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ChatGPT's o3 Model Found Remote Zeroday in Linux Kernel Code
ChatGPT's o3 Model Found Remote Zeroday in Linux Kernel Code
OpenAI's o3 just uncovered a remote 0-day in the Linux kernel's SMB code—CVE-2025-37899. A patch has already been rolled out.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Maybe I misunderstood but the vulnerability was unknown to them but the class of vulnerability, let's say "bugs like that", are well known and published by the security community, aren't there?
My point being that if it's previously unknown and reproducible (not just "luck") is major, if it's well known in other projects, even though unknown to this specific user, then it's unsurprising.
Edit: I'm not a security researcher but I believe there are already a lot of tools doing static and dynamic analysis. IMHO It'd be helpful to know how those perform already versus LLMs used here, namely across which dimensions (reliability, speed, coverage e.g. exotic programming languages, accuracy of reporting e.g. hallucinations, etc) is each solution better or worst than the other. I'm always wary of "ex nihilo" demonstrations. Apologies if there is benchmark against existing tools and if I missed that.
Unable to Connect to Internet Without VPN
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/45140185
I was able to literally 1 hour ago.I changed my DNS from Next DNS to CIRA Canadian Shield (Protected) to test it out.
Then I was only able to connect to the internet through Mulvad VPN.
Then I changed back to Next DNS and I observe the same behaviour.
How do I determine what is causing the problem?
How do I solve it?
Why incels take the “Blackpill”—and why we should care
Why incels take the “Blackpill”—and why we should care
A growing number of incels are NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training). That should concern us all.Jennifer Ouellette (Ars Technica)
The prophet Jesus (peace be upon him) truthfully described the problem of inceldom:
“There are incels who were born that way, and there are incels who have been made incels by others—and there are those who choose to live like incels for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.” Jesus identifies three types of “incels” here: natural incels (“born that way”), forced incels (“made incels by others”), and voluntary incels (“those who choose”).
Truecels, or the truest incels, are born with facial deformities such as lopsided faces or eyes that are too close together or too far apart... but most incels today have been created by man. It's just not possible to buy a house and have 3-4 children anymore, and most women aren't interested in it. If you're a man in your 20s and you've got good income from a job, and cheap rent somehow, then you'll likely have to wait until your mid-thirties until all the women have got the careers and promotions that they want. Then they will "settle".
It's almost as if our society is designed to create more incels. Personally I am a volcel. Society is a cruel joke and I'd rather become an orthodox priest, than work 12 hours a day in a busy warehouse, driving forklifts or carrying timber. Sometimes I question why I bother contributing to society.
Fuck jesus, and fuck you for following that fictional loser.
"Jesus identifies three types of “incels” here: natural incels (“born that way”), forced incels (“made incels by others”), and voluntary incels (“those who choose”)."
That's not a thing. You're just full of shit. You can't even tell reality from this bullshit religious fiction.
That's why you're a voluntary celibate. Your religion talked you into devoting your life to them. Which makes you a giant fucking loser. Because everything you dedicated your life to is just stupid religious hate fiction.
Incels are a product of the Internet. Before that, we had winners and losers, and most losers weren't that way on purpose.
I'm ugly af and I've had plenty of action over the years. Looks aren't everything, bro. Be funny. Have interesting hobbies. Be deserving of respect through your own actions. Can't really stress that last one enough.
[solved] i fail to install gHub-GUI. Where to ask for help?
[solved]: gHub-GUI seems outdated. openRGP does what i need instead.
Hi, i'd like to use my Logitech G915 LEDs properly under KDE neon and since logitech only provides for Win or Mac, someone recommended gHUB-GUI. github.com/ysph/gHub-GUI
I tried the little installation instructions on github.com/ysph/gHub-GUI but something does not seem to work. This is not my first git app(?), but the first one i can't seem to use.
I tried to ask ChatGPT but it...
::: spoiler spoiler
poured kerosene all over itself, jumped head first off the autobahn bridge, got ran over by a Lastkraftwagen, biting a cyanide pill. That
:::
...didn't help.
Can anybody please point me in the right direction?
I am fine with the CLI. I cloned the project, Installed those mentioned dependencies, but~/gHub-GUI$ make all
returns
gcc -g main.o mouselist.o -o ghub-gui -lusb-1.0
. And i dont kow what that means.
Thanks!
GitHub - ysph/gHub-GUI: Manage your logitech device on Linux using GUI. Lightweight and user-friendly. (not yet)
Manage your logitech device on Linux using GUI. Lightweight and user-friendly. (not yet) - ysph/gHub-GUIGitHub
no, but that looks good. Gonna give it a try.
edit. that did it! Finally, just static lighting.
Thanks!
After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine is No More - OMG! Ubuntu
I wanted to buy the last issue as Memorabilia, but their site is quite confusing.
When you try to buy it, the May 2025 issue on MagazinesDirect (where they point you to) shows the issue from two months earlier, (Make Linux Mobile) as the May 2025 issue, which I find confusing. If I buy, which one would I get?
Would I get "25 Years of Linux" or "Make Linux Mobile"?
My guess is that the paper editions get published late with a delay.
Edit: The June edition (published 29th April) has now appeared, so I guess that around the end of June, or beginning of July, the last issue will appear.
NVIDIA stable driver 575.57.08 released for Linux
NVIDIA stable driver 575.57.08 released for Linux
NVIDIA have released the new stable driver 575.57.08, as part of their New Feature Branch for Linux systems.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
She just got banned from her graduation ceremony for speaking out
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mit-b…
MIT bans class president from graduation commencement after pro-Palestinian speech
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology banned the 2025 class president Megha Vemuri from Friday's graduation commencement after she delivered a pro-Palestinian speech.Mirna Alsharif (NBC News)
An open (or federated) searchable catalog of hikes and hiking trails (alltrails alternative)?
I found wanderer.to/ as an alternative to alltrails, but it seems not to address my main use case for alltrails: search around for potential hikes, look for reviews about them, photos, etc.
Is there anything like this? Anything close to it?
like this
Open Street Maps has a lot of trails but obviously not all the other stuff you're looking for.
I use Osmand which uses OSM.
like this
[Resolved] Looking for recommendations -- CD Ripper
Hey hey, I have been using Sound Juicer on my Ubuntu 24 / KDE 5 PC and it works, but it doesn't handle the tags for my MP3 files very nicely. I've also used abcde, at the terminal, and that can be better but it takes a lot finessing at the CLI to get the result I want.
Is there a better CD ripper application that will run on Ubuntu and can make setting the MP3 tags dead simple?
Thanks for any ideas!
Edit: Fixed a typo
ETA: Asunder looks good, does what I need and works well on my PC. Thanks for everyone's ideas and help!
Looking up Picard's instructions... They recommend whipper, as others have done in the thread.
It can do the tagging for you, but it's important to note that music CDs do not contain metadata.
All the rippers that exist, look up what the CD is online, based on stuff like number of tracks, their lengths, and order. iTunes was the ripping software everyone used back in the day, because Apple made and maintained the first extensive database that could be used to automatically tag ripped music.
Modern rippers typically rely on MusicBrainz (like Picard).
As such there is no 100% reliable auto-tagging ripper, because a disc might match more than one album, or not be in the database. Such cases will always require manual intervention.
like this
don't like this
Being limited isn't that big a deal. My instance has them limited because of their lax moderation and an excess of reply guys. All it means is that I get a notification saying "Someone you might know sent you a notification" and I get to review and accept or deny the notification depending. Plus they have to request permission to follow me so I get to check them out before accepting.
I still have tons of mutuals on .social
and I get new ones all the time. While each person making the choice about whether to accept notifications or follows from a particular user is going to make their own choices, I don't think it's particularly inconvenient.
::: spoiler AfD sidebar
For their lack of adequate moderation capacity / interest, .social
has one topic they tend to over-react to. AfD sympathizing isn't that one thing. Not to suggest they're right here. I'd need the thread context and a better understanding of German to weigh in on that. Moderators are human and they're going to make a bad call eventually. I'm not in a position to guess whether they made a bad call here. AfD aren't just some normal political party, though.
:::
L3ft_F13ld! likes this.
Preferred Creative Writing Applications
Hello everyone,
I wanted to ask if anyone has a preferred software for the purpose of creative writing.
Libre Office Writer is great of course, but just as software like LogSeq or Obsidian exist for the note taking process, I was wondering if there is anything that is specifically geared toward the creative writing process.
I know that there are federated blog platforms which focus on this in their presentation, but was curious about applications specifically.
FOSS is definitely preferable.
Thanks!
Huh? What's wrong with Overleaf?
If you "only" need beautiful PDF and it doesn't have to be online, you can also use Typst with vscode and tinymist as editor locally. Not as powerful as TeX, but I know few people for use TeX even remotely to its fullest. The upside of Typst is, that the "core" syntax for content writing is very markdown-like, so you can focus on writing instead of the underlying language.
GitHub - overleaf/overleaf: A web-based collaborative LaTeX editor
A web-based collaborative LaTeX editor. Contribute to overleaf/overleaf development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Holy shit, thank you! I had no idea overleaf was open source; you have cleared my conscience. Typst seems interesting, but I am a bit of a typesetting nerd and quite used to latex anyway. Transition now would be difficult. I'll check it out though, it might be nice for drafts and such. Thanks again!
I'm definitely going to share Typst with non-tex-addicts though, it does seem really cool.
can I trim the black margins of several mkv files on debian 12.11 with ffmpeg or mkvtoolnix?
when I say trim I don't mean to time trim a file, like getting rid of the last 2 minutes of the mkv file, but to picture trim every frame of the mkv file to get rid of black margins to both left and right of the actual image.
Files were originally recorded on 4:3 aspect ratio (some are movies from the 1950's) but the encoder somehow created / copied huge black margins to both left and right of the actual image. I want to get rid of these.
Some of my files are 30 minutes long but others 2 hours.
if ffmpeg is the application I need, could anyone knowledgeable enough write the actual command?
[GUIDE] How To Setup Rust on secureblue (with some pictures)
NOTE
For some reason, Lemmy isn't allowing me to upload more than 11 images. I will try to add the missing images after posting. It will take a while.
Edit: It isn't allowing me to add more images. If anyone is interested, I will upload the images elsewhere.
Introduction
Setting up a secure coding environment for the Rust programming language on secureblue isn't hard to do, but it's difficult to figure out on your own. That is why I am making a guide explaining how to do it yourself.
For this tutorial, I will be using the silverblue-main-hardened:latest
image of secureblue. For this tutorial, I am also assuming you have enabled Flatpak permission lockdown by running ujust flatpak-permissions-lockdown
.
Install a code editor
You can install whichever code editor you want, but for this tutorial I will be using VSCodium which is an open source binary of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code without telemetry.
Command-line instructions
Open the terminal.
VScodium can be installed using the following command:
flatpak install com.vscodium.codium
Sources: 1, 2
You will be prompted to proceed with changes to the user installation. After reviewing the changes, you can press enter. VSCodium will be downloaded and installed for the current user.
You may close the terminal now.
User-interface instructions
- Open GNOME Software.
- Type
VSCodium
. This should begin typing in a search bar, and VSCodium should show up as a search result.
- Select
VSCodium
(the blue one).VSCodium - Insiders
(the orange one) is the nightly release of VSCodium, and is not recommended for daily use.
- Click the blue
Install
button on the top right. VSCodium will be downloaded and installed for the current user.
You may close GNOME Software now.
Install the Rust SDK
Rust provides multiple ways of installing. On secureblue, things are more locked down, especially with VSCodium being installed as a Flatpak. Rather than layering Rust as a system package and giving VSCodium invasive permissions to make it work, there is a much more elegant way to install Rust that isn't mentioned in their install instructions.
Flathub provides an SDK Extension for Rust that can be used for Flatpak code editors, such as VSCodium. This can only be installed from the command line. Trying to install it from GNOME Software will install an outdated version of the Rust SDK.
Open the terminal.
First, we need to find the branch of org.freedesktop.Sdk
. This will allow us to install the correct version of the Rust SDK.
The branch of org.freedesktop.Sdk
can be found using the following command:
flatpak info org.freedesktop.Sdk
Make a note of the version number next to the Branch:
section. In my case, it is 24.08
.
The Rust SDK can be installed using the following command:
flatpak install org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.rust-stable
You will be prompted to select which ref you would like to install. Find the version that matches the branch of org.freedesktop.Sdk
. Type the number corresponding with the version (in my case, 5
), and press enter.
You will be prompted to proceed with changes to the user installation. After reviewing the changes, you can press enter. The Rust SDK will be downloaded and installed for the current user.
You may close the terminal now.
Grant Flatpak permissions
Assuming you enabled Flatpak permission lockdown, VSCodium won't have permission to access everything it needs to work properly. We need to grant these permissions manually.
We will need to create a directory to act as your project directory. VSCodium will have access to every file in this directory, so it is best to only use it for VSCodium. I am deciding to create a folder in my home directory named VSCodium
to store all of my VSCodium projects.
VSCodium will need the following permissions to work:
- The Network
permission, in order to efficiently install extensions and update them automatically.
- Access to a dedicated project directory, in order to create workspaces.
- Permission to access the Rust SDK, in order to support the Rust language.
- Optional access to Development syscalls
, in order to use debugging extensions.
Command-line instructions
Open the terminal.
VScodium can be granted the Network
permission using the following command:
flatpak override -u --share=network com.vscodium.codium
The
-u
flag is an alias for --user
, which will change the permission only for the current user.[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
A project directory can be created using the following command:
mkdir VSCodium
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
VSCodium can be granted access to the project directory using the following command:
flatpak override -u --filesystem=~/VSCodium com.vscodium.codium
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
VScodium can be granted access to the Rust SDK using the following command:
flatpak override -u --env=FLATPAK_ENABLE_SDK_EXT=rust-stable com.vscodium.codium
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
You may close the terminal now.
User-interface instructions
- Open Flatseal. This should be installed by default, but if you decided not to install it during the post-install of secureblue, it can be installed from GNOME Software.
- Type
VSCodium
. This should begin typing in a search bar on the left, and VSCodium should show up as a search result.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Select
VSCodium
.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- To grant VSCodium the
Network
permission, enable the switch next to theNetwork
permission. It should turn blue, indicating that the permission has been granted.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Open Files
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Right click, and click on the option labeled
New Folder...
(This can also be done usingShift+Ctrl+N
)
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Enter
VSCodium
in the text field labeledFolder Name
.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Click
Create
to create the folder. This will create a project directory for VSCodium to use.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- In Flatseal, scroll down to the
Filesystem
section.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Click on the folder with a plus icon under the
Other files
section. An empty text field should appear.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Click on the empty text field.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Enter the following into the text field:
~/VSCodium
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- To grant VSCodium access to the Rust SDK, scroll down to the
Environment
section.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Click the plus icon on the top right. An empty text field should appear.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Click on the empty text field.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Enter the following into the text field:
FLATPAK_ENABLE_SDK_EXT=rust-stable
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
You may close Flatseal now.
Open VSCodium
Now that VSCodium has the necessary permissions to function, we can finally run it.
Command-line instructions
Open the terminal.
VScodium can berun using the following command:
flatpak run com.vscodium.codium
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
User-interface instructions
- Press the
Super
key to view the dock. - Click on the
Show Apps
button (nine dots) on the bottom right to show a list of installed apps. - Click on the VSCodium icon to open it.
Install the rust-analyzer extension
Upon first launching VSCodium, you will be presented with a README.md
file.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
This file has information about using VSCodium as a Flatpak. Since we have already granted it the necessary permissions, this file can be ignored.
We now need to install the rust-analyzer extension. This extension will give us a comfortable Rust development environment in VSCodium.
Keyboard instructions
Launch the VSCodium Quick Open by using Ctrl+P
.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
Enter the following command:
ext install rust-lang.rust-analyzer
Sources: 1
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
Press enter to install the rust-analyzer
extension.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
You will be prompted to trust the publisher and install the extension. After reviewing the prompt, you can press enter to select the Trust Publisher & Install
button on the bottom right.
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You may be prompted to trust the authors of the files in this workspace. After reviewing the prompt, you can select the Install
button. The rust-analyzer
extension will be downloaded and installed for the current profile.
Mouse instructions
- Click on the
Extensions
menu on the left. (This can also be opened by usingCtrl+Shift+X
)
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Enter
rust-analyzer
into the search bar. This will search for the extension we need.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Click on the extension labeled
rust-analyzer
.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Click the
Install
button for therust-analyzer
extension.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- You will be prompted to trust the publisher and install the extension. After reviewing the prompt, you can click on the
Trust Publisher & Install
button on the bottom right.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- You may be prompted to trust the authors of the files in this workspace. After reviewing the prompt, you can click the
Install
button. Therust-analyzer
extension will be downloaded and installed for the current profile.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
The rust-analyzer
extension is now installed.
Create a new project
Now that we have the rust-analyzer
extension installed, we can create a new Rust project.
The keyboard instructions are broken due to the Ctrl+K
keybind being unfunctional, and the Ctrl+O
keybind being binded to the wrong option. Because of that, only mouse instructions are available for this step.
- Click on the
File
dropdown on the top left.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Click on the option labeled
Open Folder...
You will get a dialogue saying the following:
Oops! Something went wrong.
Unable to find "/app/share/ide-flatpak-wrapper". Please check the spelling and try again.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
This can be ignored. It is appearing because we never granted VSCodium access to a specific folder, and it has no effect.
- Click on
OK
to dismiss it.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Double click on the
VSCodium
folder to enter it.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Right click, and click on the option labeled
New Folder...
(This can also be done usingShift+Ctrl+N
). Alternatively, select the folder with a plus icon on the top right.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Enter the name of your project in the text field labeled
Folder Name
. For this example, I will create a folder namedexample
.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Click
Create
to create the folder.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Click
Open
in the bottom left to open the folder.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- You will be prompted to trust the authors of the files in this folder. After reviewing the prompt, you can select the
Yes, I trust the authors
button.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Press Ctrl+` to open the terminal.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- The project can be initialized using the following command:
cargo init
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You have now created a Rust project, and you can get started coding in Rust.
Optional: Support for debugging
Right now, there are no debugging extensions installed. The two recommended debugging extensions are CodeLLDB and Native Debug. I prefer CodeLLDB because, as of writing this, Native Debug has not been updated in over a year. It is still in active development, but there has not been a release in over a year.
Keyboard instructions
Open VSCodium.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
Launch the VSCodium Quick Open by using Ctrl+P
.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
Enter the following command:
ext install vadimcn.vscode-lldb
Sources: 1
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
Press enter to install the CodeLLDB extension.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
You will be prompted to trust the publisher and install the extension. After reviewing the prompt, you can press enter to select the Trust Publisher & Install
button on the bottom right. The CodeLLDB extension will be downloaded and installed for the current profile.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
You will see a prompt on the bottom right saying the following:
Completed installing extension. Please restart extensions to enable it.
Select
Restart Extensions
to restart the extensions.[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
Mouse instructions
- Click on the
Extensions
menu on the left. (This can also be opened by usingCtrl+Shift+X
)
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Enter
CodeLLDB
into the search bar. This will search for the extension we need.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Click on the extension labeled
CodeLLDB
.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Click the
Install
button for the CodeLLDB extension.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- You will be prompted to trust the publisher and install the extension. After reviewing the prompt, you can click on the
Trust Publisher & Install
button on the bottom right. The CodeLLDB extension will be downloaded and installed for the current profile.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
You will see a prompt on the bottom right saying the following:
Completed installing extension. Please restart extensions to enable it.
Select
Restart Extensions
to restart the extensions.[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
The CodeLLDB extension is now installed.
Grant VSCodium ptrace access
If you try to debug a program using a debugger extension, you will receive the following error:
VSCodium
Cannot launch '/var/home/anonymous/VSCodium/example/target/debug/example': ptrace failed: Operation not permitted
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
The reason for this is because VSCodium does not have permission to access development syscalls.
Command-line instructions
Open the terminal.
VScodium can be granted the Development syscalls
permission using the following command:
flatpak override -u --allow=devel com.vscodium.codium
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
You may close the terminal now.
User-interface instructions
- Open Flatseal.
- Type
VSCodium
. This should begin typing in a search bar on the left, and VSCodium should show up as a search result.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Select
VSCodium
.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- To grant VSCodium the
Development syscalls
permission, scroll down to the section labeledAllow
.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
- Enable the switch next to the
Development syscalls (e.g. ptrace)
permission. It should turn blue, indicating that the permission has been granted.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
You may close Flatseal now.
Enable anti-cheat support
Even though VSCodium has access to ptrace, the system still does not permit it. This is to defend against basic security concerns. secureblue provides a toggle to enable support for anti-cheat, which will allow VSCodium to access ptrace.
Open the terminal.
Anti-cheat support can be enabled using one of the following commands:
ujust toggle-anticheat-support
or
ujust toggle-ptrace-scope
Sources: 1
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
You will be prompted for your administrator passphrase. After reviewing the prompt, enter your passphrase and click Authenticate
. This will enable anti-cheat support.
[INSERT IMAGE HERE]
You will need to restart your device to complete the changes.
Command-line instructions
Open the terminal.
The device can be restarted using the following command:
reboot
User-interface instructions
- Click on the status bar on the top right.
- Click on the power button.
- Click on the option labeled
Restart...
. - You will get a prompt saying the following:
Restart
The system will restart automatically in 60 seconds
- Click on the button labeled
Restart
to restart the system now.
Anti-cheat support is now enabled, and debugging extensions will work.
Rust Programming Language
A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.www.rust-lang.org
rustup
requires granting VSCodium more invasive permissions to get it to work. Furthermore, installing it would require layering system packages, which should be done sparingly. Using the Rust SDK is the recommended approach by VSCodium while using their Flatpak, and it is actually the simpler option.
std::io::pipe()
.
Chatting on Lemmy? Is it a thing?
WiFi issue with iMac
E: I AM NOT USING FEDORA. Please stop linking to guides for Fedora. They will not work. uBlue/Bazzite does not use dnf.
I got a free iMac. Installed Linux on an external drive. Bazzite, specifically. WiFi does not work. My research leads me to a problem with proprietary Broadcom drivers but no solutions. If you know how to get this working, your advice would be appreciated.
Also if there's another distro that works "out of the box" on Macs with GNOME I'd be open to installing that as well.
E: "System information" says it is a
Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (7.77.111.1 AirPortDriverBrcmNIC-1772.1)
I want to move out from Ubuntu and use something else.
I didn't intentionally pick Ubuntu, my pc went shit and I needed to install some os and the only one I had available in a usb was Ubuntu noble.
Laptop specs: I think a 7th gen inter i5, 8 GBs of ram and (the issue) a 125 GB M2.Sata SSD
I'm not really going to play games on it, it's one of those weird laptops that folds and can use a stylus.
So what would you suggest for something light in size and good with a stylus.
Looking at your specs - I have almost the same config, except in place of SATA SSD I installed a NVMe SSD, if course the laptop needs to support that. KDE Plasma is superior in the touch support, although the screen keyboard is a little buggy at times. But the situation in the GNOME ecosystem is a bit worse for touch/pen devices. Good luck
MultiVersus officially closes down and is delisted today
MultiVersus officially closes down and is delisted today
The game can still be played offline if players log in before the servers are turned offChris Scullion (Video Games Chronicle)
Is there an easy(ier) way to stop a game from phoning home?
What have you been using for cloud backups?
Proton Drive does not support Linux…
I think there is early beta support in Rclone, but I have seen many reports of it not working well.
What well known maxims/rules are over exaggerated, but generally still true?
Things like don’t shake a baby (babies love to be bounced and rocked, which are honestly just gentle shaking, but even moderately vigorous shaking can seriously injure or kill an infant and you should never shake a baby in anger or anything like that) or don’t take anything with you when exiting a building when a fire alarm goes off (don’t go looking for things, but you should still put your coat on if it’s next to you and it’s cold out). What other common maxims are generally good to follow, but over exaggerated? Bonus points if it’s only a well known saying because our instinct is to do the thing, like with rocking babies.
(Please don’t think I’m telling you to shake babies or look for and carry huge stacks of files out of a burning building)
Children and sex. Recently on local social media, there was a discussion on our topless laws. Of course, there were the predictable comments about women not going topless where children might see.
Well, why not, Karen? It's utterly ridiculous when you consider what breasts are for, and what children are meant to do with them. Yes, it's true the children shouldn't be engaging in sex acts, and the details of adult sexual behavior should be kept from them, since they're not equipped to understand, e.g. BDSM and power play, yet. But if kids see a pair of boobs, if kids see naked people, or even if kids know the basic functions of body parts, they'll be fine. Lots of kids throughout human history lived in small dwellings and heard, or even saw, parents and other members of their community having sex, and they all survived the experience.
Communicable disease? Now there's something that we should be protecting children from...
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Help Figuring Out Storage (Noob Question)
Hi, I've been thinking about switching from Win11 to Linux Mint due to Microsoft collecting lots of data. My current setup has been cobbled together over the past decade and consists of a C drive NvME, 1 old SATA SSD, and 2 HDDs. I have games installed across all of the non-C drives, some from steam some not.
Windows tells me each drive by letter. I installed Mint on a virtual machine to get a look, but it couldn't read any of my files. I don't want to wipe my C drive without knowing that at least the other drives will be readable if I make the switch.
How does Linux account multiple hard drives? I'm so used to how Windows does it that I'm worried about switching over and losing access to my other drives. Thanks!
Linux doesn't do the drive letter thing. Instead, you have to identify the disks by their partition IDs.
When you install your OS, you'll be able to mount
the disks to wherever you like. If you want, you can create directories in /mnt
, like /mnt/e
, /mnt/f
etc.
The main issue you'll run into is disk format. NTFS will work, but its poorly supported.
To get a better idea of how it works, try passing a USB disk into the VM you've created.
This is every Ubuntu Linux default wallpaper
Every Ubuntu Linux default wallpaper (download)
The default wallpapers from over 20 years of Ubuntu Linux, from Warty Warthog to Plucky Puffin, in full original quality.Corbin Davenport (The Spacebar)
If there was any TV show that was cancelled or cut short that you could see the planned continuation/ending of, which would you choose?
Those are all good points though I disagree a bit with the brown coats/confederates but I get what you mean.
I think I'll let that show sit in my memory as it is. Without rewatching any of it I can definitely see the issues. Especially Jayne thinking more on it
Trying to recreate a version control system for my music collection, with one crucial difference ... 🤯
I want to have a mirror of my local music collection on my server, and a script that periodically
updates the server to, well, mirror my local collection.
But crucially, I want to convert
all lossless files to lossy, preferably before uploading them.
That's the one reason why I can't just use git
- or so I believe.
I also want locally deleted files to be deleted on the server.
Sometimes I even move files around (I believe in directory structure) and again,
git deals with this perfectly. If it weren't for the lossless-to-lossy caveat.
It would be perfect if my script could recognize that just like git does, instead of deleting and reuploading the
same file to a different location.
My head is spinning round and round and before I continue messing around with find
and scp
it's time to ask the community.
I am writing in bash but if some python module could help with it I'm sure I could
find my way around it.
TIA
additional info:
- Not all files in the local collection are lossless. A variety of formats.
- The purpose of the remote is for listening/streaming with various applications
- The lossy version is for both reducing upload and download (streaming) bandwidth. On mobile broadband FLAC tends to buffer a lot.
- The home of the collection (and its origin) is my local machine.
- The local machine cannot act as a server
xonsh or python with sh.py.
Very interesting!
And thanks for the coding tips. It seems git is not the best option here because it keeps a full history of all files in their fullness - a gigantic waste of space in the case of a media collection.
I am now thinking more rsync minus lossless formats, then deal with lossless formats separately.
you know, you could also either include a lossy copy next to the lossless ones, then rsync only lossy extensions, or, if that pollutes your collection, have a separate but identically-structured directory tree, where all your lossless files have lossy copies. Then, you can rsync both folders (send-only) to your single remote (lossy extensions only).
but, yeah, Git really isn't the tool for this, agreed.
Someone finally decided to sue the fediverse via karmacourt, and it's no surprise who it is
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The complaint is regarding a known sock puppeter. Those votes are almost certainly all from the same person. And even if not, then those other accounts who write just like her but only because they 'collaboratively compose their messages' could be doing the upvoting.
Eta: ohhhhh it's this mofo. Let it go, CraigOhMyEggo. We get it. You're a serial Leni defender. But no, and I can't say this loudly and hard enough, getting 8 upvotes on a joke subreddit doesn't show that the whole of the fediverse is wrong for telling Leni to fuck off. And even if somehow this was a good way to make that point, in some crazy universe, the fediverse doesn't hinge on reddit's opinion of anything. Most fediverse folks don't give a shit about redditor's opinion. Or we would be on reddit.
This is a really pathetic attempt to revive the argument for Leni. You need to move on with your life.
I love popcorn as much as anybody, so normally I'd launch into a retelling of the whole sordid tale, but the problem with this drama is that it's not fun to read. Because the CallMeLeni person, and also the one who was leading the crusade against them, can't write.
That's not like, a cute joke. I've never, in my long and storied life, seen people who have such poor writing skills. Many times, people have commented to tell these folks that their writing is unreadable, and every time, the response is either to defend it, or to get weirdly specific about the complaints being made.
So instead of bothering with the whole thing, I found the post where I first read CallMeLeni posting something, and I'm linking it here. I didn't bother carrying over the links they put in the comment. And I'm going to paste a quote, so you can see why I don't recommend going for it. I can't warn you enough that this isn't worth your time.
::: And for extra protection, I've spoiler'd it. Read it if you want but you are missing out on nothing.
The implication here is false, at least by my definition of the word “false”, and he even alluded to that after it began to be discussed elaborately, albeit before using an appeal to the masses (story of my life) and say “most people seem to understand”, which ignores consensus of me and the aforementioned Blaze (as much as the “the truth we all wanted to speak” remark ignores not everyone had that issue). Notice how I responded with “I can spot rules broken by the other person’s thread more easily than I can spot rules broken by mine” and got only thumbs down for it and no responses, yet when I actually dissected the rules piece by piece in front of him to point out that any rule I supposedly broke wasn’t there, which even the person who recommended I make the discussion in the first place (the aforementioned Blaze) agreed was a “fair point to be honest”, the mod then delved into the concept of “unspoken rules” as an excuse for himself and said he didn’t want to “rules-lawyer”, which not only disproves what he said about “specific posting guidelines” being “in the sidebar” that supposedly explained what I did wrong, but proved a point I commonly mention about people in different places including here always being uncritical and unwilling to see things for themselves and just taking peoples’ word for things (and about that, to respond to Cypher’s last reply, intellectual =/= intelligent). A part of that is it also suggests, by extension, that the quantity of thumbs down you garner is unreliable as consistently meaning anything, unless the rule is actually to apply gladiator logic and say a thumbs down signals mercy, as indicated by the very Roman-esque culture around here. I guess all this time, I was being praised and didn’t realize it?
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Out-Of-Date OpenH264 On Fedora Is Frustrating Users With A High Severity CVE
While OpenH264 support coming to Fedora was widely celebrated as part of offering a better codec experience on Fedora Linux, an increasing number of Fedora users have grown frustrated with the OpenH264 packaging in that it's been out-of-date for several months with a high severity security vulnerability.
Out-Of-Date OpenH264 On Fedora Is Frustrating Users With A High Severity CVE
While OpenH264 support coming to Fedora was widely celebrated as part of offering a better codec experience on Fedora Linux, an increasing number of Fedora users have grown frustrated with the OpenH264 packaging in that it's been out-of-date for seve…www.phoronix.com
The Republican Plot to Let People Die of Heatstroke
Archived copies of the article
The Republican Plot to Let People Die of Heatstroke
As we approach a summer that may be among the hottest on record, Republicans are trying to cut programs that help the poor and the elderly stay cool—and stay alive.The New Republic
When you live in Seoul and try to install snap inside of your Ubuntu docker image
Please select the geographic area in which you live. Subsequent configuration questions will narrow
this down by presenting a list of cities, representing the time zones in which they are located.
1. Africa 3. Antarctica 5. Asia 7. Australia 9. Indian 11. Etc
2. America 4. Arctic 6. Atlantic 8. Europe 10. Pacific 12. Legacy
Geographic area: 5
Please select the city or region corresponding to your time zone.
1. Aden 19. Chongqing 37. Jerusalem 55. Novokuznetsk 73. Tashkent
2. Almaty 20. Colombo 38. Kabul 56. Novosibirsk 74. Tbilisi
3. Amman 21. Damascus 39. Kamchatka 57. Omsk 75. Tehran
4. Anadyr 22. Dhaka 40. Karachi 58. Oral 76. Tel_Aviv
5. Aqtau 23. Dili 41. Kashgar 59. Phnom_Penh 77. Thimphu
6. Aqtobe 24. Dubai 42. Kathmandu 60. Pontianak 78. Tokyo
7. Ashgabat 25. Dushanbe 43. Khandyga 61. Pyongyang 79. Tomsk
8. Atyrau 26. Famagusta 44. Kolkata 62. Qatar 80. Ulaanbaatar
9. Baghdad 27. Gaza 45. Krasnoyarsk 63. Qostanay 81. Urumqi
10. Bahrain 28. Harbin 46. Kuala_Lumpur 64. Qyzylorda 82. Ust-Nera
11. Baku 29. Hebron 47. Kuching 65. Riyadh 83. Vientiane
12. Bangkok 30. Ho_Chi_Minh 48. Kuwait 66. Sakhalin 84. Vladivostok
13. Barnaul 31. Hong_Kong 49. Macau 67. Samarkand 85. Yakutsk
Which program is the one that surprised you most that it is available on Linux?
Microsoft Defender.
I convinced my work to let me use linux on their laptop. They sent me instructions for setup. One of them was to install Microsoft Defender, had a link to the Ubuntu package and everything. Blew my mind.
Yup! Here's a helpful link in case you feel like spreading the joy.
maketecheasier.com/install-use…
How to Install and Use Microsoft Defender in Linux - Make Tech Easier
Learn how to install and use Microsoft Defender on Linux to make sure your IT department can scan your machine for threats.John Perkins (Make Tech Easier)
Neverball.
So gaming on Linux is obviously amazing now, but back in 2006 or so when I started using it, it was less than great. I probably tried every single game in the Ubuntu repos and Neverball entertained the hell out of me.
I spent hours rolling this shiny ball around. I loved Marble Madness on NES as a kid, so it was a natural fit.
A close second was Freeciv, as I had also grown up with a copy of Civilization.
Honorable mentions to Nesticle and Snes9x.
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Oh,,,
It's not just advertising (and its commensurate tracking paradigm)...
Data mining for profit, SEO for profit, and pervasive Counterfeit Cognizance are all playing their part in ruining the Internet experience.
Perhaps all the above could be summed up by "Capitalist Greed"...??? 🤡 🖕
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Perhaps all the above could be summed up by “Capitalist Greed”…??? 🤡 🖕
No. It's can't. And you're actively hurting your efforts by attaching high school edgelord bullshit to it.
Corruption has been a seriously problem everywhere, forever, and does not care one bit what words the ruling party uses to express themselves. None of what is happening right now is restricted to nations which call themselves capitalist.
I mean, yes and no.
You know how when you look up at a nights sky, and the whole sky is covered in a series of rotating popup ads, with the stars as their backdrop?
What do you mean NO??? When you use your telescope to try to look at space, and all you see is a facebook ad, a mcdonalds ad, a starbucks ad, an ad for a local lawyer, you know.....space ads. We've all seen them. Just ads floating in space, illuminating the night sky.
Oh, my mistake. This is 2025. That's commonplace in 2125. See, the technology to impose global space ads isn't a thing yet.
The thing about technology is, there's always somebody looking to profit off of every new technology. The technology behind space ads is actually used to show important global events, like what the global dictator does everyday. Oh, right. In 2125 there's a global dictator who rules the entire planet through oppression and slavery. So, not much different than 2025, besides even the illusion of freedom is gone.
The point is, you don't have the technology to put ads in the sky, and therefore the advertising industry can't yet be blamed. But once it exists, they will.
It really is a chicken or the egg situation.
Sky ad technology can be developed out of the good of someone's heart. Maybe to show emergency alerts quickly. Disaster warnings. But then, it gets in the wrong hands.
We could say similar stuff about the internet. I don't think Tim Berner's Lee had bad intentions when founding the World Wide Web. It's a double edged sword. Same has happened with a lot. I even believe that God's sacrifice on the cross- an act of perfect love for all humanity- has been misused to control, manipulate and abuse. The guy who created dynamite wanted it to be used for safer mining practices, not a weapon. Many things we make as humans seems to be invented for good, but used for evil
Internet advertising wasn't initially that bad either. People would pay to have a button for their site to appear on another page. Or a video to play on a streaming site. Then someone thinks "let's actually make more relevant ads appear. This video is about videogames, let's show a videogame ad." Then: "We can see what videos this user likes, so we can get an idea that they like videogames, so let's show them videogame ads, even on other videos". And it eventually morphed into "We can see this user visited this videogame shop 1 month ago thanks to our other maps service. Let's show them adverts for that shop's sale". It's just crazy.
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Fediverse for teens
I have three teenage daughters who are currently not allowed on social media. But I want to give them some ability before they become adults. My eldest gave me a PowerPoint presentation on why she should be allowed on Snapchat, lol.
She made some good points. Her friend group has a group text and she wants to keep up with everyone but doesn’t want to get the ding notifications constantly.
Feels like a good opportunity for a Fediverse platform. Like a closed Mastodon/Pixelfed server and have some parental controls. Any projects out there?
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Soar: A fast, modern package manager for Static Binaries, Portable Formats (AppImage) & More
Soar is like linuxbrew (homebrew) but whose packages are 100% static & relocatable on any Linux Distro.
GitHub - pkgforge/soar: A fast, modern package manager for Static Binaries, Portable Formats (AppImage|AppBundle|FlatImage|Runimage) & More [maintainer=@QaidVoid]
A fast, modern package manager for Static Binaries, Portable Formats (AppImage|AppBundle|FlatImage|Runimage) & More [maintainer=@QaidVoid] - pkgforge/soarGitHub
Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says
Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says
Previously known as Project Orion, the conceptual phase is now completeChris Scullion (Video Games Chronicle)
If CDPR hadn't forced the team to crunch to get the game running at all on PlayStation, it probably would have been much more polished on release. A lot of the bugs you see in YouTube glitch compilations were due to this over-optimization (like NPCs vanishing or changing models when you looked away for a second).
I wonder how much better the game and its reception would have been if they'd dropped the last-gen console support during development. Those were the truly awful versions; the PC version was about even with Bethesda's launch day jank.
I also wish they'd properly managed expectations. The PC release was buggy and missing promised features, yes, but a lot of the hate came from it being a game with an open-world city with guns and driving but not mimicking GTA's systems.
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Some people complain very loudly. It’s possible most of us actually had no problems & said nothing, leaving only the scorned to be heard.
So, believe it or not, what you said is why I was responding. To let you know “that performance issues are different for different people on different systems.” Seems like you forgot it yourself.
Have a nice day 😊
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Could you remind me what features people were upset about? I stayed away from most of the drama since CDPR has a long history of releasing a free major upgrade a year or two after release that fixes everything people complained about.
I remember the dev diaries being pretty open about dropping features during development, like the RC drone turning from a staple of your kit into something shown off once in a mission and immediately forgotten.
Plex now want to SELL your personal data
Text:
I consent to Plex to: (i) sell certain personal information (hashed emails, advertising identifiers) to third-parties for advertising and marketing purposes; and (ii) store and/or access certain personal information (advertising identifiers, IP address, content being watched) on my device(s) and share that information with Plex’s advertising partners. This data is used to deliver personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Your consent applies to all devices on which you have Plex installed. You can withdraw your consent at any time in
Account Settings or using this page.
Soure: plex.tv/vendors/
(Might have to clear cache)
Can also read about the changes here:
plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/
Privacy Policy | Plex
Prior Versions What’s new in this version Clarified language in the Privacy Rights section. Updated “Who does Plex share...Plex
I don't know why everyone in the selfhosting community still even mentions Plex or uses it.
It's closed source, not free; Jellyfin is a no brainer yet people still go to Plex??
I don't mean to diminish your comment, but I just went through the setup process for both Plex and jellyfin (moving to new hardware) and there was no significant difference between the setups.
Maybe this wasn't the case a few years ago, but jellyfin is just a setup, point to libraries, and enable hardware accel.
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Sorry, I meant "Plex took away free remote streaming".
You're being really, really snippy. Either have a coffee or take a breather, but calling strangers liars is way offside.
I'm not lying, I can show you my Fw config. My son called me yesterday saying he couldn't watch Plex, something about the Plex pass. I just changed the Fw rule DST nat mangle port and told him to use jellyfin. The user is local, so that's dead easy. Done in 10 minutes.
And yes, most users don't have this kind of experience, granted. But Plex comes with its own stupidities, like in 2020 when my wife had to pay $5 for the Plex app so she could access our library. Or the exercise of sharing libraries if you don't have a Plex pass, which is a real pain.
But that wasn't my point. I was trying to relay that jellyfin isn't as buggy and difficult as a lot of self hosters claim.
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I always had issues with plex, because it relied on their own service. But jellyfin now simply works, pretty nifty
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I mean, if they don't want to learn, there is always netflix, prime, Disney +.
Or stay with plex, no shade.
Or you take an afternoon and build something cool like this.
GitHub - sfnemis/proxmox-traefikproxy-cloudflaretunnel: Proxmox LXC based Traefik Reverse Proxy with Cloudflare Tunnel
Proxmox LXC based Traefik Reverse Proxy with Cloudflare Tunnel - sfnemis/proxmox-traefikproxy-cloudflaretunnelGitHub
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Jellyfin is hardly a no-brainer. I set it up out of curiosity a few weeks ago and my first question was how do I give access to my friends and family. So I searched, and all of the results were talking about setting up a VPN or a reverse proxy or whatever. Man, I just want to tell my mom "install this app on your tv and log in", which is exactly what Plex does.
I get that Plex is enshittifying, but pretending Jellyfin is a drop-in replacement is delusional.
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Latitude detachable laptop...webcams not working
Hi guys!
So...I bought a Latitude 7350 detachable laptop, as a replacement for a Surface where the cams don't work on Linux. This laptop seemed rather powerful and compatible, while still keeping the weight constrained (something the Minisforum V3 isn't as successful in). Also,
I prefer the rear being a stand thingy like on the Surface, and not some detachable flap you need to turn about 150 degrees to turn it into a mandatory stand (because when closed...it blocks the intake fans).
Anyway...Seems that while the camera module IPU6 is meant to be supported on Linux...I don't seem to be able to get any image. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
I installed KDE Neon (I'd prefer a KDE-based distro) and installed intel-ipu6-dkms and intel-usbio-dkms. But the camera doesn't seem to work. Any ideas how could I troubleshoot this?
linux-hardware.org/?probe=600d…
HW probe of Dell Latitude 7350 Detach... #600d5fdf40
A database of all the hardware that works under linuxlinux-hardware.org
The important part is the hardware id of the camera, you have to search for this, drivers and kernel modules use this number to check if they are needed: 8086:7d19
I found a documented laptop with this camera: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dell_…
They link to some patches there, it may work with that
As I see the date of the patch is this year March, I guess simply the laptop is too new. If you don't want to fiddle, just switch to some rolling release distro, and the patches will be merged upstream soon. After a kernel update your camera will magically start working. This would be the easiest solution if you can live some more months without the camera.
is there any way to automatically edit several mkv files to get rid of the file title on debian 12.11?
file title is an option present on mkvtoolnix (92.0 eyeglow on debian 12.11)
I could single open every file, remove the file title and save, but that's gonna take ages. almost 100 files.
Current directory and all its subdirectories - to be exact 😀
You can execute the find command only (with arguments, so until the pipe) to verify modified files beforehand.
swap SSD to test run Linux?
Once I was settled with linux I just installed the external SSD internally.
I also would use Clonezilla and make a backup of your current drive. Easy to do, and gives you a backup you can restore anywhere including a virtual machine, meaning you can have windows back inside of Linux if you forgot anything.
Or you can restore the drive if you accidentally corrupt it.
How to (actually) choose a Linux distro
How to (actually) choose a Linux distro
New to Linux and no clue what to start with? Try Mint. https://www.linuxmint.com/If you prefer a specific desktop environment or specific features out of the...YouTube
I'm good. But thank you for the tip.
Just posted the video, because I like that she's quite balanced in her views. The subject matter will always trigger a level of controversy, esp. on lemmy. But the advice is pretty solid.
And if Mint isn't the answer, go with Ubuntu. Or Zorin OS. Or PopOS. All of them are "right" and provide excellent beginner experiences for many people.
FunOS - Have any of you used this
Is this a decent OS to move users off Win too that I won't have to do a lot of remote maintenance on? I have a few varied OS's installed on machines around and Cinnamon I have found to look/feel a lot like Windows 7 which would benefit the learning curve for family/friends looking or needing to find an OS to install on a machine that isn't newer.
Curious if anyone has used this, and if so if it is a good fit for those 60+ aged family members and such. They have all used Windows for work at least a decent amount, so keeping things similar is always good. A decent App Store would be nice though. I hated the default store in Pop_OS.
If I could say do updates and reboot every once in awhile and you should be fine it'd be great. Remoting in with RustDesk and hitting App Update/Upgrade being all that is needed also would be great, but you know how that goes. Someone will break something, and I just want something intuitive enough that they won't do it often.
This lean Linux distro can give your Windows 10 PC an extra 5 to 10 years of life
Don't throw away your old computer. Install a Linux distribution that'll make it feel brand new. FunOS is here to help you out.Jack Wallen (ZDNET)
Lilbits: Retro gaming hardware, another BlackBerry clone, and a DIY UMPC with an E Ink color display
The Onyx BOOX Poke 2 Color was one of the first eBook readers to ship with a color E Ink display. And while it’s designed for reading eBooks, periodicals, and comics, it’s basically a tablet with a sunlight readable display (with a slow refresh rate) and a relatively sluggish processor: but thanks to its Android-based operating system you can install plenty of third-party apps.
So why not […]
#2old4toys #cyberdeck #denseForever #diyUmpc #lilbits #sipeedTangConsole #unihertzTitan2
Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-retro-g…
Fediverse Social Media Guide
Yesterday someone asked if one could do something like this, here is my version, in case you missed it !
Here is the list of all the softwares in this picture :
- Friendica
- GNUSocial / Mastodon
- Vernissage
- Wordpress / Writefreely / Pixelfed
- Loops
- Jlai.lu (French lemmy instance) / Lemmy (with the lemmy.world logo because it's more colorful than the plain lemmy logo)
Feel free to share it anywhere you want 😀
If you have any idea for other meme of this type for the Fediverse, please send me a DM and I might make a nice graph like this for you !
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Reverse engeneering a Keyboard software
Im currently trying to get my Keyboards software to work on linux, but since that won‘t be a thing, like ever, im trying to Reverse engineer the software in order to copy the get and set requests the Software sends over USB and send them over a Python Script using libUSB, so I can control it independent of OS
So I set up my Wireshark with a USB snooper and started using the software
Only problem: Since I have no idea how a Keyboard usually communicates, so I have no idea what to look for. Can someone recommend me some already reverse engeneered FOSS Keyboard software as an example? (Like the wooting software, if its even OSS)
Unless the vendor is rolling something super custom, for the communication TO the keyboard, it should use USB HID.
Start Wireshark, filter for hid, connect the KB and the first message should be a HID descriptor of the KB, look for Output Reports (it's meant from the POV of the usb master) or Feature Reports.
Though, this will probably not yield much insight - vendors love to do the easy thing, reserve opaque 32x8 bytes as a "downlink" Output communication in the Vendor Usage Page and stuff their own protocol/encoding in there.
On linux I can recommend hid-tools for working with this, in windows I believe your only solution is Wireshark.
marcusfolkesson.se/blog/hid-re…
Happy Hacking!
E: About the already reversedsoftware, for logitech (and more) stuff, there is piper but you will want to look into the underlying daemon libratbag, there is also solaar
GitHub - libratbag/libratbag: A DBus daemon to configure input devices, mainly high-end and gaming mice
A DBus daemon to configure input devices, mainly high-end and gaming mice - libratbag/libratbagGitHub
I reversed engineered a keyboard for a presentation in uni. I’ll drop you an excerpt of a written review:
Resources used
I learned the USB protocol from this (the relevant parts I needed). We’re thinking of including some basic understanding of the USB protocol in the slides.
beyondlogic.org/usbnutshell/us…
I got an idea of what could be going on from the following link, specifically the section I’ve set.
github.com/openrazer/openrazer…
I deciphered the protocol using the USBHID packets that would be sent. I was highly sure it was USBHID from a pointer from another Linux community member, but this article was my third source to confirming this.
hackaday.com/2020/04/14/revers…
One of the sources for information to develop these procedures was from the openRGB wiki.
This stream has to do with reversing using URB. I find this might be out of scope, and it would’ve been way tougher to reverse engineer with this.
Feel free to ask as needed here. Spam the requests on the software while monitoring wireshark to be sure of what is what.
The other large comment by “taaz” is also very useful and parts of which I did use while reverse engineering.
Reverse Engineering USB Protocol
Open source driver and user-space daemon to control Razer lighting and other features on GNU/Linux - openrazer/openrazerGitHub
Linux 6.16 adds the “X86_NATIVE_CPU” option to optimize your kernel build for your processorThe X86_NATIVE_CPU Kconfig build time parameter has been merged for the Linux 6.16 merge window as an easy w
Am I in for a bad time with an RTX 5080 on Linux?
Hey guys, sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this (feel free to point me to a better community) but I'm in a weird "predicament" this summer: My AMD build plans are in shambles after receiving a free ROG Astral 5080.
Now I want to make the switch now with my current (Intel i7-13700K) hardware + this new card. I was only considering AMD before but it's really hard to say no to a video card worth more than my entire budget lol
The slightly worse performance compared to Windows is still an upgrade from my 3070 so that's fine - It's initial/recurring troubleshooting I don't really want to deal with. Most of the info I've found is from earlier this year and no one speaks highly of the beta drivers
Sorry if this is a stupid question but am I setting myself up for disappointment with this new plan? I have a few more related questions I'll toss in the comments but that's my main concern.
It's a Linux distro made specifically with gaming on Nvidia GPUs in mind. It's basically Arch, but GPU drivers are included with the installation, and Steam, Proton, and Wayland are already installed and configured for you.
Great performance and perfect for people who don't want to set up all this stuff themselves, but like I said earlier, no NV Control Panel or NV App.
It also comes with a "Dr460nized" theme that you may or may not like. It reeks of early 2000s adolescence, but I was a teenager in that era so I kind of like it. Of course you can easily disable it and use a more mature theme if you'd like.
For a first time Linux gamer I'd recommend Garuda.
Want switch to linux
Hello guys i have a qustion about which distro i should use?
I want to dual boot windows and linux
I just want a safe place away from microsoft eyes to do edit and drawing and other hobbies on my pc.
And playing some games like cs2 & 2d games
Also the distro run my wallpaper engine
Should be popular distro so if i have a problem i can ask about it
Please dont tell me linux mint because i tried it 3 times and everytime i do anything simple the distro goes off and i should re install i won't give it anymore chances
thank you 😖
Edit: thank you guys for typing your suggests. after some search i will give bazzite try and if won't work like i want. I will go with the other suggests
I really enjoyed reading all your suggests
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Not to get into politics but the whole point of Linux is about being open and used by anyone from anywhere. I wouldn’t be surprised to see various parts of the Linux kernel, drivers, etc developed/funded by people from Israel, Russia, and many many other countries.
Edit: the point of this message, this type of approach to your OS choice will ultimately result in throwing your PC in the trash if you dig deep enough.
There is a vast difference between a community driven project like Debian taking small contributions from people who happen to be in Israel/incorporating some things from RedHat after lots of vetting and diluting and Fedora being a direct upstream testing ground for RedHat who are the primary contributors and maintainers.
No, this type of approach will not lead to you throwing your PC in the trash, it will simply lead to you being more aware of your software and how it functions,what it contributes to, and what contributes to it. Which is a good thing imo.
For example, I use LMDE. Yes, there are most definitely contributions from redhat in my machine. the difference is between
RedHat engineers -> Fedora.
And
RedHat engineers -> Fedora -> Upstream Project acceptance-> Debian -> LMDE.
I'm not saying you need to stop using Fedora. But everyone draws a line somewhere and I'm simply making my knowledge on this known for people who's line may be in a similar place to mine.
Yeah, I'm not sure too many mitigations have been backported.
But the attack surface might also be smaller due to simpler pipelines...
Regardless, I'm too much of a perf junkie to give up my modern hardware.
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IDEA to make this site standout why don't you make a live chatbox for people who have logged in?
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/65149489
try using this code do you think it will work?Below is a minimal example of how you can add a real‐time chat box that only your authenticated users can use. It uses:
- Node.js + Express for the web server
- express‐session to track logged-in users
- Socket.io for real-time messaging
You’ll need to adapt the authentication check to however you store your users (database, JWTs, etc.), but this will give you the core of “only logged‐in folks see/use the chat.”
1. Install dependencies
npm init -y npm install express express-session socket.io
2. server.js
const express = require('express'); const http = require('http'); const session = require('express-session'); const SocketIO = require('socket.io'); const app = express(); const server = http.createServer(app); const io = new SocketIO(server); // 1) Session middleware const sessionMiddleware = session({ secret: 'YOUR_SESSION_SECRET', resave: false, saveUninitialized: false, // store: you can add a store like connect-mongo here }); app.use(sessionMiddleware); // 2) Make session available in socket.handshake io.use((socket, next) => { sessionMiddleware(socket.request, socket.request.res || {}, next); }); // Serve static files (our chat page + JS) app.use(express.static('public')); // 3) A simple “login” route for demo purposes. // In real life you’d check a DB, hash passwords, etc. app.get('/login', (req, res) => { // e.g. ?user=alice const username = req.query.user; if (!username) return res.sendStatus(400); req.session.user = { name: username }; res.redirect('/chat.html'); }); // 4) Protect chat page app.get('/chat.html', (req, res, next) => { if (!req.session.user) return res.redirect('/login.html'); next(); }); // 5) Handle socket connections io.on('connection', socket => { const req = socket.request; if (!req.session.user) { // kick out any un‐authenticated socket return socket.disconnect(true); } const user = req.session.user.name; socket.broadcast.emit('message', { from: 'SYSTEM', text: `${user} has joined the chat` }); socket.on('message', msg => { io.emit('message', { from: user, text: msg }); }); socket.on('disconnect', () => { socket.broadcast.emit('message', { from: 'SYSTEM', text: `${user} has left the chat` }); }); }); server.listen(3000, () => { console.log('Listening on http://localhost:3000/'); });
3. public/chat.html
```html
Chat Room
> Send>
> const socket = io(); > > const form = document.getElementById('form'); > const input = document.getElementById('input'); > const messages = document.getElementById('messages'); > > socket.on('message', msg => { > const li = document.createElement('li'); > li.textContent = `${msg.from}: ${msg.text}`; > messages.appendChild(li); > messages.scrollTop = messages.scrollHeight; > }); > > form.addEventListener('submit', e => { > e.preventDefault(); > if (input.value.trim()) { > socket.emit('message', input.value); > input.value = ''; > } > }); >
```4. How It Works
- Session setup
We useexpress-session
so that when a user “logs in” (e.g. via your existing form/database), we store{ user: { name: '…' } }
inreq.session
.- Socket authentication
By re-using the same session middleware in Socket.io’sio.use(…)
, every incoming socket has access tosocket.request.session
. If there’s nosession.user
, we immediatelydisconnect()
them.- Real-time chat
- On connect/disconnect we broadcast a system message.
- On client‐side, every message the user sends is emitted and broadcast to all.
- Protecting the page
We guardchat.html
in Express so that if you go there directly, you’ll get bounced to/login.html
(you’d build a real login page).Next Steps
- Integrate with your real user database. Replace the demo
/login
route with your own logic.- Persist chat history if you want to store messages (e.g. in MongoDB or MySQL).
- Add rooms or private messaging by namespace or room support in Socket.io.
- Style it and embed it in your existing layout (lemm.ee) CSS.
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GitHub - LemmyNet/lemmy: 🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse
🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse. Contribute to LemmyNet/lemmy development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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The First B61-13 Gravity Bomb Is Delivered Ahead of Schedule
The First B61-13 Gravity Bomb Is Delivered Ahead of Schedule - The National Interest
The US delivered its first B61-13 nuclear bomb nearly a year early. With enhanced yield and precision, it modernizes a key part of the nuclear triad amid rising global tensions.Lake Dodson (The National Interest)
PeerTube from your pocket! | JoinPeerTube
PeerTube from your pocket! | JoinPeerTube
Thanks to your support, we (Framasoft, a small french not-for-profit) have been developing PeerTube for seven years! From a student project to a softw...JoinPeerTube
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♲ NABU Jena - 2025-05-26 13:27:19 GMT
Juhu 🎉
Der #NABU hat nun seine eigene, offizielle Fediverse-Instanz. Als NABU-Jena hatten wir die Ehre, den Umzug zu testen. In Zukunft werdet ihr hoffentlich viele unserer Verbände hier wiederfinden.
#Mastodon #Fediverse #Jena #Unabhängikeit #OpenSource
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Cross-platform video player GrayJay now available as Flatpak
I don't know of a specific theme in the neubrutalism/neobrutalism style (names that are generally used to describe this style or aesthetic), but it shouldn't be too hard to make.
For anyone unfamiliar it's generally defined by flat, blocky layouts, with thick borders, single color drop shadows and a few bold high contrast colors (think CGA and EGA monitors if you're that old). It often features “unpolished” elements like flat simple shapes. Bold fonts and monospace fonts are pretty common.
There are a few resources out there if anyone wants to play around with this style.
github.com/ComradeAERGO/Awesom…
dribbble.com/shots/20764973-Ne…
nngroup.com/articles/neobrutal…
Neobrutalism: Definition and Best Practices
As a UI design style, neobrutalism focuses on raw, unrefined elements like bold colors, simple shapes, and intentionally "unfinished" aesthetics.Hayat Sheikh (Nielsen Norman Group)
Neubrutalism?
I was developing a widget toolkit that implements neubrutalsim but it's defunct now... Fuck life
How to use legacy OpenCL in amdgpu without using DKMS on Pop OS 22.04?
I have a pretty old laptop with an AMD dGPU and I am trying to do OpenCL compute on it to make sure that device switching is handled correctly in some stuff I am testing. All the instructions I see to install amdgpu drivers is to have --no-dkms as an install flag.
Doingamdgpu-install --usecase=opencl --no-dkms --opencl=legacy
results inERROR: using '--no-dkms' with '--opencl=legacy' is not supported
Specs:
HP Pavilion 15-br158cl
CPU: i7-8550u (HD 620 iGPU and this has working compute)
GPU: Radeon 530 2 GB DDR3
RAM: 24 GB
OS: PopOS 22.04 6.12.10-76061203-generic
Clinfo -l output
Platform #0: Intel(R) OpenCL HD Graphics
-- Device #0: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620 [0x5917]
Platform #1: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
As you can see, only the platform, not a second device. Is there anything that I am missing?
I did post this on reddit in the PopOS subreddit.
reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/1…
popos has their own thing that will conflict with dkms
So you obviously need to manually configure that own thing to build the driver instead of relying on the installer.
I haven't found any documentation on this except "don't do it lol". Which is why I'm confused. How?
Edit: finding more info and discovering that people didn't have bricked systems after using dkms which leads me to assume that later versions of popos do not have the issue that people were trying to avoid.
Wireless keyboard disconnects when idle for ~2 minutes
I'm on Bazzite Linux 42 and was having some trouble with my 2.4GHz wireless keyboard disconnecting, so I decided to replace it. The new one is having similar issues despite being a different brand (new: XVX, old: Royal Kludge), so I suspect the culprit may actually have been software all along. I have a 2.4GHz wireless mouse connected to the same system that is generally reliable, so I don't believe it's an issue of 2.4GHz interference. The keyboards work well when connected to my Mac, so I don't believe it's faulty hardware.
This keyboard has one feature that may be helpful in troubleshooting: it flashes an LED when it’s trying to reconnect. (The previous one had no indicator.) I can clearly see that, after the keyboard has been idle for a bit, it starts trying to reconnect again. I suspected a power management issue, but I believe I’ve disabled that. I started with a rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/
:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="1038", ATTR{idProduct}=="1830", TEST=="power/control", ATTR{power/control}="on"
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0c45", ATTR{idProduct}=="fefe", TEST=="power/control", ATTR{power/control}="on"
(These rules disable power management for both keyboard and mouse, just in case.) I got the IDs with
lsusb
. I’m assuming the part of the ID before the colon is the vendor ID and the part after is the product ID.That didn’t seem to help at all, so I tried disabling USB power management with rpm-ostree kargs --append-if-missing="usbcore.autosuspend=-1"
. That made the problem better, but now it just seems to take longer (a couple of minutes) for the keyboard to lose connectivity. Also, now when it loses connectivity, it seems even disconnecting and reconnecting the dongle doesn't always fix it.
Anyone have ideas what I might try from here?
lsof -t
, the dongle is connected directly to the root hub (under only xHCI host controller). I noticed in powertop that those controllers were still under power management, so I disabled them. That didn't seem to help. The keyboard still lost connection.
This Week in Plasma: File Transfer Progress Graphs
This Week in Plasma: File Transfer Progress Graphs
Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in Plasma"! Every week we cover the highlights of what's happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more.This Week in Plasma: File Transfer Progress Graphs
My method is to use sync multiple time, if it returns immediately 2 times it should be clear,
Only then do i dismount the stick, because I don't like to dismount a device with pending operations.
But when the dismount says the stick is ready to be removed, you should be clear.
Will wine ever be able to run anticheat?
In case you missed it, LXQt and Xfce both support Wayland now
Both don't ship with their own Wayland compositor, but there are enough to choose from.
Xfce comes with a wayland session using labwc out of the box, but was also tested with Wayfire. The devs state you shouldn't hold your breath waiting for the native window manager xfwm to be ported into a Wayland compositor, since they don't know if/when it will be done. Almost all other Xfce components support Wayland now, while retaining X11 compatibility.
LXQt's newest stable release has full Wayland support, with 7 different Wayland compositors to choose from within a GUI settings menu: Labwc, KWin, Wayfire, Hyprland, Sway, River and Niri
xfce.org/about/news/?post=1734…
lxqt-project.org/release/2024/…
Release LXQt 2.1.0 | LXQt
The LXQt team announces the release of LXQt 2.1.0, the Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment.lxqt-project.org
$HOME, Not So Sweet $HOME
Home, Not So Sweet Home
Home, Not So Sweet Home. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.Gist
John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
It's brief, around 25:15
youtube.com/watch?v=nf7XHR3EVH…
If you've been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.
Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they're excited about the idea. I've really enjoyed reading through them 😀
Facebook & Content Moderation: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver discusses Facebook’s controversial new plans for content moderation and which Animorphs he would and would not kill with his car.Connect with Las...YouTube
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Gnome merges Global Shortcuts
Add globalshortcuts editing (!2485) · Merge requests · GNOME / Settings · GitLab
This is a rough draft, and I'm looking for feedback on the high-level shape of it. Most important is that I added another type...GitLab
Xorg global shortcuts will work for anything using Xwayland, but not in anything thats wayland native
For example, in a game (using wine, which uses Xorg by default currently) your global shortcut will work. But in a wayland native window like Firefox, it will not if its the active window
Welp, I just apt purge'd damn near everything except the kernel. How's your Friday going?
I hear this is a rite of passage. I made it 4 weeks before I rekt all my shit (it was nvidia related). Where do I claim my sticker?
In all seriousness, now that I understand better these commands that I've been haphazardly throwing around, Id like to do a clean install. God knows what else Ive done to it. Can i just reinstall to my root partition and have my home partition work as expected?
karolherbst 🐧 🦀 (@karolherbst@chaos.social) "MAINTAINERS: Remove myself"
karolherbst 🐧 🦀 (@karolherbst@chaos.social)
I'm formally stepping down as a nouveau kernel maintainer. I want to stress out this is only for the kernel side of things and has and will not have any impact on my involvement in mesa.chaos.social
Arbitration at least, or some form of: Torvalds Yes to Rust, No to Small-town Dictators
As the Kernel Turns: Rust in Linux saga reaches the “Linus in all-caps” phase
Torvalds: You can avoid Rust as a C maintainer, but you can’t interfere with it.Kevin Purdy (Ars Technica)
Can we please, PLEASE for gods sake just all agree that arch is not and will never be a good beginner distro no matter how many times you fork it?
Arch is aimed at people who know their shit so they can build their own distro based on how they imagine their distro to be. It is not a good distro for beginners and non power users, no matter how often you try to make your own repository, and how many GUI installers you make for it. There's a good reason why there is no GUI installer in arch (aside from being able to load it into ram). That being that to use Arch, you need to have a basic understanding of the terminal. It is in no way hard to boot arch and type in archinstall. However, if you don't even know how to do that, your experience in whatever distro, no matter how arch based it is or not, will only last until you have a dependency error or some utter and total Arch bullshit® happens on your system and you have to run to the forums because you don't understand how a wiki works.
You want a bleeding edge distro? Use goddamn Opensuse Tumbleweed for all I care, it is on par with arch, and it has none of the arch stuff.
You have this one package that is only available on arch repos? Use goddamn flatpak and stop crying about flatpak being bloated, you probably don't even know what bloat means if you can't set up arch. And no, it dosent run worse. Those 0,0001 seconds don't matter.
You really want arch so you can be cool? Read the goddamn 50 page install guide and set it up, then we'll talk about those arch forks.
(Also, most arch forks that don't use arch repos break the aur, so you don't even have the one thing you want from arch)
"SO proof" distro
Any recommendations for a linux distro that i can set up and be reasonably sure my non techy SO won't break accidentally? The set up doesn't have to be easy it just has to not break once I leave her alone with it. My first thought was popOS.
My plan is to have 2 profiles and not give her access to sudo. I just don't want to have to go into it unless she needs a new program.
Fedora is a bit too eager to deliver new updates IMO, especially KDE. As much as I love KDE, their .0 releases have had serious bugs several times in a row now. It's always better to wait for .1 patch with Plasma. It may be hard for the user to break Kinoite, but it won't save them from bugs.
Fedora's mission have always been to push new stuff when it's "mostly ready" at the cost of inconveniencing of some users, so I wouldn't recommend it for non-tech-savvy people.
I know people say that it's 100% stable for them (as they do for Arch, Tumbleweed, Debian Sid, etc) but that's survirorship bias. As any bleeding edge distro, Fedora has its periods of stability that are broken by tumultuous transitions to the new and shiny tech (like it was with Pipewire, Wayland default, major DE upgrades, etc). During these times some people's setup will break and you don't know ahead of time if it will be yours.
- DroidCam (Linux client is open-source)
- OBS Camera Plugins + Phone Streaming Apps
Linux
Why do many people dislike Linux?
Freedom and openness:
Open source, No vendor lock-in, Many distributions
Security:
By default, more secure than Windows.
Fewer viruses.
Regular security updates.
And now briefly.
Control & Flexibility,Free, Developer Friendly, Productivity, Education & Understanding, Support & Community, Support & Community, Package Managers, Server & Cloud Friendly
Oh yeah, I forgot about our gamers! They will whine that you can't play games on Linux. It's very funny because for a long time there has been a program called lux-wine that allows you to open 95% of .exe programs and even more so you can choose any version of Windows without downloading anything, there is like proton and so on.
I am ready to talk to anyone about this topic, but not for the purpose of humiliation or insult.
What's Linux? Why are you making a strawman to found yoer disagreement, there is no inherent value to what you believe to be obvious.
"Linux the kernel" is a wonder of the software world. One free and open source kernel codebase to rule them all, a culture, a license that enshrines that culture. The kernel is great as it is.
"Linux the kernel packaged with software used on the desktop" is flaming garbage. That's not to say it's worse, modern windows is like using the lava from Chernobyl to keep warm on a brisk evening. MacOS is relatively acceptable but Apple isn't. Open source BSD based OSes are cumbersome on the edges of general computing. Android is all but Google OS at this point. Ultimately no practical, actually useful alternatives to linux on the desktop actually exist. This does NOT mean we have to convince ourselves it is actually good.
"Linux the kernel and a server OS package" is great, can't go wrong with this. Love it, genuinely.
"Linux for embedded devices" is a fucking travesty. Still happens.
Various opinion roundup:
- nix is the only case of anyone ever truly imagining what they could do with a Linux system
- "open source" does not provide value, the implications do, when true
- Linux is as secure as your dedication to never using software from outside the package manager is. Oh you installed discord? steam? compiled something and fetched dependencies? Those aren't the package manager, oops! (Discord gladly downloads its own updates whether you think you've stopped that or not)
- Fewer viruses you've heard of
- Regular security updates is a low effort troll given the corporate OSes are paid to do so
Linux 6.15 released
New in Linux 6.15:
Linux_6.15 - Linux Kernel Newbies
Summary of the changes and new features merged in the Linux kernel during the 6.15 development cyclekernelnewbies.org
Support for larger 32-bit x86 systems (those with more than eight CPUs or more than 4GB of RAM) has been removed.
What? How do you get more than 4GB of ram on a 32-bit CPU architecture? Now I need to know what kind of black magic they used for that
Question about Mint
Is there a Lemmy server/way that doesn't require allowing javascript of a million other servers?
So, I am one of those old school types who mains with Firefox and Noscript. And also a filthy casual that just goes on lemmy.world. But half the images are broken because I'm expected to allow scripts on like 30+ sites to see most of the posts. I'm literally expected to allow /all/ the scripts from a domain just so I can see a dang picture behind the thumbnail. That's the entirety of the scripting needed. That seems ridiculous. Is there, I don't know, a server/way that makes it so I don't have to blanket allow all these scripts? To put it in meme form (not sure I'm doing it right, never seen the show): "It's an image of a banana Michael, what should it take, one Raspberry Pi running Docker?"
[EDIT 6/1/25 - thanks to everyone who commented on this. Screenshots: lemmy.world/comment/17403335 ]
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Mentioned elsewhere, and a decent workaround. Doesn't do well with thumbnails, unfortunately.
[edit: someone below suggested removing the thumbnail sampling (I'll probably try via uBlock Origins). Honestly with that and a bit of zoom, might work fine. Will be testing it.]
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AMD vs Nvidia
I am going to buy a new graphics card and can't choose between Nvidia and AMD. I know that Nvidia has bad reputation in Linux community but how really it works? And I heard recently their drivers got better. What can you recommend?
P. S. I don't want any proprietary drivers (so I am talking about Nouveau or any other FOSS Nvidia driver if it exists)
Just not true anymore. Must have been years ago that you used Nvidia on Linux. As someone who has been using Nvidia GPUs under Linux (Manjaro KDE mostly), recently also under Wayland (since plasma 6), I can attest that the experience is very good, no "tons of small issues".
Still though, since OP wants no proprietary drivers, he has to go for AMD, since nouveau is dog shit.
Reassessing Wayland
So a bit under 3 years ago, I made my infamous Wayland rant post that is likely the most read post on this blog by miles. I should really actually write about music again one of these days, but that's a topic for another time. The language was perhaps a bit inflammatory, but I felt the criticisms I made at the time were fair. It was primarily born out some frustrations I had with the entire ecosystem, and it was not like I was the only sole voice. There are other people out there you can find that encountered their own unique Wayland problems and wrote about it.With that post, I probably cast myself as some anti-Wayland guy which is my own doing, but I promise you that is not the case. You can check my mpv commits, and it's businesses as usual. Lots of Wayland fixes, features, and all that good stuff. Quite some time has passed since then, and it is really overdue look at the situation again with all the new developments in mind. To be frank, my original post is very outdated and it is not fair to leave it up in its current state without acknowledging the work that has been done. So in comparison to 3 years ago, I have a much more positive outlook now.
Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace
It's not that bad. It's just German for flea market. And English speakers shouldn't have an issue with at least "Markt". Not far from a cognate.
Definitely better names but I think the bigger hurdle is getting the critical mass to get something like marketplace to work in the fediverse even with the perfect name.
GTK's X11 Backend Now Deprecated, Planned For Removal In GTK 5
GTK's X11 Backend Now Deprecated, Planned For Removal In GTK 5
GTK developers have been holding another hackfest this week for the annual FOSDEM developer conference happening this weekend in Brusselswww.phoronix.com
Missing comments - how does it work?
Just looking at this post as an example, on lemmy.world show it has 29 comments, but when i open it, there are now only 3 or 4. I replied to one comment, the user i replied to got banned, and the whole comment tree is gone from lemmy.world. Other instances still show all comments, including those from the banned user and my reply.
I think it’s very confusing when a single post appears with different comments on different instances, and have no idea how this works.
Edit: why am i forced to upload a photo for a new post?
Debian is Ditching X (Twitter) Citing These Reasons
Debian is Ditching X (Twitter) Citing These Reasons
The Debian Publicity Team is stepping away from X/Twitter, citing concerns over values and diversity.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
& all the US-based corporate social media… Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Reddit, Discord, LinkedIn, & GitHub.
The VC-funded ones too like BlueSky
Open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp raise funds on Kickstarter | TechCrunch
The developer behind Pixelfed, Loops, and Sup, open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, is now raising funds on Kickstarter to fuel the apps’ further development.
The trio is part of the growing open social web, also known as the fediverse, powered by the same ActivityPub protocol used by X alternative Mastodon. The latter saw increased signups and use after the company formerly known as Twitter sold to Elon Musk in October 2022 and during the X exodus that followed the U.S. presidential election.
In the months and years following that sale, open source and decentralized apps like Mastodon and Bluesky (which uses the newer AT Protocol), have continued to grow their user bases, as people sought alternatives to centralized social media apps controlled by billionaires like Musk and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg.
Edit: Link to the kickstarter
"I'll move to Linux if it runs every game I want" just say that you never will move
I hate when people say that they'll only move when it has 100% support
People who say 'cant wait for steamOS to come out so that I can move to it' is also very similar
They never will try Linux, even if what they want comes true
They won't do it, whether they just fear change or think it'll break stuff or they can't bother
And I'm not going to lie, I don't hate them or debate with them for it, I just hate the bold lies they tell just to get with the crowd
"Fuck you Microsoft, I'm moving to Linux" says the individual that would never move if they haven't already
Frankly, I probably wouldn't move either if Windows didn't permanently break my ethernet and WiFi drivers, and reinstalling windows wasn't harder than installing Linux, fucking hell
Either way, these people kick up hype for a Linux that will be so much bigger but they never arrive
Maybe they will, due in fucking 2028 or something when they invent a really easy way to use built in Linux tools to move your files from NTFS to Linux and then when you launch steam you have a perfect library of Linux compatible games that are as good or better than windows
And don't lie, even now with 80% compatibility it feels more like 60%, whether because it depends on the system one runs or because the performance drops just make it not worth it...
At least don't lie that you'll move to Linux at a goal post that you'll just move whenever you get close, maybe say that you'll move to Linux when you finally get a new pc with a new disk or something?
It's a little strange that you think "I want feature parity with what's working for me (from my perspective)" is:
1) A lie.
2) Unreasonable to ask for.
The healthy responses would be "Well, I hope either support grows or your needs change, because of some philosophical reasons you might not care about... yet" or, if they're open to it "Oh, it can do this if you put a little work in, let me help you."
The unhealthy response is to accuse people of moving goalposts as if someone's tool of choice is a political debate. It can be, obviously, given FOSS philosophies, but honestly this kind of screed just drives people away.
This week in KDE: per-monitor brightness control and “update then shut down”
This week in KDE: per-monitor brightness control and “update then shut down”
This week was all about the quality of life features! As we close in on Plasma 6.2 (the soft feature freeze is in four days, eek!), some great work that’s been in progress for a long time got…Adventures in Linux and KDE
Microsoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs
Microsoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs
Microsoft has issued a security update that has broken dual-boot Linux and Windows machines. The update wasn’t supposed to reach dual-boot PCs.Tom Warren (The Verge)
So they were trying to patch systems that use GRUB for Windows-only installs? What a load of BS. Why would anybody install GRUB to boot only Windows with that? Or am I overlooking something?
Furthermore, if GRUB has a security issue, they should've contributed a patch at the source instead of patching it themselves somehow.
I'm a bit stunned at the audacity of touching unmounted filesystems in an OS patch. Good thing Windows still doesn't include EXT4 and BTRFS drivers because they might start messing with unencrypted Linux system drives at this rate
Are there any distros that could run on a pentium 2?
I am trying to put linux on a compaq armada 1700.
What distro do you use for your servers?
I've only ever used desktop Linux and don't have server admin experience (unless you count hosting Minecraft servers on my personal machine lol). Currently using Artix and Void for my desktop computers as I've grown fond of runit.
I'm going to get a VPS for some personal projects and am at the point of deciding what distro I want to use. While I imagine that systemd is generally the best for servers due to the far more widespread support (therefore it's better for the stability needs of a server), I have a somewhat high threat model compared to most people so I was wondering if maybe I should use something like runit instead which is much smaller and less vulnerable. Security needs are also the reason why I'm leaning away from using something like Debian, because how outdated the packages are would likely leave me open to vulnerabilities. Correct me if I'm misunderstanding any of that though.
Other than that I'm not sure what considerations there are to make for my server distro. Maybe a more mainstream distro would be more likely to have the software in its repos that I need to host my various projects. On the other hand, I don't have any experience with, say, Fedora, and it'd probably be a lot easier for me to stick to something I know.
In terms of what I want to do with the VPS, it'll be more general-purpose and hosting a few different projects. Currently thinking of hosting a Matrix instance, a Mastodon instance, a NextCloud instance, an SMTP server, and a light website, but I'm sure I'll want to stick more miscellaneous stuff on there too.
So what distro do you use for your server hosting? What things should I consider when picking a distro?
Snaps are meant for server applications
That's a frightening statement. I don't work in secret-squirrel shit these days, but I do private-squirrel stuff, and snaps are just everything our security guys wake up at night to, screaming. Back when I ran security for a company, the entire idea would have been an insta-fuckno . Please, carefully reconsider the choices that put you in a position where snaps are the best answer.
What is happening in Norway, and how do we spread it?
Linux currently 29.1%
Sample size according to StatCounter: 24,353,436 page views
Desktop Operating System Market Share Norway | Statcounter Global Stats
This graph shows the market share of desktop operating systems in Norway based on over 5 billion monthly page views.StatCounter Global Stats
Would being a Linux "power user" increase my chances of getting a job in IT/tech?
What is something you want to use, yet are NOT using?
For me, I really want to get into niri, but the lack of XWayland support scares me (I know there’s solutions, but I don’t understand them yet).
Also, I stopped using Emacs (even though I love its design and philosophy with my whole heart) because it’s very slow, even as a daemon.
GitHub - YaLTeR/niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.
A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Contribute to YaLTeR/niri development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Updating BIOS via Linux ?
How to update BIOS on a system that only use Linux as OS.
Asking this because some clowns at Acer decided that they will only provide BIOS updates through Windows Update.
Edit: I'm not talking about installing the BIOS file. They don't even provide BIOS file in the first place.
Hyprland is now fully independent!
geteilt von: discuss.tchncs.de/post/1937702…
[...] I announce that our move off of wlroots is now complete and MR 6608 is now merged.
I'd say, read Hyprland's responses linked elsewhere in this thread before making any hasty decisions.
It seems (but I'm not sure, to be clear), that it was a situation that got solved, and people are still hung up on it.
It's like that "but you fuck one sheep" joke.
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You want to send in a SEAL team? Give me a break. Everyone in every muslim country lives a shitty hellscape of religious torture every single day. Especially women. Maybe start talking to muslim women about supporting a religion designed to turn them into slaves with no rights.
This plight is shared by hundreds of millions of islamic women slaves. Yet, the problem cannot be solved if those women still support the religion that is enslaving them. There are plenty of women supporting the religions that harm them, for many different reasons.
It's no different with any other religion. In the US, there are plenty of women supporting taking away women's medical rights. Why? Only because of religion. No other reason.
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