tutus

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[–] tutus 2 points 3 weeks ago

The goal for OSS projects is always different. Many projects solve a problem for the developer(s) and them alone. They don't care about it 'thriving' or adding features that don't align with that problem.

I find it confusing when people complain that other people won't spend time implementing things that they want. If you want feature A, fork the project and add it. I appreciate that's easier said than done, but if you can't or won't do that, stop complaining about what other people do with their time.

Not all software is the same. Get used to them being different.

[–] tutus 5 points 3 weeks ago

it hasn't been able to capitalize on the many waves of exodus and twitter controversies for over two years now

You're making the assumption that it wants to.

The goals of Mastodon are very different from Twitter.

[–] tutus 12 points 4 weeks ago

Unfortunately, as much as I hate to admit it as someone who has left Chromium behind personally, Chromium is kind of the only choice.

With Mozilla's rudderless stewardship of Firefox, I reluctantly agree with this. Firefox, and Mozilla, used to stand for something more than just a browser, but that is sadly vanishing now. Chrome is really the future and while I'm clinging on to Firefox, I will succumb in the end.

It's very sad. I've been a Firefox user for so long I've lost count. But Mozilla has lost it's way and I don't see it making any noise about getting back on course.

I think having one browser engine is a very bad idea. But here we are.

[–] tutus 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use pfSense and tried to migrate away in the past. The changes I would have had to make to setup opnsense were so significant that I gave up for to lack of time. I don't have time luxury of downtime so I need to migrate quickly.

But if I were starting again I'd absolutely avoid the pfSense project and their childish shitty behaviour.

I do plan to buy more hardware to replace my current pfSense box and take my time to implement opnsense gradually.

[–] tutus 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm not sure what the difference between this and autorandr are?

[–] tutus 15 points 2 months ago

If you're looking for something like this, but not paid for, try Debian stable. Same idea but free. Ubuntu also have an LTS version and I'm sure others.

The "Enterprise" in the title just means "support", which is a check box for a lot of organisations. Not so much home users.

[–] tutus 1 points 2 months ago

There are quite a few mind map plugins for Obsidian.

[–] tutus 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I settled on Raindrop.io which is free but I paid to support it ($30 a year I think). I had to change my workflow slightly and the Obsidian integration is not as great as Omnivore's, but it wasn't a pain. The browser integration is really good and I prefer it to Omnivore's. It supports RSS and has a decent mobile app.

Overall I think it's a decent replacement and I'm happy.

I tried Wallabag but the Obsidian integration was poor and Wallabag felt unloved recycle by extension made me question it's future (which is unfair given my limited time with it). There was a trial which was not enough time for me to evaluate it comfortably.

[–] tutus 22 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Most EU countries have been demilitarizing for 30 years more and more, with the strategy being "it's a new world without wars, and also big daddy USA will protect us,l

That's not the Europe I see now and sounds like a US President trope. I would agree that post-Cold War that was the case, but I'd say in the last decade at least, it's not.

But, genuine question as I'm open to being wrong, saved this is an area that interests me, do you have sources for this?

[–] tutus 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (12 children)

What are people's go-to for eBook buying stores? Preferably DRM free.

I try to not buy Kindle books but I usually end up back there as it's either much cheaper (not just slightly) or can only be found there.

[–] tutus 21 points 5 months ago (7 children)

no one gives a shit what kids are doing on their devices

Except Joe. And people like Joe. Whose surveillance of kids is now not only easier, but sanctioned.

 

I'm using Debian 12, KDE, in X11.

I have a 5120x1440 monitor I use with my laptop. I sometimes use my laptop display (3840x1080) when I'm undocked.

Using Wayland this generally just works. But I can't use Wayland (see below).

In X11, when I move between displays I need to change the resolution, the scale and the Task Manager height etc. It's a PITA.

This is likely a very easily solved problem. But I'm new-ish to desktop Linux and I'm unsure of how to solve it.

Any help appreciated.

(Why I can't use Wayland - it causes problems primarily for Zoom (I know, I know, it's a work thing). I assume this is because I'm also running an NVIDIA GPU on the laptop and Debian stable hasn't got those extra bits and pieces that have been added recently, in there to help make it work (that is the beauty and the curse of a stable distro like Debian 😀). As an aside I did think of trying Debian testing to see if that helped with this.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by tutus to c/[email protected]
 

I know about the issues with Zoom, and in particular Zoom on Wayland. I use Debian 12, kernel 6.1.0-18 (Bluetooth issues on later kernels) with KDE on X11. So I primarily use the web app, which works really well on the whole.

Occasionally, I need to use the app (reasons below for clarity, but not what I'm asking about):

  • When doing a presentation, for example, sharing the screen still allows you to see the other people on the call.
  • Controlling somebody else's presentation in the web view just doesn't work (they can't give you control, as you don't appear in the list).

I have also tried using the Flatpak and had issues (which I cannot remember).

Whenever I use the Zoom app, using the native web app downloaded from https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_amd64.deb, I have weird issues when I click the chat window. The mouse pointer turns into the icon used when dragging a window and I cannot click anywhere in Zoom (none of the buttons work, keyboard shortcuts, I can't type in the chat box). But the call continues.

This has happened over and over again in different kernel versions of Debian 12 and different versions of Zoom client (I noticed this maybe 6 months or so ago, so have been regularly trying it since then).

I have searched for an answer and for something close, and have never found anything (I could be searching for the wrong thing).

Does anybody have any suggestions?

[–] tutus 20 points 6 months ago

Being up to date is the entire point and so typically there are only global options to either grab those updates from the vendor or host them internally on a central server but you wouldn’t want to slow roll or stage those updates since that fundamentally reduces the protection from zero days and novel attacks that the product is specifically there to detect and stop.

That's not your, or Crowdstrikes, decision to make. If organizations have applied settings to not install updates automatically then that's what they expect to happen and you need to honour it. You don't "know best". They do.

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