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kixik,

Probably Guix, and GNU endorsed distributions. Binary blobs are not allowed on free/libre distributions, or not on their official repos. That said, most gnu + linux distributions don’t care about those. Most will take care, if they get to realize it, about distribution licenses, so if something has some sort of legal issue to be distributed, that will get purged from its repos most probably…

kixik,

IT might be, but librelinux for example really removes all binary blobs, although there’s some tooling around doing that, so new cases might be missed without human inspection, but they are careful about binary blobs… So from the whole spectrum of open source stuff, if you care about binary blobs, chances are better on the libre/free SW side.

kixik,

I’m not systemd user, and I generally see this absorbing as much as possible as a terrible practice. I don’t usually comment on systemd stuff, since I’m happy just not being forced to use it.

However, even though I don’t use it, the decision of people managing systemd really affects non systemd users. See by succeeding in getting all major distros into become systemd distros (somehow now governed by RH, if anyone cares), everything systemd absorbs tend to leave alternatives sooner or later deprecated, or abandoned.

Even autofs is no longer part of some official repos, given systemd has its own auto mount/unmount functionality… And there are several other examples…

At any rate, hopefully the more bloated systemd, doesn’t make it the more vulnerable. And also hopefully, doesn’t make life worse and worse to non systemd distros and users…

BTW, before sudo there was su, so a life without sudo is possible, :)

kixik,

Jami is the GNU alternative, if you’re wondering

kixik,

I’m all for Jami, and XMPP.

kixik, (edited )

How about bcachefs. I’m waiting for it to support swapfiles, which seems to be in the TODO list, but so far doesn’t work. If you use swap partition[s], or prefer not to have swap at all (I never fell for this, and besides swap is required for hibernation if that’s a thing for you), then bcachefs is ready for you. It’s already part of linux since 6.7, and on Artix, current linux is 6.8.9…

To me is the FS to use. I’m still on luks + ext4 (no LVM) and do entire home backups with plain rsync to an external device. I’d have to learn new stuff, since ext4 is really basic and easy to configure if in need, but I think bcachefs is worth it, and as mentioned, just waiting for it to support swapfiles, :)

kixik, (edited )

Uff, somehow missed your post. See mine. That’s the FS I’m hoping to use next. I’m waiting for it to support swapfile, or alternatively read from official sources they won’t ever support it, :). But yes, that’s the one I’m looking forward to use.

kixik, (edited )

learn.microsoft.com/…/status-windows-11-23h2bleepingcomputer.com/…/microsoft-says-april-windo…

Perhaps click bait, but based on MS’ own list of issues with April’s upgrade patchset.

kixik,

and Guix

kixik,

yes

kixik,

Also FYI: lemmy.ml/c/xmpp@slrpnk.net

kixik,

But neofetch tells you if wayland already:

WM: Wayfire (Wayland)

Actually while neofetch detects pretty well I’m using alacritty:

Terminal: alacritty

Probably they learned $TERM is really meaningless if using screen or tmux, but fastfetch totally misses this and mistakenly shows screen as the terminal:

Terminal: screen

The only thing I like of fastfetch over neofetch is that it’s faster, :) And yes the display missing, but I’ve never considered that something of much interest for such output… To me neofetch is just fine, and on terminal it gives you a more accurate answer… In the end is a matter of taste… But what it does is well done, :)

kixik,

No, screen is a terminal multiplexer, like tmux. The terminal emulator I use is alacritty.

kixik,

They don’t run by themselves, they need a terminal emulator, or a console, underneath, so they can work. You can actually call screen on a console without graphical environment, and it’ll provide the console all benefits of multiplexing. That doesn’t make the multiplexer a terminal emulator by itself.

So, in my mind no, screen is not a terminal emulator, alacritty is, like xterm is, and so on. The multiplexor just adds extra capabilities to the terminal emulator.

At any rate, it’s not worth going any further. What I meant is that neofetch was able to find out and show I’m using alacritty, whereas fastfetch doesn’t show alacritty. And we can argue about the virtue of one or the other, but it’ll boil down to taste. I prefer how neofetch shows alacritty, hehe. Some might prefer fastfetch showing screen. And most importantly, this is not critical at all.

There’s an issue on fastfetch filed about it, and one of the devs indicated when using the screen multiplexer, they could find out the terminal emulator underneath, however they couldn’t do the same with tmux. And to be consistent among multiplexers, they decided not to expose the terminal emulator underneath when using multiplexers, just show the multiplexer. I don’t agree with that argument, but it’s the dev right to choose to do that.

Greetings !

kixik,

The “man” for rfkill shows:


<span style="color:#323232;">NAME
</span><span style="color:#323232;">       rfkill - tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices
</span><span style="color:#323232;">SYNOPSIS
</span><span style="color:#323232;">       rfkill [options] [command] [ID|type ...]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">DESCRIPTION
</span><span style="color:#323232;">       rfkill lists, enabling and disabling wireless devices.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">       list [id|type ...]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">           List the current state of all available devices. The command output format is deprecated, see the DESCRIPTION section. It is a good idea to check with list command id or type
</span><span style="color:#323232;">           scope is appropriate before setting block or unblock. Special all type string will match everything. Use of multiple ID or type arguments is supported. Possible types are all,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">           {wlan | wifi}, bluetooth, {uwb | ultrawideband}, wimax, wwan, gps, fm, nfc.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">       unblock id|type [...]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">           Enable the corresponding device. If the device is hard-blocked, for example via a hardware switch, it will remain unavailable though it is now soft-unblocked.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">       toggle id|type [...]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">           Enable or disable the corresponding device.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">EXAMPLE
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             rfkill --output ID,TYPE
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             rfkill block all
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             rfkill unblock wlan
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             rfkill block bluetooth uwb wimax wwan gps fm nfc
</span><span style="color:#323232;">...
</span>

You can list and then unblock or toggle the specif device, or you can as well unblock all devices, and so on.

kixik,

pine64.org/devices/pinetab2

pine64.org/devices/pinetab-v

For the tinkerers of course

kixik,

I would recommend using apkupdater for closed source apks, in particular enabling apkpure repo, rather than insisting on using google repo with aurora store or any other mechanism.

Also looking for FLOSS alternatives if possile (granted things like whatsapp and waze won’t have alternatives for example).

Some metioned apkmirror as the more trusted repo for closed source apps, however it’s currently formatting apks on multiple apks, and supposedly requesting for the apkmirror own instaler, so I recommend apkpure instead, which is also pretty well regarded, and they also in theory offer the same packages as the ones on google play…

For FLOSS apps, the different f-droid repos (official ones and non official ones such as izzy-on-droid) offer a good amount of them.

kixik,

I use it, but on wayfire, because I like it more than kitty, though I have to use alacritty with screen, since it doesn’t support tabs, which is the only thing I wish alacritty would add, but I can deal with screen OK. What do you mean with window decorations? They look pretty normal to me, like the ones on electron apps now a days…

kixik,

I see. And I do like CSD over SSD, :)

The alacritty decorations are just plain simple GTK bar, so you’ll see the simple regular GTK bar for applications not embedding CSDs withing the apps same one on electron apps (signal-desktop, slack-electron, and so on) get. In the case of a terminal emulator that’s understandable, it needs the space… I was trying to paste a snapshot, or attach a simple image here, but didn’t find how to, and I won’t do any sort of patebin right now. So I don’t consider that simple bar, nice decorations, but they do what they’re meant to, so that’s fine for me. I guess it look better on gnome though. I use wayfire + waybar + …, and GTK apps work pretty well there, and I have installed and currently use materia dark theme, and the look is good in general for me. As I don’t like kitty, I really don’t remember how worse it is in comparison, but I still consider alacritty bar not so impressive, hehe.

kixik,

Dino neither Conversations offer anything about archiving preferences.

kixik,

archiving preferences -> Server-side archiving preferences?

  • Never
  • Contacts
  • Always Is that the one? Setting it to Always would help? Is this the one?

And on the dino side, on preferences there’s almost nothing to configure, and on acocunts, I see nothing that can be configured. I can only add/remove accounts…

kixik,

BTW, moved to iosevka myself, now my current preferred font for both, the console, and fixed fonts…

Many thanks for the suggestion @toastal

kixik,

:)

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