Have a look at YUNOhost for your OS. It's based on Debian and is designed to be really easy to set up and use, which might be useful for you as you have young children and not much time.
I haven't even looked at port forwarding. I think maybe some ISPs in some countries might block traffic this way but others will know better. Everything just works with Mullvad on Fedora with Qbittorrent, so I'm happy.
Going organic and plant-based would be such a massive improvement.
People have been saying this for at least 40 years.
I can't speak for others but I go through phases of enjoying the sound of different accents. I'm currently loving Indian.
I've seen this being recommended for audio production but was put off disabling it because I didn't understand what it was. I'd like the performance gain though.
Has anyone else here disabled it?
Me. Only Pixelfed, Mastodon and Lemmy for two or three years. I dont feel like I miss anything and in fact find it much healthier, especially Pixelfed. I never really used Instagram but love my Pixelfed feed of art and photography.
That sounds like a great way of doing it :) I've seen some lovely stretches of canal. Do you ever make it over East Anglia?
That's great you're on the water. I know a few people who have lived on the canals and I have a lot of respect for it. I'm on bit of a mission to sail the seas - wish me luck!
Where did the Linux socks thing come from? I see it around and am curious about the lore.
I think this is a good article and I agree with it.
A big part of how I got turned on to open source was emotional and still is tbh. I felt like I was being taken for a fool by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook and was angry.
The big money and power is in information technology now and it's the new instrument of imperialism, which is why 'enshittification' has happened. The great news though is that information is so easily shareable and reproducible, so the more of it we make free the harder it is for them to keep fucking us over with it.
I don't know when the next big civilizational 'reshuffle' will happen (probably on it's way now), but the more that we make common and free the less leverage the greedheads will have over us when it's time to work out a new settlement.
I think Cherrytree is my most important app. It's primarily for making hierarchical lists but you can hyperlink between nodes and to external files and URLs and you can insert files, images and tables. I pretty much use it for organising my entire life and archiving important files, links and documents. The database is a single file (which you can have encrypted), so it's super portable and you can sync it between devices. You can easily theme it yourself too (the default theme/icons looks quite old school).
I also love GIMP 3.0
It's great isn't it. The panels are getting denser as well which must be great for sailors. What sort of boat do you have?
It's funny to think now what a big deal they made about this in the media when it was announced. I guess it just didn't stick with people because hardly any of us can empathise with them.
Pretty ironic considering they don't play any sports of their own.
I have my Linux laptop open at work next to their windows machine and the difference when I switch between them is ridiculous.
Only joking. We're offgrid anyway, so unless they can figure out a tiny, cheap and quiet one I can buy off the shelf some time soon I will be solar for a while to come!
Panels have become ridiculously cheap per kwh. I was looking for some more recently and they had halved in price in the space of a few years while everything else has almost doubled.
I'd love to see more innovation in mechanical storage.
Would anyone advise me on my use case?
I am launching a paid service and would like to offer the option for customers to pay in crypto. I would likely want to regularly convert the crypto to GBP for day-to-day spending at the supermarket and suchlike, rather than hold it as an investment or trade in it. It will likely be fairly small amounts at a time and therefore low-risk.
What would be the easiest way for me to do this?
What is the easiest way to track how close to stable release Debian 13 is?
I'd like to get an informed idea about a release date, without relying on outdated and vague news articles.
Thanks!
I have copied a DVD of an old family video to my computer but am having trouble playing or converting all of the video content.
If I open the DVD directory in VLC or MPV to play it I can see that the video is 1h46m but it will only play the first 14m53s, which seems to correspond with a 'chapter'. If I open the directory in Handbrake it will detect the full video length of 1h46m and a total of 8 chapters but will only convert the first chapter. Ffmpeg will convert the three main .VOB files to .mkv but the output files only add up to 30m or so of video, which is an improvement over opening the DVD directory in a media player or converting it using Handbrake but still doesn't pick up the full video length.
What, if anything, can I do?
Thanks
Did your parents have sex around you as a child?
And if so, what (if any) effect has it had on you?
Is it weird/confusing/traumatic for children, or does it provide a healthier and more realistic model of sexuality than pornography and school-based sex education?
How viable is crypto as a private medium exchange in the modern world?
I see the value of using cryptocurrencies as a form of digital cash (from both a personal privacy point of view and a broader political/economic point of view) but am also put off by a) all the scamming and speculation and moreover b) the friction and privacy tradeoffs involved in getting any of it.
One of the obvious problems is that not many sellers accept it as payment. I can accept that. But AFAICT, in order to pay those that do, I must either do the legwork of conducting a peer-to-peer exchange of fiat currency for crypto (PITA) or use an exchange, which will have records of my personal identity. I'm aware that I could launder exchange-bought crypto to obfuscate my ownership of it but that is also a PITA. I suppose I could also mine coins but that has the most friction of all options and is a poor use of electricity production in my view.
Is there a solution that I'm not aware of, where I can buy (or indeed sell) crypto easily and privately?
I've just converted a PDF to epub in calibre but because the PDF has two columns of text on each page the ouput epub is essentially 'combing' all the lines ton the PDF's page together, making the epub very hard to read.
How do I make Calibre feed one column at a time from each page into the conversion?
Hope that makes sense and thanks!
I've just upgraded to Fedora Workstation 42 and am now unable to activate any GNOME extensions. The little switches in the GUI do not respond and it's the same for all extensions. The Extensions and Extensions Manager apps are both installed as flatpaks - do I need to adjust their permissions in Flatseal? Is the problem due to something else? Thanks!
Edit/solution: I totally missed the 'Use Extensions' switch at the very top. All my extensions are working on the current GNOME version (48) now. I am the most silly. Hopefully the other solutions in the comments will be useful to someone else in future :)
I've just upgraded to Fedora Workstation 42 and am now unable to activate any GNOME extensions. The little switches in the GUI do not respond. It's the same for all extensions. The Extensions and Extensions Manager apps are both installed as flatpaks - do I need to adjust their permissions in Flatseal? Is the problem due to something else? Thanks!
Edit/solution: I totally missed the ‘Use Extensions’ switch at the very top. All my extensions are working on the current GNOME version (48) now. I am the most silly. Hopefully the other solutions in the comments will be useful to someone else in future :)
I recently started using Fedora with btrfs, which I think was the default on install. So far all I've noticed is that backups and restores are really fast and easy.
Are there any important things to be aware of, like speed, drive lifespan or energy efficiency?
From unauthorised species releases to small groups buying up land, ‘guerrilla rewilding’ is going mainstream. But activists worry that some rogue efforts undermine the work of their movement
As well as talking about guerilla animal releases, this article talks about lots of amazing community rewilding action. I highly recommend it for an uplifting read!
Can anyone recommend me some super mellow relaxing jazz?
I've been listening to Space For Two by Oakwood Station and would like more of the same kind of thing before I do it to death!
Thanks :) ✌️
Is there a good solution for an entirely off-grid server?
Is it possible to use a smartphone hotspot/USB tethering for internet connection?
I have some solar panels & batteries and an old laptop (or I might get a raspberry pi) and am curious about whether I could selfhost literally in the middle of nowhere, without a residential internet connection?
Is it just me or have used camera prices gone up?
I just had a look on ebay at a camera I own and the price has doubled since I bought one used a couple of years ago and in some cases is actually more than what it was sold for when it was new in 2011...
GIMP frequency separation updated for GIMP 3. Just two layers, texture and colour/tone. Simple, easy, effective.
The developer of the Frequency Separation plugin Chuck Henrich has updated it for GIMP 3.0
It's simple and slick and works really well.
It's great to see development activity for 3.0 plugins and of course a big thanks to the developer 🥰
Does anyone know how I can troubleshoot this?
I want my laptop display to not dim when the device is inactive. However, when I go into GNOME's settings and uncheck the option under Power Saving my choice is disregarded; the screen still dims. Is it being overridden somewhere?
Fedora Workstation 41
Those who don't have the time or appetite to tweak/modify/troubleshoot their computers: What is your setup for a reliable and low-maintenance system?
Context:
I switched to Linux a couple of years ago (Debian 11/12). It took me a little while to learn new software and get things set up how I wanted, which I did and was fine.
I've had to replace my laptop though and install a distro (Fedora 41) with a newer kernel to make it work but even so, have had to fix a number of issues. This has also coincided with me having a lot less free time and being less interested in crafting my system and more interested in using it efficiently for tasks and creativity. I believe Debian 13 will have a new enough kernel to support my hardware out of the box and although it will still be a hassle for me to reinstall my OS again, I like the idea of getting it over with, starting again with something thoroughly tested and then not having to really touch anything for a couple of years. I don't need the latest software at all times.
I know there are others here who have similar priorities, whether due to time constraints, age etc.
Do you have any other recommendations?
Just had a look at the GIMP 3.0 milestones page and saw this.
Am I missing anything or is GIMP 3.0 actually going to be released soon?!
Does anyone know if I can download a lemmy post, including all of its replies as a PDF or similar easy-to-read file?
Thanks!
I've just got a new laptop with a high resolution display and am having some trouble with scaling, particularly audio plugin GUIs which cannot be resized in Ardour (audio workstation) and are consequently too small to use. In the past I have launched qt apps via a script with something like 'packagename QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1.5’ (I don't have the exact command to hand).
Can individual gtk apps also be launched in this way? Is this a valid approach to the problem?
I'm using GNOME on Fedora 41 and an Intel Arc iGPU.