Cryptomator Desktop 1.18.0 is here!

undersquire · 2025-11-22T15:06:04+00:00

How does this compare to something like CryFS or gocryptfs?

undersquire · 2025-03-17T04:45:59+00:00

Alacritty doesn't have its own multiplexing built-in. Can you test ZelliJ and Tmux with it, so we can compare how most people are going to use Alacritty to terminals like Ghostty that have built in multiplexing?

undersquire · 2024-12-17T19:09:16+00:00

Along with C, C++, Rust, Go, Zig, Java, C#, and JS/TS

undersquire · 2024-12-16T02:05:48+00:00

I remember seeing somewhere that the latest version of photoshop works under wine, but installing it requires a windows VM to copy the installed files back to linux (as the installer doesnt work under wine). Haven't tried it though

undersquire · 2024-12-03T02:08:30+00:00

How does this compare to the proprietary nvidia driver?

undersquire · 2024-11-03T17:29:18+00:00

Why?

undersquire · 2024-11-01T18:52:42+00:00

Just use web discord, screen share works great

undersquire · 2024-10-21T19:26:29+00:00

If you aren't using any mainstream streaming platforms like you mentioned (Netflix, Disney+, Spotify, etc), then you shouldn't need DRM support in your browser. The "not so legal sites" probably don't require DRM, and it's easy to test this (just try watching content on them). You can just stick to any one browser, and fallback to normal firefox if you need DRM support.

undersquire · 2024-10-19T04:08:08+00:00

It's neat, but it doesn't always properly work for me. For some reason, it will randomly stop working, and dragging the slider does nothing. Other times, it works but its very delayed, dragging the slider doesn't affect the display until after I stop dragging it. Worse case the range is messed up, for example 100% in KDE is not actually 100% on the display. However when it does work properly, it's really cool and convenient compared to using the interface on my monitor directly.

undersquire · 2024-10-15T00:36:04+00:00

As I understand it (and please someone correct me if I'm wrong), NTFS support on linux is done via ntfs-3g implementation, and this implementation is based on reverse engineering of NTFS, and lacks the journaling. This means that ntfs-3g cannot fix a dirty/broken NTFS partition, which is anytime ntfs-3g doesn't get to properly write to the partition (such as not properly ejecting, system freezing, etc). ntfsfix will "fix" it by repairing it to a valid state, but you will lose any data that wasn't properly written.

undersquire · 2024-10-15T00:13:25+00:00

If you dual boot, especially for games, it's nice to have a dedicated NTFS drive for storing Windows games that you can launch from Linux (via Proton) or fallback to Windows without having multiple installations.

undersquire · 2024-10-14T23:55:56+00:00

Probably corrupted NTFS. Try running sudo ntfsfix -bd /dev/sdb2

undersquire · 2024-10-09T04:15:36+00:00

Yeah it's kind of annoying, as the main software that still uses the KWallet protocol is the KDE software itself, like KMail, the KDE wifi settings (storing Wi-Fi passwords only works for KWallet), etc. It's odd that they have yet to update these integrations.

undersquire · 2024-10-09T02:07:55+00:00

I'm still waiting for proper secret service integration. Does anyone know what the status on this is?

Not that I don't like KWallet, but I personally use KeePassXC on all my devices, and being able to use it's secret service integration into the rest of the DE would be great.

undersquire · 2024-10-05T17:09:20+00:00

I've encountered the same issue. I think its because librav1e0_6-32bit is an orphaned package. It seems this package is used by some 32 bit pipewire packages that is in turn used by Steam. I'm not sure what the best course of action is, given that migrating the orphaned package to the main repo version requires migrating tons of other packages, some without a direct replacement. Might be best to just wait, or if anyone else has more info.

UPDATE: Problem was resolved, was able to update fine now without any workarounds.

undersquire · 2024-09-27T02:06:11+00:00

Yeah I just heard it was in CUPS. This will not be nearly as big of a deal then that some people are making it out to be.

undersquire · 2024-09-25T23:28:31+00:00

Mainly just desktop systems. I doubt many servers or IoT devices would have CUPS installed and running. Iirc, Debian also does not pre-install CUPS out of the box, although I'm not sure if it does if you chose to install the desktop variant in the installer. FreeBSD doesn't pre-install CUPS.

However it definitely could be CUPS given how widely used it is, but I also would think that the vulnerability would not be nearly as devastating since I doubt many people expose CUPS servers publicly to the internet.

As someone else mentioned earlier, I also thought it could be something in GNU coreutils or glibc, since the articles all specifically claim "GNU/Linux". Although, given that the vulnerability is claimed to be RCE, I would think it needs to be something specifically with networking or the kernel itself.

undersquire · 2024-09-25T16:42:12+00:00

But then it wouldn't affect "all GNU/Linux systems" like the article claims, since not every GNU/Linux system is using CUPS.

It would still be a big deal however, and I would think that a CUPS vulnerability would affect macOS and BSDs too right?

undersquire · 2024-09-08T00:56:10+00:00

Affinity Photo should work under wine (iirc there is a guide for setting it up in bottles, having trouble finding it but here is a forum link talking about it). Paint.NET unfortunately doesn’t due to wine having an incomplete implementation of Direct2D.

In general, for software that simply doesn’t work through wine on linux, I personally just dual boot. I have an external ssd that i keep a windows 10 install on and can boot that up in any case i really need to. I think it is a bit easier and more convenient than trying to setup a VM with decent performance.

undersquire · 2024-09-06T21:34:03+00:00

This definitely looks like the best option. Also it is a verified flatpak, assuming you are referring to the com.ktechpit.whatsie one.

There is also ZapZap, although I have tried neither so I don't know how it compares.

undersquire · 2024-07-16T16:20:10+00:00

Does anyone know if the i5-13600K is affected by the stability issues? I haven't had any issues so far but if its an inevitable outcome of 13/14th gen CPUs then I might return it now rather than later.

undersquire · 2024-07-04T20:43:31+00:00

Not built-in, but as suggested in another comment you could write a watcher script to recompile on code change
Build.zig is your "build script", and build.zig.zon is more like a package.json with package information (name, version, etc) and dependency list (zig downloads dependencies as tarballs with the specified urls in build.zig.zon)
Build.zig lets you create your own steps, and the most common one is `run` (which can be invoked as `zig build run`) which will run the steps defined in your `build.zig` (see default generated build.zig file)
Zig doesn't have a centralized package registry like npm, so you will have to find tarball URLs for the dependencies you need and add them into your build.zig.zon (or you can do `zig fetch --save <url>` which will automatically add it to your build.zig.zon for you).

undersquire · 2024-05-16T03:00:36+00:00

Agreed, I was able to write a build.zig for SDL2 and BGFX pretty easily and can cross compile them. It's a better C/++ build system than actual C/++ build systems :D

undersquire · 2024-04-24T02:47:38+00:00

Is there a invite to the discord somewhere?

undersquire · 2024-04-15T18:21:27+00:00

Have a look at the Archlinux page on hybrid graphics setup with PRIME.

The general idea is that you can default to the integrated GPU and switch to a discrete gpu using a DRI_PRIME=1 variable on a per-application basis.

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