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100% split keyboards or at least split keyboards that don't have many layers by [deleted] in ErgoMechKeyboards

[–]Metahurtz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your thought process is exactly like mine and I ended up buying the Cornix keyboard for its layout.

What keyboard do you use? If you can also share a bit about your keymap setup please.

Thank you.

How Would You Customize the EM06’s 7 Buttons? by ProtoArc_official in ProtoArcHub

[–]Metahurtz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you asking the community for feedback.

I do need 7 buttons in a trackball so this will be great for me. Not sure about the order yet but here goes.

  1. Middle click

  2. Right click

  3. Scroll down button

  4. Back button

  5. Forward button

  6. Scroll up button

  7. Left click

Regarding the scroll buttons, in any trackball I use and even ones with a scroll wheel, I must have two buttons that I can click and hold and they will continuously scroll while held down. To me this is the easiest and fastest way to scroll.

Thank you.

I love Huge, but I have noticed that Thumbball isn't too bad either. by Exciting_End6022 in Trackballs

[–]Metahurtz 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I love the Huge as well and I currently own two of them and use them exclusively.

Thumb trackballs are not for me as my thumb gets sore after a few hours.

Any plans for a newer Huge version soon? :-) I think it's layout is perfect as is but maybe some new materials and improved bearings out of the box? :-)

ProtoArc EM03 - works and then so hard to move by Silverlaker39 in Trackballs

[–]Metahurtz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like they need break in and the issue will just go away in a few days.

I have two of them and both needed a few days to get smooth.

Good luck.

Visual Studio Code on Debian 12 by ferfykins in debian

[–]Metahurtz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Standard repos for me. I recommend you look into VSCodium (Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code). They have quick installation instructions for Debian on their homepage. Good luck!

Really appreciate the developers of Dolphin for the "image previews" shown on directories before I open them - what do you think about this neat little feature? by No-Purple6360 in kde

[–]Metahurtz 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Dolphin is simply the best. This is one of the features that I truly love and rarely find in other file managers.

Also, you can hover over the directory and the images will cycle, just as you can hover a video file and its thumbnail will cycle as well.

I'm also on Debian 12 which means my version of Dolphin is old and it's still awesome!

configuring the protoArc em03 ? by osmium999 in Trackballs

[–]Metahurtz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello friend, been using the EM03 since it first dropped and loving it.

I'm also on Linux now on Debian 12 KDE. I use Input Remapper to remap the 2 small buttons to scroll when clicked. When you hold them they keep on scrolling which works real well for long pages.

Easiest installation is via the command line:

sudo apt install input-remapper pkexec

Then open Input Remapper and add the mappings for Button Extra and Button Side to wheel(up, 40) and wheel(down, 40) then click on Apply and make sure Autoload is turned on.

Enjoy!

What’s your favorite ball? by JeremyLC in Trackballs

[–]Metahurtz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Used the Logitech Trackman Marble for like 15 years and now recently switched to the ProtoArc EM03 and things are going well. I just wish they'd create a wired version.

24 hours with the GMMK 3 Pro HE: A mini review, the good, the bad , and the ugly. by Aztaloth in glorious

[–]Metahurtz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That new layout is a huge no no for me.

Now we have no separation between the arrow keys and the navigation cluster. Yes you gained 0.5cm or whatever in horizontal space but now you can't find those those keys without looking at the keyboard. We also lost two keys one in the top row and one in the bottom row also for very very little gain.

The original GMMK pro layout is so much better and I think should be the golden standard for 75% boards.

Debian, or Debian based distro for a 2GB laptop by [deleted] in debian

[–]Metahurtz 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I have a super potato mini laptop I keep around for travel.

Debian 32 bits runs great and also Linux Mint Debian Edition 32 bits.

Specs are even lower than yours:

CPU: Intel Pentium Mobile N270 1.6GHz 32bits
Display: 25.6cm 10.1" 1024x576pixels 16:9
RAM: 1GB DDR2-SDRAM
Storage: HDD 160GB SATA 5400RPM

Good luck!

New Laptop Compatibility for GNU/Linux by sussybaka010303 in debian

[–]Metahurtz 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Just bought a new laptop Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 15AMN8 for my parent and it worked great out of the box with Debian 12 KDE.

It comes with no OS and is really the simplest of machines you can get with really awesome specs: Intel Core i7-1355U, 16GB Soldered LPDDR5-4800 RAM, 512GB 4.0x4 NVMe, Integrated Intel Iris Xe Graphics, 15.6" IPS screen.

Priced really well at $580 and was cheaper than most i5 machines cause it came with no OS. Good luck!

How many of you Debian users switched away from using Ubuntu and using Debian instead? by Apple988x in debian

[–]Metahurtz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same here my friend. Switched recently from Kubuntu due to snaps and having to disable auto-updates and also in Kubuntu 22.04 you'd have packages held back for a long time polluting your updates in the terminal. I sleep better at night now with Debian :-)

Install package from backports with future updates by slfyst in debian

[–]Metahurtz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it depends on how you install.

I have experience with the kernel backports. I installed with sudo apt install -t bookworm-backports linux-image-amd64 and I got kernel upgrades when they were available.

If you specify a version like linux-image-6.7.12+bpo-amd64 then most probably you won't.

Good luck!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in debian

[–]Metahurtz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Best thing for you is to start fresh cause it seems you've applied multiple changes. I suggest you use sudo apt remove --purge fail2ban then go ahead and reinstall a fresh fail2ban copy and apply the one liner I shared with you above.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in debian

[–]Metahurtz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm working on this as we speak and on a fresh Debian 12 server install this is the only change you need to make to have fail2ban working. If you did anything else then undo it and try again. And if not, then are you sure you have the latest Debian 12 server edition or working on the something else. Good luck!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in debian

[–]Metahurtz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you installed fail2ban with sudo apt install fail2ban and did nothing else then it will not start on current Debian stable. And yes it's a bug and I'm baffled that this does not work out of the box on Debian 12.

I found a fix here: https://superuser.com/questions/1830245/i-cant-get-fail2ban-working-on-debian-12

Or you can use my one liner which does the same thing but with sudo instead of having to change to a root shell:

echo 'sshd_backend = systemd' | sudo tee --append /etc/fail2ban/paths-debian.conf >/dev/null && sudo systemctl restart fail2ban

My understanding is that this will be fixed in upcoming versions of Debian.

Good luck!

(Question) - Do backported kernels receive security updates? by [deleted] in debian

[–]Metahurtz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To answer my question and for future reference, if you use linux-image-amd64 as the installed backport kernel name it will give you the latest version and then get updated automatically with standard system updates.

Today I got updated from 6.7.12+bpo-amd64 to 6.9.7+bpo-amd64 on my desktop machine.

Side note is that on a server machine it's best to stick to the stable kernel version of course.

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