GravitySpoiled

@GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml

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

GravitySpoiled ,

There are flatpaks and firefox decides to publish debs.

Recommend security-first basic Linux Apps! (github.com)

As part of the effort of making a “Chromebook-like” secure, autoupdating, cloud-native, “unbreakable” (but still free and privacy-friendly) Distro, I would like some of your recommendations on especially secure software, that could replace common ones like File managers, Archive Managers, PDF reader, Image viewer etc....

GravitySpoiled ,

Doesn’t podman solve that issue?

GravitySpoiled ,

Afaik the problem is solved within the code. I remember having compiled the app myself. It’s just a matter of time that it’s solved.

BUT it’s weird that this is so low priority to all gnome devs. It seems like noone cares about the correct weather. The source of weather is also not really perfect.

OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 -> Tumbleweed conversion

Thinking of trying to morph my Leap workstation into Tumbleweed (and potentially Slowroll once that project matures enough). I’ve seen that you can do it . I reckon I can rollback relatively easily via the BTRFS snapshots if it goes sideways, but just curious to see what others’ experience with doing so has been.

GravitySpoiled ,

Why not moving to microos? I’ve moved to fedora silverblue from fedora and it’s been a well rewarding journey. I see no big difference to microos

Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera Chat (matrix.org)

Today we are sorry to announce that we are not able to bring the Libera Chat bridge back online. We have already begun working through clean up tasks, such as clearing ghosts, and expect to be done by December 22. If you see any bridge artifacts left past that point, please let us know....

GravitySpoiled ,

What’s your concern with element?

I mainly see a funding issue for matrix.org but that’s also because the people behind it always offered the service as element, not as matrix.

But what’s the bigger problem with it?

GravitySpoiled ,

What’s an ultra hdr image? Avif? Jxl?

Micro***t Word on Linux and alternatives

Are there good Microsoft word alternatives that support Linux (I don’t mind closed source)? Libreoffice is meh and only office is quite good, but are there any better ones? Also, is there a way to install word on Linux using wine? When I do that my laptop just overheats and loses internet connection.

GravitySpoiled ,

www.onlyoffice.com

What’s your goal? Markdown / latex may work better for your use case than word. typora.io obsidian.md logseq.com github.com/marktext/marktext

GravitySpoiled ,

come on :D I provided ressources to markdown, not latex. markdown is easier than word.

Does this exist?? Messaging platform with a panic button from any member.

Basically I am looking for a messaging platform like signal or? but with anonymous signup, perfect forward secrecy, capable of video chat, sending photos the usual uses in today’s life. But with a panic button. So that any party member could use said button to wipe all other members devices of any data instantly inside the...

GravitySpoiled ,

You can use matrix/element and if someone loses her phone, you can remove her from the room. The room will disappear from the other phone if it’s connected to the internet

GravitySpoiled , (edited )

I don’t get it. What’s the spirit of ubuntu? Is the underlying OS based on ubuntu instead of fedora?

What’s the actual difference to fedora silverblue?

Half the answer to “why did you make your own linux?” is that it’s awesome being able to revert back to the original fedora OS.

Because it follows a cloud-native approach, the end user has the flexibility to rebase back to the stock Fedora or any Universal Blue image. It’s more like having someone install, configure, and maintain a polished Fedora setup for you.

And the other half doesn’t provide any info either

Bluefin utilizes Fedora’s OCI features to compose and build an OS image. This process is overseen by a well-structured community that is committed to automation and sustainability. The end result is akin to a configuration management tool like Ansible or Salt, but without the typical challenges associated with maintaining a custom distribution.

Source

GravitySpoiled , (edited )

I think it boils down to: “because we can”. “We can automatically build our own setup on github and that’s what we do”

Installing tailscale, zsh, fish, vscode, extension manager, codecs, etc. out of the box isn’t enough for a new distro. Especially because you break the signing of fedora by doing so.

GravitySpoiled ,

you scrobble with your subsonic server or client or spotify to listenbrainz.org which belongs to musicbrainz.org which is the database for music like tmdb or tvdb.

edit: no, listenbrainz is not yet as mature as trakt. considering that listenbrainz is like tmdb, there needs to be another service for music like trakt which isn’t there, there is no working service that does that.

GravitySpoiled ,

Musicbrainz has a lot of data. Listenbrainz has only 25k users. What’s currently popular is heavily skewed. You can’t rate music properly. The android app isn’t starting at all. No pwa support. It needs months of your data in order to generate recommendations. Favs/likes/bookmarks aren’t synced with a subsonic server. Playlists aren’t synced with the connected service. It’s just not there yet, if ever. I scrobble. I don’t know why I still do it, maybe in the hopes that one day it’ll skyrocket and become useful. One day. Maybe the financial backer is missing. Most importantly, the userbase is missing. I have contributed so many albums to musicbrainz and I could still contribute hundreds more, if not much more. I do not have the time to contribute so much stuff that I’m don’t even love that much. It’s just not important enough. It’s like openstreetmap, owners do not care about adding their own info to it. As long as it’s like that it’s unimportant and not that useful.

GravitySpoiled ,

Great write up, thanks!

You can use the bangs !arch or !aw to search the arch wiki, e.g. !aw kde.

I don’t think dash to dock is a must have extensiom. The workflow of GNOME is different to other opersting systems. That’s why GNOME boots into overview and not the desktop. The overview is there to launch an app or switch to it graphically. When you boot the system the first thing would be to go into overview to launch an app, hence it boots directly into overview. Removing dash from overview defeats the purpose of it.

But “hot bottom” is important otherwise you have to move the mouse into the upper left corner in order to move the mouse to the bottom to launch an app which is nuts.

I don’t like the philosophy of “if they do it, it’s safe”. But I couldn’t explain it in one sentence either. Not only debian but all big distros have systemd. Not having systemd is such a nieche that you shouldn’t bother with it as a beginner.

Snaps. You don’t provide info why snaps are bad. The snap store is centralized and canonical controls every part of it. Moreover, I’ve never read that snaps are reproducible. Flatpaks are technically reproducible. And we all want and need reproducible builds because then we don’t have to trust but know that it’s the original and published source code.

GravitySpoiled , (edited )

I don’t want to spread FUD that snaps aren’t reproducible. I just don’t know that they are and there is no source stating they are or aren’t.

Neither, flatpak not snaps are with reproducible-builds.org/who/projects/ which is bad of both.

GravitySpoiled ,

Manjaro is not suitable.

GravitySpoiled OP , (edited )

I just discovered that you can pin tabs, which means that they are always loaded when you open firefox. This is a game changer for me. Whenever I open firefox, all my most visited tabs are automatically loaded and there’s no loading time anymore. Of course I still need rules for cookie autodelete but it’s awesome!

e.g. you can create a shortcut for about:config

GravitySpoiled OP ,

nice! but I hate that I cycle through tabs with CTRL and have to switch to Alt for pins.

GravitySpoiled OP ,

I wish we had pwas.

GravitySpoiled OP ,

That’s unfortunate. I’m running firefox as flatpak and the problem is not there

GravitySpoiled OP ,

On mobile I’d like to make paypal a pwa but it doesn’t support it. I’m not aware of a mobile site that has pwa support that I’d like to use. (My fault or the website’s fault, not firefox)

On desktop there is no pwa support. I just found an extension for ff github.com/filips123/PWAsForFirefox but it doesn’t support flatpaks, hence I have to install firefox in a distrobox, I’ll check it out

GravitySpoiled OP ,

Good question, alt+F4 😅

GravitySpoiled ,

You’re good

GravitySpoiled ,

that is incredible, 5% of all swedish households are using illegal iptv. really, that number makes me doubt the whole study - but I don’t live in sweden, maybe that’s how it is.

GravitySpoiled ,

I really like that you found a way to utilize the virtual desktop grid. I really love the idea and I can’t wait for plasma 6 to improve upon it but right now I haven’t used it much.

you wrote that it’s hard to reach meta+9 (win+9) but if you have a numpad and use both hands it doesn’t really matter which number you want to reach. It’s always the same distance away. file browser is always at meta+1, browser is at meta+2, etc. I can’t move up and down like you can but I don’t have to. Even if I hadn’t have a numpad, I’d still have two hands and meta+9 wouldn’t be too far away.

In short, I guess I want to say that I have found my way and I really appreciate your write up about your way but to me it sounds too complicated. Moreover, the task manager (kde, not windows. different things) is just a mouse move away and I can reach any app I want to. Moreover, Plasma Drawer is reachable within a meta click and has all apps. It’s not yet as good as GNOME’s but it’s getting there.

GravitySpoiled ,

do you have a numpad? wouldn’t that make more sense? I usually use the numpad to assign the position of a window. meta+7 is in the upper left corner, meta+6 is on the right, etc. but it would work with workspaces as well

GravitySpoiled OP ,

good question, I don’t know. I should’ve posted a review of all the themes that are too buggy to use instead of that overview

GravitySpoiled ,

Plasma 6 is approaching fast

GravitySpoiled ,

I’m on istilldontcareaboutcookies and cookie autodelete. Who cares if they save cookies for the session?

GravitySpoiled ,

Provate tracker. We are there for each other and together we have an awesome collection of linux isos

GravitySpoiled OP ,

I might have missed the part why you prefer it over others

GravitySpoiled OP ,

I’m in the same boat but the future is distant and there are still a lot of stones blocking the way

GravitySpoiled OP ,

thanks! I just found a source which states the same that the app has to support it. There’s no universal command.

hackandslash.blog/how-to-start-flatpak-applicatio…

GravitySpoiled OP ,

Nice

It works for schildichat but not for protonvpn, proton mail bridge or thunderbird

GravitySpoiled OP ,

“To the tray”

GravitySpoiled ,

I highly doubt that it’ll ever happen, but if, I’ll just host my own matrix server and I’m good to go.

GravitySpoiled ,

*In case the EU manages to force all providers to backdoor the services

I don’t think that’ll happen anyway. But you are right, the server doesn’t matter too much in the csse of e2e. The client is more important.

GravitySpoiled ,

like this? github.com/Godiesc/firefox-one

GravitySpoiled ,

Don’t use a proxy

GravitySpoiled ,

Come on, don’t you people read what other people write?

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • tech
  • drbboard
  • updates
  • til
  • testing
  • bitcoincash
  • programming
  • Sacramento
  • All magazines
    •