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A mini hobby project to control Linux based distros using hand gestures using OpenCV, GTK and Mediapipe.
https://redd.it/1c3uiox
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Linux 6.9-rc4 To Bring New Fixes For x86 Speculation Mitigations
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-rc4-x86-urgent
https://redd.it/1c3sk3e
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Windows 11 alternative?
With talks of Win 11 introducing Ads it seems like a perfect time to drop Windows.
However I use software like Brave Browser, VS Code, Orca and Cura Slicers, Arduino IDE, Putty, Winscp. I heard Linux Mint and Endeavour may be good fits?
https://redd.it/1c3nemb
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Linux is more noob friendly than windows
I'm just making this post to complain, because I don't know where else to complain. sorry for bad English.
until recently, people have claimed that linux is complicated and not user friendly compared to the 2 more mainstream OS, which is windows and macos. for media production that maybe true , but thanks to the the many contribution of the developers in the community that is no longer the case. windows has now become such a herculean task to use, that setting up a 2nd screen for my dad's office computer is making me sweat balls. due to the hardware being old, the drivers for it are not well supported, and installing any kind of drivers is like playing chicken, if it'll break the computer or not. mind you I'm no computer wiz but I am pretty sure I would not have the same issue with a linux install. never in my life would have i expected that setting up a 2nd monitor would be comparable to installing arch from scratch. and no I don't use arch... I'm a basic popOS guy the closest thing to arch I've ever used is manjaro which is not even a good fork from what I've heard
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How much money could a school with 2+ million students who all get a Windows laptop w/ Norton save by switching to Linux?
K12 has something like 2+ million home school students who all get Windows laptops. I'm curious as to how much money that costs them just in Microsoft licenses per year.
My kids got these $60 junk HP laptops Loaded with Windows 11 and Norton and a bunch of other junk software that hardly runs at all. It take 3 to 5 minutes to switch between programs.
One of my kids laptops was so bogged down with junk software it would get so hot it would shut down before you could even launch Chrome and had to be replaced. I contacted the school, explained the problem and they sent out a new laptop for him.
The kicker comes they told me to throw it away rather than pay the money to ship it back lol so I decided to put Linux on it and rice it up and it's now actually usable.
Slow and shitty but still usable.
I can't imagine how much money these schools would save just by using linux.
IF anyone knows I'm curious how much a typical school spends yearly on Microsoft and Norton licenses.
My kids are in K12 who boast 2+ million students. That's a shit-ton of money going to Microsoft and Norton every year.
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https://redd.it/1c36ahu
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How programs get run inside the Linux kernel
These LWN articles explain it in great detail. If someone is interested in knowing the intricacies of the kernel's internal mechanism to get with the program execution, then a must-read.
Easy? No, certainly not. If you get it all at once, the entitlement should be bestowed on you. :)
Part-1: https://lwn.net/Articles/630727/
Part-2: https://lwn.net/Articles/631631/
https://redd.it/1c31shm
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The Microsoft-Dilemma: Europe as a Software Colony | A documentary that reveals the backdoor deals Microsoft used to maintain their monopoly, and details how the newly elected government in Munich purposefully destroyed the LiMux project for profit.
https://kolektiva.media/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy
https://redd.it/1c32lg9
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Guide: A potentially better way to theme QT apps.
This definitely isn't the ultimatum when it comes to theming QT apps under GTK and currently I feel this mostly applies to flatpaks and potentially some AppImages; I have no idea about Snaps.
I was always frustrated when it came to theming QT apps under any other DE other than KDE as under that it "Just works". I would always resort to using Kvantum and hoping someone made a theme that matched what I was currently using. Looking at lxqt made me even more frustrated as that is QT based and it doesn't work at all due to lxqt/flatpak not agreeing on who should make the implementations. This led me to examine what tells QT apps to use the kdeglobals file as you can just place one there without needing to install any other packages (At least for flatpaks and Appimages) and all QT apps seem to be focused around working with KDE.
# What you need to do:
To get QT apps to read kdeglobals you need to pass certain environment variables to the application:
#These will only work for native QT apps if you have plasma-integration (or similar depending on distro) installed. But if using native qt5ct is probably better
#I have found these to work for the handful of flatpaks I tested and any AppImage that has the kdeqt plugin packaged
#The only DE I could not get this to work on for AppImages and native apps was GNOME but Cinnamon worked fine.
QTPLATFORMPLUGIN=kde #This seems to be the only one needed for most things
KDESESSIONVERSION=5 #This one may be needed for QT6 apps if you are still on QT5 not sure if kdeglobals changed when KDE went to QT6
#I never seemed to need these but maybe someone will
QTQPAPLATFORMTHEME=kde
KDEFULLSESSION=true
You will also need a kdeglobals file in \~/.config for it to reference the colors from. I went through and marked the variables that actually seemed to change stuff. I left the ones that didn't seem to do anything in case anyone finds an app that actually uses them. You will also need to remove my comments as it does not read the file correctly with them there.:
#This is currently themed to Gruvbox colors
Colors:Button
BackgroundAlternate=60,56,54
BackgroundNormal=40,40,40 #Button Background Color
DecorationFocus=104,157,106
DecorationHover=131,165,152
ForegroundActive=142,192,124
ForegroundInactive=55,115,117
ForegroundLink=184,187,38
ForegroundNegative=218,68,83
ForegroundNeutral=246,116,0
ForegroundNormal=235,219,178 #Border of buttons
ForegroundPositive=39,174,96
ForegroundVisited=127,140,141
Colors:Selection
BackgroundAlternate=142,192,124
BackgroundNormal=104,157,106 #Hovering over Highlight
DecorationFocus=104,157,106
DecorationHover=131,165,152
ForegroundActive=252,252,252
ForegroundInactive=235,219,178
ForegroundLink=253,188,75
ForegroundNegative=218,68,83
ForegroundNeutral=246,116,0
ForegroundNormal=235,219,178 #Text Color on active selection
ForegroundPositive=39,174,96
ForegroundVisited=189,195,199
Colors:Tooltip
BackgroundAlternate=60,56,54
BackgroundNormal=40,40,40 #Tooltip Background Color
DecorationFocus=104,157,106
DecorationHover=131,165,152
ForegroundActive=184,187,38
ForegroundInactive=55,115,117 #Tooltip Text Alternate Color
ForegroundLink=142,192,124
ForegroundNegative=218,68,83
ForegroundNeutral=246,116,0
ForegroundNormal=235,219,178 #Tooltip Text
ForegroundPositive=39,174,96
ForegroundVisited=127,140,141
Colors:View
BackgroundAlternate=60,56,54 #Foreground Alternate
BackgroundNormal=40,40,40 #Foreground Color
DecorationFocus=104,157,106 #Background Color on active Selection
DecorationHover=131,165,152 #Hover Background Color
ForegroundActive=184,187,38 #Alerts/Messages/Warnings
ForegroundInactive=55,115,117 #Certain placeholder text in search boxes
ForegroundLink=142,192,124 #Hyperlink Color
ForegroundNegative=218,68,83
I've finally switched to Linux
https://redd.it/1c2z2un
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Welcome the new APT 3.0 UX: Refined solution screen
https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1c2kxeh/welcome_the_new_apt_30_ux_refined_solution_screen/
https://redd.it/1c2tkd6
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I just discovered Enlightenment — and it’s a hidden gem among desktop environments…
Full of animations and sounds, (it’s the only DE that still plays a startup sound that I know of)…
It also looks very slick too and its layout reminds me of CDE — making it look very “Unix-y”.
This thing is a paradise for those of us who like eyecandy lol.
https://redd.it/1c2q7fr
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Seccomp internals pt.1
https://www.armosec.io/blog/seccomp-internals-part-1/
https://redd.it/1c2j4mu
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I'm managing a big migration from windows to Linux in a Brazillian state corporation
As the title says, i'm managing a shift from Windows to Linux in a Huge Brazillian state corporation. In the first stage it will be 800 machines as a testing stage. The second stage will be the other 22K PCs, it's almost as big as the recently announced migration in German. Our distro will be Ubuntu 22.04 based and the office suite will be OnlyOffice. If everything works as expected, all the developed software might become a open project that will be released for other companies to join. It's a huge responsability, with lots of challenges but initial tests are promising.
https://redd.it/1c2j4pl
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The Hidden Economy of Open Source Software
https://sysdig.com/blog/hidden-economy-of-open-source-software/
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>Despite its ubiquitous presence and foundational role in driving innovation, the true economic value of OSS has remained largely uncharted territory—until now.
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>A groundbreaking study entitled “The Value of Open Source Software” by researchers Manuel Hoffmann, Frank Nagle, and Yanuo Zhou at Harvard Business School delves into this unexplored domain, revealing the astonishing economic impact of OSS throughout industry.
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>https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038\_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf
https://redd.it/1c2ffxi
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LXD/Incus
Hello,
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I reiterate my post because it is not a request for support but questions that I ask myself.
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I'm new to LXD and I came across this article :
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/important-notice-for-lxd-users-image-server/18479
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I would like to know if this is the end of LXC/LXD and is Incus only on the Cloud like Azure, AWS?
https://redd.it/1c2bzmh
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tui-battleship, the classic naval battle game (Bash).
https://redd.it/1c3ugtj
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psa: just use droidcam obs
holy shit this was such a nightmare trying to get droidcam to work.
droidcam has 2 versions:
original, and obs. the obs one exsits as a standalone application as well as a plugin.
I was using droidcam for a while on windows, and it worked okay except id often have to unplug replug to get my phone detected by adb. on ubuntu I found that adb didnt recognize my phone half the time, id have to restart, and then the droidcam client broke after an update.
I found out about droidcam obs, tried that client, and wow thats amazing. It literally just works. I never have to restart it, never have to mess with adb, its amazing. It also supports 60fps and also seems to have better performance, idk maybe the android app has hardware acceleration or something or jsut uses a more efficient compression algo idk.
the only problem is that I had to by droidcam obs pro for higher resolution support, even though I already had droidcamx, and it was $15 compared to the $6 of droidcamx, which kinda sucked, but idk this has been such a better experience.
sorry idk this kinda just fixed all my webcam issues idk havent tried the windows client yet but im assuming it works better on there too
https://redd.it/1c3fgqi
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Does Azure AD/Entra ID authentication for Ubuntu work with MFA?
My company has a fleet of Ubuntu devices. I would like to use Entra ID authentication for user logins to those devices however as MFA is a requirement of Cyber Essentials (a certification in the UK) I will only be able to use it if I can keep MFA enabled in Entra ID. Does anyone know if it works with MFA or if it only works with MFA disabled? Alternatively, are there ways to keep MFA enabled but use exclusions or some other mechanism to override the enforcement of a second factor for device logins only?
https://redd.it/1c3eaob
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How files in Linux work
https://popovicu.com/posts/how-files-in-linux-work/
https://redd.it/1c39uiq
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Is it just me - WiFi issues with AX200 or do people just not care as long as it “works”?
TLDR for those who only want the solution, the following all work somewhat, some work better than others, so try them all out
1. Look at the system logs if there is connection roaming between access points, try pinning WiFi connection to a specific BSSID - try out both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz BSSIDs
2. Try setting the correct WiFi region code if some generic code is preset in your distro
3. Try disabling WiFi power management
Start of rant >
I’ve been having persistent WiFi issues in my Asus Strix 15 with an Intel AX200 WiFi card in both Fedora and OpenSUSE TW.
I can connect to the AP just fine and get internet connectivity. But ping was very slow - like 200-300ms average.
And frequently, like every 2-3 minutes, ping spikes into the thousands - 2000 to 3000ms when pinging just the access point IP.
YouTube playback was fine @720P, but other streaming sites that have less optimized video formats or don’t effectively pre-buffer videos - ones that I use to watch “semi legal” K -Dramas and C-Dramas never seemed to stream without interruption.
In Fedora, disabling the power management seemed to help with the consistent high ping. But the ping spikes remained.
Looking at the system logs, I found that the WiFi card was frequently “roaming” between the 2.4 and 5Ghz bands causing the ping spikes.
All this with an Intel AX200 card, which is supposed to “work great out of the box in Linux” - that is what people said when I asked for recommendations, to switch the card without telling them it was the AX200 that I’m having trouble with.
All the while, I’m getting consistent 1-3ms pings in windows.
At this point I’ve dealt with it as much as I can. By pinning the connection to the 5Ghz band BSSID. This works in both Fedora and OpenSUSE TW.
Other things I’ve tried are disabling the power management. Setting the WiFi region code for the country I’m in. They helped somewhat,
But pinning the connection to the BSSID resolved it to my satisfaction even without the other two.
The spikes are resolved and then average ping times are in the 4-8ms range. Still not as good as in windows but extremely good from what it was originally. But it is good enough to even game comfortably.
So, I was just wondering - is this kind of issues prevalent and are people just not aware as long as they get some kind of connectivity often blaming “slowness” on the router or something else? Or did I get a dud WiFi card?
Or is my AP really that nonstandard (it is a cheap piece of crap that the ISP provided) that it is an edge case? But performance in windows makes me assume this isn’t the case.
I cannot think of any other reasons why a “well supported” WiFi card would cause so much issue. If you can think of one, let me know.
< End of rant
https://redd.it/1c33f79
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Makima (remapping daemon) v0.5.0 released: can now call shell commands and remap analog stick movements! Plus some quality of life changes to the config files
https://github.com/cyber-sushi/makima
https://redd.it/1c32886
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ForegroundNeutral=246,116,0
ForegroundNormal=235,219,178 #Text Color on Foreground
ForegroundPositive=39,174,96
ForegroundVisited=127,140,141
Colors:Window
BackgroundAlternate=60,56,54
BackgroundNormal=40,40,40 #Background Color
DecorationFocus=104,157,106
DecorationHover=131,165,152
ForegroundActive=184,187,38
ForegroundInactive=55,115,117
ForegroundLink=142,192,124
ForegroundNegative=218,68,83
ForegroundNeutral=246,116,0
ForegroundNormal=235,219,178 #Text Color on Background
ForegroundPositive=39,174,96
ForegroundVisited=127,140,141
Icons
Theme= #Icon Pack needs to be in ~/.icons
#These options may or may not be a good idea to manually modify so I will mark these as optional
General
ColorScheme=
ColorSchemeHash=
#XftSubPixel=rgb
#XftAntialias=true
#XftHintStyle=hintslight
#font=<font>,<size>,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0,<style>
#fixed=<font>,<size>,-1,5,75,0,0,0,0,0,<style>
#smallestReadableFont=<font>,<size>,-1,5,87,0,0,0,0,0,<style>
#toolBarFont=<font>,<size>,-1,5,87,0,0,0,0,0,<style>
#menuFont=<font>,<size>,-1,5,87,0,0,0,0,0,<style>
# What I hope happens with this in the future:
I'm not sure if this will ever be the case but I am hopeful that at some point there will be some integration either within flatpak, the DE, or some guy on the internet makes an automated script that takes the colors from your active GTK theme and translates them into the kdeglobals file. If flatpak were to then make QT apps use kdeglobals on GTK by default all QT apps would theme to the correct color almost flawlessly once those two things are achieved.
I'm not sure if the full "plasma-integratrion" (on Debian) is needed for native QT apps but if it was only a few instead of the \~100 that would be better for theming native QT apps using this method.
https://redd.it/1c2ts9p
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This week in KDE: Explicit Sync – Adventures in Linux and KDE
https://pointieststick.com/2024/04/12/this-week-in-kde-explicit-sync/
https://redd.it/1c2z0se
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Linux 6.10 SLUB Optimization To Reduce Memory Consumption In Extreme Scenarios
https://app.daily.dev/posts/linux-6-10-slub-optimization-to-reduce-memory-consumption-in-extreme-scenarios-c2jmpq0ls
https://redd.it/1c2xsxe
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Systemd replacing ELF dependencies with dlopen
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https://redd.it/1c2qo8z
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Are there good rippers for audiobooks ?
My wife went to a local library book sale and bought a bunch of audiobook titles, mostly crime/detective /mystery type titles. I have Asunder to rip them but it can't connect to any database to get the titles, chapters, etc. My objective is to get the audio on to my phone as I am starting a walking exercise program.
Is there anything better for this task?
https://redd.it/1c2oors
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#143 Circle Updates - This Week in GNOME
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/04/twig-143/
https://redd.it/1c2kja2
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GitHub - tinygrad/open-gpu-kernel-modules: NVIDIA Linux open GPU with P2P support
https://github.com/tinygrad/open-gpu-kernel-modules
https://redd.it/1c2fo63
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Linux 6.10 SLUB Optimization To Reduce Memory Consumption In Extreme Scenarios
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-SLUB-Optimization
https://redd.it/1c2dxdj
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Put Linux mint on a teachers old iMac
https://redd.it/1c2bdmz
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