How would you protect files of a VPS (Virtual Private Server) from snooping by the service provider?

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/19441267

> I have a 2nd-gen chromecast, it's factory reset. If i plug it in all it tells me is to install the app to start configuring. > > I don't have a google account not do i want to install/use google-related stuff on my phone. > > My home router doesn't register any new device, which makes sense since the cast doesn't know the SSID/pass of the WiFi. > > Does it try to ping some service/port? Multicast perhaps? Where would it get an IP from without authenticating? > > My (wired) PC runs gentoo. > > How can i get it to work in these conditions?

Linus has released the 6.11 kernel. ""I'm once again on the road and not in my normal timezone, but it's Sunday afternoon here in Vienna, and 6.11 is out."" Significant changes in this release include new io_uring operations for bind() and listen(), the nested bottom-half locking patches, the ability to write to busy executable files, support for writing block drivers in Rust, support for atomic write operations in the block layer, the dedicated bucket slab allocator, the vDSO implementation of getrandom(), and more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) for more information.

I'm not much hoepful, but... just in case :)

I would like to be able to start a second session in a window of my current one (I mean a second session where I log in as a different user, similar to what happens with the various ctrl+alt+Fx, but starting a graphical session rather than a console one).

Do you know of some software that lets me do it?

Can I somehow run a KVM using my host disk as a the disk for the guest VM (and without breaking stuff)?

I want to have my screen (the "dev" workspace) split in three "zones":

• on the left side, a tabbed group with all the text editors I start (ie. if I start a new one, it goes there in a new tab)
• on the top-right, a tabbed group of whatever many terminal I feel like launching
• on the bottom-right, my browsers (and possibly other stuff), in a group without tabs
• a key combination to cycle between: all three "zones" visible, text editors on the left - terminal on the right, text editors on the left - browser on the right, fullscreen browser

So far I've been looking at hyprland (for no particular reason except the hype) and I don't think I can do the above with it (I am by no means an expert, so... maybe it can actually be done?).

Do you know of any WM where it would be possible? (possibly, one with automatic splitting a-la bspwm, that I would use for the other workspaces)

I am a certified Linux user with almost 10 years of experience.

Please run the following command in a terminal:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Let me know if this fixes your issue

\- certified Linux expert

(I'm making fun of the 25 year Microsoft veterans on the support page that tell users to run SFC /scannow)

Hi,

I’m not sure if this is the right community for my question, but as my daily driver is Linux, it feels somewhat relevant.

I have a lot of data on my backup drives, and recently added 50GB to my already 300GB of storage (I can already hear the comments about how low/high/boring that is). It's mostly family pictures, videos, and documents since 2004, much of which has already been compressed using self-made bash scripts (so it’s Linux-related ^^).

I have a lot of data that I don’t need regular access to and won’t be changing anymore. I'm looking for a way to archive it securely, separate from my backup but still safe.

My initial thought was to burn it onto DVDs, but that's quite outdated and DVDs don't hold much data. Blu-ray discs can store more, but I'm unsure about their longevity. Is there a better option? I'm looking for something immutable, safe, easy to use, and that will stand the test of time.

I read about data crystals, but they seem to be still in the research phase and not available for consumers. What about using old hard drives? Don’t they need to be powered on every few months/years to maintain the magnetic charges?

What do you think? How do you archive data that won’t change and doesn’t need to be very accessible?

Cheers

I'm going to be building a new computer soon for myself. (Going AMD for the first time, since intel microcode issue.)

I would say I'm an expert or advanced user, as been using pcs for 25 years and set up arch and slackware in the past. I have tried many distros and would like some feedback.

I mainly use my pc for gaming. I want something customizable, KDE ish, and without bloatware. A good wiki is a plus.

I think that i may end up with arch... is it better for gaming since it's bleeding edge and isn't steamos built off it?

Side question is distro chooser accurate?

Hour after I come to this, I'm loving it. She modified it so it retains original kde look but has enough tiny details to keep it interesting. She says she'll resume the work tomorrow 🫡

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/25130414

Hey there folks! I recently made the switch to Linux and I really want to do some editing using DaVinci Resolve. My computer is running an intel i7 7th Gen with no dedicated GPU. I used this tutorial to get through the initial installation but now the app just crashes warning "Unsupported GPU Processing Mode," advising me to "Please review the GPU drivers and GPU configuration under preferences." This is what I see when I go to that menu. Any idea what I need to do to make DaVinci recognize the integrated GPU?

What was your last RTFM adventure? Tinker this, read that, make something smoother! Or explodier.

As for me, I wanted to see how many videos I could run at once. (Answer: 60 frames per second or 60 frames per second?)

With my sights on GPUizing some ethically sourced motion pictures, I RTFW, graphed, and slapped on environment variables and flags like Lego bricks. I got the Intel VAAPI thingamabob to jaunt by (and found that it butterized my mpv videos)

```bash $ pacman -S blahblahblahblahblahtfm $ mpv --show-profile=fast Profile fast: scale=bilinear dscale=bilinear dither=no correct-downscaling=no linear-downscaling=no sigmoid-upscaling=no hdr-compute-peak=no allow-delayed-peak-detect=yes $ mpv --hwdec=auto --profile=fast graphwar-god-4KEDIT.mp4

fucking silk

```

But there was no pleasure without pain: Mr. Maxwell F. N. 940MX (the N stands for Nvidia) played hooky. So I employed the longest envvars ever ```bash $ NVD_LOG=1 VDPAU_TRACE=2 VDPAU_NVIDIA_DEBUG=3 NVD_BACKEND=direct NVD_GPU=nvidia LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia VDPAU_DRIVER=nvidia prime-run vdpauinfo GPU at BusId 0x1 doesn't have a supported video decoder Error creating VDPAU device: 1

stfu

``` to try translating Nvidia VDPAU to VAAPI -- of course, here I realized I rtfmed backwards and should've tried to use just VDPAU instead. So I did.

Juice was still not acquired.

Finally, after a voracious DuckDuckGoing (quacking?), I was then blessed with the freeing knowledge that even though post-Kepler is supposed to support H264, Nvidia is full of lies...

plaintext ______ < fudj > ------ \ ‘^----^‘ \ (◕(‘人‘)◕) ( 8 ) ô ( 8 )_______( ) ( 8 8 ) (_________________) || || (|| (||

and then right before posting this, gut feeling: I can't read. ``` $ lspci | grep -i nvidia ... NVIDIA Corporation GM108M [GeForce 940MX] (rev a2)

ArchWiki says that GM108 isn't supported.

Facepalm

```

SO. What was your last RTFM adventure?

I'm having trouble allocating more VRAM to my QEMU virtual machine. Currently, I'm using the following command to launch my VM: ``` qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -boot menu=on -drive file=QEMU -m 2G -cpu host -vga virtio

``` Can anyone help me figure out how to increase the VRAM allocation in QEMU?

Solution by lnxtx@feddit.nl qemu-system-x86_64 [...] -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size_mb=128 -global qxl-vga.ram_size_mb=128

Hello, i have task to install a system for elderly person without much technical knowlegde (never used pc, no windows or mac).

They need text processing, calculator and maybe spreadsheet.

Want to disable anything else (setting panel, file browser, web browser, launcher, dock, terminal, login select, etc.) that not needed, all important thing only from desktop. Should not be able to go anywhere where not know what to do. But not permanent, might need to fix machine if ever break.

Is there distro or config i can work off? Or need to start from scratch? What program you recommend?

Thank you for any answer or recommendation

what is the best linux terminal? I have been using alacritty for years and have been doing well. But I don't think kitty and st. I was wondering if any new projects have come out in recent years.

What's everyone's preferred email client these days?

I'm currently using Fedora KDE Plasma, but I'd like to try out a tiling window manager. What would you all reccomend? I use my computer for school, so I would like it to be stable.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/25183123

> WebReady is a simple tool for converting videos to animated webp images and thus allowing users to use them as animated wallpapers for KDE. The tool is primarily designed for steam deck, but works perfectly on any KDE powered desktop.

I have a friend thats setting up linux (ubuntu) on his machine. He has a windows installation. I personally use mac as my primary OS, but I've had a linux partition on my machine as well, and I'm having a slightly hard time giving him good advice as to what solution he should choose when setting up linux (I don't even know how I would partition a disk on a windows machine to prep it for dual booting).

My question is quite simple: What are the pros/cons of WSL vs. Dual Booting vs. Virtualbox, both with regards to setup and with regards to usage?

In numbers, the LibreOffice 24.8.1 point release addresses a total of 89 bugs. Details about these bugs are available in the RC1 and RC2 changelogs. The new release is available for download right from the official website as binaries for DEB and RPM-based GNU/Linux distributions.

I was excited to learn about two new terminal emulator app which seemed to have a lot of cool new features, warp and wave. Then I looked closer and found that both are a no go for me.

Warp is closed source and you need to create an account to use your terminal. Jebus Christus, no, thanks, but no.

Wave is an Electron app. While that's better than not having a Linux version, I've seen how Electron apps behave. They are the ones which hog all memory and get killed by the OS first. So that's a no from me too.

I guess I keep my Tilix for now.

https://github.com/neeeeow/Bluecurve

!

Someone has ported Bluecurve theme to GTK3/4.

I am running Bazzite 40 on a system with an RTX 4080. Up until yesterday, I was connecting computer -> Samsung HW-Q900C soundbar -> Samsung Q90C TV. I learned that the soundbar doesn't have HDMI 2.1 ports which is why I hadn't been able to get 120Hz, so I changed my setup to computer -> TV + soundbar -> TV (eARC).

Now, I do have 120Hz, but I lost a bunch of other options in my display settings, including HDR. The only options I can set there now are resolution, orientation, refresh rate, and scale. I suspect this is an issue with the TV communicating its capabilities in a way the OS doesn't understand, but I'm not sure how to fix or work around it. Can anyone suggest a fix? Is there a setting I can change on the TV or maybe an app I can run on the computer to manually set the TV's capabilities?

Update: Just discovered kscreen-doctor. Here's the output:

Output: 445 HDMI-0 enabled connected priority 1 HDMI Modes: 446:3840x2160@60! 447:4096x2160@120 448:4096x2160@100 449:4096x2160@60 450:4096x2160@50 451:4096x2160@30 452:4096x2160@24 453:4096x2160@24 454:3840x2160@144 455:3840x2160@120* 456:3840x2160@100 457:3840x2160@60 458:3840x2160@50 459:3840x2160@30 460:3840x2160@25 461:3840x2160@24 462:3840x1600@144 463:3840x1600@120 464:3840x1600@60 465:3840x1080@144 466:3840x1080@120 467:3840x1080@60 468:2560x1440@120 469:2560x1080@144 470:2560x1080@120 471:2560x1080@60 472:1920x1080@144 473:1920x1080@120 474:1920x1080@100 475:1920x1080@60 476:1920x1080@60 477:1920x1080@50 478:1920x1080@30 479:1920x1080@25 480:1920x1080@24 481:1680x1050@60 482:1600x900@60 483:1440x900@60 484:1280x1024@75 485:1280x1024@60 486:1280x800@60 487:1280x720@60 488:1280x720@60 489:1280x720@50 490:1152x864@75 491:1024x768@75 492:1024x768@70 493:1024x768@60 494:800x600@75 495:800x600@72 496:800x600@60 497:720x576@50 498:720x480@60 499:640x480@75 500:640x480@73 501:640x480@60 Geometry: 0,0 3840x2160 Scale: 1 Rotation: 1 Overscan: 0 Vrr: incapable RgbRange: unknown HDR: incapable Wide Color Gamut: incapable ICC profile: incapable Color profile source: incapable

SOLUTION: Turns out this was my goof. I was trying to set up auto-login on my user account. In doing so, I set it to automatically log in to Plasma (X11) instead of Plasma (Wayland). Odd that the default option in that dropdown is not the one you’re currently using, but 🤷‍♂️.

What I’m now trying to figure out is why I can’t set auto-login for Plasma (Wayland). The Apply button is disabled. 🤔

Thanks to everyone who shared ideas.

I'm looking for a portable, very compact linux laptop.

Screen size: 12 inch or smaller Weight: less than 1 kg (2.2 pounds) Full hd screen

I did some googling and i only found a CHUWI laptop that suffers from an overheating issue.

recently I've started working with an open source java gui app that uses jpackage to generate system packages for distributions.

I'm interested in creating a flatpak for this, but I'm not sure what best practices look like for this. Should I attempt to take the files that are generated by jpackage and put those into a flatpak, or should I just take the jar file alone as provide that with a dependency on a runtime that provides java?

fair warning I am a noob in regards to flatpak

Whilst BSD isn't linux per se, it still has a lasting legacy in the unix like space and notably has been used in game consoles like the PS4.

For you in your personal use case, have you tried a bsd distro? What was better compared to the average linux distro?

Apparently BSD is more modular with its jailing system and seems to have a lower resource usage.

I look at ones like NETBSD and FreeBSD and think, "what exactly do I get out of them that I wouldn't with Linux say, Ubuntu or Void as an example?

What are your thoughts on BSD, you use FreeBSD before?

Is it just me or did kdenlive broke for you too? I'm on an Archlinux based system and just updated the system. A few hours before update kdenlive worked. Update was not small, so its hard to tell the exact cause. I've tried to downgrade kdenlive, but same issue. I use Linux for a very long time now, but still get lost with errors like these.^^ Any idea what I should do? Does it work for you?

I get this on start (I reset the configuration files too):

``` $ kdenlive --version kdenlive 24.08.1

$ kdenlive kf.config.core: Watching absolute paths is not supported "/usr/share/color-schemes/BreezeDark.colors" mlt_repository_init: failed to dlopen /usr/lib/mlt-7/libmltsox.so (libsox.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) mlt_repository_init: failed to dlopen /usr/lib/mlt-7/libmltrtaudio.so (librtaudio.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) mlt_repository_init: failed to dlopen /usr/lib/mlt-7/libmltsdl.so (libSDL-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) WARNING: All log messages before absl::InitializeLog() is called are written to STDERR E0000 00:00:1726202254.631983 14133 descriptor_database.cc:633] File already exists in database: versions.proto F0000 00:00:1726202254.632005 14133 descriptor.cc:2236] Check failed: GeneratedDatabase()->Add(encoded_file_descriptor, size) *** Check failure stack trace: *** @ 0x733c9e6b0e09 absl::lts_20240722::log_internal::LogMessage::SendToLog() @ 0x733c9e6b19ae absl::lts_20240722::log_internal::LogMessageFatal::~LogMessageFatal() @ 0x733c64890955 (unknown) @ 0x733c649c228d google::protobuf::internal::AddDescriptors() @ 0x733c65696125 (unknown) @ 0x733cdd22d6ad (unknown) @ 0x733cdd22a5c2 _dl_catch_exception @ 0x733cdd2344fc (unknown) @ 0x733cdd22a523 _dl_catch_exception @ 0x733cdd234904 (unknown) @ 0x733cd9e9ef14 (unknown) @ 0x733cdd22a523 _dl_catch_exception @ 0x733cdd22a679 (unknown) @ 0x733cd9e9e9f3 (unknown) @ 0x733cd9e9efcf dlopen @ 0x733c9ea96c6c mlt_register @ 0x733cdc3a2279 mlt_repository_init @ 0x733cdc386f52 mlt_factory_init @ 0x733cdc3605f5 Mlt::Factory::init() @ 0x5b73c4a7f0d5 (unknown) @ 0x5b73c4a3a285 (unknown) @ 0x5b73c4497d06 (unknown) @ 0x733cd9e34e08 (unknown) @ 0x733cd9e34ecc __libc_start_main @ 0x5b73c44998d5 (unknown) Aborted (core dumped) ```

My system if its relevant:

OS: EndeavourOS x86_64 Kernel: Linux 6.10.9-arch1-2 Uptime: 1 hour, 10 mins Packages: 1657 (pacman), 9 (flatpak) Shell: bash 5.2.32 Display (AG271QG): 2560x1440 @ 120 Hz in 27″ [External] DE: KDE Plasma 6.1.5 WM: KWin (Wayland) WM Theme: Breeze Theme: Breeze (Dark) [Qt], Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3/4] Icons: breeze-dark [Qt], breeze-dark [GTK2/3/4] Font: NotoSans Nerd Font (12pt) [Qt], NotoSans Nerd Font (12pt) [GTK2/3/4] Cursor: breeze (24px) Terminal: konsole 24.8.1 Terminal Font: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono (11pt) CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X (16) @ 5.57 GHz GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 7600 (RADV NAVI33) [Discrete] Mesa 24.2.2-arch1.1 GPU 2: AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV RAPHAEL_MENDOCINO) [Integrated] Mesa 24.2.2-arch1.1 Memory: 3.00 GiB / 30.50 GiB (10%) Swap: 65.00 MiB / 512.00 MiB (13%) Disk (/): 550.90 GiB / 1.79 TiB (30%) - ext4 Disk (/media/Emulation): 4.47 TiB / 5.41 TiB (83%) - ext4 Disk (/media/My): 3.10 TiB / 3.58 TiB (87%) - ext4 Disk (/media/Work): 648.09 GiB / 915.82 GiB (71%) - ext4 Locale: en_US.UTF-8