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Here to follow content related to Star Trek, Linux, open-source software, and anything else I like that happens to have a substantial Lemmy community for it.

Main fediverse account: @f00fc7c8@woem.space

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  • Going by their Mastodon account, seems they were erroneously detected as "from a US-sanctioned region" and it took too long for said error to be resolved, so they just made the switch.

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  • I'm not a classic Linuxer (I switched in 2015) but I did once try Mandrake out of historical curiosity. From what I hear it was the recommended "beginner-friendly" distro before Ubuntu came out. And based on how hard it was to get working on a VM, I now understand why classic Linuxers talk about Ubuntu like it was this huge sea change.

  • [Answered] Most customizable desktop environment?

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  • I'd say they all offer different types of customization. It's less a matter of how much you can do, and more a matter of what you want to do and how much time you're willing to spend working on it. KDE is for people who want to customize their desktop, and want it to be easy to do so. GNOME is for people who just want something that works, but it still offers a lot of customization, it's just not as well-supported (their philosophy is "if theming breaks an app, it's not our fault").

    KDE doesn't support full CSS customization on its own, but there are theming engines like Kvantum and QtCurve that address the limitations that arise from this. I'd say it's on almost equal footing with GNOME in that regard, since both GTK4+libadwaita and Qt6+KF6 are designed for color scheme customization, but require various workarounds and obscure settings for anything more than that. If anything the workarounds are easier in KDE.

    Similarly, KDE supports layout customization through widgets and graphical menus. GNOME also supports layout customization, but through extensions instead.

    And then you can do all of the above and more if you use a window manager, or an LXDE/LXQt-style desktop that lets you disable or replace all its components in settings - just mix and match components like panels, file managers, display managers, polkit agents, etc. You can basically build your own DE that way, and it doesn't get much more customizable than that. But maybe you don't want to spend your time choosing every component of your custom DE. That's what something like KDE is for.

  • What Star Trek media did you watch in the last week? - 02/19/25

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  • If you don't like crude humor or in-jokes it is not for you. If you love those things, it is the best Star Trek podcast out there. There's also the companion series Greatest Trek which covers the new shows.

  • What Star Trek media did you watch in the last week? - 02/19/25

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  • ENT 2x10 Vanishing PointENT 2x11 Precious CargoENT 2x12 The CatwalkENT 2x13 Dawn

    Trying to catch up with The Greatest Generation.

  • Worst examples of Treknobabble

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  • "I can't stop the heterocyclic declination!" (TNG: "Samaritan Snare")

  • Google is now legally a monopoly. Will Mozilla now stop taking their hush money?

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  • I hope whatever remedies the court decides upon to weaken Google's monopoly end up helping Firefox, otherwise it's just making Google a bigger monopoly. But this case was mostly about search, and I don't really trust the Justice Department or the courts to be this keenly aware of the state of web browsers.

  • Are We Too Dependent on Microsoft?

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  • It's nice that major news outlets are saying what we nerds have been screaming for the past two decades. Microsoft only shares a small portion of the blame for the recent outage (they could have built their OS better so software vendors don't feel the need to use kernel modules, but the rest is on CrowdStrike) but we are too depenent on them.

  • How was your experience using Linux in college?

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  • If my American university has a system in place for students that don't own Windows, I would not be surprised if yours has a better one :)

  • How was your experience using Linux in college?

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  • LibreOffice has opened every DOC(X) the school has sent me, albeit imperfectly, and all assignments are turned in as PDFs, which I usually make using Markdown and LaTeX. I have had to use Office 365 for collaboration, but only about twice a year, and that runs very smoothly in Firefox. On one occasion I tried to collaborate with CryptPad, but it didn't work as well as I hoped.

    Most computer labs at my uni run Windows 10, rarely 11, but a lot of the science labs run Linux. A surprising amount of the software required for classes has been open-source, too.

    The most frustrating thing has been the lockdown browser used for some exams. My university library has computers I can borrow for exams, but yours might not, and they detect VMs, so you might have to dual boot for that.

  • What still requires stock Android and has no alternative way to access?

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  • Yeah, only thing I can think of is the few banking apps that don't have web versions.

    I was lucky enough to have all my banking and 2FA apps work perfectly on GrapheneOS. The only app that gave me a significant amount of trouble was iClicker, which my school uses for attendance. That was fixed by enabling Google Play location services, and there was a (fairly expensive) alternative anyway.

    I did have to buy a new phone to use Graphene, because I got my previous one as part of a carrier's cell plan, and it had a locked BIOS. Though I think the purchase was worth it, and just moving my SIM card from one device to another was enough to get it working.

  • We need to support Linux Phones development more now than ever based on recent news

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  • From what I've heard uBlock Origin Lite only barely falls short of the ad-blocking coverage that regular uBO offers, so there will still be options for Chrome users after this happens, not to mention the multitude of alternative browsers and app stores for Android.

    I still think that making Linux phones a viable alternative is very important, but it's not significantly more important now than it was a month ago.

  • A Space and Time Traveler's Guide to Star Trek

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  • "Move Along Home" would work so much better as a Doctor Who episode. Has a kind of absurdity that is perfect for Who, but stands out in a bad way in Trek.

  • GNOME bans Manjaro Core Team Member for uttering "Lunduke"

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  • Linux "Anti"-Piracy Screen

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  • of course not!

  • Finally acquired Blast Processing technology

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  • The AtGames Genesis Flashback is more akin to the Ferengi "Genesis Device" from Lower Decks than the original Genesis Device.

  • Linux Gaming PC 2024 (with Coreboot-Support)?

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  • I don't have much PC building experience, but these specs seem sufficient. Only comment is that you might need to use a distro with a new-ish kernel and graphics stack, given the very recent CPU and GPU. So not Debian stable, but Fedora, Ubuntu, or any rolling release distro will be fine.

  • Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription

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  • Normal, plug and play mice last a long time, with or without firmware updates, which are typically free. I guarantee that nobody will buy this mouse, and if it does release it will stop receiving updates within six months.

  • Anyone using Linux-libre for gaming?

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  • For a while I daily drove a Purism Librem 14 with Debian's fully free kernel, and installed as few non-free packages as possible, including firmware blobs (which I didn't install any of until I decided I needed Bluetooth). My experience with gaming was generally fine.

    With linux-libre you really have to buy your hardware specifically with support in mind. You're limited to Intel and non-bleeding-edge AMD graphics cards, a very small range of wifi cards, and no Bluetooth. Otherwise, video games should work as well as they would on any other computers with the same specs. Especially if you're also limiting yourself to games with free engines - I'm not aware of a single libre game that demands more than a modern Intel integrated graphics card can provide, even on high settings.

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    Linux "Anti"-Piracy Screen

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
    f00f/eris @startrek.website

    Orbital - The Moebius (unofficial video with Star Trek: TNG clips) (epilepsy warning)

  • Unixporn @lemmy.ml
    f00f/eris @startrek.website

    I missed the Plasma Oxygen look and feel