Re: Linux Friendly Scanner

2024-12-09 Thread z via PLUG-discuss
I think most HP and Brother brand devices have pretty good support built into the kernel. But possibly you could look up your device and see if they package a proprietary driver for linux. I think you may have to add the "printer" while declaring a particular driver. Cups has a CLI command to do

Re: a local Dropbox thing?

2024-12-09 Thread z via PLUG-discuss
I have had a hard time getting nextcloud set up properly on my machine for whatever reason, but I am also an `rsync -vrute 'ssh -p XXX'` enjoyer. Possibly flatpak, appimage, or something may make that nextcloud setup easier. I haven't used this in a while, but I think there's a program called fi

Re: Debian Repo ...

2024-12-09 Thread z via PLUG-discuss
I am curious if anyone has a more general solution to PPAs on debian. It is my understanding that PPAs are not something you can in general use on debian, only ubuntu derivatives. I believe many debian people nowadays opt to use flatpak, docker, and appimage for their more user-facing softwares.

Re: AI Tools For Article Writing

2024-06-23 Thread z via PLUG-discuss
ChatGPT. If I had the hardware, I'd be using codellama 70B on oobabooga. What I can run on my 12G VRAM card is far lower quality than ChatGPT. Jun 23, 2024 06:31:27 Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss : > Hi, > > Anyone using any AI tools for article writing. If so what are you using? > > Is anyone

Re: will windows fit?

2024-05-28 Thread z via PLUG-discuss
likely no May 28, 2024 12:42:39 Michael via PLUG-discuss : > I got a 30 GB drive. Will windows fit on such a drive? > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change yo

Re: Linux distro options ...

2024-05-21 Thread z via PLUG-discuss
It's been years since I used it, but I found KDE Neon to be less buggy than Kubuntu. KDE is a nice desktop, I would recommend. May 21, 2024 07:32:14 Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss : > > I have used Mint and liked it.  I now use Kubuntu.  Someone said that the > goal of mint was that it just run

Re: Radeon RX580 and trouble with Ffmpeg

2024-04-05 Thread z via PLUG-discuss
I also don't think I made it clear that mesa is probably better than the proprietary AMD drivers on linux. The same is untrue on NVIDIA. Apr 5, 2024 15:11:16 z via PLUG-discuss : > Do you truly need proprietary drivers? That card is one of the best supported > by open source sof

Re: Radeon RX580 and trouble with Ffmpeg

2024-04-05 Thread z via PLUG-discuss
Do you truly need proprietary drivers? That card is one of the best supported by open source software. So I would just install mesa, which should be easily installed from your distro's package manager, if it's not installed already. Assuming you do need proprietary, maybe try a reboot if you hav

Nextcloud providers

2024-04-03 Thread z via PLUG-discuss
I've been trying to set up NextCloud for private use on my personal VPS/website, but am experiencing difficulty . There are a lot of features which require special extensions or configuration, which can vary by distribution. Plus I'm using nginx instead of apache and there is much less documenta

Any gentoo users?

2024-02-15 Thread z via PLUG-discuss
I am now more-seriously considering trying to daily drive gentoo on one of my machines because I hear binaries are becoming more available in their repos. The main benefit I see is better control over software versioning. I have been using arch and sometimes debian for a few years, but it has a

Re: Looking for opinions on email providers

2024-01-28 Thread z via PLUG-discuss
You can always set one up for yourself! Can be pretty painful to set up, but there are wizards and tutorials. Just need a VPS server, I think $3-5 per month. I installed debian on mine with an encrypted drive, so not even the host of the physical server can get in there without first keylogging

Re: Linux Basics

2023-11-29 Thread z via PLUG-discuss
You will know everything you should know about linux once you have installed gentoo once without assistance (but documentaton is OK), and then compiled chromium a single time. The compiling chromium part is the most important lesson. Nov 29, 2023 17:57:20 Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss : > Hey