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Am I the only one who missed the Owncloud rewrite in Go?
  • I had a horrible experience with nextcloud on a pi. I have a great experience on a good server. It stores files. It does that very well for me. Clients work reliable.

    Nextcloud apps are sometines good and sometimes not. It can do everything. One should let navidrome serve music and not nextcloud. Mealie is for recipes. Jellyfin for videos and immich for images. Paperless for documents.

    Nextcloud is file storage, backup, syncing and maybe collab. That's what I expect and that's what I get.

  • how easy is it to install arch?
  • archinstall is easy. The hard part about arch is maintaining it and keeping up to date with linux innovation. As long as you keep reading forum posts and news about linux and browse the arch wiki, there's nothing wrong with it. If you do not ever read about advances on linux, then don't use arch.

  • GNOME June 2024: C'mon you can do better
  • Just because you like apple doens't mean that apple does a perfect job and GNOME should copy it. GNOME does a lot of thing better than apple. And microsoft also does a couple of things better than apple. Apple isn't perfect and microsoft isn't all bad

  • bookmark manager like jabref for linux?
  • Thank you! I'll check it out later again. I'll try using distrobox or nix

    edit: I installed firefox and jabref with nix and it works out of the box. I didn't have to adjust anything, yet the extensions loads very long sometimes. Sometimes it can't find anything.

  • bookmark manager like jabref for linux?
  • I tried that extension but it is greyed out on my installation. Besides, it acoompanies pdf files, not the url site directly if I understand it correctly

    When you find an interesting article through Google Scholar, the arXiv or journal websites, this browser extension allows you to add those references to JabRef. Even links to accompanying PDFs are sent to JabRef, where those documents can easily be downloaded, renamed and placed in the correct folder.

  • bookmark manager like jabref for linux?

    is there a bookmark manager like jabref for linux url bookmarks?

    I use Jabref for papers and books. I group and rate them and keep track of reading status. There are a lot of websites that also provide valuable information but firefox' bookmark manager can't be used to rate sites or make comments. I can manually add links which is cumbersome.

    Is there a similar tool like jabref for internet links?

    In the optimal case it would take firefox' bookmarks and work with them such that I can bookmark a site with Ctrl+D and do all the site related work within that manager.

    edit: Bonus, if it automatically fetches the article to preserve it

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    is there a guideline for using nix packages?
  • I had trouble with at least julia rstudio and zed which is why I didn't specify the specific package and would like to know how to solve it in general.

    Thanks for your write up! It gives me a better understanding of it! But I guess the only thing that I can do now is to raise issues when the package doesn't work properly :D

    I solved it using distrobox but I'd prefer using nix

  • is there a guideline for using nix packages?

    I want to install a package, I lookup for the package here https://search.nixos.org/packages? I can find multiple versions. two that sound right, two sound like rubbish and one is a plugin for something. How do I decide which of the two good sounding packages I should choose? What if the package or even both not work? How do I know that it is up to date? How do I know that it will be updated in a timely manner? Can I update it?

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    what's your take on SQL style guides? Especially this one

    gist.github.com Modern SQL Style Guide

    Modern SQL Style Guide. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

    Modern SQL Style Guide

    I found this SQL style guide which looks good. I'm not a pro at SQL but it looks good to me. I mean, you use the style guide your boss wants you to use, or what all others use, but what if you could choose?

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    This Week in Matrix

    matrix.org This Week in Matrix 2024-06-21

    Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

    This Week in Matrix 2024-06-21
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    Today, I wanted to have another go with nix. Previously I just read about it and didn't do anything for a couple of months. Now, I installed nix package manager with very few lines of code and two more to install many packages as described in his post. Installation was very fast on my banana laptop. Until now I used distrobox but I always wondered which distro/ package manager to use. What's your experience with it? For now, I'll test it. It's super easy to use. It may not be straight forward to a linux newcomer but if you know what you want, e.g. ffmpeg you can just add it with home-manager edit and install it with home-manager switch. So far, I love it!

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    immich: Does a SSD/HDD make a noticable difference?

    I wonder if there is a nptocable difference between a HDD and SSD. Did someone already test it? I run it off a good SSD but wonder if a HDD would be enough.

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    why does ublue bundle homebrew?

    What's up with homebrew that you'd have it installed by default on linux?

    I don't understand the appeal of it, can someone help me?

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    how to move to a new computer?

    I just bought a new computer. I'll install fedora silverblue. Do I just need to copy the home directory? And crontab. What else do I need to move?

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    How to feed your dog vegan

    Do you guys have good resources on how to feed your dog vegan?

    There are a lot of pages online that simply say "consult an advisor" who will calculate what your dog needs. I'm not bad in maths, I could calculate it myself if I'd knew what the dog needs. I can look into commercial dog food ingrediants but there are declarations like "minerals" without any further specificiations. Moreover, I eat a huge variety in differrent vegetables and food in general, yet my dog shall always eat the same according to vegan complete feed. Moreover, I can not properly judge whether a feed is good because the information is missing.

    Where does the nutritionist get his information from? There must be someone who has studied the needs of a dog based on size and breed and created a formula such that you can calculate the servings.

    I've looked into books on amazon and the comments are horrible. There's nothing on libgen and google scholar doesn't yield appropriate results.

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    how to auto mount nextcloud folder in nautilus in GNOME?

    Whenever I open nautilus I have to mount the nextcloud folder first. Is there a way to auto mount the folder?

    Adding it to fstab?

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    can you speed up osmand? it is incredibly slow on my pixel 6

    It improved slightly with opengl but it's still very slow to render offline maps after years.

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    what's your favorite kanban board?

    I'm checking out flowly right now. I'm looking for a kanban board that optimally connects with a todo list and calendar, preferably webdav (but no must). what can you guys recommend?

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    Kanban board for Linux

    Whats your fav kanban board for linux (and android)?

    I know of planka, obsidian and nextcloud deck. What's your favorite tool?

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    Immich Breaking Changes - v1.106.2

    github.com Releases · immich-app/immich

    High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution. - immich-app/immich

    Releases · immich-app/immich
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    Proton Pass for Linux

    proton.me Download Proton Pass for your Browser or Mobile Device | Proton

    Download Proton Pass, fully-featured password manager software for Android, iOS, Chrome, Firefox, Brave and Edge

    Download Proton Pass for your Browser or Mobile Device | Proton
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    How to detect problems on computer?

    My server (fedora) stops all podman containers after 2-3 hours since 3 days. I can start all containers again, and the same happens after a while. I do not know where to look for the problem.

    In top, I found a oom message. I assume that the system runs out of memory and stops all services. How can I find the problem? I can’t find anything in the container logs.

    I can see that systemctl status is always starting. It doesn’t become “running”. But I do not know how to proceed.

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    Cycle through windows | apps

    Following is very subjective and probably varies from distro to distro, de to de, app to app, user to user.

    For the longest time, I believed Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab was the only way of navigation through apps and windows. Many years ago, some editor introduced me to the behavior that Ctrl+Tab switches to the last used tab. I hated that behavior. I didn't understand it and it was annoying. Luckily you could switch to the old way (in my experience) which I did.

    How do you guys cycle through windows?

    What is the best way for switching? Is there a standard or at least an attempt for a standard? Or at least a name for different styles?

    App / Window switching

    I switch and highlight apps by pressing Meta+Tab, or Meta+Shift+Tab. This works very good. I use PaperWM, a window tiling feature in GNOME such that I have no overlapping windows and don't need to care about the position of the windows anymore for the most part. When I press Ctrl+i, the window to the right of the highlighted window moves below the current window and both adjust in size to half the screen.

    !

    Cycle right isn't the proper way of going forward doesn't apply here anymore unless I define it as a zig zag movement.

    !

    Luckily, we have arrow keys. With, Meta+[Up,Down,Left,Right] I can move to any window. The shortcoming is that I need two hands because Meta is on the left and the arrow are on the right side of the keyboard. Having to use two hands is a big no-go for a fundamental command in my opinion. What's the solution to this? Ctrl+[W,S,A,D]? Does it clash with other main fundamental keybindings?

    Kate uses Alt+Arrow to cycle through tabs. It uses Ctrl+Tab to cycle through time.

    If you use Ctrl+Arrow to cycle through the windows, you can use Ctrl+(Shift+)Tab for cycling through time, i.e. last used tab/window.

    In the browser, I navigate via Ctrl+Tab. There are no tabs below the current tab. btw, why not, mozilla? Kate and Pulsar (Atom successor) have Ctrl+N as the default for a new document (and hence tab).

    For consistency, I want to use either Ctrl+T or Ctrl+N for a new document/window. Which standard do you guys use and prefer? Other apps with other keybindings?

    Ctrl+Tab is good for a linear movement but Ctrl+Arrow is more logical.

    I used to use Alt+F4 to quit apps. Recently, I discovered that you can use Ctrl+w to quit a tab and Ctrl+q to close a window. Wouldn't it be better to use Ctrl+q to close a tab and Meta+q to close the window?

    Currently, I default to

    • Ctrl+Arrow is for tab bidimensional motion.
    • Meta+Arrow is for window bidimensional motion.
    • Ctrl+Tab is for tab time-dimensional motion.
    • Meta+Tab is for window time-dimensional motion.
    • Which is better Ctrl+T or Ctrl+N for a new tab/document? Is it good that there is a distinction?
    • Shift always reverses the action

    I can't find a way to customize the keybindings in firefox, does that mean that I have to default to [Ctrl,Meta]+Tab to cycle through tabs/windows?

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    www.neowin.net Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade

    In an apparent effort to boost revenues, gaming social media startup Discord plans to implement ads into its free service. The step is expected in the coming days after 9 years of ad-free experience.

    Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade

    I don't think people on this sub use it, but it's great news for us. The worse it gets the likelier people move on.

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    what's your solution for translation and dictionary on linux and android?

    I hate my current solution.

    I use notification dictionary and dict.cc which is obviously not open source. For me, it takes too long just to translate a word, or look it up. Do you have a great system?

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