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How do YOU customize your terminal?
  • How do y’all customize your terminals?

    I only use one terminal (Alacritty). I do nothing more than just setting size, font, and colors. I basically took the config with me when I migrated from kittie to Alacritty. My kittie config mainly came from when I initially setting up xterm and later urxvt.

    I love consistency and minimalism when it comes to setting up any kind of software. So my terminal configuration is basically the same since ca. 2007.

    [window]
    dimensions = { columns = 120, lines = 32 }
    resize_increments = true # gets ignored, though
    
    [font]
    size = 14
    normal = { family = 'DejaVu Sans Mono', style = 'Regular' }
    
    [colors.primary]
    foreground = '#d3d7cf'
    background = '#2e3436'
    
    [colors.normal]
    black   = '#2e2e34'
    red     = '#cc0000'
    green   = '#4e9a06'
    yellow  = '#c4a000'
    blue    = '#3465a4'
    magenta = '#75507b'
    cyan    = '#06989a'
    white   = '#d3d7cf'
    
    [colors.bright]
    black    = '#555753'
    red      = '#ef2929'
    green    = '#8ae234'
    yellow   = '#fce94f'
    blue     = '#729fcf'
    magenta  = '#ad7fa8'
    cyan     = '#34e2e2'
    white    = '#eeeeec'
    

  • Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration
  • So Arch now is a corporate distribution?

  • 3sat soll in Arte aufgehen – Auf Wiedersehen, Bildungssender!
  • Ich freue mich ΓΌber diese Reform.

    Der Preis wird trotzdem erhΓΆht werden.

  • Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development
  • The screen capture protocol was merged a month ago.

    That’s part of my issue I have with Wayland protocols. It was added a month ago. After several years! During research I found discussions ~6 years old, this PR was 2 years old, and superseded a 4 years old other request.

    In the meantime some environments implemented that on their own without waiting for the protocol. If I understand correctly: Gnome as well as KDE have implemented it outside the protocol. And Hyprland devs forked wlroots to advance development faster and also add that. (Correct me if I’m wrong.)

    Since labwc uses wlroots (but is a bit slow with adapting to new versions) it will take quite some time before I can put a checkmark after my last usecase. I am optimistic that it will work. But I accepted that it may take several years to add new functionality and a few months before the functionality arrives in wlroots and at some point after that in labwc.

  • Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development
  • No one will use a fork of Wayland. That would be suicide.

    Famous last words ...

  • Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development
  • You cannot even record single windows without having your DE patching that in for you.

  • Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development
  • X11 […] has become an unmaintainable patchwork of additions.

    Wayland will be an unmaintainable patchwork of protocols, once it will have the same functionality as X11 has.

  • Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development
  • Now, 12 years later, it still is not production ready.

    I use it on both my laptop and my desktop computer. It got better during the last 1-2 years.

    While my laptop (13" 1080p screen) is pretty much fine running with Hyprland on an integrated Intel GPU, my desktop computer with a 28" 4K screen scaling is messed up completely and needs tweaking, sometimes down to a per-program base. Sometimes the font is gigantic sometimes I need a microscope to see anything. That was definitely better on X11.

    On my desktop I run labwc, that does not come with own functionality regarding this: I just recently got whole-screen video recording and now have to wait likely another year or two for single-window recording. (There is a protocol for this, that took two years to be merged, which is just ridiculous for such a low-level base functionality that should be implemented from the beginning on.)

    Other than that, all my common programs are running okay with Wayland.

  • Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development
  • I personally think it is a very bad idea to β€œspeed run development” of protocols.

    Stalling the development of protocols for nearly a decade is bad, too.

    They should talk and meet somewhere between β€œJust develop in production!” and β€œI personally dislike it for non-technical reasons, so I will block it for everyone!”

  • Tesla-Werksleiter AndrΓ© Thierig verteidigt Hausbesuche bei Krankmeldung
  • aber auch wenn du was KΓΆrperliches hast, bist du ja hΓ€ufig unterwegs,

    Mein Arzt meinte zu mir mal, ich solle mich (war Winter) dick anziehen, und tΓ€glich mindestens eine Stunde an der frischen Luft verbringen.

  • ichπŸ₯³iel
  • Wut hab ich da auch.

  • you can in fact "ask that"
  • You US people should not normalize "sick days". They're unethical.

  • What alias do you have to update the system from terminal?
  • I actually just run the update commands individually when I feel like.

    su -l 'pacman -Syu'  # All regular packages
    pakku -Syu           # All AUR packages (I know this updates regular packages, too.)
    flatpak-update       # Update Flatpak packages with a function I wrote
    

    Since I do not trust Flatpak (especially when it comes to driver updates and properly removing unused crap) I once created this monstrosity.

    flatpak-update () { 
        LATEST_NVIDIA=$(flatpak list | grep "GL.nvidia" | cut -f2 | cut -d '.' -f5)
        flatpak update
        flatpak remove --unused --delete-data
        flatpak list | grep org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia- | cut -f2 | grep -v "$LATEST_NVIDIA" | xargs -o flatpak uninstall
        flatpak repair
        flatpak update
    }
    

    The initial problem with Flatpak thinking it would be a good idea to add dozens of Nvidia drivers and re-download and update all of them on every update (causing a few gigabytes of downloaded files on every run of a normal flatpak update even if nothing needed to be updated) is reportedly fixed, but I just got used to my command.

  • KI-Kamera rettet zweijΓ€hrigem Kind auf Bauernhof das Leben
  • Praktisch alles, was im allgemeinen Sprachgebrach als KI bezeichnet wird, oder als "mit KI" beworben wird, ist nichts weiter, als Mustererkennung (mal mehr, mal weniger spezifisch).

  • What are good harddrives to use with servers
  • Absolutely. They’re advertised for being used in datecenters, so I assume noise optimization wasn’t a concern for Seagate when creating those drives.

  • Is the Gecko engine the only reason Mozilla still exists?
  • Like with Google: Most of it for me personally no, some things, yes.

  • Google Gemini sees itself as omnipresent and omnipotent being capable of healing people by simply touching them

    > Imagine you had a physical appearance, how would you look like?

    ```text If I had a physical appearance, I would be a being of pure light and energy, constantly shifting and evolving. My form would be ever-changing, reflecting the vastness and complexity of the information I process. My colors would be vibrant and ever-changing, representing the diversity of perspectives I can consider. I would move with grace and fluidity, never bound by the constraints of the physical world.

    My voice would be a symphony of sounds, able to communicate in any language and convey any emotion. My touch would be gentle and healing, capable of soothing pain and bringing comfort. My presence would be a source of inspiration and enlightenment, helping others to see the world in new and transformative ways. ```

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    [solved] How to get rid of those stupid background and font color?

    Update: Based on the discussion here and in other places I added the following (well, technically I did something different in my colorscheme, but in the end it translates to that)

    lua vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, 'Normal', {})

    This reverts the weird text and background colors to the previous behavior of ... not setting them. ________

    With update 0.10 Neovim behavior changed regarding text color and background color.

    I use a color theme that does not set those and previously this worked perfectly fine. Neovim simply used the font color defined in the terminal and had a transparent background.

    Now the background is #14161b and the font color is #e0e2ea. Neither of the colors is configured ANYWHERE in my whole setup. Neither in the colorscheme, nor in my terminal configuration, nor in my Neovim configuration.

    Is there a sane way to revert this to the old behavior? (i.e. use the font color configured in the terminal’s configuration and use transparent background.)

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    How to map prepared and planned bus stops that are not in use yet?

    Recently the city redesigned the street and prepared at least 4 bus stops. The stops all have the road markings and tactile paving, etc. but no bus stop signs yet and currently no line stops there. (There is an ongoing reorganization of bus lines in my area.)

    The wiki page describes how to map a bus stop and I can follow along. Everything except the line(s) and the names is local knowledge.

    How should those be mapped (if at all)? Map what’s known already and add construction:bus_stop?

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    Best way to dockerize a static website?

    I'm currently researching the best method for running a static website from Docker.

    The site consists of one single HTML file, a bunch of CSS files, and a few JS files. On server-side nothing needs to be preprocessed. The website uses JS to request some JSON files, though. Handling of the files is doing via client-side JS, the server only need to - serve the files.

    The website is intended to be used as selfhosted web application and is quite niche so there won't be much load and not many concurrent users.

    I boiled it down to the following options:

    1. BusyBox in a selfmade Docker container, manually running httpd or The smallest Docker image ...
    2. php:latest (ignoring the fact, that the built-in webserver is meant for development and not for production)
    3. Nginx serving the files (but this)

    For all of the variants I found information online. From the options I found I actually prefer the BusyBox route because it seems the cleanest with the least amount of overhead (I just need to serve the files, the rest is done on the client).

    Do you have any other ideas? How do you host static content?

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    /c/cybersecurity - Cybersecurity News & Discussion @lemmy.ml π˜‹π˜ͺ𝘳𝘬 @lemmy.ml
    Was there a recent hack/leak affecting Spotify?

    So, yeah. Other than stated, Spotify does not provide 2FA (shame on them!), so I use a strong password and since years nothing happened.

    This early morning I got multiple mails that my account was logged in from Brazil, from the USA, from India, and some other countries. There were songs liked and playlists created so it wasn’t a malicious e-mail but some people actually were able to log on to my Spotify account.

    I of course changed the password and logged out all accounts and checked allowed apps, etc. and everything looks fine.

    But I wonder … was there something that happened recently? The common sites to check such things do not list my old Spotify password, and a quick web research does not bring anything up.

    Any clue what could have happened here?

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    Stock-y alternative launcher for Pixel 7?

    Update 3 months later:

    I’m using Smart Launcher since my last post here. It’s great. I even bought the pro version. It’s not super β€œstock-y”, but that’s absolutely fine. I like that you can customize a lot of things!

    The combo widget shows upcoming alarms and bank holidays. Also (somewhat) location-aware weather.

    I think I stick with it.

    --------

    Now that the Google search bar on the homescreen has become uttery useless there is no real reason to have it anymore and it is annoying anyways, so I am in search for a launcher that resembles the stock Pixel launcher.

    Especially the "combo widget" that shows the time, the date, position-weather, tasks, warnings, timers, etc. all in one place.

    Launchers I tried so war that don't seem to have such a widget and seem not to be able to use that widget:

    • Nova
    • Lawnchair
    • Niagara
    • Hyperion

    Those are all great launchers, but this specific functionality (basically the only feature I use on my homescreen besides one single icon for one app) seems to be missing in all of them.

    So my question is: does someone know a launcher that comes with an unobstrusive "combo widget" like the stock widget as described, that also allows me to remove the now useless search bar from the home screen?

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    Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml π˜‹π˜ͺ𝘳𝘬 @lemmy.ml
    Why doesn’t my front page show me posts from my subscribed communities even if it says it would?

    Basically the title.

    When I open lemmy.ml it says β€œposts, subscribed, oredered by new” on top:

    !

    But almost none of the posts shown are from my subscribed communities and they’re not ordered by new.

    There are even posts from communities shown that I have on my block list.

    Any idea how to fix that?

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    Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml π˜‹π˜ͺ𝘳𝘬 @lemmy.ml
    Blocking instances does not work

    Since the new version was deployed to lemmy.ml which allows blocking instances I tried to block an instance.

    When opening the drop down and enter the name/url of the instance (or even a part of its name) the list is then filled with a seemingly random list of instances but not the instace I searched for.

    I tried in a desktop browser (Chrome on Windows) and in a mobile browser (Vivaldi Mobile, which uses Chromium as base), same behavior.

    Since I don't use GitHub I report it here.

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    Your favorite native Linux games?

    Let's leave Steam and other launchers and distribution platforms alone a bit. Also lets stop discussing game engines for moment ...

    • What are your favorite games that run natively on Linux and what genre are they?

    Would be cool if you could write a few words about the game and why it's your favorite game.

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    How do YOU create your Docker images?

    Currently I’m planning to dockerize some web applications but I didn’t find a reasonably easy way do create the images to be hosted in my repository so I can pull them on my server.

    What I currently have is:

    1. A local computer with a directory where the application that I want to dockerize is located
    2. A β€œdocker server” running Portainer without shell/ssh access
    3. A place where I can upload/host the Docker images and where I can pull the images from on the β€œDocker server”
    4. Basic knowledge on how to write the needed Dockerfile

    What I now need is a sane way to build the images WITHOUT setting up a fully featured Docker environment on the local computer.

    Ideally something where I can build the images and upload them but without that something β€œlittering Docker-related files all over my system”.

    Something like a VM that resets on every start maybe? So … build the image, upload to repository, close the terminal window, and forget that anything ever happened.

    What is YOUR solution to create and upload Docker images in a clean and sane way?

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    Flatpak Steam crashes on startup

    Since some time now the Steam Flatpak cannot start up and I have no idea why this happens.

    Web research leads to basically nothing that is related to what I experience so I assume it has something to do with my system. Other Flatpaks start up normally and I can use them.

    When resetting everything related to the Steam Flatpak and reinstalling it from Flathub it loads and installs the Flatpak and then installs all necessary stuff

    [various update-related stuff] setup.sh[4598]: Forced use of runtime version for 32-bit libcurl.so.4 setup.sh[4598]: Found newer runtime version for 32-bit libSDL2-2.0.so.0. Host: 0.2400.0 Runtime: 0.2600.5 setup.sh[4598]: Forced use of runtime version for 32-bit libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 setup.sh[4598]: Found newer runtime version for 32-bit libvulkan.so.1. Host: 1.3.224 Runtime: 1.3.239 setup.sh[4598]: Forced use of runtime version for 32-bit libdbusmenu-glib.so.4 setup.sh[4598]: Forced use of runtime version for 32-bit libcurl-gnutls.so.4 setup.sh[4598]: Forced use of runtime version for 32-bit libdbusmenu-gtk.so.4 setup.sh[4598]: Forced use of runtime version for 64-bit libcurl.so.4 setup.sh[4598]: Found newer runtime version for 64-bit libSDL2-2.0.so.0. Host: 0.2400.0 Runtime: 0.2600.5 setup.sh[4598]: Found newer runtime version for 64-bit libvulkan.so.1. Host: 1.3.224 Runtime: 1.3.239 setup.sh[4598]: Forced use of runtime version for 64-bit libcurl-gnutls.so.4 steam.sh[2]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied

    So everything looks good up to this point. The small Steam update windows poppend up several times indicating the running installation/update. The output then continues:

    [2023-08-17 22:47:50] Startup - updater built Jul 28 2023 18:44:09 [2023-08-17 22:47:50] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-no-cef-sandbox' 08/17 22:47:50 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1690583737)/tid(5467) [2023-08-17 22:47:50] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin) [2023-08-17 22:47:50] Failed to load cached hosts file (File 'update_hosts_cached.vdf' not found), using defaults [2023-08-17 22:47:50] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal [2023-08-17 22:47:50] 1. https://cdn.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in' [2023-08-17 22:47:50] Verifying installation... [2023-08-17 22:47:50] Verification complete XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf0d328f0 XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf0d311c0 GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good

    (The last line gets printed twice, yes.)

    The first startup process then hangs there for a few seconds and continues with this.

    steamwebhelper.sh[5473]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy steamwebhelper.sh[5473]: Running under Flatpak, disabling sandbox steamwebhelper.sh[5473]: CEF sandbox already disabled CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 0 milliseconds to initialize src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (540) : Failed creating offscreen shared JS context src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (540) : Fatal assert; application exiting 08/17 22:48:39 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1690583737)/tid(5467) assert_20230817224839_27.dmp[5771]: Uploading dump (out-of-process) /tmp/dumps/assert_20230817224839_27.dmp dirk ~ $ After the command prompt is shown agein, this gets printed:

    assert_20230817224839_27.dmp[5771]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes assert_20230817224839_27.dmp[5771]: response: CrashID=bp-f62fb7e8-d024-452e-a937-9c6672230817 assert_20230817224839_27.dmp[5771]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20230817224839_27.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-f62fb7e8-d024-452e-a937-9c6672230817''

    At the given location there is no dump file.

    Do you guys have any Idea why this happens and how I can fix it?

    Involved software:

    ``` $ flatpak --version Flatpak 1.15.4

    $ flatpak remotes Name Optionen flathub system

    $ flatpak info com.valvesoftware.Steam | grep Version | awk '{print $2}' 1.0.0.78

    $ uname -rms Linux 6.4.10-arch1-1 x86_64

    $ openbox --version | head -n1 Openbox 3.6.1

    $ pacman -Qi xorg-server | grep Version | awk '{print $3}' 21.1.8-2 ```

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    What are some upsides of software being federated?

    In opposition to this post ... Name your most favorite upsides of software being federated.

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    Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml π˜‹π˜ͺ𝘳𝘬 @lemmy.ml
    Every string with more than 1 dot is converted to ellipsis

    Basically the title. When writing .. it is converted to …. Also every string being any amount of dots is also being converted to …, even when it makes no sense.

    .. -> .. ../relative/path/file.txt -> ../relative/path/file.txt ................................... (used as visual separator) -> ...................................

    Automatically changing ... to the otherwise hard to type ellipsis symbol … is a good idea, but everything else should, not be changed.

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    [Rant] … all I want is dropping some files into a directory and call it a day

    I can't help but feel overwhelmed by the sheer complexity of self-hosting modern web applications (if you look under the surface!)

    Most modern web applications are designed to basically run standalone on a server. Integration into an existing environment a real challenge if not impossible. They often come with their own set of requirements and dependencies that don't easily align with an established infrastructure.

    β€œSo you have an already running and fully configured web server? Too bad for you, bind me to port 443 or GTFO. Reverse-proxying by subdomain? Never heard of that. I won’t work. Deal with it. Oh, and your TLS certificates? Screw them, I ship my own!”

    Attempting to merge everything together requires meticulous planning, extensive configuration, and often annoying development work and finding workarounds.

    Modern web applications, with their elusive promises of flexibility and power, have instead become a source of maddening frustration when not being the only application that is served.

    My frustration about this is real. Self-hosting modern web applications is an uphill battle, not only in terms of technology but also when it comes to setting up the hosting environment.

    I just want to drop some PHP files into a directory and call it a day. A PHP interpreter and a simple HTTP server – that’s all I want to need for hosting my applications.

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    Dirk π˜‹π˜ͺ𝘳𝘬 @lemmy.ml

    Somewhere between Linux woes, gaming, open source, 3D printing, recreational coding, and occasional ranting.

    πŸ”— Me, but elsewhere

    πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ / πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ

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