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I run dnstools.ws which lets you perform DNS lookups, pings, traceroutes, etc. from 25 locations around the world. Each location is powered by a VPS running Debian, running a C# service that’s compiled to native code ahead-of-time using Native AOT. It uses ~60MB RAM.

ive been usin bibata since 2.0 and im bored, what cursors yall use?

Hi everyone!

For those interested on the question of age verification and GNU/Linux: be aware that Systemd v261-rc1 was recently released. It now implements an optional birth date field in the JSON user database (see second item under “Other changes").

What is a good option for making A5 flyers?

I’m testing out the SecureBlue distro, the concept is very cool and I am still learning my ways around it. Anyhow, SecureBlue came with its own hardened browser: Trivalent. It is great and coming from GrapheneOS on my phone, this feels like at home.

I wanted a sanity check on my current rsync flags. Posts on Reddit seem to highlight the use of rsync -avz for most use cases, for some instances even for when someone asks for mirroring a drive: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/rau071/rsync_command_to_mirror_drive/. This has not worked for me for the following case:

Friend asks: I would like to make an app to ask for authentication before launching. I can do that on MacOS via creating an encrypted disc image and put the app in there, and windows has robust third party tools for it. But how would you go about it on Linux, especially since it’s a .deb (that gets auto-updated all the time via its repo) and not an appimage/flatpak? Others need access to the user account, but I want to restrict that one app. Creating a different user account for it is out of the question btw, since you can still change the password for that user via the primary admin account. Also, I don’t want to be running full VMs that take forever to boot to use that one app. Is there any simple way to lock an app under Linux?

I installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS about a year ago. Now that 26.04 is out, I was planning to upgrade, but instead I think I’m going to wipe and re-install from scratch. Does anyone have any tips or tweaks they recommend for new installs? Things like, do or don’t encrypt the drive during the install process, make an administrator account separate from your regular user account? I already plan to install the Flatpak repo and the Gnome Software Center.

Do you use vim as your default text editor? If you do not, have you ever been in a situation you could do nothing but use vim?

Debian 13:

Hello,

I have been setting up Zram, Swap, Swappiness and EasyOOM daemon on 16gb ram boxes, or lower. Someone asked me about 32gb of ram, or more, and I’m unsure. Wondering if others have experimented with this!

The battery tray indicators I’ve tried on Linux so far only seem to take the instantaneous power consumption into account. Is there one that estimates remaining battery life based on power draw over a longer time window and integrates easily with my desktop environment’s tray?

I can’t install anything because connection to debian.map.fastlydns.net is stuck at 0%. However, pinging it does work. I suppose it is caused by my ISP since. So, what should I do to fix that? Is switching to a mirror going to help?

they list the compatible phones but the one i intend to get has at least 3 or 4 different configurations, ranging from 4-8GB RAM. and now i wonder if that’s going to influence the performance? i mean sure it does at some point but i am talking about the baseline performance not the one with a dozen apps running. https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io https://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_redmi_note_9_pro-10217.php

This is probably a very simple thing but I can’t find an answer, possibly because I don’t know what terms to use in search.

I am looking to build an alternative laptop to AMD/Intel. I want to limit how much I support them and protect my privacy.

Any way to compress game files on linux? I know that all games vary, content vary and so on, but is there any things i can look out for in like an average steam game which I can compress, and the game can still run fine, tools or programs or anything?

This adds support for running crystal-dock on the COSMIC desktop environment (System76, currently in alpha).

I still love this machine. On MacOS, it still runs very well but is not supported anymore unfortunately. I have installed Mint on it and it was very sluggish. I then went for Ubuntu 22.04 and gnome 42.9 and it has been much better, keyboard, battery, trackpad and shortcuts have been supported mostly out of the box.

You guys are awesome. You’ve taken a bunch of sand and made it do some amazing things. FOSS devs especially, you do this for the good of everyone for little benefit to yourselves. You all deserve a medal.

Something to handle code, text and math.

Hi all, I’ve no idea if this is possible but figured I’d see if anyone has done anything similar. Here’s the problem: basically I have a tv that I sometimes plug into my desktop pc in my room. Problem is when I do so I have to manually move cables around to remove the desktop monitors and then I need a mouse and keyboard to get into steam big picture. If anything breaks along the way I need to use a keyboard and mouse again. What I’d like to do is somehow be able to say under certain conditions only use the tv as a monitor otherwise ignore it and vice versa so I don’t have to unplug it or replug it every time I switch between my desk or my couch. Another want is to have it boot straight to big picture when and only when my tv is connected. I suspect this is something I could solve with scripting? Just would need to know where to look. Also could possibly dual boot say bazzite but that wouldn’t be a full solution. I do have another pc that I’ve slowly accumulated from upgrades but the 7700xt isn’t really a 4k card. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks!

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I’d wanted to jump to Linux since the 90s, but it was never quite there for me, plus my day jerb requires me to be on Windows. I finally started ripping the band-aid off a couple years ago and it’s been amazing. I received a private message in response to a long-running issue I was having with my dGPU, and that person absolutely got me squared away by suggesting I give Aurora Linux a try for use cases.

Trying to update && upgrade but getting that error. I’m not sure how it happened but should I just manually add the DNS record for ports.ubuntu.com? I’m using pi-hole. I’m worried this is a MITM attack or some hacker trying to push malware. Does anyone have experience with this?

I got fedora KDE with surface-kernel working but the touchscreen usability is LACKING. is there a way to improve the touch interface?

I need to be able to launch a program in the background, make it persist after the “parent” terminal closes and be able to access its stdin/stdout from another terminal. I don’t care about multiplexing.

I’m looking into a new tablet and it seems like grabbing a surface is a more affordable option to an iPad or other high end tablet. I can grab a decent one on marketplace for under $200 us. Is it worth it?

Is anyone else anxious about effortlessly running Android games & apps on Linux?