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PSA: /c/linux has a matrix chat!
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20329962
> 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. >
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- • 97%pointieststick.com This week in Plasma: 6.2 beta release!
Technically Akademy isn’t part of Plasma, but most of KDE’s movers and shakers were here in Würzburg for Akademy 2024 this week, so the list of technical work merged was understandably …
- • 95%news.opensuse.org Slowroll Updates Boost Stability, Enhance Performance
As Slowroll continues its journey, the latest updates released on August 30 and two on Sept. 2 with snapshot 20240902T0137 and snapshot 20240902T2146 have br...
- gs.statcounter.com Desktop Operating System Market Share Germany | Statcounter Global Stats
This graph shows the market share of desktop operating systems in Germany based on over 5 billion monthly page views.
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The Linux Mint project has at times forked various open-source projects to evolve them on their own such as the Cinnamon desktop starting out as forks of several GNOME 3 components. While their software forks and focus has mostly been at the desktop-level, they are going a bit further down the stack now to develop forks of several APT components that power package management on Debian/Ubuntu systems.
- www.theregister.com Pop!_OS 24.04 and new COSMIC desktop hit alpha
It's quite a long way from ready – but it's clearly visible in the distance
- fsfe.org Bring Back Free Software Funding: Give Your Feedback to the European Commission - FSFE
The European Commission has cut important funds for Free Software. The non-transparent decision shows the need for sustainable long-term funding to allow t...
linked from: https://programming.dev/post/19267200
> In its current plan, the EU commission intends to cut €27 million in funding for Free Software. The article has a link to a questionnaire that you can fill out and express your opinion about the plan. I believe non-EU citizens can participate as well.
Linux maintainers are unwilling to get rust into the kernel, so some rust folks decided to start writing a new kernel with same ABI. This allows them to make new architectural decisions. An example being their "frame kernel" (something between a monolithic kernel and a microkernel).
If I may say, it's more legible and the tooling is way better, right off the bat.
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Awesome talk by Jay Lacroix:
about his life from a poor boy walking to a payphone in the rain, to call Microsoft to unlock his Laptop - to a Linux sysadmin who uses the time frame for all his certificates as a motivator, because he has ADHD!
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- www.qubes-os.org Qubes Canary 040
We have published Qubes Canary 040. The text of this canary and its accompanying cryptographic signatures are reproduced below. For an explanation of this announcement and instructions for authenticating this canary, please see the end of this announcement. Qubes Canary 040 ---===[ Qube...
- gitlab.winehq.org Wine 9.17 · wine / wine · GitLab
The Wine development release 9.17 is now available. What's new in this release: Window surface scaling on High DPI displays. Bundled...
- wingolog.org conservative gc can be faster than precise gc — wingolog
wingolog: article: conservative gc can be faster than precise gc
Putting together a new Linux HTPC build and looking for a 10ft UI WM/DE to use with it. Essentially, it would be a launcher for a few PWAs (Emby, Netflix, etc) as well as Steam and maybe some emulators. Navigation would likely be a wireless keyboard and, if absolutely necessary, mouse (goal is to get a bluetooth remote working and use that, but that's the next phase).
I haven't used Kodi since it was still Xbox Media Center (running on an actual Xbox lol), but would it be a good choice? I used it forever ago as the dashboard for my modded Xbox, and it was great. However, for this, I'd rather not run Kodi, if possible, since Emby already covers those use-cases.
If there's no "dedicated" one, any recommendations for which regular DE might be best modifiable/extendable to work for that purpose?
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/19007507
> For context: > I've encrypted the swap partition with: >
bash > cryptsetup -v luksFormat /dev/${DEVICE} > cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/${DEVICE} swap >
> > And what I want is for the user to be able to enter their password only once to decrypt their root partition which would contain a keyfile to then decrypt their swap partition. > > Does anyone know if this is possible? > Just thought I'd ask to see if anyone's done this already > > ### Links: > - Dm-crypt Unlocking - With a keyfile embedded in the initramfs > - Dm-crypt - Automated unlocking and mounting- • 97%www.suse.com Introducing SUSE Typeface: SUSE’s new open sourced font
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> SUSE just open-sourced a typeface :)
- • 96%www.gamingonlinux.com Linux smashes another market share record for August 2024 on Statcounter
Another fresh month and so we have the latest operating system market share details from Statcounter, and it's another impressive showing for Linux from August 2024.
I've tried every tutorial I could find. From symlinking the desired terminal to gnome-terminal, or using the update-alternatives command to using the gsettings command to set the default terminal. Nothing works.
What is the definitive way to set the default terminal for this GUI action? And why is this so hard to do?!
I'm on Fedora if it's relevant.
H1_SD is the name of a MicroSD card I'm connecting, it does connect a second later, but it's annoying to keep dismissing this error every time. I am also getting it with regular SD cards and USB Drives regardless on which USB Port I've connected it to, and which format it's been partitioned too. NTFS, exfat, fat all respond similarly.
EDIT Welp, I was able to brute force a "fix". There appeared to be an issue with the Nemo configuration between 21 and 22. Not sure what the issue was specifically, but deleting the users ~/.config/nemo and a reboot fixed it for me.
- ofb.biz Where Is Naomi Wu?
It was such a cute gadget. A tiny computer, brushed aluminum on the outside, with a decent keyboard (albeit with chicklet keys), a Thinkpad-ish pointing stick that would even take a grippy Thinkpad “cat’s tongue” insert. A fairly fast X86 Intel processor, enough storage, and 8 gigs of memory. And no...
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/15787798
> Archived version > > Naomi Wu has disappeared. Perhaps she has been disappeared. That’s not rare in China. > > [...] > > The proximate cause of her apparent disappearance, as Jackie Singh explains in detail here, was a discovery that Naomi Wu, an experienced coder, had made. It seemed that the cute little cellphone keyboard applications developed by the Chinese company Tencent, and used by just about everyone, were spyware. They could log keystrokes, and did it outside of even very secure applications such as Signal, so things that were sent securely could be “phoned home” by the keyboard app itself. > > It seems, though the evidence is coincidental, that this was one too many cats let out of the bag, and the Chinese communist government of Winnie Xi Pooh acted quickly, with the results (probably understated) in the Tweet quoted above. > > [...] > > The silence has been deafening. People on the internet, especially young, enthusiastic websters, have long been thought unbelievably shallow, in it for whatever they could get out of it, and unwilling to take a stand on something important unless there was profit in it for them. We needn’t think that anymore — now we know it’s true. > > What can be done? [...] Our government won’t lift a finger even for American citizens or very well known Chinese figures trapped under the thumb of the Disney-character’s evil lookalike, or the Uyghurs, unless there’s some political gain to be had, such as with the tattooed LGBT WNBA player who couldn’t be bothered to leave her dope at home during a visit to Russia. > > [...] > > China was afraid that silencing Naomi Wu would make the government there look bad. Let’s prove them right.
Should be a very common issue
KeepassDX + KeepassXC, Android to Linux.
Synced with Syncthing.
I do a change on the password manager on one device and on another, Android killed Syncthing again so now I have 2 files, one called "sync conflict".
Both files have some new change, I need to keep both.
When using the import feature in KeepassXC, I think everything is duplicated. This would be the best place to do this.
Any idea how to merge them or at least show the diffs?
Displaying all entries, without folders, sorted by date, could also already help.
kinda-solution
In KeepassXC, bottom left, "all entries". Alternatively, search for "*".
Then sort by date.
This helps to compare the most recent changes, and copy them over to the want-to-keep version of the file.
- pointieststick.com Asking for donations in Plasma
Why do we ask for donations so often? Because it’s important! As KDE becomes more successful and an increasing number of people use our software, our costs grow as well: Web and server hostin…
- www.virtualcuriosities.com How to Install DaVinci Resolve in Linux Mint
Tutorial, learn how to install DaVinci Resolve 19 in Linux Mint 22. It's not easy, but it's possible.
I run Davinci Resolve on my machines and I've had a heck of a time trying to install/run it on Linux Mint 22.
So I put off upgrading my main rig until a good enough resolution came around. Which turned out to be this. I followed it and it worked for me.
Apparently this is an issue caused by Ubuntu 24.04 so this guide will help if you have issues on Ubuntu too.
This is a combo of 2 tricks.
Based off this german guide, a bit outdated and not suited for the Flatpak
Goal
a signature like
Firstname Lastname Role _____ <fancy logo> Company name Contact info including website and mail
This is probably really easy in Outlook, and kinda linux-y (bundling together parts that only make sense if you are a programmer) on Thunderbird.
1. The Sandbox
When attaching an image, Thunderbird Flatpak needs to have permanent access to that location.
By default it uses portals, so if you use "attach image" it will use some /run/doc/... folder that is gone after restarting the app.
For some reason, using the KDE Plasma Flatpak settings or Flatseal, granting the app access to a certain location, doesnt work, even if you use the real location of the image.
So instead:
- Create a directory in the internal Flatpak's folder
mkdir ~/.var/app/org.mozilla.thunderbird/SIGNATURE
- Copy the attachment image there (company logo etc.)
- Copy the path to the image (for example in KDE Dolphin, no idea about GNOME)
2. The HTML Signature
Just write a new mail (Ctrl+N) and write exactly your signature in there.
You dont need the
> > -- >
As that is automatically inserted below the last line.
Add the picture, but replace the path with the real path, not the /run/doc/... one of the portal.
Then the image is inserted, you can resize it.
Now instead of sending, in the menu under "File" use "Save to..." and instead of .eml use .html.
If you want to add a clickable mail address, in the mail compose toolbar, behind the "picture icon" there is a menu, select the "link" icon.
You can add a normal http/https link there. But using
mailto:name@server.com
you can make it a clickable mail link!(Whoever needs that in a mail)
3. Sandbox again.
Save that file to the same
~/.var/app/org.mozilla.thunderbird/SIGNATURE
folder.4. Account settings
Navigate to these settings, in the first page of your account, instead of writing your signature, use "use HTML file".
Select the file or paste the exact
~/.var/app/...
location in there, again, dont use the portal.---
Done!
Once figured out it makes sense. That directory in the Flatpaks storage will not be deleted or interrupt anything. So this is a clean way.
flatpak remove --delete-data thunderbird
would purge that entire folder and all it's contents.