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There was a post yesterday havin a giggle about low resource usage Linux setups, shout-out to LOW←TECH magazine's solar-powered site (running Armbian Stretch)
I hope this place won't hug it too hard, it's on 61% battery as of writing. Has translations in fr, de, nl, es, it, pt
The average page size of this website is below 0.5 MB – roughly a sixth of the average page size of the original website

SERVER: This website runs on an Olimex A20 computer. It has 2 Ghz of processing power, 1 GB of RAM, and 16 GB of storage. The server draws 1 - 2.5 watts of power.

SERVER SOFTWARE: The webserver runs Armbian Stretch, a Debian based operating system built around the SUNXI kernel. We wrote technical documentation for configuring the webserver. [comfy's note: worth checking out]

DESIGN SOFTWARE: The website is built with Pelican, a static site generator.

I also like the dithering aesthetic with the site images, both practical and stylistic.


About the Solar Powered Website

This website is solar-powered and self-hosted. It has been designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content.
LOW←TECH MAGAZINE

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Help Installing Kubuntu

Hello! I posted yesterday asking questions about which distro to pick, so first of all, thank you to everyone who responded. I wanted to thank you all there but lit cafe is down, so I'm on my other lemmy acc and can't edit that post. As you can tell from the title, I ended up picking Kubuntu, mostly because the touchpad didn't work on Mint (thank goodness I have a mouse handy) and Kubuntu has a nice little welcome walkthrough that made exploring it really easy and comfortable. So I went to install it, but I'm confused about this part of the installation. For reference I'm doing this on a Lenovo Ideapad and it has "128GB eMMC and 256GB PCIe." (honestly I don't exactly know what the PCIe means). There's two options for storage devices at the top.
The prior picture is with the first storage device selected. The following picture is with the second storage device selected.
Are there two options because there's technically two different hard drives in the laptop? Does it matter which one I choose? And I have no idea if I should erase disk (there's literally nothing on this laptop, so no worries about deleting documents or pictures) or do a manual partition? And if so, how do I do a manual partition because even if I click that I don't seem to be able to do anything (also what does manual partition mean)? And would Kubuntu take up all the storage space on the drive like it looks like it will? Because that would be a problem?

I had a lot of fun checking out the distros and trying out all of the customization options in Kubuntu and taking a look at everything in the software center, but I'm starting to feel like this might be too advanced for me. I'm sick of windows, but maybe I should just not risk messing with operating systems I don't understand? (Also I really hope those screenshots don't doxx me or something)

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Declare gender-based violence an ‘epidemic,’ B.C. review urges

The review, conducted by lawyer Kim Stanton, makes numerous recommendations, including the appointment of an independent commissioner on gender-based violence.

From this RSS feed


Declare gender-based violence an ‘epidemic,’ B.C. review urges

The review, conducted by lawyer Kim Stanton, makes numerous recommendations, including the appointment of an independent commissioner on gender-based violence. 
Simon Little (Global News)

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Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades execute complex ambush on zionist force in Gaza

Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades execute complex ambush on zionist force in Gaza

Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced on Tuesday that its fighters carried out a complex ambush targeting a Zionist force entrenched inside a house south of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
www.saba.ye

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Al Green introduces article of impeachment against Trump

Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) filed an article of impeachment against President Trump on Tuesday, accusing the president of failing to notify or seek authorization from Congress before the U.S. launched strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend.

The resolution alleges “abuse of presidential powers by disregarding the separation of powers—devolving American democracy into authoritarianism by unconstitutionally usurping Congress’s power to declare war.”

“President Trump’s unilateral, unprovoked use of force without congressional authorization or notice constitutes an abuse of power when there was no imminent threat to the United States, which facilitates the devolution of American democracy into authoritarianism,” Green’s resolution reads.

Congress has the sole power to “declare war” under the Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution. Presidents of both parties have struck adversaries without approval from the legislature.


Al Green introduces article of impeachment against Trump

Sarah Fortinsky (The Hill)
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LandedGentry

I’m definitely not opposed to impeaching the guy. I just think there are things he has already done that probably have a stronger footing than bombing sovereign nations we aren’t at war with, which every American president has done for over half a century.

By all means flood the zone, impeach him over and over again. I guess I’m just a little surprised this is what triggered it and not something over the last six months

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what is your country's view on speaking the native language with a foreign accent?

Original question by @RicoPeru@lemmy.blahaj.zone

a lot of people here in the united states find it attractive to have a foreign accent (although depending on what it is they could hate it too). what about your country?

does it depend? what accents don't they like if it depends?

in reply to cm0002

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LandedGentry

Depends on the accent and what bigoted stances the person judging holds.

Example: in the US, a French accent would be almost universally accepted, maybe considered being attractive, and indicative of somebody of “culture.“

An accent from central or South America? Lucky if the person is neutral towards it.

People also shit on Chinese and Indian accents here too. Mocked a lot.

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Reminder to sign the Stop Killing Games petition UK and EU

cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/31703716

cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/31703708
I know these rarely have any sway with our governments and there is more important things in the world atm, but it's getting close to the end now and it's worth a reminder.


Stop Killing Games

www.stopkillinggames.com
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JillyB

They are also spending big on domestic arms production. France will be a big winner out of this since they've long valued independent military arms production and the rest of Europe will want to buy French stuff (yes along with American stuff) while they get their arms production up and running. South Korea is also a big arms supplier internationally.

The reduction in US support for NATO is largely part of a pivot to focusing on Taiwan and China. The US military industry would love it if the US focused on both and kept cozy relations with europe. I'm sure they're happy with the whole world increasing defense spending amid rising tensions, but they aren't happy about the US scaring away customers. I hate how involved the US military is globally but acting like Trump is some mastermind of American imperialism is reductive and giving him too much credit. The thought that Europe shouldn't be worried about Russia (the ones currently invading a European country) is bonkers.

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Deutschland hat weltweit die meisten Superreichen nach den USA und China - und es werden immer mehr
Wenn knapp 4000 Leute zwanzig Billionen Euro an Vermögen haben, würde sich eine Vermögenssteuer sich lohnen.

Global Wealth Report - Deutschland hat weltweit die meisten "Superreichen" nach den USA und China - und es werden immer mehr

In Deutschland gibt es nach Berechnungen der Unternehmensberatung BCG immer mehr "Superreiche". Das sind Menschen, die über ein Finanzvermögen von mehr als 100 Millionen US-Dollar verfügen.
Die Nachrichten
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Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages - potentially bad news for Steam gamers

Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages - potentially bad news for Steam gamers

We may potentially be in for some big changes in Fedora 44, with plans in place being discussed to drop 32-bit multilib / i686 packages.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
in reply to GenderNeutralBro

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potatoguy

I think Wine has had WOW support for some time and it seems it will be the default at some time (arch moving to wow64).

Edit: What is WOW64

WoW64

All transitions from Windows to Unix code go through the NT syscall
interface. This is a major milestone that marks the completion of the
multi-year re-architecturing work to convert modules to PE format and
introduce a proper boundary between the Windows and Unix worlds.

All modules that call a Unix library contain WoW64 thunks to enable calling
the 64-bit Unix library from 32-bit PE code. This means that it is possible to
run 32-bit Windows applications on a purely 64-bit Unix installation. This is
called the new WoW64 mode, as opposed to the old WoW64 mode where 32-bit
applications run inside a 32-bit Unix process.

The new WoW64 mode is not yet enabled by default. It can be enabled by passing
the --enable-archs=i386,x86_64 option to configure. This is expected to work
for most applications, but there are still some limitations, in particular:

Lack of support for 16-bit code.
Reduced OpenGL performance and lack of ARB_buffer_storage extension
support.

The new WoW64 mode finally allows 32-bit applications to run on recent macOS
versions that removed support for 32-bit Unix processes.


Wine 9.0 · wine / wine · GitLab

The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 9.0 is now available. This release represents a year of development effort and over...
GitLab
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lemmy - Link to source

who

I think Wine has had WOW support for some time


Wine has two forms of WoW64. Old WoW64 uses 32-bit libraries.

New WoW64 (introduced in Wine 9.0) works without 32-bit libraries, but is still incomplete. It cannot yet replace old WoW64 everywhere, and even where it can, it reduces performance in some APIs. (For example, OpenGL.)

It will eventually make sense to drop the old one, but doing so now would be premature.

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I could use some troubleshooting help for a Linux laptop

I was helping my friend install Mint on his laptop, it all went well and the installation finished, but the driver for the wi-fi module wouldn't turn on properly, or something. I assumed this was due to secure boot messing with the drivers, so I tried to disable it in the BIOS (it's an older laptop, no UEFI). But I have spent the last 3 hours trying and failing to open BIOS, and even GRUB. Nothing I try seems to work.

I tried all the function keys, as well as delete, escape, and enter, and the only thing I found is that F12 opens a boot options menu.

I tried holding and mashing shift throughout the boot procedure to get to GRUB.

I tried using the novo button (it's a Lenovo laptop) which did open a new menu allowing me to select a "BIOS options" button, but it just rebooted after showing me a few rolling lines of text.

I tried plugging in the installation media I used before, which does take me to it's GRUB, but choosing the UEFI options option there just causes a reboot.

I tried disconnecting the battery and the CMOS battery and waiting for 30 seconds in hopes of disabling fast boot, which didn't work.

I edited GRUB config files to change the timeout to 10 and the type away from hidden, which didn't do anything.

I disconnected the disk in hopes of it defaulting to the BIOS, which works for some laptops.

No option worked. I just cannot access BIOS or GRUB. I really don't know where to go next, and could use some help.

in reply to ssillyssadass

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just_another_person

Broadcom chipsets are notoriously lacking in any sort of open driver operation or collaboration. I'd honestly just replace it with a $25 Intel chipset, but if you want to fight through it: help.ubuntu.com/community/Wifi…

You'll notice that your specific chipset isn't mentioned, but it might be different now, so I'd double check.

WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx - Community Help Wiki

help.ubuntu.com
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just_another_person

Secure Boot has nothing to do with, Broadcom keeps their drivers completely closed, and just doesn't support this chipset anywhere except Windows.

USB dongles would work fine, but probably cost more than an internal module. It sounded from your post like you're fine with opening the machine and navigating the internals, so swapping the WiFi module would only take 5m.

Just stay away from Broadcom in general. Intel has the best performing WiFi chipsets at current, but Atheros and Realtek work just fine as well.

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just_another_person

That's less likely to be the chipset, and more likely to be crap hardware. The chipset wouldn't cause PCIe disconnect/interrupt issues, but shitty power handling in a laptop would. Can I wager it happened when plugging/unplugging power or ramping up CPU or GPU util? That was a thing on those Lenovo convertibles for years, but they did throw that shoddy consumer hardware into the Thinkpad line which made it go downhill fast.

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How to stop entire VSCodium/VSCode window from being OOM killed in Fedora when it's better to kill the command in the integrated terminal that's the cause of high memory usage?
It's acting as if memory.oom.group is set to 1, even though it's not:
dullbananas:~$ cat /sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/app-gnome-codium-158608.scope/memory.oom.group 
0
dullbananas:~$ cat /sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/memory.oom.group 
0
dullbananas:~$ cat /sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/memory.oom.group 
0
dullbananas:~$ cat /sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-1000.slice/memory.oom.group 
0
dullbananas:~$ cat /sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/memory.oom.group 
0
dullbananas:~$ cat /sys/fs/cgroup/memory.oom.group 
cat: /sys/fs/cgroup/memory.oom.group: No such file or directory

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Is anyone else too addicted to the no. of blocked connections ?

Actually i mean, is anyone here only using dns services like controld, Nextdns, Adguard, etc. just because they show the blocked queries even though you know these dns blockers doesn't do much more than blocking ads + malicious domains (unreliable) and provide parental controls ?

Just a doubt how blocked domains count provide a sense of protection when actually it is really just an illusion. (I believe when trackers are cookies, it is impossible to count them all and modern website have even more trackers than these dns blockers can detect and block).

Also in whotracksme you can see how much trackers in a website when visiting that website you can't see that much connection blocked or even detected.

What are your opinions ? Is this all wrong and the blocked queries actually matter and accurate ?

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phantomwise

When I was still on Windows I used TinyWall and I would just refresh and stare dreamily at the page showing all those blocked connections from Microsoft services to who the hell knows. It was very therapeutic 🥲

Especially considering that absolutely everyone was telling me to use Windows Defender because "it's good now I swear" but it wouldn't allow me to block most Microsoft stuff...

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On X11 and the Fascists Maggots

This is a truly WTF moment about messed up responses to X11 session removal in Gnome.

2 weeks ago I published a blogpost about the upcoming plans of GNOME 49 and the eventual removal of the X11 session. Since then, instead of looking at feedback, bugs and issues related to the topic, we all collectively had to deal with the following, and I am not exaggerating one bit:


  • Fascists and Nazis
  • Wild Conspiracy Theories that make Qanon jealous
  • “Concerned” Trolling about the Accessibility of the Wayland session
  • A culture war where Wayland is Gay, and X11 is the glorious past they stole from you

In my wildest dreams I could have never made this shit up. You all need mandatory supervised access to the Internet from now on.


On X11 and the Fascists Maggots

Damn Jordan, what a sad title. I know dear reader, I know… 2 weeks ago I published a blogpost about the upcoming plans of GNOME 49 and the eventual removal of the X11 session. Since then, instead...
Jordan Petridis (Rust in Peace)
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Count Regal Inkwell

Gnome in general is undeniably made competently by competent and talented people. If it wasn't, it would break a lot more.

Those competent and talented people also managed to make extremely bad choices at every turn, and seem ideologically opposed to the idea of customization, resulting in an environment that is fundamentally painful to use unless you very specifically fit the box of what they expect users to be like.

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dfyx

Hard to say. I'm not a historian, so I can only speculate. I would assume that Hitler would eventually select a successor and there is no way of telling how good that person would be at keeping the Reich in order.

comparable to say Soviet communism’s collapse in the real world


As far as I understand it, the fall of the Soviet Union was preceded by at least a decade of economic struggle that was caused by a multitude of factors. Basically the only thing they had to export was oil and weapons and the only nations they could trade with were relatively poor. When their oil production cost kept rising, they just couldn't keep their exports high enough to import enough food and luxury goods to keep their population happy. This was a prime driver for unrest in regions that bordered the west, especially East Germany who of course got news of what life in West Germany was like. The Soviets were eventually forced to open the Berlin Wall and from there, there was nothing they could do to keep people from just leaving and fully collapsing the economy in the process. To this day, 35 years after the reunion, former East Germany is way behind the rest of the country even though on paper they have the same chances as everyone else, just because there has been a massive brain drain.

So overall, the collapse of the Soviet Union was less a failure of communism itself and more a failure to counteract their economic weaknesses as well as a result of their isolationism. The USA didn't win the Cold War because of the inherent superiority of capitalism but because the world drinks Coca Cola, wears jeans, watches Hollywood movies and works with IBM-compatible PCs. If the Soviet Union had pivoted their economy to those kinds of goods and had managed to export them to the west, they might have become what China is today.

So it all comes down to the question if alternate-history Germany manages to do that. With technology advancing slower overall and therefore becoming less of a factor in global markets, and at the same time keeping a lot of top scientists who in the real world left for the other superpowers, they could probably do it.

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