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This didn’t seem to occur in Windows, but I’m pretty sure the copy process was also slower so guessing it’s some sort of buffer or heat quirk that 'nix didn’t account for in the more generic driver

If the device says it’s a generic storage device (to the system that is) but actually isn’t (based on your description) then it’s 100% devices fault and not a Linux fault.

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This command won’t show the real values when using btrfs. You need to use sudo btrfs filesystem usage <mount point>.

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So my TLDR, is that its possible to be a USER without touching the terminal, but I dont think its possible to be an administrator without.

Suse with Yast makes it possible to administer just with GUI. Not 100% sure if it can do absolutely everything possible but it has lots of tools.

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Just use some other search engine. No tricks needed to get non ai bs results.

No internet in virtual machine

I have on the host machine two network interfaces. One is lan and the other is a wlan. For libvirt I have created a nat network which is bound to the wlan. From the guest I can access other machines in the network host wlan is connected to. Also DNS lookup works. The problem is that there’s no connection to the internet at...

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This sounds reasonable. Curiously now that I tried again with both host lan & wlan active there was no problem. I have a hunch the routing depends on which interface networkmanger starts first.


<span style="color:#323232;">$route
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Kernel IP routing table
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
</span><span style="color:#323232;">default         192.168.102.1   0.0.0.0         UG    600    0        0 wlp19s0f4u1u1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">default         RT-AC86U-6D60   0.0.0.0         UG    20100  0        0 enp15s0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">192.168.2.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     100    0        0 enp15s0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">192.168.100.0   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 virbr1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">192.168.102.0   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     600    0        0 wlp19s0f4u1u1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">192.168.122.0   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 virbr0_
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When the host routing table is like this:


<span style="color:#323232;">$route
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Kernel IP routing table
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
</span><span style="color:#323232;">default         192.168.102.1   0.0.0.0         UG    600    0        0 wlp19s0f4u1u1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">default         RT-AC86U-6D60   0.0.0.0         UG    20100  0        0 enp15s0
</span>

the VM has internet connection. If the defaults are the other way around it doesn’t.

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Have an idea which might solve this.

  1. Change the vm net config to NOT bind to specific host interface
  2. Change host networks so that there’s only one default route (lan)
  3. Add routing to host that all traffic which goes to 192.168.102.x goes through the host wlan connection
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They also offer their software for free for open source projects.

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It doesn’t auto update and you don’t need to login. You can enter your key directly.

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There’s a dialog within the program to enter your key though I haven’t checked if it connects to the internet at that point. I use an account so I can easily use it on several computers.

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It’s good to live in the EU where such terms don’t apply.

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Currently EEA consists of the EU states + some other European countries.

What am I doing wrong (OpenSuse)?

I’ve been trying Tumbleweed for my gaming needs and so far it seems to be working relatively well. My issue is about removed packages. When I first installed TW, I removed quite a few packages I did not want (KSudoku, LibreOffice, and a few others). It has been a little since I’ve turned on my PC but yesterday I noticed that...

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They are the “patterns” others mentioned.

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If you taboo a pattern it and the packages it would install will never be installed automatically. I tend to taboo those games patterns.

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Removing a pattern doesn’t unfortunately remove the packages it installs. Only the pattern “package” is removed.

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Sudo is “su do”, i.e. “run as root”

It may default to root but it doesn’t mean run as root. Su means substitute user identity i.e. any other user (if you have the rights to it).

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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For a gui to qemu use Virt-manager or gnome boxes.

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The reason for better performance is that virt-manager (KVM actually under the hood) is a type 1 hypervisor while virtualbox is a type 2 hypervisor.

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If I read it correctly the “fuck off” level refers to some proprietary app for the selected login. The other two are standard code app and yubikey.

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Another company wants to skip liability. odysee.com/…/pixel-phones-come-w-forced-arbitrati…

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For now. I’m quite sure that option will disappear at some point in the not too distant future.

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It’s updating your desktop so that’s why it does that. The safest way is to log out of your desktop session and login via terminal (press ctrl+alt+f1 to get to one) and run zypper dup.

opensuse and KDE wallet

So I just installed opensuse KDE for the first time and when I was typing password for my WiFi, instead of connecting me, some window appeared asking for creating encrypted wallet. I don’t need that so I turned it off in the system settings, but then my PC always forgets my WiFi pasword after shutdown. So I turned on and...

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Install the pam_kwallet package. Then it will automatically unlock on login.

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I’d say a good rule of thumb for a beginner is not to touch anything outside of their own home directory. Modifying or deleting files in other locations is an easy way to break your system.

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Files in /run will be (re)created (and removed) at runtime if/when needed by programs that need them. They pose no problems and don’t persist between reboots.

New to Linux? Ubuntu Isn’t Your Only Option (www.howtogeek.com)

Ubuntu’s popularity often makes it the default choice for new Linux users. But there are tons of other Linux operating systems that deserve your attention. As such, I’ve highlighted some Ubuntu alternatives so you can choose based on your needs and requirements—because conformity is boring.

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Depends on the alternative. E.g. Fedora and OpenSuse have very active communities and lots of help available.

Stop using gitlab.com for projects - Credit card info required for new registrations

If your IP (and possible your browser) looks “suspicious” or has been used by other users before, you need to add additional information for registration on gitlab.com, which includes your mobile phone number and possibly credit card information. Since it is not possible to contribute or even report issues on open source...

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It’s about data harvesting and selling not safety or any other mentioned.

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In two of my previous jobs (I’m a software engineer) I could officially install any Linux distro to the company laptop (which I did of course) fully replacing the wintoys. Could use the machine as I liked, no corporate mandated BS spyware or anything. On of the provides a SaaS product and used Linux server/virtual machines. Otherwise it was mostly MS bits + sprinkle a little Atlanssian horrors to it.

Unfortunately in my current job I’m limited a VirtualBox Linux running a corporate restricted wintoys machine in a MS environment. A long for the days when I was more productive with my Linux installation.

It’s just sad and funny how corporate world is that MS products it has to be (because reasons).

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Id’ say your comparison pictured is not valid. It’s not the same document in both programs. On the left you have opened Lorem Ipsum.docs and on the right you have a new untitled document.

If one truly wants to share final documents use pdf not a draft format like docx.

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Yes, and when the company gets hacked they can sue you for not keeping “your” computer secure enough.

Sounds very American point-of-view. Installation and usage was officially sanctioned. Most developers in both companies preferred to use Linux, some used Macs, wintoys users were a minority. Neither company had any super restrictive corporate BS on their wintoys installation. Neither company is based in the Americas. Both are local companies in the EU.

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Yes its the same document. The only thing I did is “open a copy” because the document was locked in the other editor.

If you just copy paste something it’s not the same. If you want to make a true comparison you have open the same file in both.

People share unfinished documents with each other and formatting should hold, otherwise how can you collaborate?

And I was talking about finished documents.

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The point here is that the company trusts their employees to use the best tools for them, be secure and do the right thing. Be the most productive. Windows needs that kind of third party snake-oil like AV software and restrictive policies to run it somewhat secure. Most Linux distros are already secure by design out of the box. Drive-by malware and hacking are a thing in windows not Linux.

Of course there are best practices and guidelines for running your system securely, how to handle sensitive data etc.

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Like the system is not made for working and barely support it for actual computer work.

Have noticed the same.

One example why windows is bad for a developer. Lets say you work with node.js Eventually you’ll end up with node_modules directory in you project with tens of thousands of files and thousands of directories. If you delete that directory in windows it takes minutes. In Linux it’s instantaneous.

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Depends on the engineering field, I have out a few specific examples of highly payed engineering fields that can’t get away from Windows.

Do share what they are.

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That’s Firefox’s fault not the plugins. They don’t allow any plugin to run in internal pages.

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Metro Exodus (PC Enhanced Edition).

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Sounds like the drive is FAT32 formatted. Max file size then is 4GiB. Compress it with bzip2 or 7zip or try the @bartolomeo’s solution.

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LibreOffice has a builtin pdf export functionality.

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+1 for Nebula

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https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea/

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Tor browser can be used to access the site itself but don’t use it for torrenting itself.

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systemd also waits 2 minutes for a network connection which already exists but it can’t see it because systemd doesn’t do the networking

Any way to speed this up? On my system in every boot it waits for network for 30s.

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Actually it’s Netfilter. IPTables is just a frontend.

Locked out - Google's absurd security measures won't log me in (files.catbox.moe)

As title says. I haven’t used my Google account for more than 3 months. Prior to abandoning my Google account, I unlinked my phone number, deleted my recovery email, and logged out every device. I also never had 2FA TOTP setup....

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Google is lying to you. They don’t want your phone number to “verify it’s you”. They want your phone number because it’s an effective measure against bot accounts.

There you’re correct that they are lying and don’t want the number to verify. They want it so they can link the profile they have to an actual person. That’ll make the profile more valuable to them. Better tracking etc.

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My guess would be it’s looking for the removed swap partition. Comment out or remove the entry for swap from /etc/fstab.

It looks something like this:

UUID=b27bc530-5a8f-4160-8814-95679e0f4987 swap swap defaults 0 0

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Deus Ex Human Revolution, Mass Effect 1, Diablo 2.

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Any message sent in any platform can be read by the admins of that service unless the service has implemented encryption in a way that the message can only be viewed by the sender and recipient.

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