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Graphical date and time settings other than gnome-system-tools
Currently, i am searching graphical date and time settings other than gnome-system-tools for my custom desktop environment. Does anybody know graphical date and time settings other than gnome-system-tools?
Phew! A cup of hot coffee ☕ and some abject ordinary ritual...
#life #coffee #music #linux #research #opensourcedevelopment #operatingsystem
Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program
Link: https://github.com/monasticacademy/httptap
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42919909
fwupd 2.0.5 releasedd
This release adds the following features:
- Allow emulating devices reading EFI keys
- Allow skipping device tests by CPU architecture
This release fixes the following bugs:
- Cleanup Dell kestrel devices when disconnected
- Correctly build binary EFI_SIGNATURE_LIST objects
- Do not allow dbx updates when no ESP was found
- Ignore BootXXXX entries that do not exist when checking the dbx
- Ignore EFI binaries that are zero-sized, or not well formed
- Inhibit dbx updates if snapd is not available when using Ubuntu-style FDE
- Only match the device checksum if the protocol matches
- Raise authentication requirements for emulation-load
- Request to upload failed reports for install/downgrade too
- Use the kernel architecture when building the dbx instance ID
- Write sbatlevel to PE/COFF files correctly
This release adds support for the following hardware:
- More ELAN Fingerprint readers
- Star Labs StarLite Magnetic Keyboard
Here is a nice article about the experiences which @gyptazy has had at FOSDEM
Location: BE
City: Brussel
Venue: The Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Attendance to FOSDEM is free in the true spirit of Open Source and the event has been held every year for decades
This is year 25 of FOSDEM!
Highlight:
Talk: "Ten Years as a Free, Open, and Automated Certificate Authority,” which detailed Let’s Encrypt’s journey in revolutionizing the internet by offering free SSL/TLS certificates
Now go, read and enjoy
#FOSDEM #fosdem2025 #POSIX #OpenSource #programming #KDE #Gnome #VLC #freeBSD #netBSD #Linux #ULB #Brussel #Belgium
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[rant] everytime i give it a chance, btrfs lets me down
i’ve instaled opensuse tumbleweed a bunch of times in the last few years, but i always used ext4 instead of btrfs because of previous bad experiences with it nearly a decade ago. every time, with no exceptions, the partition would crap itself into an irrecoverable state
this time around i figured that, since so many years had passed since i last tried btrfs, the filesystem would be in a more reliable state, so i decided to try it again on a new opensuse installation. already, right after installation, os-prober failed to setup opensuse’s entry in grub, but maybe that’s on me, since my main system is debian (turns out the problem was due to btrfs snapshots)
anyway, after a little more than a week, the partition turned read-only in the middle of a large compilation and then, after i rebooted, the partition died and was irrecoverable. could be due to some bad block or read failure from the hdd (it is supposedly brand new, but i guess it could be busted), but shit like this never happens to me on extfs, even if the hdd is literally dying. also, i have an ext4 and an ufs partition in the same hdd without any issues.
even if we suppose this is the hardware’s fault and not btrfs’s, should a file system be a little bit more resilient than that? at this rate, i feel like a cosmic ray could set off a btrfs corruption. i hear people claim all the time how mature btrfs is and that it no longer makes sense to create new ext4 partitions, but either i’m extremely unlucky with btrfs or the system is in fucking perpetual beta state and it will never change because it is just good enough for companies who can just, in the case of a partition failure, can just quickly switch the old hdd for a new one and copy the nightly backup over to it
in any case, i am never going to touch btrfs ever again and i’m always going to advise people to choose ext4 instead of btrfs
How to remove the surface kernel and a program that let's you go from one PDF to another in the same file without using the file explorer?
Hi everyone!
I’m struggling with two things on my Surface Go 1 with Fedora 41 on it.
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I’m trying to get rid of the Surface Kernel I once installed. Apparently I should type sudo dnf remove kernel-surface but then the terminal tells me that there is no corresponding package. Still, when I type uname -a I can see that the kernel is 6.12.7-1.surface.fc41.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT. How can I get rid of it as it makes things tricky if I want to deploy my installation on another computer?
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I’m looking for a PDF viewer which would allow me to go from one PDF file to another without going back to the file explorer. In a way, I’d want it to work a bit like an image viewer where you only have to click on an arrow to go to the next image. Is there such a program?
Thanks for your help!
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How to remove the surface kernel and a program that let's you go from one PDF to another in the same file without using the file explorer?
FOSDEM 25: Systemd skizziert seine Zukunft
Das Init-System Systemd ist gerade 15 Jahre alt geworden. In seiner Keynote auf der FOSDEM 25 spricht Entwickler Lennart Poettering über die anstehende Pläne.
Waydroid – Android in a Linux container
Link: https://waydro.id/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911042