Starlink's Secret War: How Musk Is Powering a Covert Campaign Against Iran
Elon Musk Activates Starlink to Help Topple Iran’s Regime
After a Trump advisor called for regime change, Musk activated Starlink to aid a covert U.S. effort to undermine Iran’s government.Alan Macleod (MintPress News)
The Best-Selling Apps Made By Israeli Spies
The Best-Selling Apps Made By Israeli Spies
A new frontier for the BDS movementNate Bear (¡Do Not Panic!)
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Brazil's Victory for Digital Sovereignty
Brazil's Victory for Digital Sovereignty
Despite years of campaigning for impunity by the Bolsonaros and the American far right, a Supreme Court ruling has increased social media corporations' accountability for internet crimes.Brian Mier (De-Linking Brazil)
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Telesur is not going to get censored by Brazilian law lmao, if platforms did that it would be a reprisal for being made to follow Brazilian law.
There is no good argument for the US oligarchy to get final say over the govts of the countries using their services, but this is even crazier to say when US platforms are littered with mysteriously unmoderated Nazi content. Get real?
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I'm the one spinning fairy tales?? You're telling me that these companies aren't already blocking people in accordance with their own policies shaped by those very organizations? I just think there is a misunderstanding here, because Bolsonaro would never do anything like this but you're reframing it as a win for him.
I sure hope nobody thinks of Brazil as a magic kingdom where only good things happening. For the govt there to actually grow a backbone and limit the influence of the orgs that are encouraging their petit boug to be little pro-US Evangelical nightmare beings would ve fantastic. The dominance of US tech & media is very very bad and other countries need actual sovereignty (like enforcing their laws on multinational companies and not legalizing their activities - at a bare minimum, as relying on them at all is a result of being deliberately underdeveloped)
These companies are very entwined with US state power it's imperialism and the privatization of the state that is an issue not third world sovereignty itself
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No it's not! I hope you can see that uninhibited unlawful access by multinational media & telecom companies is exactly what leads to the establishment of comprador figures like Bolsonaro, who dislike Telesur's politics.
I'm actually glad you've raised this, as it helps me develop my thoughts on social libertarian left tech activism & its limitations. One of its dubious accomplishments is watering down the wrongs done by the US & allied governments with pop social science into generic anti-authoritarian rhetoric, and opposing actions by neo-colonized countries which limit foreign soft power + capital
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In 2014, after years of debate, Brazil's Congress ratified Law 12.965/2014, the Internet Civil Framework. This law required social media companies to delete posts and deplatform users who broke Brazilian laws. However, it placed the burden on Brazilian courts to identify the posts and accounts.
Is this meant to apply to all "users" of the platform or only Brazilian Citizens?
If it applies to Brazilian Citizens, that's all fine and good. But if I break brazilian law by criticizing their government, is lemmy.ml expected to "deplatform" and "censor" me?
I read the article. In-fact I started this thread asking for clarification to whom these laws apply. Then you went off on a tangent about Zuckerberg and implied i'm a "chud." So let me state how I think these laws apply, tell me if this is correct.
The Nation of Brazil passes a law that says the users of a website have to abide by Brazil's laws. I don't know what they meant by that, I assume lemmy.ml that is not hosted in Brazil isn't expected to know nor care about what Brazil's laws say. But if that were the case, then Facebook also wouldn't be expected to know nor care about what Brazil's laws say. The citizens of brazil that use facebook? Sure, they should be subject to those laws. But why should any other entity that exists outside of Brazil be obligated to know nor care about Brazilian law?
Those details seem pretty important, and the article doesn't address them at all, it merely says that Brazil's supreme court says that website are required to "deplatform" and "delete posts" of users who broke the law. But why should lemmy.ml abide by brazilian laws?
Lemmy.ml should abide by Brazilian laws because otherwise they'll get blocked in that country. I'm not much of a free speech fanatic. Ideally if people post a bunch of Nazi shit then Brazilian ISPs will be legally obliged to block it. The socdems in Brazil are rather lame so I have little faith in all of the "dark humor" Fb and Telegram groups getting nuked.
I'm not a lawyer, but, if you understand this isn't even a new law and it's just the end of impunity for US companies I don't see why you would frame this as an imminent threat to free speech. That's why I doubted you read.
Taiwan to simulate Chinese invasion in major drill
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[Question] Fedora KDE defaults to console mode if I don't turn on the display during boot-up
startx isn't hard, but I would like not to. Tnx!
They could have named our galaxy anything and this is what we got
Milfy Way, or Milfky Way.
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(Aka The way of the milf.)
It's such a shitty joke (my brainhole entertains itself in the stupidest, nonsensical, basic ways).
I hope all of you tankie roaches meet the same fate as Donbas cowboy, Russell Bentley.
Bentley’s wife, Lyudmila, then claimed that Russian soldiers from a tank battalion abducted him.According to the Investigative Committee, Vansyatsky, Agaltsev, and Iordanov tortured Bentley on April 8, and he died shortly afterward.
Vansyatsky and Agaltsev are suspected of blowing up a car with Bentley’s body in it and ordering Bazhin to get rid of what was left of his remains.
Imagine what was going through Bentley's mind as his fellow Russians were torturing him to death.
You are all vile and disgusting scum. Let's hope one day you get to experience Bentley's last moments.
Better late then never, right?
I hope Dessalines in particular gets a taste of russian culture by getting closely acquainted with some champagne bottles (russian style).
Russian Soldiers Charged With Involvement In American's Death
Russell Bentley, a Texas man who as the "Donbas Cowboy" gained notoriety for joining Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine, was tortured before being killed in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Donetsk, Russian authorities said.Current Time (RFE/RL)
OBS does not allow me to create a new pipewire screen (only one works)
How come when I try to create a new obs screen, it is black, whether or not i toggle off the visibility on Screen Capture
and how do i get it to show the capture settings, like which monitor, or what portion of the screen, to be clear, the! first capture works, for some reason no other capture i try to create is letting me configure or display anything
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imgur.com/a/K7pMA4p
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^ Video \
There is a chance this might be related to another issue I had, but I dont know a fix (I have to manually add what portals I want to install due to a bug, but I have the plasma portals so that should be enough?)
debug: Found portal inhibitordebug: Attempted path: /app/bin/../share/obs/obs- - Pastebin.com
Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.Pastebin
There's a multitude of things going on here probably, but you need some debug logs to find. My guess is because your machine probably has multiple GPUs enabled, it's picking the inactive one, or you have multiple portal methods install and it's choosing the wrong.
Can you get some logs?
I have the hyprland portals installed, and the kde ones, due to some issue I had to explicitly install them so idk if that will mess with the way applications handle it, assuming not, and yes I have two gpus, one dgpu, and one igpu, the dgpu is directly connected to my hdmi, does OBS stuggle with 2 gpus? still, that sounds like it would be a issue with capturing the monitor managed by my igpu. Not a reason to stop a second pipewire capture.
What logs do you need? I provided some from running OBS but i assume it isnt enough, what logs should I collect, or is there a flag i need to run with OBS
Missed your logs link, but there's some hints in there.
You have both an Intel GPU and Nvidia GPU in that laptop, and it's selecting your Intel while trying to use Nvidia compatible settings. So you need to try and force everything to either work on Nvidia, or everything to work on Intel. It can't do both without splitting the settings per GPU, which I don't think is an option in OBS.
I tried nvidia-offload, as I set up PRIME awhile ago, it didnt help, here is the logs, if its useful:
pastebin.com/CiJ4Zyjw
Idk if OBS would actually respect the GPU being handed to it, or if it'll do something weird with screen capture, its weird per-gpu settings is not a option with OBS, if this is a OBS bug, i can file a bug report. Hopefully it can be resolved here.
[spiderunderurbed@daspidercave:~/tmp2]$ nvidia-offload flatpak run com.obsproj - Pastebin.com
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Well in that log, it actually DOES use the right GPU. There are some other errors you have going on in there though, like you seem to have AV1 encoding selected somewhere in your settings, but this RTX 3070 doesn't support AV1 encoding (on the fly) AFAIK.
Try launching the app this same, setting all your hardware encoding stuff back to defaults, then see if you can get it working. In these logs it IS picking up the second pipewire display, so that's good, but launch this way again without AV1 enabled then upload the logs again and let's see what's happening.
GE-Proton10-8 Released
- Fix doom eternel black screen regression when using wine-wayland
- disable steam input and xalia in wine-wayland (they dont work with it) and enable sdl instead
- add protonfixes for Blade & Soul NEO -- game is now playable but there is a known crash in-game when you open the settings. Opening the settings at character select works fine
- add protonfix to set SteamOS=1 for Wuthering Waves --game is now playable
Release GE-Proton10-8 Released · GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
Fix doom eternel black screen regression when using wine-wayland disable steam input and xalia in wine-wayland (they dont work with it) and enable sdl instead add protonfixes for Blade & Soul NEO -...GitHub
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Technology giants Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab, Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab, Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab, and IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab were named as "central to Israel's surveillance apparatus and the ongoing Gaza destruction."
First as tragedy, then as… also tragedy. IBM and the Holocaust
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation is a book by investigative journalist and historian Edwin Black which documents the strategic technology services rendered by US-based multinational corporation International Business Machines (IBM) and its German and other European subsidiaries for the government of Adolf Hitler from the beginning of the Third Reich through to the last day of the regime, at the end of World War II when the US and Germany were at war with each other.Published in 2001, with numerous subsequent expanded editions, Black outlined the key role of IBM's technology in the Holocaust genocide committed by the German Nazi regime, by facilitating the regime's generation and tabulation of punched cards for national census data, military logistics, ghetto statistics, train traffic management, and concentration camp capacity.
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Date systems in Excel - Microsoft Support
Learn about the 1900 and 1904 date systems and how to change the default if necessary.support.microsoft.com
I thought about that, but decided to leave it as an exercise for the reader.
Don’t forget that Integer8 (the middle dragon) counts increments of 100 nanoseconds, because… reasons.
And don’t forget that 1900 still is a leap year in Excel.
I have been able to outsource low level parsing to third party libraries
Hahaha!!!
Today I watched a Java server crash because a library decided it needed more than 3GB of heap space to read a 10MB file. That was after manually removed background colors from around 100,000 cells, which apparently caused the parser to create even more objects in its internal representation of the sheet.
Yeah, I get it. I've had many libraries fail me in as many ways, which is why I consider it lucky to not have to implement my own. I work in .net these days, but there have been times where I had to just dig into the xml inside the xlsx and use xml tools. Those were mostly one-offs, thankfully.
Back when I did Java I had a frustrating experience with IBM's libxml causing our app to crash after several days due to a memory leak. I didn't have access to the production environment so it took me probably 3 weeks to find the cause and only after digging through a crash dump provided by the sysadmin. Not related, but you triggered my traumatic memory 😀
And don’t forget that 1900 still is a leap year in Excel.
Thank you! Saying this finally made me realize why I always need to add/subtract one day when I’m trying to convert dates to and from the Excel representation. 🤦
Converting numbers is easy
Explanation (which might be wrong, since I’m writing this after banging my head against a wall. Please do correct me if I’m wrong):
In regular numbering systems (i.e., decimal), we exhaust all 10 digits (0–9) before we reach two-digit numbers. The first number to require 3 digits is 10². The first to use 4 is 10³, and so on.
In music intervals, there is no “0”. The interval c’–c’, for instance, is called a prime (1). This has the funny consequence that moving by a fifth and then by a fourth doesn’t land you on the ninth, but the octave (8). Moving by an octave and then another octave gets you to the 15th, not the 16th.
In Excel, shit hits the fan when you need to convert column names (A, B, C…) to numbers (0, 1, 2…). Since we use 26 characters as our ‘digits’, we’re in the hexavigesimal system. Knowing what I told you in the first paragraph, you’d expect the first double-digit column (AA) to be 26. And you’re right.
However, when do we need 3 digits? Which column is column AAA? A sane person would say it’s 26², so 676. Ha! No. Column number 676 is actually ZA. What gives? Well, we only ditch the zero for single digit numbers. All subsequent columns actually use 27 different characters, the ‘empty character’ being one of them. That’s where we get the ‘single digit’ – there actually is a second digit, only it’s empty.
So the column AAA actually has index 702, or 26×27. Which index does the column AAAA have? 26×27². The system of adding powers of the base works, only we changed bases midway through.
You can see the lopsidedness in the index lookup table (I’m not displaying all characters for brevity). Sane number systems have square tables. Excel’s is 26×27 (shown are 4×5).
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I can track my old lease car
So, I still receive telemetry information from my old lease car, a Kia e-Niro, to my app. A huge, HUGE privacy issue.
I made sure to remove my profile from the car before turning it in, and doing a factory reset of the car's software.
I can see everything, AC, whether there are doors open, odometer, and above all, location.
Also tried to see if I can turn off the AC, but any commands throw an error, so disabling my account on the car at least did something 😅
I had it in the Netherlands, it's in Poland, and it looks like it's on its way to Ukraine.
Kia, you need to check your security.
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Holy shit it gets real bad. I can lock and unlock the car.
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Nissan does this too. I leased a new Kicks when they came out and HATED it. Seats were terrible, car was underpowered, and some jackass decided to program the cvt to "shift" because Nissan got complaints that the car was stuck in gear. Just learn how a CVT works.
Anyways, 4 years later, I still get emails about monthly maintenance work, tow alarms, and tracking updates. I never asked for them to begin with and I guess I'm stuck with it as a VW guy now.
Elon Musk fonda il suo partito dopo il sondaggio su X: «Oggi nasce l'America Party per restituirvi la libertà »
L'intelligenza artificiale Grok è pure diventata un sondaggista per l'occasione. 😂
Secondo la sua intelligenza artificiale, Grok, la nuova formazione potrebbe assestarsi intorno al 5-10%, rompendo così il granitico bipolarismo americano.
Elon Musk fonda il suo partito dopo il sondaggio su X: «Oggi nasce l’America Party per restituirvi la libertà»
L’annuncio segue un sondaggio lanciato dal miliardario il 4 luglio, in cui il 65% degli americani si è detto favorevole alla nascita di una nuova formazione politicaUgo Milano (Open)
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por qué elegí Tuta como mi servicio de correo electrónico
-precio justo
- empresa fiable, no venden tus datos
- la mejor opción si necesitas varios dominios o alias con varias bandejas de entrada
- servicio de calendario
- aplicación móvil multiplataforma, escritorio para Linux mantenido
-Me encanta el modo offline
-Privacidad
-utiliza y apoya el software libre
¿Más información? tuta.com/es
Tuta: Activa gratis la privacidad de tus correos electrónicos, calendarios y contactos | Tuta
Tuta garantiza la privacidad de tus datos de forma gratuita y sin publicidad. El cifrado quantum resistente hace de Tuta la mejor solución tecnológica segura para proteger tu privacidad.Tuta
Por qué elegimos Tuta
Por qué elegimos Tuta
Tuta es un servicio de correo electrónico seguro con sede en Alemania. Lo que diferencia a Tutanota es su enfoque centrado en la privacidad. Esto significa que no tienen acceso a tus datos, y su servicio es uno de los más discretos de comunicación por correo electrónico.
Con una interfaz limpia y sencilla, libre de distracciones inútiles, Tuta es una opción válida para quienes buscan seguridad con privacidad. Es sencillo, funciona, ¡es Tuta!
Recupera tus datos, con el correo electrónico, el calendario y la agenda de contactos, encriptados, de Tuta.
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Tuta: Activa gratis la privacidad de tus correos electrónicos, calendarios y contactos | Tuta
Tuta garantiza la privacidad de tus datos de forma gratuita y sin publicidad. El cifrado quantum resistente hace de Tuta la mejor solución tecnológica segura para proteger tu privacidad.Tuta
The effects of Lemm.ee shutdown can already be seen.
Fediverse Observer checks all sites in the fediverse and gives you an easy way to find a home from a map or list or automatically.
Lemmy Sites Status. Find a Lemmy server to sign up for, find one close to you!lemmy.fediverse.observer
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Native version of Unreal Tournament 2004
I recently switched to Nobara and I'm currently trying to get everything to work. I'll be a bit spammy here looking for help, I hope that's ok.
Today I would like to install my retail version of Unreal Tournament 2004 that came on a DVD.
I got the installer for the native Linux version to run and copied over the latest patch. But when I try to run the game i get./ut2004-bin-linux-amd64: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I tried to install libstdc++ through dnf and got
Package "libstdc++-15.1.1-2.fc42.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "libstdc++-15.1.1-2.fc42.i686" is already installed.In /root/lib I habe a libstdc++.so.6
Does ".so.5" mean I need version 5. How do I get the version Unreal Tournament 2004 wants?
Or would it be easier to use the Windows version through Wine?
edit: managed to get the native version to run: feddit.org/post/15075302/76663…
With the help of this forum post and a bit of persistence I managed to get it to work and I wanted to share how with future generations and/or my future self.
First Problem: libstdc++.so.5
dnf does not have libstdc++5 but apt does.
Solution: I installed Mint on a Virtual Machine ran sudo apt install libstdc++5 and then copied the library to my real machine into the system directory of UT2004. The game now starts. I know there must be a better way to solve this.
Second Problem: Game starts in a tiny window stuck in the top left corner
Alt+Enter switches it to a real window that makes the game useable, but setting a proper resolution and trying to make it fullscreen again crashes the game.
Solution: Open /home/user/.ut2004/System/UT2004.ini, go to the [SDLDrv.SDLClient] section and set all lines with viewport to the desired resolution.
Third Problem: No sound
UT2004 uses the obsolete OSS sound system.
Solution: Run the game under a compatibility wrapper. Debian and derivatives have aoss available. Fedora and derivatives have padsp. Thus run the game with padsp "./ut2004-bin-linux-amd64" and the sound works.
Anyone have experience with Zen Privacy app? (not the browser)
Zen
Zen is a simple, free and efficient desktop application that helps you browse the internet and use your apps without annoying ads, trackers, or hidden threats.zenprivacy.net
Anyway it's always good to use this and similar apps on the PC, in Mobile maybe InVizible Pro (F-Droid version please).
Safing Portmaster - Easy Privacy
Portmaster is a free and open-source application that puts you back in charge over all your computer's network connections. Increase your privacy and security. Get peace of mind.safing.io
Best YouTube Frontend for iOS
It would be nice if it also had features like SponsorBlock.
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Orion Browser on iOS/iPadOS is compatible with (some, not all) Firefox/Chrome addons. Add SponsorBlock for YouTube, uBlock Origin and Video Background Play Fix from addons.mozilla.org and use the YouTube website as is?
Used to run my own Invidious instance I used with Yattee but it got banned and then for some reason ate shit and died completely.
add-ons on Orion
It's great to know that they are working better now, last time I tried almost none was functionnal and it was quite a pain to install / uninstall / switch source (Firefox / Chrome version) in the hopes of it finally working. I’ll have a look, since then I’ve been using Brave + piHole and it was more or less decent.
Counting Crows - Underwater Sunshine (2012)
A quattro anni dal loro ultimo disco "Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings", i Counting Crows ritornano con un nuovo lavoro e questa volta è un disco di cover, spiazzando ancora una volta i loro fan. Ad Adam Duritz & co. infatti, una cosa su cui non si discute è la libertà di "scelta", in poche parole fanno quello che gli pare senza filtri e costrizioni di sorta... Leggi e ascolta...
Counting Crows - Underwater Sunshine (2012)
A quattro anni dal loro ultimo disco “Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings”, i Counting Crows ritornano con un nuovo lavoro e questa volta è un disco di cover, spiazzando ancora una volta i loro fan. Ad Adam Duritz & co. infatti, una cosa su cui non si discute è la libertà di “scelta”, in poche parole fanno quello che gli pare senza filtri e costrizioni di sorta. Questa loro “scelta” gli permette di spaziare non solo con dischi variegati; dal vivo, in studio, di cover ma soprattutto con i tempi da loro scelti in base alle loro esigenze e non quelli dettati dalle Majors di turno. Dimostrazione è la scelta dei quindici brani che non appartengono ad un repertorio di canzoni famose o di facile ascolto ma scelte tra quelle che più piacevano a loro. Come risponde Duritz in una intervista: “Io sono un grande credente di una semplice regola, che qui non ci sono regole”. Insomma un gruppo “indipendente” nelle scelte e nelle esecuzioni della serie “prendere o lasciare”... artesuono.blogspot.com/2014/08…
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di Silvano Bottaro (or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation) A quattro anni dal loro ultimo disco "Saturday Nights and Sunday Mo...Silvano Bottaro (Blogger)
Challenges meeting new people without an Instagram account
I’ve been trying to meet new friends and new people to hang out with so have been going to a lot of social events.
I noticed that everyone seems to ask for my instagram account and when I say I don’t have one that connection kind of dies, and it feels too personal to ask for someone number when I just met them.
I don’t want to create an instagram because of the privacy invasions of meta but I also don’t want to feel left out when trying to make new connections. Anyone have any advice?
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The AI Company Zuckerberg Just Poured $14 Billion Into Is Reportedly a Clown Show of Ludicrous Incompetence
The AI Company Zuckerberg Just Poured $14 Billion Into Is Reportedly a Clown Show of Ludicrous Incompetence
The data annotation company Scale AI that Meta splurged $14 billion to take ownership of was reportedly overrun with "spammers."Frank Landymore (Futurism)
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Researching making the switch from Windows on my main PC and I have questions.
This PC is basically my life, I use it for work (freelance business), entertainment, and to self host a server so I'm hesitant. I have a handful of questions for now while I look into it more:
- I'd prefer not to dual boo, but it might be the safest way to start? If I dual boot, get used to Linux and (hopefully) get everything I need working, can I then go from dual boot to erasing the Windows partition and recombining so I then only have Linux installed and can keep the work and programs I already installed on Linux?
- I do voiceover work, music production, and digital art/photography. Anyone else here do all this and what programs would you recommened to replace Audition, Photoshop, and Cubase?
--2.1. Regarding music production, has anyone successfully used vst files from Windows on Linux?
- The drives for my server are NTFS. Does anyone have experience with this format on Linux (I use Emby)?
- My bread and butter right now is voice acting so I NEED everything to play nice. I've read there might be some issues with drivers for my hardware, namely Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 and Behringer UV1. Anyone have any experience with this?
EDIT: Wow that's a lot of responses. I'd like to respond to each but I'm a bit overwhelmed with all the info haha. I think I'm gonna grab an old external USB drive and live boot from there and test things out. Thanks to everyone, I've got a tonne to mull over now. Appreciate it!
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I think I'm gonna grab an old external USB drive and live boot from there and test things out
Just keep in mind, in such a case, that your performance will be quite reduced due to limits on I/O. When you have Linux on a real drive - especially a striped RAID, the system is blazing fast. It’s a substantial difference you should keep in mind when evaluating.
You could acquire a pretty cheap PC for Linux it runs on a potato. Try an electrical scrap heap nearby that you can fossick from or a friend with an old, unused system in storage (even a cheap $20 retro PC from your local marketplace?) to acquire an old retro system. You might not even need a new screen depending what connections your existing screens/TV has and if you could use a cheap adapter and cable from the thrift store.
Linux runs on basically any retro PC and laptop excluding some annoying wifi chips that need planning before the install if you don't have ethernet. Some really old tech may also require specific distributions that still offer support too.
Machines with a 32bit CPU you will want to confirm beforehand if your chosen distribution still offers a supported 32bit install image and retro PC's with obscure expansion cards that perhaps were never supported. This is likely moving into vintage collectors territory though and you would have to be pretty lucky now to find a machine like that super cheap and working.
Solved: Any desktop environment or WM with configurable placing/opening of windows?
When using TMUX, it is easy to create a script, which opens TMUX, configures the screens/panes of TMUX and open/run programs.
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My baseline would be something like, when I login, some applications are executed and their windows automatically placed on a virtual desktop.
For example:
- Open Firefox and put it on virtual desktop 1
- Open Terminal in fullscreen and put it on virtual desktop 2
- Open VSCode and put it on virtual desktop 3
Something like that is possible with sway, in the environment I am working, sway is not able to run XWayland applications w/o crashing.
Is there any way to have this functionality on Gnome, Mate, Xfce?
Even better would be something to open several windows and arrange them automatically for different work tasks/projects I am working on. Any ideas?
Edit: Solved! Thanks for the input. Auto Move Windows extension for Gnome solves my problem.
Do What You Love
Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.
My dad used to say this to me. He didn’t come up with it of course. Searching for the source, I see attribution to Marc Anthony. How it came to be a 70-80 year old man was quoting a singer to me I’d bet money he’d never heard, I’ll never know. Maybe he didn’t either.
The basic idea behind the quote is that what you’re doing won’t feel like work if it’s something you love doing anyway. I mean, think of the thing you want to be doing right now instead of reading this post. Your favorite thing in the world. Now, along comes some idiot who offers to pay you to do that very thing! How can you possibly say no?
There’s a darker aspect to this quote that I don’t think people consider though. If you take the thing you love and do that for work, you’re turning what you love into a job. This is a trap that I’ve fallen into. Multiple times.
Do What You Love
Mostly The Lonely Howls Of Mike Baying His Ideological Purity At The Moonmikestone.me
I see attribution to Marc Anthony
It was around long, long before Marc Anthony. Also, you are being way too cynical. It's really just saying that if ya can, you should try to make a living out of something you are passionate about.
Yes, there are people who love what they do for a living so much, that they never wanna quit doing it. I am one of them. I own my own company.
Think of musicians, or actors. Some of them legit love what they are doing and never wanna stop doing it. My grandfather owned an Antique store. His entire life was that store and even when he was in the hospital, he was trying to get back to his Antique shop ASAP. My father was same way. And it's probably why I own my own company.
New Linux Kernel Drama: Torvalds Drops Bcachefs Support After Clash
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Anyone else here actively put off by Linux drama and headlines like "Torvalds Drops support After Clash!"
EDIT: New rule?
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Filesystems are incredibly antiquated, and while I don't agree with Kent's attitude, it is very important in the long run that filesystems catch back up.
As it stands just about any enterprise system you can poke a stick at is rolling their own customised file storage system, with a traditional filesystem typically being a misshapen dead weight sitting somewhere in the middle of it - existing because it's the only thing the kernel can integrate with.
It is pretty important that this trend reverses, and bcachefs was a big step in the right direction. Unfortunate that Kent is the way he is.
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At the very least, it would be far more of a circus, as the follow-up articles would read "LINUX KERNEL CREATOR LINUS TORVALDS MAKES DEVESTATING REPLY TO FOSS DRAMA!"
But yeah, I think shit like that would just make devs want to go work for a company, because at least when they make a shitty closed sourced, exploitive program people are mad at the company, not them, specifically. They don't have to deal with this shit.
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Elon Musk’s ‘America’ party could focus on a few pivotal congressional seats
The new US political party that Elon Musk has boasted about bankrolling could initially focus on a handful of attainable House and Senate seats while striving to be the decisive vote on major issues amid the thin margins in Congress.Tesla and SpaceX’s multibillionaire CEO mused about that approach on Friday in a post on X, the social media platform he owns, as he continued feuding with Donald Trump over the spending bill that the president has signed into law. On Saturday, without immediately elaborating, the former Trump adviser announced on X that he had created the so-called America party.
“One way to execute on this would be to laser-focus on just 2 or 3 Senate seats and 8 to 10 House districts,” wrote Musk, who is the world’s richest person and oversaw brutal cuts to the federal government after Trump’s second presidency began in January. “Given the razor-thin legislative margins, that would be enough to serve as the deciding vote on contentious laws, ensuring they serve the true will of the people.”
Ross Perot already tried this gambit. Billions of dollars can't buy a political party starting from scratch. Musk has always been more successful as an investor who turns around and claims to be the founder.
Not to mention, Fox News will no doubt find any snippet they can to tear him down after being the golden boy for a while.
I point this out because I think he can only pull from non-MAGA conservatives, and I've no idea what his approval rating is amongst them. The rest of us know he's a drug-addled Nazi.
A phased start makes logical sense instead of trying to build out a 50-state network Day 1. But I see no way to critical mass, even at the congressional district level, for a win as opposed to being a spoiler.
Elon Musk’s proposed new political party could focus on a few pivotal congressional seats
Billionaire said his ‘America party’ would try to turn attainable House and Senate seats to decide major issuesRamon Antonio Vargas (The Guardian)
Bad issues with system load on Mint Desktop
Hi!. Currently running Linux Mint 22.1, but i suspect it's not strictly a distro issue. This laptop was running VERY well but was outdated, running Mint 19.3, some things were unable to be installed because the system libraries were old (didn't expect Calibre to be one of them, figures), so i updated all the way to that moment's current version which was Mint 21.3. All of a sudden it felt like the laptop got downgraded two whole computer tech generations. As soon as i ask it to do something mildly complicated that made it break no sweat on Mint 19, it gets VERY slow, all the cores start running at max, system load increases, until it finishes doing whatever it was doing several minutes later, something between a couple of minutes when lucky, to 20 or more. Typically what triggers the issue is something on the browser (what i use the most on the computer is browser tabs and lots of terminals) but not exclusively. Thought it was the browser but replicated it on an empty Firefox profile, and has triggered with simpler stuff like the Discord client. Been trying to find the issue for a while trying to avoid a full reinstall, no luck so far.
If i were to describe how it feels, it's like there was a bottleneck on tasks being done by the system, as soon as you ask it to do something mildly complex it chokes on it and tasks accumulate. No idea if it's some kind of kernel misconfiguration, if it's some hardware incompatibility, or something else entirely, checking the changelogs of Mint all the way between 19.3 and 21.3 showed nothing i could pin this onto (or at least nothing i could notice).
The nuclear option would be a brand new blank install but I'd MUCH rather avoid that if possible, made the comfortable but now unwise choice of a single partition for everything (instead of a separate /home and whatnot as i used to do) so reinstallation would wipe it completely, if i must then i must but much rather not.
Would welcome VERY much ideas on stuff to check or try.
Edit: It's got an NVME drive, which seems to be healthy as far as i can see
Edit: When it happens it doesn't seem to matter how much RAM is free, seen it happen with only 8 of the 32Gb of RAM in use and zero swap
Edit: Found a great way to describe how it feels like: Have you done heavy video encoding on a computer that's adequate for the task but not more than that, and noticed how everything in it stalls heavily, even if there's plenty of RAM free and the computer feels like it's giving everything to that task only? Pretty much that, but for nearly everything even moderately heavy
Advice on migrating from Ubuntu server to another server OS
Hi all. I'm currently running a home server using Ubuntu OS, but I'd like to try and explore other options for operating systems to better my skills with linux/unix.
Currently I'm considering switching to Fedora server (though feedback is welcome) because I've been running it as my daily OS for a few months now and I quite like it. I'm also looking at Debian server because that's what my old professor used and he did nothing but speak its praises.
Only issue is I'm concerned about data loss from moving the installation. Currently, the server is setup to run several Docker images running my programs. While moving over the images shouldn't be difficult whatsoever, I'm afraid my storage setup might not be so easy. Currently, it's two 4TB hard drives running in a logical volume. I'd love to simply be able to move over all the files to a backup drive, but I don't have anywhere I can store >5TB of files as a backup.
I googled around, but I couldn't find too many guides on migrating logical volumes. The one or two I did find were most definitely written for someone with far more linux knowledge than I have as a relative noob, so any advice would be extremely welcome!
If you want to use it as a server, Fedora is annoying because the support lifetimes are so short.
If you want the Fedora / Red Hat experience, consider Alma Linux. Skills wise, it is like using Res Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) which is an in-demand skill set.
For a server os, do things like consider stability and ease of upgrading between major versions.
Debian does both of those things extremely well.
If you're playing around with changing distros and your data is valuable, I'd try and find somewhere to back it up to, myself.
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in reply to davel • • •The article lists the following apps associated with Israeli developers or companies:
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in reply to davel • • •I'm pretty sure I've been using the Simple Gallery app they mention for years.
It looks like it is still open source.
However I do see on the Play Store page that their contact details are in Israel.
The Pro version, the one I use, claims to collect no data at all. Not sure how much I trust that.
Maybe it's time to look for a new gallery app...
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The open source code has not been updated since 2023, and neither has the Pro app. However the non-pro app has been updated in 2024.
Therefore, it might be safe to use the open source code version on GitHub, but I wouldn't touch the free one on the play store.
I wouldn't use the Pro version on the play store as you would be funding these companies and they could push an update in the future.
EDIT 2:
As mentioned here, a popular fork of many of these now abandoned Simple apps is the Fossify project. If you liked the app I'd recommend looking at that if you want to keep getting security updates at the very least.
GitHub - SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Gallery: A premium app for managing and editing your photos, videos, GIFs without ads
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in reply to davel • • •What do you guys think about AnySoftKeyboard? Could it be a "sleeping agent"?
Country of origin is Israel according to: alternativeto.net/software/any…
(I know this doesn't mean anything, but still..)
The main developer seems to live in New York: evendanan.net/
He's probably a good guy. Just got a little suspicious (or curious) when I saw the Israeli flag on AlternativeTo.
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