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  • Well yes, we use double quotes as you said, it may be annoying, but not difficult, sanitization is another matter.
    I actually don't remember of any terminal application that has issues with that, that's why I made the original question

    Edit: I understood now why you mentioned sanitization, double quotes shouldn't be an issue because in filenames they are forbidden by the OS usually, that's on the user if they try

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  • Unpopular opinion maybe, but that's just called bad programming.
    For strictly code we can't use spaces obviously, user input, on the other hand, should be handled gracefully always, not doing so is like those platforms that only supported ASCII even after the international userbase was already very prominent because the devs were just too lazy to update their systems to use Unicode (Windows is still like that with Powershell I discovered recently... shudders)

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  • I don't disagree, though I think they're just a very minor annoyance that is easily adjusted with double quotes and tab autocompletion.
    Personally I prefer to use spaces for many user facing files, like documents and images/media

  • Inkscape Outdoes Itself Again | Version 1.3 Has Arrived!
  • Nick is a real one, I'd be lost without his tutorials!
    It's really telling of how much great software needs great people to showcase it for it to become more widespread, just like Blender for instance

  • What are some good European Lemmy instances?

    Edit: thanks everyone for the suggestions! Do keep them coming as it might be helpful for others who come across this, since it seems quite a few users are (understandably) bleeding from lemmy.world these days, like myself

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    I was looking for a solid instance to move to, but I'm getting burned out from trying to find the perfect instance that:

    • is based in a country with reasonable privacy reputation (if it still fits the bill, outside Europe too is fine)
    • allows creating communities without admin approval (I'm willing to try getting into one of those too if needed, hopefully it would be accepting of creating niche communities though)
    • doesn't defederate indiscriminately

    The tool I used is lemmyverse.net but it seems the filtering isn't working great, or I just don't understand it, e.g. I filter by Italian language and the only Italian instance I know (feddit.it) doesn't show up, while a slew of irrelevant ones is listed (Lemmy Português is there??)

    Sorry if I sound so needy, maybe I'm just overthinking it, since posts are public and indexable by anyone. Do say so, if I should chill out and just pick one of the usual ones like lemm.ee etc.

    P.S. I would love to self-host, but I'm currently not able to either, I don't have enough technical expertise.

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    Posting personal projects

    Is it ok to post personal projects regardless of size? What I mean is, if we can post, does it have to be something actually good and useful, or can it be little toy projects as well?

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    What happened to Tumblr joining the Fediverse?

    Do we know any more about the plans of Tumblr for when it will join the Fediverse? Matt did say "ASAP" at the time. Start of July saying they're still working on it, did he simply underestimate how big of an undertaking it would be?

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    How to keep panels visible when going into Overview?

    In this video I see that the top panel somehow stays visible when they enable the overview effect, but I found no setting to do that, is it because I'm not using Latte dock, but using the built-in panel instead?

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    Private DNS doesn't apply to devices connected through hotspot?

    I've set a specific provider under the Private DNS setting and it works for the direct connection between the phone and the network, but it won't work on the devices that are connected to the hotspot of my phone, they instead fall back onto the default DNS of my ISP. Is there a way to force that DNS on all the devices connected?

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    How do I restore the Windows bootloader in a dual-boot environment?

    Sorry if the post is long, trying to give each relevant detail.

    Update 1: I also updated the UEFI just to be sure and the issue persists as expected

    My system has two drives, the first for Linux and the second for Windows. Initially I had OpenSUSE MicroOS on the first and I could boot into Windows through the UEFI, but then I installed Fedora on it and lost the ability to get into Windows since. I thought that it had a boot partition on its own drive, but I guess I was wrong since now that I checked the partitions, there is no FAT32 partition on there.

    !image of partitioning scheme for Windows drive

    (in text form) nvme0n1 931,5G disk ├─nvme0n1p1 16M part ├─nvme0n1p2 930,8G part BitLocker │ └─bitlk-66306 930,8G crypt ntfs └─nvme0n1p3 692M part ntfs

    Unlike on my Linux drive !image of partitioning scheme for Linux drive

    (in text form) nvme1n1 931,5G disk ├─nvme1n1p1 600M part vfat /boot/efi ├─nvme1n1p2 1G part ext4 /boot └─nvme1n1p3 929,9G part crypto_LUKS └─luks-353e522f-c0f3-4167-99fc-90d576a734e8 929,9G crypt btrfs /var/home So I probably destroyed the content of the boot files in its installation process.

    I'm able to access my BitLocker encrypted drive through Fedora, so if I have to reinstall I can still make a backup (it wasn't very important to me either way). I also fired up a Windows recovery drive to see if it detected the system and it does, I haven't yet looked at what the recovery drive can do, so if that's the key to solving this let me know.

    The actual question

    So at this point I wonder: is there a way to restore the Windows boot option? Would I have to do it in some GRUB config or do I have to/can I create a boot partition on the Windows drive too and somehow write the bootloader there?

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    The excitement over the ports of third party apps to Lemmy is overblown

    Don't get me wrong, bringing more visibility to the platform will always be good, but wanting to jump ship from e.g. Jerboa to a port of one of those proprietary apps (Boost, Sync, etc.) kinda defeats the point of using an open platform in the first place.

    I fully believe that each app developer should get their work recognized and make their apps paid if they wanted, I'm sure many will be inclined to buy them from the store still because of the convenience and/or wanting to support the developer.

    But I think alongside the API conversion there should also be a shift in the development paradigm that follows up on the culture of the whole platform, Lemmy is free (as in freedom I mean) software, most of the Fediverse is, of course no one forces you to make your client free too, but the developers should feel encouraged to embrace that way of working and in turn users should be attracted to options that were made so, that will also foster powerful growth of the platform when everyone can examine, learn and contribute since clients play a crucial part in the interaction with the service

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    Fan art contest | New icon and banner

    Announcement

    To get the party started, I'd like to get you involved, how about running a contest for fan art to use as the new icons and/or banner?

    If you're up for it, then post in the community and then post a link to your post as comment down here. The post with the most upvotes will be used.

    Rules

    1. You must be the author
    2. Must not be NSFW ¯\\\_ (ツ) _/¯
    3. Must be licensed as either CC-BY-4.0 or CC-BY-SA-4.0 or any compatible licenses
    4. Can reuse old fan art (if it still respects the previous rules)

    I think I'll let the contest run for 1 or 2 months, since both the community and the service itself is pretty new I want to wait and see it pick up some steam. I'll update if there's any changes.

    Thoughts (and prayers)?

    Do let me know your thoughts down here!

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    Dead by Daylight crashes with no particular info (solved)
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    Dead by daylight Linux crash

    Edit 2: Finally found the solution, a user on GitHub got it https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/519#issuecomment-1569721291 It was due to my Intel ARC GPU apparently that is missing some support

    Edit 1: I installed the Epic version too with Heroic and it starts without a hitch, so I think we can rule out hardware issues, still when it gets to the loading screen within the game it alternatively fails saying that it can't connect to the net or isn't able to instantiate EAC

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    I just got the game after looking on ProtonDB since it is supported apparently, but every time I launch it, it always just crashes like that. The only info I could get was from running from the terminal, at some point it says for 11 times: LogWindows: Warning: SymLoadModuleExW. Error: 6 And then: LogWindows: Error: === Critical error: === LogWindows: Error: LogWindows: Error: Fatal error! LogWindows: Error: LogWindows: Error: Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000000 There's a lot of other stuff too before and after, if that is important tell me and I'll add that in, but I figured it wasn't, I have no knowledge though.

    System info: ``` OS: Fedora Kinoite 38 Package: Steam 1.0.0.75 (Flatpak) Proton versions tested:

    • Experimental
    • 8.0-2 ```

    Hardware info: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G GPU: Intel Arc A750

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