Matt :opensuse: :kdelight:

Linux and FOSS advocate. Writer and Historian by trade. Weekly podcasts at thelinuxcast.org and Linux related videos on Youtube!

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I now treat this as my main social media account, so you'll get a bit of everything. Linux, writing things, sports, you name it.

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2024-09-26 00:05:37

10,000,000 views.
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2024-09-26 00:04:21

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@npub1s6a…9skl Thanks. I will give it a look.

2024-09-20 00:30:03

Anyone else using Zen Browser? How do you actually close a tab? The only way you can do it, that I found, is by expanding the tabs or using a keybinding

2024-09-18 04:06:57

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@npub1y2h…ahs3 Here's the link https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFH539TM?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

2024-09-09 05:36:24

So after hours (days really) trying to get 11ty to work again, I've admitted defeat.
So I've spent the last few hours getting a new site working. It isn't live yet, but I've made some awesome progress, and it shouldn't be too long before I can put it up.
I used Hugo, and it has been good, but has tested my skills getting it to look like the old site.
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2024-09-06 03:37:58

On September 5, 2020, I started The Linux Cast YouTube channel. In the four years since then the channel has grown further than I ever imagined it would. 9.9 Million views, 53,000 subscribers and over 1000 videos.
Thanks to everyone who has supported me along the way.

2024-09-06 00:21:08

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@npub1yl3…ptqy Dragging and dropping doesn't work well now and context menus don't appear where they should

2024-09-03 00:28:08

Please don't cancel #NaNoWriMo. I know the AI shit was a bad take, but surely we can work around that?

2024-08-30 20:46:07

I now have six videos recorded and ready for editing.
Three more today.
On a roll.
Will edit one to post tonight.

2024-08-25 21:07:10

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@npub1z8k…ypmx probably because they're debating renaming it

2024-08-24 03:50:29

So, I'm returning to Firefox for a video I'm planning and goodness is it slow. IDK if it is just something going on on my PC or if Vivaldi is just that much faster.

2024-08-20 13:32:30

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@npub192f…uxrp how do you select both MP4 and change the audio. The audio settings in deliver are greyed out for me

2024-08-19 06:31:15

If there are any Linux Resolve users out there, and you know how to render to a format in Resolve that isn't huge and has audio do let me know.
I think this is the last hurdle.

2024-08-19 01:16:40

bye bye Windows. If I can get resolve working in bluefin we'll be good to go.

2024-08-18 17:35:52

Everyone uses Linux differently, and judging them for how they use Linux is a crappy thing to do.

2024-08-18 01:50:53

I Hate Windows. I will probably toot this out every time I have to use it

2024-08-17 16:27:04

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@npub1wwq…2y0s because matrix clients are worse. Sadly.

2024-08-17 05:10:53

I'm just going to start using Discord in the browser from now on. Every client is broken in some way and it is annoying af. KDE has this bug that breaks copy and paste in xwayland apps. They fixed it, but it won't be out until 6.2.

2024-08-15 01:43:08

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@npub1pc3…0ucf I got it to launch just now but it won't activate lol. Finally got it installed and it won't activate

2024-08-15 01:23:09

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@npub1pc3…0ucf to install something the install must be successful. This has not been
font issues

2024-08-15 01:03:33

I didn't think that installing Resolve would end up being the issue. But it is.

2024-08-15 00:14:35

Who killed github?

2024-08-12 03:34:54

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@npub1372…950w I'm hoping that I can stick on Wayland as it works better with multiple monitors

2024-08-12 03:15:54

So I have decided to buy an Nvidia card for my main rig instead of buying a laptop. It was the cheaper option. I do need a different laptop, but that can wait, and I can then just buy old and used like I normally do.
This means that I will be going with an NVIDIA card in my daily driver for the first time in several years. It may also mean going back to xorg, but we'll see. There may be some content possibilities here, too, to talk about the progress that NVIDIA has made. We'll see.

2024-08-11 16:12:39

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@npub1pz3…dldm is there a list somewhere for laptops that have that support

2024-08-11 02:03:43

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@npub1pz3…dldm laptop in this case. If I'm going to spend 2k on a laptop I want it to be a tank

2024-08-07 23:50:11

So, I am getting faster on my new keyboard. It is no longer painful to type out a toot or a message in Discord. Monkeytype says that I'm around 40 words per minute. Definitely faster than I ever got with the moonlander.
Overall, I'm liking it a lot. I need better wrist rests, but that will be for later. The ones I have are too light and move around.
The biggest issue that I'm having is with the space and enter keys. I am so used to those having stabalizers on them. They are now way too light

2024-08-07 04:31:28

Am I shocked at having lost subscibers after publishing a video about using Windows? Nope not at all.

2024-08-05 18:51:43

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@npub1372…950w its not by keychron

2024-08-05 18:00:35

Ooooh boy.
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2024-08-03 04:56:16

I really, really, like having my own instance of Searx. it has been awesome and the results aren't terrible. Even a little better than Google sometimes. But I do wish it had !g like DDG.

2024-08-02 23:02:04

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@npub1372…950w plus that price. That's horrible

2024-08-02 22:42:31

Lol. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2040844

2024-08-02 08:56:00

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@npub1qld…3r2n no. I've seen it but didn't care for how narrow it looked.

2024-08-01 14:00:59

Spelling "yeah" "yah" must me a new Gen Z thing.

2024-08-01 01:03:04

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Even warpinator, which was working, won't work now.
And yes, I set the firewall up proper

2024-08-01 00:38:10

The bad part about me having to reinstall openSUSE is that I have to set up Samba again. Once again, it's fighting me.
I hate samba with a passion

2024-07-30 00:12:56

I wish rsync had a ETA timer like SCP does that would be so cool

2024-07-28 17:05:29

Apparently my merch shop has been down for about a week. I had no clue. I've worked on it, and the problem is (of course) DNS. I've emailed Fourthwall support, we'll see how long it takes them to get back with me.

2024-07-28 05:31:27

The bluefin and aurora isos are huge.
I think the days of "itty bitty" isos is over.

2024-07-25 00:41:31

Getting myself a kvm switch that will let me use all three of my monitors. And some more USB things.

2024-07-23 01:51:30

A #2YearLinuxChallenge Check In. Going old school windows for this month's theme.
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2024-07-22 20:17:31

You know, Cloudflare's human ID system wouldn't be so bad if it weren't so effin' slow. Just let me check the box dude, what are you thinking about?

2024-07-22 19:48:51

I've become a bit of a docker nerd.
I'm also a lazy one, and get disappointed when a developer hasn't made a docker-compose file for me.

2024-07-20 06:37:49

This sounds like a good deal. I should definitely go for it.
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2024-07-20 05:43:01

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@npub1flt…lr65 Thanks for the help tonight. It is really appreciated.

2024-07-20 05:18:09

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@npub1flt…lr65 I wish that'd carry over to making a flatpak of their software available.

2024-07-20 05:17:28

If anyone knows of an easy (as in for dummies) way of getting large files from Windows to Linux, I'd be appreciative. Something that isn't Samba.
Samba hates me. I do have it set up, but the permissions are fucked. I"ll keep working on it, but I think that if Samba was a person it would murder my family.

2024-07-20 04:33:06

Well, giving up on Resolve on Linux for now. Rendering on the Windows computer.
IF anyone knows how to install Resolve and get it working without Distrobox on openSUSE, and is willing to help me out, let me know.

2024-07-19 23:20:58

With Immich going paid, I will probably not make a video about it. I know they say that nothing will change if you don't pay, but really, how many times have we heard that when a company has been aquired.

2024-07-19 13:04:45

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@npub1je6…xjdw because I paid for it.

2024-07-19 05:02:59

Of a 1h35m podcast, I've edited 35 minutes. I feel like I've got a groove down, learning the bindings in #resolve pretty well now, and getting a hang of the things. And it is, at least so far, working swimmingly on #linux

2024-07-18 23:49:19

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@npub1g7x…c8jt I'm still on openSUSE, but I used davincibox to install Resolve, which I think uses Fedora.

2024-07-18 19:57:01

Matt, editing the podcast, in Resolve, on GNU/Linux.
Turns out that Windows box was a waste of money.
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2024-07-18 03:22:51

New Blog Post - A Trackball Problem - https://thelinuxcast.org/posts/2024/ATrackballProblem/

2024-07-17 05:22:22

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@npub1flt…lr65 It just ate the second half of my project, so I'm a long ways away. Luckily it backed the timelines up, but it was still annoying since the last backup was an hour ago

2024-07-17 04:00:47

Trying my hand at Resolve again tonight. Going better than the first time.

2024-07-16 05:35:09

YouTube is quite convinced that I'm a teenaged girl in need of hair and makeup tips.

2024-07-15 17:55:03

YouTubers confuse the hell out of me. Given that I are one, that says a lot.
Content creators who don't cover politics, decide that they need to add their two cents to the current political atmosphere, and then get all upset when their comment section blows up with people on both sides fighting each other. If you cover tech, cover tech. If you cover sports, cover sports. Stay the fuq out of politics.

2024-07-14 20:31:55

If you run a book project, for the love of all that is holy, don't call it gutenberg. I promise you, that's not at all clever, and you're about the 10,000th person who thought that was a great idea for a project name.

2024-07-13 06:19:52

Somehow, and I'm not sure how this is even possible, Apple has made notifications in iOS 18 even worse than they were before.
I'm using the beta, and if they don't get at least back to where they were, I'm switching back to Android.
At least the stupid "siri summary" of notifications can be turned off.

2024-07-12 06:15:21

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@npub1je6…xjdw For small things? It's okay. But there are a ton of missing features. For example, sorting by patterns isn't possible, afaik

2024-07-12 03:40:16

For the life of me I cannot get the GUI version of YaST to launch. I don't need to use it often, but when I do, YaST fails me time and time again.

2024-07-12 01:09:05

20 minutes of using Windows was enough to remind me why I left it behind.
Goodness, MS, stop with the effing pop ups. I get fewer ads on a recipe site.

2024-07-10 20:51:50

Of course every Debian/Ubuntu user things apt is WAY faster than Zypper. They get 4 updates a month.

2024-07-09 04:22:05

New Blog post! - BTRFS Should Be Default - https://thelinuxcast.org/posts/2024/Snapshots%20are%20the%20BEST%2f #linux #btrfs #snapshots

2024-07-09 00:28:50

Vertical tabs are an idea that sound really good, but in practice, not so much.

2024-07-07 06:05:47

1 Year. #opensuse #2YearLinuxChallenge
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2024-07-06 22:15:52

After being back in a tiling window manager now for a few days, I have to admit, that there are quite a few things that I really miss about being in a desktop environment.

2024-07-06 00:33:44

It is obnoxious to be this tired before 9 at night.

2024-07-04 02:11:16

this is the time of the year, where my dog crawls underneath the desk and says duck and cover.
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2024-07-02 00:38:47

Was going to make a nice video about #KDE Plasma 6.1 tonight. Got to the point where I wanted to *show* plasma, and the damn screen capture isn't working. No clue why.

2024-06-29 03:54:13

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@npub17z2…dlsy my current system doesn't support GPU passthrough. Sadly.

2024-06-29 01:57:00

So because I truly am sick of kdenlive, and all the other video editing options on Linux are not good, I think I am going to start researching setting up a Mac Mini or Studio to do my editing on.
What I need to decide now is just how much I really want to spend. Fuckers are expensive, and I really don't want to do it at all. But I've been burned so much lately by kdenlive.

2024-06-29 00:18:20

Moving from a finger tracker to a thumb tracker trackball is not as easy as I thought it would be.
My Elecom HUGE died and I didn't find another finger tracker version that I liked. I love the HUGE, but they do not last long at all.

2024-06-28 05:50:34

Oh, so there's now beef between CTT and Lunduke.
Those two were buds once upon a time.

2024-06-27 23:23:01

I just #read Storm Front. Here's a cool #infographic about it made with #booklyapp
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2024-06-27 20:23:00

Are we ever going to get quote toots? I know they said yes, but that was well over a year ago. #mastodon #fosstodon

2024-06-27 02:07:25

I've been on Plasma for a little while now, and one thing I will say, Gnome's apps are prettier.

2024-06-26 06:01:01

For those of you on #plasma 6.1. how do you turn off the annoying setting that causes your mouse to pause when going between monitors?

2024-06-25 17:24:51

This right here is why Linus comes across as so unlikable. I even unsubscribed there for a bit because he kept bragging about his multi-million dollar house three or four times a week.
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2024-06-20 04:32:59

My Gnome experiment ended after 45 days.
Dash to panel broke and I couldn't get it to work again. I don't care for dash to dock, and the vanilla layout does nothing for me.

2024-06-19 23:07:24

‘Spaceballs’ Sequel in Development at Amazon MGM With Josh Gad Starring, Mel Brooks Producing
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/spaceballs-2-josh-gad-mel-brooks-amazon-mgm-1236041375/

2024-06-19 00:00:50

We'll be podcasting in about 15 minutes! https://youtube.com/live/vSPG3YxwY3Y?feature=share

2024-06-18 21:26:26

WARNING: To those who use Tumbleweed and the MESA drivers, DO NOT UPDATE!
https://forums.opensuse.org/t/catastrophic-result-after-todays-graphics-driver-update/175911/11
This is happening to loads of people. (Including me).

2024-06-16 23:41:36

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@npub14ea…whls I'd have bought the shit out of a zune phone, lol

2024-06-16 18:19:16

Thanks everyone so much for the kindness and the follows over the last three and a half years. Very excited for what comes next.
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2024-06-15 03:22:12

I'm honestly surprised at the number of FOSS folk who are still on X. I still visit from time to time, so I see them posting there

2024-06-11 06:12:49

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@npub183n…tahh Just now you have quite a few people in your audience Googling that word.
:rofl:

2024-06-10 18:43:55

Well, that was a dud.
I always have higher expectations for Apple than what they deliver.
How can they do all this nonsense and still have a subpar notification system?

2024-06-10 17:31:46

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@npub10zm…zrpx Depends on what it is. If it makes siri better, then maybe

2024-06-10 16:46:38

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@npub10zm…zrpx Can't get guake to listen for keybinding

2024-06-10 16:42:33

Anyone know if there is a good dropdown terminal that works with Wayland?
Tilix has a drop-down mode, but it doesn't work with Wayland.
Tilda works, but not very well. Doesn't seem to be able to listen for keybindings.

2024-06-10 01:17:41

Was reading Paul Thurrott's defense of Microsoft's Recall feature.
If there was ever an example of a journalist who has lost sight of his objectivity, this is it.
Goes on about how we all over-reacted, and how #Microsoft had nothing but good intentions, and that we should all just trust Microsoft to A) keep our data secure and B) to never upload the data from Recall onto their servers. Because we all **Know* MS is very trustworthy.

2024-05-19 16:29:13

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@npub1qfw…67zv I get this over and over:
While adding page: duplicate child name in GtkStack: Downloads
But for different directories and files. And Nautilus just freezes.

2024-05-19 06:15:29

If there's one thing that is going to drive me away from Gnome, it's the crappy GTK file managers.
Thunar has some odd drag and drop bugs that bug me, and the way it focuses on the panes is very odd, so often I will think one pane is in focus when it's not.
Double commander is just a mess
Nautilus is broken on my install.
Nemo doesn't remember position. Same with pcmanfm.
I tried Krusader and it doesn't work great in Gnome. Neither does Dolphin.
I wish Spacefm wasn't abandoned.

2024-05-18 03:47:41

The comments on my videos have been way more negative lately. Not sure what I'm doing differently.

2024-05-17 04:23:30

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There's also this annoying bug where alert dialogues pop up behind an active window and won't show themselves. It does this sometimes when changing keybindings.

2024-05-17 04:21:57

The thing that is bugging me about Gnome right now is that there aren't really any good GTK file managers out there. Thunar is the closest, but it has some features that just aren't as good as Krusader.
I guess I will just give in and install the 145 packages needed to install Krusader.

2024-05-15 05:30:13

You know, Google talked a bunch about #AI today at #IO. And I have poo pooed it for a long time.
But, with my DNS and Cloudflare goings-on today, if AI could take all my logins, and tell me what I did wrong, it would have saved me loads of time.
On the other hand, I'd have learned nothing, so it was probably better this way.