Israeli strike kills 12 members of Gaza family as offensive widens
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By Ahmed Aziz in Khan Younis, occupied Palestine
Published date: 2 April 2025 16:09 BST"An Israeli air strike on Khan Younis has killed at least 12 displaced Palestinians from the same family, relatives told Middle East Eye, as Israel expanded its offensive on Wednesday to seize "large areas" of Gaza.
“They were hanging out at our place, and wanted to wish their mother a happy Eid,” Basma al-Qaoud, a relative of the victims, told MEE.
“They left, and an hour or two later, we receive a call telling us the Bari family home was bombed, which was the home they were renting.”"
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Israeli strike kills 12 members of Gaza family as offensive widens
By Ahmed Aziz in Khan Younis, occupied Palestine
Published date: 2 April 2025 16:09 BST
"An Israeli air strike on Khan Younis has killed at least 12 displaced Palestinians from the same family, relatives told Middle East Eye, as Israel expanded its offensive on Wednesday to seize "large areas" of Gaza.
“They were hanging out at our place, and wanted to wish their mother a happy Eid,” Basma al-Qaoud, a relative of the victims, told MEE.
“They left, and an hour or two later, we receive a call telling us the Bari family home was bombed, which was the home they were renting.”"
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Hi there!
A question about the different page option settings of accounts (friendica 2024.03)./settings/account/basic
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[✅Fixed]Monitor drops to 30% brightness after suspend
Hey, I hope someone can help me.
Problem:
When I wake my PC from suspend, my monitor is always set down to 30% brightness for some reason.
These are the brightness settings of the monitor itself, which can only be accessed via the monitor settings using the buttons on the monitor. I do not mean the brightness settings of my desktop environment.
These are still set to 100%, even though the monitor is darker.
The problem also arises in a second case. When I lower the brightness in the brightness control of my DE, my monitor brightness is also lowered in the monitor settings down to 30% again. I can then no longer increase the brightness in the DE settings, because 100% in the DE now equals 30% in the monitor. So if I set the brightness to 50% in the DE for example, this is 50% of the 30% set in the monitor. So actually only 15% in real terms
I hope I was able to explain the problem clearly. Please ask if you don't understand something. It's really annoying because I need to turn up my screen brightness with the Buttons on the Monitor every single time I wake up my PC.
Technical data:
- Nobara Linux 41 (Based on Fedora)
- KDE Plasma 6.3.3
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- Desktop PC. So a external monitor. Not a laptop monitor.
- I have a 2nd monitor on which this does not happen.
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dmesg
to look for errors from the kernel, for me I had amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: [drm] *ERROR* dc_dmub_srv_log_diagnostic_data: DMCUB error - collecting diagnostic data
. I took this to mean that my system couldn't communicate with the monitor to change brightness anymore. When my system is idle, it first dims the monitor before turning it off, so when I wake it back up it's stuck on low brightness like this. Simply turning my monitor off and back on seemed to fix it.
ive seen this running endeavor on my media nas box, so I think its a plasma issue, as it didnt happen before when i had it running debian with i forgot which DE and version.
it sets the physical brightness of my monitor down and actually affects when i switch inputs to my windows based conputer
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