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My ddns isn't using my IP anymore and Idk why. Been working at it and nothing in the app is changed. I even deleted the old records for it to make new ones and it gave the prohibited IP again. Is there a reason why this is happening? It used to work but it doesn't work anymore without me touching it submitted by /u/LGN-YT [link] [comments]

i have a tiny question Have you used these commands: tsort unexpand pinky stty unlink uptime shred truncate base32 basenc numfmt ptx shuf factor stdbuf b2sum sha224sum dircolors chcon runcon and if the answer is yes How often do you use them? submitted by /u/Intelligent_Comb_338 [link] [comments]

Do yall think the ACLU could help the Linux community with fighting the age verification laws, and if so, should we be donating to them seeing they do fight for electronic privacy rights? According to their website, laws to protect electronic privacy were passed in the 1980s. submitted by /u/zandarthebarbarian [link] [comments]

So, how do you prefer to install things on linux? Compiling from a tarball, using a packet manager, installing from system(like .deb or .rpm)/flatpak packs or using appimages? Me: compiling from a tarball, i just love it, it's awesome to compile a program from source, even tough i'll have to go through every single dependency errors just to install a simple frontend for another program i downloaded lol submitted by /u/femboyfucker400000 [link] [comments]

We have the smartest people on the planet on our side. Linux will survive and thrive regardless of what becomes of these Age Verification/Age Attestation bills. Wait on them for some guidance and best practices. Even if the laws pass and become enforceable, there will be a fork of every single distro the next day with age-verification removed (likely from the official maintainers). Give your distros and maintainers some grace. There are legal and financial ramifications if they get this wrong. They can be held liable and possibly even prosecuted by one of the largest economies in the world, not just the US. Most of Silicon Valley (even Reddit) runs on Linux machines. We have to get this right and I have full faith that we will get this right. Also, a lot of the discourse on these sub-reddits and even the media will come from "the powers that be." They will attack from both angles, in support and in opposition to the bill. They are trying to gather as much info and possibly catch as many official sources "in 4K" regarding their official stances. Don't engage with non-sense and be as tactful as you can be. It is a long game, wait it out. You will not hear a lot of very opinionated official statements, which may suck, but the maintainers of these distros are very intelligent and have had our best interests at heart for decades, give them a little time to figure this out, and give them a little room to make mistakes. In the meantime, go ahead and start downloading/torrenting as much of the free (and unfree) internet as you can. Assume these are steps being taken in bad faith and prepare accordingly. Assume the goal is to privatize the internet and your data, privacy, and freedom are the cost of admission. Don't start playing Among Us in the sub-reddits or going on witch hunts either. TL:DR: Stop naming developers and calling for action against them on Reddit, especially when you have zero evidence that they are actively working against the interest of Linux and FOSS. Thank you and have a good night. submitted by /u/LongWillingness9396 [link] [comments]

I’ve been building a side project called Velin, a desktop app for sharing audio over LAN between Windows and Linux machines. The idea came from wanting a cleaner way to move/share audio across devices on the same local network without turning it into a messy workaround setup. Right now it’s still in early beta, but I’ve got builds working for: Windows (.exe / .msi) Linux (binary / .deb) I thought this might be interesting here because it feels like the kind of thing that fits into a multi-machine setup, especially if you have systems serving different roles on the same network. What I’m currently focused on: setup simplicity cross-platform stability behavior across different LAN environments reducing rough edges in the workflow I’d be especially interested in feedback from people with: mixed Windows/Linux environments dedicated media / desk / server machines ideas for practical homelab use cases I may be missing Main things I’d love feedback on: does the use case make sense in a homelab context? what would you want from a tool like this? Still early, so bugs and rough edges are expected, but I’d really appreciate some feedback from people who run multi-machine setups!! Here's the link to my GitHub repo: https://github.com/p-stanchev/velin submitted by /u/lightlydemented [link] [comments]

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I had a little deep-dive down the rabbit-hole today. Had more success than I anticipated, so I thought my results were worth sharing. I prefer to use the iGPU on my laptop for daily driving, and use the dGPU for LLMs and the like. If you are like that, maybe this information is of use to you. I have no idea to what extent this applies to users still running X11. I am on Wayland. Some of this may also apply to more recent Nvidia hardware than my Turing GPU (RTX 20xx, GTX 1650). Feel free to chime in in the comments. PCIe devices have a couple of defined power modes. d0, d3hot, d3cold and probably a few more. d3cold is where you want your unused PCIe devices to be if you find your laptop to be uncomfortably hot on your lap. Or you find the fan noise to be annoying. Or, you know, make your battery last a lot longer. 0 To check what power mode your dGPU is in, do: cat /sys/class/drm/card2/device/power_state Note: Your dGPU may be something other than card2. Nvidia Turing GPUs (RTX 20xx, GTX 1650) are 'supported' in the current Nvidia drivers, but the so-called GSP firmware (which is a requirement with the opensource kernel modules in the current drivers ) lacks a couple of things for Turing. For example the ability to enter d3cold. 1 The workaround for that is to stick to the 580-driver series if you have Turing graphics. 580 drivers permit to not load the GSP firmware, while 590 enforces it. AFAIUI. 2 Then, in your /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf file or it's equivalent on your choice of Linux distro, add: options nvidia NVreg_DynamicPowerManagement=0x02 options nvidia NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0 (First line is required for Turing only). Then run depmod -a. (Required? Can't recall) With this, your laptop should be able to come up with a dGPU which is in (or enters) d3cold as soon as the PC has booted to console. 3 But: your window manager/compositor may still wake up the dGPU. Or any other program really. And most often (but not always), the dGPU will not drop back to d3cold again even if the device isn't used for anything. To prevent the dGPU from entering d0 prematurely, there are two more workarounds to apply. First, the following two environment variables are useful: export GSK_RENDERER=ngl export __EGL_VENDOR_LIBRARY_FILENAMES=/usr/share/glvnd/egl_vendor.d/50_mesa.json The first is applicable to GTK-applications. The other to Wayland. (I think. I will not pretend to understand everything here.) Add these to your ~/.bashrc or /etc/profile. The second workaround is to ensure that any and all chromium-based applications (including electron-applications like signal and vscode, but also a load of various web-browsers) adds the following string to it's start-up parameters: --render-node-override=/dev/dri/renderD128 With this, my regular applications leave the dGPU alone. And I can start llama.cpp and make use of my dGPU, and whenever I terminate llama.cpp, the dGPU drops back to d3cold. Brilliant Two things are still bugging me: A I have not yet found a way to reset the dGPU in a way which makes it drop back to d3cold when nothing uses it and it for some reason gets stuck in d0. B Also, unplugging and replugging power appears to do something which disables the ability to enter d3cold. I can only speculate about why. Possibly related to ACPI events. submitted by /u/ethertype [link] [comments]

What thing would you want functionality or anything even if it doesn't even exist in other operating systems, this thing you would want on Windows, like an example would be compatibility with windows software submitted by /u/magogattor [link] [comments]

I was on Windows for 20+ years. Made a jump to daily driving Linux around 2019 and enjoyed it for a few years. Mostly in the name of privacy but also cause I like to to tinker. As I was already running an Unraid server with Plex and all the typical stuff. But additionally things like NextCloud, Pi-hole etc. Moved to open source and things like Tutanota or Protonmail. It also felt like moral victories, admittedly. Especially as a dad. But I was married and it didn't make sense to lose a 4th night to troubleshooting recurring small problems like an audio driver breaking (Pop OS). So, I took my ball and jumped hardcore into the Apple ecosystem. And admittedly, I've enjoyed the 'it just works' and especially the Apple silicone. It's done me well in my Salesforce consulting and DBA career and gotten the job done on the personal level. But with the political environment in the US evolving to where it's at today. The more time goes along, the more it feels like the thought police is coming from 1984. And I don't want me and my kids to be on a negative side of it. No matter what administration is in charge. And I'm years past divorce now, so appeasing someone else isn't really a thing. So, after a few weeks of research, I pulled the trigger and traded out all my Apple stuff for Linux/Android. Replaced our phones with Pixels or Galaxy (mine with GrapheneOS). Moved everything out of Apple's cloud to things like Immich and Joplin. Swapped out MacBook M3 Max for Thinkpad P1 Gen 8 with Fedora. Apple TV for Shield, etc. But I can't jump as hard as some do. I need things like Family Link or GPS tracking for my kids. I need the best maps app (Google Maps) when I am on the road and need to turn now or avoid a hour of traffic. I need some kind of watch assistant that I can tell to make reminders or events using my voice cause of my ADHD. I need my banking apps, cause I got to pay money for things. So, I've made trade offs. I have Google Play sandbox turned on for a lot of that stuff. I can't do separate profiles in the event that my kids have an emergency and Family Link it tied to one profile or the other. Additionally, I don't remember messaging being such a clusterfuck on Android. I can't use FOSS apps, because then I'm on SMS and that's the most unsecure route to message with. I can't use Signal as my daily driver cause I've got way too many friends, family, and business contacts and that just doesn't make realistic sense. I've had to use Google Messages to get any kind of encryption on my messages and it feels like I'm defeating the purpose here. I also can't help but note that the Family Link GPS seems to always be behind. With locations turned on, I'll get notified of my daughter coming home/etc like 15 minutes after it happening. There's also other annoying things like the realization I made for needing a Pixel watch after I had already gotten deep in my Graphene setup. I can't link it to LTE without wiping my phone and starting from scratch. I can't get LTE on my daughter's watch with Visible cause Visible is stupid (spent a week with their customer service + Samsung). Although, problems aside, this Pixel 10 Fold is pretty sweet and I know Apple has nothing like it. It has made my iPad Pro useless (other than a Home Assistant wall mounted device). Then, we get to the Linux laptop. Which is supposed to be the crown jewel. Admittedly, I knew there would be issues to troubleshoot. It's Linux, I get it and not my first rodeo. But, I tried setting myself up for success. Fedora is an option to have the Thinkpad ship with. So, I did that as Fedora is supposed to be the most stable. Thinkpads are supposed to be the gold standard, so I bought the best one. For my work, I was previously running 2 Apple Studio displays. My work has grown to a point that those 2 monitors aren't cutting it anymore and I had to grow beyond them and got the ultrawide 40" LG Ultrafine. It's fantastic. But I need 3 monitors, so I had to upgrade the Thinkpad to having a NVIDIA GPU to run up to three 5K or 6K monitors. I tried running both my studio displays as reference portrait monitors to the side of the LG and Linux hated it. I get it, the Caldigit TS4 was part of the chain (loved the easy one cable dock so I could take my work with me). But, I eliminated the dock to simplify things (and the LG has TB5 KVM anyways). But, then I could only use one studio display + the LG cause studio displays are basic bitches and only run as thunderbolt and probably hate non-Apple machines. So, I replaced the studio displays with Dell 27" 4K monitors. I assumed it would likely be perfect then. I spent the rest of the day troubleshooting wake up issues as the Thinkpad hated running more than one monitor. I lost lots of work any time it went to sleep. Lots of crashes. I got it to a point now that it is waking up correctly-ish. But I have to turn one monitor on and off (the one going to the HDMI in the Nvidia) at the login screen or it won't work. I might be able to snuff that out. But damn this back and forth on monitors took monitor replacement and the bulk of the week to work through in general to get them to work. But then I was doing some consulting work and went to turn on Plexamp. Which had been working for 2 weeks. But now it was broken. Turns out it need permissions again, not sure what happened. Then I spent a few hours working on stuff and looked up and realized my battery was at 43% despite the fact that it's plugged into the charger, wtf. I got it back up and going but what the hell. Then, I turned on my M3 Max to look up something I hadn't grabbed off of it yet and....all 3 monitors popped up perfectly (back when I had the dock and studio displays + LG ultrawide hooked up). Everything ran perfect and the OS/hardware just shined. Annoying. I like to imagine I'm very well on the better side of things. But when it's all said and done...am I actually making any improvement over a hardened Apple approach instead? Where I kept my Apple hardware instead and just avoided Apple's cloud? Did I screw up going this route for the kids? I'm doing things like scraping 50 YouTube channels + ErsatzTV to create DadTube for them to replace YouTube with it so I can help create a baseline for quality content for them so they can navigate brainrot as they get older, built them gaming PCs so we can LAN together and learn how to use an actual PC. I'm trying to actively help lead them and give them the tools in their minds to succeed later in life with technology (and of course anything else). While also protecting them with the aid of things like technology when there's situations like me taking them to a waterpark. Admittedly, I have them half the time so maybe I'm overthinking it. But I'm also the only adult when I do have them and I'm starting to wonder if I went around the world and landed in a worst spot from a privacy and even stability standpoint or if I stay the path. But I still have all my Mac hardware but plan to sell it this week to cover costs on the switch. But in the attempt to DeGooglefy and DeApple...I'm worried I actually Googlefied us. submitted by /u/vick2djax [link] [comments]

... and today I did a "crontab -r" accidentally for the first time ever. Don't do this. I now run a cron job that makes a backup of my crontab nightly. Thankfully, I keep all my scripts that I run in cron in one directory and was able to recreate my crontab pretty easily. submitted by /u/jrmckins [link] [comments]

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*I don't know if such a script already exists, just sharing * Here is how the adaptive learning works: The script runs on a tiny 15-minute systemd timer and sets your screen brightness gracefully (progressing through 30-minute interval profiles). Right before it applies a scheduled change, it polls your Current Hardware Brightness. If it detects a divergence between what it thinks it previously set and what the hardware is currently at, it determines that you manually changed the brightness slider. It intercepts its own schedule, adopts your new preferred percentage, and uses sed to securely permanently rewrite its own configuration block for that active time period! submitted by /u/Madlonewolf [link] [comments]

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Please not I have joke in quotations. Here's the list of the "joke" distros I know: - Hanna Montana Linux - Justin Bieber Linux - Rebecca Black OS - AmogOS - Suicide Linux Also, this is not a question to offend anyone, I am asking IF anyone uses a "joke" distro like daily. submitted by /u/BornRoom257 [link] [comments]

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954 Much of this goes over my head, so I'm hoping to hear some good explanations from people who know what they're talking about. But I do know that I want nothing to do with this. If I am ever asked to prove my age or identity to access a website or application, my answer will ALWAYS be "actually, I don't really need your site, so you can fuck right off". Sending any kind of signal with personal information that could be used to make user tracking easier is completely out of the question. So short of the nuclear option of removing systemd entirely, what are practical steps that can be taken to disable/block/bypass this? Is it as simple as disabling/masking a unit? Is there a use case for userdb I should know about before attempting this? Do I need to install a fork instead? Or maybe I'd be better off with a script that poisons age data by randomizing the stored age periodically? [edit] I wasn't going to comment on this but it looks like some people with a lot of followers are using this post as an example of censorship on Reddit. While I do think that's a legitimate concern on Reddit as a whole, I don't think censorship is what happened here. Yes, this post went down for a while. But as far as I can tell that was because it was automoderated due to a large number of reports, and was later restored (and pinned) by human moderators. submitted by /u/Quiet-Owl9220 [link] [comments]

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