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[?]MoZes ยป 🌐
@mozes@fosstodon.org

Just finished building the major Slackware updates (Plasma 6 plus a huge number of core package updates) under Open Source UTM using paravirtualised mode on Apple Silicon M2.

UTM has been absolutely rock solid throughout. Had to revert to the HoneyComb LX2 (16ร—2GHz cores, 32GB RAM) tho, because I couldnโ€™t dedicate enough memory to the VM -- the hostโ€™s OOM killer started terminating some of the large KDE package builds.

Dreaming of a Mac Mini M4 for the main build host...

    Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

    [?]jbz ยป 🌐
    @jbz@indieweb.social

    :tux: Thx to AI Linux will soon stop being a platform for retrocomputing hardware. Old hw support is getting deprecated to reduce the attack surface.

    Meanwhile the Linux Foundation is creating its nth AI/crypto related group.

      Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

      [?]jmcunx ยป 🌐
      @jmcunx@mastodon.sdf.org

      @jbz

      I think was already heading in that direction, but I guess with it will speed it up. From my perspective is owned by large corporations and regular users are a very low priority.

      There is always :) I am on 11.0 RC5 on a and it is working great, granted you have to pay attention to the hardware you use/find/but. Plus seems to be dedicated to keeping old hardware out of landfills.

        [?]nixCraft ๐Ÿง ยป 🌐
        @nixCraft@mastodon.social

        Rust is becoming a major part of the kernel. Even long time C veteran Greg Kroah Hartman (GKH) supports the shift. Rust is next big thing if you are into kernel or device drivers or other stuff where memory safety is essential for security reasons

        A stage screen showing a presntation slide titled Greg's unscientific opinion. The text claims 80% of Linux CVEs would be impossible if the code was writen in Rust

        Alt...A stage screen showing a presntation slide titled Greg's unscientific opinion. The text claims 80% of Linux CVEs would be impossible if the code was writen in Rust

          [?]Hyde ๐Ÿ“ท ๐Ÿ–‹ :debian: ยป 🌐
          @hyde@lazybear.social

          After reading @rl_dane's post, I wanted to share how I manage my , and add some quick using .


          lazybea.rs/ils-bookmarks-and-n

            Justine Smithies boosted

            [?]r1w1s1 ยป 🌐
            @r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe

            Are you familiar with dwm's powerful tag feature?
            THE TAGGING MODEL
            Many desktop environments organize windows using rigid workspaces:
                Workspace 1
                Workspace 2
                Workspace 3
            A window belongs to a single workspace.
            dwm uses a different model, treating workspaces as bitmask labels (tags).
            This allows a single window instance to hold multiple tags simultaneously,
            acting as a persistent visual anchor across different contexts:
                Firefox            -> Tag 1 (Web Browsing)
                st (nvi/dev)       -> Tag 2 (Code/Scripts)
                st (Monitor/Logs)  -> Tag 1 + Tag 2 (Persistent)
            When you view Tag 1, you see your browser and the log monitor. When you
            switch to Tag 2, the browser disappears, but the exact same log window
            remains on screen, now sharing space with your text editor.
            The application is never duplicated or restarted in memory.
            The UI remains minimal while enabling workflows that are difficult to
            express using traditional workspace-oriented desktops.
            Two decades later, this tagging model remains one of the most
            distinctive features of dwm.


              Justine Smithies boosted

              [?]Larvitz :fedora: ยป 🌐
              @Larvitz@burningboard.net

              For a decade I carried two iPhones: one personal, one for work. Neither ever felt at home in my Linux and BSD world.

              Now it's a single Fairphone Gen6. Repairable with a screwdriver, 8 years of updates, separate work and personal profiles on one device, and it actually talks to my KDE desktop over KDE Connect.

              Immich, Nextcloud, K-9 Mail, Tusky, KeePassDX, and finally GPG mail in my pocket. The camera is meh. Everything else is a clear win.

              blog.hofstede.it/leaving-the-a

                Stefano Marinelli boosted

                [?]Root Moose ยป 🌐
                @RootMoose@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                I love that feeling you get when you finish tuning your Linux desktop box with everything optimized and "just so" and nothing left to mess with or install. Colours, wallpaper, apps, hardware acceleration, menus, widgets/plasmoids, filesystems backed up, etc.

                Oh, that's just me?

                Never mind. Carry on.

                  [?]nixCraft ๐Ÿง ยป 🌐
                  @nixCraft@mastodon.social

                  Step 1: Open terminal
                  Step 2: Type `alias nano='vim -c "smile"'`
                  Step 3: Enjoy this whenever someone type `nano`!

                  This screenshot shows green ASCII art of the Vim ester eggs on a dark retro terminal screen, with the "Press ENTER or type command to continue" prompt displayed at the bottom when you type nano at the cli via bash alias: alias nano='vim -c "smile"'

                  Alt...This screenshot shows green ASCII art of the Vim ester eggs on a dark retro terminal screen, with the "Press ENTER or type command to continue" prompt displayed at the bottom when you type nano at the cli via bash alias: alias nano='vim -c "smile"'

                    [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :FreeBSD: :OpenBSD: :NetBSD:๐Ÿต :MiraLovesYou: [he/him/my good fellow] ยป 🌐
                    @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                    @funkylab

                    For #FreeBSD (on that same box), I found a shell script that uses sysctl to get the ACPI name for the battery, and runs acpi_call from ports to set the thresholds, which survives a reboot.
                    On #OpenBSD, I believe you set the thresholds directly through sysctl.
                    On #Linux, you set it with something like echo 80 > /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_stop_threshold

                      R.L. Dane :Debian: :FreeBSD: :OpenBSD: :NetBSD:๐Ÿต :MiraLovesYou: boosted

                      [?]Hyde ๐Ÿ“ท ๐Ÿ–‹ :debian: ยป 🌐
                      @hyde@lazybear.social

                      So far for June's carnival, I got only ... @rl_dane ๐Ÿ˜”

                      Any user that would like to write about it?

                        [?]Adam ยป 🌐
                        @adamsdesk@fosstodon.org

                        5 Easy Steps To Crop An Image in Inkscape

                        Step-by-step instructions on how to use Inkscape to crop an image whether you are a beginner or advanced user.

                        adamsdesk.com/posts/inkscape-c

                        An elegant serif title of 'Inkscape Crop Images' stands next to a Inkscape logo shape cropped out of a blue coloured mountain landscape.

                        Alt...An elegant serif title of 'Inkscape Crop Images' stands next to a Inkscape logo shape cropped out of a blue coloured mountain landscape.

                          [?]David Zaslavsky ยป 🌐
                          @diazona@techhub.social

                          Sure everyone knows you can compile a .c file into a .so library

                          TIL you can compile a .so library back into a .c file

                          ๐Ÿคฏ

                          Two gcc commands, one compiling autofile/_move.c into autofile/_move.so, immediately followed by one compiling autofile/_move.so into autofile/_move.c. The second command is shown to complete successfully (with code 0).

                          Alt...Two gcc commands, one compiling autofile/_move.c into autofile/_move.so, immediately followed by one compiling autofile/_move.so into autofile/_move.c. The second command is shown to complete successfully (with code 0).

                            #netbsd boosted

                            [?]vermaden ยป 🌐
                            @vermaden@mastodon.social

                            Latest ๐—ฉ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„๐˜€ - ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฒ/๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฒ/๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฑ (Valuable News - 2026/06/15) available.

                            vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/06

                            Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                              Parade du Grotesque ๐Ÿ’€ boosted

                              [?]vermaden ยป 🌐
                              @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                              Latest ๐—ฉ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„๐˜€ - ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฒ/๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฒ/๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฑ (Valuable News - 2026/06/15) available.

                              vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/06

                              Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                                agc boosted

                                [?]GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ ยป 🌐
                                @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social

                                The security situation with the Arch Linux AUR got a lot worse gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/the-

                                  Johannes Link boosted

                                  [?]Michael Simons ยป 🌐
                                  @rotnroll666@mastodon.social

                                  Got my hands on an old Mac Mini 6,1 from 2012. First time ever attempted to install on hardwareโ€ฆ Vanilla , everything, including wifi when selecting proprietary firmwareโ€ฆ just being so much faster than the latest MacOS update that machine received. Blown away.

                                    benz boosted

                                    [?]Christian Kruse ยป 🌐
                                    @cjk@chaos.social

                                    ๐Ÿš€ 0.7.0 is out!

                                    - Visual commit graph with color-coded per-branch colors
                                    - Greatly overhauled layout
                                    - Rename detection in diffs
                                    - Drop multiple commits at once
                                    - Show word-based diffs more often
                                    - Toggle recursing into untracked directories
                                    - Shortcut (Ctrl+D) to switch between staged & unstaged

                                    Plus many performance improvements & lots of fixes.

                                    Flathub: flathub.org/apps/de.wwwtech.gi
                                    macOS: gitlab.com/dehesselle/gitte_ma
                                    Repo: codeberg.org/ckruse/Gitte

                                    Git GUI in a three-pane layout showing a visual commit graph with branches and tags, a selected release commit, and a detailed diff view of the file changes introduced by that commit

                                    Alt...Git GUI in a three-pane layout showing a visual commit graph with branches and tags, a selected release commit, and a detailed diff view of the file changes introduced by that commit

                                    Git GUI showing a repository changes view with modified and new files, branch and tag navigation, and a side-by-side diff editor highlighting staged changes in a Markdown documentation file

                                    Alt...Git GUI showing a repository changes view with modified and new files, branch and tag navigation, and a side-by-side diff editor highlighting staged changes in a Markdown documentation file

                                      [?]nixCraft ๐Ÿง ยป 🌐
                                      @nixCraft@mastodon.social

                                      Idle power usage of my desktop on linux is significantly lower than on windows

                                      reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1u

                                      Is anyone surprised by this?

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