[-] communism@lemmy.ml 22 points 16 hours ago

Finally, the year of the Linux desktop

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 22 hours ago

No worries, was just confused lol

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 hours ago

I... never said it only synced with Nextcloud? Or are you just providing additional information for people?

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Recently started using this synced with my Nextcloud. Really happy with it, only complaint is the fact that I can't remove their "Regular event" calendar

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Well I know that, that's kind of the point of any encryption at rest that isn't also E2EE. I am the server admin in this case so I trust my own pinky promise that I'm encrypting emails at rest.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah you should turn it off, Mullvad's DNS servers already give you DNS privacy. I forget which DNS servers Firefox's DoH uses, but it will use some other DNS servers for Firefox with DoH enabled, which presumably you don't want if you went out of your way to set your DNS servers to Mullvad's.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't think the bottom of the meme suggests that dropping support for old versions is inherently bad. It's part of a larger image; in combination with the other screenshots it suggests people being forced to have Recall/other Win11 enshittification.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Fuuuuck there goes my plan to get this monkey to write Hamlet within the lifetime of the universe...

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Out of curiosity what's your use case for dual booting? I know it's a common choice for new Linux users and I did it too out of fear that I'd be missing something I need Windows for, but I've been completely Windows-free for a while and much happier for it. When I did have a Windows partition I never booted into it.

For games, Steam's Proton works pretty well for most games these days. You can check https://www.protondb.com/ to see if your game works well with Proton.

I've also had good experiences with Wine for productivity software. Similarly, you can check https://appdb.winehq.org/ to see how well your program runs on Wine.

Worst case scenario, if you have a decent enough PC, you can always run a Windows VM and that should run more or less anything.

And all of these avoid any trouble with Windows eating your grub install etc

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago

I don't think the issue is dropping support, but the ridiculous requirements to upgrade to Win11, plus the fact that more recent Windows have serious enshittification that means users don't want to upgrade in the first place.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks for all the links!

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submitted 3 days ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I was interested in hosting my own mail server that provides a similar level of privacy for users as Protonmail, ie the server admin cannot read any emails, even those which are not E2EE with PGP. Is there a self-hostable solution to this?

I'm aware the server admin can't read emails that were sent encrypted using the user's PGP key, but most emails I get are automated emails from companies/services/etc without the option to upload a public key to send the user encrypted email. If you're with a service like Protonmail, the server admin still cannot read even these emails.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml -2 points 4 days ago

I read it as a jokey community and maybe you took it too seriously. Regardless that's a kinda silly comment to leave. That's a community for, ironically or seriously, hating Linux, so obviously it's not in the spirit of the community to leave a serious comment defending Linux.

I see a lot of Windows hate on Lemmy. If someone made a post here complaining about how much they hate Windows, and a Windows fan replied explaining why Windows is so great, I would say it's kinda heavy-handed but not totally ridiculous for a mod to ban them, since a Linux community is probably not for this person.

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I don't own any controllers.

I started playing Dark Souls 3 which I now understand has a controller strongly recommended. I may as well just look into getting a controller of some kind as I have a few games that have somewhat janky kbm controls and are better enjoyed with a controller.

I just wanted to ask for general advice about what controller to get in terms of compatibility. Also if someone has made a controller that's more in the spirit of foss that also works fine with Steam and Proton games that would be nice?

I know Steam is pretty good with Playstation controllers and I used to use a PS controller (don't remember what generation) with some native Linux Steam games, not sure how the whole PS vs Xbox controller thing is affected by running games through Proton if at all? If it matters let me know, and I'll see if I can procure a controller for myself.

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submitted 1 month ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

Hi, was wondering if anyone knew of an app where you can use your camera to scan documents (like Adobe Scan) which is FOSS.

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You still have to pay for it because it costs money to make. But it's completely open-source beer so you can recreate it yourself if you don't want to buy it pre-made, or you want to modify the recipe.

I have no idea how to make beer otherwise I'd have a crack at this shitpost myself...

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submitted 2 months ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/technology@hexbear.net

I'm having a bit of trouble researching what country would be best to rent a VPS in, in terms of not getting communist content on there censored. Because obviously if content is deemed illegal in the country the server is hosted in, the VPS host is obligated to take it down (understandable enough, you can't really ask a company to break the law for you).

I'm also concerned with privacy laws too and protection from them.

I've heard various good things about "freedom of speech laws" and privacy laws in Iceland, Romania, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Finland, but I don't know the details.

Does anyone have any input? And if you recommend a certain host country, do you know of reputable VPS providers in that country?

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submitted 2 months ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I've only ever used desktop Linux and don't have server admin experience (unless you count hosting Minecraft servers on my personal machine lol). Currently using Artix and Void for my desktop computers as I've grown fond of runit.

I'm going to get a VPS for some personal projects and am at the point of deciding what distro I want to use. While I imagine that systemd is generally the best for servers due to the far more widespread support (therefore it's better for the stability needs of a server), I have a somewhat high threat model compared to most people so I was wondering if maybe I should use something like runit instead which is much smaller and less vulnerable. Security needs are also the reason why I'm leaning away from using something like Debian, because how outdated the packages are would likely leave me open to vulnerabilities. Correct me if I'm misunderstanding any of that though.

Other than that I'm not sure what considerations there are to make for my server distro. Maybe a more mainstream distro would be more likely to have the software in its repos that I need to host my various projects. On the other hand, I don't have any experience with, say, Fedora, and it'd probably be a lot easier for me to stick to something I know.

In terms of what I want to do with the VPS, it'll be more general-purpose and hosting a few different projects. Currently thinking of hosting a Matrix instance, a Mastodon instance, a NextCloud instance, an SMTP server, and a light website, but I'm sure I'll want to stick more miscellaneous stuff on there too.

So what distro do you use for your server hosting? What things should I consider when picking a distro?

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submitted 2 months ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

I use a 14px bitmap font as part of my system theme. It is set to display at 14px in my gtk theme which works for tabs, bookmarks, right-click menus, and other parts of Firefox UI, but the Firefox address bar doesn't seem to be the same size and is blurry.

How do I change the font size of the address bar? Is there an element I can target in userChrome?

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I've been reading through Signal's government requests and couldn't find a similar section on Mullvad's website. I'd be curious to read about them if there are any. It would seem unlikely to me that Mullvad has never received any kind of court order for information about a user.

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