Music lover and English teacher with an interest in slightly geeky things
mastodon / blog / listenbrainz
(just gonna be annoying and note that the 404 Media article isn’t a true “paywall”, they addressed this on their blog: https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-address/. If you create an account you don’t need to pay and they email the published articles in full every day.)
I just use whatever text editor I have and make MD files synced with Syncthing. On mobile I use Markor.
I’ve tried several different methods, and as much as I try to be organised, I feel pretty good with my folder of files.
I use super boring Claws Mail for my personal email. I handle my contacts with Khard and calendars with Khal.
I don’t use a Yubikey though.
I’ve been using Linux for a long time. When I install my fist step is to uninstall. I get not wanting things taking up space.
You should be able to remove things like LibreOffice and so on without any issues.
In the past, dependency chains screwed things up depending on the distro. (Remove Chrome? Oh, well, we’ll remove your DE too! I remember once uninstalling VLC, which I never use, wanted to uninstall the browser and other media apps…)
I did go and look around, and you are right. Lots of posts, older and more recent, telling people not to uninstall and change to a minimal distro.
cmus is great for music
mpv for videos, there are different extensions to automatically open YT videos with it.
beets for sorting music
nicotine plus for looking for music
syncthing
zathura
improving performance isn’t easy if you feel like things are running smoothly, but there are a few laptop specific things like tlp that you could look into although I suspect that distro uses them out of the box
Outside of Gnome I think you may need to install an additional package like evolution-on
Already mentioned, but Strawberry is worth checking out. If Quod Libet works, stick with that. I liked it when I used it.
mpd has a number of frontends.
No longer developed I think, but I’ll mention gmusicbrowser as it used to be my go-to.
cmus is what I use now.
I also have a very large library and use Debian 12.5 so I’ll bookmark this thread for later.
Sometimes yt-dlp drops fragments leading to corrupt files, maybe that’s what’s going on.
I went through something similar with my Brother printer, but stuck with USB. I’ll have to give your tips a try later.
I haven’t been able to get 2-sided to work except with LibreOffice for some reason, but maybe that DuplexNoTumble thing is the key…or value.
Debian
I’ve tried different distros and liked them, but tend to come back to Debian.
My scepticism is through the roof reading this. First, I find it hard to believe that he has two working units unless they are programmed to sit in front of a terminal and tap Y…
The rest speaks for itself: Musk likes to BS.
If you are geoblocked you can stream it with https://ga.pbs-video.pbs.org/videos/nova/de12ed2c-17e6-4434-a430-7f80c26a6002/2000426341/hd-16x9-mezzanine-1080p/nova5107-AABR-AVC_793.m3u8 with mpv
See also: this thread on Mastodon https://octodon.social/@cwebber/112451933593063510
Ok. Makes sense. The video is geoblocked for me so I probably should’ve kept my mouth shut
Maybe just bad research. I haven’t tried, but I’m sure if you search for “how to protect yourself online” some of the SEO manipulating websites show up in the first results.
Also, for Plank at least, I have a feeling that development has stopped so waiting won’t help. You’ll need to find an alternative.
Hi,
It it possible that Plank doesn’t work with Wayland, plain and simple.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/plank/+bug/1632841
The latest version dates back to 2019.
I think Dash to dock is used often.
For Guake the version in Bookworm is from 2022 and you may need to set an environmental variable or perhaps it isn’t built with Wayland support on Debian.
You could hit up the Debian forums for a better answer.
If I’m correct, that would mean that technically, I could authenticate to an SSH server without supplying my name if I use a private key?
Yes.
The public key contains a user name/email address string, I’m aware, is the same information also encoded into the private key as well? If yes, I don’t see the need to hand that info to an SSH call. If no, how does the SSH server know which public key it’s supposed to use to challenge my private key ownership?
Most of this can be found reading through different Git docs, whether from GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Gitea, etc. When using Git you can use different keys for different repos/forges and each has a defined pair, similar to accessing different SSH servers that require specific key pairs. I do understand your questions, but I lack the finesse to explain it since I really only use SSH and Git for my blog and not for anything too complicated.
There are some tips here that might help
https://github.com/dajeed/arch-linux-font-improvement-guide
Important to note that restarting or running sudo fc-cache -fv is key when doing things with fonts.
There are solutions that work. Like you, I would enjoy a simple app that allows for subscriptions and playlists without tracking or using an account. I mostly use RSS feeds (newsboat) and watch the videos through mpv.
And yt-fzf is great too. It uses invidious instances instead of YouTube links.
Many have surprised me for different reasons.
The most recent that did is Alpine. I decided for some reason to install it for regular desktop use on an RPI400.
First surprise, the ISO was so small. Second surprise, everything installed so fast when I used the install scripts. Third surprise was the up-to-date repos. The final surprise was the community: it handled noob questions and complicated questions so well, walked users through click by click and one command at a time. Awesome and totally an acceptable option for a desktop which is why I immediately installed it on my main laptop and used it for a number of months.