The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Miller]

I've been having issues with my freesync monitor for 2 weeks now, with a black bar at the top of the screen that flickers randomly. Some say that it's related to AMD cards, I couldn't find a real solution.
I decided to lower the refresh rate from 200 to 120hz and now the issue is gone. I guess that will do until they decide to fix it.

Well, it looks like the issue got fixed.

 

[TheDataHorder]

an austisic update for those who care. turns out open-vm-tools is provided in t/2, but in a weird way.
the packages are compiled then installed ala gentoo but you have to download their sources first via the command

svn co https://svn.exactcode.de/t2/trunk /usr/src/t2-src

after that you can cd into the folder and issue the command

scripts/Emerge-Pkg $PACKAGE

with $PACKAGE as the packages you want.
the documentation says nothing about this, instead i found this in a random knowledge base article called "#8 Getting started w/ a fresh T2 install".
you can't blame for for missing it, most would look in the documentation for how to do it.
since i didn't know this, i instead tried manually compiling and installing the packages themselves, which lead to my issue.
live and learn i guess.
i also ran into a problem where vmtoolsd wasn't started up by sysvinit automatically.
i ended up manually adding it to the inittab file as a tempory solution but it's hacky and probably isn't meant to be done this way.
i have also yet to get vmware-user to work correctly, fuse3 does seem to start up but vmware-user can't access /proc/vmsomething (can't remember right now) so copy and paste between host and vm doesn't work.
can't be arse to solve it, vmeare-user usually doesn't work any distro that isn't popular so I'm not gonna bother fixing it.
i may or may not do a third autisic update, depends on what else happens.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

an austisic update for those who care. turns out open-vm-tools is provided in t/2, but in a weird way.
the packages are compiled then installed ala gentoo but you have to download their sources first via the command

svn co https://svn.exactcode.de/t2/trunk /usr/src/t2-src

after that you can cd into the folder and issue the command

scripts/Emerge-Pkg $PACKAGE

with $PACKAGE as the packages you want.
the documentation says nothing about this, instead i found this in a random knowledge base article called "#8 Getting started w/ a fresh T2 install".
you can't blame for for missing it, most would look in the documentation for how to do it.
since i didn't know this, i instead tried manually compiling and installing the packages themselves, which lead to my issue.
live and learn i guess.
i also ran into a problem where vmtoolsd wasn't started up by sysvinit automatically.
i ended up manually adding it to the inittab file as a tempory solution but it's hacky and probably isn't meant to be done this way.
i have also yet to get vmware-user to work correctly, fuse3 does seem to start up but vmware-user can't access /proc/vmsomething (can't remember right now) so copy and paste between host and vm doesn't work.
can't be arse to solve it, vmeare-user usually doesn't work any distro that isn't popular so I'm not gonna bother fixing it.
i may or may not do a third autisic update, depends on what else happens.

See I wouldn't have had any issues with the compiling part of gentoo. Really building from source is the interesting thing about gentoo. It was wierd kind of issues like this just getting things to work, and not being sure what the issue is.

Maybe if I was a long term gentoo user it wouldn't be an issue at all. But having things broken for however long until I finally figure out what random issue actually was causing them I just couldn't justify going through it. I'd rather bang my head against the wall learning to patch dwm on arch, and edit the source code when patches fail. Than spend time, on that.

 

[ihatetroons]

@Null what filesystem are you running the kiwifarms on?

 

[Kosher Dill]

@Null what filesystem are you running the kiwifarms on?

FAT, obviously.

 

[Faggotdog Niggertail]

We're running on ReiserFS.

 

[ihatetroons]

FAT, obviously.

Soon to be exFAT when josh stops eating pizza's.

 

[Betonhaus]

Is anyone familiar with Pterodactyl? It's a game server management system that uses docker images for each game server

actually, what would be a good docker web interface for a home server, that's good for people new to docker but still full featured enough for long term use?

 

[Sperg Coalition]

actually, what would be a good docker web interface for a home server, that's good for people new to docker but still full featured enough for long term use?

Maybe you can rely on Portainer but I personally didn't use it. I am more used in managing docker directly via the command line.

I logged out and went back to X11 and surprise copy paste now works.

I know that this is late but the reason is that Wayland does not allow for other windows to "sniif" each other's contents, so, expected features like copy and paste will not work. Just stick to X11 if you want a working environment.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

Maybe you can rely on Portainer but I personally didn't use it. I am more used in managing docker directly via the command line.


I know that this is late but the reason is that Wayland does not allow for other windows to "sniif" each other's contents, so, expected features like copy and paste will not work. Just stick to X11 if you want a working environment.

You need wlclipboard for that to work in wayland as far as I know.

Its fine for me right now with hyprland. The only things I have any issue with the clipboard working for are nvchad (a lazyvim version), and doom emacs. Because I haven't gotten around to properly setting up my clipboard in either. But that would be the same for x11 also.

 

[Rekeita's Kidneys]

LabWC is pretty comfy, keep switching between it and sway. I'm just too used to tiling with sway so I keep coming back.

Hyprland looks pretty but it's far too buggy to be used for... Y'know... Actual computer usage besides ebin reddit karma.

If only I can figure out how to get uniform GTK theming with LabWC and my Wallust Raleigh theme...

 

[Miller]

Also.

You can run you can hide. But cosmic desktop is coming.

Gotta love the soy faced thumbnail...

I'm sure it's a revolution on the technical aspect but visually it is not very appealing. The gay community will no doubt create better themes and extensions once it leaves alpha.

 

[Betonhaus]

is there something that will let me batch edit text files that are inside zip folders without unzipping (if it can unzip and rezip without changing the name or keepign a unzipped copy is fine)?

I have a ebook collection that is in .epub format, which is a bunch of .html files in a renamed .zip archive. I got a bunch of them that from OceanofPDF, but it adds the following watermark to the end of each chapter, which is it's own html page. the books are in series folders that are inside author folders, and may have more or less folder directories.
<div class="calibre2" id="calibre_pb_34"></div><div style="float: none; margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px; text-align: center;"><p><a href="https://oceanofpdf.com"><i>OceanofPDF.com</i></a></p></div>

How can I write a script that recursively checks a folder and it's subdirectories for .epub files, then looks inside them for the html files and removes this line from each file (if it exists) without changing the name or making additional files?

 

[AmpleApricots]

is there something that will let me batch edit text files that are inside zip folders without unzipping (if it can unzip and rezip without changing the name or keepign a unzipped copy is fine)?

I have a ebook collection that is in .epub format, which is a bunch of .html files in a renamed .zip archive. I got a bunch of them that from OceanofPDF, but it adds the following watermark to the end of each chapter, which is it's own html page. the books are in series folders that are inside author folders, and may have more or less folder directories.
<div class="calibre2" id="calibre_pb_34"></div><div style="float: none; margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px; text-align: center;"><p><a href="https://oceanofpdf.com"><i>OceanofPDF.com</i></a></p></div>

How can I write a script that recursively checks a folder and it's subdirectories for .epub files, then looks inside them for the html files and removes this line from each file (if it exists) without changing the name or making additional files?

https://chat.openai.com/

 

[TheDataHorder]

But having things broken for however long until I finally figure out what random issue actually was causing them I just couldn't justify going through it. I'd rather bang my head against the wall

funny you say that, I've been doing just that with various shit to try and run mupen64.
gonna try the RMG frontend tomorrow, see if it works better then mupen64-ui, way too tired tonight.
christ compiling takes a long time, i dread the day i decide to try and do this on an actual sgi sysyem.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

is there something that will let me batch edit text files that are inside zip folders without unzipping (if it can unzip and rezip without changing the name or keepign a unzipped copy is fine)?

I have a ebook collection that is in .epub format, which is a bunch of .html files in a renamed .zip archive. I got a bunch of them that from OceanofPDF, but it adds the following watermark to the end of each chapter, which is it's own html page. the books are in series folders that are inside author folders, and may have more or less folder directories.
<div class="calibre2" id="calibre_pb_34"></div><div style="float: none; margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px; text-align: center;"><p><a href="https://oceanofpdf.com"><i>OceanofPDF.com</i></a></p></div>

How can I write a script that recursively checks a folder and it's subdirectories for .epub files, then looks inside them for the html files and removes this line from each file (if it exists) without changing the name or making additional files?

Outsource the work to india.

 

[Short Circuit]

Daily drove COSMIC Alpha for a few days and I wanted to say I'm already impressed by how much it already offers to the table.
Dumb shit like tiling support is something you need to pray for in GNOME, so it's a very nice treat to see it here.
COSMIC does follow the xdg desktop standards way closer in alpha state than GNOME now, trying to apply sloppy patches, which was a BIG surprise for something coming out from a for profit company which develops COSMIC purely as a desktop enviroment for their own products.
Personally I haven't thought we would see any new DE for linux desktops, which shows how much stuff you can get done in such a short span of time with just a bit of corporate money that wont get diluterd through 4 non-profit foundations.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

Daily drove COSMIC Alpha for a few days and I wanted to say I'm already impressed by how much it already offers to the table.
Dumb shit like tiling support is something you need to pray for in GNOME, so it's a very nice treat to see it here.
COSMIC does follow the xdg desktop standards way closer in alpha state than GNOME now, trying to apply sloppy patches, which was a BIG surprise for something coming out from a for profit company which develops COSMIC purely as a desktop enviroment for their own products.
Personally I haven't thought we would see any new DE for linux desktops, which shows how much stuff you can get done in such a short span of time with just a bit of corporate money that wont get diluterd through 4 non-profit foundations.

This shouldn't be that big of a surprise to be honest.

Just lookat the gnome foundation, and what a joke they are. Not too shocking cosmic is already decent comparitively in its alpha.

Though, I do still want to wait until beta, or maybe even the actual release to try it. Just to get something like the full experience they are going for.

 

[Betonhaus]

COSMIC does follow the xdg desktop standards way closer in alpha state than GNOME now, trying to apply sloppy patches, which was a BIG surprise for something coming out from a for profit company which develops COSMIC purely as a desktop enviroment for their own products.

not really, Gnome has single-handedly delayed Linux adoption by a decade, maybe two.
Gnome is the default DE for Ubuntu and Fedora, along with many other major distributions. But it's so crap that it is constantly spawning forks. So if someone who is sick of Windows and macOS asks to try Linux, you couldn't give them a clear guidance as the most popular distros come with the user hostile Gnome interface, with better options having instability and other issues because they don't get the same level of support. People when given this list of choices and tradeoffs get decision anxiety and never try Linux, or have a bad experience and go back to Windows. Thus, Linux adoption stays below the level of mass adoption. Linux mint is slowly becoming the default answer for new users, but it's still relying on a highly modified version of gnome.

What System76's theory is that if Linux has a good DE that's wildly adopted, more people will try Linux. And if more people try Linux, more people will buy System76's computers. They can't wait for one to eventually form on it's own, and the GNOME developers refuse to upstream their improvements. So they are pouring their resources into making a new DE in the hopes that they can go "fuck all those other DEs, use ours!" and have a unified platform that readily attracts more users to Linux, and therefore more customers for their hardware that has full driver support in Linux.

 

[khaine]

Does anyone have any experience getting a USB-DVB to work with rocky linux 9? It looks like the DVB modules are not included in the rocky-9 kernel by default.

I don't really want to have to recompile the kernel.