Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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  • Oh. We exist.

    You may need to be subbed to a relevant community (for me it’s anime girls) to repeatedly see a given user to the point that you start recognizing them. I certainly have users I recognize.

    You might know me for running the dailycomic bot that has continued the CnH posting after the original mod stopped doing it manually, or the !moomin@sopuli.xyz community.

    But I know for a fact most people who’d recognize my handle, consider me “the anime girl poster”. I use the same username in games, and have been asked “are you the MentalEdge from Lemmy” once, which was new.

    From my perspective there are also people who comment often enough that I remember them.

    There’s the guy that posts a daily collection of screenshots from games he is playing, along with commentary on how he likes the games.

    There’s a couple big names over on lemmyshitpost.

    Same goes for tenforward.

    There’s Blaze, who I know as a general background engine of activity and advocate for good on the fediverse.

    There’s a bunch more, but I’m not gonna bombard them with mentions.


  • Most more advanced pdf handling tools I’ve used on linux were cli based.

    Not ideal.

    Were I responsible, I think I might look into creating a self-contained executable, wine wrapper and all, for whatever windows editor ends up being used. That way IT can forget about setting up wine on each machine, and just ship the whole thing ready to run. For updates, just rebuild the executable with the new exe or wine version.

    PDF is such a mess of a format, feature complete “editors” are few even on windows, and essentially a giant collection of hacks around the limitations and features of the format. I’m not aware of anything linux native that’s even close to parity.


  • Yes. But you don’t have to switch.

    People say “start” with simpler distros because if you go past just using it as-is, and grow to understand linux closer to the system level, you’ll likely eventually end up preferring something more complex.

    There’s little point to starting at the deep end, like arch, since you don’t know whether you’ll end up staying in the shallows yet. Either way, it’s the start. It can also be the end, but that is unknowable.








  • The closest thing I can think of, is Soulseek.

    You can find almost anything on there. People share their entire collections, and almost everyone has some niche stuff they like.

    I’ve spent hours exploring other people’s curated libraries, finding stuff I’ve never heard.

    I don’t see how this would work financially, tho. Soulseek doesn’t make anyone money, except when i go out of my way to buy something on qobuz or bandcamp when I really like something.

    Music is art. Like visual artists, it’s simple enough for one or a couple people to produce, but unlike visual art, it’s less commonly done on comission. Which means freely sharing your music, doesn’t typically put food on the table.

    Hence, musicians sell albums or singles. Preferably directly to their fans. Souncloud, YT, and Soulseek regularly help me find new artists I like… But for actual listening I pull up Symfonium, hooked up to my Jellyfin server, serving my carefully curated personal collection.







  • Sorry, I must’ve misremembered about systemd. It’s how my installs start up, and the unit file is not in the usual location for systemd units I’ve created myself, so my assumption was it came with Kopia. There is no systemd timer though, and one isn’t needed.

    Edit: Just confirmed no systemd file came with kopia on my system either, my mistake.

    in the past week, it did not backup anything. Hence, there is no scheduler built into kopia automagically as described/ hinted in the docs.

    Was Kopia running during that time?

    If you run a Kopia command, then it will perform the instructed task, and then exit. It will obviously not do anything after completing whatever command was given, as the process will have exited, leaving no kopia process running on the system. This is for when you use it in cron or your own scripts.

    The other way of doing things is to run it in server mode kopia server start, which will set it running as a background daemon. When running, it allows you to log into the web interface or configure it via cli to do whatever you like. And as long as the process starts along with the host system, that’s all there is to it.

    How the daemon is set up to start, doesn’t really matter.