[-] cloudwanderer@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

That sounds like an interesting idea, I'll test that out, thanks!

[-] cloudwanderer@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I thought about this solution, as it is the "cleanest", however I need on total 4 firefox derivatives. Unfortunately, when looking deeply into the options, i haven't found 4 that are similarly trustworthy, well maintained etc. Also i have my firefox config fully figured out, it works and is as private as i want them, without some maintainer forcing their opinion on my use cases. Plain firefox is the easiest to configure, as it's like a blank start. However i might be wrong here and am open to suggestions :D

[-] cloudwanderer@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Unfortunately that is not what I am looking for. I am already using named profiles. Like i stated in my original post as well as my answers below, this only works from Inside Firefox, however from the operating system pov it is still treated as the same application. Which means:

a) When i share the work profile, i also share all other profiles, as they are all Firefox b) When I quick access firefox via spotlight, i end up at the nearest, random profile / instance of firefox. c) There is no way to differentiate the profiles on an application level. d) I can not assign the instances to different desktops, as they are all Firefox.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by cloudwanderer@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

Hello!

Quick question: How do i completely separate (also with distinct names) Firefox instances?

What i mean by that:

On my old Intel Mac, i've made 4 copies of Firefox, one for work, safe browsing, and apps. I've renamed each with FF-name so i can quickly open them with spotlight. Each has it's own profile.

For that i "only" need to edit the Info.plist and all worked.

However since then i migrated to Apple Silicon and MacOs Ventura, which seems to interfere with my approach.

Do you guys have an alternative idea or better approach? Maybe docker containers or anything?

My main intent is that i have them as separate applications, so i can open them with spotlight and also do not accidentally share the wrong instance in a conference call.

[-] cloudwanderer@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I had a similar idea, however i haven't seen a markdown plugin, that is well maintained and at the same time simple enough, so that the core, in this case markdown, can easily be replaced with a completely different engine, asciidoctor.

Any recommendations for that?

I also thought about changing neorg, but the missing support for treesitter is a k.o. for asciidoc.

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Hello Everyone,

i'd like to ask for your opinion on the following issue:

i've created my own knowledge base based on asciidoc, with some custom shell scripts and a go application for creating backlinks, tags etc. I've chosen this way, as most solitions are based on markdown, which is not standarized and very limited compared to asciidoc, especially from a dev pov.

All my editing, searching etc. is done via neovim, which is very comfortable.

However, i'd like to improve the user experience with the setup, as i'd also like to see the rendered version, especially when adding mermaid diagrams and other things.

I've tried some plugins for the browser, which render the view and update automatically, however they are not in sync with my nvim, so i have to scroll on every save, if i want to see the rendered version. That's not ideal.

Any ideas?

Ideally I'd like some kind of application template, where i can embed a terminal / neovim and a webbrowser, ideally linked via lua scripting, so it integrates nicely. It can also be a completely separate application like anytype, however i've not seen anything that has a proper vim-like module editing support & allows for asciidoc rendering instead of markdown.

[-] cloudwanderer@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It looks very interesting!

But I don't see the unique selling point of it compared to alacritty and kitty, besides web-enabled. Is there anything that it does better than these 2?

[-] cloudwanderer@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! That looks exactly like what I was looking for. I hope it works as promising as it looks :)

[-] cloudwanderer@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, that was a very interesting read!

[-] cloudwanderer@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you everyone for all your suggestions! I'll quickly try to summarize them for myself. So what you suggest is:

Operating Systems:

  • NixOs
  • Debian 12
  • ElementaryOS
  • mint
  • PopOs
  • EndevourOS
  • Fedora
  • arch
  • Opensuse
  • Novara

Tiling Window Manager:

Recomended to use something based on wayland.

  • hyprland (can be configured from file, good compatibility with nix)
  • sway (proposed with Debian, multiple suggestions, config via file as well, good for custom keybindings, already options for sway in nixos)
  • i3
  • bspwm
  • KDE Plasma
  • dwm / dwl

Status Bar:

  • swaybar (in case of using sway)
  • waybar (when using wayland)
  • eww
  • ags
  • KDE neon

Package Managers:

  • flatpack
  • brew (is this already stable enough?)
  • Nix (obvious choice if nix os chosen)
  • snap
  • (pacman if arch)
  • integrated one

Packages:

  • together with wayland alacritty or kitty
  • foot
  • Yakuake
  • suckless

At the moment I am trying to avoid anything where RedHat is involved. Not because of the recent controversy, but simply IBM is known to kill their software solutions on a whim. (although i still use ansible), so Fedora is unfortunately out (again, no judging on how great it is). I've been quite interested in EndevourOS, so that might be fun to try out. Debian for the desktop probably not right now. I'm running it on servers for stability, but for a desktop environment, i prefer having more recent packages (e.g. neovim). The "sales pitch" for Mint sounded pretty interesting as well. However i'll give NixOs a try first, simply because it was mentioned very often, same with sway.

Based on this i'll try out these combinations first:

  1. NixOs with sway and eww
  2. NixOs with hyprland and waybar
  3. NixOs with dwl and ?

If this does not satisfy, i'll look into endevourOS and mint, but that might require some Ansible I assume.

Thank you very much!

[-] cloudwanderer@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It might have. I've tried nixos on a mini PC meant as a home server, so most configuration is done via SSH and users don't change (much), I might have accidently activate it while trying nixos out.

Making users unable to login is a bit of an odd (side?) Effect, but maybe I'm not understanding the purpose of this option correctly. I'll stay away from it for now :D

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cloudwanderer@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Hello Everyone,

as you can see on my screenshot, i am using an intel based mac for years now, which i customized to my needs. However i have reached the limits of this machine in terms of customization options and would like to move to linux to test it out as a daily driver. I'm actually quite happy with mac from the pov that everything just works, however there are certain things that annoy me, but apple does not allow me to change them.

As a newbie in terms of desktop linux (i've used ubuntu roughly 12 years ago as a daily driver and am familar with headless linux), i'd like your advice.

Specifically I am looking for:

  • a minimal, fast system
  • keyboard / shortcut based - all interactions can be done from keyboard (within common sense limits)
  • all keys can be custom mapped (i have muscle memory of my custom keys for certain actions, so i'd like to keep them)
  • all can be configured from dotfiles (worse case shell scripts and ansible)
  • very low ressource consumption, snappy system with no delays.

I'd like to try NixOs due to it's unique configuration ability, however on a headless server it was a buggy pain just weeks ago (for example user passwords just vanished/changed without any external influence, not allowing access anymore), so i'm open to alternatives.

What i am looking for in advice is:

  • a minimal, configurable (file based for git) tiling window manager
  • a top status bar like you see in the screenshot that i can freely configure
  • as much terminal emulator based as possible (i honestly mostly only need a browser and the terminal, most other apps have a TUI that i can use with the keyboard, see the above requirement)
  • terminal based package management as easy as brew (maybe Nix?)
  • custom keyboard layout (I am not a native english speaker, so i mapped all non-english characters to my option keys with the english layout as the base)
  • Option to use 2 keyboards at once (come by default when using Karabiner Elements) as i combined 2 small keyboards to one to a fake split keyboard ;)

My current stack on macos is Hammerspoon for heavy customization, Karabiner Elements, yabai, kitty (and alacritty, for ssh, as kitty is bad with ssh in my personal experience), sketchybar. firefox (customized for privacy)

Any good recommendations or dotfiles? Anything i should look out for as a MacOs User?

Thanks in advance!

[-] cloudwanderer@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I don't know how the code is currently working, but I like this feature idea and would suggest to start very simple and proceed from there.

For example you could: a) Make a list of communities that are siblings with their id and instance b) add a toggle to view sister community posts yes /no c) query all communities, list the last x posts from each with time constraints, e.g. not older than 1 day or hour depending on the community post frequency d) list them sorted by time of x , depending on what was chosen

The biggest issue I see with this simple approach, besides others, is that different communities are different in terms of activity / post frequency. So ideally the better, but more effort, way would be to let each community instance communicate their posts themselves via a query with activity metric parameters. Basically the amount of returned posts would depend on common parameters set by the most active instance.

It's not yet thought out, but just getting an mvp started and test the waters would probably be better than having it perfect right away while working on it for months

[-] cloudwanderer@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The issue was much more straightforward than i thought. It seems sometimes thinking of too complex issues will hinder finding the easiest cause - the local forewall on the pi was blocking it / had no explcite allow.

To check i did: sudo ufw status verbose

There was only port 22

I added the new port as Allow Port 8081: sudo ufw allow 8081

And it works now! Thanks for all the tipps that pointed me in the right direction!

[-] cloudwanderer@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the hints, this definitely helped, however it did not solve the issue.

What i did:

  1. I changed via omv-firstaid the omv port from 80 to 8081.
  2. I confirmed with ss -ltn that this change was successful and i see the listening port 80 vanished, while this now popped up:

State Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port Peer Address:Port

LISTEN 0 511 0.0.0.0:8081 0.0.0.0:*

  1. I tested locally via ssh from the pi the connection via curl http://mylocalip:8081/ and it works, i get the html back
  2. I tested from my laptop (connected to my router via WiFi, where the raspberry is meshed into via the repeater in between) and i still get the timeout.
  3. I tried tunneling again via ssh ssh -L 8081:localhost:8081 pi@raspberrypi.local and i did not get any errors this time. However when i open the local url in the browser i get a connection reset and my terminal shows me channel 3: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed. However this just says that TcPForwarding is disabled, which is fine, so that tunneling issue should not be the main problem, i assume.
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Hello!

I've been running into an oddity and i can not find the root cause.

Situation

I have installed OMV on my raspberry pi 4 4GB via: wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/installScript/master/install | sudo bash I also needed to use usrmerge before the installation: sudo apt install usrmerge

After completion, while being connected via ssh, i can query the omv website and it works fine: curl localhost

However whenever i try to access it via the browser, it does not. I have ran omv-firstaid as well just to be sure, but that does not change anything.

Network

My Network is connected via ethernet to a repeater (Fritzbox 4040), which in turn connects to the router via ethernet (Frityzbox 7490). Another repeater is also connected.

All are connected as a singular Mesh.

Question

I can connect via port 22 to my pi from anywhere in my house. It works fine and stable due to the mesh. However i can not connect to port 80 for OMV.

I've tried port forwarding on my network mesh, but that did not change anything.

I also tried for testing purposes a tunnel via ssh ssh -L 80:localhost:80 pi@raspberrypi.local but that resulted in a:

bind [::1]:80: Permission denied channel_setup_fwd_listener_tcpip: cannot listen to port: 80 Could not request local forwarding

Which makes me think it might be the network on the pi. However I am new to linux networking and therefor would like to ask for your ideas.

Any ideas on what could be cause?

Thanks in advance for the help!

(Crosspost from lemmy.ml )

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