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merthyr1831

@ merthyr1831 @lemmy.world

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  • GNOME Foundation Announces Transition of Executive Director | Holly Million stepping down after 10 months

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  • for sure, I thought the hire was weird in the first place. Did just mean that it doesn't look like GNOME fired her lol.

    She did do some good stuff but GNOME really did get what they asked for

  • Discussion: Do you donate financially to any OSS projects?

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  • Rarely, but I've contributed to a couple that I use.

    Also, just a note that writing big reports is a valid contribution! It can really help both the regular maintainers finding and fixing bugs, but also gives new devs more potential work to pick up for first contributions.

  • OpenLoco: Modern, open source version of the classic transport simulation game

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  • In theory they (or someone else) could just bundle an open source copy of the assets no different to having a different texture pack in a game.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    GNOME Foundation Announces Transition of Executive Director | Holly Million stepping down after 10 months

    foundation.gnome.org /2024/07/12/gnome-foundation-announces-transition-of-executive-director/

  • Is NixOS at the advent of an implosion? | Community inquiry on recent drama

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  • There's some decent forks currently so I wouldn't worry about the technology, but yeah the organisation is probably going to implode and reorg soon

  • Multi-part "sample" mkvs refusing to import into plex

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  • Yeah I didn't realise they were rar formats from how they show up on disk - Usually people name.their.torrents.like.this so it fucks up typical file name conventions.

    I'll keep that in mind too, thanks! Not using qbitmanage yet though I'll have to look into that 👀

  • Multi-part "sample" mkvs refusing to import into plex

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  • EDIT: There's a fix. https://unpackerr.zip Automatically unzips these rar containers into coherent files for importing via sonarr/radarr. I suppose you can do this manually with tar if you're brave.

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    Multi-part "sample" mkvs refusing to import into plex

  • Simple mail server

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  • don't.

  • Permanently Deleted

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  • this is probably delightful if you ever get a flu or cold

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  • no more blocked nose :)

  • Police Bluetooth advertising packets rule

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  • this is why we need ar-15s, for the 30 to 50 feral hog Bluetooth notifications

  • King under the Mountain (Mountaincore) went open source as developer shuts

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  • I think a lot of new indie Devs, having little knowledge of the actual state of the industry, see a publisher offering them big money to make video games (their dream!) and ignore (or lack resources to properly interrogate) the fine print. There are countless examples of publishers simply destroying indie Devs on a whim like this.

  • Love me some arbitrary executed code /s (Plasmoids are not themes)

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  • Not if you call it GNU/Linux 🤓☝️

  • Can You Use Linux Without the Terminal? (How to Geek article)

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  • I didn't say you have to know everything, just like I don't know everything in my house and how it works, but I do know how to do basic repairs so I don't pay loads of money for a guy to come and unclog a drain. I know how to reset my circuit breakers, how to change a fuse, how to change a lightbulb.

    That's what the terminal is. No one here is telling you to write a bootloader in assembly or meticulously study kernel environment parameters. No one advocating for basic knowledge of a terminal likely has knowledge on subnet masks, compilers, or other low level systems that a modern Linux abstracts for you.

    But! I know how to update my packages from a terminal. I know how to install a package outside of a repository, or one that's not listed on my graphical package manager. I know how to export an environment variable to get my software to work how it should.

    That's what "knowing the terminal" gives you. It's a basic skill that unlocks you from being a mere "user" of a system to an owner of a system. I don't think everyone will ever need the terminal, but there are people who are replying to me that seem to have a genuine fear that people have knowledge of their computers in a meaningful way.

    Knowledge is autonomy for whatever you do, and there's a reason why the most profitable of systems are the very systems that are locked down abstracted and "user friendly" in all ways that harm a user's rights and freedoms.

  • Can You Use Linux Without the Terminal? (How to Geek article)

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  • I don't think it's a theory rather than an objective fact. A lot of "traditional" computer skills have almost totally gone extinct because consumer devices are designed to hide as many system features from you as possible.

    The saving grace is that even being raised without it, you end up needing these skills to become a developer of any decent calibre. That gives at least some route for these skills to transfer to new generations.

  • Can You Use Linux Without the Terminal? (How to Geek article)

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  • If you want to use Linux without the terminal nowadays it's pretty easy. But also I think the fear of the terminal is part of the culture that consumer electronics have cultivated where people don't know (or want to know) how their systems work.

    If you take the time to use it, not only can you save yourself time, but also learn a lot more about how you can fix things when they go wrong! That kind of knowledge gives you so much more ownership of your system, because you don't have to rely on your manufacturer to solve problems for you.

    Same for Mac and Windows too, the terminal is something that shouldn't be necessary, but when it is it helps to know what you're doing. :)

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  • Captain Tom. A man of great intrigue and infamy after his family made him walk around a garden to raise money for something we already fund with our taxes, not long before his family whisked him off on holiday and likely exposed him to covid. Now his family spend their time embezzling money from the charity set up after his death

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  • it was great personal effort for me to keep this saved on my phone for months after fetching this from an XL bully activist Facebook group

  • Linux mint or zorin OS for layman beginners who just want everything to work and focuses on stability , privacy , security ? Also what to do if I switched to mint and WiFi stopped working ?

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  • I installed mint and zorin on virtual machines (theyre easy to set up in windows with virtualbox) and then just put them fullscreen and used em like my actual computer for a bit. Very useful for learning stuff without the commitment of a proper install.

  • Just getting into JS

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  • The trick to writing a JavaScript web app is that first you consider literally any other technology to solve your problem and only then consider using javascript.

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    TIL about the utility "Smokeless_UMAF" That lets you access advanced BIOS options on AMD-based systems.

    github.com /DavidS95/Smokeless_UMAF
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Yuzu & Citra devs fold to Nintendo's demands | Pay $2.3million to settle, take down github, domains, patreon, discord, with immediate effect.

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    removed my mint partition from my kde-neon system and now grub won't boot :-{

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    KDE Slimbook V: The first KDE laptop with the AMD 7840HS CPU - Phoronix

    www.phoronix.com /news/KDE-Slimbook-V
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    Getting graphics artifacting on my 7840HS laptop, even after a motherboard replacement. Is it a driver thing?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Wayland heading for default as Mint devs add to Cinnamon 6 • The Register

    www.theregister.com /2023/10/27/mint_wayland_cinnamon6/
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    rule

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    game rule

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Just merged my first PR to contribute to a linux distro (dietpi)

  • NixOS @infosec.pub
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    Any flutter devs got a build environment working?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Solved

    Mapping ports to domain URI

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Finally found a decently priced laptop using AMD's 780m iGPU | Lenovo UK Laptop configurator

    www.lenovo.com /gb/en/configurator/cto/index.html
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Getting Hybrid Graphics working better with Manjaro (GNOME 44, X11) Enabling HDMI on nvidia laptops

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    wmctrl source code - Where is it?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Running Photoshop/Illustrator