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Breaking Free From Social Media Silos With The Fediverse
A conversation about platforms bringing people together, respect for diversity (also of opinion and culture) and enshittified walled gardens, between @ke5arin@mastodon.social and @andypiper@macaw.social with obligatory mention of @pluralistic@mamot.fr. 40 minutes well spent.

Breaking Free From Social Media Silos With The Fediverse

#DecentralizedSocial #Fediverse #DigitalFreedom #OpenSourceTechnology Discover a refreshing digital experience that is free from attention manipulation and p...
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masterspace

The internet inherently creates information silos, because of the nature of how it works.

Cable TV, Newspapers, the Radio, etc. were all broad-cast networks, as in one person talks and that gets cast broadly to all listeners on the network.

Channels provided some level of user choice in what they listened to, but not very much. At most they still picked between only a handful of different options.

The internet fundamentally isn't a broadcast network though, it's a messaging network. When you publish a video on YouTube it isn't broad cast to every one with an internet channel, instead, the users goes out and looks for the information they want and requests and YouTube sends it back to them.

This inherently creates filter bubbles because the information you receive is based on your own existing preferences and requests, which creates a feedback loop the reinforces your opinions.

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masterspace

Undoubtedly, but we still chose to come to Lemmy because we visited it and saw a bunch of people that we mostly agreed with on it.

Think about how many Lemmy users block hexbear or lemmy.ml, or would spit in disgust when they visit gab or voat or something.

Users prune those sources because they aren't interested in hearing wildly toxic fringe ideas (or flat out being propagandized to), but it's still fundamentally up to you as a user to decide what you consider rationale and worthy of discussion, and then going forward the content you see on here is only what's shared by very like minded individuals.

Don't get me wrong, I think that Reddit and other corporate owned social media, intentionally promotes rage bait constantly, both in comments and posts, and that drives people to go even more nuts and become more polarized compared to a non-engagement driven algorithm like Lemmy's, but even open and decentralized social media platforms create filter bubbles and information silos.

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wether

The Fediverse is great, but perhaps just because of the lack of algorithms and other content-promotion methods I have found it a bit harder to break out of my 'silos' in some places. Lemmy isn't too bad for this, but I've really struggled to find other people to follow and engage with on Mastodon as somebody on a small local instance. Little things like the Mastodon phone app not listing followers from other instances contributes to this.
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Tattorack

Better compatibility with Intel Arc cards, for one. Actually that would be a really big one.

I'm on Ubuntu. I had my Intel card work pretty well in Blender 3D,except it couldn't do BVH calculations in cycles, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to make it work, because the thing that is supposed to make it work breaks the render kernels for Blender.

Alright... But it still rendered faster than my GTX 1060.

But then I also realised I couldn't boot up any UE5 game because somehow it was convinced my card isn't DX12 compatible. Also major artefacting issues in Oblivion Remastered.

Right... So I decided to go from Ubuntu LTS to Ubuntu 25.04, because the cutting edge MESA drivers needs a newer kernel, and the newer kernel is supposedly more Intel card friendly, which might fix my BVH calculation issues with Blender as well.

UE5 games run now, except for Oblivion Remastered, which still has graphical artefacting. But Intel didn't have render kernels for Ubuntu 25.04 yet, so I couldn't render with cycles at all until they updated their repo.

They eventually updated their repo a week or two ago. But the render kernels don't load at all in Blender 3D, telling me "Oh this is meant for OneAPI compatible cards", yes, what the fuck do you think an Intel Arc A770 is!?!

So... Uh... Yeah, if there is a distro put there without all of this, that would be very great.

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[SPOILERS] Just finished The Last Of Us Part I, what an amazing game

I played it on my Steam Deck, 30 FPS average with lots of audio crackling, apparently because of the CPU load. I played the game in hard mode because I was afraid survivor and grounded would break the balance.

The gameplay is great: it was insanely fun outsmarting the infected, circling around the clickers, burning the bloaters. Against those enemies, stealth really was a challenge and I had to manage my stress level (stalkers and runners were especially hard to deal with in the sewer); I'm convinced I would not be able to finish this game in permanent death as certain sequences took me 5-7 tries to do correctly (optimizing to use the least amount of gear or straight up surviving). It was really hard to aim well enough on a controller to be able to do headshot with consistency (this game with a controller and a mouse must feel like heaven to master).

Stealth against humans is way too easy though: you can easily never use your weapons and just throw a glass bottle against the wall, cleanup with a bomb or a Molotov, and you will never be punished when doing a stealthy kill if you take too long which basically means that shiv are useless for anything other than doors (I did not buy the ability to get off the grasp of clickers with shivs).

The hostage mechanic felt so cool, but I rarely used it because I felt like I couldn't afford to waste bullets because of the resource scarcity. I would have loved the game to be more punishing and to force me to spend my gear; I was never spotted and I am horrible at stealth (hello Cyberpunk 2077).

On the writing side, the game shines even more. I was so heartbroken when Sarah was murdered, when Tess sacrificed herself, when Sam turned and Henry killed himself, when Joel said horrible things to Ellie, when he murdered all the fireflies, the surgeon, Marlene in cold blood.

And that's where the game shines! It shows you this great dynamics between Joel and Ellie, this growing bond that is so precious. You despise and love Joel: you despise his lack of moral, his emotional immaturity (not wanting to talk about the hard stuff and lying to Ellie) but you understand where it comes from, you understand why the violence happened.

This constant tension, this gray area makes the game so real and gripping; you can only look with a mix of disgust and support as you're ripping your way through the enemies in the hospital with savagery.

What Joel did is unequivocally wrong and selfish but I cannot judge because I know full well I'd probably have done the same thing in this situation. Well, I'm not sure but I can see it.

This game really made me understand the complexity of moral and decision, the conflicting goals and the harshness of survival. I highly look forward to playing the sequel.

EDIT; I think the right difficulty for me is the "Survivor" one, grounded looks to hard without a mouse.

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I'm annoyed with the idea of getting a Mac

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45692012

I know this is going to be unpopular with some, but I am seriously considering a Mac and I am annoyed by the idea of it.

I NEED MacOS or Windows for my work. There is one application that does not work in Linux yet and there are no alternatives. It is a critical work application.

With that being said, you can probably guess that Linux is my preferred OS of choice.

I am currently using a Windows desktop for my work, but I do run into situations where I need a laptop. The laptop I am using now is a Thinkpad from 2021 with Fedora. I actually really love this computer. My only real complain is that the webcam is pretty garbage.

So, I think I need a new computer. My choices are Windows laptops which have decent pricing with good specs, or Apple which is extremely expensive for what you get.

I'm really annoyed with Windows' ads, bloat, and general lack of privacy; specifically Recall. On the other hand, it is hard to justify spending an extra $400 on a Macbook air just to get a 1tb hard drive. My work files alone take up a little more than 200gb.

I guess this is just a rant. I'm not looking for any solutions as what I am really looking is the ability to use Linux for my work which is not an option at the moment.

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Snot Flickerman

Hey, look at it this way:

  1. macOS is, if nothing else, certified UNIX. Which means under the hood it's actually a lot like Linux.
  2. Are you really overpaying for the hardware? Apple makes the hardware and the OS and every other OS subsidizes the cost of their OS with ads (Windows and Android). At the very least, it feels like you're paying a higher price for the hardware by having a small amount of more respect for your privacy in respect to invasive advertising.
  3. The new Apple developed silicon (M1-M4) is actually really solid stuff, and as such, are you really overpaying when it comes to quality hardware and a quality OS?

It's valid to think you're overpaying, I'm just saying maybe to try to view it a different way if you have to buy it anyway.

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blitzen

  1. The prices they charge for SSD upgrades is seriously laughably criminal. That said…
  2. You could choose to get a MacBook Pro, which starts at a higher storage tier. It’s still going to be more expensive than the air with the same size SSD, but you’ll get an inch larger screen and it is a seriously good screen.
  3. If found after years of owning Linux and Mac laptops that I get years longer out of the Mac laptop, all things considered. They may be more up front, but dollars per year they come out ahead.
  4. MacOS is UNIX certified, so you should feel right at home in terminal.
  5. Finally, take advantage of their education pricing. At least in the US, they don’t check for eligibility. So your $1399 1TB MacBook Air is now 1279. Feel a little bit better about that price?

Bonus. The trackpad is head and shoulders above anything I’ve ever used. For me, that’s worth the price of admission alone.


13-inch MacBook Air - Sky Blue

Get free shipping on a MacBook Air laptop supercharged by the M4 chip when you order from apple.com. Select a model or customize your own now.
Education - Apple
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What apps are you using in Waydroid?

Sensitive content

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Here's for 2 years since I joined Lemmy
For me Lemmy was my gateway to the rest of the Fediverse. I can say I like Lemmy way more than I ever did Reddit. The people are nicer the engagement feels more real and over all it’s a better vibe. Here’s to 2 more everyone!

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Lost_My_Mind

"I like Lemmy way more than I ever did Reddit. The people are nicer"


punches you in the face

Oh, yeah. Totally agree

punches you in the balls

Over on reddit, there are all kinds of fascists, and literal nazis.

uppercuts you

Over here, theres an instance full of tankies, but you can avoid them.

kicks you in the shins

The people here are TOTALLY nicer!

kick kick punch

What? I'm not attacking you to be violent. I just have a neurological disorder that causes my limbs to involuntarily thrash out.

punch

I'm TOTALLY being friendly right now!

kick punch it's all in the mind

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pivot_root

One instance? There's at least two. But does that really matter? Reddit had r/TheDonald and r/conservative, and trying to get those people to fuck off and stop proselytizing elsewhere was like trying to play whack-a-mole against an anthill.

Here, you block the tankie instances and move on with your life.

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Oniux: Kernel-level Tor network isolation for any Linux app

Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app | Tor Project

Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app. This torsocks alternative uses namespaces to isolate Linux applications over the Tor network and eliminate data leaks.
blog.torproject.org
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foremanguy

I think that the Tor network is proven to be broken by feds if you are suspicious.

For example you're one of the biggest drug dealer and you're doing 100 000 of deaths every say, for sure they will cramp up to you and find you, succeeding to deanonymize you.

But most of the time you are not that attractive so you will be mostly anonymous.
They can target an entity to reveal it but cannot deanonynize the entire network

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Seeking advice on virtual screen with remote desktop access

I have been flopping back and forth between arch and windows the last few years depending on the weather as I like to game in the garage when it's really nice out.
I have been using an app called Apollo. Which is a fork of Sunshine with SudoVDA implemented. SudoVDA is perfect for my use cases. It allows you to spin up a virtual screen of whatever hz/size you'd prefer even HDR. This allows me to remotely game while leaving my gaming PC effectively running "headless" until the virtual screen is closed(you close the connection)
I haven't found a way to implement a similar thing on Linux. The main sticking point being the headless application of it. I had a solution at one point that "worked" but only for 1440p 120hz and I'd have had to download or create some monitor profile file thing to change it and it was over my head and did not work well for my usecase as I also like to remote into my PC while working to game on breaks or lulls in tickets which is 1920x60 so then I had to spin up another virtual screen and things got broke and I gave up and eent back to using Apollo on windows as it's just so damn easy to use lol.
I'm not dedicated to using sunshine/moonlight as my connection software id just like to find something as seemless as Apollo/moonlight or Apollo/Artemis(Android) is.
Anyone know of any solutions? I'm fine with distro swapping. I've used arch based, fedora based, and Debian based distros in the past.

Edit: this will all be local connection. Nothing on the actually internet.

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Framasoft have reached the first goal of 15000 € for their PeerTube Fundraiser, with 15 days to go!

cross-posted from: lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/pos…

If you have a bit of money to chime in, consider following the link to the fundraiser! Besides those fundraising events, they appreciate recurring donations, securing the development.

Support PeerTube

Free software to take back control of your videos
support.joinpeertube.org
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Dark Arc

I really like the idea of peertube, but until it finds a way to pay creators I'm not sure it will ever be able to replace YouTube.

YouTube is as good as it is because people get paid.

The old school YouTubers just did it for fun, but YouTube was a lot different back then ... and as much as I hate how aggressively Google is monetizing YouTube these days, it's honestly a lot higher quality than it was years ago.

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Federated 3d printing design hub like Thingiverse?

I'm just curious if anyone knows of an effort to build a federated version of something like Thingiverse, Printables, Thangs, etc. I'm not really a fan of the centralized control, commercial tie-ins and profit motivations of those and similar sites, but the community of collaboration and remixing designs means they are basically indispensable for time efficient 3d printing, they're basically like the Github of 3d printing.

For me the ideal would be to have a federated alternative where users can host and share their own creations and collections, as well as rate and comment each other's designs to help improve discoverability of the best models in the community. This seems like something that would be a good fit for the ActivityPub protocol but I'm not sure if there is something like this already out there. All I could find is this old reddit post that seems to have gotten a lot of support (and good suggestions for features) in the comments but has gone nowhere as far as I can tell.

Reddit - The heart of the internet

www.reddit.com

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PeppermintOS: greeter setting wrong?

Hi, i hope someone can help me with this one

I logged-in, changed the touchpad behaviour,. It works as expected. But when log-out, the settings didn't change in the greeter. Reboot doesnt change that.

:~$ cat/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf | grep greeter-session

greeter-session=lightdm-greeter

Is that the right greeter? I heard it should be greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter instead. Does LightDM default to a different setting?

What can i do to get the touchpad right in the greeter?

Thanks for your help!

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26 dead after Israeli tanks open fire near Gaza aid centre, rescuers say

At least 26 people have been killed, and scores have been injured, near a US-backed aid distribution site near Gaza's southern city of Rafah, according to medics and residents.

A local Palestinian journalist told the BBC that thousands of Palestinians had gathered near a humanitarian aid distribution centre when Israeli tanks approached and opened fire on the crowd.

The incident reportedly took place to the west of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, and the injured are being treated at one of Gaza’s few functioning hospitals in Khan Younis.


Gaza live updates: 26 dead after Israeli tanks open fire near aid centre, rescuers say

The Red Cross hospital in Rafah says 150 Palestinians have been injured in Gaza’s southern city.
BBC News
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Mouselemming

I got that, you started your comments in direct reference to OP's post. I just figured, since people replied to you with comments about the Guardian (which has since revised their headline 3 times btw) you might want to know where that was coming from.

The BBC headline right now is even worse: "Israel denies firing at civilians after Hamas-run ministry says 31 killed in Gaza side centre attack." I'm typing it out myself because it keeps changing every update.

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Buffalox

It was taken over buy something called "Muse group".
They added telemetry, which is actually illegal in EU, unless you warn about it, and then it can only be used if you are over 18.
I think that also makes it against to the GPL license.
Then they pulled back, but later tried to do it partially or something I don't recall.

Clearly Muse Group was a bad fit for a GPL open source project.

hackaday.com/2021/05/17/teleme…

Edit PS:
From their homepage:
audacityteam.org/
I can see that the audacious project remain under Muse Group control. I would look for something else.
Muse group changed the contributor license to take control away from the community, and give it only to themselves.

techradar.com/news/audacity-al…

Later, Muse Group ruffled feathers with a new Contributor License Agreement (CLA) for Audacity, which contributors were required to sign if they wanted to continue to work on the project. This new agreement also stipulated that Muse Group must be given unrestricted rights to all contributions.


The ONLY reason to do this, is if you plan to use the code in a non GPL compliant context.


Audacity alternative abandoned after developer allegedly subjected to stalking and harassment

Audacity fork will need to find itself a new chief maintainer
Joel Khalili (TechRadar pro)
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Have you found any non-prescription supplements that help your ADHD?

I’d like to know what anyone is using that they really think is helping them that isn’t taking traditional prescription medication for ADHD. Please make sure whatever it is can be found “over the counter” or readily available commercially. Please keep it to simple items that are easily found separately - i.e. a B vitamin of B6, 12 and vitamin C along with Magnesium glycinate or something.

I have to throw in a couple caveats, just to make sure we can get a decent picture of what is actually helping, so…

  • Please nothing illicit or illegal.
  • Please no blends or other proprietary herbal combinations. If a blend helps you, great…but we don’t know what is in the blend that is helping, and someone may not have access to that product where they live.
  • Please be specific, like making sure to differentiate between magnesium glycinate and magnesium L-threonate.

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Japan seeks to grow Africa investments to ease reliance on China

Japan is supporting its companies to grow their business in Africa and develop trade ties across a continent where it’s mainly been seen as a key donor.

The second-biggest Asian economy’s emergence from a three-decade period of deflation has boosted its private sector’s risk appetite, Takehiko Matsuo, vice-minister for International Affairs at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said in Abidjan, the commercial hub of Ivory Coast.


Japan seeks to grow Africa investments to ease reliance on China

The country aims to do more business with Africa as it emerges from years during which its private sector was particularly risk-averse.
Yinka Ibukun (The Japan Times)
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who

But here’s where Debian gets tripped up by the ecosystem: the moment you hit a login prompt, you enter a session with user-locked audio. This isn’t Debian’s fault. It’s the fault of PulseAudio, PipeWire, and the entire philosophy of session-bound audio daemons that don’t care what the kernel is doing.


It's worth noting that PipeWire is being developed with support for a system-wide, multi-user instance, which should solve the problem that I think the author is describing above. When I last checked a couple years ago, it was enabled with this build option: -Dsystemd-system-service=enabled

The name of that flag seems to imply that systemd is required, which would be disappointing for folks who use other init systems. I haven't tried it, so I don't know if it's a true requirement or just a name that was convenient at the time it was created.

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I am having a weird experience on the Fediverse.

I created this community hilariouschaos.com/c/ComicStri… just a few hours back. When l'm trying to search for this community from this account and my other lemmy accounts, this particular community is not showing up. However, when I'm trying to make a post to this community by copy pasting the URL in this body section, it's landing me directly on the page and accepting my post as that of the moderator's, which is me of course.

Can anybody please tell me what is wrong over here ?

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splinter

Hey, firstly thanks for starting a community on our little instance - we are glad to have you!

I have used lemmy-federate.com on your behalf to federate it more broadly.

Regarding your issue, Lemmy can get a bit confused when you're logged into multiple instances from the same browser. Your best bet is to clear cache and try again.

Edit: Just read some of the other comments, lemmy.ml and some others do indeed de-federate us, which is why you won't see the community from there.

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Can I do anything to help out an abused friend?
Basically a friend in a group chat I'm in is suffering under abusive parents, specifically a mother who tends to beat her. The problem is that she lives in Dubai, which as I understand it is a humanitarian hellscape, and the second problem is that she's still legally a minor, so it's not just a question of getting her out of there. Is there anything that can be done in such a situation?
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Cosmoooooooo

Fight against the fictional religions that support parents beating their children.

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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utopiah

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.

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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?

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passwordforgetter

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.

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Cosmoooooooo

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.

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[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-GUI
GitHub
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klay1

the classic cronjob workaround works great.

The command /usr/bin/openrgb --profile /home/user/.config/OpenRGB/test.orp
runs fine, loads the test.orp Setting i saved with openrgb-GUI. Until the keyboard goes back to default after 4 min or so. It uses the profile

Therefore i made a cronjob that does the same, just every 3 minutes:
*/3 * * * * /usr/bin/openrgb --profile /home/user/.config/OpenRGB/test.orp

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theshatterstone54

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.

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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?

Welcome to wanderer

The self-hosted trail database
wanderer Documentation

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[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!

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MentalEdge

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.

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Mastodon.social shadowbanned me and there's no way to contact anyone about it

Mastodon.social shadowbanned me – blog.mbirth.uk

blog.mbirth.uk
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Paid_in_cheese

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.
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Is something like Oneko available on wayland?

Hi everyone,

Recently i discovered Aneko on Android, I want to find something similar on linux. Oneko seem to be fun but I am using wayland(Hyprland). Is there anything similar on wayland linux? Is this even possible with current state of wayland protocal?


ANeko Reborn | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

A modern remake of Neko—your classic desktop cat pet on Android.
f-droid.org

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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!

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aksdb

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
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Übercomplicated

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.

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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?

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[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


  1. Open GNOME Software.

  1. Type VSCodium. This should begin typing in a search bar, and VSCodium should show up as a search result.

  1. Select VSCodium (the blue one). VSCodium - Insiders (the orange one) is the nightly release of VSCodium, and is not recommended for daily use.

  1. 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.

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A project directory can be created using the following command:

mkdir VSCodium

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VSCodium can be granted access to the project directory using the following command:

flatpak override -u --filesystem=~/VSCodium com.vscodium.codium

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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

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You may close the terminal now.

User-interface instructions


  1. 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.
  2. Type VSCodium. This should begin typing in a search bar on the left, and VSCodium should show up as a search result.

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  1. Select VSCodium.

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  1. To grant VSCodium the Network permission, enable the switch next to the Network permission. It should turn blue, indicating that the permission has been granted.

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  1. Open Files

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  1. Right click, and click on the option labeled New Folder... (This can also be done using Shift+Ctrl+N)

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  1. Enter VSCodium in the text field labeled Folder Name.

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  1. Click Create to create the folder. This will create a project directory for VSCodium to use.

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  1. In Flatseal, scroll down to the Filesystem section.

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  1. Click on the folder with a plus icon under the Other files section. An empty text field should appear.

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  1. Click on the empty text field.

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  1. Enter the following into the text field:


~/VSCodium

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  1. To grant VSCodium access to the Rust SDK, scroll down to the Environment section.

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  1. Click the plus icon on the top right. An empty text field should appear.

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  1. Click on the empty text field.

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  1. Enter the following into the text field:


FLATPAK_ENABLE_SDK_EXT=rust-stable

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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

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User-interface instructions


  1. Press the Super key to view the dock.
  2. Click on the Show Apps button (nine dots) on the bottom right to show a list of installed apps.
  3. 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.

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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.

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Enter the following command:

ext install rust-lang.rust-analyzer

Sources: 1

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Press enter to install the rust-analyzer extension.

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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


  1. Click on the Extensions menu on the left. (This can also be opened by using Ctrl+Shift+X)

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  1. Enter rust-analyzer into the search bar. This will search for the extension we need.

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  1. Click on the extension labeled rust-analyzer.

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  1. Click the Install button for the rust-analyzer extension.

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  1. 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.

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  1. You may be prompted to trust the authors of the files in this workspace. After reviewing the prompt, you can click the Install button. The rust-analyzer extension will be downloaded and installed for the current profile.

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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.

  1. Click on the File dropdown on the top left.

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  1. 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.

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This can be ignored. It is appearing because we never granted VSCodium access to a specific folder, and it has no effect.

  1. Click on OK to dismiss it.

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  1. Double click on the VSCodium folder to enter it.

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  1. Right click, and click on the option labeled New Folder... (This can also be done using Shift+Ctrl+N). Alternatively, select the folder with a plus icon on the top right.

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  1. Enter the name of your project in the text field labeled Folder Name. For this example, I will create a folder named example.

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  1. Click Create to create the folder.

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  1. Click Open in the bottom left to open the folder.

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  1. 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.

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  1. Press Ctrl+` to open the terminal.

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  1. 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.

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Launch the VSCodium Quick Open by using Ctrl+P.

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Enter the following command:

ext install vadimcn.vscode-lldb

Sources: 1

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Press enter to install the CodeLLDB extension.

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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.

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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.

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Mouse instructions


  1. Click on the Extensions menu on the left. (This can also be opened by using Ctrl+Shift+X)

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  1. Enter CodeLLDB into the search bar. This will search for the extension we need.

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  1. Click on the extension labeled CodeLLDB.

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  1. Click the Install button for the CodeLLDB extension.

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  1. 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.

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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.

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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

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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

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You may close the terminal now.

User-interface instructions


  1. Open Flatseal.
  2. Type VSCodium. This should begin typing in a search bar on the left, and VSCodium should show up as a search result.

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  1. Select VSCodium.

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  1. To grant VSCodium the Development syscalls permission, scroll down to the section labeled Allow.

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  1. Enable the switch next to the Development syscalls (e.g. ptrace) permission. It should turn blue, indicating that the permission has been granted.

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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

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You will be prompted for your administrator passphrase. After reviewing the prompt, enter your passphrase and click Authenticate. This will enable anti-cheat support.

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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


  1. Click on the status bar on the top right.
  2. Click on the power button.
  3. Click on the option labeled Restart....
  4. You will get a prompt saying the following:


Restart
The system will restart automatically in 60 seconds

  1. 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
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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)
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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.

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Archy

Recently install Fedora 42 KDE on one of those weird laptops with a pen - everything just works, no tinkering.
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
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What have you been using for cloud backups?
I had backblaze, and it's really a bummer they don't support linux. The closest one I've found is Icedrive, but it costs a bit more. I don't mind paying a bit more though for a FOSS solution (technially not free but yeah). I probably only have 2 TB of actual important stuff but it would be nice to have more for future.
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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)

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SwingingTheLamp

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!

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CameronDev

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.

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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
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bastion

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.

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Someone finally decided to sue the fediverse via karmacourt, and it's no surprise who it is
And it seems karmacourt will be the first to posit that the fediverse is worth "putting in its place", going by the upvotes in such an empty community that probably discourages those kinds of suits.

Reddit - The heart of the internet

www.reddit.com
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flicker

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.

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flicker

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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FBI reveals there's video to prove Jeffrey Epstein killed himself
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said on Fox News Thursday morning that he is certain Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, died by suicide while in federal custody — and there is video that supports it.

"There is nothing in the file at this point on the Epstein case — and there is going to be a disclosure on this coming shortly... there is video. That is something the public does not know," Bongino said in an interview on Fox & Friends.

Bongino clarified that the video in question does not show the "actual act" but proves that Epstein was the only person who came in or out of his cell on the night he died, on August 10, 2019.


FBI Reveals There's Video to Prove Jeffrey Epstein Killed Himself

Dan Bongino, the FBI deputy director, made the remarks on Fox News Thursday.
Peter Aitken (Newsweek)

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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
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When you live in Seoul and try to install snap inside of your Ubuntu docker image
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

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Which program is the one that surprised you most that it is available on Linux?
For me, it was perhaps simple-scan, a very simple and efficient GUI to scan documents. I used it with my Brother printer / scanner and it works like a charm. Especially since I do not scan stuff often, so a program with more complex UI would have the effect that I forget how to use it until the next time.

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It’s Time To Go Back to Web 1.0
Invasive tracking and pay-for-play search engines has broken the internet. It’s time to reclaim our independence with the Small Web.

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cecilkorik

Honestly the hardest part of doing this seems to be settling on what we're going to call it. Ironically, it is difficult to search for and discover sites following this philosophy precisely because they are so decentralized and independent and nobody's even using any common terminology for it. I've heard variations of this called Web 1.0, Small Web, Indie Web, Nostalgia Web, Old Web, Retro Web, Analog Web, Free Web, Libre Web, and dozens more terms even more vague and difficult to remember off the top of my head. "Small Web" seems to have the most traction from what I can tell but discovery remains such a hard problem to solve, especially without falling into the same traps that led us here.
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LupusBlackfur

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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Ogmios

Perhaps all the above could be summed up by “Capitalist Greed”…??? 🤡 🖕


No. It can't. And you're actively hurting your efforts by attaching high school edgelord bullshit to it.

Corruption has been a serious 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.

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Lost_My_Mind

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.

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Flax

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
Code: github.com/pkgforge/soar
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/soar
GitHub
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Quetzalcutlass

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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kemsat

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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Quetzalcutlass

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.

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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
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non_burglar

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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jagermo

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-cloudflaretunnel
GitHub

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akilou

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?

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infeeeee

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.

Dell XPS 16 (9640) - ArchWiki

wiki.archlinux.org
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swap SSD to test run Linux?
I want to make the switch but I want to test run first before fully committing. My PC has an M.2 SSD. I was thinking I could buy another one, swap them out and put Linux on that. In an emergency, I can swap the SSD back. Does this seem like a viable/sensible path toward Linux? I don't really have too many files on my PC that I care about. I don't want to dual boot. I did that on a laptop back in the day and it was annoying.
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Einar

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.

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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)
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Framasoft, the devs of PeerTube and other projects, are doing an AMA over on !opensource@lemmy.ml - check it out!

Configure Lemmy redirect

lemmyverse.link

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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…

Lilbits: Retro gaming hardware, another BlackBerry clone, and a DIY UMPC with an E Ink color display - Liliputing

Brad Linder (Liliputing)

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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)

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taaz

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/libratbag
GitHub
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NaiP

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/openrazer
GitHub
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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
The X86_NATIVE_CPU Kconfig build time parameter has been merged for the Linux 6.16 merge window as an easy way to enforce the “-march=native” compiler behavior on AMD and Intel processors to optimize kernel builds for your system's local CPU architecture/family. For those who want “-march=native” for Linux kernel builds on AMD/Intel x86_64 processors, you can easily include a new CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU parameter to set this compiler behavior in local kernel builds. The CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU parameter is considered when compiling the Linux x86_64 kernel with GCC or LLVM Clang when using Clang 19 or later due to a compiler bug in the Linux kernel in older compiler versions. In addition to setting the compiler parameter “-march=native” for Linux kernel C code, enabling this new Kconfig build parameter also sets “-Ctarget-cpu=native” for Rust kernel code.
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0xf

Yes, most likely need to compile it yourself. Or the distros would need a v1,v2,v3,v4 version. Also you need to know the feature set of you cpu. Distros will probably compile with the lowest common denominator, since those are compatible largest range of cpu's. Cachyos does compile it's packages for v3 optimization, I don't think that needs avx512. So can definitely see distros trying something out.

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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.

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Psythik

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.

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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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lumpybag

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.

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IttihadChe

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.

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This graph but with fediverse apps?
I found this funny flow chart about traditional social media. I am wondering if there is a info graphic like this but with social media of the fediverse. If this does not exist, can someone create it?
Funny flowchart of social media apps

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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


  1. Session setup
    We use express-session so that when a user “logs in” (e.g. via your existing form/database), we store { user: { name: '…' } } in req.session.
  2. Socket authentication
    By re-using the same session middleware in Socket.io’s io.use(…), every incoming socket has access to socket.request.session. If there’s no session.user, we immediately disconnect() them.
  3. 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.
  1. Protecting the page
    We guard chat.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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froufox

You can fork the Lemmy repo and play with it. As people here already said, it's Rust, so you have to adapt your code. Create your feature request, discuss it with the developers community, prepare the pull request—that's how it usually done

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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Jim East

slrpnk.net already has its own XMPP chat option where one's Lemmy username (e.g. user@slrpnk.net) is one's XMPP address, and I imagine that other instances could do something similar if they wanted. XMPP is federated, so it doesn't require any Lemmy-side coding for the federation aspect. For instance-wide chat (visible to all users of the instance), an implementation in XMPP would probably be easier as well, perhaps using some form of the group chat functionality. What does your proposal offer that cannot be done using XMPP?

Login

Chat client and blogs for SLRPNK.
movim.slrpnk.net
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The First B61-13 Gravity Bomb Is Delivered Ahead of Schedule
How do you think this could impact the balance of power among nuclear-armed states ? Might it trigger a nuclear arms race ?

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)

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PeerTube from your pocket! | JoinPeerTube
Direct link to the crowdfunding campaign (biggest news in the article)

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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obsoleteacct

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)
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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.
Doing
amdgpu-install --usecase=opencl --no-dkms --opencl=legacy
results in
ERROR: 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…

Reddit - The heart of the internet

www.reddit.com
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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?

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RadDevon

Since posting this, I've also tried installing powertop and checking the tunables. According to 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.
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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
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Buffalox

You can use sync in terminal. But it's tricky because it sometimes returns even when the writing isn't finished.
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.
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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

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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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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?

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karolherbst 🐧 🦀 (@karolherbst@chaos.social) "MAINTAINERS: Remove myself"
Following the R4L debacle "you are cancer, you are the problem, we are the thin blue line", another maintainer steps down from the Linux Kernel

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
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Arbitration at least, or some form of: Torvalds Yes to Rust, No to Small-town Dictators
Besides Marcan resignation, not much on other recent turmoils, or, more importantly in my view, the use of "Thin blue line" in the language of the anti-rust dev

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)
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