This week in KDE: Holiday bug fixes (pointieststick.com)

where do you submit photos for the linux mint default backgrounds
PeerTube stress tests: resilience lies in your peers! (joinpeertube.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/9820251...

The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell, part 1 [LWN.net] (lwn.net)
how to sperate headphones from laptop speakers as two seperate enteties
so since I digged pretty hard to find what is a ucm profile and how to seperate headphones from speakers in pipewire and alsa so yeah heres a guide first of all these are my sources:...
Khronos Finalizes Vulkan Video Extensions for Accelerated H.264 and H.265 Encode (www.khronos.org)

Follow-up for surround sound config.
well it’s less about surround and more about sinks in general. I have 3 hardware sinks. My headphones, my monitor and my mic for some reason has a headphone jack. When I pick the virtual surround sink as default it works perfectly. However the device I’m hearing the sounds from is uncontrollable. It likes to choose my...
Calamares 3.3 Released as the Next Generation Graphical Installer for Linux - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)

is the nouveau project mostly dead? how continuous is development on it?
its trello page shows no sign of life, issues that are years old with no recent activity exclusively
When is Cinnamon 6 expected to drop and is it an automatic download?
Got two shit tablets for free, want to install mobile linux distros on them. Any reccomendations?
Hello! I’ve got 2 alcatel 1T7 tablets completely for free from my internet provider some time ago, didn’t use them at all because the thing is lighter than a rasppi. Want to tinker on it now, thinking of installing a linux OS for more freedom on what to do and also to degooglify the tablet. Any recommendations on OS...
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/50 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
This week in KDE: un-flashy important stability work (pointieststick.com)

The Wine development release 9.0-rc2 is now available. (www.winehq.org)

Waydroid and the DRM issue | How to play DRM protected videos on Waydroid?
I managed to install waydroid after a long and rather stressful installation process, but now that I have installed it, I am realizing that since Waydroid doesn’t come with DRM software (or malware) installed with it, it won’t play no videos, which is one of the reasons I installed it. Is there a way I can run drm protected...
This week in KDE: un-flashy important stability work (pointieststick.com)

#126 New Apps · This Week in GNOME (thisweek.gnome.org)
The TuneD Project - Tuning Profile Delivery Mechanism for Linux (tuned-project.org)
TuneD is a system tuning service for Linux. It:...
KDE Ships Frameworks 5.113.0 (kde.org)

Techniques and methods for obtaining access to data protected by linux-based encryption (doi.org)
Wayland Learnings & Tutorials (eirenicon.org)
For those interested in a old geek’s slow learning process… here are some Wayland transition documents I have published both to share and HELP ME remember ‘thangs’....

Things You Didn't Know About GNU Readline (twobithistory.org)

How to use a analog microphone plugged into Realtek ALC1220 chip in PipeWire
I got a microphone connected via a XLR adapter to the rear mic jack of my mainboard. The audio dialog of KDE seems to detect that, as does not mark it as not connected (which it does for the front mic and line in). But selecting the audio device as source does not produce any useful sound. What makes you sure that the mic work,...
Nvidia Confusion - is it possible to freeze a kernel module to a container when the base sys is shimmed?
Fedora WS. I want to continue using an older version of Oobabooga Textgen WebUI, but the 6.6 kernel build of the Nvidia open source module with the x86 UEFI shim breaks compatibility with one of the Python *Blas packages....