Hey, I’m also ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Don’t DM me without permission please.

  • 8 Posts
  • 49 Comments
Joined 8 months ago
cake
Cake day: January 8th, 2026

help-circle



  • Unironically, yes.

    I used to have every device on my network connected via smb share. Either I did something completely wrong or the protocol is just dog slow. Switched to filebrowser quantum with local mDNS resolution and haven’t looked back. Now when I need to move files from pc to pc over the network I just navigate in a browser to http://files.local/ and download them on the client machine. It is also significantly more friendly for my (non-techie) partner who often uses it to grab music from our shared digital music library to put on their MP3 player.







  • I used plasma for nearly a decade and only recently switched off of it because I wanted to try something different. I moved over to GNOME for a bit, and while it was nice, I kept running into issues with customization, specifically Gnome Extensions are a pain in my ass.

    I moved to cosmic a few weeks ago on my desktop rig, which is my server, but is also for gaming. I don’t want this one to feel like an “office” machine, and cosmic does a great job of feeling like just a computer. On my laptop, which I use for development, I prefer a stable “no-bullshit” interface, as such I use MATE there. MATE, if you’re unfamiliar, is the successor to Gnome2. It is a more traditional desktop experience, using familiar idioms. Customization is limited (out of box) compared to the more major DE’s like KDE and GNOME











  • I’m not great at reading pkgbuild but It looks safe to me. It all looks pretty legit.

    The ver-bump is alluded to in the comment section for the package. It all looks legit, a tiny bit weird, but not malicious.

    In the future, if you’re finding yourself suspicious. Just go upstream. Nobody says you have to use the package supplied from the AUR. Compilation from upstream is a skill, but a simple one. The compiler will tell you exactly the problem if things won’t build (it’s usually missing dependencies).