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klangcola

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  • What's the deal with ONLYOFFICE?

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  • OnlyOffice is also available as a (offline) desktop office suite, so as a user it's more like LibreOffice than Collabora.

    My wife prefers OnlyOffice over LibreOffice, as it's feels closer to MS Office. Also it's compatibility with MS Office formats is better than LibreOffice.

    I still use LibreOffice for desktop, but I'm not a heavy user. Haven't tried out Collabora or hosted OnlyOffice for NextCloud yet.

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    How mouse-less can you make Linux?

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  • KDE has a huge amount amount of configurable keyboard shortcuts, even many that are not assigned by default. Check out the keyboard shortcuts settings in each app, and in KDE Plasma Settings app.

    For moving selected files in Dolphin (and any other file browser) I've always just used Ctrl+X Ctrl+V.

    (Btw sounds like you're talking about the "context menu" button, and it's my personal pet peeve that this button is missing from many modern keyboards and laptops. On older Windows you used to be able to do Shift+F10 to get the context menu , but that doesn't work anymore so my main use for the mouse is right-clicking..)

  • What is one relatively unknown thing that your country does much better than elsewhere, but that most people don't know about?

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  • Sudden culture shock from a Norwegian:

    Still open is the transition of heat and cars to electricity..

    Almost all electricity used by Norwegian homes goes towards heating (including cooking and hot water), and charging cars. So counting heating separate from electricity suddenly makes the electric transition sound less impressive. (And the transition away from nuclear more baffling). It's still impressive to see Germany really follow through on renewables though. 60% renewable electricity is still a lot

    Is there a plan to transition away from burning fossil fuels for heating?

  • Best GPU type for Linux gaming PC?

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  • "10ft away from the screen". I.e. sitting in a sofa playing on a TV, compared to sitting at a desk close to a monitor

  • how to install Merkuro!?

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  • Maybe you can install Arch in Distrobox, then install Merkuro in your arch container?

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  • Zim really is amazing, its the perfect balance with its simple plain text files in folders data structure, but powerful search and back linking. And I love linking to other files on the local file system.

    How do you do the LUKS volume upload to cloud? Is it for syncing between devices or just backup? Personally I use (self hosted) NextCloud to sync my Zim between devices.

  • Mazda confirms its first global EV sedan: Will it land in the US?

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  • Yay, finally more non-SUV electric cars.

    Oh, it's also made in China. And it's a rebranded Chinese car. The traditional manufacturers really are falling behind in the electric transition.

  • Flameshot, an Open Source screenshot software

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  • FlowLauncher looks neat, like KRunner for Windows. Thanks for sharing

  • LNXLink - Link your Linux computer into Home Assistant

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  • Yeah the nodered flow on the target device is for handling shutdown(sleep) and status reporting back to HomeAssistant, so in HA the computer is a simple switch with on/off states

  • LNXLink - Link your Linux computer into Home Assistant

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  • Oh neat!

    I made a custom solution for WOL and remote shutdown using nodered and MQTT, but this is so cleaner than maintaining a custom solution

  • Bazzite 3.0.1 Update Released

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  • No they're not, in fact Cosmic is almost ready for Alpha release (Sorry, couldn't help myself)

  • People who have installed Linux on their parents computer, how did it go? Which distro do you recommend? Any tips?

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  • You make a valid point.

    One counterpoint does come to mind: Cost. The hardware to run it on ain't cheap

    (Im not up to date on the used market and the cut off point where old macs become unsupported and stop receiving software updates)

  • People who have installed Linux on their parents computer, how did it go? Which distro do you recommend? Any tips?

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  • Had great success on Kubuntu. Set up the desktop to have two giant icons only: Firefox, and shutdown.

    On Windows the constant popups for updating various components were causing much confusion Java, flash (back in the day), printer "drivers", and of course windows itself would throw popups about updates requiring clicking buttons every time they used the computer, which was very infrequently, and cause them much confusion ("what does update mean" ?")

    Meanwhile on Kubuntu all updates go "shhhh" in the background, and no more confusing "To shutdown, press Start"

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    Adobe's ToS changes could be an AI overreach on user data

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  • This happens when a small project has 12 developers each scratching their own itch in their own time, not a team of 120 developers getting paid to work on the same itch 8 hours a day.

    In the case of FreeCAD they're actually starting to reign in and focus more now, and there are more contributors.

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    We are looking for a new set of Community KDE Goals to work on.

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  • I hope a previously suggested goal of improving KDE for organizations makes a comeback. It was basically all about all the things a business/organisation would need to roll out a fleet of KDE computers, mainly tools for remote / centralised management by an IT department.

    In the wake of Windows's recent and continued trend, more and more public institutions, universities, government etc should be looking at switching away from Windows. There's also EUs recent Digital Sovereignty Initiative.

    German state Schleswig-Holstein is already swapping 30k computers to Linux

  • KleverNotes Version 1.0 official release

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  • Happy noises :)

    And I see there's a plugin for cross-linking between documents! More happy noises :)

    And a nightly flatpak build :) Thanks for making it so easy to try out!

  • KleverNotes Version 1.0 official release

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  • directly reflected on your system in the hierarchy of your KleverNotes storage folders.

    This is a big deal. Joplin is great, but its database structure is horrible for interoperability.

    Hopefully Klevernotes will also be more snappy and "native feeling". Joplin being Electron can be a bit sluggish sometimes ( which is mildly infuriating given that the database structure was chosen over plain files due to "performance").

    That said, it be nice if Klevernotes was a WYSIWIG editor. There really are a lot of dual-view markdown editors with a preview. For generel notes / productivity I find the dual view distracting, but need the preview for images etc

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  • Instead of one super chunky battery, how about a laptop with replaceable batteries, in combination with a UPS?

    UPS is so you can actually replace the laptop battery with a spare one , even during a power outage. Just run the laptop on AC from the UPS while changing batteries. Or see if you can find a UPS with a long lasting battery. Entry level ones only have like 15-30 minutes of battery life though, since they're more intended for safe shutdowns or brownouts.

  • Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?

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  • You might want to look up SMR vs CMR, and why it matters for NASes. The gist is that cheaper drives are SMR, which work fine mostly, but can time out during certain operations, like a ZFS rebuild after a drive failure.

    Sorry don't remember the details, just the conclusion that's it's safer to stay away from SMR for any kind of software RAID

    EDIT: also, there was the SMR scandal a few years ago where WD quietly changed their bigger volume WD Red ("NAS") drives to SMR without mentioning it anywhere in the speccs. Obviously a lot of people were not happy to find that their "NAS" branded hard drives were made with a technology that was not suitable for NAS workload. From memory i think it was discovered when someone investigated why their ZFS rebuild kept failing on their new drive.