SethranKada

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[–] SethranKada 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use ddterm. It's a gnome extension that adds a Drop Down Terminal. I quite like how easy it is to bring it up and hide it again, at the press of a button. You can even hide it without closing it, so it's great for testing web apps.

[–] SethranKada 2 points 1 year ago

Plex, though I do occasionally listen to online radios using my podcast player

[–] SethranKada 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] SethranKada 1 points 1 year ago

Is the setting missing? Or is the setting just not working properly? My laptop has the option greyed out and stuck in the "enabled" setting. I'm not sure how much help I'll be, but I can try?

[–] SethranKada 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think people are misunderstanding the whole point of drive encryption. It's so that if the drive is stolen or lost, you don't have to worry about it as much. I personally don't see any benefit in doing this if I have to enter a password every time I plug the damn thing in. If you're concerned about somebody stealing your laptop or desktop, the disk-encryption should be the least of your worries.

To the OC; if you happen to use GNOME, then check out the settings in the DISKS app. It has auto-unlock options in the per-drive settings. I long ago configured it so my USB is auto-unlocked upon being plugged in. Though after several system resets and such whatever I did to do that seems to no longer be visible in the GUI, I know that's how I set it up in the first place.

[–] SethranKada 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the information! I'll look into it!

[–] SethranKada 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

I'm using Bluefin right now, but I was using bazzite before that. I'd say the biggest benefit is that it's hard to break permanently. Sure, you can still mess up your home directory pretty bad, but system level stuff is nice and stable. The biggest problem is compatability and software instalation. Flatpak and toolbox/distrobox are nowhere near as good as the documentation makes them out to be. I'd suggest making sure you select a distribution with Nix pre-installed so it's still possible to install stuff.

(Edit: There is apparently a workaround for the following issue, though I have not tried if yet.) Just be aware that some things are just plain impossible with atomic distos, and you can't change it. Like the login screen. You can't change that at all, whether it's the background or the default zoom level. It's part of the system packages and can't be fixed.

[–] SethranKada 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's great for user apps, gui apps, and sandboxing. It's terrible for cli apps, libraries, development, and integration.

[–] SethranKada 3 points 1 year ago

Sounds awesome! Thanks for sharing!

[–] SethranKada 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I went straight from Processing to Rust. You'd be surprised by just how many skills transfer over! I've found that it's actually easier than other programming languages, aside from doing anything visual. I haven't figured out how to do the same kind of graphics stuff as i could in processing just yet.

As for use cases? Processing is a learning tool, and it's great for teaching as well. You can make some pretty great animations using it, and a lot of YouTubers use it internally to animate their math videos.

[–] SethranKada 11 points 1 year ago

You're welcome! It's one of my favorite genres, so I happened to have a pretty big list on hand. I'm glad I could help.

[–] SethranKada 0 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I'll definitely try it someday.

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