towelie

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[–] towelie@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I can't entirely recall the precise details now, but I was trying to uninstall Nvidia and Mesa packages to fix some driver issues. Some mesa-related packages were remaining, and I couldn't figure out why, so I manually typed their names in and purged them, then proceeded to watch python, the desktop environment — everything — all uninstall haha.

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 51 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Sex with a hella sexy robot? Nice.

Using a hella sexy robot to fill the emptiness of no intimacy or authentic mutual connection? Not nice.

For some reason sex with a robot doesn't feel gross to me — until they start using it to fill a hole (hehe)

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 31 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

I will never forgive Microsoft for just straight up deleting everyone's (mine) MineCraft purchases and accounts, and then having the gall to tell us to buy it again. It's still in my Microsoft Store purchase history, for Christ's sake.

I'd sooner buy Skyrim 4 more times than buy back what was stolen from me.

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 14 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Seems intelligent and I've enjoyed some of his videos. I don't know much about him other than he's a bit... intense? and he's sparked controversy with some people. I looove the FUTO keyboard app he's associated with. It's the best TTS keyboard I've found, and I refuse to use the Google/Samsung/etc equivalents

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 13 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Drug addiction. Its not necessarily easy to fix, but we know how to treat it and take care of our vulnerable, we just don't: social workers, public services, shelters, safe drug sites with drug counselors. We've become so numb to the mass suffering on a societal and individual level.

Personal anedcote, a year ago, a man was dying of an OD next to our Tim Horton's drive thru, splayed out in the middle of the road, and the dozens of people driving by cared more about getting their coffee and getting to work than to even call an ambulance. I went to the pharmacy down the road and got a narcan kit and administered it, but Jesus Christ I lost a lot of trust and faith in my fellow man that day. Not enough people care; even people I love and respect say disgusting things about homeless people.

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Ahh interesting. Is that a Windows 11 thing? I haven't taken the plunge

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 34 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (9 children)
  • Keeps your progress if you exit without saving
  • Supports tabs so you don't have 5 separate notepad windows open
  • syntax highlighting for programming languages and markdown format
  • plugin support
  • can handle extremely large text files (I've opened 50gb text files and used ctrl+f to find terms and it worked fine)
  • superb tools for manipulating text (e.g., use reg expressions). Super easy and flexible in making mass edits.
  • dark mode support. That alone makes it superior lol

If you just need a quick window open to make a note you might actually prefer Sticky Notes over Notepad!

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

Sorry, I misread. What is bad about the UX exactly? You don't need to customize anything if you don't want to; "it just works". And I dont follow you on how having the option to customize things makes it a bad user experience. You're assuming the native UI is bad for some reason.

I've used Plex a lot too back in the day but there's nothing it provides that Jellyfin doesn't do out of the box + self-hosted + for free.

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 1 points 14 hours ago

Man I've been looking for this exact sort of project for ages. Thanks for sharing, OP!

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 3 points 14 hours ago
[–] towelie@lemm.ee 17 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (5 children)

You can change the UI design to whatever you want with a custom CSS. Can make your own or there's a plethora of themes on GitHub. I remember trying one that replicated the Netflix app, and don't hold me to it but I think I saw a Plex one as well.

Also, regarding the metadata, there are options that auto populate it for you. Idk how it does it, but my haphazard library of torrents all had accurate metadata AND it downloaded the subtitle files as well.

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 27 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I tried Jellyfin two years ago and was so fed up troubleshooting the installation that I swore it off. Tried it again a few months ago and it worked flawlessly! Now I host movies, shows, music, ebooks, and audiobooks for a handful of friends and family. My jellyfin instance is probably siphoning $120/month from Netflix's subscription revenue lol

 

I hear this is a rite of passage. I made it 4 weeks before I rekt all my shit (it was nvidia related). Where do I claim my sticker?

In all seriousness, now that I understand better these commands that I've been haphazardly throwing around, Id like to do a clean install. God knows what else Ive done to it. Can i just reinstall to my root partition and have my home partition work as expected?

 

I mean I feel stupid typing it now, but I've been using Windows since I was 5 years old, and Linux for about 30 days. It was not apparent to me that many of my folders were actually shortcuts to stuff in my user directory, and now that I know to look out for them the location of my applications make sooo much more sense.

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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by towelie@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Hi all. Today I was messing around with making custom icons in Debian 12 and I was having a heck of a time. I finally figured it out and wanted to share my solution. Below is a .sh script that will automate creating and replacing existing icons.

How it works

The script takes a path to an .svg file as an input argument. It then searches the /usr/share/icons/hicolor folder's subdirectories for .pngs of a matching name, notes their resolutions, and utilizes InkScape to convert the .svg to .pngs and replace the icons.

To utilize, save the script below as an .sh file and provide it an input .svg as follows:

sudo ./icons.sh /home/USERNAME/icon.svg

(note: your input .svg file must match the name of the existing icon you are trying to replace. Check the folder path below to determine the correct name)

Script

#!/bin/bash

# Define the base directory where icons are located
BASE_DIR="/usr/share/icons/hicolor"

# Ensure the script is run as root to modify files in /usr/share/icons/hicolor
if [ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "This script must be run with root privileges to access the icons folder."
    exit 1
fi

# Check if Inkscape is installed
if ! command -v inkscape &> /dev/null; then
    echo "Inkscape is not installed. Please install it and try again. (sudo apt install inkscape)"
    exit 1
fi

# Input SVG file filepath
INPUT_SVG="$1"
if [ -z "$INPUT_SVG" ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 /path/to/input.svg"
    exit 1
fi

# Validate that the input SVG file exists
if [ ! -f "$INPUT_SVG" ]; then
    echo "Input SVG file does not exist."
    exit 1
fi

# Loop through all resolution folders (resolutions like 16x16, 32x32, etc.) in the /usr/share/icons/hicolor folder
for resolution_dir in "$BASE_DIR"/*x*; do
    # Check if the resolution folder contains an 'apps' subfolder
    if [ -d "$resolution_dir/apps" ]; then
        echo "Found apps folder in $resolution_dir"

        # Extract the resolution size (e.g., 16x16)
        resolution=$(basename "$resolution_dir")

        # Get the name of the input SVG file (without the .svg extension)
        base_name=$(basename "$INPUT_SVG" .svg)

        # Define the target PNG file path in the current resolution folder
        target_png="$resolution_dir/apps/$base_name.png"

        # Check if the resolution folder already contains a PNG file to replace
        if [ -f "$target_png" ]; then
            echo "Found existing $target_png. Replacing it."

            # Use Inkscape to convert the SVG to PNG at the correct resolution
            inkscape "$INPUT_SVG" --export-type=png --export-filename="$target_png" --export-width="${resolution%x*}" --export-height="${resolution#*x}"

            # Confirm creation
            if [ -f "$target_png" ]; then
                echo "Successfully created $target_png"
            else
                echo "Failed to create $target_png"
            fi
        else
            echo "No existing $target_png found. Skipping this resolution."
        fi
    else
        echo "No 'apps' folder found in $resolution_dir. Skipping."
    fi
done

echo "Icon update process complete!"
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