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How do I resolve XFCE's buggy volume plugins? (lemmy.ml)
 

The instance of XFCE that I am using seems to be really buggy. I am forced to use both xfce-volumed-pulse and xfce-pulseaudio-plugin side by side, and the issue that arises from this is that now there are two notification indicators for the present volume.

When I remove xfce-volumed-pulse (this plugin is no longer shown on the official documentation), the multimedia key stops working, so there's no notification indicator.

But when I remove xfce-pulseaudio-plugin, I am no longer able to access the slider widget in the control panel, that allows me to tap into pavucontrol.

What is happening here?

Linux File System in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

This image is misinformation. That's not a filesystem, that's a layout standard called the FHS. Filesystems are FAT32, BTRFS, EXT4, etc.

Linux File System in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is the FHS layout, which is one of the common layout style for Unix-like OSes, and it has nothing to do with Linux or filesystems in general. Misleading information. GoboLinux has what they call the GoboLinux hierarchy layout, that adheres to NeXTSTEP or BeOS. Nix and Guix has the Store hierarchy layout, wherein, everything is contained inside a store directory. Filesystems include FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, BTRFS, Bcachefs or EXT1/2/3/4, just to mention a few examples.

Gentoo vs any other distro in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Apologies for being defensive, I accept that I am in the wrong here - I had to assume the worst owning to the silent-toxicity through down-votes, because they've assumed internally that I've called their favorite distro just the "same" as the distro that they probably hate.

A "traditional" Linux follows a FHS build, comes with a general package manager that is usually centralized, and can have one version of a program. You can only have one version of a particular program for the given OS version, and may have to use tools like venv or asdf to use older versions. Examples include Debian and Fedora, as well as it's derivatives. These traditional distros come with profiles, or flavours, like KDE, GNOME, or some other desktop environment.

GoboLinux is the original Linux OS that deviated from the FHS layout. With this, now you could have multiple versions of the same applications alongside, without having conflicts. ClearLinux (from Intel) and CachyOS (independent) are distros that build optimized binaries. I've not delved much into either of them, but I would like to think that having a tuned distro is quite nice.

Henceforth here, most of the distros can be called as meta-distibutions. These are distros that are a little "flexible" when it comes to installing. There's no pre-defined profiles and flavours, but this also means that you have control over what you can choose to install. Examples include Arch, Void, Gentoo and their derivatives.

Of these, Gentoo (back then - this does not hold true today) and Void are special in the sense that they came with the most barebone stuff, and you had to use their tooling to build Linux, as well as the entire desktop and application from scratch. I am not sure who the target audience might be, but I'm assuming that most probably this includes people who don't trust repositories or substitute servers.

NixOS and Guix are functional, transactional and declarative distros that provides you with isolation via ephemeral shells - which can be either pure or impure, store-based file layout (hash, followed by package name and version) and the option to host containers and virtual machines within the OS as a neat in-built feature. Each time you "build", you create your own distro generation, based on your own config, with the option to switch between them, without having to reboot. The store-based file layout was probably an inspiration from GoboLinux.

SerpentOS is a new experimental OS in development - from what I know, these folks have embraced memory-safe languages for their tools. Another cool features is that the packaging it is quite nice and uses the well-known YAML format, as an alternative to Arch's PKGBUILD or Fedora's spec. There's a lot of experimental stuff that I am not following, but it also shares some features with immutable distros. T2 SDE (not T2Linux, my bad) is another such meta-distro that I am aware of, but I haven't delved into it. It is being developed by Rene Rebe. There's also other cool distros, like for example Bedrock Linux, or Slackware, but I don't follow them a lot, so I can't speak for them.

Gentoo vs any other distro in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Not falling for the debatebro bait. I've placed quotation marks around "special" for the same reason, stop putting your words in my mouth.

Gentoo vs any other distro in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

If you want a "special" distro, use something like GoboLinux, NixOS, Guix, ClearLinux, SerpentOS, CachyOS or T2Linux. The rest of them are almost the same.

US woman indicted for attempt to drown 3-year-old Palestinian-American girl in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I keep falling for this every fucking time.

Is there any proprietary Android app for which you wish there would be an open-source alternative? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

OSMAnd works really well. For YTMusic, you can instead pick LibreTube and use it in music player mode.

I think the same in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This you?

the Germ-ans in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Thanke Zchön, thiß waß inßightvul.

the Germ-ans in c/[email protected]
AI is amazing in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So they should be in an interracial relationship. Got it 👍 .

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Are there better alternatives to null-terminated strings? (lemmy.ml)
Men of Lemmy, why are you angry? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Because fuck capitalism and imperialism, that is why.

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Bangladesh Lifts Ban Imposed On Jamaat-e-Islami Party By Former PM Sheikh Hasina (www.ndtv.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Do you know alternative scripts for your language? If so, can you talk about them? (lemmy.ml)
 

I mean scripts like Shavian or Quikscript. Are these script useful to you in your day-to-day life? How are they better than the original scripts of your language?

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Do you folks use Amazon a lot, and if yes, then why? If no, then what alternatives do you prefer? (lemmy.ml)
 

I'll start - I don't shop a lot, but if I had to buy stuff like hardware parts, I do use Amazon sometimes, but if I can, then I try to use Flipkart. Realizing how it has turned into a monopoly, I try to look for alternative websites, and check if they're trustworthy.

If I remember correctly, the last three items I've bought online were hardware parts from some local websites. The chi-fi IEMs were bought through headphonezone.in, and they were super-fast in delivery - I had to wait for only four days.

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How do I calibrate a new battery on Linux? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I've installed a new battery on my laptop, but to my surprise, the percentage of charge in the battery is at 0. Here's the upower diagnostics:

$ upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
  native-path:          BAT0
  serial:               0
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Thursday 11 July 2024 09:54:55 PM (16 seconds ago)
  has history:          yes
  has statistics:       yes
  battery
    present:             yes
    rechargeable:        yes
    state:               pending-charge
    warning-level:       none
    energy:              0 Wh
    energy-empty:        0 Wh
    energy-full:         0 Wh
    energy-full-design:  0 Wh
    energy-rate:         0 W
    charge-cycles:       100
    percentage:          0%
    technology:          lithium-ion
    icon-name:          'battery-caution-charging-symbolic'

The "energy-full-design" capacity of the battery should be 70Wh, but here it is, at 0Wh. None of the statistics above (except date and time) have updated, and it's been two days already. How do I calibrate this battery?

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Are electronics in Slovenia super-expensive? (lemmy.ml)
 

I've been searching for a used Thinkpad for so long, and the shipping price from the USA is ridiculously high between 80-120$, so I've been looking for any European options on eBay.

I came across a Thinkpad X395 from 2019, with AMD Ryzen 5 3500U, 16GB of RAM and a measly 265GB of space. On rough estimates, thus exact build will be sold for 150-250$ in the USA, plus the shipping cost. Now, this laptop is from Slovenia, at a whopping 900£, plus the 40-60£ shipping.

Now, what's with this ridiculous pricing for an almost 6-year-old device? Are electronics sold in Slovenia so expensive that they are barely affected by yearly depreciation?

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Do they sell laptops like these in 2024? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm sick of my laptop breaking after just three years. I want a laptop that:

  • comes with a nice APU
  • does not have a dGPU
  • comes with a chonky thermal solution
  • has lots of battery juice
  • has lots of modern ports
  • is repairable
  • is rugged, bulky and thick
  • is equipped with a nice, thonky keyboard
  • isn't one of those stupid, low-quality "gAmIng lApTOp"

So far, only the X220 and MNT Reform comes close to this description - the former is a really slow machine for today's time, and for some reason, still damn expensive. The latter is just too expensive to the point that I'll have to sell all eight kidneys in my family.

Do they sell anything like this in today's time, with a reasonable price?

PS. Thick is a strong requirement. I want a really nice cooling solution, plus it also serves it's purpose as a melee weapon to removed-slap those ultra-book trash-talkers.

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Is it not possible to bypass certain information through resist fingerprinting filter? (lemmy.ml)
 

I'm annoyed by the fact that using LibreWolf means that I lose on system theming and incorrect date and time on chat app.

DarkReader is unreliable, slows down performance of the page, and messes up theming. This is hurting my productivity. Any way to by-pass these two information?

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi convinced to be 'emissary of God', questions his biological origins (www.telegraphindia.com)
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Indian students in Canadian province take to the streets over tightening immigration rules (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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Do (pure) functional system programming language exist? (lemmy.ml)
 

Sorry if the question is a little vague. Lately, I've been exploring functional languages, and I'm really ill-informed about them.

I'm aware that most of these languages use some sort of garbage collection or reference counting, also that they're (slightly) slow, and that there's no other way for them to clear their memory manually apart from having to use inline C/C++. I know that some functional language can convert to C, but I'm not really interested in that.

I would like to understand if a system programming language, that is also purely functional, exists? If so, how does memory management work in such circumstances? Can be accommodated in a way such that it helps in the creation of, let's say, the OS kernel, and not the other way round. Can it run without having to use any inline assembly/C/C++ code?

If not pure functional languages, then what about impure ones?

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