I don’t know how you define “organic”.
Does that mean “free of certain pesticides”, or “natural fertilizer only”, or something else to you?
Maybe hydroponics could be for you. It’s extremely well scalable, plants grow better than in soil, you don’t need to worry that much about pest control, less wasteful than soil, efficient, and much more. But, you’ll need inorganic (mineralic) fertilizer. Depending on your definition and standards you want to follow, this could be a problem.
I have KDE set to Turn Off Screen after 5 minutes and to Sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity. This works when I first turn on the machine, but eventually stops working after a few hours of general use (mostly Firefox, VS Code, and some Steam games). Sometimes the screen isn’t turning off at all, other times the screen turns...
Same here. Like… forever now.
When I click “hibernate”/ “standby”, the PC goes off for a second, and then switches on again. Resetting the energy settings to default helped for some time, but that only made it a bit less often IIRC, not fixing it.
On my laptop, that doesn’t happen. I set it to go to standby if the lid closes, and it works as it should.
My thesis is, that there are different standby-states. KDE tries to force one explicit kind of it, and if the device doesn’t support it, it won’t go into standby properly.
On Gnome on the other hand, I never had problems with the standby on my PC. It’s a KDE issue
The Nvidia drivers come pre-bundled with your install and are baked into the image itself.
The good thing is, they won’t break, and if they should, you can just roll back to yesterday’s image by just rebooting. It’s extremely reliable and lets you just dive into your optimal gaming experience straight away.
Don’t use Manjaro. The dev team is very sketchy and it’s a very unreliable distro. If you really want Arch, for whatever reason, use EndeavourOS. I personally don’t like the rolling release model and find Fedora (Bazzite) just right. If I need something from the AUR, then I use Distrobox.
PopOS is too old for me, and isn’t evolving at all right now. I would skip it until Cosmic is ready.
Aquaponics is similar to hydroponics, but makes use of fish to create fertilizer-rich (fish waste 💩) water for the plants to thrive. In turn, the plants help clean the water for the fish....
Thank you thousand times for sharing!
I somehow already heard about the technique some time before, but didn’t have it in my mind anymore. It triggered a new project idea for me!
I will try to make a few myself and gift it to my parents. They irrigate like crazy in the summer, and maybe that helps them save some water.
I can update you with the results if you want :)
I’ve been using linux desktop for a year or so now. One noteable thing i keep seeing is that one person will say I dont like XYZ distrobution because of its base. But I am still a little unsure what is meant by it. I am assuming the main difference between each base is the choice of package management(?). But what other...
There are a few “grandfather”-distros out there, for example Debian and Arch. They’ve been around for a few decades now.
Then, they got kinds, because some people said “I don’t like xy, I will do it better”, but granddaddy disagreed, so they split apart.
That’s what Ubuntu is to Debian for example, that’s why Ubuntu is Debian-based. They are related to each other (e.g. the same package manager), but differ in some things (e.g. update cycle).
This cycle of forking continues, that’s how Mint got there for example. Mint is based on Ubuntu, and Ubuntu is based on Debian.
But nowadays, the gap between distros gets smaller, with things like Distrobox, Nix, Flatpaks, and more. I wouldn’t mind working with a PC that has Mint on it instead of Fedora. Sure, there are reasons why I prefer one over the other, but in the end, they’re all the same.
One example I can think of where the base matters, and not the package manager, is when adding an user to the sudo group. RedHat distros need another promt than Debian for example.
But other than that, the thing that defines a distro are the packages, they make a distro unique.
Like I said I’m really new at this, hopefully it’s ok to post this here but if not please let me know where would be more appropriate.
Perfectly fine, we’re here to help!
but I’ve read even better things about Bazzite and want to give it a whirl.
Imo, you’re right. Bazzite > Nobara. Just don’t expect better performance. But yeah, image based distros like Bazzite are way easier to use and maintain themselves.
Just remember that those kind of distros are a bit different from mutable OSs, like regular Fedora.
If you need certain CLI or other tools not available in your software center, use Distrobox and try to not install anything on your host if possible.
My question is, am I able to download it to a usb and just do a clean install without issues or do I have to do anything beforehand. I originally installed Nobara using btrfs if that makes any difference.
They should have the same installer. Just install Bazzite the same as you did Nobara, and select “Free up disk space” or however it’s called. That will wipe all the Nobara stuff.
In general, you shouldn’t have any problems. In my opinion, Bazzite is one of the most user friendly distros out there. Just learn how to use containers if you do more advanced stuff, that’s the biggest difference between that and other classic distros :)
I moved off a Synology NAS to a self-managed machine and one thing I still struggle to replace is something like a synology drive. Here are my requirements:...
If you have a spare laptop/ PC, I insist you to try Nextcloud.
It’s super easy to install, you actually just download the Docker all-in-one container and it runs in less than 10 minutes. You don’t have much to loose.
I’m relatively happy with it.
I mean, to be fair, NC isn’t perfect. It sometimes feels a bit wonky and tries to do everything, while exceeding at nothing.
But it’s damn comfortable to set up and maintain.
It doesn’t perfectly cover your use case, but everything else (individual services, including web server, database, etc.) is less centralised and more complicated to set up.
Since NC AIO is inside a container, all data are too. It’s a relatively straightforward file system afaik.
Backup also is included, but you have to do it manually by default and it stops the services while doing it.
For offloading large files, you might look into 3rd party tools. NC is basically a remote drive you can connect to with most programs that support it.
I never had any (major) problems with Nextcloud yet.
I just have following “conflicts” with it:
It doesn’t follow the “Do one thing, and do it right”-philosophy. It tries to do everything at once. File upload/ sharing, media management (NC Photos), RSS, mail, calendar, contacts, and much, much more. I mean, it’s damn convenient and works pretty fine, but nothing is great. For example, Immich/ Photoprism is way better than NC for photo management.
There’s a lot of abandonware, or buggy/ unmaintained apps. For example, my “News”-feed looks completely broken for months now.
The performance isn’t good. I mean, the “server” (an old thin client) isn’t fast at all, but the loading times and responsiveness is just awful. The file upload also takes ages, even from the same network.
It feels bloated. I think, if I would be more into selfhosting and had more time, I would search for alternatives and split all the NC features I use into their own services, e.g. one for file upload, one for document management, one for managing my photos, an own RSS client, and more.
But, as I said, the ease of use and amount of features is still great. I don’t want to spend three weekends just troubleshooting my server and searching for/ installing dozens of individial services. And for that, it’s good enough.
What is Logseq?It’s a non-linear note taking app that allows smart linking and is made as a second brain. It makes use of the Zettelkasten system, where, in theory, you make notes of everything and categorize it. Over time, you offload your brain and make it free for more productive stuff.
Logseq is often considered as a FOSS alternative to Obsidian.
Yeah, definitely, especially at work.
It really helped me to switch off my “work brain”, because I know, that everything I did today is written down, and I don’t have to keep things in my mind anymore after work. Doing that was a blessing for my stress level and mental health.
It also gives me the edge above my colleagues that I “remember” everything I did in the last months, which is nice when my boss wants to know details of a project I did a year ago.
I basically can’t even remember what I did 5 minutes ago (ADHD says hello), but I know exactly where I can find that knowledge. This frees up my working memory (psychological term, not related to work) immensely. It’s basically like transfering more tasks onto your hard drive instead of keeping it in the RAM.
It’s also great to give me an graphical overview of all I think and work on all day, and unveals connections I never thought of between different topics.
For private use, it’s also great as a journal, though I gave up on that because I’m too busy for it and it cost too much time in my everyday life. But I still use it daily for normal note taking, e.g. results of some experiments at home, hobbies, thoughts, and much more.
I had some initial problems in the beginning, because I was used to linear note taking apps like OneNote or Joplin, but once I watched a guide on how it works, it clicked and now it’s my second nature. I even began to write my hand written notes in Logseq style!
TL;DR, if you don’t wanna watch any guides/ read docs:
Indentation matters. Logseq works with a parent-child hierarchy
You usually don’t open or create new pages, you write everything in your journal and link stuff there.
Use links, either with [[Link]] or #Tag, which are the same. They crosslink different topics and reveal connections.
Make use of plugins. There are thousands of it. Especially the Graph Analysis plugin should be included by default.
Yeah, the Android app is horrible. I only use it if I don’t have my PC in arm’s reach.
It feels sluggish, buggy, is overloaded, I always get sync issues (usually the last words I just typed go missing), and some features (especially the graph overview) don’t work at all sometimes. And the whole app sometimes feels like an alpha version, which is just a no-go…
I really hope the mobile app gets polished more over the next months. Many people nowadays mostly use mobile devices, and having such an unpolished app really hurts the image. And, PLEASE devs, test your software before shipping it out. Especially the mobile app is broken half the time.
I still gladly pay the 5$/ month for the optional sync and to support the devs.
That sounds so useful if I can stick with it enough.
That’s my main issue for private use. At my job, I never had problems sticking with the habit of writing everything down. I work in a science job, and documentation is key there. So, I basically get paid for exactly that.
But in my free time, the whole concept of task management, knowledge offloading, and more, is a bit harder for me, especially when I come home tired.
Welcome in the life of someone with ADHD. I need my life to be organized, but have a hard time with exactly that. It’s like needing to find your contact lenses because you dropped them…
I’ve been using arch for a while now and I always used Flatpaks for proprietary software that might do some creepy shit because Flatpaks are supposed to be sandboxed (e.g. Steam). And Flatpaks always worked flawlessly OOTB for me. AUR for things I trust. I’ve read on the internet how people prefer AUR over Flatpaks. Why? And...
It’s the recommended way of installation for most distros, especially image based ones, like Fedora Atomic for example
It’s accessible for everyone more easily
It works most of the time
I use the AUR in a Distrobox container for software I can’t find any other installation method. For me, it’s to cumbersome to hop into the terminal and proceed with the installation.
For Flatpaks, it’s just one click and it’s done.
When I first started using Linux 15 years ago (Ubuntu) , if there was some software you wanted that wasn’t in the distro’s repos you can probably bet that there was a PPA you could add to your system in order to get it....
Because it’s outdated. They are a lot of work and can cause package conflicts or errors, making the whole system less reliable.
If you need something, that’s not in your package manager, then use Distrobox and create an Arch container, and use the AUR for example.
You can export the program after installing, and it integrates better into your system.
By doing that, the devs have to do the work only once and you will have less problems.
Hello. These questions are self-hosting related, but I feel they do partially belong here as they are also about fedora linux in general. I have a server which is currently running Debian. It has an arc GPU, and no matter what I do, video encoding refuses to work. I was thinking I might move it to Fedora, but have some questions...
I’m also thinking about moving my server from Debian to Fedora, especially the Atomic variant (uBlue CoreOS).
I think you should consider the IOT/ CoreOS variant instead of the regular Fedora Server version.
Debian is a great server distro because of its stability (in terms of update frequency) and spread of use, but Fedora Atomic is way more robust and lower maintenance.
Regular Fedora is too unstable (too many updates) for my taste as a server, and on Atomic, I can always just roll back and wait until something is fixed (which should never happen anyway, but just in case).
If you consider Fedora as server, then use the immutable versions, they offer more benefits, one of which is the strong separation between the host OS and the user/ programs.
Regarding your questions:
2 major updates a year. On desktop, you just click “Update to Fedora 41” for example, but on server, you have to do this manually, which can be very annoying. And if you missed it for a year, good luck…
One of the reasons why I recommended the image based variants is that you can upgrade more easily and revert those changes, in case it causes trouble, and freely rebase between various editions.
You can use uBlue/ set up staged updates on Atomic, which I would recommend. It then downloads and applies updates on your future image. The next time you boot up the server, it will boot into the updated image without downtime. On regular Fedora, you can maybe set up a cron job or search for a option in the DNF config.
Never had trouble with SELinux. Fedora has it set up fine for me, and I never had to deal with it.
I don’t have an Intel Arc, but uBlue has all the codecs already bundled into it. It should work fine ootb. But my information is more based on desktop use, maybe you also have to enable an option in Docker or so.
Regarding RAID, first back up everything, as you said. But it should also be easily possible on Fedora Atomic too. If it works on Debian, then it will work on Fedora too. And if the tool you used isn’t available on Fedora, use Distrobox and create a Debian container.
I have to disagree, at least in my experience.
Windows causes more problems, both for my mum and myself.
Her only purpose of a PC is basically to open a web browser, answer some mails and plug in a USB from time to time. For her, Mint never made one single problem, except when the hard drive failed.
She really liked the “boringness” and the old Windows charme.
And for me, Linux never made any big troubles in general. When I used Tumbleweed, there were a few papercuts (e.g. graphical glitches, program freezes, etc.) due to the bleeding edge, but nothing major.
And since I use Fedora Atomic, I completely forget that I use an OS in general. I never have to update anything, I can’t break my stuff, etc…
It’s the most “boring” and user friendly OS I’ve used, even more than MacOS and Windows. Only Android/ iOS are better in that regard.
But I’ve never seen my OS just borking itself. If that should ever happen, I can easily roll back in a second and it will work again.
And you need to have at least a rough understanding of what’s happening to fix it.
If you can fix Windows (which made way more problems after updates for me) then fixing Linux is way easier. And if you’re an average person, then you go to a local repair shop and say “My PC broke” and they reinstall Windows for you.
Ja same, und wenn ich auf Solarpunk aus was von Feddit abonnieren will heißt es nur “Ausstehend”, und dann wird kein einziges Sub von Feddit.de mehr angezeigt.
Wäre an sich überhaupt kein Ding. Ich hab dafür Verständnis. Aber, wie du schon sagtest, Feddit liegt seit Monaten im Sterben, und ich sehe dabei auch keine Aussicht auf Besserung, weil die Admins uns auch absolut in Unwissenheit verweilen lassen. Wenns nur heißen würde “Jo, Seite läuft wieder, aber die Fotos sind weg, müsst ihr neu hochladen”, kein Ding. Aber so? Ne, das weckt keinen professionellen und zuverlässigen Eindruck.
Es tut mir echt weh. Ich hab hier so viel aufgebaut und Content generiert. Ich will nicht gehen. Aber das ist ein sinkendes Schiff…
Can anyone recommend some good resources/reading material for farming organic kale at commercial scale?
Extra double bonus points for greenhouse production....
KDE often not sleeping when idle
I have KDE set to Turn Off Screen after 5 minutes and to Sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity. This works when I first turn on the machine, but eventually stops working after a few hours of general use (mostly Firefox, VS Code, and some Steam games). Sometimes the screen isn’t turning off at all, other times the screen turns...
Pop!_OS or Manjaro for Steam games?
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What are the differences between the 'base' of various Linux distributions?
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Some questions about fedora
Hello. These questions are self-hosting related, but I feel they do partially belong here as they are also about fedora linux in general. I have a server which is currently running Debian. It has an arc GPU, and no matter what I do, video encoding refuses to work. I was thinking I might move it to Fedora, but have some questions...
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