Display & Monitor says Built in Screen. The brightness slider here doesn't work either. What else can I check?
But Solus is rolling release.
Brightness control not working on laptop
I've had an issue with brightness control ever since I moved to Linux, on all distros (pop, fedora, now solus). The keyboard keys don't work and neither does the slider in the system.
I was using GNOME mostly until a couple of weeks back and I used to install an extension called Soft Brightness as a workaround for this. It would make the slider work at least even if the keys still didn't work. I'm not able to find something like that on Plasma.
Laptop: Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 ARH05. Ryzen 4600H processor with AMD integrated graphics and a discrete GTX 1650 mobile GPU.
Similar thoughts and after hopping a bit I'm liking Solus really well. It's rolling release but what they call "curated" rolling release. They take a little bit of time to iron stuff out. There's a weekly update cycle.
The installation is through live ISO and was pretty easy, took only a few minutes. They have a Plasma ISO too, since you mentioned wanting KDE.
As a plus, I've not once used the command prompt in the past couple of months since I installed (GNOME first and then since the last week, KDE). I'm not averse to commands but I do want something that I can recommend to my less techy anti-capitalist friends. My games have all been working fine too.
Edit to add: I think they've also mentioned that their aim is for a personal desktop.
I don't think some games costing $80 makes $50 for a 20 yr old game any less atrocious. Plus, they added new asdons just to increase that more. So even calling it a $50 game is incorrect. Bethesda/Microsoft is still a shit company. Nothing has changed.
All I'm seeing is how easily people get used to being scammed because there are so many youtubers and influencers play the role of manufacturing consent by calling it a "good deal".
And do not bring in developers getting paid enough. The issue is never the price for something this high selling. It's always the hierarchy and wealth distribution in the company. Even if the game cost $100 those people aren't gonna see much of it. A $20 game when so many people (in the hundreds of thousands or even millions) buy it can still pay the developers enough if they were actually paid their share.
Great! My current setup of Linux+Piracy has been hard to find support and community for. Glad to see at least the major part of the issue is a non issue here.
I've been meaning to ask. Is this community okay with piracy? Desperately need space to discuss stuff but it's been hard to find
I want to make Debian work, please help
I've been using Fedora for the past few months and Pop OS for some months before that.
Debian was my first choice after Pop because of ideological reasons - non corporate structure mainly. But I couldn't get games to work properly (my PC is only 7-8 months old). So I've been trying Fedora, but the more I learn about Red Hat and it's involvement, it's harder to stick to the distro.
What would be a good way to setup Debian (and KDE, because apparently GNOME is also Red Hat's, although I do like the environment) so that it works well for my use case? The two year old DE and app versions does bother me but I guess I can learn to live with it. Do I try testing? Do I use backports?
PC specs: Ryzen 5 5600 Processor, RX 7600 GPU
Makes sense. Thank you!
Okay, yeah that sounds a little tedious. I'll think a bit more
I'm not sure if I understand the last bit.
Can I move my nextcloud account from a provider to my own server?
I currently have an email provider who also gives me my own nextcloud account. If I were to setup my own server in a while (which I would like to do), will I be able to carry over all my things (contacts, calendar,Talk conversations, appointment pages, etc) in some easy manner?
I've not yet started using these things because I'm not sure if it will be too much work to shift later.
Yeah I'm finding the clients hard to navigate. I can do it for myself, but to recommend to people, I'm unable to decide which to pick.
Edit: What did you mean by can't recommend the switch?
Thank you! Also, what do you use for messaging?
As the other person who responded to you mentioned, things can get bad. At some level, trust is always going to be a factor with these things.
- Matrix.org is still the most popular server - if I just tell people to download Element, they're going to pick matrix.org. Automatically, this builds a sort of lock in with the "default instance". Even if I host my own server, that's not something I can recommedn to everyone, nor do I have the resources to make it a public server.
- Already there's trouble with hosting your own Matrix server due to how heavy the software is apparently. This coupled with point 1, things concentrating into the hands of the foundation is not a good thing.
- Following from that, for example, what if they suddenly decide there's too many people with "radical" ideologies that are against their masters, the imperial powers? They have metadata (even if not content, because encryption) through the public servers they host that they can use to surveil.
The issue is not just that it's built by people with poor ideological rigour. It's that it's both a fragile structure that depends on trust and the people we're trusting have poor ideological rigour. That seems like a bad combo to me.
Imagine if they just wrote and worked on the protocol. That's it. No official apps, no official public servers. Then I wouldn't care coz it doesn't matter. People can check the protocol for suspicious stuff but that's it. Nothing else is in these organizations' control.
Yeah as soon as I read the sanctions bit I knew they must be using some shitty Cold War list from somewhere.
Which company involved is Israeli? That's the first I'm hearing of that.
Edited to correct typo
I'm concerned about the software again playing into capitalist, imperialist spirals like we've seen with everything else so far. I am also concerned about supporting such an organization/company by doing "marketing" for them through my circles. The whole reason I started this was as part of the BDS movement and it doesn't make sense to just jump from one highly problematic ecosystem to another.
And if you're okay with "lesser evils", sure. I'm not. I believe continually choosing lesser evils instead of building good things is why we're in this mess in the first place.
Matrix, Element, and links with US Gov and NATO
I wanted to find a proper Marxist Leninist instance/community to ask this, because everywhere else people may not care.
I've been slowly moving my close people and even the people I work with to Matrix for messaging, and I have been suggesting that they download Element for it. And for me this is beyond privacy reasons. It's to stay away from Meta, Google, and the like.
But recently I've been doing some digging and Element has been proudly posting about it's work with NATO, US armed forces, and German armed forces. They also have an "ethics" page that clarifies that they don't just work with anyone. For example they said they don't work with countries sanctioned by the US, EU, or UK. They've also mentioned they don't work with governments that have "human rights issues".
I'm feeling very conflicted about this whole thing now and I'm not sure what to do. It might have been even fine and I might have written off Element as a private entity and just switched apps if not for the Ma
That's great, thank you
Thank you! That's pretty reassuring.
Thank you so much for the detailed response! I might be able to stretch out to 4GB RAM on the Pi
I've been finding it a bit difficult to understand the hardware part of things. For example, the hubzilla FAQ you shared says 512M and not MB. Does that not refer to RAM?
And I've also not been able to find any guides about the "levels" in hardware. If not the Pi, then what? How do I decide? How do I explore?
What are the recommended server specs for different Fediverse software? (Especially Hubzilla)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26074446
I'm trying to see if I can host my own Fediverse instance for friends and family and I want to know what kind of device would be required. I'm an absolute beginner to self-hosting so I was wondering if I can start cheap (Raspberry Pi 2GB RAM is something I can definitely consider).
Also, can one device host multiple software? Like if I wanted both a WordPress instance and a Hubzilla instance or a Matrix/XMPP instance
What are the recommended server specs for different Fediverse software? (Especially Hubzilla)
I'm trying to see if I can host my own Fediverse instance for friends and family and I want to know what kind of device would be required. I'm an absolute beginner to self-hosting so I was wondering if I can start cheap (Raspberry Pi 2GB RAM is something I can definitely consider).
Also, can one device host multiple software? Like if I wanted both a WordPress instance and a Hubzilla instance or a Matrix/XMPP instance
Thank you. That does sound annoying but .com is both boring and more expensive.
Ohh, I maybe should clarify. I don't intend to use my own server. I have a provider - disroot.
Will there be any issues with a .place domain for email?
I'm considering getting a domain with a .place TLD. Will it cause any issues like emails being blocked or something? I searched and it doesn't seem particularly notorious for spam or anything, but I wanted to find out if there are people who can tell me from experience.
Edit: This is not for running my own server - I have a provider, Disroot.
Thank you! Also, if I want different domains for different Hubzilla accounts within the same server, would that be possible? Like the server itself is a.hub, but an account in the hub wants to use b. space as it's domain, like [email protected], would I be able to allow that?
Can I use the same domain for hosting a fediverse instance and also for custom domain for email?
I'm looking to add a custom domain to my email to start building a more permanent identity on the internet (I have been shifting providers since I started degoogling).
I also want to either host a WordPress site or a fediverse instance (haven't decided) like Hubzilla for things like my writings and a general place to find my stuff online and maybe even host a few friends' pages.
Can I buy one domain and use it for both?
Is there a "macroblogging" platform on the Fediverse?
There seems to be a lot of microblogging going around, but I want a place to put my writings that are much bigger. I know that having my own website is also an option, but I'm finding filtering ethical hosting providers and website builders to be a lot more difficult than I thought it would be, and I'm afraid that even if I find them, it's going to be too expensive.
Any disroot email users? How is the service?
I'm only on a free Proton plan but I'm still considering switching because of recent news. I've seen disroot's website before and they seem more politically left-leaning which I appreciate. How have people's experiences been?
Windows VM without a Microsoft Account
I need to use a Windows VM to do a few things - I'm on Fedora and my Xbox controller has been glitching out a lot and I need to try updating the firmware. Also, I got a new RGB keyboard and I'm not able to use the proprietary software using Wine and OpenRGB does not support my keyboard (Cosmic Byte GK34 Firefly).
But when I try to install a Win 10 ISO it won't let me past the Microsoft account page and the oobe command that's suggested everywhere on reddit is not working. It says no such command found.
Windows 11 ISOs also aren't working because even if I put 6GB memory and 80GB Storage for the VM (Microsoft lists 4GB and 64GB as requirement) it still says system does not meet requirement. I'm using the Boxes app for the VM creation.