lemmyreader

@ lemmyreader @lemmy.ml

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3 yr. ago

not much

1mo ago

Is it safe to assume that all apps from the software store (Discover in my case) are safe?
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lemmyreader @lemmy.ml 1mo ago
With Deb packages you're safe. With Flatpak I would be a little careful because with Debian apps that have been abandoned get some maintainer love or will be removed, while with Flatpak you can install apps that have not been updated for years, not very often but I've seen a few of them. Because of that I prefer to check the Flathub page of a Flatpak app before installing.

1mo ago

Which Lemmy apps/frontends do support thread merging/deduplication?

I think Kbin development is either abandoned or stalled. Perhaps Kbin fork Mbin supports the same feature ? https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin

1mo ago

Stupid question, but are there free VPS/VM instances for a jobless girl who wants to run her own instance?

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lemmyreader @lemmy.ml 1mo ago

Strato has one Euro per month Linux VPS plan (1GB RAM, 10 GB disk) which you pay per quarter, so that's three Euros each time, four times per year. You can use a swapfile in case the lack of RAM would be a problem.

This is on their Spanish language site but also available in German language and more (see at the bottom of their pages).

https://www.strato.es/servidores/vps-linux

Ask a friend to do the first payment ? Then you're off to run Lemmy for at least three months.

1mo ago

Which Firefox alternative do you guys recommend?

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lemmyreader @lemmy.ml 1mo ago

Most Firefox forks still have support for Mozilla account sync and the extension malware blacklist, as those are useful features to have. But they do share info with Mozilla.

I believe that Tor browser and Mullvad browser do not phone home to Mozilla. That's my conclusion after using OpenSnitch for some time. Firefox and LibreWolf do phone home Mozilla at startup.

2mo ago

Voice Chat Alternative from Discord

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lemmyreader @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

Have a look at Snikket. https://neilzone.co.uk/2023/08/a-month-using-xmpp-using-snikket-for-every-call-and-chat For iOS Siskin works fine for calls afair. https://siskin.im/

2mo ago

Any experience with Zulip (and some other questions)?

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lemmyreader @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

IMHO Zulip is a great choice for text chat for teams for companies. In your case take a look at Movim, XMPP based, Movim can do blogs and more: https://movim.eu/

2mo ago

How to link Signal to my desktop without a cellphone?

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lemmyreader @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

signal-cli software can do this without physical phone. https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Linking-other-devices-(Provisioning)

3mo ago

Some tips for an open source read it later service

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lemmyreader @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

👍 Readeck looks nice. https://readeck.org/

3mo ago

What is you guys opinion on DuckDuckGo AI?

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lemmyreader @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

👏 Thanks.

3mo ago

Switching audio channels crashes GNOME

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lemmyreader @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

That bug report is from May last year, is it really about the same bug ?

This one is recent https://forum.manjaro.org/t/bluetooth-connection-leads-to-gnome-crash/184614 and as a work-around downgrading wireplumber is suggested.

3mo ago

Black screen with cursor after logging using the login form on Linux Mint

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lemmyreader @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

It could be a quirk of Acer indeed.

A propos, the advanced option of the Grub menu with Linux Mint will just show all the kernel boot options. For example, if you already have three or four older kernel versions you can choose among the older ones in case the new kernel would be causing problems. With a fresh install you would have only one kernel and its recovery boot option.

3mo ago

Requesting help to use HP Laserjet 1020 as a remote printer

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lemmyreader @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

This person blogged about it and offers two ways of making it work https://www.dongdongbh.tech/setup-hp-1020-priter-on-linux The second method doesn't need a GUI it seems, and for the first method you could use VNC, or ssh -X, to have the pi's desktop on your computer for the hplip GUI.

The openprinting page has another thing to say about it : https://openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-LaserJet_1020

    

The firmware of the printer must be uploaded after turning it on. You can use a hotplug/udev script which comes with foo2zjs, or do it manually: "cat /usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihp1020.dl > /dev/usb/lp0".

3mo ago

What XMPP clients do you like and why?

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lemmyreader @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

Before that I used Gajim but had to compile it myself and sometimes issues with plugins. Maybe it’s as easy as Dino nowadays.

I've used Gajim last week for testing and installing it with Flatpak was easy. And I think I remember that for OMEMO no extra plugins were needed with Gajim.

3mo ago

What XMPP clients do you like and why?

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lemmyreader @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

😀

3mo ago

E-Mail with own domain

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lemmyreader @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

If you do not want to (completely) self-host but do want freedom with your custom domain then Migadu is a superb choice, it's like heaven/nirvana/paradise 🎇 for email admins 😀 https://migadu.com/

And you can technically still do some sort of part-time self host. The very difficult part of self-hosting email these days is the sending part (and the big and smaller tech bros rejecting your emails), not the receiving part. So if you want to learn, you can self host the receiving part, store your email at home or on some rented server and then use Migadu to send your emails out. Migadu has a feature called MX proxy which can be used for this part-time self hosting take.

3mo ago

What's the best way to remove packages that came with desktop environments?

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lemmyreader @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

What you can do is pretend to reinstall (--reinstall), download only (-d), for example for xfce4 meta package :

sudo apt-get -d install --reinstall xfce4

Then stop it after it shows you which packages it is about and copy and paste all the packages it mentions in a simple file (myfile) and execute that.

For Gnome it could be like this (leaving out a lot of packages to make the example fit on one line) :

    

sudo apt-get remove --purge baobab chrome-gnome-shell folks-common fonts-cantarell gdm3

As you can see do note which display manager you're currently using. Executing the file you made can be done with :

bash ./myfile

3mo ago

r/buyfromeu is discussing a contingency plan if Reddit takes down pro-european subreddits

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lemmyreader @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

The irony 🫠

3mo ago

What XMPP clients do you like and why?

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lemmyreader @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

During the Covid-19 pandemic I was very happy to use Conversations for video calls. Quality seemed better than with Signal during that time, and with Conversations you could resize the video window if you needed to do something on your phone during the call. I was not sure Signal could do that in these days. I also like Dino IM on the desktop but lately I don't have any other people I know who can be bothered to use XMPP over Signal or email.

There's a Dino fork https://dinox.handwerker.jetzt/ I'm not sure what to think about it, it looks too fancy and I dislike the Most secure part but it claims to do calls better than the original Dino IM.

3mo ago

Accidentelly run out of disk space when executing `apt upgrade` - Debian doesn't boot anymore

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lemmyreader @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

Another way to try to fix dependency problems, including complicated ones that apt cannot solve, is to use the magnificent aptitude deb helper. If you have aptitude not installed you can possibly still install it with dpkg. Download aptitude deb file and the aptitude-common deb file and save them to disk. For example for Debian : https://packages.debian.org/trixie/aptitude With dpkg it is in dependency problems situations still possible to install new software. Maybe dpkg --force-all or something like that is needed.

Make sure to make backups of your valuable things first via a Linux live session.

After you have aptitude installed, try e.g. :

sudo aptitude update

sudo aptitude install ncdu (or install some other small program you didn't have installed already)

It may already show a suggestion solution.

3mo ago

Accidentelly run out of disk space when executing `apt upgrade` - Debian doesn't boot anymore

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lemmyreader @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

This is usually the recommended way to fix such dependency problems.

sudo apt-get -f install