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Frederic

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France Canada

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Frederic,

Hummmm regex, it would be possible to code this in awk I think

Frederic,

True, when my phone is idle on my desk for hours, it’s plugged on a old 5V 1A charger to charge slowly. But if I have to get out for a long time and the phone is at 30%, I plug it on the 33W charger (it charges at 11V 3A) and in 15 minutes it goes to 80% or something, good enough.

Why do people still recommend Thinkpads for Linux when there are Linux-oriented manufacturers now?

I’ve noticed in the Linux community whenever someone asks for a recommendation on a laptop that runs Linux the answer is always “Get a Thinkpad” yet Lenovo doesn’t seem to be a big Linux contributor or ally. There’s also at least six Linux/FOSS-oriented computer manufacturers now:...

Frederic,

For me it’s Dell, when I bought my (used) Latitude E5470 there was even Ubuntu running officially on it IIRC at the time. I like the small Dell because there’s ton of them 3+ years old, parts available everywhere, they are pretty solid and made for corporate world, they are no toy like Asus. A $1500 model can be had for like $200-300 after a couple of years. I installed MX Linux on it, everything works perfectly without touching or configuring anything.

For instance now you can find a nice E7480 for 200-300$, with Core I7, 8GB or 16GB RAM, SSD, 1080p, NFC, fingerprint, USB-PD dock compatible, etc.

Frederic,

In France I’ve always call this a clit or clito since they exist (80s? 90s?)

Frederic,

I think we still have them in Quebec, called “maison de ville”, they are in rows and you have like a 30’x20’ as a backyard.

Frederic,

Old article posted by a bot

Automount USB HDD ownership

I’m on Manjaro Linux with Gnome. When I attach a USB HDD to my laptop, it mounts as /run/media/username/uuid. But for some reason, it is mounted as root and not with the owner set to the currently logged in user. For that reason, I can’t create new directory’s on this HDD, after I attached this to the laptop....

Frederic,

I think this policy trick mxlinux.org/…/mount-internal-partition-without-us… at least on Debian it works

Frederic,

Same for me, and I was using SyncPro for 10 years on Reddit, switching to Sync for Lemmy is completely transparent

In case you're mad at yourself for closing your precious window with all the right tabs opened, note that Firefox allows to reopen recently closed windows (jlai.lu)

I generally have a “home” Firefox window with my most used tabs pinned. Sometimes I close it before another window, so I was frustrated to “lose” it and having to redo my pins. But recently I discovered this feature. Joy!

Frederic,

In my FF I have set the “reopen all tabs that were there when I closed” option, so it never has been a problem

Frederic,

It reopens all tab in a window, I’ll need to test with two windows !

Frederic,

I’m old too, X11R4, motif/mwm, stuff like this. I’ve always love xfwm/xfce because it’s simple and fast. I tried cinnamon on mint and hated it. I’m using MX Linux and Xfce for years, on shitty laptop I’ll even try antiX. I’m using Xfce on few years laptop as well as brand new powerful desktop.

Frederic,

I’d go with MX/Xfce, it’s based on Debian. Once system is installed you’ll not see a big diff between a MX/Xfce and a Manjaro/Xfce, visually, but under the hood they are completely different for instance.

Want to install xrdp to access your PC from windows RDP client? In Manjaro you have to enable AUR, download the source and compile them, it’s missing all kind of base-development that you need to install, then at the end you have to tinker some config file or your screen is black, etc. In MX, it just work fine.

So try something that works fine first, like MX23 AHS version.

Frederic,

everything in the article is could this, could that, could could could. So this looks like good old FUD.

The Linux experice

About a week ago I setup Ubuntu as my primary OS on an old machine. It is my first time trying a unix based OS (previously windows). It has been ok, but it seems like every time I try to install something I run into problems. The app has the wrong permissions or I don’t have the right packages or I need to change port settings...

Frederic, (edited )

I’m using MX Linux, I try to avoid snap and flatpak…nothing like a good old .deb installing right away

EDIT because someone wrote non-sense below, MX is the #1 distro on distrowatch for years and the latest MX23 is based on debian 12 “bookworm” which is a month old. It’s using 6.4.4 kernel from last week as of writing. This is a cutting edge distro.

Frederic,

What are you talking about? MX23 is based on debian 12 “bookworm” which is a month old. It’s using 6.4.4 kernel from last week. Please edit your message.

HMD’s repairable Nokia phone initiative lands stateside (www.theverge.com)

HMD is bringing its repairable phone initiative to the US with the Nokia G310, a $186 smartphone that’ll be available from T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile on August 24th. This is technically the third smartphone HMD has released with a design that makes it easier to replace commonly broken components like its battery and...

Frederic,

At first I was also obsessed with a 3.5mm audio jack, then I bought a phone with only USB-C, and guess what, a simple adapter that was in the box, or available for $1 in dollar store, basically does the job. The USB-C plug has 4 wires for gnd/left/right/mic and I can plug any 3.5mm headset on my phone. The adapter is on my headphone for months and it makes no difference me plugging an audio jack or a usb-c plug.

Frederic,

For the price it’s ok, it would be nice to have a better version with a Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 or something.

Frederic,

Don’t worry, if he installs Arch from scratch, it will take him a long time before even having internet connection or installing X.

Frederic,

It depends, I installed it from base, text mode, I had to edit some config file to add my network interface and systemctl restart network etc, then pacman to install X, Xfce, etc, by hand. I guess the best thing is to install Manjaro for instance, it takes a few minutes and you have full GUI and everything.

Frederic,

Yup, my win10 and win11 have bitlocker on. They dual boot with Linux, FDE on them too.

Frederic,

You installed from scratch or used a distro like Manjaro?

Frederic,

Absolutely. Seeing the rent price doubling since pandemic, in Montréal in 2019 it was almost easy to find a 600$ 2bdr apartment. Now it’s 1200$+. For people making less than 2000$/month, it’s a lot… At one point, some people were saying “well, rent is expensive, let’s buy a condo”, easy when they were 150 to 200k. Now in Montréal it’s 400k+, house are at 650k+.

I saw people looking at a condo not far from me, with interest rate now mortgage was 3500$, monthly taxes 400, monthly fee 600, so we are talking 4500$/month for a standard 2bd condo, wtf?!? And lastly a lot of new condo owner are discovering that their tower is badly build, cracked wall, water leak, etc, and need hundreds of thousands of $$$ to make it secure, money that they don’t have.

When I say to people that having 500k immigrants/year is Canada going full speed in a wall, some says I am anti-immigrant, while I’m an immigrant myself! I have nothing against them nor war refugee of course. But having 500k new people per year that will live in the street is not sustainable?!? What about education system which is shitty? And healthcare which is shitty too!

Frederic,

True, imagine being in Canada and your neighbour has a lifted brotruck with at 12ft Trump flag on it, wtf

Frederic,

I’m sorry my friend 😑 poor Canada

Frederic,

I’m like you, grown up without YT and I rarely watch it, for some video clip, or when I need to check how to disassemble my laptop or washing machine. I never watched a “YouTuber” or never ever went to twitch

I want to switch to Linux but there are a few major hurdles.

So I have a situation. I really want to switch to Linux as my main gaming/production OS but need the Adobe suite as I am a graphic designer. Adobe is the golden standard for this industry (and likely to always be) so while Gimp and Inkscape might work, they are not feasible for my career. I also know that there will be...

Frederic,

For a long time l had 2 PCs, one windows and one Linux, with 2 monitors, I used the software “barrier” to share my keyboard/mouse between them, it worked pretty well.

Frederic,

If you want a Debian without systemd, I can recommend you MX Linux too.

Frederic, (edited )

I’m old too :-/

  • CP/M
  • DOS
  • Windows3, 95, 98
  • BeOS
  • some Debian and Mandrake
  • Windows XP
  • Ubuntu (a long time)
  • Mint/Cinnamon (I hated it, it was quick, maybe a year)
  • MX/Xfce (since ~2016)

I may try Arch on a old laptop just to play with it.----

Frederic,

True, one of my neighbour drank 1 bottle of wine at diner and 1 at supper, he died of cirrhosis of liver at around 60 though.

Frederic,

WTF are those price? 11$ for cheezwiz? 9$ for jam?

Frederic,

No, a electric car is twice the price of an ICE car. It’s not an oil change per year that will break the deal.

Also don’t believe the 3000 miles oil change, it’s a scam. I change my oil every 8000 miles, there’s zero problem with that, especially if you put synthetic, but dino works the same.

Frederic,

I’d say a file that you can open with a simple text editor is convenient, so it can be a simple .conf/.ini, more complex are .xml/.yaml that you can still edit in vim/nano but can be cumbersome.

But as others say, it all depends on your app…

Frederic,

I understand, but sometimes it’s ok to change. I’ve used Ubuntu as a development OS (mainly for work) since ~2010. But on my PC I used Mint/Cinnamon for a few years but didn’t like it and since 2016 I’m using MX/Xfce, I really like it, fast, stable. I got a small 32bits netbook and will try to install AntiX 23 on it as soon as it gets out. On my Dell Latitude I may try Arch just for the fun of it.

Frederic,

I know, but it’s a reference to good old /. 😊

Frederic,

House: 1 million $.

Job: 22k$/years.

So, how can this work? Magic 🪄✨

Frederic,

not small like the internal one, but there’s some plug-in speaker on AliExpress, for instance www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004533202642.html or www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003875303429.html exists in 3.5MM or USB-C.

Or you buy a replacement speaker and solder a 3.5mm audio jack on it, but I don’t know if the headphone jack has enough power to power an external speaker

Frederic,

I agree, I used Ubuntu for years, then switched to Mint/Cinnamon for a few years but finally after 1 or 2 years hated it. I’m on MX since 2016 or something and still love it.

Frederic,

Nobody said MX, because MX is the perfect distro! I’m using it since 2016 after years of Ubuntu and some Mint.

MX is the perfect distro. I’m using it with Xfce. Nobody hates it, it’s a sign 😜

Frederic,

Nobody shits on MX, it’s a sign 😁

Frederic,

me hugs Firefox

Frederic,

😂

Frederic,

MX23 would work great on this

Frederic,

I agree, we are already defederated from big instance like LW. If beehaw isolates itself it would just be a forum with a few thousands more or less inactive people and would die.

Frederic,

No, they were federated, but in the beginning LW had some problems with trolls and were not able to mod everything, so beehaw defederated with LW because of this…

Frederic,

yeah, don’t enter “The Source” to buy electronic components or kits or whatever. IIRC it is owned by Bell and mostly sell phone plans.

Frederic,

My solution is to use MX, based on Debian. All packages came as .deb so a simple sudo apt install firefox is working.

Frederic,

I’m an embedded software developer, I WFH since pandemic and in my basement I set up a small desk with power supply, soldering iron, oscilloscope, etc so I can continue to work with HW that company send me, it’s the best :) I never want to commute 2h again

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