I’m still on XFCE + Compiz because Wayfire doesn’t support global hotkeys (more of wayland’s fault) nor does it have 3d windows for the cube effect.
KDE wayland has global hotkeys, so does hyprland. seems like a skill issue for Wayfire.
It was one of the dumb “kick the can to downstream because muh security & effort” things which is why support for it really only came recently: https://dec05eba.com/2024/03/29/wayland-global-hotkeys-shortcut-is-mostly-useless/
I’m sure it will eventually get better, but like all of the things wrong with wayland can be summed up as “alpha protocol subject to change plz to not use (introduced: 7 years ago)” with “Options: alpha-protocol-kde, protocol-gnome-thing, protocol-whatshouldhavebeeninweston7yearsagoyoutwat (sway), protocol-hyprland-memelol-v2”
OK unc. Most people use Wayland now while you cling to your insecure outdated and entirely unmaintained x-server speaking about alpha this and that.
Yeah have fun with your shitty triple buffer and unsupported arbitrary monitor angles lol.
about alpha this and that.
Most of wayland’s features like HDR weren’t implemented until literally last year. I have forum threads 3 times older than this lemmy account on how slow wayland progress was.
Wake me up when Wayfire goes stable and I’ll happily switch in superior XFCE performant style.
My partner would text me ‘what did you do’ when I had a day off and audiobookshelf stopped working. This is why I only tinker after midnight
Yeah… ive been meaning to get audiobookshelf setup, but it looked like a pain so it’s been sitting there untouched. That along with needing to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin, my projects pile up.
ABS is actually quite easy if you already have a library for audiobooks on Plex
Just install ABS on the same box and point it at the same folder and it will do most of the rest itself
Remote access is a bit of a pain though. I’m using tailscale for it. I wish there was a better, more universal (also free) 2fa solution out there but it just doesn’t exist.
I got it up and running in about 10 minutes just yesterday, but that’s probably because I spend a couple of days learning how to use quadlets and getting my remote access scheme figured out.
Does mTLS work with ABS? That’s how I control access to many of my “exposed” services.
ABS is actually quite easy
Well yeah, you just depress the brake pedal
What? He is obviously talking about a broken piece of ABS plastic.
I just set it up with my Docker setup. Point it at the appropriate volumes and it pretty much goes. GUI tools for Docker help. I like Dockge.
I also wait until my partner is asleep. It still doesn’t make me 100% safe from the ‘what did you do’ texts, because sometimes I break things that I don’t think to check. Worse, sometimes I break something so bad that I stay up until 6am trying to fix it, only to cook my brain and pass out without fully repairing what went wrong.
But it’s still better than doing it during the day.
I only do networking after midnight. I have pulled 4+ hrs after breaking the network more than once.
This is me last Friday. Wanted SSO passkey so bad I pulled an all-nighter to make it work between 3 different machines.
I love passkey so I adamant on Pocket ID. End up hammering on it till 3AM with no success in sight, turns-out nothing is wrong with anything config-wise. I just wasn’t aware the bridge network you create didn’t enable ipv6 by default. Passed out at 5AM lol.
Now my sistet can’t complaint about so many password to manage.
End up canceling going out with friends Saturday night cuz I was already sleeping soundly at 8 PM.
I haven’t tried passkeys, I honestly probably have too many apps that don’t support it. Hell I get annoyed by apps that don’t have ldap integration. Looking at you paperless-ngx.
many apps that don’t support it.
Yeah, that is one thing making it harder. I use traefik-forward-auth/tiny Auth for that and honestly I still can’t make some apps work properly.
But at least the most used one are in place now and seems fine UX-wise (JF, vaultwarden, navidrome and frigate).
I’m doing this just because I want to stop relying on CF tunnel and just use my public ipv6, but I don’t think I’m ready security-wise.
And cf tunnel and other overlay network solution like Tailscale have a penalty on performance for me because their closest server are on the neighboring country.
My server went from doesn’t work and I don’t know why to it does work and I don’t know how
There’s the German saying, that the shoemaker always has the worst shoes.
In America we say “never buy a mechanic’s car.”
Is Spain we say that the blacksmith uses wooden spoons.
Wouldn’t that mean something else?
The saying literally translates to “in the house of a blacksmith there are wooden spoons”. In Poland we say “the shoemaker walks in shoes with holes”. They all just means that people who build things as their job don’t have the time to build those things for themselves.
But why doesn’t the blacksmith have spoons which are bent or something. Black smith using wooden spoons sound to me like a technician that doesn’t use tech in his private life.
It just means he uses cheaper spoons made by someone else, not fancy metal spoons.
My rack is chained up in the garage and beaten into submission. I get an alert if something is down and an alert over a week if there’s an upgrade. I put those alerts on silent so i only see them when i pull the shade down on the phone.
Computers are better seen and not heard.
This is why you keep 2 computers. One that is dull and as stock as you can. And then you have that beater box to get stupid with. Drive the sum biotch right into that kernal panic at 100mph just for fun.
So therapeutic some days…
Fastest I ever got a kernel panic was ~50mph. There are photos.
Nice!
That’s not how it works.
- Okay, let’s read a chapter of this book about Software Design.
- I need to take notes
- Ugh, it sucks that I have to do three steps to open them
- Let’s write a short fish script
- Actually is there a more elegant note taking app
- Research
- Setting up the most over engineered zettelkasten solution
- It’s time for bed, you have two broken note taking apps, but still an open to do to read a chapter of that book
If you think that is a true story, you are absolutely right.
I feel seen.
Me too. Interest in comuters combined with ADHD leads to interesting side quests sometimes. They might not end up being productive, but I often learn a few things along the way.
Mac and a half a dozen server homelab. Plex was a homelab test that’s now “prod” (family won’t let me shut it off) so it’s in the prod environment outside of my homelab
I feel this one
My Mac is supposed to be the safe box too. I keep having to talk myself down from installing Asahi.
You and me both.
Haha I have an older m1 I’m about to put asahi on. Going to use it for small models
A good excuse to get another cheap box to crash and burn!
Any excuse to hoard more hardware these days
Sounds horrible. My Debian sway config shields me from such a life :)
my linux honeymoon has far gone. nowadays I just use fedora gnome and actually work on something that makes money.
I’m still tinkering but insofar to keep myself from doing anything else with my computer, I got shit to do.
This really is the journey, isn’t it?
Tinkering is fun when your actual goal is to tinker.
But when your goal is to get work done then the machine is just a tool, and there is nothing more frustrating than a broken tool.
my linux honeymoon has far gone.
Reminded me of:
In the spring, we climbed the rolling hills
And talked about our budding plans
And we smiled
Our faces like a mirror showing us our secret sides
But then the fights, the sharp words splintering the night
How I couldn’t be what you’d need
But oh how I could make you bleed
And by “be productive” you mean looking at cat pictures, right?
This literally made me switch to niri
Me. Now digging through init=/bin/bash/ to fix my non booting zimaboard. All because I lost my root password and proceeded to continue to fuck up my media server
I would regard myself as Quite Computer, not Very, and yet, have still managed to bugger my Linux box by messing with the bootloader.
No drive or USB ports recognised on boot. No way to boot from iso. Yay me.
@cannedtuna <laughs in nixos>
how is this related to NixOS? Once you upgrade your hyprland version on NixOS (which you’ll have to do eventually, at least for security fixes), you have to worry about the config breaking just the same
@hirihit640 depends what specifically broke OP’s config and whether the same config done declaratively with nix would have kept parity with the changes instead of breaking. I am not a hyprland user and was just being silly. Feel free to tell me what the breaking change was if you know.
You can rollback and take care of it later when you have time spare.
yes but the problem is having to spend time to fix it in the first place. On a more stable de/compositor like Plasma or Sway, you won’t have these problems
I mean, the top level comment refers to the title and not things breaking in general where OP complained about needing to troubleshoot right now before being able to be productive. Being able to postpone troubleshooting to when you can afford it is a massive benefit exactly for this reason where you need to get things done now or just want to do something else in the moment. For the same reason my root is on a ZFS pool with 2-way mirrored vdevs and I have (non-zfs) mirrored boot set up as well. No matter which of my drives fails I can take care of it later without any impact on my productivity or loss of data. I never used hyperland but heard of it stability issues ever so vaguely and while choosing different window manager (because that’s what it is to ppl) may have solved this specific issue at the cost of sacrificing preferences the expectation for your system to never break is absurd. Things will always break at some point and it can come from any direction. Being able to hande the breakage gracefully is the key part.
Lol just upgraded to 26.05 today, surprisingly smooth! This time…
I had to fix 3 errors in Hyprland and a warning in Foot after updating to 26.05 yesterday. I think there was more, but at least it works now.
- We tried setting up hyprland with Arch
- Used an older guide, updated and translated it to the newest standard, learning about the unique scripting
- Get almost everything working
- Actually loved the feel of the ui and did get used to using terminal for almost everything
- Things started falling apart
- Steam started fucking up, everything was going horrible.
- joined the support discord, found problem doing good over more :)
- Update? Oo oki!
- Hyprland: hmm nice fully custom set up you have here, would be a shame if someone were to change all the ui script you literally just learned :)
- :(
- Back on KDE + Cachy OS as we didn’t want to fight with our computer anymore, it’s good, great even, but… missing the window management of Hyprland now.
- Don’t get us wrong, we’re very happy with KDE! It’s just… that window management 🥺
- if only we could get that in KDE
Hyprland is cancer by cancer
I like Niri a lot. Plus the maintainer isn’t an asshole.
Haven’t heard of Niri, what’s that one all about?
It’s a column-based tiling window manager, with scrolling!
That’s why sway and river exist. They’re actually stable.
Haven’t heard of them before tbh, from the replies Sway not be super stable. And river?
I have my (edit: RIVER) config for over a year and it’s very reliable. It never broke on me apart from the misconfigurations which were my fault.
It also integrates well with Waybar and is compatible with other Wayland tools for wlroots.
But keep in mind that my config is relatively minimal.
Sway still struggling with screensharing (specifically window sharing) tho or atleast it was last time I yried it in february :(
Sway 1.12, released last week, added support for capturing individual windows.
Yay it worked, still not usable for me tho, since XWayland fucks up too many applications I need and moving windows with my mod key + left mouse does not count as a single input which then opens rofi which is bound to mod qq
I had that issue with the mod key launcher too, but instead of looking up a proper fix I turned my Capslock key into my launcher lol
For river, I had to do some kind of fix. I’ll talk about it later. Reply if I forget.
Might be worth doing a bit of research on the associations surrounding Hyprland https://drewdevault.com/blog/Hyprland-toxicity/
I’m afraid this is coming from Drew Devault
Just don’t donate and disable the nag, it doesn’t really matter, he gains nothing from you if you do this.
