I don’t feel locked in, since there are no Spotify originals etc

I don’t use Spotify so correct me if I’m wrong. But I think Spotify has podcasts that are only available there.

I told my wife about other open source apps that have music without ads, and even though it had the music, there were some podcasts that were not available without Spotify premium outside of Spotify.

If there was an easy way to use rust or something on webassemly and use that instead of JS. I’d be so happy, but I can’t find how to do it without npm.

I think that’s why Github suggests MIT as default. Unaware people will just put that. Most open source people just code things they want without thinking much on other aspects. We really need some sort of enforcement to stop companies banking on voluntary work done for the community.

You can use your library for commercial projects that you have. Just have dual license that requires payment for commercial use or something similar. You don’t have to pay yourself

Most open source tool have the same thing that it feels like it’s made by engineers. I think that’s because it’s true, most FOSS tools are made by engineers for engineers. Because most project start with someone needing something and then creating it and sharing it.

Chances of a programmer needing something and then making it is a lot higher, than an artist needing it and then making it as then there’d be a need to have the necessary skills to make the software. As someone not from CS field I’ve seen how much of redundant programs are present for CS related tasks while barely some exists for other fields because the overlap of programmer and that field is low specifically FOSS programmers. And a few programmers that field would have don’t have the high level software development skills, so most open source tools made by them are “works on my machine, or works for this specific task” even though with less than 1% more effort they could have made a generalized tool.

Miniserve is a program for computers. Though you can run it in termux. It just opens a tiny server instance for file sharing, you can download/upload files to a directory directory. Will also show QR for the link.

Don’t modify the config in /etc/, copy them in ~/.config/ and then modify them. You’ll always be able to just look at the /etc/ for defaults.

It is kinda like that. We have a tracker that we added because they increased the insurance rate and said if you install this device we’ll keep the rate low based on driving patterns.

Basically records how often you drive, hard break/sharp turns, after midnight drives, etc. We don’t drive the car often so the prob of accident is low but we recently learned that they can consider not driving enough also bad saying it can make you drive recklessly or sth.

Ever heard of open source?

If by editing you mean adding texts (forms) and signing, then Firefox, xournal++, rnote etc.

If you mean changing the pdf content, then libre office draw for textual pdf, inkscape for graphical pdf.

I also just open PDF in text editor (or with qpdf’s qdf format) and edit certain things. I don’t recommend it but due to certain recent events I had to change some font data from PDF and that was the best solution.

System 76 laptop has fingerprint sensor. They don’t say it has one cuz it’s not supported.

And since it’s designed to be used as a tap/scan, and power button only on hard restart/shutdown it’s hard to press to stop it being pressed on fingerprint scan, the hardware not being supported means you have to press the power button a lot instead of fingerprint.

About the malware thing. Won’t the Linux use increasing in organizations give incentive for attackers to make malwares targeting linux? It’s not like we’re malware free, it’s just that average user is informed enough and there is low use of linux making it not worth as much to target desktop users.

Thank you. I’ve been using grk4-rs so I went over their examples and the book. Looking at the c examples might be good as well. And I’ll learn about the GObjects. So far I’ve been winging it based on examples I see and the properties of different classes.

Thank you, I’ll go over them. I think I got a little bit of the basics now. But I need a little advanced knowledge. And most tutorials seems to be for gtk3 and many widgets are now deprecated.

Originally my plan was to make each slide edited separately when you right click and do edit. And be able to drag them up and down and everything, but my skills were not enough. After trying to make that for a week I gave up and made this simpler version. So listview and treeview models from that tutorial could give me more info.

Yeah, the bindings were a great help. I also tried tauri, iced, beavy, and a lot of libraries. At the end just using gtk4 seemed to be the best for my use case. I went through the grk4-rs book, and then started experimenting. I don’t like GUI at all, but for simple cases it works well

Glade doesn’t work for gtk4. There’s cambanche, but it didn’t work as smoothly as glade. Originally I tried just using glade and converting to gtk4 for a bit, didn’t work great as some classes were different.

So at the end I went with just looking at gtk4 docs and writing xml on the editor. It’d be problematic once in a while if I miss closing some tags, other than that it went well.

If anyone here is familiar with making GUIs with rust using gtk4-rs, I’d appreciate some guidance. It’s been a challenging road as I’m trying to learn GUI developement.