[-] Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Whatever file format I use them in is also how I back them up, I backup my entire desktop's and laptop's data to an external hard drive and an online service provider. I'm sure a compressed format would be more space efficient but that would take much more time given my use case.

In the case of my laptop it runs Linux and the filesystem I use supports "transparent compression" (almost all contents of the drive are compressed with zstd), so I'm guessing any of the ROMs on there will have already been compressed as nuch as they can (but I'm not knowledgeable enough on the file format specs)

[-] Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works 60 points 2 months ago

The foundation supports a bunch of other open source projects, after all there is a lot more to devices that run the Linux kernel then just the kernel.

Also, I found it a but funny that the foundation created the PDF using Adobe InDesign 19.4 (Windows), according to the metadata in file posted on their website. (original | archive of the PDF)

[-] Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

You and someone else have mentioned the deadman switch, does the other person need an account or can credentials be made for them? I haven't used bitwarden in a while (since I migrated to gopass and then to keepass), so I'm guessing this is a new feature.

That is a very fascinating feature and I think I'll look into it!

[-] Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

What exactly is the deadman setup? I did a quick search and found someone asking for a feature from last pass. Is this what you're referring to?

[-] Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

I've debated on using a bank safe but I'm still unsure about the regulations in my country regarding them. Notably what can law enforcement do without a warrant etc etc.

In terms of self hosting I think that'll likely be the route I go as well, where family can just "shut it down" upon my death. I'm sure my partner might want to keep a few things (e.g. my kodi setup) but the things they would want to keep aren't too difficult I feel.

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I have thought about this on and off for quite a few years now, and I was just wondering what people here have done while maintaining account / device security.

I hope people don't mind this rather morbid conversation, but how have people here planned for what will happen with their accounts, computers, self hosted things etc. in the event of their deaths? I am particularly interested in what people have planned for if they are the person in their household who is self hosting things for the household. I'm not in a living situation that allows me to self host much but it is one of the questions I've had for myself when I decide to move in with my significant other and self host more things. I don't think they could manage much of the self hosted stuff and I also don't think they can remember all of the credentials for accounts etc., is the best way of going about it sharing a keepass database or bitwarden account with them?

In regards to my accounts, I am not expecting most of my accounts to transfer, if anything I'd much rather them be deleted (and I have enabled this feature where possible). There are a few however, that I wouldn't mind leaving to someone after my passing. Is there a privacy and security preserving way of setting this up?

I guess I have just been struggling with how to do this, ideally I would want a way for accounts to transfer to someone listed in my will, but I don't think it's a good idea to give ~2-3 people a copy of my keepass databse while I am still living.

I am looking forward to hearing what people's thoughts are on this matter, and I apologize again for such a morbid topic.

[-] Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

I mostly play rogue likes with controller and would like a XBox/Playstation style controller

I'm assuming you dont need gyro or touchpad that you'll get with PlayStation / Nintendo compatible controllers, however if you do want those features the Switch Pro controller & the DualSense (PS5) play nicely on my Linux computer (with steam)

Out of the two I'd probably recommend the dual sense since you're used to Xbox / Western PS layout rather then Nintendo / Japanese PS layout.

I've heard good things about the 8bitdo controllers, but can't comment on their compatibility or quality. The contemporary xbox wireless controllers I don't personally like, the current ones have this extra grippy texture on the back and thumbsticks that doesn't sit well with me and the lack of rechargeability ootb is disappointing for the price.

[-] Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Assuming the NAT type is one that supports peer to peer connectivity, you could try using Ethernet instead of wireless (of course this only helps when docked). This would alleviate issues with WiFi signal not being strong enough, potentially increase bandwidth, and reduce latency. Ethernet can't improve the connection beyond the incoming connection from the ISP, it only will improve issues that stem from wireless connectivity.

I live in the countryside with my family, so maybe that’s why my Internet is so wonky?

it could very well be this, when I visit my parents in the countryside the internet is sometimes not good enough, and other times it is adequate (satellite internet, so weather can impact it).

[-] Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I have a few shortlisted

My parent's 2010 Ram 1500, the interior is rather comfy but the reliability is just not there. At 100k km the engine blew up, apparently this is still an issue with the current ones as the 5.7L V8 still has the same flaw allowing for some components to drop into the cylinder. There's also been random electrical components that have died relatively fast, and whatever metal was used rusted exponentially even with rust proofing being applied twice a year. It had more rust than their 2011 Toyota Highlander that had greater than 300k km

I also just hated when I had to drive it downtown, but I can't exactly blame the vehicle for that.

2011 Toyota highlander, it went through 3 transmissions, 5 rear wiper motors, and it was about to go on to its 4th transmission when they sold it. The 3rd one didn't even last much more than a year.

2006 Rav 4 (V6), this car also went through 2 transmissions, and then had to have the entire steering column replaced by year 2

~2016 Ford Fusion, this was a rental car for when my Civic was being repaired after an accident and my god was it awful. It handled like a massive boat despite being a medium sized car and the transmission felt significantly less responsive than even the CVT in the honda. The seats also sucked but i think that was how the rental company cleaned them, they made this awful noise every time you sat in them and looked and felt like a "casting couch" with several generations of children dried up in them...

Honorary Mention: my friends Nissan Versa, seemingly unreliable and falling apart but it refuses to ever give up. That thing will survive nuclear winter, and will remind you with every pothole that its existence is torture.

[-] Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The plugin that brings the "starter" / "welcome" screen when nvim is called without a file is mini.starter, a lua module of the mini plugin. My primary use case for neovim is closer to a feature complete text editor rather than a full fledged IDE, although there definitely is some overlap in my setup.

My set of plugins are roughly as follows

  • vim-plug, I will likely replace this one with packer at some point
  • goyo.vim and limelight.vim for distraction free viewing and editing
  • nnn.nvim to integrate the nnn file manager into neovim
  • mini.nvim according to the Github, "Library of 35+ independent Lua modules improving overall Neovim (version 0.7 and higher) experience with minimal effort. They all share same configuration approaches and general design principles."
    • mini.surround feature rich surround actions
    • mini.statusline a very simple no-frills statusline
    • mini.starter aformentioned start screen
    • mini.pairs inserts the paired character, e.g typing ( will automatically place ) behind the cursors
    • mini.move move selections
    • mini.map has a little map of the file similar to VScode among many other IDEs & text editors
  • barbar.nvim Tabbar plugin
  • a whole bunch of LSP / autocomplete engines / snippets / git commit messages & signs
  • nvim-treesitter for syntax highlighting

And the remaining things in my init.lua file are just keybindings, setting up the plugins, and disabling the swapfile etc. when editing my password secrets in gopass among other 'secret' files

[-] Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It definitely is rather reminiscent of older Windows versions with the seperate application launchers, fully expanded task bar entries that show the name of an app that are ungrouped (until necessary). And the widgets are very reminiscent of Rainmeter.

But I also bring some things from macOS that I enjoyed such as the global menu on the top (sadly Firefox flatpak does not support), virtual desktops with the pager widget on the bottom, and I use Krunner a lot (plasma's equivalent to macOS "Spotlight")

I hope your switch to Linux goes well if / when you switch!

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works to c/unixporn@lemmy.ml

The wallpaper is just a cropped image from the scans of the games manual found here, note these are spoilers!, Tunic is an absolutely lovely game I have been playing on my Switch and I highly recommend it to people who really enjoy the difficulty of older Nintendo games but want a more polished experience. The way the game integrates the "manual" is really intriguing

For a while I was experimenting with different plasma themes but I landed back on the good old reliable gruvbox dark theme.

Edit: my apologies for not perfectly aligning two of the images in Gimp, I forgot to press the button that aligns them horizontally and not just vertically :p

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works to c/privacyguides@lemmy.one

Here is the github page. The option for different « optics » is neat, and the inclusion of DDG bangs style syntax is also appreciated.

[-] Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

I wish the address book and calendar information were also encrypted

However, Open-Exchange, the software platform used by Mailbox.org, does not support the encryption of your address book and calendar. A standalone option may be more appropriate for that information. (source)

I currently use protonmail but if mailbox.org made that change I'd switch immediately, so I could actually get calendar integration on KDE (with Kontact)

[-] Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago

I understand why they wouldn’t want to suddenly change the branding of existing projects though.

I'm not sure if I agree, I feel like the long term damage of keeping the names is greater than changing them now to Fedora Plasma Atomic (Formerly Kinoite) / Fedora Atomic Workstation (Formerly Silverblue). Leaving them as is, is just going to create more confusion in the future to new users who won't immediately understand why the naming convention is different for the other spins and will create more confusion for documentation / support threads online.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I was wondering if anyone else has encountered the same issue as I have. I know how I would approach this if Akregator was installed on the system rather than as a flatpak, I would just change the command run by the app when opening in an external browser to flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox about:reader?url=%u which just appends the about:reader portion to automatically open it as such. This command does work from my terminal but naturally does not work with Akregator.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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As the title states, I am just curious what peoples opinions are on secureblue, as well as the many other images that exist (notably Bazzite for the SteamDeck)

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Update: The guide on github has been updated and has addopted a different method. Notably, it: A) still accomplishing my goal of avoiding running the process inside as root. B) uses the linuxserver.io image rather than the syncthing/syncthing one (my method does not allow for the linuxserver.io image to run), the linuxserver one is based on alpine, I truly forget what the other one is based on.

An archived version of the guide I followed to create my setup has been placed bellow, the updated (and all subsequent version) can be found here

I saw this guide discussing how to run Syncthing in a podman container on immutable OSes and decided to try and create a better solution that avoids running the process inside as root. I am new to podman and it's been a few years since I used docker so I am a novice in this side of system administration and I guess I am writing this as a "sanity check" for what I have done.

Below is the podman run arguments I used in place of the ones found in the article, I also manage it with systemd as shown in the article.


podman run -d \
  --name=syncthing \
  --hostname=syncpod \
  --label io.containers.autoupdate=registry \
  --userns keep-id \
  -p 127.0.0.1:8384:8384 \
  -p 22000:22000/tcp \
  -p 22000:22000/udp \
  -p 21027:21027/udp \
  -v ~/.config/syncthing:/var/syncthing/config:Z \
  -v ~/SyncedDirs/:/SyncedDirs:Z \
  -v ~/SyncedDirs2/:/var/syncthing/SyncedDirs2:Z \
  docker.io/syncthing/syncthing:latest

Note: I feel the original guide does not explain what the :Z flag does very well, it should at least emphasize unknowing users that it is telling podman to change the SELinux label of a dir to match that of the container.

The notable changes in my arguments is the --userns keep-id option and switching from the linuxserver.io version to the syncthing image. The keep-id option from my understanding tells Podman to create a user namespace where the user and container map to the same UID:GID values. Allowing all files the container touches to still be used by me, the user. I had to switch from the linuxserver.io version to the syncthing official one because the former did not allow the --userns keep-id option to work (perhaps because it is based on Alpine Linux? I have to investigate more. It failed on running an add-user command if I recall)

Below is an excerpt from a RedHat article describing the --userns keep-id option, square brackets are mine:

User namespace modes

I can change this default mapping using the –userns option, which is described in the podman run man page. This list shows the different modes you can pass to the –userns option.

  • Key: "" (Unset) [Effectively what the original guide did]

      Host user: $UID
      Container user: 0 (Default User account mapped to root user in container.) (Default)
    
  • Key: keep-id [What I am doing]

      Host user: $UID
      Container user: $UID (Map user account to the same UID within the container.)
    

(Source)

So far this method seems to work quite well, and has replaced the syncthing package I had layered for a while. Is this the best way to run it on an OS like Silverblue / Kinoite, or is there a more sensible route to go? Any feedback is appreciated!

Edit: Clarity and grammar, and some more detail in a few spots.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works to c/privacyguides@lemmy.one

I am curious as to what are the best practices regarding blurring and / or pixelating a portion of a photo. I understand the reasons why the website suggests to put a black box over text one wishes to redact, but for other content that is not text what is the best choice. Should a combination of the two be used or just one? E.g. for blurring a face or something else within an image.

Thanks!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works to c/privacyguides@lemmy.one

I am just wondering what matrix instances are recommended. I would rather not use the main matrix.org instance, but I still want something with good up-time, updated software and that is privacy respecting.

Thanks!

~~Update: I am trying arcticfoxes, thank you for all of your suggestions! Feel free to leave more as it may help others who come across this post in the future.~~

Update 2: I had an issue with cross signing, but it works on envs.net so I am assuming it's an issue with the arcticfoxes instance. I am now using envs.net. As I said before, feel free to leave more suggestions for others who come across this post.

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Android Auto alternatives (sh.itjust.works)

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/117681

I am just curious what the state of android auto alternatives are at this point.

As much as I would like to use GrapheneOS I would find it quite hard to part with Android Auto / Apple CarPlay. I am not expecting Android Auto to be one of the apps to be available in sandboxed gapps, but I would like to see a viable alternative that is better than using OsmAnd with my phone mounted to the dashboard.

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Android Auto alternatives (sh.itjust.works)

I am just curious what the state of android auto alternatives are at this point.

As much as I would like to use GrapheneOS I would find it quite hard to part with Android Auto / Apple CarPlay. I am not expecting Android Auto to be one of the apps to be available in sandboxed gapps, but I would like to see a viable alternative that is better than using OsmAnd with my phone mounted to the dashboard.

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/71937

I was just wondering how people go about changing the sensitivity of the track-point. In settings there is only an option for touchpad and mouse settings, and the sensitivity of the trackpoint is modified by the mouse settings which is less than ideal. This is exasperated when I ideally want mouse acceleration on, but 'trackpoint' [mouse] acceleration off.

Any ideas on how to do this better?

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