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reallyzen, 5 months ago

I’d push this further: I install what I need now, and then install anything else when needed. Old installs get bloated because of shit we pull over time. A new one has to be fresh. When testing a new distro you wanna see it at its (default) best.

reallyzen, 5 months ago

Thanks for the actual “M1” answer.

I’ll be still mixing and mastering (and lighting) on Linux, as I’ve been on anything from Slackware to SuSE to Arch since 2006 ; I believe my current showstoppers are bad luck with secondhand hardware, and pebkac on pipewire software. It just happens that for live, real-flesh-on-stage-and-audience, I can’t afford the risks. It hurts.

reallyzen, 5 months ago

Thanks! I don’t know GB, but I’ve seen people around me use it heavily.

I’ve been working with macs since a long time - goes with the job. I know they’ll work great also with my stuff like midi keyboards (I have so many…) and Live and, and.

I’ll see tomorrow if what’s on the counter is actually available. Thanks again, your enthusiasm is heartwarming!

reallyzen, 5 months ago

Tom Kha Ghai

reallyzen, 5 months ago

And if the date is dull, at least you’ve enjoyed an excellent soup.

Traditionally served in the morning tho - do you do morning dates ?

reallyzen, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Me too. Stock from the install guide, Linux and linux-lts kermels

What doesn’t work :

• ftdi chipsets over usb aren’t recognized by the software anymore.
• The menu to switch on/off WiFi hangs, crashes the subsystem (and the menu panel), must reboot.
• Laptop goes asleep when and if it feels like, sometimes doesn’t even shut down the screen when I close the lid (dell 7389). And wakes up randomly of course.
• Impossible to get snapper-rollback to work ; snapshots work, rebooting in an earlier config doesn’t (and that part of the wiki is a mess).
• Helvum doesn’t show the audio hardware and software, no way to route stuff like we used in Jack.
• Webcam, internal microphone don’t work.
• External output/input hardware (minijack) don’t work.
• Appimages don’t work natively, must decompress and launch from terminal

reallyzen, 5 months ago

Which is the perfect premises for a Colonial Invasion by a “superioristic” neighbor. Like the Belgians bringing Civilization to Congo, or France shining the lights of the Republic to North Africa (and S-E Asia). Or the Spanish, saving South America through Religion.

Please, Lizards Overlords, make haste; I have a feeling it is a matter of emergency right now.

reallyzen, 5 months ago

The Tumbleweed installer is great, the general feel of the distro is polished, modern, up-to-date and efficient.

As other people have said, use the terminal to update both flatpaks and packages.

One main reason I went back to Arch BTW is that there aren’t, contrary to the old self a declaration by Suse, that many software available for my use case, so I ended up with tons of ppa’s, sorry, Suse Vendors who relied on each others for libraries, and it eventually broke down my system when some stuff wasn’t available but was required, while some may be available from 4 different, private, repos.

So I found software management a nightmare: where to find, which one to choose from? Looking for stuff in yast, then in gnome-software, then in software.opensuse.org, then on the Build Service… Clicking bliindly to trust keys from people with personal repos titled “Use At Your Own Risk”. Updating that mess then was complicated, and slow because gnome-software would lock yast while checking stuff in the background. I had to kill it, even just to relaunch it to search for stuff.

But Tumbleweed installs Snapper on Btrfs by default, so rolling back shouldn’t be a problem? True, and I did it and it’s just delicious, fuck up your system, wind back in two clicks… That is, unless btrfs snapshots didn’t got unruly, and in it’s default settings ate up all my disk space, forcing me to destroy that great system.

What annoyed me most here wasn’t the software all-over-the-place mess, but that the default, factory setting of a great system they themselves contributed to the Linux world wouldn’t be working 6 months down the line on a small disk (30Gb). Thanks to the Arch Wiki I know better now, and it is easily manageable, but it was too late for me.

Went back to Arch, with snapper, snap-pac, grub-btrfs, snapper-rollback. Can’t yet wind back like in Suse at all, currently at VM number 9, trying again, wish me luck.

TL;DR: a rolling release from a reputable company with one-click rollback is a perfect solution if you keep your system relatively standard.

reallyzen, 5 months ago

Car from 1992.

reallyzen, 5 months ago

I already installed 6 (the Tree) on my… Gnome laptop. As opposite to one of the feedbacks on the competition page said about the Night version, I don’t care about legibility of my desktop items huhuhu.

reallyzen, 5 months ago

Jackfruit

reallyzen, 6 months ago

zypper!

reallyzen, 6 months ago

#SUTOM #687 4/6

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🟥🟡🟡🟡🟡🟦🟦

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Ah bah c’est pas le même. Bof.

reallyzen, 6 months ago

Where I live (France countryside) there’s only one priest for the 4 nearest towns ; he’s rotating churches like 2 on Saturday then 2 on Sunday.

Guess on weekdays he’s scratching his balls or something someone else’s.

reallyzen, 6 months ago

Nop

Mais je suis pas qualifié : 55 balais.

Consultons mes filles

• Aînée (27 ans) : Nop, yikes
• Cadette (22 ans) : si les conditions sont crédibles, peut-être

…Leur confiance en l’avenir est limitée, et donc la perspective de progéniture aussi.

reallyzen, 6 months ago

There are different ways, and the personal preference of the bassist / of their sound person matters. If they like their current amp (for their sound qualities), a lot of sound engineers will just put a microphone in front of it to pickup “their” acoustic sound ; if the amp itself is decent, it’s going to feature a line output on the amp itself, that they can use to plug into the sound system and get the amp feed up to it. And, lastly, inserting a DI box between the instrument and the amp allows for a split output of one line towards the sound system and another towards the amp, so they can still hear “their” sound while the sound engineer has full control of how it will sound on the system (DI’s are usually provided by the stage, rarely by the musician, and using them is a lot of time the choice of the engineer).

In a cool setup, sound engineers like to have both a microphone in front of the cabinet and from the amp output or a DI, allowing them to mix between both.

In a modern (bigger) system, the amp is entirely removed, replaced by a DI, or the cabinet is out backstage to avoid noise pollution on stage, and the musicians only hear themselves through the monitors.

Am I answering your question? No I’m not!

Talk to your friend. They may like their current amp to the death, they may very well know what they would like to buy next, or not.

Why not finding a pretext to go to a music shop and try several “just to have fun / just to have a look”? If an obvious preference arises, you just pop your credit card and Bob’s their uncle!

reallyzen, 6 months ago

105 days. Was yesterday for the first time in a restaurant that serves alcohol, with people drinking, was OK. I hated the giant TVs with football, the loud music, the smoke-filled athmosphere. And the French fries where cold.

I didn’t mind the booze. I know I will always crave it, day in day out, from waking up till falling asleep, and also that it is not the answer.

reallyzen, 6 months ago

Generated my GRUB configuration file as grub.conf

That took a stupid while to realize.

reallyzen, 6 months ago

And why should it ? If you notice illegal content, report it so the individual posting it can be taken care of.

You don’t like it, block it

You’re offended by trolling, block it

You don’t like giant emojis, block it

You can’t stand a leftist view on urbanism, on science, on transportation… Block it.

I, for my part, can’t stand the idea of an instance becoming an even worse echo chamber as it is by severimg ties with anybody who irritates an instance admin.

reallyzen, 6 months ago

I’m guessing your use case require extra steps towards anonymity.

2 ways :

1. Download the needed .rpm from software.opensuse.org from another machine, transfer via USB, install manually from terminal or YAST ; it is gonna be tedious since dependencies will be missing and you will have to pull them, transfer them, install them manually.
2. (cleaner). It’s probably easier to wipe your system, re-install while connected behind either a PiHole or a VPN on your phone using HotSpot + a decent DNS provider and setting the VPN to target an unusual location. This time, do configure properly your machine including extra software that may not be available on the offline installation media. Reboot, configure, don’t use previous VPN location ever again.

reallyzen, 6 months ago

My proposition here is that your machine (current mac address) will be once online, through a location used once, with dns-leak protection - yes, your machine will be fingerprinted once, and if the only thing you do when using this particular config is pulling software from the opensuse repos, and pay attention to only ever after live your online life with the spoofed mac and another VPN location, connecting both gonna be near impossible. Who’s gonna fingerprint you anyway, if really the only use of the network is the Suse installer pulling rpm’s from its own repos? At that, Nord isn’t worst than any other since the internet provider for the connection can only sniff you going to some X location for an hour or so.

Extra Paranoid Step, do it from any public free WiFi across town or something.

You know, at the end of the day, fingerprinting works very well even behind the standard privacy protection we all know about. An interesting concept I read here was that the more addons / special stuff you add to protect you, the more “unique” is your profile, enabling efficient tracking!

Good luck with all this

Tumbleweed/ProtonVPN here

reallyzen, 10 months ago

Wrong. Drive a Miata and you get to fuck girls and boys, clearly a far superior car here.

According to their metrics anyway.

reallyzen, 10 months ago

Second-hand smoking. Not only is it bad for you, it is also bad for your entourage. Numerous countries are forbidding smoking in the same space as children for that exact reason.

reallyzen, 10 months ago

Thanks for sharing, that was a great read. Artemis was meh for several reasons, but it still features great world building and it’s great to see it used at this level of quality.