[-] garrett@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Technically, it can be, depending on the type of pepperoni.

In parts of Europe, such as Germany, a pepperoni is a pickled pepper, not the salami named after it.

(And peppers are fruits of a capsicum plant.)

[-] garrett@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

You can even stream from the PS5 to the Deck too, thanks to Chiaki4Deck (easily installable on desktop mode from the "Discover" app).

[-] garrett@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

Riker catches an alien "virus" (from a plant) and lays down naked under a shiny blanket for the rest of the episode. Pulaski forces Riker to dream of the most boring and worst segments from season 1 and 2.

Most shows have flashback episodes that feature highlights. TNG had a clip show that showcased the worst segments. It was the most lackluster finale episode of any Star Trek season. And this was even well after Riker "grew the beard".

[-] garrett@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

Penpot works perfectly on Linux, and you can even host it yourself in your own computer if you want. It's web-based and works in both Firefox and Chromium browsers. (I think WebKit ones too, but it's been a little while since I've tried it with Epiphany.)

I use Penpot myself all the time on Linux, but I'm usually using the hosted version so I can collaborate with others without having to maintain a server. I have also run locally in a container using Podman, even with Podman's rootless support.

But to start using it, all anyone needs to do is point their browser of choice to https://design.penpot.app/ and sign in. There is no setup process or installation needed; self-hosting is completely optional.

[-] garrett@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

Just pointing this out, as there are non-free services that the apps use:

Frog is awesome, but note that while Frog works offline for OCR, it has TTS (text to speech) which uses an online service. As long as you avoid having it read to you, it's all done locally.

And Dialect always uses an online service. Some of the servers are FOSS, but some aren't. But everything you type or paste into it is sent somewhere else. (This is the case with using translation websites too, of course.) I'm not saying you shouldn't use it; I'm just saying that you should be aware.

Hopefully Dialect will add Bergamot (what both Firefox by default & the "translate locally" extension use for translation) at some point. Dialect has a longstanding issue about it, but no forward motion yet. https://github.com/dialect-app/dialect/issues/183

For something open source that runs completely on your computer for translations, you'd want Speech Note. https://flathub.org/apps/net.mkiol.SpeechNote It's Qt based, but works well. In addition to translation, it can do text to speech and speech to text too. You do have to download models first (easily available as a click in the app), but everything, including the text you're working with, is all done locally.

I use both Frog and Speech Note all the time on my computer (GNOME on Fedora Linux). They're excellent.

[-] garrett@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

It does work in Proton, but without audio.

There's a bug open @ https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/7612

ProtonDB also lists the lack of audio, without workarounds (so far): https://www.protondb.com/app/2512840?device=any

Hopefully there will be a fix and/or workaround very soon; the game looks fun.

[-] garrett@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago

Agreed.

Additionally, the graphic oversimplifies things as well. The resulting genetically modified crop is often not even all that close close to the same as the non-GMO, as seen by studies such as this one:

https://enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12302-023-00715-6

Basically; GMO soybeans contain proteins which differ and also include additional proteins. This can cause allergic reactions to modified soy where non-modified soy might not cause an issue.

Monsanto supposedly even knew about these proteins and higher risk of allergic reaction and chose to not disclose it. (I saw some research that mentioned this years ago... It'd be hard to find the exact source I read back then.) This specific paper, which talks about additional proteins and side-effects brought in by the new transgenic splicing, also explicitly states that Monsanto did studies themselves and failed to report relevant findings:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5236067/

Obviously, other methods can also change proteins too, but these papers show it isn't as clear cut as the graphic in the original post claims.

Along these lines, here's a study that finds differences not just in soybeans grown organically versus ones treated by glyphosate (Monsanto Round-Up pesticide) but also between GMO and non-GMO crops, both treated by the pesticide.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814613019201

But, yeah this is just a long way of agreeing with the parent post and saying that the end goal is to make the plants resistant to poison, not to make them better for humans, all to make more money. (In this case, Monsanto is even double-dipping by selling both the pesticide and the crops tailor-made for the pesticide.)

Other GMO crops might be closer to the original crop and might also actually be beneficial for humans without drawbacks. However, Monsanto's soybeans are problematic, and other crops might be as well, especially if they're made by companies who have money as their primary goal.

[-] garrett@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Docker on Windows and Mac also runs containers through a VM though. (It's more obvious on Windows, where you need WSL (powered by a VM) and Hyper-V (a way to run VMs on Windows). But on a Mac, VMs to run Linux are also used to run Docker containers inside the VM.)

Podman Desktop helps to abstract VMs away on Windows and macOS: https://podman-desktop.io/

For the command line, there's "podman machine" to abstract away the VM. https://podman.io/docs/installation (installing on macOS is mentioned on that page and Windows has a link to more docs which also uses the podman machine command.)

As for Docker compose, you can use it directly with Podman too: https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-docker-compose (there's also podman-compose as well). The only thing Docker compose doesn't support with Podman is swarm functionality.

Docker compose can even work with rootless Podman containers on a user account. It requires an environment variable. https://major.io/p/rootless-container-management-with-docker-compose-and-podman/ (it's basically enabling the socket for podman and using the environment variable to point at the user podman socket)

[-] garrett@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My first attempt to try to fix something like this would be to:

  1. Download Fedora Workstation live media. (Within Windows or some other computer that boots.)
  2. Flash it to a USB stick.
  3. Reboot to the live desktop from the USB stick. (It might require pressing F12 or some other key combo during boot.)
  4. "Try out" Fedora. (That is: do not install.)
  5. Open GNOME Disks. (I think it's included. Otherwise, you can sudo dnf install gnome-disks to install it temporarily on the live session.)
  6. Try to mount the main filesystem that contains /etc/fstab (it should ask you for the LUKS password.
  7. Comment out the Windows mount point. Or if you want to keep it (if the partition still exists and is just "dirty" and still needs a check from Windows) add ",nofail" after "auto" to the options in the line for the mount, so your system should still boot without that mount point.
  8. Save the /etc/fstab file.
  9. Shut down the computer.
  10. Unplug USB stick.
  11. Boot computer. Linux should successfully boot... hopefully. ๐Ÿ˜‰

I'm also wondering: How did you add the Windows partition to Fedora? Was it from within Fedora's installer (aka: "Anaconda")? Or did you add it in a different way?

(BTW: I use Silverblue and have a long history with Fedora. ๐Ÿ˜)

[-] garrett@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

But CSS is a programming language: https://notlaura.com/css-is-a-programming-language/

The video presentation version of this is lots of fun too: https://youtu.be/dtddBM8s7xY

[-] garrett@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

This actually is an option!

I've used it to play games from the Deck at native 1080p on my TV.

I'm not at my Steam Deck right now, but I remember it's in the settings. I think if you go to the game's settings, look for something like "native" display. You have to go into the settings for each game you want at a larger resolution on an external monitor in game mode and select "native".

I don't remember if it needs to first be enabled on the system settings in the display area. (I think it does the right thing for system settings by default in most cases.)

IIRC, desktop mode also automatically supports the native resolution, but game mode is nice and console-like. Desktop mode might be a bit clunkier than what you'd want for couch gaming. Setting the option in game mode for the game is likely your best option.

[-] garrett@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

You can do this with the Flatpak version of Steam, but you have to give it access to the disks.

Flatseal is the easiest way to do this.

  1. Open Flatseal
  2. select Steam
  3. scroll down to the "Filesystem" section
  4. click on the + icon on the "Other files" area
  5. either put in the full path, or use something like "/run/media" to give it access to all user-mounted storage devices (this value may vary depending on how the disk is mounted)

Restart Steam (if it was running). You should be able to access additional devices.

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