TLP.

I’d be happy to see one more email client option. Using Geary now - nice ui but very limited in features. Been through quite a few in the past.

When you log out, have a script take screenshot, blur it and save to a known file.

Conf your display manager to use that file as background.

I’ve ran a 4 in, 4 out ADAT-CAT5 snake thingy on Linux, so 32 channels in and out. The remote end was synced via Word Clock with the Linux box providing master clock. RME RayDat for a soundcard, RME converters in the remote rack. Worked 100 % flawlessly, I even did live sound on it. ADAT is a ‘just works’ thing, go for it. You just need to understand that one device needs to be the clock master and others follow that.

One more for Inkscape - I’ve made antenna stencils that need millimeter accuracy with it. LibreOffice Draw is even easier and can do much of the same stuff.

Thank you all! Over 25 years on Linux and still new learnings to discover…

Thanks - this is what I did with a ‘you had one job’ look beaming at the terminal after realising the hidden files were missed and indeed it did the trick.

IPA without AI is just P …?

The Linux way:

• write a script: you can use the find command to find for example rars in a folder. find ~/thatfolder -iname ‘*.rar’ -exec uncompresscommand. Read ‘man find’ for specifics. Script’s first line is #!/bin/bash. Say ‘chmod u+x script’ to make it executable.

• set up a systemd timer unit that calls a service unit that runs your script at intervals.

• you can use something like for file in ~/thatfolder/* ; do sed trick that extracts the file extension and puts it in a variable ; case $variable in ; bunch of cases for different extensions. Variable $file will hold the source file name. Read up on bash scripting to figure it out.

Welcome to penguinland :D

I just tried. Old app exports a directory, new one wants a zip. Zipped the dir and offered to new one. New one complained that some expected file was missing. Gave up and set it up again with it’s new keys (phone only syncs one dir off my home server, not a big deal) and now it’s going great.

resize2fs or a bootable gparted stick will help. And yes, it’s all on the Arch Wiki.

The free version of Maxmind’s db should be available on your distro. The name is going to be ‘geoip’ with something extra hanging on :)

I do audio and quite enjoy Arch with its ‘pro-audio’ meta package that installs basically everything. Desktop and laptop both have that, so they have the same plugins and applications -> projects open on both machines just the same.

Thanks, that’ll come in handy!

I guess it’s worth mentioning that once (only once) I’ve seen ripgrep bring a whole LAMP stack production server to a full tilt. A dev using VSCode (which has rg as part of its ‘trojan horse’ vscode-server it installs and runs as root on any server it’s used to edit) did a search and ripgrep went into some kind of death loop hogging 100% of all cpu cores. Probably rare, but kind of shocked me. All our servers now babysit vscode-server with cgroups…

Also Reticulum Network Stack! Much more ambitious than Meshtastic.

Thanks for tipping the previewer’s name. Not concerned with the (valid) sec aspect personally, but I’ve accidentally hit space a couple of times since meta+shift+space is Sway’s default for floating / tiling a window and I don’t use the preview anyway. Let’s uninstall.

Gnome 48 arrived on Arch and guess what – absolutely nothing broke! The only change was that fonts on non-Gnome apps got a little bit bigger. Quickly found a new switch in dconf-editor to the effect of ‘let the framework decide how to display fonts or respect user’s settings’ – flicked that from ‘Automatic’ to ‘Manual’ and everything was back to how it ought. Best Gnome update ever <3

Unmounting is enough if the disk has spindown configured. I’ve got this in /etc/udev/rules.d/ : ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="block", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]", ENV{ID_SERIAL_SHORT}=="S2H7J9FZB02854", RUN+="/usr/bin/hdparm -S 70 /dev/%k"

You’re not going to believe this, but I’ve found Arch is it. My desktop install was in December 2018: Sway with Gnome apps. Save for Gnome rolling dice on every major update, it’s been perfectly boring and dependable.

It’s a map of fairground lots for a service that takes bookings, bills the customer and deals with providing relevant safety info to authorities. In use again this season :)