TL;DR: The big tech AI company LLMs have gobbled up all of our data, but the damage they have done to open source and free culture communities are particularly insidious. By taking advantage of those who share freely, they destroy the bargain that made free software spread like wildfire.

I see these two as the main search results

• https://github.com/Martichou/rquickshare
• https://github.com/nozwock/packet

Anybody here who has tried both care to give a comparison? I'm on Fedora 43 and have been using Flatpaks quite a bit over the old 3rd party yum/dns repo method for supplemental stuff like this. I guess that gives Packet a bit of an edge for now, as the rquickshare dev uses a 3rd party framework that doesn't yet support Flatpaks. But if the consensus is that rquickshare is better then grabbing the RPM directly is an option.

~~Ho-tay. Longtime GNU/Debian user here. First time I'm ever touching Wine to launch a Windoze application. The application I'm trying to run is YUMI, which is (Your USB Multiboot Installer), aka PenDriveLinux. Site's been around forever (2002?) and I've used this tool pre-Linux days. Good tool.

Link to official site: [(https://pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/)]

~~Followed everything to the T, no dice when doing wine YUMI-exFAT* in the same directory YUMI-exFAT*.exe is in. I get two errors: Application could not be started, or no application associated with the specified file. ShellExecuteEx failed: File not found.

Searched online, and retried this time with wine64 and wine32 arriving at the same above 2 errors.

So then I went through WineHQ's step-by-step installation for Debian 12 "Bookworm" stable. Retried, same 2 errors.

Running wine explorer to get a GUI of WINE going, I'm able to reach the Windoze YUMI*.exe file, it is listed as an Application under the Type column... and I throw an "Invalid Handle" error when launching from there.

What am I missing here? edit:link~~~~

Downloaded YUMI*.exe again, and this time it worked. Corrupted previous file, disregard the above.

Hi all,

I made this post about a year ago: https://lemmy.ca/post/31760258

At the time, I was going to switch a couple laptops over and if all went well, put Linux on my main rig.

I just wanted to provide an update on my own experiences, and wanted to see what other people's experiences were like.

I put Mint on both my laptop's, and enjoyed it. Familiar enough to Windows where I could mess around with things, but different enough that I could learn. After 7 or 8 months of rocking Mint, I finally put Bazzite on my main rig. I did during the work week, which on hindsight was a bad idea because I also run Windows on my main rig as my work requires Windows, but I accidentally deleted my Windows bootloader (lol). After an evening of panic, I was able to recover the bootloader, set Bazzite up with dual booting, and it's been smooth sailing since.

I'm a pretty big gamer, play lots of games with a bunch of friends, and after about 3 months of using Bazzite, I have not run into a SINGLE issue that has prevented me from playing anything. I have been shocked at how smooth everything has been. In the morning, I boot into Windows, work for the day, and then when I'm done I just run boot-windows through Steam or reboot to get into Bazzite and then I'm gaming.

I have done a little bit of tinkering with audio to get my desk mic to work correctly, but it's been great!

For others who have recently made the switch over, what was your experience like? Any issues? Any tips or helpful suggestions to share?

Cheers!

Once upon a time circa 2011-12, Ubuntu could pluck out the applications' menu bar (the 'File'/'Edit'/'View'/... thing) and display it at the top of the screen, like it's done in MacOS. Brief searching shows that this was just a setting in Ubuntu's system preferences, which doesn't quite inform as to how it was done. But iirc this was before Ubuntu has gone Gnome 3, and thus wasn't specific to GTK 3 — though the 'Activities' in the screenshot below suggests otherwise; and afaiu Cinnamon uses GTK 3 anyway. If I'm not mistaken, this feature has also appeared first in the Netbook Edition of Ubuntu.

Is there some way to have this feature again in Linux Mint, Cinnamon edition, in the year 2025? I've googled around for a bit, nothing comes up except lots of 'how to move the bottom panel to the top'.

Random pic from the web to show this magical technology:

For anyone wondering why I would do such a thing: Fitts's law tells us that the time to accurately move the cursor to an onscreen target is directly proportional to the distance to the target, and inversely proportional to the target's size, namely in the same direction as the motion. Well, menu items being at the top of the screen makes them effectively infinite in size in the top-down direction, since the user can just jam the mouse all the way in the proximity of the desired item without a care to the vertical position of the cursor (assuming they come at the target mostly from below). I don't really like using the mouse, or using the menus either — but when I do, I'd like to have a better experience.

Curiously, this is one glaring example of where Apple designers did their fundamental research, while those at Microsoft dropped the ball yet again: in Windows 9x (at the least), the taskbar buttons had a one-pixel gap from the bottom where mouse clicks didn't work — which meant that a user moving the cursor with all their Fitts-dictated efficiency had to readjust again before clicking a button.

Just been supporting someone remotely and was waiting for them to turn on their laptop...

Whilst troubleshooting I ran uptime to see how long we'd been working on the problem and saw it was up for ~2 weeks...

Which made me think ... how do you tell how long a device (laptop) has been running, but since it's last suspend / hibernation?

I can find it from other clues such as journalctl -b -fu systemd-logind and look for Lid opened, but I was really looking for an smarter way...

Just a nice little challenge for anyone bored at this time of year :)

A short review of openBSD 7.8.

I am having the funniest issue! Somewhat recently, I have been having my audio crackle and randomly stop, but ONLY in Counter Strike 2 itself. discord (yes i have to use it as all my friends do and wont change) and background applications keep sound going fine, until I unplug and replug my headphones to get sound back in CS. Then It goes for about another 10 minutes until I have to do it again. It feels like its sometimes triggered by a certain gun or grenade sound, and i hear some fizzing and crackling before it happens. No other program does this.

Very weird. I believe I have pulse audio installed. I am not sure how to check if pipewire installed over top of it or what (i read maybe pulse is the issue?) I tried verifying game files which did not help.

Linux mint, newest stable kernel (i forget which)

Any help appreciated..I know linux doesn't have the best audio situation.

Edit: I want a graphical window switcher that's fully keyboard controlled, so I can see the windows before switching them.

The screenshot is from hyprland-easymotion which only shows labels for visible windows. I want a switcher that allows for both switching to windows or the same, or from any app, using just the keyboard and no mouse.

Ideally I could go to a window without pressing tab or another key a bunch of times, perhaps select any window (visible or not) with a letter like easymotion.

This is my Gnome desktop right now. Nothing too fancy, just the usual Gnome 49 with extensions (Blur my shell, AutoAccentColour, System Monitor, etc.), a Win11 inspired background and two apps running (Vivaldi browser playing a Youtube video and Kew music player in a terminal).

I play around with configs and add-ons from time to time but i ALWAYS move back to this Gnome designed desktop and it fits my needs.

I discovered this two days ago. It's an alternative shell for tiling managers like hyprland, niri, sway or others. Basically, it makes configuration of those WM really integrated. It's a click and forget approach, which makes configuration really fast. Cherry on the top : it is compatible with every distro out there! I highly suggest to try to pair with niri.

Hey guys,

So like many, I was into mc a while back. However after the whole Microsoft debacle and them locking my account because I didnt move it over from mojang, im still mad about it and im not re buying it from m$.

I do love luanti and mineclone, and have tried convincing my friends to play it instead, since its almost totally identical.

But im wondering, is there a way just to play Minecraft with friends over my server without all the Microsoft and account trash?

Posting here since 2 of the 3 of us run mint. I am pretty sure Minecraft runs fine on linuz but I dont recall.

I just got WSL working (so I can make pebble watchfaces) any other cool stuff I could do with this not quite real Linux?

Are we all just using htop?

What are some other good ones for killing processes and seeing what's running?

TL;DR: Mozilla’s translation bot on Support Mozilla (that is currently overwriting user contributions is based on the closed source, copyright infringing LLM, Google Gemini. This is in spite of Mozilla claiming that they are at the forefront of open source AI, and belies their exhortations to choose to build open source AI and data sets. Although Mozilla has experience in attracting open contributions for data sets in projects like Common Voice, Mozilla is using a closed data set to overwrite open contributions. Since (paid) Gemini queries do not train the model, Mozillians can expect to correct errors every time the bot automatically updates an article.

Edit: I'm now enlightened and use mpv, I really like the ModernZ OSC (on-screen controls), and uses config files.

IINA is only on macOS. I looked up linux alternatives but none of them seem to have similar looking UIs, at least out of the box. I want the player UI to float on top of the video + with a blurred background, it as shown in the image; or at least the ability to theme it like so.

Hello o/

I have been trying to understand the .deb package format and here is what I have learned about it so far.

first layer is the most simple it's just a basic ar archive and we can extract is using ar x filename.deb command. you will see the following files:

control.tar.xz
data.tar.xz
debian-binary

• debian-binary file specifies the .deb file version which will be 2.0 in most cases.
• control.tar.xz file contains all the the metadata about the package like the dependencies etc.
• data.tar.xz file is the file that actually contains all the provided files by the packages.

source:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_(file_format)
• https://radagast.ca/linux/anatomy_of_a_deb_file.html
• https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html

Hello o/

I would like to develop a package manager in c# to expand my knowledge about the language and more understand how package managers put together entire system.

so here are my questions:

1. where should I start?
2. do I invent my own pkg format or do I use pre built packages like deb or rpm? I think the later one will be more easier
3. how do I setup my dev environment I am on Ubuntu and has installed VS Code and dotnet sdk

sorry it these questions feel too naive but I really think I can do this!

Thanks in advance!

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Whatmade is a Linux daemon that monitors user-specified directories and records which process created each file.

This 0.2.1 update replaces stat with statx; this should drastically decrease false positives when detecting file creation: statx knows about creation date, while stat knows only about node changing, which happens a lot because of many reasons that have nothing to do with file creation.

Update as soon as possible.

So i got my old laptop dug out and threw a new battery in. Decided to put cachyOS on it since I wanted to try it

It does pretty well considering its only a turion x2 and 3gb of ram. But im not all sure what to do with it. Its not worth selling as its a bit slow for a normal person to put up with, it works find for playing dvds and such. Maybe I could use it for messing with light programming learning? Not sure

What would yall do?

*side note, if anyone knows why sound wont work, id appreciate a fix..it appears to not see any audio devices. Its an hp laptop (g60 i think) originally had vista.

Also Torvalds almost kill Linus Tech with a sword, so, worth watching.

Linus Sebastian is an investor in Framework Computer, Inc

CHAPTERSs ---------------------------------------------------0:00 Intro

• 2:42 Autobiography
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• 6:20 CPU: What Does he Need it For
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• 11:18 Linus T Hates Zoom Calls
• 11:40 Linus T Side Projects
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• 20:07 What do you do to relax?
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• 22:40 Have you thought about other companies profit using Linux?
• 23:38 How do you feel about Microsoft owning GitHub?
• 25:18 Youtuber Merch
• 26:48 Have you ever wanted to walk away from Linux?
• 28:10 Case Choice
• 28:30 Cats or Dogs?
• 29:55 Power Supply
• 30:50 Here you go Reddit...
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• 33:13 What are your Thoughts on AI?
• 35:25 Intel GPU?
• 36:25 How much code does Linus T Write?
• 38:23 Blame Linus for the Computer
• 38:40 How much do you travel for work?
• 41:10 Linus or Linus?
• 42:00 Does Linus T know about Linus S Linux Adventures?
• 43:20 You can see Linus S almost cry LMAO
• 43:50 Turning on the Computer
• 44:26 The Computer Lives!
• 44:40 Xbox, PlayStation or Nintendo?
• 45:26 Setting Up Linux with Linus
• 45:43 Why Fedora Linux?
• 46:45 Is there too many Linux options?
• 48:30 Linus S broke Linux again...
• 49:48 Linus T Email Hyenine
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• 51:10 iPhone or Android?
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