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KDEConnect?

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Apparently Cisco operates a popular DNS resolver? Never heard of that before.

And definitely don’t learn how to use a VPN. Or set up Unbound or Bind or PowerDNS Recursive…

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ISPs were already required to block the sites. I don’t think an additional block on the Cisco side would change anything in that case.

QT Theme management in Sway

I use VLC,Keepass,Kdenlive and few other QT Apps on my sway setup. So, wanted to configure their themes from Sway. I installed qt5ct and qt6ct and did export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct in bashrc and .profile. While runnin echo $QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME it is showing qt5ct but it is not working showing that error message that...

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In my experience setting environment variables is pretty inconsistent. The easiest way would be using /etc/environment. This sets stuff globally for all users and definitely works.

PAM also used to support a per-user environment file, but that’s deprecated or removed even. The best you can do for per-user config is setting variables both in your login shell and the systemd user environments file.

Found a security bug in LMDE6, need some help (i.imgur.com)

I have an older Intel laptop that has a 1600x900 display, and I find that if I put the machine to sleep, connect an external monitor with a higher resolution, and then turn it back on, the login screen doesn’t adjust to the new resolution and it reveals what I had open (see photo)....

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Or Wayland, where this isn’t an issue.

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Does your wine support Wayland natively maybe? Proton doesn’t yet, and I found some games have issues with that.

I usually use ganescope for such games. Maybe try that

exu ,

I don’t have an ultrawide to test, but can you set the correct resolution in the game? Maybe it’s using the settings from previous launches with 16:9.

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OpenyourwalletAI

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You can install Wireguard or another VPN to encrypt your traffic to the VPS.

exu ,

I already learnt of blendOS two weeks ago, I think in a discussion of immutable distros.

Really looking forward to play around with it some more and maybe replace my Arch install with this.

exu ,

Set ‘blendos-base’ in your system.yaml, install additional packages, update and reboot.

exu ,

Apparently this wasn’t always that obvious.

…m.wikipedia.org/…/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

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On the other hand, I haven’t really had issues with Realtek. Probably because their gigabit chipsets have been out for long enough to be stable.

exu ,

Creative Commons is likely more appropriate for FOSR.

exu ,

Big ass enter is way better than the small one.
You can’t change my mind.

exu ,

You’ll want to install a reverse proxy of your choice on the VPS. Have clients access it over ipv4 and configure it to proxy pass it to your ipv6 address. Nginx at least is capable of doing ipv4 & ipv6 -> ipv4, I think the inverse should also be possible.

exu ,

You could just run everything as root or configure sudo without timeout.

exu ,

It’ll also ignore the default firewalld rules. IIRC it uses the internal zone instead

exu ,

Firewalld had, at least last time I checked, way more capabilities than UFW. Both are fine at being basic firewalls, but I don’t think you can build a router using just UFW.

Firewalld allows some pretty advanced rules. I use it to redirect a bunch of web requests going to a certain address over a local ssh tunnel.

exu ,

You can use OpenCL instead of ROCm for GPU offloading. In my tests with llama.cpp that improved performance massively.

Definitely do benchmarks for how many layers you can offload to the GPU. You’ll see when it’s too many, as performance will crater.

By launching llama.cpp as a server you’ll actually be able to continue to use openwebui as you currently have.

exu ,

It would probably take someone to sue them, but they would have to implement it.

exu ,

It’s probably still more efficient to keep a 192k opus and a 320k mp3 around than one flac.

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I remember a HackerNews comment by the lead XFCE dev about how KDE was actually better optimized, because they have so many more devs working on it.

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Yes. I use a hacky script to copy them to the right place

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Cron sadly does not offer precision in the seconds range.

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*for 20-series and later graphics cards

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I don’t know how good it is, but for Turing and later GPUs there’s a new official open source driver being developed. You’d likely have to use a more bleeding edge distro to get that.

VR works depending on your headset. Index is fine, Oculus doesn’t work.

You could make a usb stick of your desired distro and test everything without permanent changes before commiting.

Apple's Wifi router database: Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning Systems (www.cs.umd.edu)

Apple’s huge database, which usually records the locations of Wi-Fi base stations to the nearest metre, has apparently been exploited without hindrance: With little effort, attackers are able to create a ‘global snapshot’ of all the location data of the WLANs recorded there. This allows them - over a longer period of time...

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With Mozilla Location Services going away soon, I’m wondering at the legality of using the Apple data to seed a replacement.

exu ,

You could use BTRFS, ZFS or BcacheFS to do compression on the filensystem level, but it’s not gonna compress video files or other already compressed media.

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Without knowing what was being hosted, the only surefire way would be pulling a complete disk image with cat or dd.

If you wanted to stay on a similar system, RHEL 9 would be a good option or one of its “as similar as possible” like AlmaLinux.

Other common distros for servers are Debian, Ubuntu server and Suse SLES/OpenSuse Leap.

exu ,

Yeah, they’re more power hungry, but they’re also way more performant than a pi 4.

exu ,

On my phone (Android, LineageOS) there’s an option in the hotspot settings to allow clients to use the active VPN.

exu ,

VAAPI is the “standard” interface for hardware en-/decoding on Linux. It should work with any GPU using the open source drivers and mesa.

I don’t know how QSV can be installed; AMF, the AMD equivalent, is limited to their proprietary driver.

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How well does the current linux app for Proton VPN work on mobile?
It might also be easier to get an ARM64 version than a completely separate app.

Maybe package that for Ubuntu Touch, however their packaging works.

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Of course KDE supports that…

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There’s Onedriver to connect onedrive on Linux. Though it’s been a while since I last used it.

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If you want hardware decoding, first check what your gpu actually supports. vainfo can be used on Linux for example.

If you have a very new gpu, it might support av1 decoding. This is currently the best codec and alsi free.

Otherwise I’d prefer hevc and then avc, in that order. Vp8 or vp9 might also be supported, but they never caught on much so encoders and decoders are generally worse for them than the equivalents for other codecs.

I don’t know any private person who was prosecuted for using hevc or avc. Most likely your hardware manufacturer and other companies already paid for the license to use hevc/avc. If you live in the EU it’s even less of a problem as software patents are not a thing here, i.e. you can’t patent a way to do things.

Foe audio opus is the best codec at the momenr.

Please make sure to compare the quality before and after decoding. Even using a more efficient codec I’d be wary of a 300mb sized movie.

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Totally agreed, but you’d still want gpu decoding.

Are we (linux) ready for Arm devices?

Are we (linux) ready for arm devices like snapdragon elite X? Asahi runs on mac os with arm chips and the software somehow runs better than macos itself?! Is the softwares packaged for arm linux different? Is there much softwares available for the arm platform like softwares available for the intel/amd chipsets?...

exu ,

Support by packages is generally there. What is lacking however, are drivers for video acceleration and many other soc- and often board-specific customisations required.

X86 in contrary offers one unified and queriable interface (ACPI, UEFI) that makes custom images unnecessary. ARM has ServerReady for that, however I’m not aware of any consumer chip that implements this.

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I don’t think Zed has an email client and window manager built-in.

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Update available! This version is very old.

Xscreensaver has apparently been checking for updates and is disappointed that it hasn't had one for 14 months because Debian is too stable. Can anyone recommend a linux screensaver which would work with xfce and can be trusted to never do that?

exu ,

Maybe ironically, the dev acutally makes a good case for why Wayland should be the future in that post. (Crashing the screen locker doesn’t cause it to display your desktop instead)

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Yeah and after work hours. My work phone goes into silent mode every day 17.00 until 7.00 the next day with the schedule I set.

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archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/…/directory/?…

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I recently found out about Softwareheritage, they also have yuzu mirrored.

archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/…/directory/?…

exu OP ,

I think Debian might be a successful democracy in open source.

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Not having automated updates can quickly lead to not doing updates at all. Same goes for backups.

Whenever possible, one should automate tedious stuff.

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