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Finding the right balance between security and easy of use is often difficult to achieve. There are many strategies that can be employed to…
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Solving /usr/lib/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server errors with tmux over SSH (1 mins read).
How to avoid Xorg errors when connecting to a Linux machine over SSH that tries to spawn startx.
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Investigations into musl libc DNS resolver used in Alpine containers
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Hyperfocus for hours to get my Linux desktop config just so. Fourth test run, there's an error somewhere that the window manager doesn't log or report. *(faint sound like dry twigs snapping in my head)* Reboot into Windows. #ADHD life
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TIL that I can use my fingerprint to log in with i3lock-color🕵️ I thought it'd not worked before last time I looked, but similar to logging in on a TTY, I just need to enter an empty password, then I can auth via my fingerprint 👏
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Turning on Caps Lock when the Caps Lock key is bound to a different key (1 mins read).
How to trigger a Caps Lock event when you've rebound the key to a differnet key.
Resolving black screen display with SDDM and NVIDIA GPUs (1 mins read).
How I resolved an issue with a black screen displaying when SDDM is used with an NVIDIA driver.
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Instead of my usual TTY-based login on Linux, I've spent a bit of time trying to get LightDM/SDDM set up to allow me to use fingerprint-based login.
It turns out you don't even need to do that, pam_fprintd.so can work as-is on the TTY 🥳
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Arch on my desktop/laptop, Debian on my servers, Alpine in my containers
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Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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New York City is like Linux: - Spend the first year re-learning how to perform basic tasks - Spend the rest of your lifetime claiming how much better it is - Bad driversMax Goodhart (@chromakode)Thu, 12 May 2022 17:01 +0000
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Removing 'smart' quotes from a file, on the command-line (2 mins read).
A one-liner with sed to replace 'smart' quotes with regular quotes.
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What? you can do that in Linux? It turns out you can! First, let’s see it in action. Here I retrieve a binary from my Raspberry Pi which is an ARM binary and execute it in my x86_64 machine …
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linux clipboards are great if you want your OS to gaslight you you have a text file open, you hit paste, it pasts "foo" you select "bar", hit cut, "bar" disappears you hit paste, "foo" appears where did bar go why is foo still herefoone (@Foone)Fri, 08 Apr 2022 16:24 +0000
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LOL. Oh no the Linux source code was leaked 😡😭 reddit.com/r/linuxmasterr…nixCraft (@nixcraft)Fri, 25 Mar 2022 08:31 GMT
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How old were you when realized that grep was g/re/p ? I'm 39
Juan Pablo Daniel (@jpdborgna)Mon, 27 Dec 2021 19:42 GMT
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2022 really year of the #linux desktop?Cyber Panda 🐼 (@c0dehard)Sat, 25 Dec 2021 15:14 GMT
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TIL that it’s possible (if not easy) to use `locate` & `updatedb` with independent directory structures in addition to system wide. A la # locate -d ./locatedbGrant Taylor (@DrScriptt)Sun, 19 Dec 2021 08:39 GMT
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the dirty secret is that sound works just fine on linux. it's a just a lie told by the linux-using devs to get out of conference zooms with windows-using management.
Grant Horwood ↙↙↙ (@gbhorwood)Fri, 10 Dec 2021 19:16 GMT
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Getting the Battery Status of a Bluetooth Device on Linux (1 mins read).
How to use dbus-send to retrieve the percentage of battery left on a Bluetooth device on Linux.
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Using systemd-tmpfiles to manage temporary files and directories (2 mins read).
How I'm using systemd-tmpfiles to manage a temporary working directory and automagically clean it out.
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Some thoughts on recent #Linux elitism (not sure elitism is the right word, but I can't think of a better one right now) I heard on @latenightlinux. ☹️ kevq.uk/this-is-whats-…Kev Quirk (@kevquirk)Sat, 20 Nov 2021 12:22 GMT
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Controlling the Linux Backlight via the Command-Line (1 mins read).
How to manage your screen backlight on the command-line, without installing any tools.
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This is the single simplest example I’ve seen of the core difference between Windows and Linux :)
Brian Mork (Hermit) (He/Him) (@hermit_hacker)Sat, 25 Sep 2021 22:19 +0000
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Using popular things is sucky. When I have an issue with macOS or Windows, search results are dominated by SEO'd junk articles with little to no information. When I have an issue with Linux, search results are usually awesome and get me directly to the juicy information.Maddison Hellstrom (@HellsMaddy)Wed, 12 May 2021 21:41 +0000
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Possibly unpopular opinion, but I feel like "only merge things after verifying they are valid" should maybe be the default policy of the most used piece of software in the world.
Filippo Valsorda 💉💉⏳ (@FiloSottile)Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:45 +0000
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😬 git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/…Brad Spengler (@spendergrsec)Tue, 20 Apr 2021 01:36 +0000
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Breaking: Mars becomes the second planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows.
@mikko (@mikko)Fri, 19 Feb 2021 13:59 GMT
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Want to see the difference between Windows 10 and Linux? Install dual boot on a Core i3 laptop. Let people choose which one works better for their needs. #opensource #linux #freesoftware @gknauth @rmtux @opensourcewayPhil Shapiro (@philshapiro)Wed, 27 Jan 2021 23:22 GMT
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I was this many days old when I learned that sudo's logo is a creepy looking anthropomorphic sandwich.
April King 🌀 (@CubicleApril)Tue, 26 Jan 2021 20:02 GMT
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Checking in on whether 2021 can be the year of the Linux Desktop, not looking good so far
Pillow (@CounterPillow)Fri, 11 Dec 2020 18:05 GMT
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sorry i was late i had to install zoom - which meany i needed to update my repositories - and then i had to update some libraries - and my kernel... and the headers... and then reboot with the new kernel... and then install zoom... and well anyway here we are - hi i'm nova
kris Nóva (@krisnova)Fri, 11 Dec 2020 16:30 GMT
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Ian Coldwater 📦💥 (@IanColdwater)Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:17 +0000
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me: "linux [task for automation]" google: "ubuntu forums? stackoverflow?" me: *sighs* me: "arch [task for automation]" google: "here's archwiki with exactly what you want in less than 10 lines"emily dogmom (@nasamuffin)Mon, 21 Sep 2020 20:55 +0000
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