Off Topic Chit Chat - (Silliness factor 5)

[fbodymechanic]

@guybrush

Trust me, Greta’s concerns are very much justified

. Man, I needed that. It’s been quite the day. 100x thanks.

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Since it was cut without context, i’ll link it here so that stuff won’t explode for no reason again.

Linux & Tech news

Just to clear things up on inadequate reactions - if you’ll re-read it - you’re the first one even mentioning it here, there’s no need to fight imaginary wars with something that wasn’t even stated or debated.

HONK-HONK

But since some people clearly misunderstood my reaction for the given news - i’ll expand a bit and close any wrong ideas of what i meant with it. In my view Greta’s FFF doomsday cult is purely political movement that in reality has about…nothing to do with climate cha…

[BluishHumility]

Thanks, sorry to mess up the context of your reply. I was conflicted as to whether that one should be moved along with the rest of the discussion because it included both a reply to the off-topic discussion and the on-topic/news post.

In the end I left it because the reply was collapsed, so I figured it was Mostly News^TM, although in retrospect perhaps what would have been best would be to move the post with the others in the discussion and re-post the news piece separately later.

[heinrikur]

Oh dear, what happened here. ^

[Ankur]

I have recently used windows 11 as I got a new laptop preinstalled with windows 11
And what I would like to say is that it is terrible even without it, being a company with monopoly is another thing but forcing users to use products which are not usable is a different thing …

Can’t say that much but after some hours of use I was feeling like I am in a jail,
"where the heck is dark theme ??? "

[IUSELINUX]

@Ankur

"where the heck is dark theme ??? "

*On the “File Properties” window

[SGS]

@Ankur

"where the heck is dark theme ??? "

Here

Don’t ask, it was so easy that I can’t remember how I did it. Intuitive or internet research?
In any case, this is not supported here
Today I was able to do a BIOS update even though Lenovo Vantage had previously told me that my system was Current.

Edit:

Summary of changes
==================
General Information:
GZCN36WW:
BIOS Notification    :
1.Fixed
   1) None
2.Add
   1) None.
3.Modified
   1) Enhancement to address security vulnerability CVE-2021-26344,CVE-2021-26367,CVE-2021-46746,CVE-2021-46772,CVE-2021-26387,CVE- 2022-23815,CVE-2022-23817,CVE-2023-20518,CVE-2023-20578,CVE-2023-31337.
   2) Enhancement to address security vulnerability CVE-2023-45229,CVE-2023-45230,CVE-2023-45231,CVE-2023-45232,CVE-2023-45233,CVE-2023-45234,CVE-2023-45235,CVE-2023-45236,CVE-2023-45237.
   3) Enhancement to address security vulnerability LEN-142577.
   4) Enhancement to address security vulnerability LEN-155463.

Summary

Next one

[Ankur]

I tell you, I haven’t opened windows for 3 days after opening it after something like 6-7 yrs

I am not able to handle this s**t , this is not something what I wanted

it just came preinstalled

BTW, I have installed linux mint for my younger brother on my old laptop he liked it , even thought he is just in 6th grade

[Yada]

Linux & Tech news

Well I think it is very easy to be approached at individual level, instead of community level because at community level there are a lot of things to be done for this to happen like merging each other’s infra and rewriting a lot of things but still as Nico said both of the distros have a lot difference and even on what their goals are … The best thing would be to let them share their goodies with each other and let them go parallel BTW, it can’t be achieved on mass level but still can be achi…

Hyprland configuration

Caution

Since Hyprland started their rework. Please be aware that it is not currently stable and you can experience bugs/unexpected crashes. Use at your own risk. Even their “stable” version is also broken and buggy therefore we do not plan to provide support in the future. Refer to their wiki instead.

Just realized I have been offline a lot lately to a point garucachy nearly became a thing. My hyprland stable though.

[Ankur]

@glomar_response

I’m currently stuck on VS Code as I work across different machines and the sync is helpful. It’s hard to break away from it.

Hmm… Sync ??
which kind of sync ??
I thought git+gitlab(or github) is enough

[glomar_response]

@Ankur

which kind of sync ??

Settings and Extensions. I use many extensions each day. It’d be a huge pain to have to manually install them on each Linux hop I do (I main Garuda but still hop distros on a secondary partition to try out new ones, check features on bare metal, etc). I think I’m at 80-something extensions between coding Lua, Angular/TS, Ruby/Rails, React, plus learning Rust and C++ plus themes/syntax highlighting.

[glomar_response]

Nothing against CachyOS, but I installed and tried CachyOS, and I installed all their available WM/DE’s (different install each time, time consuming but gives me best results). The only ones I was able to get to work and show was Plasma, Gnome, Openbox and i3. All others just booted into black screen (tested with multiple installs). I much prefer Garuda’s KDE environment (again, personal preference, nothing wrong with their KDE). I broke my Garuda Plasma install (temporarily) by adding in the Cachy repos. Since they tweak a lot of their packages, the Cachy repos wanted to install most, if not all of my packages with their versions (could be due to using their automated tool to add repos, it put them at the top). But it couldn’t install them due to Garuda dependencies with dracut.

[Ankur]

Ohh… I see
I thought you can retrieve the project on which you were working on recently from anywhere (well, that will be obviously a privacy invasion thing )

in my case , I just need to clone my git file in which my neovim config is to .config and rename the repo to nvim and do sudo pacman -S npm ripgrep nvim

then open neovim and everything is there
PS : I swear I am just telling , not doing any kind of brag of neovim

[glomar_response]

Yes I can retrieve my files and projects from GH/GL as you mentioned, it’s just the extensions I need to work on those files or make my dev environment easier that I need synced across devices. Lol

I’m not skilled enough for neovim/vim/etc

[aegir221]

@glomar_response

I broke my Garuda Plasma install (temporarily) by adding in the Cachy repos.

Exactly. Thanks for experimenting

You’d need a specific reason why you want to add another distros repo. Like what’s your goal? Right of the bat with pacman, with Garuda, I noticed that it works because it has been strictly made to work. So that’s why I am going to steer clear of additional repos unless some specific issue.

I thought managing apt packages and sources in Ubuntu was an god awful experience ( Not an apt expert, probably fine for some gurus). New packages were impossible to install because the dependency system could not support it.

People here complain that they need to switch kernels with a click of a button. They have No Clue

[glomar_response]

@aegir221

Like what’s your goal?

Cachy claimed to do things to their packages to improve performance so I was just flat out curious I wasn’t too worried though. It takes maybe 15 minutes to reinstall and setup my Plasma install again if something happened where I couldn’t use the OS anymore. Purely just experimenting haha.

@aegir221

managing apt packages and sources in Ubuntu was an god awful experience

I 100% agree with you; I hated the TUI apt experience in Ubuntu. wget this, download from the internet that, then install via apt; that’s what got me looking at different distros. First found Fedora, some derivatives of Fedora, then Arch, finally found Garuda and knew it was the one!

I am a software QA by trade currently (though have full-stack web dev education), so testing, experimenting, tweaking is in my nature. Finding more ways to be efficient, finding better ways to do things (for me). I will probably always be testing distros, figuring out what makes them tick, what’s different, etc. It’s not because I don’t think Garuda is “good enough”. Garuda is amazing with the tweaks and enhancements they’ve applied. I’m just a curious person who wants to know how everything works.

[Ankur]

@glomar_response

@aegir221

managing apt packages and sources in Ubuntu was an god awful experience

I 100% agree with you; I hated the TUI apt experience in Ubuntu. wget this, download from the internet that, then install via apt;

So, it’s not only me

[aegir221]

Anyone used KDE debugging tools? Guidelines and HOWTOs/Debugging - KDE Community Wiki

Looks pretty “advanced”.

[glomar_response]

I haven’t used them no, but it wouldn’t bother me to use them. As a QA Analyst and a dev I’m in documentation every day lol. But for newbies it might be daunting. Kde can get a little bit technical.

[NaN]

Well in continuation with this,

• I have somehow figured out how to file an ITR. Can’t say I know all the inns and outs yet. Wish they had a wiki on their site.
• got converted to fulltime. Signed the offer letter et all. Start from 9th. The company is HARMAN.
• gotta figure out more tax with HRA, insurance et all… God I hate this part.
• finally the salary. It’s average. Not the best of the best nor the worst. I am receiving a fair wage. Tried my shot at negotiations, got shot down. Well it was worth a try.