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The idea of a persistent desktop you carried with you was cool, but it was never going to work.
The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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Google Pixels have an experimental setting for a Desktop mode, you just plug it into a USB-C Dock/Hub. It's buggy as hell and doesn't scale well at all on my ultrawide, but it's a desktop-ish experience. Has moving windows, can open multiple of them, it's neat. It's a Developer setting feature with Android 16 if you want to play with it.
Disagree. I think there's a place for it, I don't think a regular consumer would care, but power-users and business types would use it. Would be cheaper on their IT department to just ship out Work Phones that can plug into a monitor rather than spend money on a Pro Laptop or Pro Desktop and IP phones.
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I like the concept of carrying your data everywhere ala flashing linux to a flashdrive and booting off of that like I did in days of old. My main issue with it, is if I'm gonna use my phone for that, there needs to be better means of offloading processing work. I remember a time when they tried to make thunderbolt GPUs a thing with laptops, and while it looked cool in concept, it lacked in execution.
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It almost worked, but everyone decided to come out with stupid docks instead of really cheap thinbooks. I funded the Kickstarter campaign for the mirabook which turned out to be a mistake.
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Modern phones are plenty powerful. For regular users that just browses web, plays videos and use office suite dockable smartphone could easily replace desktop computer.
Hell a lot of people already do those on their smartphones. Often on 4k screens. So modern smartphone could easily output those resolutions onto normal monitors as well.
The only issue is gimped OS.
Hell a lot of people already do those on their smartphones. Often on 4k screens. So modern smartphone could easily output those resolutions onto normal monitors as well.
The only issue is gimped OS.
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Mint, if I just wanted to run a Linux as a daily carry.
Arch, if I wanted to act like an absolute faggot and tell everyone how much more awesome I was.
Gentoo, if I gave up entirely on ever being neurotypical.
HootersMcBoobies
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Affinity, Photoshop and several other alternatives. Gimp 3.x is an improvement over 2.x, but it is still just adding some cutting edge features that were in CS3 years ago. I'm not a graphics person and Gimp works well enough for me, but if I was an artist I'd hate to do serious work on there. I still have an ancient pirated copy of Illustrator that I don't let connect to the Internet for the two old Illustrator projects I still update. Unless you really know what you're doing, I'm not sure if Inkscape gets close. I've tried importing my Illustrator projects and Inkscape does get all the layers correct, but editing is still a pain.
A lot of professionals are married to DiVinci Resolve (the Linux version is missing h.264/265 codecs; can't remember if they're in the commercial version) or Adobe Primer for video editing too.
It's just a couple of high end specialized tools, although a lot of these have run on mac for years. Solid Works and Autodesk are two other examples. I don't do material engineering work, so I'm not sure if FreeCAD compares. I've heard Blender has some... interesting UI choices, but I don't do 3D either and Blender seems to have caught on in the Win/Mac world too.
I also remember KDEnlive crashing and corrupting my project. Resolve never corrupts the entire project and fails to load it. KDEnlive would do that, even if it didn't crash. I once lost hours of work. The project file had XML in it and I couldn't figure out what was making it crash.
That was 5 years ago and I must say, it's gotten a ton better. Last few times I used it I was constantly making rsync snapshots of the entire project, but I never ran into the corruption issues. It's a lot faster too. I went back to it because Resolve's updates over the past year or two have really fucked up the UI around the timeline and I hate it now.
I don't do any serious editing or coloring work, but for my basic shit, I really prefer kdenlive now. It can handle h.264 in Linux and can scrub/render 4k fine.
..but I generally get the sentiment of the original video. I think Linux is great for developers. Linux distos can make for some of the absolute best development platforms. There's no reason software engineers to not be using it at home and work. But if you need other pro tools, I can understand how people are stuck with mac/win.
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I'm on my twelfth day of uptime with the home server. If you told me around this time last year that I'd be praising Canonical, I'd think you were fucking nuts. But no, here we are. This is not the Ubuntu I once loved that no longer exists. No, it's something else entirely: both alien and familiar... and this is the first time in well over a decade that I'm actually praising Canonical.
Jellyfin is fucking fantastic, both on the LAN and when I'm watching on mobile data. Navidrome's giving me my fix of The Fray, Snow Patrol, and early Coldplay without forcing myself to use YouTube Music via mobile Safari. qBittorrent web UI is a godsend on a secondary PC that's meant to stay on all the time. I can actually seed shit persistently. Do you have any idea how satisfying it is to have a high seed ratio? I kept getting rejected from private trackers way back when because I never had a seedbox.
FreshRSS and Wallabag almost recaptures that feeling of using Google Reader. It's nostalgic and pleasant on some measure, but I miss the Opera RSS reader view that Feedbro provides... and the ability to fetch full article contents and play YouTube videos via embedded iFrames. And once again, it feels fucking fantastic to have an RSS reader and read-it-later service easily accessible on mobile and desktop browsers. Wallabag's article view is also really pleasant; much better than Pocket and Instapaper's.
All this shit's happening while Ubuntu Server's staying out of my goddamn way. I'm over here expecting something to go catastrophically wrong, and everything's fine like wine... and I have another 8 and a half years of support to burn through. My hard drives will probably die out before Ubuntu Pro expires... fingers crossed I get proper NAS drives before then.
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as far as the actual question goes. that's a good laptop for gentoo, if I've ever seen one. A good cpu makes compiling even the most bloated programs no big deal. With a decent cpu compiling firefox or chromium is like 30-40 minutes. And the kernel will take a few minutes.
That said. I don't know what the best possible specs on that one will be. I do know if they are sayings it's the most powerful thinkpad yet, it should be decent. Because some of the p series already had 16 threads. And I don't know what the previous "most powerful" one was. So their could be models with better cpu's than the ones I've seen.
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Does anyone use plesk to manage their server? Just a quick sanity check... We have a new server at work and one guy was like we HAVE to use plesk, its sooo good. And now I'm in there configuring stuff and all the while I'm thinking "wait a minute, why am i not doing this in a terminal". Now i wonder is it really just a web frontend for editing configuration files or is there a real benefit to it? Because i cant fathom paying money for that.. it just complicates things and now when i run into issues i cant google "how to do this in nginx" i have to search "how to do this in nginx in plesk" which is obviously way less results..
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I have tried extensively to use both the Pinephone and Librem 5 over the years. I just want to go on record saying that I cannot recommend them, even as a Linux sperg.
Especially the Librem 5 (from Purism). It's absolute dogshit in terms of hardware quality control and does nothing to justify the insane price tag. I won't call it an out and out scam, but it's shady how they marketed it vs the shipped units.
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If you're looking for a robust admin control panel that gives you terminal access out the gate, Cockpit is a godsend. It gives you just enough tools like system vitals, uptime, system logs, metric graphs, user management, virtual machines (provided you have KVM enabled), and a terminal without going overboard into full-on vendor ecosystem lock-in. Cockpit is created and sponsored by Red Hat, but it exists everywhere on Linux.
Pasting the screenshot I had from my previous post as below. Cockpit ships natively on Red Hat distros like Fedora and RHEL+assorted clones, available in the repos for Debian+assorted rebuilds/reskins, and documented by the venerable ArchWiki. I'm using it for my home server, it sounds like you're in a production environment, but Cockpit might be exactly what you need if you're just looking for terminal access with a CLI text editor.
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You can still get GPU docks. Mr Jeff Geerling ran some GPUs off of a Raspberry Pi that way and made a video about it.
FreeCAD is interesting. It used to kinda suck for most things, but like a year ago it had a complete UI refresh and restructuring with its 1.0 release.
Now, it’s arguably way more featureful than AutoCAD or most any CAD programs thanks to it’s open nature and scriptability, one place where the Emacs model gives it an insane advantage. For example, one of its base modes is a simple spreadsheet software, which I was able to use, linked with a bunch of part and assembly files, to completely parametrize a 3d printed joint I was working on. All you had to do was fiddle with the spreadsheet and it would change the size and shape of the joint in any way you liked. I’m not sure if something similar is even possible with AutoCAD, but if it is, I wouldn’t know how to do it. This isn’t to mention the myriad of plugins available to simplify some tasks or make possible new ones, all free of charge, of course.
It’s not all peaches and roses, however. The UI of FreeCAD is not too terrible, most CAD programs have awful UI so it doesn’t stand out at least, and it is highly configurable. The big bug bear, however, is stability. Last time I used it, FreeCAD crashed a whole lot, and often when switching between part files, the dimensions I set based on the spreadsheet would go haywire and I’d have to manually reload the whole project to set them straight. I was able to be extremely productive, in between boughts of extreme pain. This was all a couple minor versions ago, so things may have improved some.
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Very off topic but its actually possible with solidworks i did that years ago, you could even have a macro recorder running, do stuff in the excel files and get what you have done as vba code. Take that stuff put it into your .Net app or whatever and do all that stuff over a COM object, man those were the days
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COM seems like a really cool technology, hampered perhaps by being built on proprietary foundations, but cool nonetheless. A shame Microsoft seems to not be pushing it much anymore.
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Shell In A Box also works if you just needs a terminal you can access through a browser
I've tried webmin before and it is extremely complicated compared to cockpit
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...terminal access
...through a browser
STOP this niggerlicious bullshit IMMEDIATELY and use SECURE MOTHERFUCKING SHELL (that's SSH if you really are a nigger and not just pretending). THIS is what it's THERE FOR, so you're NOT using some horrendous scarcely-used SECURITY RISK in its place. There is NO EXCUSE. Literally ANY CONNECTIVITY PROBLEM that you have can be resolved using SSH in order to connect via SSH securely.
...through a browser
STOP this niggerlicious bullshit IMMEDIATELY and use SECURE MOTHERFUCKING SHELL (that's SSH if you really are a nigger and not just pretending). THIS is what it's THERE FOR, so you're NOT using some horrendous scarcely-used SECURITY RISK in its place. There is NO EXCUSE. Literally ANY CONNECTIVITY PROBLEM that you have can be resolved using SSH in order to connect via SSH securely.
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>get new external touch screen monitor for testing
>gnome just refuses to let it touch for some reason
>kde works
>kde has dogshit maliit osk that doesnt show up in installer
>plasma-keyboard works
>worried about kde being even buggier than gnome
>so far ran into like 3 severe bugs: broken copy paste, password failing, and kde being very laggy for some reason
so had to reinstall twice and still just getting through fedora's initial setup
here i am dreaming of shipping something and i cant even get a demo working lol
>gnome just refuses to let it touch for some reason
>kde works
>kde has dogshit maliit osk that doesnt show up in installer
>plasma-keyboard works
>worried about kde being even buggier than gnome
>so far ran into like 3 severe bugs: broken copy paste, password failing, and kde being very laggy for some reason
so had to reinstall twice and still just getting through fedora's initial setup
here i am dreaming of shipping something and i cant even get a demo working lol
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So how do I set it up so that I can use a username and password to connect from the local network, but can only use a ssh key when connecting remotely?
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A Match Address statement before PasswordAuthentication yes. ...why do you want to do this?