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How do you use Wine/Proton?
  • I do sometimes wish that Valve would simply automatically choose the Proton version of a game to be installed if it's obviously superior (like with Rocket League). Also, why is Steam play not enabled for all titles by default? As far as I know, they're already doing some of that validation for the Steam Deck, might as well use it for Desktop users as well.

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  • Hey everyone! I've been using the Cosmic DE Alpha since yesterday and have been enjoying it so far! What I've been wondering though - is there any place where I can see all the keyboard shortcuts that are used for the tiler and other features, and maybe even change them/set new ones? No matter if it's some piece of official documentation or a config file. Thanks for your help!

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    I just realized all my teachers use ubuntu
  • They certainly do, at least to an extent. In many fields where you have to work with a lot of data people will use R or Python to handle/transform/perform calculations.

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    I just realized all my teachers use ubuntu
  • True. HPC definitely plays a big role in the field, and essentially all compute clusters run some sort of Linux distro. Even though clients that can also be run locally then often have Windows binaries too, I'd say software support on Linux is at least as good as on Windows, probably a bit better.

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    Whats your thoughts on Ai in your terminal?
  • I'm likely going to try out Wave Terminal with a self hosted LLM. I think it may well be quite useful, just don't want to upload my entire command history to OpenAI.

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    No, electric vehicle sales aren’t dropping. Here’s what’s really going on
  • Highly depends on where you are in the world. I feel like PHEVs might make some sense in America, in Europe demand is shrinking every year since charging networks have gotten fairly good and BEVs offer more flexibility in terms of charging, especially if you can't charge at home.

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    Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media
  • I think not wanting to federate/bridge with Bluesky is a very bad idea. The entire idea is that we should get a Fediverse that is as connected as possible, not split up into many tiny subsets of users.

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    Video editor for Linux?
  • It wouldn't be trivial to package such a big app as a flatpak (or snap for that matter) and also maintain it properly, so as long as the original developers don't do the work I think it is unlikely to happen. But for a tool that I'm going to be using a lot in the future I think it makes sense to invest the time once to install it, even if it's a bit more complicated.

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    Video editor for Linux?
  • As for DaVinci Resolve, installation can be a bit weird if you don't happen to run one of the officially supported Distros. Because of that, the easiest way to run it is probably via DistroBox, Michael Horn made a great tutorial about that: https://youtu.be/wmRiZQ9IZfc

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    Cloud storage for encrypted backups recommendations
  • If you want something that works very well and is quite convenient, I can recommend the Scaleway S3 Glacier storage. If you only need a few GBs, it will only cost a couple of cents per month.

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    Open source email pioneer Roundcube joins the Nextcloud family
  • If anything, I feel like Nextcloud Mail is the thing that's going to end up being killed, not Roundcube. Nextcloud doesn't exactly seem like a company that would buy a superior product just to kill it off.

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    what caused you to get into Linux?
  • I had been using Linux on servers for years, and finally also decided to give it a shot on the Desktop during the Linux challenge from linustechtips. Went to PopOS first, then Fedora and Debian and am currently on OpenSuse.

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    Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now?
  • I know, but at least we'd only have one physical connector at that point. While there are indeed a lot of standards for USB C, many of them are not all that relevant in day-to-day use when you're mostly just looking to connect some basic USB peripherals like a mouse, a thumb drive or charge your phone.

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    Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now?
  • I'd honestly love to see everything USB-C-ified. Would be great to finally just have one standard to concern yourself with.

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    Steam Deck OLED announced
  • Sure, but the form factor of the Steam Deck will always limit performance and carry some extra cost with it. And for a large user base installing another OS on a PC (Holo ISO) is something they are not going to do. Hence, Steam Machine.

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    FlorisBoard | FOSS keyboard that respects your privacy
  • May try it out if I can get over the fact that I won't have multi language support without switching manually anymore. I've been trying to move away from SwiftKey, but as someone who typed regularly in 3 (occasionally 4) languages and switches between them quite a lot, it's a feature that I'm not sure I can live without. So far I haven't seen any FOSS keyboards supporting multi language in such a seamless way.

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  • Does anybody have any insight on why the Thunderbird Flathub app seems to be unavailable? Even before that, we were still waiting on the Supernova update..

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    Hey! For a while now I've been using Tailscale to access some of my apps in TrueNAS Scale remotely. Since I also want to be able to access my SMB shares on Truenas, I have so far always resorted to setting both Tailscale and the corresponding apps to using host networking.

    Not all apps natively support host networking though (e.g. the Immich Community app). Because of this, I cannot access Immich via Tailscale since it is not "listening" on the Tailscale interface/Tailscale IP range.

    Is there any option to either configure Tailscale in a way that it can access both TrueNAS apps and host system services like SMB or alternatively some way to make TrueNAS apps listen to requests from the Tailscale interface as well?

    Thanks in advance!

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    www.theguardian.com Paris to charge SUV drivers higher parking fees to tackle ‘auto-besity’

    Size, weight and motor will be taken into account as councillors target ‘dangerous, cumbersome’ vehicles

    I think making the ownership of larger cars more expensive is probably one of the best ways to make them less attractive to the average driver. Whether parking fees, taxes or other methods are the best way remains to be seen.

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    energy-charts.info provides a great overview over electricity generation by sector, renewable share and a lot of other data on the German electricity network. They also provide estimates for the next few hours and scenarios how the electricity network could look like in a few decades.

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    I've seen different opinions on this. Some people will certainly be looking for community-maintained distributions since they are unlikely to undergo a change like this. In particular some sysadmin Youtubers (like Veronica Explains) have been saying that they are switching their clients over. But others have been saying that Debian won't really have too much of a chance as they don't offer the same amount of professional support. What do you think?

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    I've been using TrueNAS Scale for a while now, but have never actually come across any official documentation/repository/possibility to file bug reports for TrueNAS Scale apps marked as "Official" in the available applications (e.g. Plex Media Server, Home Assistant, etc). Have I just miraculously missed it or do these apps actually not have any form of documentation or support?

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