Matt :nixos: :wayland:

Linux and FOSS advocate. Writer and Historian by trade.

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2026-03-13 12:45:35 UTC

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audacity has gotten better tho. And they have a plan for 4.0.

2026-03-13 07:24:21 UTC

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you should reread my toot. Perhaps.

2026-03-13 06:10:49 UTC

If there was ever an award for the best app with the worst UI, it would be Calibre.

2026-03-12 02:18:03 UTC

#SonicTUI 0.6 is now out. https://codeberg.org/thelinuxcast/sonic-tui
Added several new features, and fixed search. The quest to center the album art remains, however. It's better than it was, but still not great.
#navidrome #music #homelab #selfhosting #app #linux #dev #rust

2026-03-12 02:07:32 UTC

Am I missing a #linux distro that actually switched from something to #KDE? https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distros-are-quietly-abandoning-their-own-desktops-for-kde-plasma-and-i-get-why/
I know more distros come with kde now, but those all started with KDE.

2026-03-12 00:57:11 UTC

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I've seen it talked about. May have to give it a look

2026-03-12 00:56:40 UTC

There may not be a more offensive yet hilarious album ever released than Hooray for Boobies.

2026-03-11 05:41:31 UTC

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This last time was a dependency mismatch causing the docker container to continually restart. I tried to patch it, but couldn't get it to work.

2026-03-11 01:44:48 UTC

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We're having some git issues. But here you go.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/208/008/325/144/782/original/07fce3ea8b6a7686.png

2026-03-11 00:13:09 UTC

We'll be podcasting soon! https://youtube.com/live/3GKKLEQjb2A?feature=share

2025-11-24 08:14:31 UTC

Where Are All The Good E-Readers?
#reading #apps
https://mtwb.blog/posts/2025/where-are-all-the-good-ereaders/

2025-04-28 19:26:32 UTC

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I'm talking about a second channel. It won't effect TLC

2025-04-28 19:22:18 UTC

The History Channel #histodon #history #historymatters #blogpost #blog
https://mtwb.blog/the-history-channel/

2025-04-26 23:16:04 UTC

My Favorite TV Shows of All Time #TV #television #list #blog #blogpost
https://mtwb.blog/my-favorite-tv-shows-of-all-time/

2025-03-30 02:49:19 UTC

Confession: I have way more wallpapers downloaded than I could ever use.

2025-03-20 17:52:09 UTC

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gdm is the most stable that works with Wayland based DEs, at least in my experience. SDDM is buggy all the time, and LightDM doesn't do well all the time with wayland.
I wish Ly worked with wayland.

2025-03-18 04:07:00 UTC

The right has so overused the word woke that nobody knows what it means and they just use it for anything they disagree with. Kind of like the left uses the word fascism.

2025-03-07 22:37:13 UTC

You spend 1200 on a Samsung phone and they won't allow you to turn off notifications from the Galaxy store that sends you advertising notifications. You also can't disable it. Or even change the battery optimization.

2025-03-07 03:34:31 UTC

If your content is only on social media, I'm not going to see it.
https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/if-your-content-is-only-on-social-media-im-not-going-to-see-it

2025-02-23 06:00:25 UTC

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No, it's just an interface for the OBS. It still uses zypper to install and manage the repos it finds

2025-02-23 05:59:01 UTC

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openSUSE has it's own AUR. It's called the Open Build Service.

2025-02-23 05:46:19 UTC

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Good for you

2025-02-23 01:27:00 UTC

As much shit as I give Gnome, it is better than KDE. KDE just can't get out of its own way.

2025-02-22 05:29:34 UTC

Home lab updated. It's not nearly as hard now that the storage is all remote and I don't have to deal with usb passthrough. Makes it loads easier.

2025-02-22 04:50:38 UTC

If you want to have 5 minutes of fun, go read the rust/anti-rust comments on my latest video. Those guys be crazy

2025-02-20 23:22:42 UTC

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I will probably just pay someone to make my intro for me. By the time I got good enough to do it, I'd have spent way too much time on it. Especially when I doubt I'd be good at it anyway.

2025-02-20 23:13:56 UTC

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I didn't think I could. I did think I'd learn something other than don't follow out of date tutorials, tho

2025-02-20 06:28:23 UTC

Spent the evening trying to learn how to do animation in Blender.
The one thing I learned was that I don't know how to use Blender and probably never will.

2025-02-18 01:23:27 UTC

Is @npub14ps…pcuh no longer about tech news? I'm not saying I agree or disagree with the article (didn't read it). But, we get enough of the doom and gloom and horror stories from the main stream media. Maybe talk about the latest iPhone or something.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/022/268/585/612/535/original/2e9d0943852afc74.png

2025-02-16 05:27:10 UTC

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https://github.com/zelikos/davincibox
Basically, runs Resolve in distrobox, or more generally a containerized version of Fedora.

2025-02-13 20:04:34 UTC

Ah hell no. https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenSUSE-Tumble-Goes-SELinux

2025-02-04 08:02:15 UTC

Time for bed. What a fuckin day. I hate Mondays.

2025-01-29 18:35:10 UTC

I honestly don't care about Linux distros anymore. The longer I use Linux, the less the distro matters. I think my channel will change a lot in the next year or so as I do less and less distro-specific content. It's already toned down to the point where I just talk about openSUSE and do a few long-term reviews, but even then, that stuff will happen less often too.

2025-01-25 01:46:16 UTC

The thing that drove me away from Gnome last time will likely do so again. There are no good gtk file mangers.

2025-01-25 01:00:20 UTC

Is there a good tutorial out there to show how to theme Gnome? Something recent (post gtk 4 at least)?

2025-01-24 06:36:57 UTC

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I have an awesome Dactyl Manuform.

2025-01-21 06:41:51 UTC

Mastodon's filters are fucking awesome. IDK if bluesky has something like that, but so far, there is too much political bullshit in my bluesky feed.

2025-01-02 19:22:37 UTC

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And of course, windows fucked over my grub install. Fuck your windows.

2024-12-23 17:37:36 UTC

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Yup, did that a couple times. Gonna have to contact the ISP

2024-12-02 07:12:52 UTC

New Blog Post - Returning to Linux Nerddom - https://thelinuxcast.org/posts/2024/returning-to-linux-nerddom/

2024-11-28 04:53:59 UTC

Jellyfin has been slow to win me over. But I found a nice skin that makes the UI very nice. The mobile app ecosystem is better than plex, so that's good.
The only issue is that it's slow while it does it's scanning and such.

2024-11-20 18:07:43 UTC

Finally ordered my new desk. I did a ton of research, probably too much, but it's done. Likely spent more than I should have, but I really want it to last, and I don't trust the cheaper ones. I also went with a size bigger than I probably should have, it's going to make it interesting.

2024-11-19 05:10:48 UTC

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It's just the crosspost.

2024-11-19 05:08:58 UTC

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I did. It just says "Load More" and when clicked it loads nothing.

2024-11-19 04:53:52 UTC

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I got it to work kinda. It won't show the timeline from bluesky, but notifications and crossposting works very well

2024-11-19 04:46:22 UTC

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heh, it did! Cool.

2024-11-19 04:45:29 UTC

Testing out a cross post between both Mastodon and blsky. Not convinced that it is going to work

2024-11-19 04:42:35 UTC

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ooooh, really? I will have to give that a shot. Thanks!

2024-11-19 04:30:45 UTC

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if you find one that will work with existing accounts could you ping me? I’ve been unsuccessful outside of openvibe on iOS.

2024-11-19 04:26:26 UTC

@npub1ns5…ah7f when you post on both Mastodon and Blue Sky do you just do that manually or have you found a way to cross post?

2024-11-19 03:13:05 UTC

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you ever gonna do another one of those?

2024-11-19 02:49:57 UTC

Is it too mean to take a distro someone worked relatively hard on and shit all over it in a video?
Then I'm the asshole. Video uploading now. Yolo

2024-11-18 00:51:30 UTC

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I did not. As for why, there's a package on openSUSE called DebianUtils, and that got removed. Apparently, it also has also as a depenedency

2024-11-17 02:58:20 UTC

I'm okay with Mastodon being the Linux of social media. It doesn't need astronomic growth to be awesome

2024-10-08 04:25:44 UTC

What is the best RSS feed reader for Linux? I've tried several and none of them look that great in a Window Manager

2024-09-14 06:02:52 UTC

I'm going to start tooting every time Kwin crashes on me. I will keep a tally. I won't count the ones that happened befoer.
KWin Crashes: 1

2024-09-11 06:13:11 UTC

700 buck for a PS5 Pro is a tough ask.

2024-09-09 21:09:40 UTC

More progress. But I need to figure out how to get rid of the bullet points. list-style-type: none didn't work
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/109/641/751/937/725/original/36454ad1b054cba5.png

2024-09-08 01:51:58 UTC

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I am talented enough that I can do both.

2024-09-08 01:41:34 UTC

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Lame

2024-09-08 01:36:40 UTC

Without Gradience, Gnome is much worse. Anyone know of an alternative outside of doing it manually?

2024-09-05 04:47:59 UTC

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you don't stick on anything long enough to experience anything like this.

2024-09-05 04:43:31 UTC

I'm getting sick of kwin crashing. Like really sick of it.

2024-08-28 04:08:30 UTC

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ssds are cheap if you only need 1-2TB any more than that and rust drives are way cheaper still

2024-08-28 02:02:41 UTC

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I’m scared every time I boot my homelab up. The noises are horrible

2024-08-27 22:08:45 UTC

The boot up sounds of my mechanical external hard drives remain the scariest thing I've ever heard. The sounds are normal, but goodness do they sound like wails of a dying drive.

2024-08-24 00:31:37 UTC

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hmm, maybe. Would that be controlled by the Gnome power settings? I've never had a desktop with anything like that before.

2024-08-24 00:25:32 UTC

I have the oddest damn Bluefin bug happening. The system gets really effing laggy all the time. The cursor looks like it is constantly having to catch up with itself, making it look like dropped frames, and when typing sometimes it takes extra time for a letter to appear on-screen.
The oddest part is that if I open obs to record this behavior, everything starts to run smooth as butter. I cannot get it to happen on camera, I can't get it to stop off camera.

2024-08-21 18:07:10 UTC

Anyone else exceptionally sick of politics? I cannot wait for this eleection to be over.

2024-08-21 00:01:54 UTC

We will be podcasting in about 15 miunutes https://youtube.com/live/S5WswZGYqqg?feature=share

2024-08-20 04:42:15 UTC

I've platoued at around 60 wpm on my new board. It will probably take me months to get past that number consistently.
I will say that there are times when I can burst through a sentence, and it will feel like I was typing way faster.
I'm still having issues with accidental presses of the enter key. I'm not sure, other than moving it, what I'd do to make that better other than keep practicing.

2024-08-20 01:39:46 UTC

Nautilus is the worst file.manager ever.

2024-08-19 06:18:01 UTC

So I have gotten DaVinci Resolve to work on Linux. It will render and everything. It is slower than on Windows and there are quite a few quirks to it that make it feel less stable than Windows. IDK if those will iron themselves out now that I know what I'm doing or not.
I do know that it is a pain that you can't render in mp4 format and get audio. That truly sucks.

2024-08-19 01:16:40 UTC

bye bye Windows. If I can get resolve working in bluefin we'll be good to go.

2024-08-18 19:50:31 UTC

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lol. Because it doesn't work perfectly. It is often very buggy for me.

2024-08-18 04:47:20 UTC

If you're a Linux/FOSS YouTuber and you don't have your monetization on, you should. Google is going to run ads on your content whether you have it on or not, so you might as well get your cut.

2024-08-18 04:27:05 UTC

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I may try it but I'm on openSUSE.

2024-08-18 03:00:42 UTC

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I had to use Resolve to finish the podcast. I cannot for the life of me get it to work on Linux

2024-08-17 05:10:53 UTC

I'm just going to start using Discord in the browser from now on. Every client is broken in some way and it is annoying af. KDE has this bug that breaks copy and paste in xwayland apps. They fixed it, but it won't be out until 6.2.

2024-08-11 03:43:29 UTC

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Who knows?
Most people seem to have moved to Lawn Chair anyway

2024-08-11 03:00:18 UTC

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/9/24217077/nova-launcher-layoffs-only-original-developer-remaining

2024-08-04 17:48:57 UTC

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it's listed in zypper along with the other hard dependencies.

2024-07-10 04:22:54 UTC

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dacryl manuform

2024-07-10 01:49:13 UTC

You're gonna love my nuts!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxGn2Egekic
they don't make commercials like this anymore.

2024-07-06 22:15:52 UTC

After being back in a tiling window manager now for a few days, I have to admit, that there are quite a few things that I really miss about being in a desktop environment.

2024-07-05 05:49:54 UTC

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Just ordered it, so it's not here yet.

2024-07-05 05:45:35 UTC

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You're not wrong.

2024-07-05 05:42:13 UTC

Don't tell anyone.
I bought another keyboard.
#MechanicalkKeyboard

2024-07-02 00:38:47 UTC

Was going to make a nice video about #KDE Plasma 6.1 tonight. Got to the point where I wanted to *show* plasma, and the damn screen capture isn't working. No clue why.

2024-06-29 03:54:13 UTC

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my current system doesn't support GPU passthrough. Sadly.

2024-06-29 01:57:00 UTC

So because I truly am sick of kdenlive, and all the other video editing options on Linux are not good, I think I am going to start researching setting up a Mac Mini or Studio to do my editing on.
What I need to decide now is just how much I really want to spend. Fuckers are expensive, and I really don't want to do it at all. But I've been burned so much lately by kdenlive.

2024-06-19 00:00:50 UTC

We'll be podcasting in about 15 minutes! https://youtube.com/live/vSPG3YxwY3Y?feature=share

2024-06-16 18:19:16 UTC

Thanks everyone so much for the kindness and the follows over the last three and a half years. Very excited for what comes next.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/627/676/166/625/624/original/a83a40f3f0fdadbb.png

2024-06-15 03:22:12 UTC

I'm honestly surprised at the number of FOSS folk who are still on X. I still visit from time to time, so I see them posting there

2024-06-06 05:48:54 UTC

I really like Kavita for self hosting ebooks, manga and comics.
I do not like that every e-book is considered a series, even if the book isn't part of a series. The developer obviously didn't think they'd ever support books. They, at least the one on Discord, also seemed to think the decision was final. Which seems an odd hill to die on, iff'n you ask me.
I can live with it, but it feels odd that every John Grisham book gets its own Series page. I may just make a John Grisham series.

2024-06-03 23:54:57 UTC

This should have been a simple operation. Shut the home lab down. Pull the cables out of the back, put in the new pcie cards with the added storage, and then put it all back together. Instead it's been one problem after another and for no reason that I can figure out.
one drive in my jbod enclusure wasn't showing up. Why? Nobody knows. A hard reset (which is just a great thing to do) seemed to have fixed it, but for how long?

2024-06-02 18:07:37 UTC

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Next time I'll stick around for logs. But hibernate did work, so it wasn't a big deal.

2024-06-02 17:19:05 UTC

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Suspend works fine on Gnome, XFCE, and Cinnamon on openSUSE. Only Plasma has an issue.

2024-06-02 16:14:30 UTC

The "but it works for me" crowd came out in my mentions last night. Woo boy.

2024-06-01 03:49:57 UTC

Found a chrome extension to do download all the wallpapers in the unixporn wallpaper channel. I wonder how many GBs this is going to be, lol.