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Windows just fucked up my bootloader...

I thought I was safe from this if I installed windows on a completely separate harddrive… I clearly overestimated Microsoft’s ability to make on operating system that does not act like literal malware. Oh well! I guess I’m 100% linux now.

Fwupd Will Use Zstd Compression (9to5linux.com)

Linux Firmware Update Utility Fwupd Will Use Zstd Compression for Future Releases...

Cycle through windows | apps

Following is very subjective and probably varies from distro to distro, de to de, app to app, user to user....

linux on school chromebook : ignorance is bliss (zirk.us)

The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind (web.archive.org)

XZ backdoor in a nutshell (lemmy.zip)

Does anyone know how to execute a script when a certain sound plays?

I have a dumb work related chrome thing, i’d like to make it so that when a certain notification sound plays in chromium, my computer does a few things automatically for me...

Tablet Calibration on Bazzite OS

Hey, I’m trying to calibrate my Wacom Cintiq Pro 32 on Bazzite OS, but I am running into issues. My problem is that my cursor is ~10px off from my pen tip, which makes drawing quite weird. Common sense would take you to KDE Plasma’s settings app, but the “Drawing Tablet” Input Device setting does not feature a tablet...

ffmprovisr: app to help you through the FFmpeg command generation process (amiaopensource.github.io)

Fedora proposal to change default desktop to KDE (fedoraproject.org)

Thunderbird goes from DEB to snap in Ubuntu 24.04 (www.linuxadictos.com)

xz-utils backdoor situation (CVE-2024-3094) (gist.github.com)

A lot of comments there. Found this one via a search engine.

X.Org & XWayland Hit By Four Security Issues (lists.x.org)

Thunderbird with Hotkeys and general cleanup? (www.youtube.com)

That video is basically just a “this concept is kinda cool but the product sucks”...

XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams (web.archive.org)

Are there any CPUs that work well with Linux that aren't made by Intel or another company on the BDS list/that supports Israel?

I have a Ryzen 3 1300X at the moment and it’s always had this soft lock freezing bug on Linux. I used to dual-boot Windows on this machine and Windows never had the same problem, so I think it is an issue with the Linux kernel (I’ve also replaced nearly every bit of hardware that I originally built the PC with, except for...