GolfNovemberUniform

Saw this one in a YouTube video and found it pretty nice. I won't tell what video it was though because Lemmy doesn't like such kind of them.

Idk why I never heard of this one before but it got an update recently so it appeared in my Droid-ify feed and now I'm sharing it. Hopefully someone finds it useful.

Today I needed to do a clean install. I downloaded and installed the distro as usual choosing similar installer options as I did in the past (however I didn't install CUPS this time because idk what's up with that vulnerabilities).

After a reboot and fixing some systemd-boot freeze issues in BIOS, the system started and the GDM login prompt appeared without any issues. But there was no usual gear icon in the corner that lets you choose between Wayland, X11 and GNOME Classic modes.

I tried to log in but I got my usual Wayland issue (2/3 of the screen is black and 1/3 is artifacting). So I needed to switch to X11 to figure out if I can do anything about the issue this time.

I rebooted to fix the display issue and entered CLI mode (ctrl + alt + f2). I checked for xorg packages and they were indeed installed. However doing startx gave an error about XAuthority not being configured and launched an empty session with 3 or 4 xterm windows.

For those thinking of the 61st /usr/lib rule, I do not have an NVidia GPU so that's not the issue.

So, all of that made me think that new releases of EndeavourOS come with the stupid X11-less version of GNOME. Can I add the support myself via CLI or do I have to install an X11-only DE and use that to compile a version of GNOME with mandatory X11?

EDIT: everyone said that I should change the hardware but I figured out a fix myself. It turned out it was actually a distro issue.

Idk if posts like this are alllowed here but we'll see I guess.

So, my main Linux machine is a laptop from 2012 featuring a completely busted case (externally and internally) and latches (so it won't close without performing an automated disintegration and it makes terrifying sounds when applied any pressure on), a suspected-to-be-dead dedicated GPU (not NVidia because obvious reasons), 2x4 Gb of DDR3 RAM and the slowest Toshiba HDD known to mankind that makes pretty concerning noises itself too and sometimes gives drive errors. However I'm planning to replace it with an SSD because I've not grown to the absolute wisdom of Linux users yet ~~(vim is trash. use nano instead.)~~. Oh and its OS is a distro based on Arch (btw) featuring GNOME for the DE because not grown to WMs yet.

I understand that I don't have an external display and a keyboard because the laptop's ones work perfectly and it's not a Thinkpad but hopefully it's not too bad.

I have this laptop from like 2012 that I use a lot and I can even say it's my main Linux machine. It's got 8 Gb of RAM and a dedicated GPU so it's not bad but it has an HDD so slow it takes what seems to be 30-60 seconds to launch a web browser. I guess it's 5400 RPM. I want to finally buy an SSD for the machine.

However I noticed that all of the brand new ones that are available in my area are either SATA3 (for SATA) or PCIe 3/4 (for M.2). The laptop obviously supports none of these standards.

Will such an SSD work or do I have to search for a used one with an older standard (like SATA2)? Adapters might be a problem to get because I'm not a customer of marketplaces I can get them from so I'm afraid of getting scammed or just not figuring out the purchase procedure.

Basically title. I can't send anything without compressing it a lot (to like 256 colors).

I'm not sure why I decided to make this post. I guess I want to boast lol.

Anyways,

I started translating some GTK apps (because GNOME is the only DE that matters and there's nothing better than stock libadwaita) to one of the languages I know. I'm not a very professional translator (like how in the amount of KDE apps do you understand if a string is used in a button, label or something else?) but hopefully I can do at least something for FOSS besides just advertising it everywhere.

Also if you think this post is meaningless, it can be used as my confirmation of identity so people don't think someone is impersonating me when they see my nickname in about pages :)

This app uses elevated permissions such as Shizuku or root. Misuse may result in damage to the system or the device. Only use it if you know what you're doing and don't run random commands you find online.

Tbh I wanted to share it just because of the design. Open-source software can be really beautiful nowadays.

I wanted to check for updates today (automatic updates disabled because I ain't need no modern bells and whistles that you modern folks use) and I noticed that the syncing was taking longer than usual. I pulled the notifications panel and discovered that the notification was saying "0 / -1 b" or "-1 / -1 b" (I'm using Droid-ify which shows more verbose progress in the notification) and it didn't change over time. I removed the repo that was failing to sync but it didn't change anything. Is there any way to fix it?

EDIT: it just started working as it did before. I guess it could be some kind of an outage in all the repos at the same time.

I saw this app featured on a YouTube channel and thought it was pretty interesting, especially for GNOME users. However there is a rather weird thing about it: it claims to be using Piped for YouTube but it doesn't get the "Sign in to confirm that you're not a bot" error. I guess it uses a different API when Piped gives an error.

Basically title. I noticed the new version in my F-Droid client but there wasn't any information about it anywhere. The version name also had a mention of the Google Play Store (gplay). What's up with all of this? Are there any questionable proprietary components being implemented to comply with the Play Store requirements or something?