So I got the message from instagram about either paying or using it free (at the cost personalised ads) just now.

Doesn't this go against the GDPR? Either way, is there a FOSS alternative for instagram like piped is to youtube? It seems like a good opportunity to stop using the official app, even though it would be better to not use instagram at all (sadly not an option for me right now).

Any suggestions, and if so, are there any that provide functionality for: stories, posts, dms? Those are the 3 things I use instagram for.

Many thanks!

Edit: For messaging I do use beeper, though some media like carousels and posts sent to my dms cant be shown in there, so for those cases I open the official app.

Edit 2: many people have suggested pixelfed. Ive heard of it, and want to use it, but unfortunately the only reason Im still sticking with instagram is because I have very dear friends who would never change to anything non-mainstream. Theyre important enough that im willing to not delete it just yet, but I dont want to agree to either pay or pay with my data.

What im looking for is more like a piped for youtube, thing. So a frintend that has instagram content/features, but isnt the main app and avoids the problems I listed above

Edit 3: I ended up installing the site as a PWA on my phone as thats the only device I use it on, and uninstalled the official app. Thanks to everyone for all your input!

Hey everyone. I noticed theres an ootion in the settings to change what the tabs on top are showing, and I changed the last one from All to Multicommunities. However theres nothing there as I havent figured out how to create a multicommunity yet. Anyone have any advise? Thanks!

Hey everyone! I currently have an antenna which is a realtek chipset (yuck) that I had to load the drivers myself. Even though I loaded the drivers from this github repo and keep them updated, I'm still getting issues like constant common disconnects, slow speeds (even though on my mobile connected to the same network I may get 6 times the speed), etc... I think I'm ready to pay up and get an antenna that has proper support in Linux, and I found this one after a little bit of searching online: official alfa link.

My question is if this is actually well supported, or even if there is something better I could get (without making me even poorer). What do you guys think, and what are your experiences?

Thanks!

Edit: came back here after a while to edit in case someone comes upon this in the future. I ended up ordering this one: AWUS036NHA fron Alfa. It has the ath9k chipset which is included in the kernel, so it seems like a good choice. Will try to remember to come back after I get it and try it put to give my comments.

Hello everyone.

This semester at uni I'm taking a course which requires me and my group to create a complete software project. Out of the available topics we chose to make an airline ticket booking app, much like skyscanner.com. It is my responsibility to handle the majority of the coding aspect of the project, so I would like your advice.

I would like your thoughts and recommendations on what frameworks/languages/technologies you recommend we use to implement the project. I would like to avoid anything complicated that will take a long time to learn, as I only have a limited number of weeks to deliver. However we do need to be able to have a decent looking frontend, a backend that will allow users to login either as passengers or administrators (them being the ones who manage flights and handle passenger accounts etc.), and passengers should be able to at the very least input a departure city and time, and arrival city and time and get a list of available flights back (the flights don't need to be real-world flights, we can generate that data to simulate the app).

I've checked out pythons flask, but (correct me if I'm wrong) while simple it seems too much so. I would need to handle user authentication, creating and connecting any databases etc. all manually from pretty much scratch. I'm interested in finding that middle ground of simple enough to get up and running with quickly, while not so simple where I need to learn 1000 other things just to get a prototype up and running.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

Edit: I asked my professor for advice and as he suggested I decided to go with bootstrap and sqlite. Im still open on suggestions to do the authentications though :)

Hey everyone.

Basically I need to do what the title says. I did have xfce4-power-manager installed and had it set there (had the setting disabled so that it wouldn't suspend after inactive), but xfce4-notifyd was creating problems with dunst which I installed and setup last night, so I removed xfce4-power-manager and xfce4-logind.

However now after a few minutes of not doing anything my PC sleeps. There must be a setting somewhere I can edit which is the same thing xfce4 uses to implement this, no? Either a file or another power manager software which will not cause problems with my dunst.

Thanks in advance for all your help and suggestions!

Hello guys.

This semester at uni I'm taking a Network Fundamentals course which is basically Cisco's Introduction to Networks course (we're literally doing just that). Im wondering how applicable and if so in what ways it is to real life situations where one might want to setup their own home network. I realise that if you don't use cisco equipment the commads will be different, but if we consider the fundamental knowledge, will what I learn doing this course help me in the future when I will be setting up my own "server room"?

Thanks! 😁

Hey everyone. As the title suggests, I use bspwm, with xfce4-power-manager and sddm installed. I have the power manager setup that I can hibernate/suspend (still a bit confused as to the differences between the two but its besides the point) everytime I hit a button on my keyboard to "sleep" I get the popup below:

I'm not aware what application is stopping the sleep, nor if it is something I should worry about, but if I click Yes then my system goes to sleep. Hitting any key after that wakes it up, without me having to enter any password. I know there is software I can install and setup to do that function, but I was wondering if there is any way I can configure xfce4-power-manager to use sddm as the "locker" program, so that it takes me to the sddm login page when waking.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: I just tried to sleep and this time this is the popup that appeared:

Basically the title. Is there anything that my instance admin needs to do so I can login?

Hey everyone. So Last night there was a general problem with my building's network connectivity. This morning my landlord let me know it was fixed, which it was. I verified this from my mobile phone as well as the laptop I am using right now to write this post. However on my fairly new and hence barebones desktop running arch, I simply cant get NetworkManager to connect or even in some cases see any wifi networks.

This morning, it would occasionally show me the available networks, I would try to connect to my one which would work, but I would for all intents and purposes not have internet until a few minutes later the connection would drop. Now it doesn't even show any available networks.

Below are the outputs of some commands I thought would be useful. Of course it's probably not a comprehensive list so please do ask if you would like me to run and show the output of another command, just know I need to redirect it to a file and then transfer it here with a usb so its a bit tedious.

$ systemctl --type=service
  UNIT                                                                                      LOAD   ACTIVE SUB     DESCRIPTION
  alsa-restore.service                                                                      loaded active exited  Save/Restore Sound Card State
  dbus.service                                                                              loaded active running D-Bus System Message Bus
  kmod-static-nodes.service                                                                 loaded active exited  Create List of Static Device Nodes
  NetworkManager.service                                                                    loaded active running Network Manager
  polkit.service                                                                            loaded active running Authorization Manager
  rtkit-daemon.service                                                                      loaded active running RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy Service
  sddm.service                                                                              loaded active running Simple Desktop Display Manager
  systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-12341dff\x2db2b7\x2d4b67\x2db390\x2dcf28a63530d3.service loaded active exited  File System Check on /dev/disk/by-uuid/12341dff-b2b7-4b67-b390-cf28a63530d3
  systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-6b1c0137\x2d0b2d\x2d4366\x2d92a4\x2dc374d0e89e02.service loaded active exited  File System Check on /dev/disk/by-uuid/6b1c0137-0b2d-4366-92a4-c374d0e89e02
  systemd-journal-flush.service                                                             loaded active exited  Flush Journal to Persistent Storage
  systemd-journald.service                                                                  loaded active running Journal Service
  systemd-logind.service                                                                    loaded active running User Login Management
  systemd-modules-load.service                                                              loaded active exited  Load Kernel Modules
  systemd-random-seed.service                                                               loaded active exited  Load/Save OS Random Seed
  systemd-remount-fs.service                                                                loaded active exited  Remount Root and Kernel File Systems
  systemd-sysctl.service                                                                    loaded active exited  Apply Kernel Variables
  systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service                                                        loaded active exited  Create Static Device Nodes in /dev
  systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service                                                            loaded active exited  Create Volatile Files and Directories
  systemd-udev-trigger.service                                                              loaded active exited  Coldplug All udev Devices
  systemd-udevd.service                                                                     loaded active running Rule-based Manager for Device Events and Files
  systemd-update-utmp.service                                                               loaded active exited  Record System Boot/Shutdown in UTMP
  systemd-user-sessions.service                                                             loaded active exited  Permit User Sessions
  user-runtime-dir@1000.service                                                             loaded active exited  User Runtime Directory /run/user/1000
  user@1000.service                                                                         loaded active running User Manager for UID 1000

LOAD   = Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded.
ACTIVE = The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB.
SUB    = The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type.
24 loaded units listed. Pass --all to see loaded but inactive units, too.
To show all installed unit files use 'systemctl list-unit-files'.

$ nmcli radio
WIFI-HW  WIFI     WWAN-HW  WWAN    
enabled  enabled  missing  enabled 

$ ip l
1: lo:  mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp6s0:  mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether c8:7f:54:6c:96:38 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlp2s0f0u10: (**EDIT**) mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether fe:32:ce:d2:cd:0a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permaddr 28:ee:52:08:d2:67

$ nmcli dev wifi list (there should be several networks available, as I can verify from my mobile device)
IN-USE  BSSID  SSID  MODE  CHAN  RATE  SIGNAL  BARS  SECURITY 

EDIT: At the opoint after my wireless interface where there is (EDIT) written, in the actual output there is written NO-CARRIER, BROADCAST, MULTICAST, UP enclosed in angle brackets, but for some reason I can't figure out how to get markdown to render the angle brackets. I think it thinks I'm writing HTML.

EDIT 2: Solved this by getting help from the arch linux forums. Link to my post where I got help, in case future people need help.

Hello everyone. I wrote this command in the terminal directly and got the desired and expected output - that being the last 50 occurrences of me installing or removing a package with pacman or yay: history | grep -e 'pacman -S\s' -e 'pacman -R\s' -e 'yay -S\s' -e 'yay -R\s' | tail -n 50 > ~/history_installed

I now want to make this runnable as a script for obvious reasons, but when add it to a script and run it I get the following error: /home/user/.bin/check_installed.sh:fc:3: no such event: 1

Here is my entire script:

#!/bin/zsh

{history | grep -e 'pacman -S\s' -e 'pacman -R\s' -e 'yay -S\s' -e 'yay -R\s' | tail -n 50} > ~/history_installed

Note: /home/user/.bin is in my path. Verified by successfully running another script in there from a different location.

Please help me figure this out if you could. I am running zsh with oh-my-zsh. Thanks in advance!