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[–] data1701d@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This just seems to be the web app in weird packaging, and you would get very little benefit installing it.

Personally, I use an iPhone, and I just resort to the web app, and I can live with it. Not as fancy as on the Mac, but I manage. I'm able to access my Apple e-mails and photos just fine. I eventually just plan to jump the Apple ship, but like you, that's not possible for me at the moment.

As others have said, rclone might work for you, but I personally don't use iCloud Drive, so I don't know enough to speak about it.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What software do you use for RPG campaigns? Is it just PDFs and word processors, or do you use a an online VTT? It should mostly be fine, but I figured I should ask.

Also, what are you doing in terms of the Minecraft Server? While I think most support Linux, there could (not certainly are) be weird caveats depending on the server.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

While certainly a weird idea, a TOS continuation series might not be so bad done right. I might love another episode where Uhura takes command, except it isn't just because all the men on the ship are under the influence of space sirens.

Overall, the idea kind of reminds me of when they considered reusing the assets of the cancelled Secret of Vulcan Fury to make a CGI TOS continuation, though it didn't work out for several reasons, I'm guessing in part because of the death of DeForest Kelley.

But honestly, I can see the sentiment of not wanting it - I think we do need a purely new Trek era, something like the mid 25th century or sometime in the 26th century.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I second Debian Testing. The only issues I have are updates slow down during package freezes and sometimes, a package you are using becomes a victim of a package transition. Both are symptoms of Testing being exactly what it says, so I can't blame them, but still a valid annoyance.

The worst example was FreeCAD had a dependency being transitioned, so FreeCAD disappeared from Testing for a while, meaning my system wouldn't update if I wanted to keep FreeCAD. In the end, I just gave up and used the Flatpak. (I probably could have installed from Unstable, but whatever.)

Truth be told, I kind of wish there was a project to keep some new packages flowing to Testing users during freezes. I get why Debian themselves doesn't do it - it would be a nightmare to maintain - but an outside community project would be amazing. It wouldn't exactly be easy, but such a project wouldn't need to necessarily do every package (just desired ones), and they would only need to maintain them a couple months until new versions start flowing into Testing again. I think the biggest difficulty is not going too far ahead of what will end up in Testing post-freeze.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I tried UE5 on Debian Testing and it seemed to work fine.

If it works there, it’ll probably work on almost anything.

Personally, I dislike Ubuntu, but if it’s been working for you, you shouldn’t have problems.

I really like Debian and think it’s not too difficult, but it isn’t for everyone and might not be your thing.

EDIT: Looking at the website for UE5, almost any distro released in the past 3 years should do the trick so long as the distro works on your hardware.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 10 points 1 month ago

I mostly prefer Detail view, but I enable Icon view in Videos, Photos, and Music folders so I can see previews.

I’m guessing most file managers have similar behavior, but on XFCE Thunar, I’m able to set detail as the default but have it remembery choice per folder.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

What the heck! I might have to go for this one!

Some of them aren’t that interesting to me - I own a lot of these, but some of these I’ve wanted really bad.

Sucks there’s not the Who crossover on here, but nuts anyway.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

Did this significantly speed up the font menu? I might have to try that!

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

While (I think) you can install HWE (hardware enablement) kernels on Mint, you would also have to upgrade Mesa, which is not as easy on Mint.

Personally in this case, for a truly stable distro, I’d install Debian Stable and install a backports kernel and backports Mesa, which are both currently versions that should support RDNA4 GPUs like OPs just fine. This involves two simple steps after installing:

  1. Enable the Debian Backports Repo (see https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/). It’s like, one file.
  2. Install the packages with something like sudo apt install -t bookworm-backports linux-image-amd64 mesa-va-drivers and reboot.

Before you take these steps, you probably won’t have hardware acceleration, but will still get video output so you can perform the steps and reboot.

This is definitely a weird suggestion, and other people’s suggestions might be less work out of the box. I just like Debian, and stability+backports+testing is part of what makes it possible for it to be my everything distro.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

1 "real" Robin Hood, coming right up:

(From an ep of Doctor Who, where he's TOTALLY real. ) Wink

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago

At least they have two whole seasons to wrap stuff up and know about the end ahead of time, unlike Lower Decks, which got the memo in the middle of season development.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

If only Cycles would ever work on AMD Polaris…

Though honestly, I’ll probably get around to a GPU upgrade eventually. Rocm packaging looks to be pretty much done on Debian, although they still seem to need time on the problem of keeping it reasonably up to date in Testing and Sid - momentum will probably pick up after Trixie leaves hard freeze and goes stable.

Honestly, it’d be kind of nice to have a project with a repo that does nothing most of the time except during the Testing freeze, in which it would deliver package updates and keep Testing as a rolling release during that time.

I get why Debian doesn’t do this themselves - they tried and found it hell to both prepare a stable release and package new versions.

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