So he was smoking hemp?

Crazy - it hasn’t happened again since my original post, until literally just now. I come on Lemmy to look for the thread and remind myself how to fix it, and here is your comment!

I’ll have a look, thanks :) How is it less secure?

This has proven to be the one 👍

That’s really funny - I’m definitely running a Shadow IT Operation at my workplace! My attitude is that as long as my output is interoperable with the software and systems that my colleagues are using I should be free to work however I like.

There’s no IT department as such - it’s a small business. My boss had everything set up by a guy who moved away and if there’s a problem these days he gets people from the local computer shop to come over! All the other machines here are running Windows.

It would also instantly make it impossible to find for everyone who knows it as GIMP, and mean that users of the new version wouldn’t see any of the huge amount of existing tutorials for it.

The word only really has two meanings in one country anyway (the US).

Yeah, it could have been something similar for me. I moved a lot of dotfiles over when I switched from Fedora to Debian. I don’t remember bringing this one with me but it could have happened.

Boom, looks like it’s sorted, thanks! I didn’t have a ~/.local/state/pipewire/media-session.d/ directory, but I deleted ~/.local/state/wireplumber/ and then rebooted and all was well again 🤸

Any idea what might have caused the problem in the first place?

MPV is no longer responding to my keyboard shortcuts for media controls (play/pause etc). Not a biggie but understanding the issue might help me solve that too.

No luck so far. When I use ‘groups username’ in the terminal to compare the groups of both users they are exactly the same. Interestingly neither show ‘audio’ or ‘video’ as a group that they’re in - both users are only in ‘username’ and ‘users’. Yet both are able to play video, and only one gets audio along with it… The behaviour is the same from a cold boot with only one user logged in as it is when there are two users logged in.

Ok, so am I understanding correctly that for example the .py can be anywhere, as long as it is run from a suitable venv folder and the path to it is defined in the command?

Good question. I’m quite familiar with the terminal, but I still get confused by things in it that I’m not familiar with, if that makes sense!

Thanks for the help! For some reason tab autocompletion doesn’t work for me but that’s an issue for another day…

put the .py file in the right place to run inside the venv

This could be where I’ve been getting lost. How do I figure out what the right place is?

Great choice. And if you do ever find yourself in a hurry for the latest version of something, there is flatpak and appimage.

It is a wonderful time to be a Linux user.

I’m running a couple of smaller chat models on my mid-range new-ish laptop and they’re fairly quick. Try out Jan with something like their jan-nano model on whatever you’ve already got and get a feel for what you can do.

This extremely cool.

you can expect 0-2% output from a panel in the winter time

I can confirm this. My family is off-grid and there have been extended periods the last two winters when it has simply been too dark for too long to depend on the solar without installing 50x more panels.

Also, the problem with having larger battery capacity to span these periods is that if they don’t get fully recharged or cycled properly the batteries get damaged and eventually die. We learnt that the hard way.

Solar is the undisputed champion for 80-90% of the year but needs to be complemented with something else for the remainder, if you want uninterrupted on-demand electricity.

You can share screen and camera on Jitsi Meet, which is a video-conferencing app. Not sure if there is any recording function built-in but you could just record everything with OBS.

Check out the YUNOhost repos. If everything you need is there (or equivalents thereof), you could start using that. After running the installation script you can do everything graphically via a web UI. Mine runs for months at a time with no intervention whatsoever. To be on the safe side I make a backup before I update or make any changes, and if there is a problem just restore with a couple of clicks via my hosting control panel.

I got into it because it’s designed for noobs but I think it would be great for anyone who just want to relax. Highly recommend.

I’ve been wondering if something like this existed! It seems like a cross between Cherrytree and Minder, both of which are very cool.

The quality of their hardware is very high and reminds me of macbook pros that I’ve had in the past. They test their laptops on Ubuntu, so if you choose to have that preinstalled you know that everything will just work. I’ve run Debian and Fedora on mine and both have been fine too. The other good things in my book are that they use Coreboot which is an open source bios and their customer support is excellent.