Linux

@Linux@sakurajima.social

Describe myself? Why? Who I believe I am is irrelevant to who you're going to believe me to be.

Language: While I do natively write in English, I also use a combination of DeepL and Naver SmartBoard to translate my text to better communicate. If you notice an error, please let me know, and I'll forward it to the right people.

This is my primary account. I also have a secondary account : @Linux_Is_Best and third account: (soon)

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

Linux, to disability

The creator of alt-text.org is looking for someone to take over the projects. Please reach out to her if you'd like to help and/or have an interest in accessible software.

https://github.com/alt-text-org/in-need-of-adoption

#AltText #Disability #VisuallyImpaired

Linux, to DeGoogle

Must delete Google.

I am nearly ready to delete my Google Account. The 1 thing taking forever is changing my e-mail address on all my many accounts.

Google's new Terms of Service, you agree Google AI may access all your content (email, photos, etc.). While they do not claim ownership of your content, you agree they can use it.

Linux, to random

Lyft's new policies should be illegal.

You cannot manage your account, including cancel your membership, or delete your account without the app. The website will log you in, but then tell you that you must use the app.

I decided to cancel my membership and delete my account, because the app also will not work without Google Play Services either. The app will open, show you a notice that you need it, then close.

But putting that aside, you should at least have access to your account without your phone by visiting their website. I had to use someone else's phone just to log in, cancel, and then delete my account.

#Lyft #LyftPink

Linux, to fediverse

Did you know if you switch from Mastodon to Sharkey (or Sharkey to Sharkey), you can keep:

  • All your post
  • All your photo
  • All your videos
  • All your media (audio)
  • All your followers
  • All you follow
  • All your lists (favorites, mutes, blocks)

I wrote up a simple, easy to follow guide with photos to help you.

https://forums.sakurajima.moe/threads/guide-with-photos-how-to-perform-a-complete-full-migration-from-mastodon-to-sharkey.995/

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Sharkey

Linux, to fediverse

Special shoutout to our administrator @chikorita157 who has been doing a good job keeping our Sharkey instance (server) running smoothly.

Being a system admin is can seem like a thankless job sometimes, and sometimes it means tracking down minor issues, going over logs, and occasionally dealing with user drama too (I do that for a living, it's not fun).

A friendly reminder that the Fediverse instance (server) is run by a volunteer who does not get paid, does not host ads, and is often paying things out of their own pocket. - All so complete strangers can share their random thoughts, views, beliefs, rants, or sometimes just sh*tpost.

Linux, to movies

I am in the process of "reclaiming" digital purchases that I own.

Pro tip: Never buy digital movies, TV shows, or games. If you do not have a hard copy, it is not worth it.

Linux, to Windows11

A good time to be a Linux users. -- Microsoft is adding ads onto the desktop in Windows 11.

RE: https://sakurajima.moe/users/chikorita157/statuses/112260100607498094

Linux, to fediverse

"Omg... Joe Biden is the 1st President posting in the Fediverse"

No, Joe Biden is using mainstream social media, owned by Meta (Facebook), which most of the Fediverse blocked a while back. If POTUS (President of the United States) wants to join the Fediverse correctly and hold that claim, they need to join a true Fediverse instance such as Misskey, Sharkey, Mastodon, or something else not government a large corporation which avoid paying taxes.

#Fediverse #Potus #Misskey #Sharkey #Mastodon

Linux, to random

If it is not easy, it is not convenient. If it is not convenient, it is not used.

#Development #GUI #GraphicUserInterface

Linux, to fedora

I've not been distro hopping in a while, because I seem to have settled on Ultramarine Linux. It's Fedora, with all the media codecs, drivers, firmware, and repos already included, but without the bloat some other Fedora spins try to bundle in.

Linux, to fedora

You cannot connect a printer via USB as the option remains grayed out (see photo). But you can add a network printer.

If using a Brother MFC-L2740DW select the generic simple printer driver. Do NOT select the recommended Brother Printer Driver as it will cause your printer to endlessly spit out paper until you physically select cancel on your printer.

Linux, to DuckDuckGo

Today, I learned you can exclude a domain from DuckDuckGo search results by using:

Your search -site: Domain to exclude

For example:

Anime -site:youtube.com

Linux, to Windows11

It is once again a good day to be a Linux user. -- Why?

Microsoft is now going to punish people with watermarks if your system does not 100% meet their system requirements, even after you paid for your copy of Windows. -- Trying to shame you to either buy their recommended hardware and accept their recommended settings.

RE: https://sakurajima.moe/users/chikorita157/statuses/112337435604387474

Linux, to fediverse

I now have a "sponsor" badge. - How?

No matter, how you connect to the Fediverse, be if, for example, Misskey, Sharkey, Ice Shrimp, Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed, Kbin, or by other means, the Fediverse instance you're using cost money. In the real world, web hosting, bandwidth, and storage space cost, money. And the more members who use and join your Fediverse instance (server), the more resources and the most it cost.

I earned by badge, by reaching out to my administrator, and helping them by donating. And while if it was not required to make a donation or regular contribution, I like using the Fediverse. It is ad-free and decentralized, meaning, someone like Elon Musk, cannot change things for everyone, everywhere, solely on their latest mood swing. So I made the choice to help fund my corner of the collective social media network, known as the Fediverse.

Linux, to windows

Microsoft Windows users remind me of someone in an abusive relationship. Because no matter how unhappy and disappointed you are with the way things are going, you still put up with the nonsense, as opposed to moving on with your life.

Free yourself, and escape the corporate to consumer abuse and dump Microsoft Windows.

Linux, to windows

My revised Linux distro recommendations for newbies.

  1. Ultramarine Linux

  2. Fedora (KDE Spin)

  3. Manjaro Linux *

  4. MX Linux (KDE)

Suggested distros that are still newbie-ish friendly, but may require some basic skills, beyond "blissfully ignorance"

  1. EndeavourOS

  2. CachyOS

  3. Regata OS

  4. Alpine Linux *+

  • Recommend for systems 15 years or older with 4 GB of Ram or less.
  • If you are OK with a setup that will ask you simple yes/no questions, but in a terminal screen (still friendly and easy).

#Windows #Windows11 #Windows10 #Canonical #Ubuntu #Linux

Linux, to random

If you decided to try, Linux, and someone told you: "Linux Mint is great for newbies" You were misinformed.

I'll keep it simple and ask you, have you ever tried to make a copy of a copy? That's Linux Mint. It starts from Debian which is forked to Ubuntu, which is later forks to Mint Linux. You have far too many upstream developments, and like any software, occasionally bugs happen, but in Mint it happens more frequently because you have the issue from Debian or Ubuntu or Mint or a random combination of one or more into a "hot mess".

On top of this, most of the people within the Linux Mint community are "old school" users who will insist you learn and use the terminal for everything, within that "hot mess" of a broken up system. That is comparable to a 1st computer user, being told to use Microsoft PowerShell for everything. Sure, you can, but would you want to?

There are far better alternatives, for example, Ultramarine Linux (I suggest the KDE build).

1st, all the drivers and firmware and non-free media codecs and repos, are already included. You don't have to set any of that up. 2nd, if you know how to use an app store, you can use the one provided with Ultramarine Linux. 3rd, everything from adding a printer to changing user settings or setting up an optional firewall, DNS, VPN, etc. just with a mouse click. 4th, go ahead and download an RPM package, and double-click, it will install just as easily as a Windows Setup File.

Ultramarine Linux is just 1 out of many possible distros you can use, without all the nonsense. There really are better alternatives than Linux Mint.

"But... but.... I used the Debian Edition of Mint"

Which they hardly support. The problem with their Debian Edition is they make their modification and then that's it. You're getting all your patches from Debian, which sounds good on principle, as it doesn't have so much upstream, but those modifications which Mint made are outside Debian, and whatever may be broken, stays broken, long-term, and are exclusive to Mint Debian, while they focus on their Ubuntu based copy. And of course, it is the same "old school" community that want you, a newbie, who knows nothing, and wanted an easy experience, to use the terminal for everything.

As a newbie, Mint Linux or Linux Mint (however you call it), is not the newbie friendly Linux distro you have been led to believe. I can build Linux from source, something I don't expect a newbie to do, but even I have found Mint frustrating at times, because it is a "hot mess".

But I digress. There are (many) better alternatives out there and if your 1st experience with Linux was Linux Mint and you gave up shortly afterward, I can understand as to why.

IN before the Linux Mint groupies claim how wrong I am, but YOU, who gave up after trying Mint, decide for yourself, by trying something else.

Linux,

If you're a newbie, coming from Microsoft Windows, where "point and click" was the norm, and Microsoft PowerShell was something you frequently did not feel comfortable with, these are the Linux distributions I recommend.

  1. Ultramarine Linux

  2. Manjaro Linux *

  3. MX Linux (KDE)

These are the suggested distros that are still newbie-ish friendly, but may require some basic skills, beyond "blissfully ignorance" -Someone who may have been a little more "OK" using Microsoft PowerShell and getting your hands drity.

  1. Fedora (KDE Spin)

  2. EndeavourOS

  3. CachyOS

  4. Regata OS

  5. Alpine Linux *+

  • Recommend for systems 15 years or older with 4 GB of Ram or less.
  • If you are OK with a setup that will ask you simple yes/no questions, but in a terminal screen (still friendly and easy).

#Windows11 #Windows10 #Windows #Microsoft #WindowsAds

Linux, to fediverse

The Sharkey leadership is a little incompetent. 🙄

Join Sharkey dot Org has been OFFLINE for over 2 months. The reason given was hosting issues, and this was before the whole Hetzner drama. Join Sharkey dot Org is supposed to be the gateway for people to learn about Sharkey and how they can join.

The Documentation Page (Wiki) is still up, using the subdomain, Doc dot Join Sharkey dot Org, but the URLs are broken. I have repeatedly reported the broken URLs for over 2 months (both in the Git and on their Discord Server). No one seems to want to address that.

They have a private copy of GitLab located at ActivityPub dot Software, that you cannot find via a search looking for Sharkey (DuckDuckGo, Bing, Google). That is where you can report code changes and fixes, but you would likely not know that unless you stumbled upon the URL somewhere (or someone gave you that URL).

Sharkey raised a lot of money so they can host their own content, safely, and securely. They now own their own physical server and lease the space to have that server housed (hosted) remotely. And while the lead developer promotes that server partially as a minecraft server, Join Sharkey dot Org still remains, OFFLINE.

I have pulled funding from Sharkey and will not be supporting it further until they get their act together. It is a good software, and it is my preferred method to use the Fediverse, but you would assume they would want their website working.

-- edit-- for grammar and clarify

#Sharkey #Fediverse #Misskey #IceShrimp #Minecraft #Hetzner #GitLab

Linux, to mastodon

[Guide with photos] How to perform a complete (full) migration from Mastodon to Sharkey

Keep everything, from not only your followers, but all your post, photos, and videos too.

https://forums.sakurajima.moe/threads/guide-with-photos-how-to-perform-a-complete-full-migration-from-mastodon-to-sharkey.995/

#Mastodon #Sharkey #Fediverse

Linux, to fediverse

I do not understand why someone would boost (share) your post, only to quickly un-boost (un-share).

I doubt it is by mistake as I notice a few who do this frequently.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Sharkey #Misskey #IceShrimp

Linux,

My theory is some people are used to how things worked on Twitter and their algorithm.

If you re-Tweeted a post it bumped up its noticeability. But the secret was if you un-Tweeted, you could dramatically harm its rating and chance to get noticed. The system would assume something was wrong and reconsider your placement.

The Fediverse, has no such algorithm, and things do not work that way (thankfully). But I do notice this happens more frequently when I post my dislike for Donald Trump and it got me thinking. 🤔

Linux, to earthquake

Earthquake - Massachusetts, USA

#Earthquake #Massachusetts

Linux,

I am in Easthampton, Massachusetts, and my sister is in Springfield, Ma and she felt the earthquake too.

#Earthquake #USA #Massachusetts

Linux,

Western Mass News (WGGB) is reporting on the earthquake.

  • edit - Report updated suggests the Earthquake took place in New Jersey and caused us to feel it all the way up here.

#Earthquake #Massachusetts #WesternMass

Linux, to opensource

⚠️ GitLab Security Flaw (exploit) ⚠️

No matter if you host your own copy of GitLab Software or use GitLab's servers directly, you should enable 2-step Verification - NOW (right now, do not wait). There is a current exploit that allows someone to hijack GitLab Accounts, who are not using 2-step verification.

#GitLab #OpenSource #Floss #Linux #Windows #Apple #Android #iOS #App

Linux,

@arcadetoken Yes, here is the link to the news story (see URL). The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-7028, carries a severity rating of 10 out of a possible 10. https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/0-click-gitlab-hijacking-flaw-under-active-exploit-with-thousands-still-unpatched/

Linux, to random

The biggest problem of any problem is not facing a problem and recognizing you have a problem, preventing you from fixing a problem.

Linux,

All these countries have universal healthcare. They may not all be perfect and the quality may vary, but they still have some form of universal healthcare. Meanwhile, we're (America) still debating whether a woman can make her own choices.

Do you see the problem?

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