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Morphit

@ Morphit @feddit.uk

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  • Is there a way to connect multiple desktops and treat them as one system?

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  • Barrier is only for inputs IIRC. To get Keyboard Mouse and Video (more usually KVM) you need some kind of remote desktop software. Rustdesk is pretty straightforward. I think Gnome handles RDP access natively now if you're running a Gnome based Linux distro. Otherwise XRDP is a bit of a faff, but solid once it's working.

  • Design vs. Implementation

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  • That's a biblically accurate implementation if ever I've seen one.

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  • If you have the docker-compose.yml locally, you can nix run github:aksiksi/compose2nix to translate it into a nix file for inclusion in your nixos system config. I think that could be done in the config itself with a git url but I'm not that great at nix. You will surely still need some manual config to e.g. set environment variables for paths and secrets.

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  • How do the DNS servers resolve local hostnames then? The pihole DHCP integration adds local hostnames to DNS when they are assigned an address. If there's two DHCP servers handing out leases, presumable only one would be accepted, how then would the DNS servers sync those names?

    I think I had my secondary pihole resolve local names from the primary, and leases were copied over on a cronjob in case the secondary DHCP server had to be enabled.

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  • Not that it particularly matters for just queries. The problem is that DHCP can only be enabled on one host. If that one fails then devices can't get on to the network themselves. I'd like to know a good way to have a failover DHCP server - my janky cronjob isn't great.

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  • Where do you do DHCP? I had a primary pihole with DHCP enabled and a secondary with a cron job that enabled DHCP if the primary was down or disabled it if the primary was working. The cron job did sync DHCP leases from one to the other but it was a bit janky. I tried to update the secondary to pihole v6 and hosed it so I have no backup for now. I'd like to re-image the secondary and get a better setup - when I have time.

    Edit to say I really wanted to try keepalived - that's really cool to fail over without clients noticing.

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    kwin_x11 and kwin_wayland split, X11 code effectively frozen and will be maintained until Plasma 7

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  • How are you setting font size? I'm running Plasma 6.3.5 and 150% desktop scale looks identical to 100% with a 150% page zoom in Firefox. Just scaling fonts sounds like it would make everything non-text appear the wrong size.

    I do notice a weird behaviour where Firefox renders at 200% scale when it's entirely within a display at 100% scale. If it overlaps another display at all then it uses the appropriate scale for each monitor. Maybe that's a setting somewhere.

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    kwin_x11 and kwin_wayland split, X11 code effectively frozen and will be maintained until Plasma 7

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  • This is the default in NixOS when plasma6 is enabled. I went down the rabbit hole checking, it's set here.

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    kwin_x11 and kwin_wayland split, X11 code effectively frozen and will be maintained until Plasma 7

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  • What's wrong with fractional scaling in Firefox? It seems to work fine for me with kwin_wayland. Even if I have different scaling on each monitor, Firefox seems to respect it fine. Some really old software is a bit funky running through xwayland but nothing showstopping.

  • Ultimate Steampunk. Canadian steam powered fusion

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  • Solar photovoltaic doesn't involve steam. We can be solarpunk as well!

    I guess hydro-power uses steam in the global water cycle so I'll give you that. Radio-Thermal Generators are all solid state, but not much power on earth comes from them.

  • that about 1/1000 of your phones RF power output, and the distance is 384400km

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  • Think of the speeds you could fly at with no drag! I'm so bummed that the Grace Hopper drone didn't get to fly after Intuitive Machines fluffed their second landing. That would have been awesome outreach from NASA.

    We want drones on the moon!

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  • I don't quite understand what the backlash is here. The article is about FAQs on the Mozilla website. It seems reasonable that some people might interpret "sell" to be accepting money to set the default browser to Google. Clarifying that on their site seems fine. The FAQ was surely never legally binding.

    Their 'Terms of Use' document is new as of Feb 26 AFAIK. Is that what people are upset by?

  • Years In The Making, Intel Timed I/O "TIO" Looks To Finally Land In Linux 6.15

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  • There's a talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMUMRNRkcMg but I'm not much clearer after scrubbing through some of the slides. It sounds like all GPIO pins on recent Intel chips support this Timed I/O functionality. I don't know if they could measure the timing of transactions to a NIC - I would think this is only for specialist hardware or testing. They mention using a logic analyser to compare the clocks of two systems after synchronisation.

  • The Perfect Pi Pico Portable Computer

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  • Doom is one of the examples for the PicoVision. It might need some hacking to get the keyboard to work since I think he used I2C to connect it instead of USB, but it can definitely run Doom.

  • Managing windows and focusing specific apps in KDE?

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  • KDE can focus apps with a key-bind natively - in the Window Rules settings (even easier if you open the context menu on a window and go to More Actions > Configure Special Application Settings...). So I have Meta+Enter mapped to focus a terminal etc.

    I don't know of a simple way to both open and focus with the same key-bind. KDE doesn't seem to have implemented ext-foreign-toplevel-list so I don't think external window management tools can do this yet.

  • I have no idea how to use SwayWM

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  • I think this wiki cheetsheet will explain some of the defaults. Pretty much everything is controlled with a keybind using the meta/super (windows) key. Mod + d should open the launcher, I only used dmenu but yours might be something else. The launcher will let you launch applications by name. If you just want a terminal, Mod + Enter will open one.

    You will want to look at your config. It should live in ~/.config/sway/config. If it's not there then mkdir ~/.config/sway/ && cp /etc/sway/config ~/.config/sway/. That should list the keybinds you have set. You can look up the options in the man page for sway.

    Once you can do some basic window control, you might want to customise the status bar. The config should tell you what bar is being used, but there are a huge array of statusbars to choose from - I used i3status-rust but try searching for i3/sway statusbars to see what's out there.

  • US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources.

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  • Microsoft hypes another generative AI model but doesn't really explain how it'll help [game] developers

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  • BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired

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  • They're on discount. You don't have to pay for the extra 40% of a keyboard.