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What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts? (sh.itjust.works)

I used Plex for my home media for almost a year, then it stopped playing nice for reasons I gave up on diagnosing. While looking at alternatives, I found Jellyfin which is much more responsive, IMO, and the UI is much nicer as well....

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Every time someone mentions Pandoc, I like to mention that the author has created a new markup language called djot. Its very nice.

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Inkscape is the goat

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I has a friend once who would press his hands to the roof of the car when crossing tracks. It got to be a thing in the circle of friends, and eventually it got so he’d get irate if someone in the car didn’t do it. I was sure he’d gotten it from a movie.

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I can’t help you, but I can tell you that if you hold out for a couple of decades, you’ll eventually stop worrying about it.

One day, you’ll realize that you wake up in pain and suffer through most of the day; that you are constantly annoyed that young people think they’re the first and only people to discover or experience things that you’ve seen people discover and experience countless times - but you are also hopelessly jaded and desperately envious of their naivety and ability to be passionate about something other than injustice. That despite fighting for decades to improve the world, and believing in some cosmic karma, you see evil people succeed over, and over, and have a deep recognition that the world is fucked and getting more fucked with every dollar. When this time comes, the Void will become appealing: a rest and relief from pain and suffering. One day, you will realize that you no longer lay awake at night anxiously fretting about not being alive, but are rather looking forward to it.

Hang in there, man.

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I’m using Voyager, but that’s a good point: clients are free to sort the data however they like.

To be accurate, I think what I heard was that the “front page” feed was populated by activity, not votes.

As per the echo chamber, consider hosts like hexabear, or even my own instance, which has a strong left-leaning flavor. I joined my instance because it’s regionally local, not because of the politics, but I think it’s run by - and, at least initially, populated by - 2A socialists: most members appeared to members of a socialist gun club in Wisconsin (or Illinois?). And Democrat members that try to post on Hexabear get the shit beaten out of them, metaphorically. Votes, IMO, are a much gentler tool for voicing approval or disapproval than vitriolic abuse in comments.

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I have a counter-argument for that: if votes don’t represent agree/disagree, then your only way of signalling agreement is a reply. Votes != agreement leads to a bunch of one word “This” replies.

Eliminating voting doesn’t eliminate the popularity contest; it just shifts the voting to a more noisy mechanism. You can’t eliminate Popularity; it’s a core function of society. I am not arguing that it’s a good thing, only that it’s going to take more than trying to squash the desire.

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I thought that default ranking in Lemmy was based on activity, not votes. I could have misunderstood that, though.

I don’t know, man. Denying the hive it’s just delusional. The best honey is right in the middle; rogue drones just die early. Come, join the beautiful hexagonal map-dance and partake in the nectar.

Anyway, Lemmy’s already an echo chamber; it’s just enforced at the instance level.

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midwest.social/comment/2938796

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One of these is $40 USD, and can be configured to provide a VPN for all through-traffic. They’re small, portable, discrete, and cheap. I love these devices. The slightly more expensive model gives you WiFi 6. They were designed as portable bridges for insecure locations, creating a private LAN; they are powered by USB-C, so could be run off a laptop.

This would be the first thing I’d try.

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Interesting. Not surprising, but that’s one I didn’t think about.

Still, that’s one use that’s not making anything worse, right? I mean, that counter is going to be used for decades, and when it does go to the landfill, the glitter in it is hardly going to make a difference.

Another pick me a distro

Hello, fellow internet users. I am currently using Debian but would like a distro to try the new Gnome on. I have been using Debian for a while and I love the stability, but would like newer packages. I also, for no rational reason, would like to be able to use the default package manager exclusively. I used Fedora before and...

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EndeavourOS is so nice. It puts paid to the whole “BTW, I run Arch” meme, because it’s silly easy.

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That’s just garden-variety intelligence, nothing artificial about it.

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You can get a Ryzen 7 mini PC on Amazon for $360. With Windows, but Linux runs fine on it.

The one I linked has a WiFi/BT card that I could not get running, but the Ryzen 5 version worked OOTB no issues.

I know you were only replying to the comment above about ODroid, and I agree with what you said. I also have several ODroids, and I have learned to dislike Linux on ARM. I have one U3 that will not power on, at the moment, so I’m a bit sour on ODroids.

Given the existence of the Trigkey offerings, what justifies the $900 price on the OP machine, do you think?

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Huh. Maybe I have the model wrong; I’ve had it for several years. I’ll have to pop the case tomorrow and check. In any case:


<span style="color:#323232;">gurthang ~ % uname -a
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Linux gurthang 3.8.13.28 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Dec 3 18:40:50 BRST 2014 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
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whichever model it is, it’s definitely ARM. I bought two at the same time for a home automation project, and one had since kicked the bucket.

Re VAT: oof. I got 64GB RAM for mine for only a little more than your taxes. That’s rough. Good luck, whatever you choose.

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Believe me, I’ve thought about redneck-engineering something myself. I may get there; I’m just checking for more clever, more attractive, turnkey solutions.

I’m certainly not the only HA user who’s approached this! I do seem to be the only one without a 3D printer, tho.

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This is the direction I am moving; you must have a 3D printer at your disposal? That’s the blocking component, for me.

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Was the NSPanel hard to unlock? Did you have to register it first with the corporate servers, or did you unlock it off-WAN? These are the perfect form factor, but I think you’re talking about a different product, because those are only $80, which seems reasonable.

I haven’t looked on Aliexpress – what a great idea, thanks!

E-ink would be great, even with the unlit limitation, but yeah: it seems like a lot of work and money at the moment. The Kobos run a proprietary version of Linux (that’s the e-reader I have and love), I think, and I may troll ebay looking for used ones. That might work – the mount is still an issue.

Great ideas – thanks again!

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I wanted to do this with an old, first-gen Motorola Xoom! It’s not supported by any of the Android forks or Linuxes, and Lovelace is too much for its browser. I’d have an issue hiding the proprietary power plug, and then there’s the mount… so many hurdles!

Did you consider running power to yours through the wall?

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I do not; I’m almost 100% zwave.

$700 per unit is a bit rich, but those look really nice. There’s a picture frame wall mount that hides the power supply on Amazon that looks similar; it’s designed for Samsung tablets, and with a tablet it would be around $500. I may go that route.

I didn’t know about Unifi; thanks for exposing me to something new!

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I have a couple of these. I don’t know if they’re cheap enough for you; they were the least expensive option that meet my z-wave requirement, and they seemed pretty reasonable.

They work well with Home Assistant.

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Ugly as sin, for sure.

I don’t have the fingerprint version - you say it works ok?

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There’s also kmonad, which is cross-platform. I think there’s one more floating around out there.

It got so that I had to use one of these, because I used an ErgoDox at my desktop. Once the muscle memory takes hold, it’s hard to do without, so I run kmonad on my laptop, even though I don’t really need it.

Edit: map2 is the other one I was thinking of.

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I’ve become addicted to script-configured window managers. I won’t even try ones that aren’t, anymore.

Bash is a scripting language, so it qualifies per your description, but the main advantage is that anything you can do in the config, you can do on the CLI: these WMs also have first-class CLI tooling, a consequence of CLI-first design. All configuration is runtime adaptable, and although auto config reloading can get you there, it’s fantastic to be able to change a configuration without it having to be persisted in a file.

Seriously, next to tiling, scripted configuration is the most important feature of a WM. I haven’t encountered it outside of WMs very often, but for long running processes, it’s a great design.

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Jesus. They keep adding more that default to “on,” and bury the settings deeper each time. It’s absurd.

Qestions about eSATA vs USB3.0 for a drive enclosure connected to Proxmox

I am trying to figure out the optimal way to connect an 8 bay drive enclosure to a Dell Optiplex 7040 Micro. The end goal is to have the drives made available to a Proxmox cluster and kubernetes cluster. This is all for learning experience as well as to run services for personal use....

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I don’t know about “shouldn’t use USB for storage;” it’s perfectly fine. However, if you can use a SATA interface, I would. You’ll get better performance in general from it, and that’s what the port is there for.

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