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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.

2024-06-23 05:27:00

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nice. It’ll probably probably be better than the Google Wi-Fi that I have.

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.

2024-06-21 02:00:20

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I did one on forge.

2024-06-21 01:52:40

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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 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.

2024-06-18 05:19:50

My #Gnome Setup - https://youtu.be/tyRuum27ABo

2024-06-15 08:53:59

Tomorrow I will likely be going back to Gnome. I knew that I would, I only tried KDE again to help sort out some bug reports, so it's not surprising.
I wanted to try to stick around until 6.1 came out. But I don't think I'll make it

2024-06-15 05:22:12

I'm honestly surprised at the number of FOSS folk who are still on X. I still visit from time to time, so I see them posting there

2024-06-14 03:01:59

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I'm a complete American. Would the outcome that you predict be good or bad? On a scale of 1 to France

2024-06-14 02:02:54

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Every older generation thinks that the newer generations have lost their sense of good music. People hated Elvis, Ozzy Osbourne, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Taylor Swift. It is the mark of time passing, we get older our appreciation for new music tends to evaporate.

2024-06-11 08:23:23

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Pure evil

2024-06-11 08:12:49

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Just now you have quite a few people in your audience Googling that word.
:rofl:

2024-06-11 01:43:36

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Also, don't do this unless you have a way to downgrade.

2024-06-11 01:08:31

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We all know that everyone does the exact same work, the exact same way. We all know this.

2024-06-10 20:49:33

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true. and it’s not even the phone. I could easily leave the phone behind. But the Apple Watch is awesome and there’s no android alternative that is good.

2024-06-10 20:43:55

Well, that was a dud.
I always have higher expectations for Apple than what they deliver.
How can they do all this nonsense and still have a subpar notification system?

2024-06-10 19:43:50

Third party watch faces are still a no show on Apple watch.
It sucks because Apple has only one digital watch face that is any good

2024-06-10 18:46:38

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Can't get guake to listen for keybinding

2024-06-10 18:42:33

Anyone know if there is a good dropdown terminal that works with Wayland?
Tilix has a drop-down mode, but it doesn't work with Wayland.
Tilda works, but not very well. Doesn't seem to be able to listen for keybindings.

2024-06-10 03:23:20

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Looks like he did come around a bit, but his latest premium article on the nonsense is still a bit too "I trust Microsoft" for me.

2024-06-10 01:20:05

For those of you who have used urbackup, does it work with multiple sources? i.e. multiple clients backing up to the same server?

2024-06-09 07:53:13

Been a bit, but here's a #2YearLinuxChallenge Check in.
Another month and I will be at an entire year on #openSUSE. Still loving it, and have no real plans to leave. Though at the 2 year mark, I may check out Aeon, or whatever they're calling it.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/585/104/632/073/323/original/9d40468d2d609ae7.png

2024-06-08 21:36:51

No pod this week. We're short a host. I may stream a bit tonight, but I'll let you know for sure if that happens.

2024-06-08 02:32:44

Hey folks!
Took the week off, mostly, from making videos. A little bit of a break for me. I'll be back to doing my normal thing starting tomorrow with the podcast. I have some good stuff coming up!
Matt

2024-06-07 06:17:03

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https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/573/403/481/693/505/original/f2aae672aae30095.jpeg

2024-06-07 06:11:42

So I've been using an Alice layout #keyboard for several months. I really like it, but I've never had a wrist rest that fits it. I've just used a standard straight edge wrist rest. But I just got a walnut rest that is shaped for this board, and goodness does it change the typing experience. It's so cozy.

2024-06-04 01:58:21

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I have backups, so it wouldn't be a horrible thing to lose it. But I'd be pissed because it's brand new

2024-06-04 01:54:57

This should have been a simple operation. Shut the home lab down. Pull the cables out of the back, put in the new pcie cards with the added storage, and then put it all back together. Instead it's been one problem after another and for no reason that I can figure out.
one drive in my jbod enclusure wasn't showing up. Why? Nobody knows. A hard reset (which is just a great thing to do) seemed to have fixed it, but for how long?

2024-06-04 01:46:29

So I got three of the four hdds back up and running. But the hard drive with all of my media on it isn't showing up. Something is wrong with the pass through.

2024-06-04 00:42:04

Now none of my external hard drives will connect at all.
What is going on? Did I piss someone off today or what?
I think it's time for a break.

2024-06-02 20:07:37

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Next time I'll stick around for logs. But hibernate did work, so it wasn't a big deal.

2024-06-02 19:19:05

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Suspend works fine on Gnome, XFCE, and Cinnamon on openSUSE. Only Plasma has an issue.

2024-06-02 18:14:30

The "but it works for me" crowd came out in my mentions last night. Woo boy.

2024-06-02 07:44:40

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Nothing will work short of throwing it in the garbage

2024-06-02 06:44:58

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Hibernate seems to work. I don't care for hibernate as much because the restart time is quite long. Almost a minute to get things back up and running. And that's on an SSD.

2024-06-02 06:32:38

Aaaaand in traditional kde fashion, the computer will not go to sleep. ffs

2024-06-02 05:30:47

Been back using Plasma for 10 minutes. Already reported one bug.
Going to try to be a good Plasma user this time. For a little while.

2024-06-01 02:01:08

Announcement:
We're looking for podcast ideas! If you have a topic you'd like to see us cover on the podcast, DM or Ping me on Discord.
Some guidelines:
- Must be Linux or Home Lab related
- Something we haven't talked about before
If we do your topic on the show, I'll send you an Official TLC Sticker or Magnet.

2024-05-31 07:33:04

So I have been back to using ZSH for the last couple of weeks, this time without ohmyzsh.
For those of you who use zsh, I seem to remember zsh having much better tab complete. Like I could type 'downloads' and it would autocorrect to Downloads.
Mine doesn't do that. I know there's a line in zshrc that needs to be added, I did that. Anyone know why I don't get that feature? Or was that part of omyzsh and I'm just going to have to deal

2024-05-31 07:29:38

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I don't think it has anything to do with thunar, but instead with Gnome. But I may still file a report. As of now it's the best I've got

2024-05-31 07:13:09

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afaik, that doesn't remember position at all. And I'm not sure it has dual pane

2024-05-31 07:10:25

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It remembers the first five that I ever opened in it, and then will remember no more

2024-05-31 07:07:04

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I mean remember the tabs that were opened when closed

2024-05-31 07:05:22

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I know people think that I place too much weight on a file manager, but I can't express how much I use it. I drag and drop things all around, it's my primary way of moving files around the system. I know I could use the terminal, and it dings by nerd cred to admit it, but I don't want to use the terminal to move files around.

2024-05-31 07:03:46

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And then I said eff it, let's install Krusader, and it is horrendous on Gnome. IDK why but it won't resize and the drag and drop causes major freezing. May try Dolphin, but don't have high hopes.
I did install Double Commander again. I don't care for how helter-skelter the settings are, but if I can get it to work the way I want, then so be it.

2024-05-31 07:02:25

It's true. The file mangers for GTK are sub par across the board.
Thunar should be it. But it doesn't remember closing position well. It's supposed to, but it does not. At least past 5 tabs. Also, it has this odd behavior where you open a tab thinking one pane is in focus, but it opens it in the other pane. Very annoying.
Nautilus is still the slowest thing I've ever seen because it does not like that I have my open home folder and the regular location of XDG-DIRS are empty.

2024-05-31 06:50:29

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They do that to scare noobs away.

2024-05-30 03:23:57

Partnering with an AI company means I can no longer trust your output
https://feedpress.me/link/23795/16697372/partnering-with-an-ai-company-means-i-can-no-longer-trust-your-output

2024-05-28 22:34:24

Have you ever used a different keyboard layout?
(Boost please)

2024-05-28 07:08:37

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I will probably stick with obsidian, though I haven't figured out a good way to sync yet, so it's desktop only at the moment. I really don't want to pay for it.
I've tried qownnotes, but I don't want to download the entire Plasma stack

2024-05-28 07:02:48

So my Joplin experiment is over. It's okay, but it keeps eating parts of my notes and I then have to restore them from previous versions and even that doesn't work sometimes.
I'm sure it has something to do with the nextcloud syncing, but I can't be arsed to faff about with it.

2024-05-27 06:12:30

This was really fascinating. https://youtu.be/_Cd6F5_FUt4?si=2WcqAkV0tGGoNMc5
I remember Word Perfect from school, but I had no clue they had their own Distro. Nor did I know that Corel made an ARM based Linux computer for awhile.

2024-05-26 22:00:38

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only in Gnome-world are users supposed to know that, lol

2024-05-25 07:07:34

Every effing time I use a yml file I have problems. I just about abandoned a docker thing I'm working on because it wasn't working. No errors or anything this time.
The problem ended up being, as you all know, those effing spaces. For fuck's sake.

2024-05-25 02:23:53

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I'm going to have to learn what all of that means.

2024-05-25 02:02:02

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Smart. It's TP-SG116E.

2024-05-25 01:55:42

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What's odd though is that this cable works fine when connected to the router, but when it's on the switch it goes down from 1000Mb/s to 8.

2024-05-25 01:01:42

Never had a managed network switch before. This is going to take some learning.

2024-05-23 04:56:03

Progress bars in Linux File Managers are big fat liars. They say they're done transferring something, but are they really? No.
Stop lying to me, Linux.

2024-05-23 01:59:35

If you listen to the podcast I'd be very grateful if you left us a review!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-linux-cast/id1247065729

2024-05-22 03:45:20

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IDK if you've ever used Arch or not, but patterns are basically like Arch groups.

2024-05-22 03:19:44

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The individual packages on openSUSE are available. But for whatever reason the pattern doesn't include them. Even if installed through YaST, they're not there.

2024-05-22 00:18:47

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doesn't install libvirt or libvirt-daemon

2024-05-22 00:13:55

I always forget that the kvm/qemu pattern on #opensuse is broken.

2024-05-21 01:30:34

May be going to Jellyfin instead of Plex. I cannot for the life of me get it to see all of my TV show files. It seems most, but leaves whole or complete seasons out, despite there being the correct metadata for those shows attached.

2024-05-21 00:37:30

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The comment section is mostly spot on. That is a horrible feature

2024-05-20 22:42:33

Fun fact about me: I know the words to more Bloodhound Gang songs than I probably should.

2024-05-20 05:28:52

Anyone know of a good alternative to Kavita for eBooks? I don't care for calibre no matter how powerful it is. That UI is just a complete non-starter.
Tried Komga, but couldn't get it to work.

2024-05-18 05:47:41

The comments on my videos have been way more negative lately. Not sure what I'm doing differently.

2024-05-16 21:07:49

Guess who has a proxmox cluster?
This guy.
No clue what I'll do with the second server. Probably will be off most of the time.
But, I had fun.

2024-05-16 19:26:22

Got myself a network switch. Thought I was being all "admin-like." Got it all set up, and all my private and my public IP addresses changed. lol.
I still know jack shit about networking.

2024-05-16 08:06:34

Anyone else using NFS find that it doesn't work well with any file manager? It causes them to freeze quite often. Both Thunar and Krusader do this.

2024-05-16 04:37:58

Bought me a Zima Board. Dunno what I'll do with it yet, but I will find something.

2024-05-16 04:00:16

I Finally Tried #Joplin - https://youtu.be/GWIU1atIOIo #Linux #Productivity #apps

2024-05-15 07:03:52

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I thought OnionOS had sleep as one of the features? I thought I saw that on YouTube.

2024-05-15 07:02:01

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I'm not sure what one I have, tbh. They have so many different models. I just know that I need different firmware, because there is no sleep on this thing so the battery life is atrocious.

2024-05-15 06:59:59

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I have an ambernic (not sure of the spelling) that is like the MiyooMini. I need to find a custom firmware for that one too, as onionos won't work.

2024-05-15 06:43:39

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Did you use custom firmware? I haven't installed onion on mine yet.

2024-05-14 20:10:03

AI always looks cool. The demos are awesome. But then you go use it and it's not nearly as good as they make it seem.
Maybe in 10 years, it will be good.
I do wish there was more FOSS built into this movement.

2024-05-14 19:35:51

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lol, that was impressive, but it's like a cut scene for a video game back when E3 was a thing. Reality is always much less impressive.
But they get too bogged down at IO.

2024-05-14 19:27:39

I said this last year, but it is still very much true: Apple does these events much better than Google does. #googleio #io

2024-05-14 07:16:53

The Bloodhound Gang has a movie? How did I not know this?
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/437/742/795/237/173/original/cce66512794deb6e.png

2024-05-13 04:01:02

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Nope.

2024-05-12 07:19:01

The Fuq is Gnome Commander? How is there a Gnome file manager that I've never heard of before? https://gcmd.github.io

2024-05-10 03:34:25

I'm really very disappointed in MusicBrainz Picard. I was told it was going to save my music collection and me a bunch of time. But out of 50k tracks, it found 5 tracks that needed to be corrected. 5.
Not so magical.

2024-05-10 02:31:49

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I like flameshot. But can't get it to work

2024-05-10 01:20:01

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too basic.

2024-05-10 00:42:53

I think the lack of a good screenshot utility is what's going to get me to leave #Gnome behind. The default one is not great, and none of the others that work on Wayland work for me on Gnome. Get the same errors with grim/slurp and flameshot.

2024-05-09 07:31:48

The first post on my new #books blog https://www.thebookieblog.com/my-new-blog/
#reading #amreading #fantasy #bookstodon

2024-05-09 05:46:28

If I wanted to started a blog, but had no interest in managing the software of it, which platform should I choose? Honestly been out of the blogging space for so long, I have no idea what the options are outside of managed wordpress.

2024-05-09 00:37:05

Anyone know if there's a good alternative for Flameshot that works well with Wayland?

2024-05-08 04:03:22

Anyone else notice that kdenlive is slower in Gnome?

2024-05-05 23:00:26

The coolest thing I've learned about in the last three weeks has been autofs. Ngl, it has changed my opinion on nfs.

2024-05-05 13:51:45

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they have inconsistent rounded edges. That was what I tooted about originally. And even some apps I know to be gtk4 aren't consistent. Nautilus itself has a slightly different radius on one side.

2024-05-05 13:44:59

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yeah that's wrong. Or at least not entirely accurate. The corners aren't consistent on Gnome apps either. It is worse on non Gnome apps, that I'll give you.

2024-05-05 06:42:10

The thing I've learned most during my three weeks setting up home lab stuff is that I don't know shit about networking.

2024-05-05 02:40:20

Dear #Gnome devs,
Please, for the love of all that is good and holy in this world, do something about your rounded corners. Just choose a radius and make them all the same. Instead, you have some that are just square. some that have one radius and some that have another.
Sincerely,
Everyone.