- 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
That’s why sway and river exist. They’re actually stable.
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.
Not when tvey run debian. shit just works, nonstop all the time
Let me introduce you to my good friend Sid.
…at the price of everything moving at snail’s pace
I tried to get on the Window Manager hype train — I know it is productive and shit and much more efficient than traditional desktops — but dropped it because it just needs to be configured endlessly and yet I still end up using the mouse when I am just laid back on my chair eating a banana. Installed KDE Plasma and stuck with it ever since. Everything doesn’t need to be text files and command line. A bit of user friendly GUI in life doesn’t hurt.
Gentoo Linux user here. Sometimes when I open my laptop’s lid, the hard drive disconnects
you get that feature for free?
It comes with the price of tons of compile time for everything
I am a computer person. My philosophy is probably a common one, if it works don’t touch it.
I am an Arch user. My philosophy is probably just as common: if it works, I must fuck with it
It’s a common philosophy practiced by everyone that says, “yeah, I probably shouldn’t mess with this, it is working fine right now, but … Maybe …”
Well, we profess to follow it at least.
The truthest truth, but also the hardest one to follow
No joke, I was getting tired of the constant breaking changes in Hyprland, so when I learned about the Lua update I just said fuck it and moved to Sway.
I wanted the “Debian Stable” of Wayland WMs and figured Sway was it.I feel the same way about sway. This being said Niri + Noctalia is a really powerful stable setup (in my experience) that gives you all the fancy effects.
There is even a setup wizard so you don’t need to mess with config files as much.
Sway also usesless ram than both hyprland AND i3.
And also
Btw, downloading a CD (.iso) on the phone to boot it, because your Linux broke while you had no bootable thumbdrive around. Is something a lot of people here did sometime.
I had that exact situation but simply went to the library to fix it. Modern phones scare me.
Always been partial to this one
PSA: get a cheap thumb drive and install ventoy. You’ll never regret it!
Plus you can technically still use it to store files if you make a directory in the ventoy dump partition.
I keep memtest86+, clonezilla, Ubuntu 24.04lts, gparted, and boot-repair on the drive.
maybe not ventoy specifically since it’s full of binary blobs that are virtually unvettable
Yeah, I need to find a better way. Been trying to setup pxe boot in docker
I never even thought of that - you then plug in your phone as a thumb drive? Makes sense.
I mean I’m not sure I could actually boot off of my phone as a USB drive. That would be an interesting concept.
Unlikely. The USB protocol requires one master and one or more slaves (or whatever less charged nomenclature you prefer). In all likelihood UEFI will blindly assume to be the master while Android and iOS require negotiation to figure out who’s boss and what interface to present.
Although given UEFI it might be possible to patch that functionality in.i had this feature when i installed ubports (ubuntu touch) on my phone in 2021.
much before that in 2013 my phone’s stock rom had a ‘driver install’ mode that presents an iso file in the system partition to the computer as a virtual cdrom, i could swap out that file with a linux iso and it would boot
The USB protocol and UEFI aren’t a problem, but Android/iOS might be. I’ve booted various PCs from a raspberry pi (USB-OTG), but the last time I tried to boot an iso from my android phone I couldn’t get it to work. It’s been a while so I can’t remember exactly what the issue was.
My guess the issue is that phones don’t just show up as simple drives, they rely on MTP support
That’s what I was referring to with “which interface to present.”
There’s a tool, whose name I forget, which is included in Kali NetHunter to do just that. It does whatever trickery is needed to present the phone/tablet as a bootable thumb drive. It requires root and, to my dismay when I needed it, I never owned a device that was rootable to fully use NetHunter. It could do a lot of other cool stuff via USB too; phone as a Bad USB, Rubber Ducky, automated Windows login bypasses, etc.
Justo a couple days ago I needed a microsd to usb adapter. Couldn’t find one, so I loaded the files to a memory with fat usb(I don’t know what it’s called) and usb c connections. Then connected the memory to my phone and on my phone I moved the files to the microsd card.
Not the same but similar vibes I think.
It’s sad that several phones are removing the memory slot.
Fat USB is called USB A. The one you use for printers is USB B. Then there are mini-A, mini-B, micro-A, micro-B and USB 3.0 micro-B which are all different shapes physically. And USB A 3.0 has slightly different contacts from USB A 1.0/2.0
Anyway, that was when USB nomenclature was still simple. Don’t google anything they did past version 3.0, for your own sanity. We’re now down to mostly the USB C and A shapes, but USB 3.2 gen 1x1 is the same thing as USB 3.1 gen 1 is the same thing as USB 3.0.
USB 4 simplified things a bit, but now you can get things like
Gen 4 asymmetric 3:1
Been there, done that
Read the changelog, might take 5 minutes to fix. Don’t have time? Rollback.
It’s not hard
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.
Man I posted this and now my servers down. Looks like maybe my NVMe drive failed. Can’t catch a break.
I keep spare computers around just in case I break something but still need to be productive
same, but at some point it feels like i have far too many. lol
Two is one, and one is none
How many is a dozen?
I can’t count that high
I’m not a computer guy. I’m a bicycle guy.
I build them up myself, buy cheap ones on ebay to fix and modify, know basically all there is to know about stem standards, drivetrain compatibility, etc.I currently have 6 non-functional bikes in my garage.
I’ve seen “my other car is 10 motorcycles that don’t run” stickers before and I felt personally attacked
The key is to call them all “pet projects” that are “still being worked on” and then not do anything with them for another month.
(Engineering/Tech guy here)
Me but with cameras. I have 2, maybe 3 working ones. Lots and lots of bits of others.
I just bought my fourth oneplus 6 phone. Two are non functional. Maybe this will be the one where I finally get linux running on my phone lol
I also have four non functional bikes
Hey, I am also trying to get OnePlus 6 for that purpose.
Or N900 for shits and giggles.you can get em new in the box on ebay. the used ones can be sketch.
eBay is pretty useless where I am. At least with their filtering. If only they included shipping in price filter.
Otherwise, the average item is along the lines of $5 + $50 shipping.Yeah, they are either shipped accross the world or some scumbag that tries to make easy money (ebay don’t tax you on the money for the shipping)
yeah these ship from china so whatever that costs where you are.
Any functional bikes tho? [or should I guess lol]
Yes, 1.
N+1
@cannedtuna <laughs in nixos>
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.
Yes, “wantonly” is spelled correctly here. I looked at it and immediately it felt wrong so this is for any like me who’s only ever heard it said.
Also, broke my Codium install today, no idea how but it won’t load debug values now, woo.
Ngl I always assumed it had a racist origin
Wantonly sounds like a place, like Wantonly Michigan or something like that.
I suppose they could rename Hell
