Max_P

Max_P, 6 days ago

I’d say mostly because the client is fairly good and works about the way people expect it to work.

It sounds very much like a DropBox/Google Drive kind of use case and from a user perspective it does exactly that, and it’s not Linux-specific either. I use mine to share my KeePass database among other things. The app is available on just about any platform as well.

Yeah NextCloud is a joke in how complex it is, but you can hide it all away using their all in one Docker/Podman container. Still much easier than getting into bcachefs over usbip and other things I’ve seen in this thread.

Ultimately I don’t think there are many tools that can handle caching, downloads, going offline, reconcile differences when back online, in a friendly package. I looked and there’s a page on Oracle’s website about a CacheFS but that might be enterprise only, there’s catfs in Rust but it’s alpha, and can’t work without the backing filesystem for metadata.

Max_P, 6 days ago

Easiest for this might be NextCloud. Import all the files into it, then you can get the NextCloud client to download or cache the files you plan on needing with you.

Max_P, 3 days ago

They even used to be the best drivers, a long time ago when nobody cared about the graphics stack. Had ATI/AMD? You got the FGLRX proprietary driver and it was really bad.

12 years ago it was probably one of the least broken GPU drivers available. You actually got most of your GPUs capabilities.

Now with Intel and AMD going open-source, those are now the best drivers and NVIDIA is lagging behind and not keeping up with advancements in the Linux graphics stack. Hopefully the open driver and NVK catches up and brings everyone a good open-source NVIDIA experience so we can stop relying on the proprietary driver.

Max_P, 3 days ago

chattr -i

Max_P, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

Yes, block means block. What else would you expect?

Apparently that’s only true for the admin version, I stand corrected.

Max_P, 3 days ago

I get that you can’t stop people from commenting on your posts but you can still filter it out from the results.

Mastodon is arguably easier to deal with since you’re replying directly to someone, so the user’s server can reject it and be done with it. On Lemmy it really should behave as if you blocked the user: just hide it from view. Simply because if you’re on instance A, blocked instance is B and the community is on C, B has no problem posting to C as it doesn’t know you’ve blocked it on A. But even defederation doesn’t address that either: you can reply to defederated users and they’ll never know for the same reason.

I think on this type of social media, not seeing it is the best you can do regardless.

Max_P, 3 days ago

Huh, guess I mixed it up with the admin version of it.

That seems dubiously useful to me, if a user blocks lemmygrad they probably want none of it, not just hide the posts.

Max_P, 5 days ago

I think it can also get weird when you call other makefiles, like if you go make -j64 at the top level and that thing goes on to call make on subprojects, that can be a looooot of threads of that -j gets passed down. So even on that 64 core machine, now you have possibly 4096 jobs going, and it surfaces bugs that might not have been a problem when we had 2-4 cores (oh no, make is running 16 jobs at once, the horror).

Max_P, 1 day ago

AI is basically like early access games but the entirety of big tech is rushing to roll it out first to as many people as possible.

Max_P, 1 day ago

Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics/Grafana are pretty good, had no issues with it and there’s an exporter for damn near anything. They’re pretty easy to custom write too.

Max_P, 6 days ago

Paywalled medium article? I’ll pass.

Fuck employers that steal from their employees paychecks though.

Max_P, 6 days ago

The page just deletes itself for me when using that. It loads and .5 second later it just goes blank. They really don’t want people to bypass it.

Max_P, 2 days ago

Note: do that from a live CD/USB or with the source drive mounted readonly. If you dd a mounted and used filesystem, you’ll most likely end up with a corrupted and useless filesystem on the target.

Max_P, 2 days ago

<span style="color:#323232;">25G     pictrs
</span><span style="color:#323232;">13G     postgres
</span><span style="color:#323232;">38G     total
</span>

Seems fairly reasonable to me

Max_P, 6 days ago

The problem is that you can’t just convert a deb to rpm or whatever. Well you can and it usually does work, but not always. Tools for that have existed for a long time, and there’s plenty of packages in the AUR that just repacks a deb, usually proprietary software, sometimes with bundled hacks to make it run.

There’s no guarantee that the libraries of a given distro are at all compatible with the ones of another. For example, Alpine and Void use musl while most others use glibc. These are not binary compatible at all. That deb will never run on Alpine, you need to recompile the whole thing against musl.

What makes a distro a distro is their choice of package manager, the way of handling dependencies, compile flags, package splitting, enabled feature sets, and so on. If everyone used the same binaries for compatibility we wouldn’t have distros, we would have a single distro like Windows but open-source but heaven forbid anyone dares switching the compiler flags so it runs 0.5% faster on their brand new CPU.

The Flatpak approach is really more like “fine we’ll just ship a whole Fedora-lite base system with the apps”. Snaps are similar but they use Ubuntu bases instead (obviously). It’s solving a UX problem, using a particular solution, but it’s not the solution. It’s a nice tool to have so developers can ship a reference environment in which the software is known to run well into and users that just want it to work can use those. But the demand for native packages will never go away, and people will still do it for fun. That’s the nature of open-source. It’s what makes distros like NixOS, Void, Alpine, Gentoo possible: everyone can try a different way of doing things, for different usecases.

If we can even call it a “problem”. It’s my distro’s job to package the software, not the developer’s. That’s how distros work, that’s what they signed up for by making a distro. To take Alpine again for example, they compile all their packages against musl instead of glibc, and it works great for them. That shouldn’t become the developer’s problem to care what kind of libc their software is compiled against. Using a Flatpak in this case just bypasses Alpine and musl entirely because it’s gonna use glibc from the Fedora base system layer. Are you really running Alpine and musl at that point?

And this is without even touching the different architectures. Some distros were faster to adopt ARM than others for example. Some people run desktop apps on PowerPC like old Macs. Fine you add those to the builds and now someone wants a RISC-V build, and a MIPS build.

There are just way too many possibilities to ever end up with an universal platform that fits everyone’s needs. And that’s fine, that’s precisely why developers ship source code not binaries.

Max_P, 5 days ago

I have none of that on my phone, just plain old keyboard.

But the reason it’s everywhere is it’s the new hot thing and every company in the world feels like they have to get on board now or they’ll be potentially left behind, can’t let anyone have a headstart. It’s incredibly dumb and shortsighted but since actually innovating in features is hard and AI is cheap to implement, that’s what every company goes for.

Max_P, 9 hours ago

If they do that, they can no longer complain that Meta is freeloading on them and get themselves banned by Meta like they did in Canada…

Max_P, 1 day ago

KDE has Plasma BigScreen. It even maps remotes to regular common keybinds so you can navigate apps without native support for that kind of use.

I haven’t seen it in the wild and I don’t think there are many apps that do integrate very well with it, but it exists to mess with.

Max_P, 6 days ago

You guys still use fstab? It’s systemd/Linux, you use mount units.

Max_P, 6 days ago

I forgot about that, I should try it on my new laptop.

Max_P, 6 days ago

Yeah that’s what it does, that was a shitpost if it wasn’t obvious :p

Though I do use ZFS which you configure the mountpoints in the filesystem itself. But it also ultimately generates systemd mount units under the hood. So I really only need one unit, for /boot.

Max_P, 5 days ago

That file looks like it’s barely playable in general.

FFmpeg and MPV can’t play it at all:

<span style="color:#323232;">max-p@desktop ~ [123]>  mpv https://lemmynsfw.com/pictrs/image/f482b4d7-957a-4ed7-a9ec-0493907a8cb3.mp4
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> (+) Video --vid=1 (*) (h264 576x1024 30.000fps)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> (+) Audio --aid=1 (*) (aac 1ch 44100Hz)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">File tags:
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Comment: vid:v12044gd0000cp23h1vog65ukmo9lhkg
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Cannot load libcuda.so.1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[ffmpeg] Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[ffmpeg/demuxer] mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2: stream 1, offset 0x30: partial file
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[lavf] error reading packet: Invalid data found when processing input.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[ffmpeg] Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[ffmpeg/demuxer] mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2: stream 1, offset 0x30: partial file
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[lavf] error reading packet: Invalid data found when processing input.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[ffmpeg] Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[ffmpeg/demuxer] mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2: stream 1, offset 0x30: partial file
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[lavf] error reading packet: Invalid data found when processing input.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[ffmpeg] Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[ffmpeg/demuxer] mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2: stream 1, offset 0x30: partial file
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[lavf] error reading packet: Invalid data found when processing input.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[ffmpeg] Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[ffmpeg/demuxer] mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2: stream 1, offset 0x30: partial file
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[lavf] error reading packet: Invalid data found when processing input.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[ffmpeg] Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[ffmpeg/demuxer] mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2: stream 1, offset 0x30: partial file
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[lavf] error reading packet: Invalid data found when processing input.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[ffmpeg] Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[ffmpeg/demuxer] mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2: stream 1, offset 0x30: partial file
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[lavf] error reading packet: Invalid data found when processing input.
</span>

VLC seems to be able to, but it complains that it’s not proper:

<span style="color:#323232;">max-p@desktop ~>  vlc https://lemmynsfw.com/pictrs/image/f482b4d7-957a-4ed7-a9ec-0493907a8cb3.mp4
</span><span style="color:#323232;">VLC media player 3.0.20 Vetinari (revision 3.0.20-0-g6f0d0ab126b)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[00005ca01d39d550] main libvlc: Lancement de vlc avec l’interface par défaut. Utiliser « cvlc » pour démarrer VLC sans interface.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[00007ea2f413f5c0] mp4 stream error: no moov before mdat and the stream is not seekable
</span>

Some players are more generous in what they tolerate but the file is undoubtedly mildly corrupted.

Lemmy should not let people upload corrupted files in the first place.

Max_P, 4 days ago

Yeah, if I see “Steam Deck verified”, I expect the game to work 100% out of the box. Although I guess a “playable” rating might have been more appropriate, but with online mode being so popular I’m sure there would be tons of complaints if Valve said it worked perfectly.