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klangcola

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  • Community Survey On Jolla's Next Smartphone Hardware

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  • I had the original Jolla phone back in 2014, it was quite a cool device.

    Ultimately it suffered from a lack of apps, and the Android compatibility was functional but a bit janky. There was an incredibly good native WhatsApp app, untill WhatsApp killed it for not being official.

    Hope they have some success with the new one

  • Finland Tops Nextcloud’s First Digital Sovereignty Index

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  • Doesn't most non-anglo European countries use proportional representation?

  • GTK ported to Android — here we gooooo!

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  • Yes, and a few KDE apps work great on Android.

    But more FOSS is more better, so GTK on Android is great news for both Android users and GTK developers

  • [tutorial] KDEConnect desktop browser integration for all DEs

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  • What exactly does this do compared to regular KDE-Connect on Plasma or GSConnect on Gnome? Is this if you run any other DE without native KDE-Connect?

  • Linux Breaks 5% Desktop Share in U.S., Signaling Open-Source Surge Against Windows and macOS

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  • Is IOT LTCS version legally available for consumers? Or only for businesses?

  • Why do AC's not produce energy?

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  • The point is that the heat isn't accumulated, it is dispersed. To the outside environment generally.

    Harvesting excess heat from AC might be possible, but only on an industrial scale. The temperature difference is so small it's hard to make it do useful work.

    In general, heat is a "high entropy" energy (high disorder), it is hard to convert heat energy to useful work. When doing any kind of work (converting energy from one form to another) there are heat losses.

  • 8BitDo announces it's controllers now have Steam/SteamOS compatibility

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  • Isn't fwupd already included in SteamOS? Or is there a specific 8bitdo fwupd tool?

  • Open World Games: yay or nay?

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  • I'd argue Skyrim etc have an "open world" above ground in addition to many "linear worlds" , i.e. the caves and houses behind loading screens. Open world games let you choose where to go and how to get there, as opposed to linear "corridor" games like Half Life or Halo where you literally follow a single path from A to B as you progress from one level to the next.

    Then there's games like original Fable which blurs the line, because technically you choose where to go and how to get there, but each loading area is so small, it doesn't feel like an open world at all. And also you can't go off the path.

    Btw if you don't like loading screens, have you tried Space Engineers? You can literally travel from one full sized planet (~40km diameter) to another full sized without a single loading screen. While flying you can walk around the inside or outside of your spaceship, no loading screens.

  • Recommendations for Zigbee Bulbs

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  • 2nd vote for IKEA bulbs. They just work. (Also using ZigBee2mqtt and HomeAssistant)

  • I'm curious, which settings app layout do you prefer?

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  • Behold! The power of search beckons you :P

    I completely stopped caring about how the Systems Settings menu is organised after all the improvements they did to search a few years ago

  • Mapy.cz gradually transitioning to Mapy.com

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  • Good distro for mostly gaming system?

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  • I haven't seen it mentioned here, so just an FIY: Linux Mint is a "regular" distro, while Bazzite is an immutable distro, meaning the root filesystem is read-only.

    That means a lot of the "normal" ways of doing stuff you find online will need to be done differently. For example installing system level packages requires a reboot, to boot in to the new "system image". If something gets booked you can reboot in to an old system image to recover. Regular desktop (Flatpak) apps can be installed without rebooting.

    Bazzite is based on Fedora, and very similar to Fedora SilverBlue (immutable version). So if you can't find answers when looking online "how to do X in Bazzite" try instead "how to do X in SilverBlue".

    And FYI Linux Mint comes with an easy to use app Timeshift for system level backup and restore (by default it does not backup your documents etc in your HOME folder). Very handy to recover from a borked update or installing something you shouldn't have.

  • Best web archiving software for complex sites and sites requiring logins?

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  • SingleFile provides a faithful representation of the original webpage, so bloated webpages are indeed saved as bloated html files.

    On the plus side you're getting an exact copy, but on the downside an exact copy may not be necessary and takes a huge amount of space.

  • Best web archiving software for complex sites and sites requiring logins?

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  • SingleFile is a browser addon to save a complete web page into a single HTML file. SingleFile is a Web Extension (and a CLI tool) compatible with Chrome, Firefox (Desktop and Mobile), Microsoft Edge, Safari, Vivaldi, Brave, Waterfox, Yandex browser, and Opera.

    SingleFile can also be integrated with bookmark managers hoarder and linkding browser extensions. So your browser does the capture, which means you are already logged in, have dismissed the cookie banner, solved the capthas or whatever else annoyance is on the webpage.

    ArchiveBox and I believe also Linkwarden use SingleFile (but as CLI from the server side) to capture web pages, as well as other tools and formats. This works well for simple/straightforward web pages, but not for annoying we pages with cookie banners, capthas, and other popups.

  • Sanity check: am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and do/learn from scratch?

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  • Lol, I'm just over a week in to learning NixOS and this feels so true 😂

    I feel like I'm just starting on the incline, luckily I don't have any sturdy rope on hand 😂

  • You just gotta think different

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  • Wait what, why? I'm out of the loop. What's up with Proxmox and glib 2.0?

  • Sanity check: am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and do/learn from scratch?

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  • Reading your post again, you should start by moving your docker management from CasaOS to vanilla docker-compose files, and keep them in a git repo.

    I still think you definitely should look in to NixOS and what it can offer, cause it seems like that is where your mindset is going.

    But NixOS is a drastic change, you should start by just converting your individual services one by one from CasaOS management to docker-compose files. One compose file for all services is possible, but I would recommend one compose file for each service. Later you can move from Debian to NixOS while using the same docker-compose files.

  • Sanity check: am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and do/learn from scratch?

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  • I would like to have a system when I know what I did, what is opened/installed/activated and what is not

    You sound like you need to to look in to Nix and NixOS. The TLDR is that everything is declared in a configuration file(s), which you can and should back up in git. The config files tell you exactly what you did , and the config file comments together with git commit history tell you why.

    The whole system is built from this configuration file. Rollback is trivially easy, either by rebooting and selecting an older build during the boot manager, or reverting to an older git commit and rebuilding (no reboot required, so usually faster)

    Now fair warning, Nix (and NixOS) is a big topic, very different from normal way of thinking about software distribution and OS. Nix is not for everyone.

    You should also at the very least have a git repo for docker-compose files for your services. Again, that will declaratively tell you what you did and why.

    Also, if NixOS is too extreme, you should also look in to declarative management tools like Ansible etc

  • DAE feel like DuckDuckGo is now just as good as google for the vast majority of searches?

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  • No and kinda yes. Duckduckgo has its own webcrawler, but also adds in results from other sources including Bing, Yahoo and others.