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Now to patch it all together and hit the Publish button everywhere. Looking forward to Monday. Season 5 is on its way. 🎉
I've turned off Secure Boot a little while ago because enrolling keys is annoying at best, so it shouldn't matter much, but the AMD improvements that are bundled in here make it important. I suppose I'll see if I can get Fedora to boot through Secure Boot after all this.
Been letting the accessory things wither for a little bit, but, at least over here, the news should start flowing again. I might also try to get another couple live streams going outside of the usual 2 week cadence. 👌
nextcloud.com
This seems to be a pretty great release. If they are to be believed: * Federated chat using Nextcloud Talk * Performance optimizations for most things * Circles enhanced to Teams with lots of new features * Assistant 2.0 brings new AI features for productivity I'm most hyped about the performance improvements. 😁
Logged in and subscribed to a dozen communities. Clicking on "Subscribed" results in a spinning circle that goes away after ~30 seconds, but the posts never display. Firefox developer tools provides message: "504 Gateway" or "Timeout occurred while waiting for a slot to become available" for url https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/api/v3/post/list?page=1&limit=20&sort=New&type_=Subscribed&auth= Viewing subscribed communities individually works as does viewing "Local" and "All" communities.
It's finally back up. Guess what just showed up in my email! What should I say? 😏
One of the bugs got us, so stay tuned while we heal up. The MATE history will be here before you know it :)
Don't mind me folks. I'm out here just breakin the Lemmy. So if you noticed some downtime today around 2PM CST, oops. 😅 [Dan](https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/u/monetaryabyss) saved me from myself, so we should be good again.
orgmode.org
First time I'm writing so, first of all thanks for the show and the space here to talk about Linux and FOSS, it's really great! I wanted to mention org mode for note taking, although it might not be what Leo is looking for, is worth having a look at it (also in case you really go for the history of note taking apps). Org mode is the favorite tool of Emacs geeks such as me. Check out the link, it has pretty nice features: markup sintax, organization and agenda, code blocks with sintax highlighting and executation, export to several formats like html, pdf, odt... and a very long etc. Of course, all works well within Emacs. However there are more and more tools external to Emacs that deal well with it, for example github, gitlab and codeberg render it automatically like the markdown files. About the portability, there are several apps created to deal with it. The favorite for mobile seems to be orgzly. Although I prefer and use [Zettel Notes](https://znotes.thedoc.eu.org/), which could actually be a potential app for Leo. Zettel notes uses markdown as default but it accepts also org and txt. It has great organization of notes, tags and links. You can add audio, self recorded included, video, whole webpages, etc. It has capacity to link via git repos, nextcloud, google drive and others. And my fav, allows different types of encryption and password protected, including GPG using personal keys. I have my notes in org mode on my personal and working laptops on emacs (which BTW on windows is great because it gives a Linux-like-feeling) and synchronize it to the app via git, with a few sensitive notes encrypted. It works great for me but of course, it requires some work for setting up. But since you are thinkerers, I thought you might like to have a look at it. Good luck and let me know if you did.
This one was a grueling process, but was made so much easier because KDE does a pretty amazing job of keeping almost all of their own historical resources. Only a handful of archive.org links show up here. Take a look and enjoy the stroll down memory lane.
I couldn't pass up the opportunity to upgrade to the best Linux Kernel ever, 6.6.6. Of course, it had to be in front of an Iron Maiden poster!🤘
I've been on Cinnamon for quite a few years now, and I've loved just about everything about it, but when I got my Framework, things got a little rough. The odd screen size 2256x1504 looks spectacular on its own, but with 125% or 150% scaling, the fonts are magnificently crisp and things are, generally, the right size for me. But X didn't seem to like this much. CPU was a bit higher most of the time, and while this wasn't much of an issue while plugged in, it added sluggishness and battery drain when I wasn't. Wayland was the answer, but it just wasn't ready (for me). And so, for now, I'm trying out Ubuntu 23.10 with Gnome 45 on Wayland. Not a huge fan of snaps, but they're working fine. Up until now, things using Xwayland would be blurry when scaled, but after looking back in, most of the apps I stare at have made the switch to Wayland proper! Discord, Element, Firefox, Thunderbird. The list goes on. I can deal with things like Bitwarden and Cider being a little fuzzy since I just poke at them from time to time. I'm just so impressed. The future is now!
My work place is a Microsoft shop through and through, so all their stuff is based in Azure, Active Directory, Outlook, O365 and Citrix. And they provide my with a Windows laptop for work, which is really great. The only issue I have with it, is the Windows part. So I took it upon myself to see if I can use a Linux install for work in a Windows environment. So I took my already installed private Linux laptop to work and it seemed to be going alright, expect that it's an old laptop at this point, so the GPU was not good enough to run the screens and the Bluetooth version was to old for the peripherals. So this weekend I took the plunge. I cloned the Windows drive with CloneZilla (in case of emergency, you know) and installed Arch Linux on my work laptop as the only OS. And so far, everything has worked. Except for 1 small detail that I totally forgot about! Printing. Specifically label printing, as we do ship some stuff around the country. The printer in question is a Zebra label printer G420-something and is set up on the internet Windows network at work. I've been at work all day and I haven't been able to setup this printer at all. This is mostly a rant and acknowledgement that running Linux in a Windows work environment is possible, but it's also a small whimper for help to see if anyone has managed to be able to connect to a network Windows printer. I've setup a default Samba and Avahi system, but it won't "probe" for the printer. I don't know the exact name/hostname/IP of the printer either.
An update on the status of the next episode. It's coming!
Season 4 is on the rails! We recorded a couple of nights ago, and got some of the preliminary editing done. Expect the behind-the-scenes stuff to show up REAL SOON (probably tonight?) The early access stuff will land later in the weekend, and of course, Monday, it will be available for all. We have some exciting topics and distros lined up for you this Season, and we hope you'll enjoy it with us.
Season 4 of [Linux User Space](https://linuxuserspace.show) is rapidly approaching. [@leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show](https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/u/leo) and I are always looking to make improvements. If you have any please send them our way. Also, if there are topics or other feedback you want to see us cover, jot them down here too. As always, thanks for listening and being a part of the LUS community.