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WSL vs. Dual Booting vs. virtualbox in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[-] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Depends on their specific needs, so they should probably jump into some Linux community and ask for themselves.

My anecdotal evidence includes vastly different experiences.

I have a friend who hates Linux desktop and exclusively uses it for running dev related stuff via WSL.

Another who uses Linux desktop primarely, but dualboots Windows for certain games.

And I am on Linux single boot and rarely use KVM (without GPU) for running my CNC or other software.

Small linux-friendly laptop in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[-] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Minisforum V3 is 12” and less than 1kg.

But it is not quite a laptop, expensive and very powerful - not sure if that suits you.

Linux wise, most of the stuff works (sleep, power profiles, volume buttons, fingerprint reader, face recognition, pen, touchscreen). Things that don't work are automatic rotate/accelerometer.

I'm super happy with it, running arch, doing development and using VMs.

KDE Goals - A New Cycle Begins in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[-] Deckweiss@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Let me be more concrete then. What I am used to is the following:

  • Open the relevant Jetbrains IDE
  • Click on new project
  • Find the correct template (e.g. Spring Boot Web Starter) and follow the wizard. (Alternatively the steps before can be replaced with cloning a repo and opening it with my IDE)
  • I can click "Play" to start the app
  • I can click "Debug" to debug the app
  • Bonus: when doing Android or Web development, I can create the GUI by drag&dropping building blocks into a preview (contrary to manually typing out textfiles that describe the layout)

Every step is a button click or a entry field in a dialog. These steps also work on every major distro. And I wish for a similar experience when developing KDE Plasma.

For completeness, I will try to do the same dev things and list the steps for KDE Plasma development later (in about 8h).

KDE Goals - A New Cycle Begins in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[-] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Very nice.

I'm very excited, because in the past I have bounced off KDE development. Coming from a java and web background, the tooling and dev environment was just mindboggling.

I need help getting back into development in c/programming@programming.dev
[-] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You can either decide by what is currently in demand in the industry and then pick a project that you can exercise that language with or you can think of a project you'd like to do and then go by what the best language is for a given project.

In the end, languages are just like different wrenches. First you have to learn how to use a wrench, size or features don't matter much at this point (unless you already know that you want to become an expert with one particular wrench).

I think starting a new project is way easier than contributing to an existing one.

I need help getting back into development in c/programming@programming.dev
[-] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Best advice I have:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FPO4fm4nxc

Keep at it. Do actual projects. Actually use the tools for a while. It will eventually make sense.

Problems with Arch upgrade in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[-] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Install literally every package from the repo, then you can experience breaking OS every day.

This week in Plasma: inhibiting inhibitions and more! in c/linux@lemmy.ml
This week in Plasma: inhibiting inhibitions and more! in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[-] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I have reported and/or commented on existing issues when plasma 6.0.0 rolled out on arch and there has been no work on them as far as I can see.

I even asked in the matrix dev rooms.

They were not even triaged. So some describe the same issue multiple times. Check the ones which had activity in 2024:

https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?component=rules&order=changeddate%20DESC%2Cbug_status%2Cpriority%2Cassigned_to%2Cbug_id&product=kwin&query_format=advanced&resolution=---

This week in Plasma: inhibiting inhibitions and more! in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[-] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

I just hope they fix window rules

Is WattOS open source? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[-] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago

As far as I can see it is just Debian with LXDE, firefox ESR and some other packages preinstalled.

If they respect the license, you as a user can ask for the source code by e-mail.

But from my point of view, you can just install plain old Debian and all the same software and get a long term proven OS that will not randomly disappear and a huge userbase for support questions.

Recommend me a scripting language in c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Phoronix Birthday: 20 years of great Linux content - let us donate for a good birthday celebration! (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Deckweiss@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
4 comments fedilink

Repost from: https://libreddit.nl/r/linux_gaming/comments/1d8qi81/phoronix_birthday_20_years_of_great_linux_content/

He really seemed downbeat in his announcements regarding the birthday. He really puts a lot of work into the site but having a niche audience of tech literate users is probably the worst place to be with ad sales tanking as they do. If anybody is using adblockers, it's us and people are cheap.

I really hope the guy has a nice birthday and gets lots of love and donations. The phoronix content is always great and I've been a long time reader. (I've donated the same amount as OP - see my screenshot)

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Blocking AI crawlers with Caddy (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Deckweiss@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
19 comments fedilink

I was reading the reddit thread on Claude AI crawlers effectively DDOSing Linux Mint forums https://libreddit.lunar.icu/r/linux/comments/1ceco4f/claude_ai_name_and_shame/

and I wanted to block all ai crawlers from my selfhosted stuff.

I don't trust crawlers to respect the Robots.txt but you can get one here: https://darkvisitors.com/

Since I use Caddy as a Server, I generated a directive that blocks them based on their useragent. The content of the regex basically comes from darkvisitors.

Sidenote - there is a module for blocking crawlers as well, but it seemed overkill for me https://github.com/Xumeiquer/nobots

For anybody who is interested, here is the block_ai_crawlers.conf I wrote.

(blockAiCrawlers) {
  @blockAiCrawlers {
    header_regexp User-Agent "(?i)(Bytespider|CCBot|Diffbot|FacebookBot|Google-Extended|GPTBot|omgili|anthropic-ai|Claude-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere-ai)"
  }
  handle @blockAiCrawlers {
    abort
  }
}

# Usage:
# 1. Place this file next to your Caddyfile
# 2. Edit your Caddyfile as in the example below
#
# ```
# import block_ai_crawlers.conf
#
# www.mywebsite.com {
#   import blockAiCrawlers
#   reverse_proxy * localhost:3000
# }
# ```
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How to pirate a font (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Deckweiss@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
42 comments fedilink

I have bought a font with a really shitty license agreement and I have a couple of questions.

  1. How can I best share the font with the community? (I am afraid of metadata in the font files, which may be tied to my payment account etc. - I had to register and log in to download the ttf files)

  2. How can I remove the DSIG and other metadata from the ttf file while keeping it usable?

  3. Are they able to detect it if I use the font in a commercial product online by crawling my website and if yes, how could I prevent an automatic detection attempt?

To my (and possibly your) surprise, I didn't find any free downloads of the font online. Their license is tied to a personal account, you have to log into once a year to keep the license. As far as I understand they theoretically could use the DSIG to let the ttf files "expire", at least when used in software that verifies the signature. But I may be wrong, please let me know.

Thanks in advance and cheers-I mean ARR

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