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zim wiki! — anybody here use zim wiki? if you use it, what do you use it for? besides organizing information, i also use it as a static site generator for one of my blogs. at first its output seemed a little limiting, but after making several custom templates to my aesthetic/functional liking, the fact that it's rudimentary turned out perfect for me. instead of thinking about how i will structure my new "today's-post".html file into my site, or instead of rewriting my website navigation if i...
Linux Foundation is nuts. — Words are words, and like any blunt object may be used as a weapon or a stepstool. Unfortunately the Linux foundation, instead of focusing on Linux wants to change our language under the banner of 'diversity and inclusivity' by banning words. Master/Slave, valid engineering terms, out. Retarding, nope. I imagine, delayed is also frowned upon. Blacklist is not allowed. Whitelisting is also racist. Black anything is a nono. How about brown, yellow, pink, rainbow or...
With the release of Debian 13 which includes KDE 6.3 I find myself tempted to switch away from Fedora. Nothing against it but I think I might be getting too old for weekly updates! With flatpak I have as recent software as I want and for CLIs and libs, well, I don’t need everything latest… There’s still some FOMO but then again almost everything out there comes in a .deb to begin with! Has anyone here made the transition to the slow lane?
is there any way to get the git status in a couple characters? (ie +32 -10) for a custom prompt? i tried researching but the closest i could find was git diff --shortstat, which is one line but very very long
So... I have a problem. Just switched back to Fedora, and it was going fine, until I restarted today, and now my system is stuck in "emergency mode". Says "Press enter to continue" and gets stuck on "Starting default.target". So, I have no idea what to do to fix this. There were no error messages. I tried checking the fstab, and that's fine. I checked the btrfs partition for errors, and there weren't any. I disabled the nvidia hibernation services (using chroot), and that didn't fix anything....
Network speed limiting. — I am looking for a way to limit the speed of my network connection to simulating a modem connection, 28.8k like my first modem. I found NetEm and tc command, is this a good choice?
I'd like to set up my non-GUI Debian 12 system so that it automatically launches a specific program in each TTY I log into. Eg: htop on TTY1, mc on TTY2, etc, but I'm not sure exactly what to set up and where. Any advice would be very appreciated.
I've re-installed my OS Debian this weekend as a bit of a refresh, clearing unwanted junk and to get a bit more familiar with the tools I use, especially around locations of config files and how PATH environment variables work and things. It's been a great learning experience. I was wondering if anyone would like to share their methods, if you do this, so I can consider updating my workflow. I have a big [note] that lists everything I need to do once installed. I found my prior backup a bit all...
I'm trying to build my first Flatpak app for some application that people can't install on their modern systems. It's written in C++, requires libboost and some other dependencies to build, like libssl-dev, libdb++-dev, etc. Can I install them from the Flatpak or I should build them from the source?
I want to try DietPi, but my Orange Pi PC+ is not listed there. How difficult is it to create this build for myself? Previously, I patched Armbian to get the LCD screen working, but I'm not sure about the device. Could I potentially damage it by providing incorrect settings at the OS level? [https link]
What about the default firewall on Fedora? Previously, on Debian I used simple ufw frontend for iptables, but I'm not sure if that's what I want here. Could someone advise me on how to create a safe configuration until I run Yggdrasil?
How can I run `dnf` command without updating repositories cache all the time: [bash] I turned the web upside down, tried -C command, added alias to .bashrc, tried to add `check_config_file_age=False` and `metadata_expire=-1` to `/etc/dnf/dnf.conf`but nothing helps - still same message on every dnf install run: [bash] Madness! I never encountered this problem on Debian, but I want to use Fedora because of the Clang bindings, which I need for development.
I've been using Linux for many years, mostly because it promises to be safe as open source. However, I still don't understand who is responsible for building the repository binaries and the hash sums that come with it: do maintainers build the binaries somewhere locally and then upload them to a repository with hash sums? or, do they just make a source code release, like new Git tag, then a shared OS image is built it and sign? If it's the first option, then my PC is a larger hole on the...
Did someone make Transmission respect the dark theme? I wrote this article, but I have not yet found any solution for this app: [gemini link] Dark theme support in GTK 3 apps Also, the adw-gtk3 patch is not an option for me, as it overwrites other legacy apps, including Firefox, and this extension looks like a cheap copy of the original Adwaita dark style. It's Fedora 41 here.
Dash to Panel GNOME Extension Gets Big Update - now I have Windows menu on GNOME desktop. WTF again. [https link]
I've begun assembling some tips and tricks to perform tasks with only POSIX-compliant utilities and shell syntax. There are many others I know about and haven't document yet, but I'm always looking for more. If you have any suggestions, please let me know!
My shame: I found btop as an alternative to htop just today!
I'm coding in Rust to build the GTK app, and 100% agreed with this opinion: If you want to make Linux impossible to maintain due to a cross-language codebase do that in your driver so that you have to do it instead of spreading this cancer to core subsystems. (where this cancer explicitly is a cross-language codebase and not rust itself, just to escape the flameware brigade). [https link]
After apt, dnf makes me angry with it updates all the time! Cant I turn it off? I don't want sync the repositories on every installation request as recently updated :D
Trying to launch Zed editor on Fedora 41, but have following issue: [preformatted] Also similar warning for other apps: [preformatted] Does iMac 2011 GPU support it? How to check.. understand nothing in this subject.
Anyone jumped on the OpenMandriva train recently? If so how are you finding package availability? I'll be honest I've tended to steer clear of rpm based distros since the late 90s when deb based tooling seemed to result in far fewer dependency related issues but I'm thinking of giving it a go. Also interested in trying out functional programming with Gleam specifically. Have used PopOS for years and it's great for coding on but fancying a change. If anyone's got any none Arch suggestions for a...
Ubuntu firmware - the new security update brought a 500MB(!) Linux firmware update! WTF! Does firmware mean something different from what I think -- stuff that runs on some microcontroller subsystem?
Managing Backups and Damaged Copies — Things are really stupid. I don't know how it got this bad. I have maybe 8 working spinning USB backup drives, each over a terabyte, containing various backups. I have drawerfuls of thumbdrives, a stack of old laptops, and 4 running computers (I also have a large box of more than a dozen dead drives, waiting to be drilled). My data consists of a lifetime's worth of photos and videos, as well as a shid of code and technical literature, plus a bunch of...
I made a very small Gentoo installation guide — [gemini link]
Just tried Pop!_OS with it COSMIC Alpha 4 even there is lot of wrapped GTK applications yet, and UI looks raw a bit, seems finally found new perspective desktop environment for myself!
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