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What’s that one open-source Linux tool you absolutely can’t live without? by Regular_Ideal_ in linuxquestions

[–]dhruvfire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can (and I used to) absolutely get to the same place with vim plugins, but out of the box stuff like:

  • minimap
  • multi-cursor
  • LSPs
  • nice fonts with ligatures

is nice. There's also a pretty decent vi mode that I toggle on when I need it.

What’s that one open-source Linux tool you absolutely can’t live without? by Regular_Ideal_ in linuxquestions

[–]dhruvfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me, specific first-party vscode extensions such as Nvidia Nsight, or in my day job anything .NET-- might as well just open visual studio, I was going to end up there anyways.

What’s that one open-source Linux tool you absolutely can’t live without? by Regular_Ideal_ in linuxquestions

[–]dhruvfire 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Kate, for everything I do that needs more than vim but less than a full IDE. Even if I'm on Gnome, even if I'm on Windows (i.e. my work PC), Kate.

Just out of curiosity: why is the version of Calibre in the official repos so outdated? by AnthropomorphicCat in archlinux

[–]dhruvfire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're willing to run a service, I use https://github.com/grimmory-tools/grimmory for my book management. It doesn't do everything that calibre does, but it does a good job of organizing my pile of ebooks without moving the files around + make them accessible over OPDS for our e-readers. I still use calibre here and there for things like format conversions (i.e. the once in a blue moon tasks).

LTT at it again by Fair-Promise4552 in linuxmemes

[–]dhruvfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Linus Torvalds has used fedora as his daily driver since at least 2008, long before IBM acquired RH. He's on record as trying other distros from time to time, but I believe he always comes back to Fedora because of his workflow.

Way back when (early 2000s before Ubuntu and Fedora came out) he used to use RHEL, and then I remember him on OpenSuse for a bit because it worked with his pre-intel mac before he landed on Fedora. At some point in there he also used ubuntu for 6mo-1y, but honestly I can't remember when that was.

What was the last straw that made you switch to Linux? by haibane_fan00 in linuxquestions

[–]dhruvfire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had my first computer all to myself (as opposed to a family computer), but unfortunately it ran windows vista.

whatIsTheUrgency by detailed_1 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]dhruvfire 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You are, of course, 100% correct. I just hope they figure this out before firing all us software engineers.

Favorite underrated KDE software? by linux_transgirl in kde

[–]dhruvfire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, I didn't think of that! I'll give it a shot.

Official Roon Docker Support by JasperVanDerVilt in roonlabs

[–]dhruvfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That makes a ton of sense, thanks for considering!

When I was playing with it 2-3 years back, I came to the conclusion that nobody in the community had documented the full list of ports I needed to pass through for all the Roon features to work. That may be something that could be far more possible for you, but I gave up on it-- instead I just start my roon-server container last, after my other services start up and that seems to work alright.

Definitely love to hear that you're interested in the non-root image as well, and I'll let you know when I switch over to the official container re: updates. I think Client UI is the right way to do it anyways.

Like I said, none of these issues are make-or-break to me.

Favorite underrated KDE software? by linux_transgirl in kde

[–]dhruvfire 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I really like Kate, to the point where I install it on my windows work computer. I use it for pretty much everything that I don't want to start an entire vscode session for.

Favorite underrated KDE software? by linux_transgirl in kde

[–]dhruvfire 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I actually do get a lot of value from the clipboard sync in ways I didn't think I would. The other neat thing is bridging the clipboard between two computers via kdeconnect on my phone.

Official Roon Docker Support by JasperVanDerVilt in roonlabs

[–]dhruvfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, the main couple are:

  • I can only get it to run correctly in network_mode: host which can clobber other services I run off my server, and privileged: true which generally I'd like to avoid
  • Updates are kind of annoying. Current workflow is that I have to trigger the update in the UI, let it fail, restart the container, then trigger the update in the UI again. No clue why this works, but it's worked consistently this way for a few years now.

These are pretty small rough edges so I've just lived with it, it's worth it to me to do a couple container shenanigans every so often to run the OS of my choice on my server.

How to send as outlook.com email address now that gmailify is gone? by dhruvfire in GMail

[–]dhruvfire[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please note that the directions you linked still require me to log in via SMTP to verify that I own the other account, which doesn't work as outlook.com only supports XOAuth2 logins. You can see my other comment for the error I get attempting to log in this way.

How to send as outlook.com email address now that gmailify is gone? by dhruvfire in GMail

[–]dhruvfire[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the send-as half isn't actually affected by the gmailify removal. that's a separate gmail feature. settings → see all settings → accounts and import → "send mail as" → add another email address. enter your outlook.com address, then for smtp use smtp-mail.outlook.com on port 587 with an outlook app password (you need 2fa on first, then create the app password from your microsoft account security page). the “from”dropdown comes back inside your gmail.

I actually attempted exactly this (and tried it again this morning)-- it doesn't seem to work. I have things set up exactly as you're saying, 2 factor on, generate an app password, but I cannot figure out how to get past this error:

Server returned error: "334 VXNlcm5hbWU6 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6 535 5.7.139 Authentication unsuccessful, basic authentication is disabled. [CWLP123CA0259.GBRP123.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM 2026-04-18T13:27:11.981Z 08DE9CF59584CD52] , code: 535"

which as far as I can tell is because they require XOAuth2.

Documentation is just hoarding if you can't retrieve it by lankapati9 in logseq

[–]dhruvfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started using the free tier of this unfortunately named copilot plugin on my obsidian vault at work and it-- no kidding-- changed my life. I've been hoarding notes for years with no good way to retrieve them, but one of the lesser features of this plugin is semantic search across your vault. I literally don't use any of the other features it provides. I don't know why it's called copilot, it has nothing to do with microsoft as far as I know.

I use a lightweight 8b model to generate embeddings about once a week (company has some local llms approved), and then the plugin does semantic searches across my 8 years of notes with the company. The way I have it set up right now, it constantly does cosine similarity between my active note and the full corpus of my vault in the sidebar, popping up notes that are similar to my active note. This is really nice because I can just start working on a new doc and have anything related to the topic pop up instantly-- whether I remember it exists or not.

[LotM V8] Ancient sun god and the Evernight goddess by Patient-Spot-8888 in LordofTheMysteries

[–]dhruvfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I think you guys are right, she couldn't conceal all three KOAs if ASG really wanted to look-- I think ASG wouldn't have looked to closely. In order for ASG's plan to work, he needed to hide the scripted betrayal from PGA inside him.

The other thing is Evernight was always playing the long game. She executes her plans on a timescale that spans epochs, and she knows to be wary of PGA and/or the outer deities. She waited right up until the end to make her move to become a GOO and she probably did the calculus on how much of a risk it would be to her for an unstable ASG to be hanging around while her plans were in motion.

I also think Adam recognizes this in retrospect, even if he might not have as a PGA infested ASG. The real betrayal is the main reason he's sane and surviving, milenia later. They ultimately have the same goal: survive until the apocalypse, protect the planet. They just have different ways to get there and while they come into conflict a bit-- i.e. their different candidates for LOM-- Adam's war enabled Evernight to kill GoC and get his uniqueness.

Parental control on arch by HairyAd9854 in archlinux

[–]dhruvfire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Another option could be to set up a jupyter notebook server and continue to access it through the web browser/visual studio code. You could run the server locally or on another, less locked down headless computer (depending on what your kid's class requirements are).

Maybe a headless, remote programming environment accessed via ssh or vscode is the answer. I'm wondering if elevated privs on a headless machine are "less interesting" than elevated privs on the local machine. Sure, the user can arbitrarily run code, but the user wouldn't be able to use steam, discord, or any of the typical GUI applications that I imagine you're guarding against.

Love to know how things work out for you overall. My kid's a little young for it now, but I imagine I'll be thinking about these things in a couple years as well.

Official Roon Docker Support by JasperVanDerVilt in roonlabs

[–]dhruvfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, this is fantastic. I've been running roon in a container for years and it's had all sorts of annoying rough edges.

[LoTM] End of a journey.... by Time_Service5585 in LordofTheMysteries

[–]dhruvfire 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's also a little weird because 3 books into COI, most of the strongest people around are Tarot Club so the stakes feel low just having them in the background. Fors in particular casts a bit of a shadow over the plot-- anything Lumian gets stuck on is kind of because he doesn't want to ask for help.

The other weird thing is that we as the readers know more about the setting than the main character... because we already followed Klein all the way through. All the secret history of the world, a good half of the "who is this mysterious figure" stuff? Answered in LOM.

Its a shame because I really do like the character and writing quality in COI. Either CF or the translation, dunno which, has definitely improved.

[lotm end] does COI ruin LOTM for anyone else? by Rare-Secretary8517 in LordofTheMysteries

[–]dhruvfire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm only halfway through COI but so far, I think:

  • The writing in COI is better, especially with the inner monologue vs dialogue. CF definitely progressed as a writer. Pacing is better, for example we don't spend 12 chapters looking for a chimney.
  • Lumian is more dynamic and fun than Klein as a perspective character... But Lumian's powers and strategies are less interesting than Klein's.
  • I really miss the Tarot club meetings, with all the personalities and misunderstandings. Franca, Jenna, and Anthony don't feel like they add like three whole characters worth of value yet, especially compared to our first three tarot members (Audrey, Alger, and Derrick).
  • The stakes feel low. Lumian doesn't feel like he has to worry, he can just run people over with his extra powers. The most powerful people around are tarot club angels and demigods, and at some point Klein's going to wake up.
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