blobjim [he/him]

Linux has an API now for allowing sandboxed apps to simulate keyboard input. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any simple Flatpak apps that use it to provide a virtual keyboard.

Windows does plenty of things better. Like having a stable device driver API, so you can install third-party drivers really easily. And there’s only one Windows compared to many Linux distros, so there’s no need to compile software specifically for many separate Linux distros. Not as much of an issue with things like Flatpak. Windows also uses software library APIs for most operating system features, compared to the patchwork of file descriptors and file systems and sockets and all the other nonsense that makes up the interfaces used by Linux applications. The documentation is also in one place for Windows (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/). WIth Linux, you have to do research just to figure out what APIs are available. If Linux had as uniform of an API as Windows does, there would be even more software for it. The main reason there is more Linux software these days is because Linux is open source.

It’s built on top of Devuan which is a fork of Debian which uses Linux.

Apparently Devuan is “Debian without systemd”. 🤡🤡🤡

I would stay away! systemd provides so many well-designed APIs that are helpful for server management.

Also most projects that promote not using systemd are weird ideologues at this point.

It says “coming soon”, which I guess probably means it’s a somewhat second-class feature.

Seems pretty neat. Hopefully it’s somewhat simple to compile and set up. It’s kind of weird that livekit is VC funded though. Not necessarily the best, since they might have to relicense it to make investors happy at some point.

Look at their list of investors: https://livekit.io/about

The programmability aspect of LiveKit is cool, not that it matters much since this “meet” app is just something built on top of livekit.

What if it was a binary file and you didn’t have a program to read it 😯

How do you know it isn’t going through tun0?

How do you know your VPN was “bypassed”? What was the symptom?

That’s a pretty unique feature to Go I think. Maybe clang has something similar I guess?

Not that an attack like this is unique or anything.

Do you have “dnf” installed specifically? What layered packages do you have? I ran rpm -qa on my system and didn’t find any packages containing “dnf”

Also not sure if it’s useful but here’s my ostree remote list --show-urls output:

fedora          https://ostree.fedoraproject.org/
fedora-compose  https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/ostree/repo/

I also always have the same issue trying to use the UI. I had to use rpm-ostree rebase for the upgrade to 41 and 42, but it worked for me with no issues.

Could it be this bug?: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Reverts-Special-Char-Uni

Thanks for the additional info.

Just being supported as a protocol doesn’t mean everything is done. Chromium probably didn’t have it until years after that, and operating systems may not have implemented it umtil more recently.

Screen sharing infrastructure (for Wayland) in Linux was still in development recently. Maybe they just wanted to be able to use newer APIs?

Most of the lowercase abbreviations are just the names of device drivers or platforms. VK is just Vulkan, GL is OpenGL, ARB is “Architecture Review Board” as its sort of a preview or extension feature I think. EXT presumably for extension. KHR is Khronos, the organization that creates the Vulkan and OpenGL standards, and the acronym apparently means it’s “Khronos-approved”. https://registry.khronos.org/vulkan/specs/1.1-extensions/html/vkspec.html#extensions

I wish there was something nice like that too.

In the server world that would usually involve doing something like sending the journal data to Elasticsearch using an Elasticsearch integration. But that involves setting up an Elasticsearch server and Kibana and so on which is very unwieldy for a desktop computer. It does work pretty well though in terms of filtering. But it also stores the data internally in indexes to speed up search.

Of course journald has a seemingly simple C API but writing code is a lot of work. There are probably API bindings for various languages.

I also don’t know if there’s any Linux program that will automatically do the configuration for you.

It seems like it would be pretty complex since I guess you need to disable the linux host from using the GPU, and do PCI passthrough in a VM that has Windows installed.

And there’s still the problem of the graphics needing to move around the system in order to get to the display instead of the display being directly connected to the GPU.

Seems like a pretty cool thing that would be neat to have a nice automated GUI solution for.

I was just looking at, seems like it’s difficult but not impossible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTWf5D092VY

I’m in the same boat that it seems too difficult (and I bet the performance still isn’t near native).

I just dual boot and boot into Windows if I’m going to play a game.

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For images, you can use a photo library application like digikam and set tags on the files, which are saved both to a relational database and to the photo metadata inside the image file. For other file types I don’t think there’s anything standard.

I think it might store tags in linux file system xattrs so other software (or scripts) could access and index it.