Eggplant.place

45d

If it wasn't for the dogmatic adherence to GNU philosophy then I would have probably pivoted to Guix already. People are that deep in their ideology that the Nonguix repository emphasize it should be used as a last resort and that the repository should not be discussed in official channels. Imagine being so free that you circle back to being overbearingly authoritarian by not letting people pick what they want to use.

@fsf

#FreeSoftware, #Guix, #GNU, #FOSS, #FLOSS, #Linux.

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1y

Let me take you #linux people on a little journey. Right now, there is a war. A war between those who fear the future of #nix and #NixOS and those who are apparently not getting the point.

To call something #opensource can mean so much nowadays. When it comes to the idea of an enterprise nixpkgs vs the open source or "community" #nixpkgs, I think it's time to make it clear:

#DeterminateSystems wants to have it's own #RHEL. Functions are decoupled from nix for a reason.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/determinate-nix-3-0/61202/110

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47d

💾 The File Count Challenge 🔎

Have you ever wondered how many PDFs, images, videos, or particular kind of files you have on your device? It is the time to find out.

I am hereby proud to officially launch a Fedi-wide file count challenge, in exclusive partnership with the 2025-27 class of @xpub 👾

💁 How to participate

Go to your main device (not mobile)
Open the terminal
Run find . | grep '.pdf$' -c (on Windows: gci -r | where Name -match '\.pdf$')
Repeat the previous command, replacing “pdf” with any file format you are interested in sharing. We suggest: jpg, mp3, and png. 🔆 Bonus: html, js, ttf, odt, svg
Take a screenshot of the output
Share the screenshot on the Fediverse, using the #fileCountChallenge hashtag (please, copy-paste the actual text from the terminal in the image description/alt text)
Add your (user)name and results to the scoreboard
🆒 Bonus: share the story explaining why you have so many/little files for one format.

🏆 Awards

There is a secret prize for the three people who have the most PDFs, JPEGs, and HTMLs. More info to follow.

Boost, share, fork… Do whatever you want, but please have fun while doing it.

I willl keep writing updates. Yaaaaaaay ⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️

#fileCountChallenge #fileCount #XPUB #challenge #terminal #Linux #cmd #CLI #find #grep #filesystem #file #files

find | grep '.ttf$' -c
427

find | grep '.odt$' -c
637

find | grep '.svg$' -c
3737

find | grep '.mp3$' -c
150

find | grep '.js$' -c
38819

find | grep '.png$' -c
19199

ALT

find | grep '.pdf$' -c
2676

find | grep '.html$' -c
7292

find | grep '.md$' -c
8093

find | grep '.mp4$' -c
1386

find | grep '.jpg$' -c
20561

find | grep '.jxl$' -c
35

find | grep '.ttf$' -c
427

ALT

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42d

Wir von der LUG Nürnberg sind auch auf vielen Linux-Veranstaltungen in Deutschland und Österreich zu Gast. Viele Events haben wir in unserem Kalender eingetragen. Wer wissen möchten, an welchen Veranstaltungen wir teilnehmen und uns vielleicht anschließen will einfach unseren Matrix Kanal verfolgen. Dort laufen alle aktuelle Informationen zusammen.

Hier unsere Termine unter LUG-Noris:

https://www.lug-noris.de/termine/Events%20nach%20Jahr/2026/17

Hier unser Matrix-Kanal:

https://matrix.to/#/#lug-noris:matrix.lug-noris.de

#linux #nürnberg #lpd #termine

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@simontatham It's been a looong time since I used #putty (I ran it in a #Wine "bottle", these came from #flatpak, I'm using Debian 13 #KDE). Thanks for all your efforts!

To my mind, 98% of the time, people would use putty to log into a #linux box/VPS, like say a #RaspberryPi (Raspberry Pi OS, is #Debian Trixie 13-based). This would be a sensible default assumption, **demographically**.

It took a good 2 hours of struggling, just to get 256 colors to work in Putty! (#Python's textualize library seriously expects 256, or *it can crash* when the Theme is changed). Please let the defaults be sane, so there's no struggle for 256 colors! Please alleviate my nerd rage - I beseech you!

1) Sane TERM env var:
Connection -> Data -> Terminal details -> Terminal-type string -> "putty-256color"

2) Sane default font:
Window -> Appearance -> Font settings -> "Change" button -> adwaita mono 12

3) Sane bolding of text:
Window -> Colors -> General options for color usage -> Indicate bolded text by changing: The font

4) Sane (Linux-terminal-style) Ctrl + Shift + {C,V} (for copy and paste):
Window -> Selection -> Assign copy/paste actions to clipboard -> Ctrl + Shift + (C,V}: System Clipboard

In putty, TERM should be set to putty-256color

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1y

Hallo Fediverse! Ik zoek een nieuwe baan. Na 2 jaar in een een steeds benauwder wordende corporate omgeving gewerkt te hebben begint mijn intrinsieke motivatie een bijzonder laag niveau te bereiken. Help me hieruit!

Dus ben je op zoek naar een goeie Linux engineer, laat het me weten via een DM. CV heb ik bij de hand.

Het liefst werk ik voor een non-profit organisatie of een organisatie met een groot maatschappelijk belang.

#Linux #GetFediHired #OpZoekNaarEenBaan #OpZoekNaarWerk #OpenSource

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1y

Guten Morgen #hatclan! Schönen Montag!
Mein Streamplan für diese Woche:

- Montag: „Theme Hospital (CorsixTH)“
- Dienstag: streamfrei
- Mittwoch: streamfrei
- Donnerstag: „Scott Whiskers in: the Search for Mr. Fumbleclaw“
- Freitag: „Gamedec“
- Samstag: „The Will of Arthur Flabbington“
- Sonntag: „Sumerian Six“

Die Streams starten um 20 MEZ / 19 UTC und enden etwa 5 Stunden später.
https://live.hatnix.net #Owncast #Linux #Gaming #DRMfree #Livestream

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1y

Friction 1.0.0 RC 1 is now available 🥳

https://friction.graphics/releases/friction-100-rc1.html

#motiongraphics #motiondesign #mograph #animation #svg #vector #2d #graphics #artWithOpenSource #opensource #linux #skia #friction #friction2d #enve

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41d

Sad to know #Linux From Scratch #LFS is dropping #SysVinit support and going #systemd only now

Linux From Scratch Abandoning SysVinit Support

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1y

Hey #linux people and #developers, I need your advice.

My 8 year old son has fallen in love with this old laptop that honestly isn't useful for that much as the speed and wifi is so slow.

But he says he wants to learn how to code on it.

This brought me back to the days of GW-basic when I was a kid.

Is there something like gw or q basic for Linux. Something that would run on a 32 bit computer?

ALT

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38d

I've been looking for a clean, #NoAI Markdown editor to replace Logseq. Logseq is great but has a lot of bloat that I don't need for simple writing (like my scripts). I tried MarkText and I enjoy it, but I just learned that it hasn't been updated in over a year with little to no activity on their github, which is a concern for security and longevity.

What are you all using for distraction free writing, especially for markdown?

#FOSS #OpenSource #Linux #Debian #Markdown

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40d

Minimalism isn’t about aesthetics.
It’s about removing waste and keeping only what’s functional.
The character comes from use, not decoration.

A few moments of the same idea, different contexts:

https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/s/hnxOCFXRhy
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/s/6IgxcCreKy
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minimal_Setups/s/buTWerlfHi

#suckless #linux #thinkpad #minimalism

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258d

Am I the enlightened one? Maybe. 😶‍🌫️

#linux

ALT

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40d

Installing #Slackware #Linux using #vmm on #OpenBSD. Got some help from this video on getting the console to display correctly in the terminal. #RunBSD #BSD #virtualization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZnM-T6Os-s

Planning on using this as a practice Linux system for my Linux+ studies.

Screenshot of MATE Desktop on OpenBSD showing MATE System Monitor on the lower right showing brief system information, and MATE Terminal maximized underneath the System Monitor showing three terminal tabs, but focused on the left one where the Slackware installation process is taking place via a serial console connection to vmm. It's waiting for me to select a partition on which to install Slackware, and highlighted on device /dev/sda2 which is 8 gigabytes.

ALT

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45d

New Vivaldi release for Windows, Mac & Linux. We got some cool stuff for you and we avoided AI, so enjoy!

#Windows #Macos #Linux #Browser #Vivaldi #Computer #AI

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-7-8-launches-with-message-to-big-tech-humans-dont-need-ai-babysitters/

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54d

#AskFedi : How to bulk download all emails in inbox from #Yahoo email? I confess, I do not have a good habit of archiving and backing-up my emails. Now my inbox is booming and reaching ~10k emails since I have subscribed to a few mail lists. I do have #Alpine set up locally on my laptop to read them once in a while. I tried Select All and Save in Alpine however it is too slow and easily fail simply because it took so long that remote server would kill the connection.
#FOSS #Unix #Linux

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1y

How do you sort your

files?
What’s your “home”

file-tree look like?

#lang_en #askfedi #filesystem #organization #unix #gnu #linux #lignux

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364d

> quiz is pretty cynical about certain subjects.

Oh, I feel you. Believe me!

#lang_en #quiz #games
#unix #bsd #lignux #gnu #linux

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40d

Every now and then when I come back to use my daily driver running #Debian #Linux, I got surprised why #apt still does not provided short-formed commands like #pkg in #FreeBSD and #pkgin in #NetBSD do such as:

# FreeBSD
pkg ins vim # same as pkg install vim
pkg sea vim # same as pkg search vim

# NetBSD
pkgin in vim # same as pkgin install vim
pkgin se vim # same as pkgin search vim

# while in Debian
apt search vim # no apt se/sea
apt install vim # no apt in/ins

#Unix #BSD #FOSS

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39d

I do enjoy a desktop environment that allows you to _easily_ create an old skool right-click menu on your desktop.

There's some quirks to configuring the ordering, not sure if I'll need to hand edit the menu once I get it most of the way there.

For a mutli-head setup this avoids having to have an Application Launcher on every screen, but it does require access to unobscured desktop in order to work.

And my nerdy part likes the '80s-'90s UNIX desktop vibes it creates. Ha.

#Linux #RunBSD #KDE #KDEPlasma #desktop #DesktopEnvironment #GUI #UX

Cropped screenshot showing the KDE Menu Editor app with the resultant right-click desktop menu beside it. Nothing fancy, just basic usability and customization.

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39d

I've been messing around with #LXQT in a vm lately. I really kind of like it.

Is anyone using LXQT in a multi-head / multi-monitor configuration?

Any issues with where it defaults to placing new apps, resuming from screensaver or hibernation, adding/removing displays while running? Anything else I'm not thinking about?

#Linux #RunBSD #LXQT #Desktop #DesktopEnvironment

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