothing for me.

2024-06-20 04:45:51

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@npub1s6a…9skl that sucks. It can miss us

2024-06-20 01:59:58

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@npub16md…jj6j I don't know how even Mel Brooks can do Mel Brooks justice with the way the media has to be PC today.
Can you imagine Blazing Saddles being done today? It would suck.

2024-06-20 01:07:24

‘Spaceballs’ Sequel in Development at Amazon MGM With Josh Gad Starring, Mel Brooks Producing
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/spaceballs-2-josh-gad-mel-brooks-amazon-mgm-1236041375/

2024-06-19 19:37:19

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@npub1vf2…nm06 Not really an improvement.

2024-06-19 02:00:50

We'll be podcasting in about 15 minutes! https://youtube.com/live/vSPG3YxwY3Y?feature=share

2024-06-19 00:03:49

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@npub1mnp…932u Um actually... GNU/Linux, yada yada.
That was uncalled for, Matt.

2024-06-18 23:49:23

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@npub1l3g…vu48 Yup. But it's all Mesa's fault. Granted they really shouldn't have pushed it. This was apparently a known issue according to the mailing lists

2024-06-18 23:44:56

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@npub122s…c682 I've used it for almost a year, this is the first time I've had an update bork

2024-06-18 23:26:26

WARNING: To those who use Tumbleweed and the MESA drivers, DO NOT UPDATE!
https://forums.opensuse.org/t/catastrophic-result-after-todays-graphics-driver-update/175911/11
This is happening to loads of people. (Including me).