Anony Moose @lemmy.ca I love this wild west phase of the Fediverse! Feels like the good ole days of the Internet. Onwards!
True, although you could say the same about Windows PowerShell
High DPI screen support in Linux is still troublesome, especially between multiple screens with different DPI/resolution, especially between GTK and Qt programs
Hopefully the success of Steam Deck will push manufacturers to increase their investment into Linux driver development. Having only used Linux servers in the past decade or so, I was pleasantly surprised when I came back to Linux desktop and realized that there were no other drivers (except Nvidia) to install since everything was baked into the kernel! Incredibly convenient!
it'll be hard to top the built-in power/suspend/hibernate/resume behavior and its effect on battery life
Yeah, it's difficult to compete with a fully vertically integrated stack like Apple's, and they do lock down things so other software is always at a disadvantage. Hopefully Linux laptops become competitive so this improves.
I only ran Mint for a bit, but from what I've heard, it does a pretty good job with sane defaults and keeping things simple.
I'm talking more about the fact that when things break (as they always do), the easiest way to fix it is via the command line. It's something I'm super comfortable with, having used *nix systems for more than 20 years, but i think even my very smart, technically inclined friend would be frustrated if he had to do it.
For instance, I installed Debian recently, and since I wanted luks disk encryption and dual boot, I had to very carefully set up the partitions in the installer, and the interface was frankly atrocious. I was very nervous about accidentally nuking the wrong partition, unlike with a Windows install where this is pretty much impossible.
Then, of course, the Nouveau drivers didn't like my 4090, so on the first boot I had a blank screen (no signal), until grub timed out into a console. For some reason I was then thrown into a tty, so I had to startx, install the proprietary Nvidia drivers, tweak grub to pass some kernel parameters till I got back to a semi-stable boot. Oh, and I also had to get a newer kernel and nvidia drivers from backports, since the Debian packages are ancient.
I do realize that maybe Mint packages the latest proprietary nvidia drivers during the install, so maybe I would have avoided those particular issues, and I'm not sure how good Mint's partitioning interface in the installer is.
Maybe Linux will work out of the box for a majority of users and they'll never have to encounter the command line, but I'm skeptical.
Yeah, the rock-solid stability of Debian stable is definitely a huge plus. I thought I would be okay with less frequent updates, but I changed my mind when I realized cool updates like KDE 6 won't make it to stable probably until next year T__T. Even Nvidia 555 drivers probably won't even hit backports for a while. Clearly the responsible thing to do here is to add an Arch install alongside my Debian/W11 dual-boot đ
Not using a DE sounds intriguing, I might give that a try once I find my feet on desktop Linux. I've been around *nix systems most of my career, but I haven't used a Linux desktop as a daily driver in like 15 years. It's funny how much has changed, and how much hasn't.
As I discovered, nvidia are infamous in the linux world for causing all sorts of weird issues. Things are getting a lot better now as they seem to be giving a lot more attention to the drivers in linux like they do for Windows. The open-source (Nouveau) drivers in linux seem to work well in many cases (maybe for 3000-series cards too?), but as you get to newer cards like the 4090, the proprietary linux drivers they provide are often needed. It's still huge progress!
Yeah, I've heard really good things about Pop!_OS, especially for Windows migrants.
I think Linux still prioritizes the command-line for a lot of config/setup, which can be extremely daunting for new users. In addition, there are also a million options for everything, which is great for freedom, but really confusing for newbies.
I should note that both of these things are amazing pluses for me as a power user/developer.
That's fair, I think Mac's extremely opinionated design that be grating at times. Also, heaven help you if you want to do something non-standard on a Mac, the system fights you every step of the way.
Well, in my case stability refers to grub display loading at all :)
I installed Debian on my PC with an RTX 4090 and it just refuses to load the grub display on first boot (grub loads, but there's no DisplayPort signal). I was able to get it working by switching to the latest stable backports kernel and proprietary Nvidia drivers, but then it stopped working again and now I have to figure out how to fix it.
I don't mind this at all, and I'm even enjoying the troubleshooting process, but I think this would have been quite the headache for the average user!
Stability and UI/UX are still lightyears ahead in Mac, and to some extent Windows. Don't get me wrong, they suck for lots of reasons, but I think Linux has a lot of catching up to do to be as usable as Mac/Windows for the ordinary user.
I think standardizing package formats, and more mature desktop managers and proprietary drivers will go a long way to fixing that though.
What's your review of LMDE over Debian? I recently took the Linux desktop jump recently and started with Linux Mint.
I really didn't like the Mint desktop as it seemed very dated, so I've switched to Debian/KDE. It was only much later that I realized how easy it would have been to just customize my window manager instead of getting a different distro. Having said that, I'm really digging Debian in spite of Nvidia issues being a headache, and Debian's glacial update pace making me look longingly at Arch.
I hope this gets into Debian backports soon! I still have some weird issues with a blank screen (no UEFI/POST/grub display) owith Debian on first boot that hasn't gone away even with the Nvidia 525.x proprietary drivers.
Not to mention the benefits of versioning and being able to rollback! There's something so satisfying about a well set-up CI/CD pipeline.
Yeah, I think this plus the desktop app might be a huge deal
I don't think it's actually been rolled out to the app yet. When I load up the app, I see the old voice feature, not the new mode.
Anybody know what's up with the abstrusegoose comic?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/10994517
> Sorry if this isn't relevant to the community, but couldn't think of anywhere better to post. I saw something curious in my RSS comics feed last night for the Abstruse Goose comic. The author is fairly prolific and used to post comics based on math, technology, etc. His site and archive of comics has now been replaced with a single cryptic message: > > "AGI will not be designed by humans. It will be evolved through relentless evolutionary computational processes designed by humans." > > Very curious! Anybody have any theories on what is going on? I can't imagine what his motivation might be :)
[Feature request] Hide NSFW in FAB
Would it be possible to have a quick settings button to hide (not just blur) all NSFW posts in the feed?
In normal browsing I like having the blurred NSFW images available in the feed, but whenever I'm in a public space, I'm always terrified I'll accidentally open one of the NSFW images. This is compounded by the fact that the last post at the end of a feed is extra-clickable because of the way feed loading works. If I'm scrolling down and the feed needs to load more, Sync will often count that interaction as a click on the last item in the feed.
Thanks!
[Bug report] feed loads to last viewed post
When navigating posts in the feed, the URL is changed to each active post. This means that when the page is reloaded, Alexandrite goes to that page instead of the active feed. In the above screenshot, I was browsing all, but refreshing the page left me on the post that was active.
Perhaps a fix might be to append the active post to the URL? Something like:
https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca/all#post/5936117
UI for opening comment threads
This is a request for a UI change for consideration if the community isn't against it.
IMO the UI for opening a thread to view comments could be better. Right now when scrolling through the feed, I have to click the tiny comments icon to open the thread, and it soft-navigates to the comments thread. Clicking back (in the browser, or using the button in the thread UI) takes me right back, which is great, however, it seems like I sometimes lose my place in the feed. The problems here are: 1. the link to open comments is tiny, and 2. the thread takes over the feed.
It would be great if the experience could be a bit more like Alexandrite, where clicking on the post opens the thread in a panel in-place, which you can click outside to close without losing your place in the feed. Just feels a bit more intuitive IMO. If this is a controversial change, it could be a configurable option.
Thanks for considering this feedback!
Lemmy 0.19 - Alexandrite migration plan?
The linked post and discussion from the Photon dev re: the lemmy 0.19 release got me thinking about how Alexandrite will handle the migration since the release includes breaking changes.
@[email protected] thoughts?
What is the Ultra Preview feature?
I see an "Ultra preview" tag next to some posts, but I have no idea what this feature is. Does anybody know?
Single letter content filters?
I want to filter out references to the website formerly known as Twitter, but I'm not sure how the content filter "X" will work.
I'm assuming an 'X' without spaces will also filter out Xylophone, but what about "X "? Will I need to add the double quotes? What about capitalization?
Shanks :)
Upgrading my home server from an Odroid HC2
Hey folks. I've been running a media and torrenting server off an Odroid HC2 running OpenMediaVault 6 on Armbian. It's been doing pretty great, and I have it set to run docker containers for qBittorrent, ProtonVPN, the *arrs, etc.
The problem I'm running into is that the HC2 has an arm32 CPU that is not supported by most apps, so I'm stuck running old images. I want to upgrade to a newer mini PC/SBC that is more future-friendly. I'd like it to be capable of running Plex streaming at 4K, Radarr/Sonarr/Prowlarr, etc. as well as other apps as docker containers. I might repurpose the HC2 to just run self-hosted NextDNS.
Here are my questions:
- What mini PCs or SBCs would you recommend? I'm leaning strongly towards a mini PC over an SBC because it would be more powerful, I don't need specialized software for it, recovery and backups are much easier, etc. I'm not too concerned about power usage unless it's extravagant.
- Which OS would you recommend as a media server?
- What is the simplest way to transfer my server over with minimal fuss? I use private trackers, so I'll have to very carefully stand up the new server and transfer over torrents, etc. in one fell swoop. I'm guessing I should just be able to install the apps and then transfer over the configurations and media files and change permissions, etc.
- Anything else I need to consider?
Thanks!
Lemmy.ca performance issues
I've been constantly running into issues of stale content and errors fetching post on lemmy.ca the past couple of days.
While scrolling on my client (Sync), I keep seeing errors about fetching new posts and have to click retry a few times to fetch more posts. At times I have to retry 6-7 times. Additionally, it seems like I'm seeing posts I've already seen a lot from the past more quickly than I'd expect in "Hot".
I tried changing to a different instance and at least the first issue was immediately resolved. Posts were fetched quicker, and I didn't get any more errors while fetching posts.
I haven't run into this on alex.lemmy.ca on desktop (yet), so it's possible that it's an API issue. It's also possibly a Sync bug.
I suspect there's been a recent performance/federation regression, could one of the admins confirm/deny my suspicions? Totally not a problem if it's not something that can be fixed right away, just wanted to bring it to y'all's attention.
Edit: although the screenshot mentions posts being filtered, I don't have enough filters to completely prevent fetching new content
Could we get the photon UI for lemmy.ca, please?
We added an extra UI for our users. Photon by Xylight is an interface with a sleek, modern look and has all the bells and whistles you would need. Moderator tools included! You can access the UI from https://photon.lemmy.world [https://photon.lemmy.world]. Visit Photonâs project page on github [http...
It looks pretty slick and seems like it's officially supported on lemmy.world.
While we're at it, any chance the Alexandrite UI could be supported too?
Thanks! You guys are killing it!
[Feature request] block user/community from feed
Since Lemmy doesn't have a lot of content yet, I primarily browse all. Since there are a lot of active communities in all that I'm not interested in (different language/NSFW, etc), it would be really handy to be able to block them from the ellipsis menu. Right now you have to go I to the community and find the block option there. Similarly for users.
Are post titles broken?
I see a lot of posts like this where the title is truncated. Clicking on the title in an app/browser just seems to take you to the link, so I have no idea what the full title actually says.
This appears to be a bug, unless I'm missing something?
[Bug] some links not opening in webview
Some links don't seem to open within the internal WebView, and only work when opened with the external browser. This seems to happen to all hacker news links.
[Enhancement] instance block UI
Not sure if this is a bug, or if the feature is working correctly, but blocking the instance on the shown post blocks mastodon.uno instead of feddit.it which is what I would expect.
It would be helpful if the block options in the menu showed the name of what they were going to block, as I've often accidentally blocked the user's instance instead of the community's instance in a post. It's difficult to know at a glance what the different parts of a post's categories are (user@instance/community@instance, etc).
Also, blocking an instance means comments from users of that instance are blocked too, which is not desirable. I think the point of blocking an instance is only to block posts from communities on that instance.
Thanks!
[Bug] post links to wrong thread
Connect seems to be linking to the wrong thread in a crosspost like in the linked thread. It's pointing to "What Ever Happened To Victoriaâs Secret Karen??" instead of the Watch party group.
> theyâre replacing âLemmy.world/c/965504â with âLemmy.ca/c/965504â, which is a totally different post, despite sharing the same number.
> Each post is only valid within its own server.
[Bug] can't reply on some posts
It seems like we can't leave a comment on some posts which require a language to be selected. I'm not sure if this is a community setting or something.
I can't select a language while posting, so the comment doesn't go through .
[Bug/Enhancement] broken previews/webviews
Some posts seem to not load a preview, and clicking on them shows doesn't load their content in the internal WebView:
Opening in the external browser loads them correctly. Here's an example of an affected post: https://lemmy.ca/post/1137443
I'm not sure, but I think this is theImgur redirect breaking things. Would it be possible to handle this more gracefully?
Edit: fixed example link
[Bug] submitted posts not showing on profile (Not a Connect bug)
The profile seems to be missing my submitted posts? Latest Connect version.
Thanks!
Edit: seems to be an issue with the API, not Connect, but leaving this post here for visibility
[Feature request] block instance
/c/all is now predictably cluttered with porn from the lemmynsfw instance. Can we get a block instance option in the instance page, instead of having to block each individual instance?
As a related request, would you be open to a feature like a "blocked share list" that somebody can import? You could use it to maintain and share a list of onlyfans accounts if you don't want to see them, for instance.
Thanks for all your work!