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Why is pynput typing incorrect output, but only on Linux? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

I tried to replicate this in KDE (wayland).

pynput has no effect on wayland, which I figured. I then enabled ibus wayland to type unicode points with ctrl+shift+u, but everything came out as expected. So I think it is related to the xorg backend of pynput.

YAML, SQL, or something else? Looking for recommendations for making a database of stories. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Yup, I think it'd work fine, especially if you want the ability to easily inspect individual items.

Any of the popular python yaml libraries will be more than sufficient. With a bit of work, you can marshal the input (when reading files back) into python (data)classes, making it easy to work with.

YAML, SQL, or something else? Looking for recommendations for making a database of stories. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (11 children)

I would scrape them into individual json files with more info than you think you need, just for the sake of simplicity. Once you have them all, then you can work out an ideal storage solution, probably some kind of SQL DB. Once that is done, you could turn the json files into a .tar.zst and archive it, or just delete them if you are confident in processed representation.

Source: I completed a similar but much larger story site archive and found this to be the easiest way.

is there something about rust which precludes copyleft licensing? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

MS and other corps love MIT and related licenses because they can just take the code and basically do whatever with it in their projects, so it makes sense for them to promote it. Generally speaking, they won't touch GPL/AGPL as it would force them to distribute their source.

I believe it was a very intentional choice to use a permissive license for Rust. If they hadn't, it would not have been as popular as it is today, nor would it have big money behind it. https://rustfoundation.org/members

Switching to linux for newbies. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is basically the holy grail for finding how to do things or troubleshooting once you have the basics down: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page

A large amount of information is transferrable to other distros, particularly if they use systemd.

I would also spend some time getting comfortable with the command line. There are a million tutorials, guides, and free courses on this topic. Find a shell and terminal emulator you like. I'm using Fish and Kitty these days.

Going against the grain, maybe consider EndeavourOS for a distro? https://endeavouros.com/

Questions about Argon2id and authentication handling overall in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It makes way more sense to implement an auth cooldown over increasing the server load for a single action. I can't speak on the ideal settings for Argon2id, but I like to think the defaults are fine in most cases.

Often videos I took from my phone don't have a thumbnail on my computer. How to track that down? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

In this scenario, the thumbnails are going to be generated when you browse the directory. Probably what network filesystem you're using. Alternately, maybe there is a maximum file size on previews? I know dolphin has that option.

Starting to self host in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

To start small setup a static website behind nginx. This requires you to create a basic website or copy a template, it goes somewhere in your filesystem, in linux /var/www is common. Once you have that, setup the nginx service and point it to that location. You can do this locally then expose it to the net or put on a VPS. Here is a dead simple guide presuming you have a remote server: https://dev.to/starcc/how-to-deploy-a-simple-website-with-nginx-a-comically-easy-guide-202g

Once you have that covered, ensure you know how to setup ssh keys and such, then install, configure, and run services. From there, most things are easy outside of overly complicated configurations.

Systemd help in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think that error is related to a missing dbus session but don't quote me on that.

You will probably find it easier to use a system level service, but run it as your unprivileged user with User= and Group= directives. Once you get that working, there are various other parameters you can add to harden the service if you like.

This is a good reference for hardening: https://docs.arbitrary.ch/security/systemd.html

The arch wiki has a good general reference for all things systemd: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd

Is there a well-supported secondary SMS phone number service? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You can pick up a sim for about $15 and then get pay as you go from 7-11 wireless or whatever other cheap provider. This gives you a "real" secondary number and doesn't cost much if you aren't using any data.

Any nice playbook or tutorial to host a static website from home? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I happened across this tool to help you create configs, it looks pretty good, easier than piecing together all the parameters separately: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tools/nginx

Seems like it has directions for certbot and generating dhparams, etc. as well.

I just want to say THANK YOU to Claude.ai, for making this attempt at fully moving to Linux a rousing success! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I agree with the general idea of what you're saying, but it's a slippery slope.

Most people I know personally would never take the effort to learn anything past the point of "Ask ChatGPT" when they have a problem. What happens when the model is wrong, or simply cannot solve the problem? Or maybe they have no network connection and cannot run something suitable locally?

At that level of coddling, then they might not even have the ability to find and open a man page, or edit a config file without a GUI. And that's a problem. It's not even Linux-specific. I went to school with "smart" computer science students who don't even understand file extensions or what a shortcut conceptually is.

What I'm getting at, is there needs to be some kind of balance, or people will just gradually become more useless.

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Making The Switch: Intermediate User Perspective (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

This will be a bit long, so feel free to skip to the end tl;dr.

I've been a long time user of Linux. Back in the day I would burn live CDs like Slackware and Mandrake to try out. There was even that one distro that fit on a floppy, Damn Small Linux. More recently, I manage several Debian-based servers and a Raspbian system. However, I felt stuck daily-driving Windows due to game support. Thankfully, that is no longer the case, so I decided to make the switch. Just wanted to share some observations I've made in the course of that.

A little while ago, I setup a laptop for a family member with Mint, primarily based on popularity and community recommendation. At the same time, I installed Mint on a laptop and used it for a bit. It's basically a backup laptop, so the intention was to have something stable and easy to use/update. I found Mint nice at first, but some cracks started showing after a bit, and eventually I became frustrated with Cinnamon. Since I am familiar with Arch, and it allows for choice of DE (if any), I decided to stick with it for the foreseeable future.

Current Setups

  • Desktop: Arch, BTRFS, KDE, Wayland
  • Laptop: Arch, FDE, BTRFS, Hyprland
  • Home "server": Arch, Gnome, Wayland (mainly run headless, for AI workloads)

KDE

I hadn't used KDE since the days when Plasma was in beta. It was a complete mess then. Things have matured quite a bit since then, so I decided to give a shot again for the desktop. I think, mainly, I wanted to familiarity of tray icons and such.

KDE has been great! I love the amount of pointless eye-candy I can enable, and the things that can be customized. Over the last few months, I've experienced a couple crashes which seem to be related to kwin. There's also a weird issue where powerdevil (or something related to it) is resetting one or more of my monitor's brightness when it shouldn't be.

Hyprland

Since I don't recall using a tiling WM seriously, I thought it'd be fun to try out Hyprland. It also fits well with the laptop, a Thinkpad X390, having an older intel processor and constrained thermal/power situation. Because I'm lazy, I chose a mostly pre-configured setup from JaKooLit. I like the look of it, and the other ones I considered require Network-Manager, so they were a no go.

Like with KDE, Hyprland has been great! It took less time than I expected to get accustomed to it, and everything mostly just works as expected. The main hiccups seem to come from software which renders in a fixed size, which isn't surprising. I also like there is a tree-sitter plugin for the DSL.

Gnome

I hadn't used Gnome much since the old days. It was a lot different then. It's hanging out on the so-called server, but I've only used it enough to get everything setup the way I like. GDM is disabled on startup.

My experience with Gnome is mixed. I like how "sleek" it is, but not that I need to install extensions for everything. If I were to use it daily, I'm sure I'd get used to it. Even then, GSettings/dconf sucks. I really don't get the design decision to create what is essentially the Windows registry, but on Linux.

BTRFS

Previously, I mainly stuck ext2/3/4, because it was familiar and easy. In this recent switch, I was looking for some more advanced features. After looking into ZFS a bit, I decided it wasn't for me. Too complicated, not in mainline kernel. So, BTRFS it is.

After some initial confusion, I'm really happy with BTRFS. I have automated snapshots with yabsnap, which has already proven helpful when I may have clobbered a system library and everything was messed up. The transparent compression is great as well.

nvim

Having used vim for several years, it seemed fitting to migrate to nvim. I quite like the support for Lua, and the wealth of themes, plugins and so forth. Using Lazy means I can pretty much just copy over a config and be up and running on a new/remote system with no fuss.

Lutris

Lutris is what I'm using to help facilitate running Windows-only games. Ultimately, it's a very nice piece of software, but is lacking in detailed documentation and sometimes requires reviewing logs to see what might be going wrong. Something I really like is the ability to wine/proton runtimes if the default isn't working. The simple GUI layout with box art is refreshing as well.

systemd

Some people really dislike systemd, and I get it. But I like it. I've fully embraced it alongside extras like networkd, timesyncd, and resolved. Need to do something on a schedule? Write a quick service and timer, then check on it once in a while. It's not quite as succinct as cron, but I prefer the consistent declarative syntax. I was very happy to discover wg2nd, which allowed me to convert my wireguard config files into networkd configs.

Backups

I'm using borgmatic, which automates borg, for backups. This is done daily, for all important files and the system partitions. Really couldn't be easier. In contrast, there are not a lot of advanced FOSS backup solutions for Windows, so I would manually run system partition backups there.

Hardware Support

I was pleasantly surprised to find my printer, an older Canon AIO, was supported by Gutenprint. My plan was to buy a new Brother laser printer, but I managed to get the existing one to work both via USB and wireless. This is great, as the Canon still technically works and I can get random "re-manufactured" cartridges on the cheap. I say technically because it's getting more noisy over time, squeaking, and really seeming to struggle. We'll see if it holds up.

All the other stuff, aside from fingerprint reader, work as expected. This is a far cry from 10-20 years ago. Great to see.

Overall Thoughts

Linux Desktop 2025 Edition has been awesome. Basically everything works better than I expected. Crashes less than the competition in my experience. I have the freedom, as a power user, to customize the experience. There are also no ads.

That said, I still have a Windows laptop for school, because they require it. I'm hating it more every day. There is one particular piece of software that only exists for Mac/Windows which means I can't retire that system, yet. This particular school has recently bought even more into MS. I'd drop them if I knew of any alternatives that weren't caught up in the same thing.

Should you switch to daily driving Linux? Yes, especially if you have some prior experience.

tl;dr

Linux has come quite a ways in the past couple decades and now is a great experience outside of some very specialized software/hardware.

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PGSub - A Giant Archive of Subtitles For Everyone (gitlab.com)
 

I've been working on this subtitle archive project for some time. It is a Postgres database along with a CLI and API application allowing you to easily extract the subs you want. It is primarily intended for encoders or people with large libraries, but anyone can use it!

PGSub is composed from three dumps:

  • opensubtitles.org.Actually.Open.Edition.2022.07.25
  • Subscene V2 (prior to shutdown)
  • Gnome's Hut of Subs (as of 2024-04)

As such, it is a good resource for films and series up to around 2022.

Some stats (copied from README):

  • Out of 9,503,730 files originally obtained from dumps, 9,500,355 (99.96%) were inserted into the database.
  • Out of the 9,500,355 inserted, 8,389,369 (88.31%) are matched with a film or series.
  • There are 154,737 unique films or series represented, though note the lines get a bit hazy when considering TV movies, specials, and so forth. 133,780 are films, 20,957 are series.
  • 93 languages are represented, with a special '00' language indicating a .mks file with multiple languages present.
  • 55% of matched items have a FPS value present.

Once imported, the recommended way to access it is via the CLI application. The CLI and API can be compiled on Windows and Linux (and maybe Mac), and there also pre-built binaries available.

The database dump is distributed via torrent (if it doesn't work for you, let me know), which you can find in the repo. It is ~243 GiB compressed, and uses a little under 300 GiB of table space once imported.

For a limited time I will devote some resources to bug-fixing the applications, or perhaps adding some small QoL improvements. But, of course, you can always fork them or make or own if they don't suit you.

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