twinnie

I've been using Plasma for about 2 years now and one thing I've never really done is theme it. I use openSUSE and I just use the included dark theme and I don't find it that good. It doesn't look very professional and I sometimes find I can't see buttons because they're too similar in shade to the surrounding area. I've looked through the themes and I don't know if it's an openSUSE or KDE thing but there don't seem to be that many and some seem to give me problems when updating.

Can anyone share some success stories or inspiration? Where do I get decent themes from and which are the good ones? I know I won't be popular for saying this but I think Windows 11 is the best looking OS available right now and I'd like something that feels modern and sleek like that. Are there some tools I need to run fancier themes or make everything look better?

What are good games for getting into the spirit of Halloween? Like, games that double down on theming. TF2's always been my go-to game but I've been playing it for so long I'm pretty bored of it now and I don't really like PvP anyway. There's Overwatch which I expect has a lot going on but again I don't really enjoy games like that.

Anyone got any highlights?

I loved it. After all the boring Marvel stuff I thought I was totally done with superhero movies. The way it began was so odd it grabbed my interest straight away and Superman had more personality than in all the movies he’d ever done while still being a goodie-two-shoes nerd.

I’ve got some old Shimano SLX brakes from around 2002. I’m having problems with them in that the pistons aren’t reaching all the way out to the pads. I understand that after a bit of pumping they should sort or reset to near where the pads are, like a car does, but they aren’t doing it. I’m assuming the old seals are seized up or something. In order to fix this do I need to replace the inner o-rings or can I just replace the seals on the outside? I can find the seals for £5 but to replace the o-rings I need to buy the pistons and it’s more like £25.

Liquid Glass feels like one of those tacky themes you’d download to a computer or Android phone, run for 10 minutes, then delete. I’m not some anti-change guy, I loved the flat UI when it came out, it felt sleek and modern yet professional and unpretentious.

It’s not the end of the world or anything, I don’t hate it, but my phone interface feels childish now where it didn’t before.

Sorry to have to make a post about this but it’s one of those things you need to be familiar with and I’m not.

I’m looking to upgrade from a 2060 Super to a Radeon as I’m mostly using Linux now. I’m not too fussed about buying new and I’d like to keep the cost down but if I’m changing I’d like to by something noticeably better than what I have. Any idea what’s a good buy in the market right now? I don’t care about ray-tracing.

I mean, there's obviously something going on. Public sentiment towards Ukraine is still strong and you still see yellow and blue flags flying but sympathy for Israel was never as strong and it's since massively died off given how they've reacted. The vote is clearly not a reflection of genuine public opinion. But what's going on, are certain people just voting loads of times?

I've been trying to create my own splash screen but there's not exactly a lot of documentation out there. I've created an SVG for it but it's not working properly. Is there limited functionality? I suspect it might be because my install is pretty fudged and I'm missing some package but before i go reinstalling my OS I thought I'd check.

I know this probably comes up a lot and I’ve done some reading but it’s a little overwhelming so I thought I’d just post to help me get my thoughts together. I want to set up HA primarily to start using it with Frigate and give me remote access to my cameras but I might as well double down and get everything on this. I like the idea of clever houses and I’m glad there’s a good option for doing it locally with decent FOSS solution.

So in my network I have a sort of DMZ network. This network has all those dodgy IoT devices on it and it’s basically an untrusted network with internet access. I then have my normal network with everything else on it, like my laptop, phones, home server, etc. I’m planning on installing HA in a Podman container (Docker) on my server but I’d like to have some remote access so I can check out my cameras, 3D printer, and maybe a few other things, I’d also like to be able to receive notifications. However I still want to be able to run it normally without too many complications so I’d like it internal to my trusted network.

I’m thinking about the possibility of running two containers, one on my trusted network and one on my DMZ. I could sync them up or give them access to the same storage areas maybe. Is this possible? ChatGPT suggested it so I’m not sure if it’s worth pursuing. If not what are my other options? I basically want all the positives of having it on the internet with none of the negatives, how hard can that be?

I know I’m late to the party (and Lemmy search is rubbish) but I only just got a chance to watch this. I’ve always liked Wallace and Gromit, I always thought the only low point was A Matter of Loaf and Death, which was simply lacking a bit of magic. I was excited to watch this one and kept holding off for the perfect moment but it wasn’t coming so I just watched it when I had the chance.

I won’t go into loads of details but I just found it all quite unappealing. I hate to be crude but the whole thing just felt like it had been made by an American and left me suspecting that Netflix were quite heavily involved in it. It just didn’t feel like Wallace and Gromit, it felt like a Hollywood remake. It was all just so exaggerated and all the subtlety had gone. There were big grand instruments emphasising what was going on, lots of funny camerawork, and they really stressed the personalities of the characters, like how Wallace is an inventor, the relationship between the two, and Wallace being a cheery sort of fellow. And that soppy bit at the end between the two, I don’t know who felt like that had to be in there but that had American corporate thinking all over it. These kind of things were more endearing when they were just unsaid but understood. It just left it coming across like a kids film without the universal appeal. Probably explains why my 5 year old loved it.

I guess it was okay as a film on its own but it was definitely a low point for the series. I think they were trying to make it more accessible to a wider younger audience so they could turn it into a new franchise they could milk for a while.

Anyway, I wouldn’t be moaning so much but all the reviews were raving about it and I’m sat here thinking I watched a different film.

Also, something else I just thought about. Previous entries have been absolutely jam packed with jokes, like every scene was meticulously laid out. In this one they were few and far between, and they weren’t that funny when they came up. I don’t remember laughing once.

Hi. Sorry if this is a really generic question but I’m looking to upgrade my server and wondering if there’s some standout solution. I’m currently running an old Dell Poweredge T20 which has been fine but I’m running into issues with driver support because it’s all considered legacy now being nearly 10 years old. I wouldn’t mind upgrading the mobo, CPU and RAM but I really don’t need it to be too powerful. I’m just running Plex, Frigate, Home Assistant, and a few other small things. I need GPU for Frigate and I can’t get the onboard HD4600 on mine to work with Debian. I have a TPU for the AI stuff but I need support for videos rendering.

Are there any cheap mATX combos that are good and cheap, something like £100 and low power?

So I was using Tumbleweed on my old laptop but I got kind of sick of all the updates; I felt like that icon showing I had updates available just had a permanent space on my screen. Every time I refreshed I had at least 200mb of updates to do. So when I got my new laptop I went with Leap instead.

But what’s the actual difference? So the OS only gets updated once a year or so does it? Are smaller releases more forthcoming? What if there’s other packages that get updated? Do I have to wait a year to get the latest version or are they updated more regularly? I’m wondering if I should look at Slowroll as I don’t want to be waiting a year for new features.