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[SOLVED] [Manjaro XFCE] Trying to mount an SSD but gives me a "Failed to mount" error

I’m trying to mount one of my SSDs on my systems but it gives me this error when trying to mount from File System: “Failed to mount “New Volume” - No object for D-Bus interface.” If I go into Gparted and check the description of the device in question it gives me this: $MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 3). Failed to...

Installing and using Jellyfin without root

I have a VPS, but no root access so I can’t use apt, or even read a lot of the system files. I would like to get jellyfin (or any media server, really) running on it. Jellyfin has a portable installation option, so I followed the instructions in the docs to install it from the .tar.gz....

KDE's Amarok 3.0 Music Player Released After Six Year Hiatus - Now Ported To Qt5 (www.phoronix.com)

Released back in March of 2018 was the Amarok 2.9 music player for this KDE project. Shipping today is finally Amarok 3.0 as the first major release in six years and now ported to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.

Alpaca: an ollama client to easily interact with an LLM locally or remotely (flathub.org)

Issue for GTK to make their window decorarions clickable at the corner (gitlab.gnome.org)

On Windows, KDE Plasma, and likely many other Desktops, if a window is fullscreen maximized and you push the mouse to the top edge and click, it will close....

TUXEDO announce the desktop-replacement Stellaris 17 gen6 notebook (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Noticably lower standby battery drain with Fedora 40

I upgraded to Fedora 40 workstation a couple of days ago. I never turn off or suspend my laptop (a Thinkbook 14s Yoga) and it was guranteed to be dead if i left it unplugged for a couple of hours before the update....

Modern alternatives to FreeIPA

I am trying to figure out how I can retain personal SSH keys (probably the most important part, or at least important to have an alternative connection method) while also having modern tools like SSO or at least SAML, some way to federate to different ADs....

Question about Xfce vs. MATE

Fellas,...

Zellij (a terminal multiplexer) 0.40.0 released (zellij.dev)

Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA, Continues Working On Open-Source Driver (www.phoronix.com)

it's a sad day, the first time i competely fucked my computer

i tried to get kde plasma on my fedora, when i booted it up there was just a black screen. i couldn’t type any commands either, it was toast...

Is there a way to sync todo.txt with Tasks, similar to how GNOME calendar syncs with Google?

I use Google tasks for my todo list. This GNOME extension is nice and minimal and just what I’m looking for, and it uses todo.txt. Is there an easy way to sync my changes with Google, similar to how the GNOME calendar app does?...

Shortcut to input a string of text in Plasma Wayland

OK, so I’m a heavy user of the native pipe in R which goes like this “|>”. This is particularly painful to type on French keyboard, so on Plasma X11, I had a little script using xdotools to input |> when I pressed Ctrl+$. Very comfortable!...

PiVPN Releases Final Version and Announces Project Shutdown (linuxiac.com)

PiVPN is no longer maintained. You can find more information here...

fooyin's new features in v0.4.0 make it the most promising music player - LinuxLinks (www.linuxlinks.com)

Also available in AUR : aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&K=fooyin

Should I use QEMU/virt-manager or Virtualbox for a Windows virtualized instance?

I use Arch Linux, and some apps require me to use Windows. I have tried to get Wine working, but it’s just too much of a hassle. If the only goal of my virtualization setup is to run something like Adobe apps (I’m not doing any gaming on it), will Virtualbox or virt-manager be the quick and easy choice for me? I have tried...

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