theshatterstone54

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[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I really like the idea of user-friendly selfhosting (which is essentially what this company is offering, I mean hell, I've had similar business ideas floating around in my head too) BUT any company that has:

  1. an in-the-know marketing team

  2. Any employees that are somewhat technical enough (which should be guaranteed for a company with this sort of product

  3. NOT a scam

Would know what a HUGE risk reputation-wise it is to showcase crypto-related selfhosting on the FRONT page. It's like a "build-a-red-flag" or "destroy-our-reputation" speedrun. Even IF you want to offer this, anyone in-the-know with at least 3 braincells would bury this deep in the page and make it difficult to find (if they were well-intentioned in the first place) because at this point anything crypto, especially being the main offering, is a huge red flag.

If instead, they offered a nextcloud instance, for example, or Pihole as an adblocker, or some other good and common services, maybe a selfhosted VPN (or maybe not, because of the stupid and misleading ads of VPN companies), they would be seen as 100% more legit.

Edit: Just checked their marketplace and they have:

Jellyfin

Vaultwarden

FreeGPT-2

Gitea

Matrix

Nextcloud

Their own service for TOR pages

Ghost (a blogging platform)

SearxNG (a search engine)

I mean, add Wordpress, Pihole and some other friendly services, and advertise THOSE!!! Build your own Google (SearxNG)! Build your own MS Office online and OneDrive (Nextcloud)! Build your own Github (Gitea)! Build your own Discord (Matrix)! Build your own password manager (Vaultwarden)! Build your own Netflix (Jellyfin)!

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 17 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The day Louis pets the cat will be a legendary one

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't use plasma so definitely not plasma issues. I use SDDM on the Sway Edition and then install Hyprland as my Wayland Compositor of choice.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Yes. Numerous COPR repos not updated aside, my sddm theme broke and doesn't detect Qtgraphicaleffects (which is installed). You know what the weirdest part is? There are 2 "dependencies" for the theme: quickcontrols and graphicaleffects, and luckily, quickcontrols was detected properly. I ended up rewriting the theme, and while it works, it is far from where it needs to be. Safe to say, I'm very annoyed.

Edit: I actually did a clean install, as I tried some other distros a few days before F40 released.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What AI service did you use to get this? It doesn't work, but ChatGPT (3.5) just told me to edit the xorg config to add tap-to-click (which I did but it didn't do anything, probably because X11 is not installed)

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago

If RHEL is as shit as you say, what do you recommend companies switch to?

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I should have clarified, as I don't have plasma installed, I don't think sddm can use kwin.

In fact, the docs say it normally uses "weston --kiosk" by default

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Everyone I've heard mention it pronounces it as antics so I guess that's the right one

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

And that's why It's great to have choice. Also, if you start off in CLI, it can be quite overwhelming. The first time I had to partition my drive I was super scared not to mess it up. A few months later I knew exactly what I was doing.... when I was using a graphical installer or Gparted. Earlier today, I partitioned my drive using cfdisk (fdisk feels kinda painful; press this, then this, and if, like me, you don't know the commands by heart, it can take too long), and I installed Arch manually cuz I was bored. It was my first time doing a manual install with systemd-boot (always did grub in the past), so I didn't realise I had to write my own boot entries for all 3 kernels (mainline, zen and lts), and because of font issues, I just switched back to Fedora (going up a version from 39 to 40 in the process) where I had an issue with a qt component that meant my sddm theme was not working. It isn't the theme's fault, that's for sure, as it worked perfectly on Fedora 39 and elsewhere, and because pretty much all themes I could find relied on this qt module (it's qtgraphicaleffects, packaged as qt5-qtgraphicaleffects on Fedora) , I got a bit angry and then sat down and rewrote the theme, removing any dependency on graphicaleffects (was only used for drop shadows in some popups), though for some reason some of the colours also got a bit funky but it works and it works well (I also had to hide one of the popups but it wasn't an essential one).

But I digress. Point is, if it's more comfortable for you, you'll use it. If it isn't but you want it to be, then to ill force yourself to use and get better. If you don't, you just won't. That's the power of choice in Linux.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The arrow is the "prompt", which you currently haven't set. It's in the wofi config.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Even when that releases, it doesn't mean distros will switch to it. Just because it's systemd, doesn't always mean it's better. Just look at network manager vs systemd-networkd. Correct me if I'm wrong but afaik they are made to serve the same purpose and most distros prefer Network Manager over systemd-networkd.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

River is great for layouts. My main issue is that some of ghese projects need furthed stability and others are still adding features, changing and breaking configs, which could make for a painful experience because of version mismatch between distros, for people like me, who constantly hop between a few distros and can't settle on either of them because none are perfect.

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