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UnaSolaEstrellaLibre, in Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve

Kinda saw this coming sooner or later.

I remember asking in one of their articles if they had planned to reign over (or partner up) the project over to Valve once it was ready and said they had no plans.

d3Xt3r, in HP Elite Desk

We use HP EliteBooks and EliteDesks extensively at work. I even used to set them up in my old job, and as far as I’m aware, it doesn’t connect to the Internet or “phone home” by default (although that could’ve changed in recent models). In any case, one of the nice things about the HP BIOSes is that it’s very configurable - you can disable the automatic BIOS update checks, network adapter etc. I forget if there was an option to just disable the network stack, but what you could do is configure the UEFI network settings so that they’re invalid - ie, set it to a random static IP + random DNS etc (eg: 0.0.0.0) so that it can’t connect even if it tried.

zcd, in Reddit API blew up and now I run Linux?

Boy that escalated quickly

UnfortunateShort, (edited ) in Low battery life due to high power consumption on t490 thinkpad. (help needed)

These probably contain everything you ever wanted to know about the topic:

wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_managementwiki.archlinux.org/title/CPU_frequency_scaling

Be aware that some tools might be in conflict with each other. I recommend auto-cpufreq + thermald. You could add TLP to the mix, but then you need to configure it carefully to avoid conflicts.

UndefinedIsNotAFunction, (edited ) in Reddit API blew up and now I run Linux?

Welcome to the club. Your lan port is over there. (Insert broadcom chip joke here)

DangerousInternet, in Translation / dictionary workflow in GNOME/ Linux?
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  • juli,

    Did you try Meta + T? It’ll open the popup and I can paste into it.

    How does the dialect integration work? What do you type into the search?

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  • juli,

    Thx.

    It doesn’t work for me. That’s probably because of flatpak, I have the same issue with calc.

    Zamundaaa, in Secondary Monitor Glitching on KDE Wayland (open source Nvidia driver)

    It’s a driver bug, it doesn’t reject buffers that the GPU can’t actually handle correctly.

    We’ve switched to a different way of doing multi-gpu in Plasma 6 that hits at least fewer such bugs.

    maness300, in Which terminal emulator do you use?

    konsole

    JakenVeina, in Bazzite: An immutable Fedora-based OS optimized for gaming on any device, from desktops to laptops to the Steam Deck

    What the hell is an immutable OS?

    baconicsynergy,

    Immutable is awesome. The user instead uses flatpak, snap, and/or nix to install their packages and apps. If you want a mutable environment, you can use containers and their many system integration tools like distrobox.The system has rollback functionality thanks to ostree, abroot, or similar technologies, so in case an update goes awry, you can roll back to a previous working image. Update anxiety no longer exists for me

    const_void, in HP Elite Desk

    I’m worried about the HP firmware-bios thingy. Does it call home?

    It’s for these kinds of reasons we should be demanding open source firmware from major vendors or only buying hardware from vendors that already have open source firmware (System 76, Tuxedo, etc).

    danieljoeblack, in Hans Reiser Apologies For Social Mistakes, Comments On ReiserFS Deprecation From Prison

    That was quite the read but pretty worth it. He talks about a lot of the mistakes he made not just in relation to his crime, but as a developer, project leader, and general human being.

    He discusses what things he would have done differently, and how he thinks that could have changed things not only for him but his software as well.

    He mentions multiple times how much he wishes that the conflict handling and social classes he has access to in prison, were available to him in school. He ends the letter with a call to action, for just that asking people to try and affect legislation to get more youth access to this information to avoid cases such as his.

    jsalvador, in Which terminal emulator do you use?
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    Formerly I used Terminator, because I liked to split the screen. Then I moved to Kitty because having a GPU-powered terminal sound amazing, and now I’m using gnome-terminal because I’m trying to get back to simply and default.

    Dehydrated, in HP Elite Desk

    The UEFI firmware shouldn’t connect to the internet at all. You can’t rule it out entirely, but the threat is pretty small. Theoretically, it can access your hard drives, but again, it’s very unlikely that your BIOS will exfiltrate your data and send it somewhere. If you want to be sure, use LUKS for full disk encryption.

    terminhell, in HP Elite Desk

    Depends on the model. While some offer bios updates over ip, not all do. That would really be the only thing talking out.

    bbbhltz, in HP Elite Desk
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    This sounds like a privacy concern. Maybe one of the privacy communities will have a better answer.

    You’re worried that the bios will ping hp and hand over info, is this something that you have info on?

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