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Brickfrog

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  • Swapping from Win10 on laptop

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  • To be fair Ubuntu is still okay especially starting out, it's one of the more polished distros with a ton of online documentation when you need to search around and figure out how to do things. And no one says you have to stay with a distro, once you're comfortable with Linux it's easy enough to check out other distros.

    That aside a lot of people have been recommending Mint for new users so that's definitely one you can check out if you want to try branching out now rather than later.

    PS - Nvidia has a less than stellar reputation for their Linux drivers, you may want to consider reading up on that for whichever distro you choose. I have an Nvidia GPU (old non-Quadro class) running on Debian, works fine now but I did have a few false starts getting it going properly at first.

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    Trial re-federation proposal for lemmygrad

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  • Giving it a trial run might be okay though I'd lean towards leaving things as-is.

    Does kind of feel like the overall community wouldn't be too thrilled. I'm having a hard time understanding why the instance would be entertaining a change now. Like I can't think of any communities I care to participate in over there, just seems like spamming up people's All feed for no discernible benefit.

    OTOH you have a point, people can do instance blocking in their user settings so that is an option.

  • GNOME 49 Alpha Released With X11 Support Disabled By Default, Many New Features

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  • Slightly concerned about remote desktopping though. What do I replace xrdp with?

    Xrdp works on Wayland, you can keep using it if you like. There's also Gnome's built-in Gnome Remote Desktop as well as KDE's Krdp, both are also Wayland compatible (though I get the feeling Krdp is still in its early stages).

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    Discussion - Potential piefed instance in the future?

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  • If admins are okay with running both Lemmy and Piefed instances simultaneously then it seems fine IMO.

    But otherwise don't feel strongly about it, I don't know that I'd actually use the Piefed instance unless something happens within the Lemmyverse side of things or issues with the dbzer0 Lemmy instance itself.

  • What is the supposed workflow for vanilla Gnome for keyboard users?

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  • Curious about performance of nouveau on old laptops with discrete graphics

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  • Perhaps just uninstalling Nouveau and falling back to the Intel driver, if it's already installed, is sufficient? Or if that doesn't work, worst case OP could blacklist Nouveau and and update initramfs? I'm just guessing as long as the Nvidia driver is never actually active perhaps that's enough to avoid excess power consumption.

    OTOH there isn't much harm in OP keeping Nouveau enabled and seeing how things go though I'm in agreement with you, on an older laptop there's not much advantage to be gained with the older Nvidia hardware.

  • Do you save or delete your torrent files?

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  • All the loaded torrents in a torrent client already get stored somewhere in the torrent client's own settings folders. e.g. if you look in qBittorrent's settings folders you'll find a folder full of .torrent files representing every single torrent currently in the torrent client.

    So if it's a torrent I'm going to leave loaded in the torrent client then no, there's no reason to save a second copy of the .torrent file. But I guess if it's a torrent I'm not going to load in the torrent client, or will remove it from there, then maybe it's worth saving depending how you do things.

    I’m undecided. I figure if I save them and back them up to an offline/offsite device, then I can (mostly/hopefully) recover from hardware failure by simply re-adding all the torrent files to my favorite client.

    It would be better just to back up your entire torrent client settings folders, you'll save all the .torrent files along with the save folders and other information you have in the torrent client.

  • looking for a RDP client

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  • Remmina and Xrdp are probably the better RDP clients at the moment. I've had no problems using either to connect to Windows 10 desktops but have not tested Windows 11.

    FreeRDP is used by most (all?) Linux RDP clients, it does have its own active development.

    Could also try the Linux RDP client that Thincast has, still uses FreeRDP in the backend like the others but it does seem work well at least with Windows 10 (https://thincast.com/en/products/client).

    Also for what it's worth I've seen mention of a FreeRDP bug when the client fails to connect to Windows 11 with multi monitor enabled (since most Linux RDP clients use FreeRDP the bug affects them all too). Think the workaround for now is to disable multi-monitor in the RDP client settings before attempting to connect. Think it is getting fixed in the next FreeRDP release. No idea if that's your issue but worth a look (e.g. https://gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina/-/issues/3403)

  • KDE Confirms Ongoing Plasma X11 Support, But the Future Is Clearly Wayland

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  • Still learning this myself but I've found that Xrdp is Wayland compatible so there's that if you want to remote using RDP protocol.

    Gnome has its own version called Gnome Remote Desktop that is also Wayland compatible.

    And for KDE its own KRdp is another RDP protocol remote server that is Wayland compatible (https://github.com/KDE/krdp). I haven't tested the KDE version yet but I'd guess it works similarly to Gnome Remote Desktop and Xrdp, AFAIK they all use FreeRDP in the backend.

    All the Linux RDP servers seem to have their own quirks but seem okay for personal day-to-day use least.

    Beyond RDP solutions you could also check out stuff like RustDesk and NoMachine, they seem to be Wayland compatible as well. Though I am curious what else people use.

    PS - Gave up looking for a Wayland compatible VNC, not sure if VNC will sort of die out as more and more Linux distros switch over to Wayland.

  • With Version 9.0 Release, ONLYOFFICE Becomes an Even Better Choice for Linux Users

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  • Kind of seems like an ad, every link to their site has a referral in it ( /?ref=news.itsfoss.com ), guessing itsfoss gets paid for those clicks.

  • Has anyone pirated their internet?

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  • Nope, I prefer being able to run my own network router, open/close my own ports, block ads on the network, hopefully get as much bandwidth as I can, etc. so it's usually better for me to subscribe to my own internet.

    ... But since you bring it up, coincidentally I currently live on a street with shops/restaurants on the main floor under me. And all their wifi networks are visible from my apartment... so technically yeah, if I go through the trouble of collecting all their wifi passwords I could just hang out on their networks for free internet. Internet probably wouldn't be great and not very private without a VPN but for free web browsing it should work.

  • Sharing/uploading content across several private trackers—combine announce URLs into one torrent file or create a separate torrent file for each tracker?

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  • combine announce URLs into one torrent file

    No.

    or create a separate torrent file for each tracker?

    Yes.

    You can also check in the rules/FAQ of each private tracker but it's universal that all private trackers require their torrents to exist and announce/share peers separately. That doesn't mean the data has to be separate e.g. if it's the same torrent data you can point multiple torrents to the same data.

  • 1337x.to seems to be playing up - here's some alternative domains

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  • You see proponents of both views engaging in egregious argumentative practices at times and it is clear that this situation is continually degrading and needs something to be done about it.

    Does it? I'm kind of thinking if people insist on browsing Lemmy in All mode, and forcing themselves to view everything they they don't want to view, then it's on them to learn how to block communities in their own profile settings. Or if you want to help them somehow, maybe some way to display a quick how-to to show people how to block communities and/or browse in Subscribed mode could be useful. Just not sure how feasible that would be overall if people are browsing All and just reacting to things they don't want to see.

    For me browsing Lemmy in Subscribed mode and purposely subscribing to communities I'm interested in works well enough, no need to wade into the for/against AI drama or any other topics I'm not interested in.

  • Is there any good decentralized cloud storage for personal backups as a self-hoster?

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  • Eh, sure OP could do that. Does seem a bit over the top for OP to pursue the most complicated backup solution possible :D Maybe as a strange experiment to see how it goes, not as a trusted backup solution. (like you said not for critical data)

    IPFS would also require more bandwidth vs just about any other solution since it has to constantly talk to other IPFS nodes. And more finicky, last I used IPFS the client would run into memory leaks and other weirdness requiring restarts every now and then (hopefully it's more stable for long-term runs nowadays).

  • Is there any good decentralized cloud storage for personal backups as a self-hoster?

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  • Similar but no, Syncthing does not use bittorrent or the bittorrent protocol.

    Though if you're curious Resilo Sync (formerly Bittorrent Sync) is similar to Syncthing and does use bittorrent.

  • Is there any good decentralized cloud storage for personal backups as a self-hoster?

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  • Wouldn't be a good solution, you're hoping that other users are going to volunteer to pin (aka store and seed) your personal backup data for you.

    Using IPFS for personal backups is exactly the same as creating a torrent with your backup data - With both it would be unlikely that your personal backup data will actually exist anywhere beyond your own data storage, no one's going to freely volunteer to store your backups for you.

  • Where's the currently active Open Invites community?

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  • Issues viewing comments

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  • Hmm I can see all current 13 comments here (via web ui), granted I'm looking at it one hour after you posted. If you can see all the comments now then maybe federation with lemmy.world was slow for a bit?

    Or could just be new account though you could probably rule that out after like a day if the issue still persists.