lemmyreader

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lemmyreader ,

+1 for these that I also use : fzf flameshot and redshift !

I've recently turned 20. What highly specific advice you, lemmy users, would offer me?

A lot of people answering this struggle to understand what highly-specific means. I’m looking to, for the sake of experiment, highly-specific advice that gives a reader clear understanding of what they should do. Unlike the vague advice, on the contrary, that may be too abstract to get implementing it right away....

lemmyreader ,
  • Read The Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga It is a mind blowing book that can help to improve your life and that of others.
lemmyreader OP ,

Njalla, thanks.

lemmyreader OP ,

Yes : njal.la

lemmyreader OP ,

Interesting choice, thanks. I guess for email with an onion domain I’d have to self host the email.

lemmyreader OP ,

Namecheap gets good reviews as far as I know but not sure I’d like to go with anything USA based if I can avoid that.

lemmyreader OP ,

I think in Europe the domain name providers (or would one rather call them resellers ?) switched to redacting all private domain holder information since a few years. It was actually quite horrible like it was before, so much email spam, a free ticket for spammers to put all those Whois information wide open on the Internet. Some providers, like Greenhost in NL, provided Whois masking (cloaking ?) for customers paying a bit more.

lemmyreader ,

Phone 2: Wi-Fi signal weak or barely functioning, youtube videos buffer and load for much too long on 720p when they shouldn’t need to.

  • Are you blocking ads ?
  • Does that phone have apps which may be eating your resources ? f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.faircode.netguard/ With NetGuard you can block access for mobile and / or WiFi per app, or block all including system apps and then allow the ones you need.
lemmyreader ,
  • Trying Linux in VirtualBox for 3D gaming or video editing will give you poor performance. You may get better performance running Linux from a Linux live usb/cd image.
  • For video editors Shotcut is gaining popularity and features. It is also available for Windows so you can try it without a Linux installation : shotcut.org/download
  • Not sure if for video editing you should go for a specific Linux flavor, like ubuntustudio.org but “distro-hopping” is not a bad thing in my opinion. Try a few Linux distributions and see what you like and dislike, and then decide on your favorite. A tool like Ventoy can make it very easy to have ten or more Linux flavors on your usb pen drive to play with.
lemmyreader ,

Nice.

lemmyreader ,

🦌 👍

lemmyreader ,

Nice post.

lemmyreader ,

I ran some random test (its passmark memtest86 v9.3 pro) on my medicat usb. Right now its 92% finished with 1070 errors. This just can’t be good :(

Not familiar with medicat. Are you saying memtest86 gave you 1070 errors ? Then one of RAM modules is faulty. Or is this about the hard disk and bad blocks ?

gentoo doesnt have systemd (I want to use Mullvad as my vpn and their app reqires it).

If I recall correctly it is technically possible to run Mullvad and OpenVPN manually without systemd for example on a SBC (pi4 etc.) as your LAN router, and feed it to your devices, but yeah this is a bit cumbersome.

lemmyreader ,

www.fossify.org

lemmyreader ,

The site has working links to their Github repository, and the apps arrived in F-Droid.

lemmyreader ,

Neat.

lemmyreader ,

If you want to go low budget and play around there’s lots of SBCs that can run Linux. Check here for example : www.armbian.com There’s also ones that come as light weight keyboard, for example the pi400 Easy to carry around and put into a HDMI monitor. A drawback is that when using ARM there is sometimes software which only runs on amd64 family though that does not happen very often. Other option is to look at refurbished laptops. If you skip the chromebook ones (Which can be cumbersome to run plain Linux on unless you want to play with Linux and Android on top of ChromeOS) you can find them for 90 Euros or more.

lemmyreader ,

Sure, but just like with flashing custom ROMs on phones, people may break their Chromebook and not get help with it and be stuck. For a Linux beginner a good first and smooth experience may be the best start.

lemmyreader ,

I want to install virtual RMS

Sorry, that package has been removed from Debian repositories

Wait, it is Debian GNU/Linux isn’t it ?

Technically yes, but …

So, how can I install vrms ?

Try the AUR with Arch Linux

But which AUR helper to install ? auracle-git, pbget, repoctl, yaah, aurutils, bauerbill, PKGBUILDer, rua, aura, aurman, pacaur, pakku, paru, pikaur, trizen, or yay ?

… wait, back in a few minutes

lemmyreader ,

Was fun reading it, and brilliant. Thanks! :)

lemmyreader ,

mount -t fat32 /dev/nvme0n1p4 /efi

Try : mount -t vfat /dev/nvme0n1p4 /efi

lemmyreader ,

Run fsck on it ? wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fsck

lemmyreader ,

From the errors it seems like the partition is damaged, maybe beyond repair. Good that you are able to restore from backup.

lemmyreader ,

Thanks for the laugh 😀

On the search for the ̶b̶e̶s̶t̶ decent presentation making software ( lemmy.ml )

In the post-COVID world where so much is done remotely I’m utterly amazed with the absence of a decent app for making slides. I recently went through a long and honestly very disappointing journey for finding the one and only app that fits my needs. And… yeah… there is none. Here are the requirements I have, and I can...

lemmyreader ,

Tried Strut ? : github.com/MohannadNaj/Strut

lemmyreader ,

Have not looked at it (and Github won’t properly for me right now) but the Github readme had a web link to a newer project of the same author.

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    lemmyreader ,

    tchncs.de Friendly admin, around since years, privacy aware.

    ajayiyer , to Linux
    @ajayiyer@mastodon.social avatar

    I am thinking about hosting my own Mastodon server from home on a Raspberry Pi (Pi4 8GB)?

    1. Are there good tutorials out there?
    2. What's the annual cost just to host yourself?

    @linux @nixCraft @raspberrypi

    lemmyreader ,

    Going for Yunohost on your Pi4 can make things easier, just follow the Yunohost documentation, and later you can ask help in the Yunohost forum if needed : yunohost.org/en/install/hardware:rpi34 Instead of Mastodon you can install sometimes more light weight and simple, like GoToSocial : apps.yunohost.org/catalog?category=social_media

    lemmyreader ,

    Looks good, thanks for the hard work!

    According to my uBlock Origin your site uses Google fonts which I have blocked. Can you make that more privacy friendly please ?

    lemmyreader ,

    Apple announced to support it : eff.org/…/what-apples-promise-support-rcs-means-t…

    lemmyreader ,

    divestos.org/pages/messengers

    lemmyreader OP ,

    DeltaChat uses AutoCrypt which needs no user interaction to immediately go for encryption. With traditional emailing with GnuPG and email one would first manually exchange GnuPG keys (or download them from a key server). With DeltaChat this is automated when both users use DeltaChat. With DeltaChat there is no real difference between emailing encrypted with another DeltaChat user, and emailing without encryption with another user which does not use DeltaChat.

    lemmyreader OP ,

    Does your XMPP provider have a message retention policy ? It would pile up there I guess. With DeltaChat you can, like in Signal messenger, configure disappearing messages to automatically clean up old messages.

    lemmyreader OP ,

    Cool

    lemmyreader OP ,

    Have not have serious delays here, but would this not delay thing not be the case with any other messenger ?

    lemmyreader OP ,

    In DeltaChat regular emails look the same as the encrypted DeltaChat emails except for the tiny green lock icons. Emails from DeltaChat to DeltaChat end up in a separate DeltaChat mail folder so there is no unreadable clutter in the email inbox when using a regular email client. I think DeltaChat could be great for normies because it is not super difficult to install and configure and use, and the messages part looks like the popular chat client WhatsApp.

    lemmyreader OP ,

    And there is no ability to delete messages on the server, at all. How is this usable? Chats will completely spam Thunderbird etc. and they are not deleted.

    You have a few options with DeltaChat to delete old messages.

    Damn Small Linux 2024 ( www.damnsmalllinux.org )

    The New DSL 2024 has been reborn as a compact Linux distribution tailored for low-spec x86 computers. It packs a lot of applications into a small package. All the applications are chosen for their functionality, small size, and low dependencies. DSL 2024 also has many text-based applications that make it handy to use in a term...

    lemmyreader ,

    Nice news. DSL is back.

    lemmyreader ,

    Nice.

    lemmyreader ,

    Yes, this! uBlock Origin rocks.

    lemmyreader ,

    Few years ago I had a collection of maybe fifteen old disks, which I wanted to get rid of, by means of recycling. First I wanted to check the content and then format all so I put them in an external enclosure. It turned out that some disks were unusable. A closer inspection showed that these were all a certain brand and type (Forgot whether it was Seagate or Maxtor or WD). These disks would probably still do fine in a desktop or server computer (Which I no longer had at home) but not with the external enclosure. Perhaps your enclosure is the bottleneck here as well.

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