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Is there a security risk with enabling autologin when you have disk encryption with LUKS enabled? If anyone gets hold of the PC, they have to enter the password needed for decrypting the disk.

I see Google and Apple really embracing passkeys lately and I’m trying to understand the hype, but it can be challenging. I also see that Bitwarden and 1Password are embracing them too. As far as I can tell, passkeys are just key pairs that behave like FIDO2 tokens (e.g. my yubikey) but are backed up to some cloud and usable...

My system reports that im using OpenGL 4.2: pastebin.com/uXu3BLxXBut when i try to use that OpenGL vesion to write a program with it, it fails, the maximum version i can use for that is OpenGL 2.1, why does that happen?

Heya, I’m currently using my old tv as a monitor and the problem is that it seems to have overscan and I can’t go into the tv menu to change it. Do you know of any desktop environments that allow you to resize the window height and width? I’ve tried KDE with kdoctor and xrandr settings but all it did to me was changing hiw...

We have had a Macbook Air (A1466) laying around for years after it became useless due to not getting any more updates so modern browsers wouldn’t run, etc. etc....

edit: It can’t send notifs :( lemmy.ml/comment/4138651...

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Hey, beautiful people of Linux, I need some advice. I’ve been tinkering for the past several weeks on flavours of Plasma DE on Arch and Tumbleweed on my Nvidia/Alder Lake setup. Suffice to say the experience was nothing short of getting waterboarded in Guantanamo by Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity high-fiving each other while...

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/6037703...

RESOLVED: it was caused by the app being flatpak. use Flatseal!...

When the jack is inserted the internal speakers stop making sound and the only analog out is the jack, as it’s common on laptops. But I want to address the two analog output individually so that I can:...

I am using a Dell Latitude 3420 (Ubuntu 22.04.3) and it uses a slightly older OEM kernel 5.14.0-1048-oem. The generic kernels keep getting upgraded but are never used. The current generic that I have is 6.2.0-26-generic and 5.15.0-79-generic....

Hi all - recently moved my old docker setup across to Podman rootless containers, however I am having some trouble with getting my Plex container to use the on CPU hardware transcoding....

I have been using CentOS for years as a somewhat stable go-to for a long time, especially in business environments....

Hey guys, not sure if this is a good place for this, so let me know if this post would be better suited elsewhere....

EDIT: Removing unnecessary comment to focus on what’s this about....

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I’ve had very good experiences with both but wanted to give debian a try, after accepting that it’s nvidia drivers and Optimus support suck, I need to decide whether to use EndeavourOS or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, not using base arch because I don’t want to go through the install hassle.

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1798744...

My bachelor’s in software engineering starts in quite a few months...

Hello! Let’s say I have an executable file, but I’m unsure of the source, and may contain bugs/errors/malwares/bad things that can mess up my machine. I want to execute it anyway, but I want to make sure that it does not mess things up. Is it possible to create a “sandbox” folder, place the executable inside it, and then...

Hi all, just wanted to post this here to help my community grow. It can be found at https://lemmy.zip/c/linuxscripts Please help this community evolve into something everyone can use....

I just did an apt update followed by an apt upgrade, and during the latter the screen went all blank with a blinking prompt. I also hear the fans. It’s been like this for 10 min now. I think some Nvidia drivers were included in the upgrade. What to do? Is it safe to emergency reboot? I appreciate any suggestions also for...

i find it very useful and would like to know if there is an implementation for it on xfce, as well as how it performs.