In Mac Os you can actually pop open the plastic covers to reveal a pretty advanced control panel that feels oddly like Linux, but you have to do it very quietly, or else Steve Jobs will rise from the grave and slap you across the wrists with a metal ruler
Ugh this is me rn. Spent like 30 minutes trying to figure out how to get NixOS to request a new DHCP lease. Reconnecting to the network? Nope, same IP. dhclient? Nope, not on NixOS. systemd-networkd? Keeps throwing some weird error. The solution? Just reboot the damn computer.
Hi all, tomorrow is when Reddits API change takes place and we are expecting a large influx of users and signups. I have prepared as much as possible but there still may be some down time. I will try my best to keep it as minimal as possible....
Haha I feel the same! It really does feel like a completely new and unexplored world. Kind of crazy to think that the idea of federation has been around since e-mail, yet only now people are applying it to social media!
[Miracle of the word wide web meme template]
“Thanks to the miracle of windows subsystem for linux…”
“…I can use the Linux terminal from the comfort of windows”
[Computer monitor showing windows update screen]
“Marvelous”
My guess is that this time they really wanted to pull the developer demographic over into the M$ sphere of influence. MSYS, MingW, and Git Shell already fill the same niche as WSL, so it wasn’t destined to succeed. Thing is, they probably didn’t expect it to succeed either. Microsoft’s strategy has always been to throw a hundred dicks at the wall and hope that one of them sticks (think Zune, Windows Phone, etc). This time, Azure kind of stuck. WSL didn’t. When you’re as big as Microsoft, the occasional win more than covers the cost of a hundred fails.
since they still haven’t fixed the lack of audio on Linux
Huh, never heard of this. Do you mean that it’s impossible to stream desktop audio through discord? As a workaround, you can try switching to Pipewire and patching your audio output’s monitor into Discord through helvum. Or write a script that does that automatically.
Does the method you’re describing play well with speaking at the same time
Yes.
With pipewire, it is possible to patch two sources (i.e. your microphone and an application’s audio) into a single input, and it will mix them together into one stream. I just tested this with Audacity (didn’t feel like booting up Discord, but it should work the same). I could hear my voice and the application’s audio at the same time. This is what it looked like for me in Helvum:
The gray PortAudio block is Audacity (would be Discord in your case). “ALC3232 Analog” is my microphone (on the left) and my headphones (on the right). Music Player Daemon is the application whose audio I wanted to stream. The connection between the microphone and Audacity was made automatically as soon as I started the recording. I had to manually make the connections from Music Player Daemon to Audacity for both left and right channels. After that I could see both the mic sound and the music player daemon sound in the recording, mixed into one stream. It should work the same way with Discord. If you wanted to, for example, make your voice louder or quiter compared to the application audio, you could just adjust your mic’s gain (or the application’s volume) with Pavucontrol (it’s an app made for Pulseaudio, but it works flawlessly under pipewire as well).
In my original comment, I said that you could patch your output’s monitor back into Discord. This is a bad idea, since if anyone speaks to you in the call, that audio will also be echoed back to them. So it’s better to connect the individual applications’ audio into Discord as opposed to the output monitor.
Now, this could get a little tedious, making those connections by hand every time you want to screen share. So you could try to make a script that does something like that automatically. Pipewire also has the concept of a “session manager”, which is basically a daemon that decides which connections are made by default, when new sources or sinks register with Pipewire. For example, wireplumber, the default session manager, was responsible for connection audacity to my microphone automatically. Maybe you could try to configure your session manager to also automatically make connection between Discord and any app that outputs audio (idk tho, never done it before).
I remember seeing a version of this meme where for all distros the “users” was in plural, except for gnewsense, where it was just “user”, implying that Stallman is the only one who uses it XD
It seems that on any community I go to (whether local or on another federated instance) the “Subscribe” and “Block” buttons appear as plain text, not as buttons/links. So that I can’t subscribe to any more communities. Occasionally, “Block” will appear as a button, but “Subscribe” pretty much never does....
Would be cool if there was something like qubesos, but with namespaces instead of virtual machines. I guess we’re slowly moving there with Flatpak, but they only seem to be concerned with GUI apps and see sandboxing as a convenience tool for developers, not so much as a security measure.
you still cannot verify that that’s the code running on their servers
This is why end-to-end encryption is paramount. You could be using Gmail as your provider for all I care as long as your messages are GPG-encrypted. Even if you trust the server-side completely (e.g. self-hosted), it’s still better to encrypt wherever possible, since it reduces attack surface.
I need to get into my password manager as I am transitioning browser programs. And I can't remember my password to a site nor the password to my password manager....
Maybe you’re already doing this, but consider coming up with a passphrase as opposed to a password. Something like “iwanttoeatwaffles7daysaweek!” is actually pretty secure and easier to remember than random gibberish. Here is Edward Snowden giving the same advice, and here is a relevant XKCD.
My idea is that if I stay on the oldest supported version for as long as possible, that would help me avoid evil changes in new versions, since the news would have gone public before I update. You bring up a good point about security updates tho. How relevant is it to browser extensions? Has there been malware out there that specifically targets vulnerabilities in extensions? Just casually doing git log | grep -E ‘vuln|crit|secur|bug’ in two extensions that I use quite extensively (pun intended), I don’t seem to find any security-related commits.
Wayland lmao (lemmy.world)
Differences (lemmy.world)
MacOS user switches to only Linux: Month 4 (lemmy.world)
Tomorrow's API Change
Hi all, tomorrow is when Reddits API change takes place and we are expecting a large influx of users and signups. I have prepared as much as possible but there still may be some down time. I will try my best to keep it as minimal as possible....
When WSL2 first came out, some losers on /g/ were cheering that it would "make Linux obsolete". Four years later, I think it's safe to say they were kinda missing the point. (vlemmy.net)
Inspired by a Windows defender/Linux offender meme I saw a year ago (vlemmy.net)
This isn’t meant to “mean” anything btw, just a stupid pun.
Distro users (lemmy.world)
When all you have is a hammer, every screw looks like a plaintext file. (vlemmy.net)
"Subscribe" and "Block" are only text, not buttons
It seems that on any community I go to (whether local or on another federated instance) the “Subscribe” and “Block” buttons appear as plain text, not as buttons/links. So that I can’t subscribe to any more communities. Occasionally, “Block” will appear as a button, but “Subscribe” pretty much never does....
So true. (lemmy.world)
It shall be a speedy journey, Allah willing. (vlemmy.net)
Know your stuff (lemmy.world)
password hell
I need to get into my password manager as I am transitioning browser programs. And I can't remember my password to a site nor the password to my password manager....
Disabling automatic browser extension updates as a security measure?
It seems every now and again some popular Chrome or Firefox extension decides to "go evil" seemingly out of nowhere....