mat

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[–] mat@linux.community 1 points 1 week ago

Never heard of FuriLabs, looks really cool. How open is the OS/hardware? Could be my next phone... though I'd love to see an immutable approach so I can't be left with a broken system after an update.

[–] mat@linux.community 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The article is good, however I'd really appreciate having fedi-style content warnings on AI-generated images. I don't interact with mainstream social mediums so I generally do not see it, however in the thumbnail and contents of the article there are some quite disturbing images and videos that I'd have chosen not to see (description is enough) given the choice...

[–] mat@linux.community 8 points 3 weeks ago
[–] mat@linux.community 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Good point.. I tend to give family members Flatpak-based distros like Fedora for the nice app store experience, but I guess if you can get past the scaryness of test editing and rebuilding with a console, NixOS does come with the benefit of having waaaay more packages and much easier rollback. My poor father trying to run nvidia drivers on Fedora Kinoite, who has to rebuild the kernel for every package install...

[–] mat@linux.community 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Does your wife install packages with NixOS? This is one of the few distros I tried (and now main) that I genuinely cannot recommend to anyone not willing to spend days learning the lang & concepts.

[–] mat@linux.community 2 points 3 months ago

Awesome! I now know the next show we'll watch when we finally coordinate to finish Breaking Bad off my Jellyfin instance :)

[–] mat@linux.community 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

(unrelated to piracy, though I agree with the main point of the post) I loved Le Bureau des Légendes! Are these shows well-subtitled/dubbed? That's what prevents me from sharing them with my English-speaking friends usually, the language barrier is too great and it's not as usual to watch a subtitled French show than a kdrama f.e

[–] mat@linux.community 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The "immutable" type of distros could be worth a shot. They don't let you break the system and if anything does break, you can undo it with a reboot, so they tend to be pretty stable. My family runs a few flavors of Universal Blue, which are based on Fedora and hasn't broken for them, but I don't know the exact hardware. I've been running NixOS (also immutable) on a Framework 16 since the laptop came out, I can't count a single hardware issue I encountered. However, NixOS does come with a steep learning curve, so it's hard to recommend, and it also has trouble running software that hasn't been already packaged for it.

[–] mat@linux.community 1 points 6 months ago
[–] mat@linux.community 2 points 7 months ago

My Ubuntu server (which has been working for a few years now) recently asked me in a full-screen prompt while updating something about GRUB. There was a list of partitions with just one element, which is the partition that GRUB os on. I was focused on something else so I just hit enter, but now I am really scared to reboot it. Is there any way to pull this back up or to double-check that everything is ok with the machine?

[–] mat@linux.community 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I tried this and was able to set a colorscheme in qt5/6ct that stuck in nheko (with QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct), but it still has the same icons issue in Dolphin. pcmanfm-qt also has the icons missing.

[–] mat@linux.community 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Is there a way to set catppuccin as the qt5ct theme? I tried manually adding the files but using qt5ct breaks all icons in Dolphin (it displays alt text or nothing), and kind-of applies in nheko but leaves the main window background fully white.

 

Hiya! I'm following a gamedev degree in university. It's been a major challenge doing it from Linux, as everything is Windows stuff (.sln Visual Studio projects, DirectX API, excel graphs...). However I've gotten by by making my own tools and dipping into WINE when it gets too difficult. I'm replacing my laptop due to hardware faults (never buying from ASUS again) and my Framework 16 preorder should arrive in a month or two.

I'm considering trying out NixOS. I currently have Arch on the laptop because it makes it easy to get recent versions of libraries and compilers. However, I've had lots of issues due to inconsistent setup (SDDM theme randomly disappears, KDE apps have black text on dark background, video encoding does not work) and I figured having a declarative config might allow me to set things up better and more consistently. I do have a few worries though, given this is new to me:

  1. Installing proprietary software. For certain courses I unfortunately have to use software like Unreal Engine, Maya, Houdini, Unity, P4V, and a few others. I read NixOS has difficulty with running random binaries. I also could not find an UE5 package in nixpkgs, which Arch does have.
  2. Building binaries. I know nixos does some weird stuff with libraries and binaries. I need to be able to do normal stuff with binaries, and perhaps package and distribute them. It'd be really nice to be able to try out different compilers for my CMake/C++ projects also. Can NixOS do that easily?
  3. VMs. I will be doing dGPU passthrough for testing assignments before handin. I assume this is no problem but it requires some weird stuff so I want to be sure before diving in!

Am I better off just setting up a brittle Arch install again, or is NixOS worth the plunge?

 

Hi! I've installed Stremio on the ISP-provided AndroidTV "decoder" and it allows my family to watch shows while still having access to live TV. However, I am not aware of any option to watch live sports ("Ligue 1" in France) with as good an interface as Stremio, so my father has to watch it on his computer by finding a site that's streaming it and has the least invasive adblock-bypassing ads.

I wanted to know whether something like Stremio exists that I can set a Linux server to boot directly into and control with a remote (so we no longer depend on the ISP-provided box) and would allow watching the free live TV provided by our ISP, as well as something similar to Stremio's interface for pirating shows/movies, and also has sports streaming. I know torrent streaming doesn't help the ecosystem much, but I'm not sure where else to look. I installed Kodi and played around with it, but I couldn't get Elementum to work (and it looks much more complicated for my family to use than Stremio). Thanks in advance!

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