Deckweiss

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[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I have one server running arch and 3 running debian.

So far they are equally stable after running for about half a year.

Autoupdates are turned on on all of them. Which I am aware is against the arch wiki recommendations, but the server is not critical, easy to migrate and has nightly offsite backups anyway.

[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

PDF was a proprietary format controlled by Adobe until it was released as an open standard on July 1, 2008, and published by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO 32000-1:2008, at which time control of the specification passed to an ISO Committee of volunteer industry experts.

[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Okular has no tripple click for whole line selection.

Other than that, setting up digitally signing with Okular never worked for me. Do you have a guide that worked for you?

[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (12 children)

Digitally sign a PDF with a couple of clicks.

So far, I have spent about 6 hours (sporadically over the past 3 years) trying to set up a way to do this, yet ultimately it didn't ever work at all. And every time I end up using some online third party service just to get it over with.

I did it on Windows once and the setup was a simple 5 step wizard. After which digitally signing a document just works with a couple of clicks.

Bonus round:

  • on Linux there is only one PDF viewer that implements tripple click for selecting a whole line AND can invert the colors of the document (which helps some partially blind users). That viewer is Atril and it has no way of even attempting to digitally sign a PDF. As soon as you want to do the signing, you lose those one of the two features and people with impairments can't do their work properly.

  • the screen readers have voices from the 90s and setting up anything modern with them is above my skill grade - as again, I fucked with it for days and didn't manage to get a natural sounding voice to work. On Windows it is way simpler, including working well for mixed language documents - for example German text with technical terms in english or latin.

[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

My point is not about seperation, but about conscent.

If you come to me at work and ask "Can I tell you something work unrelated, that might interest you?" then I have the option to choose.

Maybe at the moment I am stressed, or doing some heavy mental lifting and don't want any distractions - then I can decline and not be force educated on some topic.

Maybe on another day I have a free mind and not much to do - then I can accept and listen to it and potentially find it interesting and worthwhile to try out.

An email leaves no such choise and thus the message could be not only unwanted but also anniying.

I'd say in general, suggestions only work, when the other party is receptive to it and may do the opposite if they are unwillingly shoved down the recipients brain.

[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I am the last person to have anything against libre software, but if I'd see that preachy line in a work email I'd roll my eyes and groan.

I don't mean to be rude or shut down your idea, but I think recommendations like these need to be appropriate to the situation for them to have any effect - instead of being blasted per email at the "wrong time".

I feel like a generic work email, especially if the topic is not even related to software, is the "wrong time", because I'd hate spending my work attention on somebody's oppinion (even if I agree with the opinion) and I can't see that it is not work related until I have read it and understood the meaning. Which would be quite an anniying situation for me personally.

Cheers!

[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

I use portmaster

[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Try the tldr util on linux.

[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I use easyeffects for noise cancelling on my mic, and then use what comes out of easyeffects in any other program.

[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

netcup and contabo each have the cheapest VPS option in certain specc constelations.

Even more so if you can wait until black friday or christmas, since they both regularely offer huge VPS deals.

[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 99 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

There is a website to check which hardware is supported (on which distro). You can look up your laptop there, but beware that it is crowdsourced, so there might have been tinkering involved before submitting the results or the results may be outdated.

Click on "probe your computer" then check the results to see what your current setup supports.

https://linux-hardware.org/

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