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bbbhltz, 4 months ago

The distro I came here to mention has been hated on already. My dislike goes to the distros that start off fine, and somehow screw it up.

Honestly, I remember using Manjaro ages ago. It had an official Openbox spin (not a community thing). I had already used Arch but I didn’t even check to see what it was based on when I tried. I thought, “green is nice” and it was. It very quickly became less nice. I didn’t use it after that, but I’ve heard plenty of hate since then.

I’m going to put another one out there just for fun.

Distrowatch’s n°1… MX Linux

Nothing wrong with it, but the fact that it is number 1 (I know their ranking is just for fun and based on page hits) and doesn’t deserve it is the issue. It works great, when I used it I didn’t like how there was a second application for installating certain software. I think I used the Xfce setup. Again, it’s fine, but if a first-time Linux desktop user sat down and installed that, it might not be the best initiation.

Popular and highly ranked distros give Desktop Linux a bad name sometimes is what I’m saying.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Don’t know if it is a must-try, but LXQt has come a long way. The file browser is excellent. Everything is fast and snappy and very traditional (start button, system tray, etc.). Runner up I guess.

You can run Alpine as a desktop. The Edge branch. New software, got what you need, installs and updates fast.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

It’s easy. After running setup-alpine and rebooting with a bar install there is built-in script setup-desktop that lets you install Gnome, Plasma or Xfce.

You can find install scripts like Alpine Suck around the web git.sr.ht/~bt/alpine-suck

Or check out the wiki for other inspiration wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Category:Desktop

If you use Edge, I would recommend subscribing to the user mailing list though, just in case.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

This sounds like a privacy concern. Maybe one of the privacy communities will have a better answer.

You’re worried that the bios will ping hp and hand over info, is this something that you have info on?

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

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bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Got like 3 hours sleep last night, slept in, ate too fast, stomach ache all day due to that. Other than that, easy work day and the week is light on work to boot. Might get snow where I live too. That would be…cool.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Somehow it might be possible the adwaita-icon-theme package was removed and not reinstalled.

You could also try running dconf reset -f /org/gnome/ and rebooting to see if that helps.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Yikes. Something is missing. Is this Debian? You could swing by their forums or IRC and get sorted out fast. I’m sure there is a dpkg command that fixes this up. As for the icons, there is definitely a missing package related to adwaita or some lingering config file needs to be reset to defaults.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

For Gnome settings? I suppose you could backup everything. It isn’t removing all dconf settings, just gnome, which is broken in this case.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

No. You’re right. I should have added a bold warning that it will reset gnome back to defaults too.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Yep. I have never had to use Discord. Or, I suppose I should say I haven’t had to use it yet. But when I see that a project uses Discord and not a forum or even Discourse, Matrix or IRC, I just hope I never have to ask for help.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Which way is GNOME going? I’m out of the loop.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Went full Linux in the early 2000s. Never went back. Started with Debian and Ubuntu. Tried many distros for varying amounts of time. I always come back to Debian.

I’m just a regular desktop Linux user. It’s great.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Anki

That’s the basis of Bloom’s taxonomy: knowledge or memorization

https://thepeakperformancecenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Blooms-Tamonomy.jpg

Spaced repetition apps, like Anki and Duolingo help a lot with the base, the rest needs guided learning with regular activities.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Did you delete them outright or modify the text and then delete it? That is the tinfoil hat way! If you lived in Europe you could request your data to be deleted. You can also request your data and they are supposed to comply at some point. If you did that you could see what they have.

The rabbit hole will drive you a little bonkers so maybe don’t overthink it for now and take a look at www.reveddit.com and archive.org to see if your username pops up.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Amazing that I can live in the country and hear nothing about this. I’ve just read the Guardian article and I guess not living in Paris or another major city might be one of the reasons.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

ah zdnet, a waste of CO2 if there ever was

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Punkt is neat, but in the end it is Android (if you can believe it). So, it has Signal (or Pigeon, as they’ve branded it) but it is also vulnerable the same way any Android phone can be. There are some baked-in apps that track and whatnot.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

I would let your wallet decide.

phone, text, camera, GPS, web browser, notes, email, music player

GrapheneOS and the Librem 5 can handle this. If I hadn’t bought a phone at the end of 2022 I’d likely go for the Librem 5 unless a used Pixel could be acquired.

I think the only thing you will lose with GrapheneOS is tap-to-pay, if you even use that. Beyond that, if you don’t install GSF or even microG on the device you’re already doing a lot in terms of privacy. You have to look into whether things like Uber would work without GSF (I don’t use Uber so I can’t check).

Are there other hardware suggestions or setups that you like?

I was going to set up a Nextcloud server, but ended up just using Syncthing. I thought I would need that full suite of services, but it turns out my workflow just needs a few directories. I use Markor to take notes and write drafts. Before, I did editing on my phone, but now I wait until I am sat down in front of a computer. Syncthing can run on an old Raspberry Pi and requires very little upkeep.

Another suggestion is to use something like UAD to debloat most any Android phone. It is a bit of a preview of what to expect from many alternative ROMs. You need to switch to OSM and use a different calendar app and possibly a different camera app, contacts, keyboard, etc. and you’ll notice very quickly that…nothing really changes except maybe battery life.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Is this your blog?

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

You can install osmin on Linux. Som distros have it in their repos.

github.com/janbar/osmin

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Mon fils de 6 ans parlent couramment français, anglais et espagnol. Il peut lire et écrire dans les trois langues. Nous n’avons rien fait de plus à part parler et lire en anglais et espagnol. Il a chopé et il fait l’alternance des codes de manière fluide aussi… Mais je trouve ça normal. Mes collègues ont les enfants polyglottes et quand j’étais à l’école il y avait un garçon qui parlait 5 langues (anglais parce qu’on était au Canada, français parce que ses parents parlaient français, arabe, ourdou et espagnol parce que les autres membres de sa famille parlaient ces langues).

Je pense que je devrais lire ce livre pour comprendre le défi.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Ok, oui. J’avoue, pas mal de bons exemples à lire là. Chez moi on ne force pas et il y a quelques personnes en dehors de la maison avec qui il parle anglais et espagnol. Je vais garder ce lien et creuser un peu plus. Merci !

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Strawberry if I had to have something visual with buttons.

cmus right now because it loads my rather large library in a split second. mpd works great as well.

More important than the player for me is sorting, though. Beets is my saviour. I could never sort the 5 or 6 albums I get by hand and tag them by hand.

I used to like deadbeef as well, quod libet is great. There really is something for everyone when it comes to something for music. If only there were as many great email clients.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Probably a private school thing in that case. I haven’t taught at a public uni since 2008, but parents wouldn’t have tried to get involved back then.

I cannot contact parents, but administrators will without question.