Welcome to #linux! It's super easy! To install packages, just use the GUI... oh. Oh that one. Well, that is super easy too! Just open a terminal and type pip3 .... oh, that? Yeah, you just have to figure out what a virtual environment is, figure out how to create one, whether to create a new one every time, how to manage it, and how to install your software using that! Oh you'll need some other libraries for that, and maybe to install some new things in the venv and oh yeah that's a common problem. It just means you have to... where are you going? It's super easy!

pipx seems like a good alternative except apparently it can't install what I need, for some reason. Back to trying to figure out how to set up and use virtual environments so I can install a damn thing.

#python #argh #userfriendly

new progress for FreeBSD Network Manager: added field with DHCP toggle. TO DO: remove loopback, bridge, and pf interface types and leaving physical interfaces like em0, re0 or wlan0

#python #wip #freebsd

today procrastination's agenda: FreeBSD Network Manager (Unfinished, WIP) based on Python CustomTKinter. For some reasone the tab width and height are weird and I do not know how to fix. The systray in Hyprland is not shown correctly either.

When to finish: Unknown

#python #wip #freebsd

I haven't even tried nor have I even research much. But if I were going to return an older system as a dedicated distraction free IDE with only neo/lazy vim and lazy git and a few other minimal terminal based tools..can I run multi monitor without a GUI?

#neovim #lazyvim #Python #linux #terminal

Weekend project that turned into infra I actually run daily: MastoSum.

The stack: RHEL host, 100% rootless Podman. Web on FastAPI, Celery worker/beat/flower, PostgreSQL 16, Valkey. All on userspace networking (pasta), images built & shipped by a self-hosted Forgejo runner. No root daemon, no privileged anything.

What it does: tracks technical hashtags all day and produces one daily briefing, every point linked to the original post + author. It reads only public hashtag timelines, credits every source, and trains on nothing.

And yes, an LLM writes the prose: a local Ministral model from French lab Mistral AI, running on my own hardware. No cloud, nothing leaving the box. Saying that plainly, not burying it. The whole design goal was to point readers *back* at the authors, not replace reading them.

Example output:
https://mastosum.linuxserver.pro/s/OGuLC5whmCS1ET9jAe9leg

#Linux #Podman #RHEL #SelfHosting #Fediverse #Python

Just released ansible_jailexec v1.3.0

It's an Ansible connection plugin I wrote for managing FreeBSD jails. No SSH required.

New in this version: you can now run it without a privilege escalation method (sudo/doas) if you connect Ansible directly to the host as root.

Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/ansible_jailexec/releases/tag/v1.3.0

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/ansible-jailexec/1.3.0/

GitHub: https://github.com/chofstede/ansible_jailexec/releases/tag/v1.3.0

#python #ansible #freebsd #jails #devops

So... Nun läuft MicroPythonOS auch auf dem https://squixl.io/ Mein PR muß noch gemerged werden: https://github.com/MicroPythonOS/MicroPythonOS/pull/85

#MicroPythonOS #SQUiXL #UnexpectedMaker #MicroPython #Python #OpenSource #ESP32 #ESP32S3

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App Launcher screen von MicroPythonOS auf SQUiXL

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MicroPythonOS "About" App Ausgabe auf SQUiXL

Not sure who decided it was a good idea to integrate Rust dependencies into Python modules.

Installing a 1GiB Rust package to build wheel is a waste of bandwidth and time.

#FreeBSD #Python #Rust #WHY

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x Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully. | exit code: 1 > [5 lines of output] /tmp/pip-build-env-4onzua_e/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_vendor/wheel/bdist_wheel.py:4: FutureWarning: The 'wheel' package is no longer the canonical location of the 'bdist_wheel' command, and will be removed in a future release. Please update to setuptools v70.1 or later which contains an integrated version of this command. warn ( Python reports SOABI: cpython-311 Unsupported platform: 311 Rust not found, installing into a temporary directory [end of output]