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I do a little bit of everything. Programming, computer systems hardware, networking, writing, traditional art, digital art (not AI), music production, whittling, 3d modeling and printing, cooking and baking, camping and hiking, knitting and sewing, and target shooting. There is probably more.

  • Average Debian system update experience:

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  • Go use actual Debian, I game just fine on it.

  • KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future

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  • Thanks, I'll try when I have a moment and let you know how it went. I appreciate it.

  • KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future

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  • My search doesn't seem to return good instruction on how to do so. Very glad to try and appreciate the suggestion, but do you have guidance on how to do so? Thanks!

  • KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future

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  • Primarily my aforementioned issue with Remmina not being able to span multiple monitors while running under wayland.

    I think when I looked it up I saw the Remmina devs have been aware of this problem for a couple years now, but the problem is surprisingly difficult for them to fix for a few reasons I can't recall at the moment.

  • KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future

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  • Ahh I see. Doesn't quite solve all of my problems then, but at least it's doing some heavy lifting already without me knowing. Thanks!

  • KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future

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  • I honestly don't know a tonne about the topic. If you happen to know, what exactly is xwayland and how would I go about implementing it (on debian 13). Curious if it would have ramifications for my system for better or worse, might be interested in trying it out until other software can get caught up with wayland proper.

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  • I did earlier and it bugged out for me for some reason and was unusable. Possibly a config problem, will try later on when I have a bit more time.

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  • The problem isn't really with Wayland not working though, it's with other software not being caught up to work fully with wayland.

    For example, in X, I can have my single screen windows work laptop display to my multi-monitor linux machine with remmina and be able to interact with the laptop as if it had multiple monitors.

    Remmina cannot do this with Wayland as far as I have been able to determine.

    Clearly not the fault of Wayland, but also kind of a pain in the ass that there are issues like this since some other maintainers/devs haven't implemented what is required in their software yet.

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  • Well shit. I would like this better if more things played nicely with wayland, as wayland itself seems pretty great. Remmina for example can't do multi-monitor outside of x for example and this is breaking for me when i remote into my work computer.

    I realize that this is the fault of remmina and not wayland. Any RDP client recommendations that work on wayland for this?

  • What are some habits or skills that you've recently(or not so recently) learnt that improved the quality of your life or made things more fun?

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  • I touch typed with qwerty for over 20 years before learning it, so I wouldn't worry too much about that. It's just a matter of consistent practice.

  • What are some habits or skills that you've recently(or not so recently) learnt that improved the quality of your life or made things more fun?

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  • I see, that makes sense. To try to avoid that, I have a hotkey configured that remaps my keyboards between the two layouts so that I can maintain a sense of both.

  • What are some habits or skills that you've recently(or not so recently) learnt that improved the quality of your life or made things more fun?

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  • I haven't had much of a problem switching back and forth between QWERTY and Dvorak between work and personal usage. I feel like you would have to be using Dvorak exclusively for a long time to experience that kind of problem.

    For me, it seems kind of like learning to ride a bike in that just because I have learned another thing has not meant I forgot how to walk.

  • Why use a terminal pdf viewer?

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  • It's the same reason I like TUI utilities like tiv, the terminal image viewer.

    Sometimes I don't want to have my workflow broken just to quickly check the contents or layout of what the file contains, I just need to glance at it and continue with what I'm doing.

  • What are some habits or skills that you've recently(or not so recently) learnt that improved the quality of your life or made things more fun?

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  • Practicing mindfulness through the lense of stoicism. Aurelius really had some good advice.

    I've also been learning the dvorak layout which has been fun and better for my fingers.

    Also learning a bit about how to work with docker containers as they seem super handy for self hosting and whatnot.

  • How to archive web pages?

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  • If you have a machine and/or the storage for it, you could deploy a docker container of linkwarden and do it yourself for a lot of things.

    It says it's for "bookmarking" but in addition to storing the outbound link, it takes backups of pages as text, html, and PDF and can do so recursively with the pages links. Nice interface, makes stuff searchable and taggable etc.

  • What are the silliest reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?

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  • Well you'll be glad to know that NTFS drivers are available these days on Linux!

  • What are the silliest reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?

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  • I need to be able to “RDP” into remote machines

    Remmina, do this every day for work from my Debian system.

    I also need to be able to setup a Hyper-V equivalent, to run other machines from my main laptop

    Virtual box or QEMU + KVM. I use QEMU + KVM, works really well.

    And for my media server (Plex), I need to understand the best way to setup a RAID5 or better across multiple drives.

    Recommend Jellyfin over Plex but in either case - if you want software RAID then use mdadm, this is how the RAID5 array on my jellyfin server works. Otherwise, there are compatible drivers for some hardware with actual hardware RAID5 arrays you can look up if you have such hardware.

    For reference, all my machines whether client or server run either Debian 12 or Debian 13.

  • What are the silliest reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?

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  • Most people's reasons in my experience demonstrate to me that they have a perception of Linux as it was 15+ years ago.

    I discussed switching to Linux with a group of friends in a voice chat some time ago, most were fairly open to it, and one or two have switched since, but mainly their reasons were time constraints, not wanting to go through the process of backing up files, and finding alternative software.

    One guy in particular brought up gaming, MS office, and some other particular software they used. I showed them protondb and every game they looked up was gold or higher, showed them libre office which they could not complain about since it generally works a lot nicer, and it turned out that other software was available as a .deb. After all of this, the reason they gave me was "but I like Windows".

    Fair enough I guess, though they couldn't really produce the reason as to why.

    Generally, people just don't like any kind of change, even if it has the potential to make them a lot happier.

  • Why do you need, want and/or have a gun/guns?

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  • Not really, it probably took me under 30 minutes to look this up.

    A personal insult to me also isn't an argument contrary to my claims about Switzerland, nor is it a defense of yours, so I will assume you admit you were incorrect in your claim about the country.

    Furthermore, it's not even very good ad-hominem in that I never even claimed that firearms are a good thing. I only ever contested that Switzerland is cultured despite it's highly permissive gun laws, and cited sources showing that they do engage in a lot of firearm sport, and have personal access to firearms in refutation of your anecdote.

    Since I never said anything about positive or negative effects of firearms themselves in this conversation, this means you have made an assumption about my personal point of view of firearms and are now using your own assumption as a counter argument to a topic we have not even discussed between ourselves at this juncture.

    This is called a straw man fallacy.

    To avoid that, it is best to stay on topic, in this case, whether or not firearms are accessible to the public for sport in Switzerland.

    Please either point out where I made the statement that guns are good etc. to show why I am a "gun nut", or cite a source in reference to your claim about firearm accessibility in Switzerland if you want to support anything you have said thus far.

    Otherwise, feel free to just not reply to me.

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    Is there a federated platform where user accounts are abstracted to make them capable of migration?

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    How to work out

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    How do you learn about auto work?

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Offline Desktop Map Applications?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Music Production and Software Synthesizers/VST's under Linux

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Best Christmas Party Games

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Acquired HPE DL380 G9 - Questions about what is done for self hosting on them these days

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Gnome Customizations - is it possible to use custom image in application view?

  • Rust Programming @lemmy.ml
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    New to Rust

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Local Area FTP

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    If the internet went away indefinitely, what things would you wish you had downloaded before it happened?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    My Switch to Linux is Happening Today

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Why do people install expensive hardwood flooring in their kitchens, the place where you are most likely to drop food, cutlery, spill liquids, etc?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    The Boost android client for Lemmy is displaying these dark pattern ads pretending to be system notifications. What security/privacy conscious Lemmy clients do you recommend?

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    When You Get Cancerule

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