What is this block-rate-estim?? Suddenly came to life
While I was writing a shell script (doing this the past several days) just a few minutes ago my PC fans spinned up without any seemingly reason. I thought it might be the baloo process, but looking at the running processes I see it’s names block-rate-estim . It takes 6.2% CPU time and is running since minutes, on my modern 8...
[SOLVED] A command to enable Bluetooth Connection? (imgur.com)
Every time I wake up PC from sleep I have to go to bluetooth settings -> select device -> enable connection to get sound on bluetooth speakers (Anker Soundcore). Bluetooth came with MBO and drivers were working out of the box after PopOS install....
Flathub new home page (lemmy.ml)
Secure Boot & TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption on NixOS (jnsgr.uk)
help the developer of sway notification center out? - accessibility (masto.destructatron.net)
Is anyone free to help the developer of sway notification center out? I have opened an issue about sway notification center’s accessibility regressions in the notification list, and I have also suggested that when the notification appears, the accessible event is fired. The dev doesn’t know how to do this however, so any...
Keybow OS
Does anyone know if it’s possible to have events from the Keybow keyboard cause effects on the Pi Zero W running the keyboard instead of outputting to another machine? Or do I need to go with a different OS and figure out the handling of the keys myself?
Can someone explain to me the brief process used to create the meta-pine64 minimal image here? (github.com)
publication croisée depuis : lemmy.world/post/14573897...
Alsa multimedia inside namespace
I have created a network namespace to separate connections through a VPN, and it runs as the same user account as I use for everything else; however, it is not able to play music/use microphone...
Alsa devices inside namespace
xz-style Attacks Continue to Target Open-Source Maintainers (linuxsecurity.com)
Linus has a YT channel? (www.youtube.com)
I’m not sure if it is official
State of Solus - April 2024 (getsol.us)
kdeltachat - DeltaChat desktop client built with Kirigami (git.sr.ht)
This is DeltaChat desktop client but not with the default Electron. Compile instructions for Debian, Arch Linux and openSUSE. One Linux distribution has this packaged : NixOS, package name kdeltachat-unstable. The software developer is also active in the DeltaChat forum. Posting this here to give this project some more attention...
[Noob] Is it worth getting a LTS kernel?
I’ve heard LTS kernels offer more stability, but lack the latest features. How likely is my system to break with the standard kernel?
Using passkeys on Linux & Android
Passkeys seem like a great idea, and we are at a point where, although things are still very much in flux, software passkeys managed by password managers are starting to be usable. I thought I’d share the workflow that’s working for me on Linux with some sites, and ask the community for more tips & tricks....
open letter to the NixOS foundation (save-nix-together.org)
chaos.social/
What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?
I’m working on a some materials for a class wherein I’ll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we’re including a section we’re calling “foot guns”. Basically it’s ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....
I broke my flatpack
I tried to setup jellyfin, but jellyfin didn’t see any subfolders in my home folder I tried to grant jellyfin the rights to read my home folder, but it looks like I did something wrong and now I can’t update and install flatpak apps. This is what I see when I try to update flatpak apps:...
Wine 9.7 released (gitlab.winehq.org)
The Wine development release 9.7 is now available....
Why do I have to agree with USA law when installing Fedora or openSUSE ?
Debian or Arch or Ubuntu never ask for my confirmation ?...
The classic DOOM game over htop, the text-based process viewer (github.com)
Is there an extension like special workspaces like in Hyprland for GNOME?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14721267
Why is folder sharing between host and guest in KVM so hard?
I’m having the hardest tine setting up a shared folder between a Linux host and Win11guest. I want to get rid of dual boot, but there are a few programs that I use which are Win only. I have set up a VB VM, but I want a fine tuned KVM VM. On VB sharing is trivial, but I can’t get it to work in KVM. I have the host sharing...