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utopiah

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  • What you do with your windows button on your keyboard?

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  • I don't have one. If I did, I want change the keycap.

    Now... it's called a meta key https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_key ... and I use it exactly as one would on Windows, e.g. Meta-e starts the file explorer ... but I added my shortcuts too e.g. :

    • meta+k for konsole
    • meta+f for FIP (online French radio, music only, no ads)
    • meta+F to stop FIP
    • meta+a to play the series I'm currently watching
    • meta+A to stop mpv (playing the current series)
    • meta+o to turn on my office lights
    • meta+l to turn off those lights
    • meta+ESC to turn off lights and suspend computer
    • meta+s for Spectacle to take a screenshot

    and I have quite a others I can't recall right now.

  • Valve's new Steam Machine and Steam Frame and implications for Linux

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  • No worries, it's quite niche even for XR professionals some are surprised to learn it even exists. So I'd put that on lack of communication from Lynx.

    Also FWIW for Meta/Facebook one can use a headset without any account now via PrivateQuest so if bought 2nd hand, not 1 cent goes to the zucc.

  • Valve's new Steam Machine and Steam Frame and implications for Linux

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  • Yes but ...

    • no hand tracking
    • no color passthrough
    • no hardware upgrade
    • no WebXR
    • no new VR proper content

    Still, it's good obviously, not having to rely on BigTech. This was also possible before though as I pointed out in https://lemmy.ml/post/38899489/22202786 with e.g. Lynx XR1, as a rooted Android standalone HMD with no account required.

    Anyway IMHO the big questions for VR on Linux more broadly is what changes upstream on KDE in terms of immersive UX? Is KDE Plasma becoming a VR graphical shell? Does it have 3D widgets? Does it impact freedesktop in any way?

  • Valve's new Steam Machine and Steam Frame and implications for Linux

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  • Sorry to put you on the spot but I saw this countless time this morning after reading the news so I'm asking you :

    • did you buy a Lynx XR1?

    My point being that there already are standalone VR HMDs that do NOT need Meta and can be great to tinker. The example I share works, can be rooted and even run Linux proper (even though quite experimental) https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Lynx_R1_(lynx-r1)

    So... it's a nice thing to say, and yet please do not give your "money to the zucc" but also I believe that means there is something else people are missing, otherwise they'd have already made the move. I don't mean this as a criticism, only to try to understand what that gap is.

  • Is it better to enable javascript in LibreWolf or switch to a different browser when a site needs it? Does switching browsers help in general?

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  • Treating Google and Meta as apolitical ...

    I didn't.

  • Is it better to enable javascript in LibreWolf or switch to a different browser when a site needs it? Does switching browsers help in general?

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  • Tracking from WHOM and thus WHY should be the question.

    It's different to be tracked for profit, e.g. Google or Meta, versus for political or corporate espionage purposes.

    The former is basically volunteering information through bad practices. Those companies do NOT care about "you" as an individual. In fact they arguably do not even know who you are. Avoiding their services is basically enough. It might be inconvenient but it's easy : just do not.

    The later is a totally different beast. If somehow the FSB, because you criticized Putin, or NSO Group, for something similar or because you have engineer something strategic to a business competitor who is a client of theirs, then you will be specifically targeted. This is an entirely different situation and IMHO radically more demanding. You basically don't have to just care about privacy good practices, which is enough for the former, but rather know the state of the art of security.

    So... assuming you "just" worry about surveillance capitalism and hopefully live in a jurisdiction benefiting from the Brussels effect with e.g GDPR related laws, either way is fine.

  • Friendly tiling setup for a laptop? (tiling window manager?)

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  • FOSS video editing with as little AI as possible, but matching the look of AI produced viral video?

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  • I’m new to Linux from about 3 months ago, so it’s been a bit of a learning curve on top to learning VE haha. I didn’t realize CUDA had versions

    Yeah... it's not you. I'm a professional developer and have been using Linux for decades. It's still hard for me to install specific environments. Sometimes it just works... but often I give up. Sometimes it's my mistake but sometimes it's also because the packaging is not actually reproducible. It works on the setup that the developer used, great for them, but slight variation throw you right into dependency hell.

  • FOSS video editing with as little AI as possible, but matching the look of AI produced viral video?

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  • What software do you use to aggregate email in a single interface?

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  • I don't. That's the entire point about having different mailboxes in the first place : they stay isolated and I manage notifications (or not) exactly how I want, when I want.

  • Moving to linux at home has me using the command line more.

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  • suddenly it hit me. Im on linux I can do a lot of this easier with the command line.

    Nice, you get it! You have so much to learn so don't be afraid of taking notes. The CLI and the UNIX philosophy are very powerful. They remain powerful decades after (from desktop to mobile with e.g. adb on Android to the "cloud" with shell via e.g. ssh) so IMHO it still is a good investment. Still discovery can be tricky so be gentle with yourself

    Also few tricks that can help you go further faster :

    • take notes (really! can be a .txt or .md file or a wiki page, entirely up to you)
    • consider aliases or .bashrc to keep your shortcuts and compose
    • stop typing the same commands again, instead reverse-i-search with e.g. Ctrl-r
    • TAB autocomplete (as suggested after)

    Anyway, enjoy it's an adventure!

  • FOSS video editing with as little AI as possible, but matching the look of AI produced viral video?

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  • I’ll be checking over the subtitles anyway, generating just saves a bunch of time before a full pass over it. [...] The editing for the subs generation looks to be as much work as just transcribing a handful of frames at a time.

    Sorry I'm confused, which is it?

    doing this as a favour [...] Honestly I hate the style haha

    I'm probably out of line for saying this but I recommend you reconsider.

  • How to add an option to create a particular type of file from context menu on KDE plasma, fedora?

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  • Exactly, and it works quite well, thanks for teaching me something new :)

  • FOSS video editing with as little AI as possible, but matching the look of AI produced viral video?

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  • There’s no getting around using AI for some of this, like subtitle generation

    Eh... yes there is, you can pay actual humans to do that. In fact if you do "subtitle generation" (whatever that might mean) without any editing you are taking a huge risk. Sure it might get 99% of the words right but it fucks up on the main topic... well good luck.

    Anyway, if you do want to go that road still you could try

    • ffmpeg with whisper.cpp (but honestly I'm not convinced hardcoding subtitles is a good practice, why not package as e.g. .mkv? Depends on context obviously)
    • Kdenlive with vosk
    • Kdenlive with whatever else via *.srt *.ass *.vtt *.sbv formats

  • Self hosted private underground social media platform called Nanogram

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  • Thanks for sharing and the clarifications. I do think both the philosophy behind this and the technological choices are right but it's also true that "How many people?" can it handle is important for people who want to actually try and onboard others. It's one thing to try alone but as long as we ask others to join, knowing what the limits are makes everybody more understanding.

  • Self hosted private underground social media platform called Nanogram

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  • much procesing could it handle though? If it is only a handful of friends then what makes it better than Signal?

    I don't actually know the project but I think your mindset here is (and correct me if I'm wrong) "Does it scale?" whereas the mindset of this project, based on the name itself and the "small scale" in the description, is "no, it does not scale and that's A-OK".

  • Self hosted private underground social media platform called Nanogram

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  • Resistance to power outage? Ins't a phone just a server without a keyboard and with an integrated UPS? /s

  • How to add an option to create a particular type of file from context menu on KDE plasma, fedora?

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  • How to add an option to create a particular type of file from context menu on KDE plasma, fedora?

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  • Oh..., that's neat thanks!

    So in my use case I made a template for prototype metadata, add a menu action could be to generate the file instead of creating from the template via Exec= field. This would prepopulate the metadatafile with e.g. the list of selected files thanks to %F.