GnuLinuxDude

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Israelis want the war to stop, but only until the hostages are released in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well that would simply be a continuation of their actual objective of annexing the entirety of the Gaza strip, so... yeah.

How one man created 6 million Wikipedia articles, and why he stopped in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 88 points 3 days ago

Alternate headline: How one man spammed Wikipedia

What’s your ultimate unpopular opinion? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

I think 10 years ago this would've been unpopular, but today maybe not so much:

systemd is great software. I don't use distros that refuse to ship it. Especially the init system. Thanks, Lennart!

European Union to aid Israeli mercenaries with $1.8 billion over three years in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Did they rewrite the headline after you posted? It reads now:

European Union to boost PA funding with $1.8 billion over three years

On the history of Valve and Linux: Valve and Linux have a symbiotic relationship today, but they go way back, and their story is a long and interesting one. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Between Steam promoting Linux and GOG promoting DRM-free software, I will never purchase from another storefront that doesn't even pretend to do something good for the broader community (Origin, Uplay, Microsoft Battle.Net, iOS App Store, etc).

I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I also suspect ArsTechnica of running sponsored AI stories these days.

Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

For people who aren't American, I can understand it. They rightfully should be mad at us for allowing this to happen.

For people who are American, they need to start thinking fast about how it is even possible that the Democrats failed in their one job which was to ensure Trump would not win in 2024. It's long past time to stop thinking about individual voters and start thinking about feckless party leadership. Examining this fully would be like a whole textbook's worth of words, but I think the one microcosm example that's really worth interrogating is why Nancy Pelosi pressed the lever in favor of Rep. Cuellar in Texas (the most Republican-voting Democrat in the House in one of the most solidly blue districts) over two-time challenger Jessica Cisneros, who came within a stone's toss of beating him in a primary.

Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's my point. Joe Biden was "the only one" who saw it, because it didn't happen.

Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 days ago

They don't even have a Steve Mnuchin type character this time who at least has a clue about how things work. This time Trump surrounded himself with all of the dumbest and most loyal kool-aid drinkers.

Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". in c/technology@lemmy.world
Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". in c/technology@lemmy.world
Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". in c/technology@lemmy.world
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Is it possible to disable animations in the DE but have them enabled in Firefox? (lemmy.ml)
 

I disable animations either through Gnome's accessibility setting or KDE's slider to instant. I find that Gnome's animations are just too slow by default and KDE's tend to be janky. So while I want my window manager to have instant animations, I don't need my applications to do so.

Is it possible to disable the animations from the DE's settings but to keep them like normal in Firefox? Example: when I press ctrl+t it's OK if the new tab has an animation when it's created in the browser's UI.

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Is there a high quality offline map/globe/atlas software like how Encarta used to be? (lemmy.ml)
 

I would love a program where I can browse the world and see countries, cities, oceans, all fully labeled (preferably in English which I speak, but a dual English+local native script would also be good). It would be all the nicer if there were stats and facts and some representative photos and stuff to learn a little about different places, without needing to dive into a full Wikipedia article.

Basically, what I'm hoping for is like a modern MS Encarta Atlas, but offline and good.

As for web options, Google Maps, unfortunately, works really well. But I despise Google. OpenStreetMaps doesn't have all that extra data, it is just a map. What are the options available, if any?

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Migrated from Nginx to Caddy (lemmy.ml)
 

When I first set up my web server I don't think Caddy was really a sensible choice. It was still immature (The big "version 2" rewrite was in beta). But it's about five years from when that happened, so I decided to give Caddy a try.

Wow! My config shrank to about 25% from what it was with Nginx. It's also a lot less stuff to deal with, especially from a personal hosting perspective. As much as I like self-hosting, I'm not like "into" configuring web servers. Caddy made this very easy.

I thought the automatic HTTPS feature was overrated until I used it. The fact is it works effortlessly. I do not need to add paths to certificate files in my config anymore. That's great. But what's even better is I do not need to bother with my server notes to once again figure out how to correctly use Certbot when I want to create new certs for subdomains, since Caddy will do it automatically.

I've been annoyed with my Nginx config for a while, and kept wishing to find the motivation to streamline it. It started simple, but as I added things to it over the years the complexity in the config file blossomed. But the thing that tipped me over to trying Caddy was seeing the difference between the Nginx and Caddy configurations necessary for Jellyfin. Seriously. Look at what's necessary for Nginx.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/nginx/#https-config-example

In Caddy that became

jellyfin.example.com {
  reverse_proxy internal.jellyfin.host:8096
}

I thought no way this would work. But it did. First try. So, consider this a field report from a happy Caddy convert, and if you're not using it yet for self-hosting maybe it can simplify things for you, too. It made me happy enough to write about it.

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