Fedora Linux Sway 桌面環境變數設置 ⌘ Read more
Run MacOS VM’s in Docker on Windows & Linux with Docker-OSX
If you use Docker and virtual machines often, you may be happy to know that you can run MacOS VM’s in Docker, at near native performance atop Windows or Linux, thanks to an open source project called Docker-OSX. Yes, that means you can run MacOS on a PC, whether that PC is running Windows or … Read More ⌘ Read more
The age of AI generated Linux Distros has begun!
Listen now (17 mins) | Lunduke’s Big Tech Show - October 31st, 2023 ⌘ Read more
Watch YouTube Without Ads with FreeTube for Mac, Windows, Linux
YouTube is the webs most popular video site by a long shot, practically serving as a television replacement for millions. But as any Youtube viewer knows, the ads can be very aggressive and there are times where you’ll have to watch a 30 second ad before you can watch one minute of content, which is … Read More ⌘ Read more
Docker Desktop 4.25: Enhancements to Docker Desktop on Windows, Rosetta for Linux GA, and New Docker Scout Image Analysis Settings
The Docker Desktop 4.25 release supports the GA of Rosetta for Linux, a feature that furthers the speed and productivity that Docker Desktop brings. We’ve also optimized the installation experience on Windows and simplified Docker Scout image analysis settings in this latest Docker Desktop release. ⌘ Read more
Linux Kernel Maintainer Chastises Lunduke
Listen now (15 mins) | Lunduke’s Big Tech Show - October 12th, 2023 ⌘ Read more
How to download and install Linux: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/install
Run Threads on Desktop with Mac, Windows PC, Linux
Threads, the social network microblogging Twitter/X competitor launched by Meta (Facebook), is typically thought of as a mobile only experience, with users having the Threads app on their iPhone or Android device. But, if you have a Mac, Windows PC, or Linux computer, and you want to use Threads on your desktop computer, you can … Read More ⌘ Read more
How to Stop Steam Pop-Up Ads on Launch
Steam, the popular gaming platform for Mac, Windows, and Linux, is great in that it offers a ton of really fun popular games, but it’s not without its annoyances. One of the most frustrating Steam annoyances are its popup ads on startup, or what it calls “Steam News”, that slowly launch in a new pop-up … Read More ⌘ Read more
Stuck in Big Picture Mode in Steam? Here’s How to Exit Big Picture Mode
Steam, the popular gaming platform for Mac, Windows, and Linux, has an optional Big Picture Mode that takes over the screen of their device or computer, and changes the interface quite a bit. If you’re like many Steam users, you may at some point accidentally enter into Big Picture Mode, and then wonder how to … Read More ⌘ Read more
“Talking about Linux Tycoon 3 for Android & Gameboy”
Listen now (18 mins) | Lunduke Journal Podcast Special Announcement ⌘ Read more
Linux Tycoon 3 comes to Android & Gameboy (seriously)
Because who doesn’t want a Linux distro simulator in their pocket? ⌘ Read more
Linux Sucks: 2023 schedule announced!
This one is gonna be brutal. ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net yeah, it’s true. Thing is, Linux as a desktop operating system sucked in 1996 yet I adopted it then anyway because I wanted nothing to do with MS anymore 😆 I know it’s not for everyone but I’m pretty tolerant of a less-than-stellar experience if it means I can be free of big-company garbage.
I haven’t tried a Linux-based smartphone OS in a long time so I don’t have any idea how bad/good it might be. I figure when I finally break down and get a new phone I’ll experiment on my current phone.
@adi@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net F-droid. Getting APKs from developers you trust and side-loading them. Some flavor of Linux. Some distro of the open source parts of Android.
There are lots of options. Bit by bit I divest from anything that’s distributed from Google Play. With my latest phone I find and download APKs so that I could have the app without all the Google crap woven through it. By the time I need to replace this one I’ll be fully free of Google Play. Most of my apps come from F-droid now. You can a perfectly functional phone/pocket computer unless you’re addicted to installing dozens of corporate apps.
@mckinley@twtxt.net Yes, I’m still with jmp.chat, and still very happy with them overall. Their beta period ended and their pricing increased a bit, so that’s worth a bit of consideration. I also managed to get one of their eSIMs. I’m slightly less happy with that aspect of their service, though they seem to be actively working on improving it and I knew in advance this was an early beta kind of thing and likely to have issues.
The only unreliability with calls that I’ve noticed was traceable to the unreliability of my own internet connection. I’ve confused incoming calls by simultaneously making and taking calls from the computer and the phone, but I think it’s understandable that problems might arise and that’s not a real use case for me. Once or twice I did not receive a text transcription of a voice mail, but the support is usually quick to address things like that.
I host my own XMPP server and have for a good decade now, and that’s what I use with jmp.chat. I can’t speak to the quality of their hosting options.
Group texting works fine for me if one of the other parties initiates the group text. I haven’t tried to initiate my own group text in well over a year; last time I did, it didn’t work. That may or may not be a problem for you, and it may or may not have been fixed by now. Worth investigating more if it’s important. I should also say I’ve only ever used group texts with 3 participants, and can’t speak to what happens if there are more nor whether there are upper limits.
Group texts don’t use MUC. Rather, they use a special syntax in the JID, something like “+1XXX,+1YYY,…,+1ZZZ@cheogram.com”, where the + and , are required, the XXX, YYY, through ZZZ are the phone numbers (no dashes or other special chars just digits), and the @cheogram.com at the end is required.
I recommend the cheogram app if you’re on android. It has a lot of nice features on top of the Conversations base. I use gajim on my (linux) computer and it works well with jmp.chat.
I’m happy to answer other questions if you have them!
Rewriting wipEout
The source code for the classic PSX launch title wipEout was leaked in 2022. A few month ago I finally sat down to take a look at it. The result is a (nearly) complete rewrite that compiles to Windows, Linux, macOS and WASM.
Thanks to WASM and WebGL you can play wipEout right in your browser!
I’m not the only one who embarked on a path to r … ⌘ Read more
https://inkbox.ddns.net/ kobo ereader OS based on alpine linux
https://eupnea-linux.github.io/ chromebook
@prologic@twtxt.net It was super useful if you needed to do the sorts of things it did. I’m pretty sad.
At its core was Sage, a computational mathematics system, and their own version of Jupyter notebooks. So, you could do all kinds of different math stuff in a notebook environment and share that with people. But on top of that, there was a chat system, a collaborative editing system, a course management system (so if you were teaching a class using it you could keep track of students, assignments, grades, that sort of thing), and a bunch of other stuff I never used. It all ran in a linux container with python/conda as a base, so you could also drop to a terminal, install stuff in the container, and run X11 applications in the same environment. I never taught a class with it but I used to use it semi-regularly to experiment with ideas.
Some recent Programming-y and Linux-y comic strips
Like, you know, about Python and compiler warnings and stuff. ⌘ Read more
Mount iOS devices on GNU/Linux, great for photo backup: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse
Introduction to SELinux
SELinux is the most popular Linux Security Module used to isolate and protect system components from one another. Learn about different access control systems and Linux security as I introduce the foundations of a popular type system. ⌘ Read more
Latest Lunduke’s Big Tech Show episodes
So much Linux-y goodness. ⌘ Read more
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Doesn’t even compile on my system, which is apparently broken:
> cc -Wall -Wextra -o win win.c $(pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk4)
cc: error: unrecognized argument in option ‘-mfpmath=sse -msse -msse2 -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-4.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/fribidi -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/uuid -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/graphene-1.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/graphene-1.0/include -I/usr/include/libmount -I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -lgtk-4 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lharfbuzz -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lcairo-gobject -lcairo -lgraphene-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0’
cc: note: valid arguments to ‘-mfpmath=’ are: 387 387+sse 387,sse both sse sse+387 sse,387
I have used Linux for most my life, and it hat been my daily driver for nearly two decades now. I have been bugged recently how when I exit the terminal buffer has not been cleared leaving whatever contents available to the next user to view.
a quick man zsh I found the STARTUP/SHUTDOWN FILES, and then a quick search on resetting the termianl buffer led me to <esc>c or printf "\033c".
In five minutes something which has bothered me for who knows how long was resolved. Just needed some motivation to figure it out.
The IBM Effect: Red Hat and Fedora ditching LibreOffice
IBM’s continued war on Desktop Linux has new casualties ⌘ Read more
MkLinux: The delightfully weird PowerPC Mac Linux Distro of the 1990s
Co-Developed by Apple, with Linux running as a user-mode task. Seriously. ⌘ Read more
Tech tip: Install “kernel-modules-hook” in Arch Linux to keep old modules after a kernel update so you can load new ones without rebooting.
https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty Unprivileged Linux container packed into a single portable executable
USBGuard, USB device authorization policies for Linux: https://github.com/USBGuard/usbguard
On my blog: Graphs with Chart.js https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/10/chart-js.html #linux #programming #techtips
Tech Layoffs Hit Linux: Red Hat Laying Off 760 Employees
CEO of the largest Linux company: “We must continue to sharpen our focus and do fewer things better.” ⌘ Read more
The “Big Three” Linux companies ranked by Revenue, Employees, Kernel Contributions
Red Hat, SUSE, & Canonical. Because stats and charts are fun. ⌘ Read more
The very first interview about Linux with Linus Torvalds - Oct 28, 1992
A 22 year old Linus talks about his creation… before he knew it would change the world. ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Big Tech Show - Apr 9, 2023 - Hour 1
Listen now (51 min) | RISC-V Tablet, New Linux Laptops, The possible End of the Internet Archive, and the Substack v. Twitter War! ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: Agenda da Comunidade #Ubuntu Portugal para o mês de Abril:
Encontro da Comunidade em Sintra e festa de lançamento do @ubuntu 23.04, no dia 20 de Abril
Festa Lunar, no @CentroLinuxPt para poderem conhecer, experimentar e installar o #LunarLobster
#Linux #SoftwareLivre**
Agenda da Comunidade #Ubuntu Portugal para o mês de Abril:
\* Encontro da Comunidade em Sintra e festa de lançamento do @ubuntu 23.04 … ⌘ Read more
Pine64 launches a RISC-V Linux Tablet
The one catch: Linux might not actually boot when you first get it. (I want one anyway.) ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Normalizing Image Type and Size https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/05/file-type-size.html #linux #programming #techtips
The future of Linux as a gaming platform
Listen now (19 min) | The Lunduke Journal of Technology Podcast - Apr 4, 2023 ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Big Tech Show - Apr 2, 2023 - Hour 2
Listen now (48 min) | The Mark I computer, The Altair Fest of 1976, & 1990s Linux Gaming. ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Big Tech Show - Apr 2, 2023 - Hour 1
Listen now (48 min) | Modular laptops! Tech Layoffs! Linux-powered Street Curbs! Pure insanity! ⌘ Read more
The very first article about video games on Linux… from 1994
Yes. It’s about DOOM. And, no. The reviewer didn’t have working sound on Linux. ⌘ Read more
What makes a “Linux Game” a “LINUX Game”?
Listen now (20 min) | If a game uses Wine, Javascript, or various engines or interpreters… is it a “Linux” game? ⌘ Read more
“Linux Games Week” begins!
March 29th - April 5th ⌘ Read more
Command Line e-Book Readers for Linux, Mac, and more
Because sometimes reading in a terminal is darned pleasant. ⌘ Read more
SUSE CEO out effective immediately, replacement CEO not available until later.
A failed IPO, political attacks, and purchased “awards” are the legacy of the departing CEO of the oldest Linux company. ⌘ Read more
The Linux Software Store War Rages On
Listen now (25 min) | The Lunduke Journal of Technology Podcast - Mar 8, 2023 ⌘ Read more