SFaulken

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Blog about some various Linux stuff (sfalken.tech)
 

Just wanted to drop there here, in case anybody finds it useful. I started doing some blogging, mostly with the intention of archiving how in the hell I've done things on Linux, in the past, so I know where to find them the next time I need to do them. There will probably be other stuff there, with time, some of it not linux related, but I'll tag the relevant stuff, so it's easier to find.

First experiences with OpenSUSE (mixed, but I'll stay on it) in c/opensuse@lemmy.world
[–] SFaulken@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, Printer setup on openSUSE is still a clusterfuck, for reasons. You're best off in openSUSE KDE to just point your webbrowser at http://localhost:631 and log directly into CUPS and setup your printers that way.

If you want all your web video and whatnot to work, you need to install the codecs from Packman, in their entirety, or use a flatpak'd web browser. openSUSE won't ship patent encumbered codecs from the official repositories.

Unless you really know what you're doing, with Leap, or Tumbleweed, stick with the OSS and non-OSS repos provided. They are the ones that have been through the openQA process, and are officially "supported". If you enable a bunch of home: devel: or other repositories, just assume that they're unstable, and use at your own risk. If you're looking at a repository on OBS, and don't see openSUSE_Tumbleweed as one of the build targets, then forcing the install with a Leap or SLE package, may, or may not break things.

Regarding zypper ref and autorefresh, I can't recall exactly, but there is the chance that just running zypper dup and hoping that it refreshes everything on it's own, with non-standard repositories may fail, which can lead to some weird edgecases.

Just in general, you're going to want to run zypper ref && zypper dup (not the other way round) As far as YaST being targetted more at Leap than Tumbleweed, you're exactly right. And there's a reason that we don't ship it with newer flavours of the distribution.

Maple Leaf Property Management Promissory Note in c/seattle@lemmy.world
[–] SFaulken@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Well none of that sounds like sketchy behavior on the part of the Management Company.

Not at all.

The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source "Nouveau" Linux Kernel Driver Resigns in c/linux@kbin.social
KDE Wayland Screen Energy Saving Problem in c/opensuse@lemmy.world
[–] SFaulken@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The change shown in the upstream bug has been made in the openSUSE Tumbleweed Packages, months ago. Are you using Leap, or Tumbleweed?

edit:
I actually read the whole post. Since you're on Tumbleweed, this is indeed a bug, please file one at bugzilla.opensuse.org

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Good to Go? (kbin.social)
 

So I've been in King and Snohomish county now for basically a decade, and even though I have a G2G account, and have had for years, has this thing ever worked?

I just got another mailed toll bill for crossing 520 from Bellevue to Seattle a couple weeks ago. So I go check my G2G account, and sure as hell, all of my vehicles license plates are registered in the system, I walked outside and looked in my pickup, and their little "tag" is right there on the windshield where it belongs, the balance available on the account is more than sufficient to cover the toll.

I don't mind paying the tolls when I use the services (this post isn't a complaint about the tolls themselves), but what use is this registration system, when it seems like I get mailed a friggin toll bill probably 50% of the time I do something that requires me to pay a toll, and manually have to go pay the bloody thing?

Overrated Literary Classics (and What to Read Instead) | Book Riot in c/books@kbin.social
[–] SFaulken@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Bah. This is just a piece of clickbait nonsense, or somebody trying to be edgy. I'm actually mildly offended by their "review" of "On the Road". Just makes me think that they probably haven't ever read anything other than somebody elses review of it.

Paramount to sell Simon & Schuster to KKR for $1.6 Billion Cash in c/books@kbin.social
[–] SFaulken@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Well, RIP Simon & Schuster. I give em five years, tops.

Universal Chat Application, Beeper, Will Be Available To Everyone (For Free) In A Matter Of Weeks. in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] SFaulken@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

I don't care about beeper one way or another, but that bloody image with the post, it needs to die in a fire.

Tonight I decided to try jack-in-the-box for the first time... in c/casualconversation@lemmy.world
[–] SFaulken@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I will never claim they are authentic, or even great, but I will destroy the 2 for a buck tacos.

How many people here have actually used XMPP? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] SFaulken@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's XMMP different thing =P

How many people here have actually used XMPP? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] SFaulken@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's still around. I'm using it right now, in fact. Makes for a pretty damn good phone service as well, in conjunction with JMP

Transactional Server role for desktop use in c/opensuse@lemmy.world
[–] SFaulken@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Uh. You just described Aeon and Kalpa.

What are you reading this week? [6/25/23] in c/books@kbin.social
[–] SFaulken@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, Neil Gaiman. It's supposedly a sequel, I guess, to AG, but there's not really much of a connection I'm aware of.

And yeah, Sandman was great.

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