A.k.a: @oranki@piefed.social @oranki@lemmy.world @oranki@lemmini.fi

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  • Another vote for Aurora.

    Universal Blue in general has been really solid, I remember one time in the last year or two when there’s been any need for manual intervention. And that came with a notification after boot, with a link to instructions that were all copy-pastable as-is to the terminal.


  • My biased opinion is that most people run Nextcloud on an underpowered platform, and/or they install and enable every possible addon. Many also skip some important configurations.

    If you run NC on a bit more powerful machine, like a used USFF PC, with a good link to it, the experience is better than e.g. OneDrive.

    Another thing is, people say “Nextcloud does too much”, but a default installation really doesn’t do much more than files. If you add every imaginable app, sure it slows down and gets buggy. Disable everything you don’t need, and the experience gets much better. You can disable even the built-in Photos app if you don’t need it.

    Not saying NC is a speed daemon, but it really is OK. The desktop and mobile clients don’t get enough love, that’s true.

    I’m talking about the “bare metal” installation or the community Apache/FPM container images. AIO seems to be a hot mess, and does just about everything a container shouldn’t be doing, but that’s just my opinion.




  • Keep at it! The learning curve is not a straight line, just like with any skill. You’ll see fast progress, just to be followed by a long plateau of no progress or even feel you’re getting worse. And then you notice possibly big improvement again. And again.

    Don’t worry about following sheets/chords initially. If chords are not in your muscle memory, you’re basically doing three complex tasks simultaneously, reading, figuring out chords and fingering chords. I’d try to memorize one or two simple pieces first, to get the chords under your belt. Start simple and stay patient, it’ll take time.

    Don’t forget the rhythm. Play on top of recordings. You can be pretty liberal with the harmonics, but if you keep a steady beat it’ll probably still sound good.


  • There’s occasionally something buggy, but the last time I ran Windows there were a lot of bugs too. They’re just abstracted away, which Linux DEs don’t do at all.

    For me, it’s about choosing the bugs that bug me less. If Windows is working better for you, just run Windows. Internet points are not worth much.




  • oranki@sopuli.xyztoLinux@lemmy.mlDNS help needed on Fedora 38
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    • Open the GUI network settings
    • Set DNS to the IP of the PiHole, make sure the “automatic” switch is off.
    • Do the above for each active interface (ethernet, wlan) and for both IPv4 and IPv6
    • Save/apply settings
    • Turn the interface(s) off, then back on
    • resolvectl flush-caches just in case

    Look at resolvectl dns to check there’s no DHCP-acquired DNS servers set anymore

    If you use a VPN, those often set their own DNS servers too, remember to check it as well.



  • Protonmail, but not really because of encryption. I just liked their Android client and webmail the most. I’ve had sensitive backups on Proton Drive for a long time, so that also played a role in the choice.

    I hosted my own server for quite a few years, but the SMTP clients (Thunderbird, Evolution, K9 mail) all doing things slightly differently made me give up. Biggest push was that K9 mail didn’t really move deleted mail to trash. These were probably dovecot configuration issues, but I got tired of searching for solutions. Never had any deliverability issues.