New GNOME dialog on the right:

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Apple's dialog:

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They say GNOME isn't a copy of macOS but with time it has been getting really close. I don't think this is a bad thing however they should just admit it and then put some real effort into cloning macOS instead of the crap they're making right now.

Here's the thing: Apple's design you'll find that they carefully included an extra margin between the "Don't Save" and "Cancel" buttons. This avoid accidental clicks on the wrong button so that people don't lose their work when they just want to click "Cancel".

So much for the GNOME, vision and their expert usability team :P

Hi,

Is there anyone using Amcrest IP4M-1041B with Home Assistant? I've a few questions about software and integration.

1. From what I hear, this camera can be setup 100% offline, connected via cable to any computer and by using a built in WebUI the camera has, is this true?

2. It offers pan, tilt or zoom. Does it work really good with HA? Can it be operated without any Amcrest software / internet connection?

3. The features above allow you to set preset locations, can that be done on HA / WebUI / without the Amcrest app as well?

4. Does it really operate all features offline and is it reliable? Eg. motion detection works as expected / doesn't miss events?

5. What's your overall experience with the camera? Does it compare to let's say a TP-Link tapo?

Thank you.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14398634

> Unfortunately I was proven to be right about Riley Testut. He's yet another greedy person barely batter than Apple. After bitching to Apple to remove GBA4iOS from the App Store he's now leveraging Delta to force people into his AltStore. > > > Delta has finally made its way to the App Store. Additionally, the Delta developer has also published their alternative marketplace, AltStore, in the EU today. > > If you're in the EU you'll only be able to get Delta on the AltStore and that requires: > > ! > > This is complete bullshit he could've just launched Delta on the App Store in Europe as well but he decided not to. > > Thanks Riley Testut for being a dick to the people that actually forced Apple into allowing alternative app stores in the first place. > > --------------- > > Github issue related to this dick move: https://github.com/rileytestut/Delta/issues/292

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14398634

> Unfortunately I was proven to be right about Riley Testut. He's yet another greedy person barely batter than Apple. After bitching to Apple to remove GBA4iOS from the App Store he's now leveraging Delta to force people into his AltStore. > > > Delta has finally made its way to the App Store. Additionally, the Delta developer has also published their alternative marketplace, AltStore, in the EU today. > > If you're in the EU you'll only be able to get Delta on the AltStore and that requires: > > ! > > This is complete bullshit he could've just launched Delta on the App Store in Europe as well but he decided not to. > > Thanks Riley Testut for being a dick to the people that actually forced Apple into allowing alternative app stores in the first place. > > --------------- > > Github issue related to this dick move: https://github.com/rileytestut/Delta/issues/292

Unfortunately I was proven to be right about Riley Testut. He's yet another greedy person barely batter than Apple. After removed to Apple to remove GBA4iOS from the App Store he's now leveraging Delta to force people into his AltStore.

> Delta has finally made its way to the App Store. Additionally, the Delta developer has also published their alternative marketplace, AltStore, in the EU today.

If you're in the EU you'll only be able to get Delta on the AltStore and that requires:

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This is complete bullshit he could've just launched Delta on the App Store in Europe as well but he decided not to.

Thanks Riley Testut for being a dick to the people that actually forced Apple into allowing alternative app stores in the first place.

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Github issue related to this dick move: https://github.com/rileytestut/Delta/issues/292

Here's my take:

The domain aftermarket has a big problem... it exists. This market shouldn't ever be allowed to exist in the first place. ICANN should've blocked this bullshit a long time ago and forced registrars to just let domains expire and free the space. Also add a few provisions about unused domain names and about selling them.

Hello,

So I have a Motorola SM56 USB Data Fax Modem (aka Apple USB Modem for some people) and according to information online this modem supports V.92, Caller ID, wake-on-ring and most importantly telephone answering (V.253).

At a place I happen to have an old telephone analog line that gets calls and unfortunately I can't get rid of. Any ideias / links / software on how can I use the modem + a low end box / ARM SBC to "digitize" the phone line into a generic SIP / VOIP that I can then connect to using MicroSIP on another computer?

Thank you.

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Update on this:

I just tried the modem under Windows with a few programs such as Phone Dialer Pro and the built in dialer.exe and while the modem can detect incoming phone calls and place calls I can't pass the audio back to the operating system / phone software.

I did some research about the SM65 and it seems like it was designed to have an headset directly attached to it like on those PCI cards that also use it:

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The built in COM port of the modems seems to be only usable to control the modem via AT commands and can't be used to pass audio form and to the system.

Hello,

My IoT/Home Automation needs are centered around custom built ESPHome devices and I currently have them all connected to a HA instance and things work fine.

Now, I like HA's interface and all the sugar candy, however I don't like the massive amounts of resources it requires and the fact that the storage usage keeps growing and it is essentially a huge, albeit successful, docker clusterfuck.

Is there any alternative dashboard that just does this:

1. Specifically made for ESPHome devices - no other devices required;
2. Single daemon or something PHP/Python/Node that you can setup manually with a few systemd units;
3. Connects to the ESPHome devices, logs the data and shows a dashboard with it;
4. Runs offline, doesn't go into 24234 GitHub repositories all the time and whatnot.

Obviously that I'm expecting more manual configuration, I'm okay with having to edit a config file somewhere to add a device, change the dashboard layout etc. I also don't need the ESPHome part that builds and deploys configurations to devices as I can do that locally on my computer.

Thank you.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11162262

> Hey, > > For all of you that are running proper setups and use nftables to protect your servers be aware that pvxe/nftables-geoip now has the ability to generate IP lists by country. > > This can be used to, for instance, drop all traffic from specific countries or the opposite, drop everything except for your own country. > > https://github.com/pvxe/nftables-geoip/commit/c137151ebc05f4562c56e6802761e0a93ed107a2 > > Here's how you can block / track traffic from certain countries: > > - https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/GeoIP_matching > - https://www.mybluelinux.com/nftables-and-geoip > > Previously you had to load the entire geoip DB containing multiple GB and would end up using a LOT of RAM. Those guides aren't yet updated to use the country specific files but it's just about changing the include line to whatever you've generated with pvxe/nftables-geoip.

Hey,

For all of you that are running proper setups and use nftables to protect your servers be aware that pvxe/nftables-geoip now has the ability to generate IP lists by country.

This can be used to, for instance, drop all traffic from specific countries or the opposite, drop everything except for your own country.

https://github.com/pvxe/nftables-geoip/commit/c137151ebc05f4562c56e6802761e0a93ed107a2

Here's how you can block / track traffic from certain countries:

• https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/GeoIP_matching
• https://www.mybluelinux.com/nftables-and-geoip

Previously you had to load the entire geoip DB containing multiple GB and would end up using a LOT of RAM. Those guides aren't yet updated to use the country specific files but it's just about changing the include line to whatever you've generated with pvxe/nftables-geoip.

Hey,

I found this game I used to play a very long time ago and I wanted to experience it again. Unfortunately I wasn't able to run it in Windows 10 / Windows XP SP3 VM because it would lag on modern hardware.

Here is what you need to do in order to get the game running:

1. Search for "Midtown Madness 2 (Europe) (Rerelease)" on TPB and download it
2. Load the disk with WinCDEmu or other solution
3. Install the game (don't launch it)
4. Enable DirectPlay on Windows
5. Copy Crack\midtown2.exe to the gamefolder
6. Download dgVoodoo2 from http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2/
7. Copy dgVoodoo2.exe to the game folder
8. Copy all files inside MS\x86 to the game folder as well
9. Run dgVoodoo2.exe as admin and set the following:

• Click the button .\ to create config file to MM directory
• In "General" > "Output API" select "Direct3D 11 MS WARP (software)"
• Go to "DirectX" tab and change the VRAM to 128MB
• Click "Apply" > "OK" to exit.

10. Launch the game > Options > Graphics > select from Display drop down menu, "dgVoodoo DirectX Wrapper" > "Hardware (3D video card with T&L) from the Renderer drop menu.
11. Click "Done" and that's it!

Note that whenever you change the resolution it won't apply any changes to the game menu - you'll only see it once you start a race.

Midtown Madness 2 should now run very smoothly under Windows 10, even on Virtual Machines. Enjoy.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8834324

> I'm looking for an application (windows or maybe web) that can be used to combine images vertically and horizontally. I usually go with PhotoScape (screenshot) to for this but that's not free nor updated anymore. Important features for me are to be able to combine horizontally or vertically, set the number or rows or columns and have the ability to resize the final image. > > Thank you.

I'm looking for an application (windows or maybe web) that can be used to combine images vertically and horizontally. I usually go with PhotoScape (screenshot) to for this but that's not free nor updated anymore. Important features for me are to be able to combine horizontally or vertically, set the number or rows or columns and have the ability to resize the final image.

Thank you.

The Banana Pi BPI-M7 single board computer is equipped with up to 32GB RAM and 128GB eMMC flash, and features an M.2 2280 socket for one NVMe SSD, three display interfaces (HDMI, USB-C, MIPI DSI), two camera connectors, dual 2.5GbE, WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2, a few USB ports, and a 40-pin GPIO header for expansion.

Yet another win for Systemd.

I've notice that posts in this community tend to get deleted, even ones with multiple comments and/or useful information. Even worse is when they get posted again by some other user a few days later.

What's going on? What's the policy around here?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7123708

> In this article, you will discover the ISO images that Debian offers and learn where and how to download them. I’ll also provide some useful tips on how to use Jigdo to archive the complete Debian repository into ISO images.

In this article, you will discover the ISO images that Debian offers and learn where and how to download them. I’ll also provide some useful tips on how to use Jigdo to archive the complete Debian repository into ISO images.

tr:dr; he says "x86 took over the server market" because it was the same architecture developers in companies had on their machines thus it made it very easy to develop applications on their machines to then ship to the servers.

Now this, among others he made, are very good points on how and why it is hard for ARM to get mainstream on the datacenter, however I also feel like he kind lost touch with reality on this one...

He's comparing two very different situations, more specifically eras. Developers aren't so tied anymore like they used to be to the underlaying hardware. The software development market evolved from C to very high language languages such as Javascript/Typescript and the majority of stuff developed is done or will be done in those languages thus the CPU architecture becomes irrelevant.

Obviously very big companies such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon are more than happy to pay the little "tax" to ensure Javascript runs fine on ARM than to pay the big bucks they pay for x86..

What are your thoughts?

Debian 12.1 (6.1.0-11-amd64) running LXD/LXC and on an unprivileged container setting security.idmap.isolated=true seems to fail to update the owner/group of the container's files.

Here is an example: ````

lxc launch images:debian/12 debian

(...)

lxc config get debian volatile.idmap.base

296608

lxc stop debian

Error: The instance is already stopped

lxc config set debian security.idmap.isolated true

lxc config get debian security.idmap.isolated

true

lxc start debian

````

Now if I list the files on the container volume I'll get they're all owned by the host root user:

````

ls -la /mnt/NVME1/lxd/containers/debian/rootfs/

total 24 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 154 Sep 5 06:28 . d--x------ 1 296608 root 78 Sep 5 15:59 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Sep 5 06:25 bin -> usr/bin drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jul 14 17:00 boot drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Sep 5 06:28 dev drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1570 Sep 5 06:28 etc ````

I tried multiple versions of LXD/LXC. This happens with both 5.0.2 from apt as well with 4.0 and 5.17 (latest) from snap.

Interestingly enough I have another Debian 10 (4.19.0-25-amd64) running and older LXD 4 from snap and on that one things work as expected:

```

ls -la /mnt/NVME1/lxd/containers/debian/rootfs/

total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 1065536 1065536 138 Oct 29 2020 . d--x------ 1 1065536 root 78 Oct 14 2020 .. drwxr-xr-x 1 1065536 1065536 1328 Jul 24 19:07 bin drwxr-xr-x 1 1065536 1065536 0 Sep 19 2020 boot drwxr-xr-x 1 1065536 1065536 0 Oct 14 2020 dev drwxr-xr-x 1 1065536 1065536 1716 Jul 24 19:08 etc ```

As you can see on this systems all the files are owned by 1065536:1065536.

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Update:

I tried to probe around the maps with lxc config show debian in both machines and I saw this:

Machine running Debian 10: security.idmap.isolated: "true" (...) volatile.idmap.base: "1065536" volatile.idmap.current: '[{"Isuid":true,"Isgid":false,"Hostid":1065536,"Nsid":0,"Maprange":65536},{"Isuid":false,"Isgid":true,"Hostid":1065536,"Nsid":0,"Maprange":65536}]' volatile.idmap.next: '[{"Isuid":true,"Isgid":false,"Hostid":1065536,"Nsid":0,"Maprange":65536},{"Isuid":false,"Isgid":true,"Hostid":1065536,"Nsid":0,"Maprange":65536}]' volatile.last_state.idmap: '[{"Isuid":true,"Isgid":false,"Hostid":1065536,"Nsid":0,"Maprange":65536},{"Isuid":false,"Isgid":true,"Hostid":1065536,"Nsid":0,"Maprange":65536}]' Machine running Debian 12: security.idmap.isolated: "true" (...) volatile.idmap.base: "231072" volatile.idmap.current: '[{"Isuid":true,"Isgid":false,"Hostid":231072,"Nsid":0,"Maprange":65536},{"Isuid":false,"Isgid":true,"Hostid":231072,"Nsid":0,"Maprange":65536}]' volatile.idmap.next: '[{"Isuid":true,"Isgid":false,"Hostid":231072,"Nsid":0,"Maprange":65536},{"Isuid":false,"Isgid":true,"Hostid":231072,"Nsid":0,"Maprange":65536}]' volatile.last_state.idmap: '[]'

Why didn't it populate volatile.last_state.idmap: '[]'?

How can I fix it? Thank you.