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This new release contains two new protocols:

• ext-data-control - allow privileged clients to control data devices, e.g. a clipboard manager.
• ext-workspace - receive events about and control workspaces, useful for e.g. workspace indicators.

I’ve recently switched to Linux (Tumbleweed) and the other day i was setting up Calibre. I already have a library on my HDD so i proceeded to simply import the existing one. No problems at all, i’ve even added a couple ebooks. Turned off the pc and went to sleep. The next day i wanted to read a book, opened up Calibre and an error appeared: filesystem on my HDD is read only. What?? Since when? No idea what happened. Any suggestions?

Up to now I enter receipts by hand into a spreadsheet and cross-reference everything to my bank statements. Is there a Linux program that'll let me download a bank statement and then intelligently categorize different entries on my bank statement? Or allow me to manually categorize entries? No spyware or intrusive software.

I'm a long-time Linux user but for the past few years my main laptop - a Lenovo Legion 5 with both AMD iGPU and Nvidia dGPU - has been on Win10. I'd like to upgrade and am looking for suggestions for distros and configurations. I've mainly used Debian-based distros in the past but am not particular. Here are my main concerns:

• I will likely still need to run Windows in a VM for a few corporate applications that won't run in Linux (according to some teammates who have tried).
• I do a lot of work in Figma and haven't tried it at all in Linux, but I know for sure it needs GPU acceleration. It seems like I'd have to choose between the following:
  • just running in a browser window and (somehow) assigning the dGPU to that browser
  • the above, but using the unofficial Linux electron-based figma app
  • try running the Windows app in Linux
  • putting Linux on the iGPU and passing the dGPU through to a Windows VM for this
• I also do a fair amount of local LLM work. I would prefer to do this in Linux with the dGPU, but again I could pass the dGPU through to a Windows VPN and then do it in WSL2 in Windows (which seems a little janky)
• I don't want to dual-boot

Does anyone have any thoughts/suggestions on this? I haven't tried GPU-switching in Linux for a long time and had poor success in the past. Am I better off leaving both GPUs accessible in Linux, or passing one through for the Windows VM?

A few days ago I made a post about systemd Pilot, a GTK app for managing systemd services.

Today a new version has been released based on feedback I got here and on reddit.

The app now supports quick creation of systemd services using a template and monitoring journalctl logs for any service.

Please test the latest release and share your thoughts.

Grml is a bootable live system (Live-CD) based on Debian. Grml includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for system administrators. Users don't have to install anything on fixed storage. Grml is especially well suited for administrative tasks like installation, deployment and system rescue.

New features

• 🎄 Happy holidays to everyone!
• Content server: Allow managing the data files associated with a book by clicking the three dots in the top right corner of the book's page and choosing "Manage data files"
  • Closes tickets: 2091646
• Edit metadata dialog: Allow right clicking on the cover to view it in a popup window at larger size
  • Closes tickets: 2091216
• Add an option to expand the Tag browser tree to show the item that was current when the library was closed
• Add import and export stored template to Preferences / template functions
• Various Quality-of-Life improvements to the dialog used to edit columns with fixed sets of values
• Resolve doi.org links when pasting identifiers
  • Closes tickets: 2091152

Bug fixes

• Viewer: Fix some HTMLZ files not opening on some systems
  • Closes tickets: 2091451
• Amazon metadata plugin: Update for changed markup for some books on amazon search results page
  • Closes tickets: 2091542

What fonts are you currently using on your system? Which do you think is best for the terminal or for your desktop environment?

(updates) Ok I think I'm a fan of Ubuntu nerd fonts right now

Hey folks! After using Fedora Atomic for quite a while and really appreciating its approach, I've been eyeing one particular feature from NixOS: its congruent system management. Inspired from Graham Christensen's "Erase your darlings" post, I'd like to explore implementing something similar to NixOS' impermanence module on Fedora Atomic as one step towards better state management.

Why not just switch to NixOS? Well, while NixOS's package management and declarative approach are incredible, I specifically value Fedora's stringent package vetting and security practices. The nixpkgs repository, despite its impressive scope, operates more like a user repository in terms of security standards.

I've already made some progress with the following:

• Fedora Atomic's shift to bootable OCI containers has helped with base system reproducibility when one creates their own images. This process has thankfully been streamlined by templates offered by either uBlue or BlueBuild
• Using chezmoi for dotfiles (would've loved home-manager if it played nicer with SELinux)

My current (most likely naive and perhaps even wrong) approach involves tmpfs mounts and bind mounts to /persist, along with systemd-tmpfiles. I'm well aware this won't give me the declarative goodness of NixOS, nor will it make the system truly stateless - there's surely plenty of state I'm missing - but I'm hoping it might be another step in the right direction.

Particularly interested in:

• Best practices for managing persistent vs temporary state
• Working with rpm-ostree's (or bootc') assumptions
• Tools or scripts that might help
• Alternative approaches that achieve similar goals

Thanks in advance!

I sometimes listen to music from Amazon Music through Firefox while I play Rocket League. My keyboard has audio controls, and in Windows adjusting the volume or hitting pause would briefly show an overlay with the current song info and album art.

In Linux the default behavior is to show nothing. Is there a setting or tool to add similar functionality to the Windows behavior?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23313015

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/tuiplette

tuiplette is a terminal match-three game, written in Bash.

The aim is to gain points by swapping two adjacent grid cells to create rows or columns of three or more matching cells, which will disappear and allow the above cells to fall and occupy the vacant space.

When there are no moves left, the grid will be refreshed, and the game will continue until all (configured) reshuffles are used. When there are no moves left, and no reshuffles left, the game will end.

If the score is among the 10 best scores achieved, it makes it in the Top Ten Hiscores.

As far as the appearence of the game, by configuring the game accordinly, the user can select the game theme according to their liking.

The user has select theme between letters, numbers, greek, shapes, faces and blocks.

The colors selected are the configured terminal theme colors.

From their homepage: IPFire_ is the world's leading Open Source firewall distribution. Businesses across the world have chosen to put their trust in our versatile, feature-rich solution with its easy-to-use web management console.

i like rhythmbox a lot and it's so great to use it as a music player but most of my music files don't even have any metadata it's just "song-name-author.opus" so it's a lot for me which is why i would use vlc instead yea!!! but anyway ummm why does xfce or gnome use rhythmbox??

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/33685272

I primarily use my pc for gaming, and want to avoid upgrading to Windows 11. Beginning the journey of looking into alternatives.

I am ignorant, trying to be less so. I have a hard time understanding what exactly makes a game not work just because of OS.

While I was adding Golang to the PATH my terminal (Konsole) suddenly stopped recognizing basic commands like nano and ls. I restared my PC and after logging back in (X11) KDE started throwing errors because it wasn't able to find any program I tried to launch. Konsole is gone. I can't open any program whatsoever (Firefox, Discover etc.). Trying to log in into Wayland just throws a black screen. After a few more reatarts I decided to use the terminal from the login screen, but it is broken as well. ls not found, nano and vim don't exist. So far I can use pwd and cd.

What the hell is wrong here? Is it hardware failure (bad SSD)? Is there anything I can attempt to recover the system?