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ipacialsection, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

It’s like an avant-garde version of Turn Left, with the concept taken so much further, it reaches the edge of the universe, loops around, and comes all the way back down to Earth.

Did the episode ever explain why everyone runs away in horror, quits their job, and starts avoiding Ruby when they talk to that old woman, including trained UNIT agents? Maybe we weren’t meant to know.

I also found it amusing to think about how little happens in the prime timeline. The ultimate result of this entire alternate life is that Ruby has a weird, but brief, supernatural experience, the Doctor narrowly stops himself from breaking a fairy circle, and they both have a normal day in Wales.

ipacialsection, 2 days ago

Elisa is just the latest (and most actively developed) addition to the long list of music players developed under the KDE umbrella.

ipacialsection, 7 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

Right now I’d say the best open-source DAW for Linux is LMMS if you want to do everything just on your laptop, or Ardour if you want to use external instruments.

LMMS has some shockingly versatile built in synths, including a port of ZynAddSubFX, supports LADSPA/LV2 plugins, and supports using Wine to run 32-bit Windows VSTs. I’m unsure of Ardour’s VST support, but it at least supports LV2 plugins. Either of those, if you install them through your distro, will likely include Calf Studio Gear, an extensive collection of LV2 effects and a couple synths. As for ones that run natively on Linux, there’s synthv1, samplv1, drumkv1, and padthv1, though I’ve had trouble getting them working myself.

I’ve found some good stuff on the Linux Audio Wiki but IDK how up to date most of it is.

ipacialsection, 8 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Almost all distros can dual boot, so there’s little reason to highlight one as being the best for it. Dual booting is a bit messy and risky no matter what you do, so back up your data first and, if you’re new to Linux, look up instructions for dual booting Windows 11 and your chosen distro.

Only one I can think of that does anything special with dual boot, off the top of my head, is Q4OS, which offers a way to install it from within Windows using an app. (It also happens to be tailored towards people familiar with Windows XP or 7, so it should be a somewhat smooth transition for a first time Linux user.) I haven’t tried this myself, but I imagine it just expedites the usual steps of dual booting: shrink the Windows partition, then install into the resulting free space (or to an unused disk).

If that doesn’t sound appealing, just try any distro recommended as “beginner friendly”, like Linux Mint. Tutorials should be easy to find.

ipacialsection, 8 days ago

1. Create a source control repository containing all your code, and publish it to an online code forge. GitHub’s docs might help with this: docs.github.com/en/…/start-your-journey
2. Choose an open-source license and add it to the repository as a LICENSE file. If you want to require any projects that build upon yours to be open-source too, the GNU GPL is a good choice. If you want to allow proprietary programs to include your library without releasing any source code other than that which is directly based on yours, the GNU LGPL is good for that. If you want to allow people to do whatever they want, even use all your code as the basis of a proprietary program without credit, the Unlicense is a good choice. There are a lot of licenses with different degrees of “copyleft” and attribution requirements in between. Technically publishing with a license file is all you need to do, but there are more things you should do.
3. Create a README text file describing what your program does, and instructing users on how to compile and run it. Consider including more detailed documentation on how to use it, as well.
4. Clean up your code and file layout so that it’s as easy as is feasible for other programmers to understand.
5. Promote your project to whoever you think might find it useful!

ipacialsection, 8 days ago

A collection of poker scenes filmed from different camera angles.

ipacialsection, 12 days ago

I have to borrow a school laptop just to do proctored exams, because their “lockdown browser” doesn’t support Linux, and even if it did, it seems to do some things in kernel mode, so I don’t want it on my system.

Surprisingly, most classes at my university are entirely FOSS based, aside from that one piece of software, an obscure scientific program that only one assignment used, and MATLAB (which is easily replaced by GNU Octave.)

ipacialsection, 13 days ago

Not recognizing 15 doesn’t necessarily mean she has never seen The Doctor, as many other stories demonstrate, but not recognizing the TARDIS does seem to imply that.

Maybe she’s one of the Pantheon that are being built up as this season’s villains. I can’t see her as the big bad for the whole season (who would presumably be The One Who Waits), but I could see her playing a part in a major late-season twist.

Or, maybe she’s a Time Lord who somehow escaped genocide. Maybe one who left Gallifrey even before the Doctor did.

ipacialsection, 13 days ago

I think there’s some weird predestination stuff around Ruby’s birth and adoption, that the Pantheon was involved with, and Maestro hints at that. Perhaps they wanted, or at least knew ahead of time, that she would eventually be the Doctor’s companion.

ipacialsection, 16 days ago

No distro I’m aware of still provides official box sets and CDs. Debian still provides materials for third parties to make them, though. Most of the vendors of pre-burned Linux media have also shut down, but one that seems to still exist (and offers Debian box sets) is www.shoplinuxonline.com .

ipacialsection, 15 days ago

I was speaking of the Debian “full archive” 21-DVD sets: www.shoplinuxonline.com/debian-full.html

But I don’t know about how they package it, so it might not be a “box set” as you describe.

ipacialsection, 18 days ago

Debian Stable, in my experience, can stay online for months, even over a year, with very little attention, and still work as well as you left it. You can also install RHEL or a rebuild, like AlmaLinux, RockyLinux, or Oracle Linux, as a workstation distro.

As for the device, my use case is fairly different so I’m not sure what to suggest. Maybe an Intel NUC, or a Framework laptop.

ipacialsection, 18 days ago

framatube.org/w/9dRFC6Ya11NCVeYKn8ZhiD

ipacialsection, 19 days ago

You’re looking at bootloaders, not kernels; you need to enroll the kernel with one of those bootloaders. Usually running sudo update-grub while in the OS will automatically detect and add any available kernels to the default version of GRUB.

If you can’t boot into the OS, you can select the kernel manually from the GRUB command line: unix-ninja.com/…/Manually_booting_the_Linux_kerne…

ipacialsection, 18 days ago

I’ve honestly never wrestled with Secure Boot in this way; I usually disable it if it won’t let me boot my preferred kernel. From my brief online searches, enrolling your own keys is possible, but that depends on the kernel modules being signed in the first place, and carries risk of bricking devices if not done correctly. So you might just want to disable Secure Boot, or otherwise stick to kernels provided by your distribution.

ipacialsection, 20 days ago

I can’t object to more Jett Reno!

ipacialsection, 23 days ago

Wasn’t screenfetch the thing neofetch was supposed to replace? Apparently it has more recent development activity (5 months ago), anyway…

ipacialsection, 24 days ago

Can you be more specific about what happens when you reboot? Does it go to blank screen, a blinking cursor, or just shut itself off? Does the operating system start and just get stuck somewhere in the boot process, or does it not even get that far?

I think F12 is the BIOS key, if that helps. If it attempts to boot the operating system, you can press one of the arrow keys to see the boot log.

ipacialsection, 24 days ago

From the sounds of it, the OS might not be starting at all, which is a very strange thing to happen after installing a desktop environment. My best guess is that apt uninstalled something important. As other folks said Ubuntu 24.04 is pretty unstable at the moment, so you might have more luck with Fedora, or Ubuntu 22.04 or 23.10. One thing you could try is booting into your (K)ubuntu live medium and running sudo grub-install /dev/sda, to reinstall the bootloader, just in case something broke it.

Pressing F12 while the Framework logo is visible (but before the OS starts) opens the BIOS boot menu. I assumed incorrectly that that is what you were trying to do with Escape. Trying to boot that way might help elucidate why the OS won’t start. You could also get into BIOS settings that way, or boot a USB drive.

ipacialsection, 1 month ago

Moderately “leave me the fuck alone”, and usually indifferent but a number of things can swing me into extreme silliness.

ipacialsection, 1 month ago

Unsure if this is what you’re looking for, but I’ve seen some FOSS projects use www.makedeb.org and openbuildservice.org to create public Debian repos.

ipacialsection, 1 month ago

I honestly have only passing knowledge of it, but my understanding is that Open Build Service is more for sharing software whose source code you are allowed to distribute. If you aren’t looking to distribute at all, the solutions other users suggested might be better.

There’s also a way to create an APT repository entirely on your own system, without a web server, which I haven’t tried myself, but a DuckDuckGo search found this: help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Personal