First Arch and malware in the AUR now a ddos on Fedora. This is an attack on FOSS.
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D_Air1@lemmy.mlto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites For UK Users - That's a Pretty Big Deal * TorrentFreakEnglish242·1 month agoThe only options when dealing with governments is comply or get out.
Also PKGBUILD’s are the superior packaging format. Back in the day people use to talk about preferring debian or redhat based distros based on how much they liked debs or rpms. Building packages on Arch is easier than pretty much any distro I have ever tried to build packages on.
I used them for some things, but other things still don’t work quite right. Take Steam for example. I do love flatpaks for testing out apps, things with really finicky dependencies, or pinning a specific version of a software that I want to continue to work in the future. However, for most things, Arch + AUR just covers all my needs without any hiccups.
To me flatpaks are sort of like NixOS. All the benefits they provide aren’t something I need on a daily basis. Rolling back works just fine 99% of the time with
downgrade
. I already have system backups. Despite what some articles might insist, things don’t just break all the time. I’m not running untrusted software.Basically no solution is perfect, but they don’t need to be. If the benefits I gain can be recreated through other methods without the tradeoffs they introduce, then I will go with that. Of course, that isn’t to say they don’t have their place, but sometimes I feel like some people think that “being designed from the ground up” to handle certain use cases is always better than whatever “cobbled together” thing we currently have and that isn’t always the case. I’m specifically quoting those two phrases because these are the exact phrases you will hear projects using to justify their existence. In fact, I would go so far as to say that some people have outright confused modularity for “cobbled together”.
One last example I want to make is that I make use of projects like the fish shell and helix editor. In these cases, I find the features they introduce to be worth the tradeoffs and work better because of being designed “from the ground up” to do what they do. However, I don’t make use of immutable systems, containers such as docker, or say filesystems such as btrfs. The features they provide are not useful enough to me compared to the problems they introduce.
Nope, but I’m on Arch with Plasma 6.4.2
D_Air1@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•How to get AUDIO forwarding to work... if it's possible?2·2 months agoMaybe pipewire and the ROC protocol? I’m not sure if it can be used on windows. You will have to refer to their documentation to get anything working. On Arch the package is called
pipewire-roc
. On Android the app you will need is roc droid. I have used it from linux to android, but have never introduced windows into the mix.
D_Air1@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•GNU coreutils - useful flags and obscurities | Bread on Penguins6·2 months agoWell she was right. I did learn something new about those commands.
D_Air1@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•is there any way to automatically edit several mkv files to get rid of the file title on debian 12.11?1·3 months agoI’ve been using some ancient java app called jmkvpropedit to do this.
D_Air1@lemmy.mlto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Do you actually audit open source projects you download?English1·3 months agoDepends on how the project and how long they have been around.
D_Air1@lemmy.mlto Firefox@lemmy.ml•A smarter, simpler Firefox address bar | The Mozilla Blog1·3 months agoThat was my first thought as well. I understand the reason for the change and don’t mind it, but how do I copy the url which is far more important to me on a day to day basis than refining my search. Normally the query is still visible at the top of the web engine search page anyways.
About the time that Windows 10 came out. I was just messing around and ended up liking it.
D_Air1@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•How much of a pain is it to install Nvidia GPU drivers, really?2·4 months agoI’m constantly surprised at this point how anyone fails at it. Not to mention there are a number of distros that provide them out of the box now and somehow people still say they couldn’t install it.
Finally time to bust this out again.
D_Air1@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•Best (preferably offline) HTML viewer? Minimal resources?5·4 months agoBelieve it or not. kde’s
khelpcenter
is what I have been using. Not sure if it includes images, but it renders simple html files and according to the Arch package. It is only like 7 MiB. Way better and faster than using a whole browser, but doesn’t really support javascript obviously.
D_Air1@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•A Roadmap for a modern Plasma Login Manager – David Edmundson's Web Log7·5 months agoYep, I remember when distros had to ship git versions of sddm with unmerged patches to fix issues because of the disconnect between the sddm maintainer and kde developers who seem to be doing most of the work. They are unfortunately limited to goals and architecture of that separate project project and its maintainer and its finally time to get away from it.
That is a work in progress and isn’t finished.
D_Air1@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•Make Calculator in KRunner respect system settings for numbers?24·6 months agoIs this actually a bug though? I just don’t think krunner or many other calculators for that matter use delimiters anymore. Therefore, the only thing it is changing based on regional settings is the use of the comma or period to denote a decimal.
I could be wrong considering I had a bit of trouble understanding the post. I just bring this up because in American English there are no delimiters for thousands place or above either.
Also I don’t see how from this post the decimal point is wrong. Sure it is simplified to one decimal place, but again many calculators do this. Perhaps op simply needs something that provides more fine grained control over number formatting than what krunner is supposed to.
i didn’t have to configure it to do anything. paired the devices manually like normal while being on different networks. syncthing figures out the rest.
Syncthing does work across the internet. It uses nat hole punching to achieve this. Unless your network is behind cgnat / double nat I believe. Me and my buddies use it all the time.
Mint doesn’t even support kde, so at best you would be grabbing it from Ubuntu’s repos which is probably out of date. Which leads to the problem of people on fixed release distros reporting problems that have already long since been fixed, so In addition to others suggestions of testing it out on a full plasma installation. I would also recommend testing it out on a distro known to be up to date in the first place.