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ScottE, in What are some interesting devices powered by Linux?

Pretty much everything that’s running on a microprocessor (i.e. larger than a microcontroller) and not from Microsoft or Apple.

library_napper, in What are some interesting devices powered by Linux?
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The thin piece of electronics in my hand that I’m typing this on

Diabolo96, (edited ) in Flatpak can look daunting...

That’s why I think AppImage is the best. Despite needing to pack everything it needs it’s always far more lightweight than flatpak. I’d rather download a 50mb appimage than several gigabytes of an entire OS libraries and then the updates requiring roughly the same size. That and I have a shitty internet

Chewy7324,

In my experience updates aren’t that big. The flatpak cli ux is just confusing to read how much data actually has to be downloaded because of deduplication.

Diabolo96, (edited )

I have like 4 gigs of flatpak updates I keep unchecking because at my horrible internet speed it would take the entire day if not more to download. Honestly, if you’re right then this is a horrendous design flaw.

CrabAndBroom,

TBH I dislike Appimage purely because I can’t be bothered to go and check them all individually for new versions all the time, it feels like being on Windows again. I don’t mind a little bloat for the sake of convenience. But that’s just personal preference of course.

Diabolo96,

There was an app that dealt with this but it’s since been abandoned.

db2, (edited ) in Call For Tegra U-Boot Testers

Asus Eee Pad Transformer asus-tf101
Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime asus-tf201
Asus Transformer Infinity asus-tf700t
Asus Transformer Pad asus-tf300t
Asus Transformer Pad 3G asus-tf300tg
Google (ASUS) Nexus 7 (2012) asus-grouper
Google (ASUS) Nexus 7 (2012) GSM asus-tilapia
LG Optimus Vu lg-p895
WEXLER Tab 7t

But the page also says partial support for internal storage…

Bravebellows, in Your favorite linux projects for weekend

Homebridge (or Home Assistant) and smarten up your home, then add Node-Red for fancy coding of your devices

allywilson, in Linux doesn't serve birth time attribute over NFS

Which version of stat do you have? I get the same blank result locally on ext4 and btrfs filesystems (not over nfs) using stat 8.30 on an rpi4 (raspbian, 5.10.103-v8+).

Seems to work fine with stat 8.32 on xfs on a spot instance I have, running Rocky 9 (5.14.0-362.13.1.el9_3.x86_64).

I thought there might be more info in the changelog: info coreutils aqstat invocationaq but I’m not seeing it.

e0qdk,
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[coreutils-announce] coreutils-8.31 released [stable]

stat now prints file creation time when supported by the file system,
on GNU Linux systems with glibc >= 2.28 and kernel >= 4.11.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils-announce/2019-03/msg00000.html

(found thanks to this blog post titled "File Creation Time in Linux")

2xsaiko,
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I have 9.3. It works for me on a local file system on the client as well as the server, just not through NFS.

onlinepersona, in NixOS is better because...

Better in some ways, but it has the worst documentation of any distro I’ve seen so far. nixlang.wiki is trying to improve that

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UNY0N, in Your favorite linux projects for weekend

I’m learning about i3 and xfce on arch (my daily driver). I’m not linux expert, but I’ve been really enjoying figuring things out after switching from ubuntu to arch. This weekend I’m getting the icons for network manager applet and clipman working on the whisker panel, and then removing the i3bar.

Well, at least that’s rhe goal. I don’t have much free time, so tbis will mkst likely be a month project, not a weekend. :P

danielfgom, in The last few weeks in KDE: It’s coming… it’s coming… it’s coming
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I’m pretty sure that most people won’t be able to tell the difference between 5 and 6.

Seems like minor changes to me.

I once did enjoy KDE but always hated the font, icons and everything in the UI is lines. Makes it hard to comprehend things quickly.

In the end I realised the Gnome-based UI is far better for legibility and comprehension. I’m on Linux Mint Debian Edition with Cinnamon and it’s great.

sebsch, in The last few weeks in KDE: It’s coming… it’s coming… it’s coming

I already installed it at my private workstation and it’s bonkers.

Some bugs left, but all in all it is working super already.

Kudos to the people from kde. This one will clearly a superb product

bananaw, (edited ) in Wayland/X11 problems with 4K HDMI TV

I’m on mobile so formatting might not look the best, but here it goes!

X11 scaling - does this link help? wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPISpecifically under either xorg or KDE plasma I think you might be able to find some settings that help

For Wayland - would wdisplays help you out? I’ve had good results using that along with kanshi.

As for system freezing, I’m just taking a shot in the dark but this might be a KDE thing based on a quick search. Wayland is new and sexy, but apparently all the bugs aren’t worked out for KDE. This answer isn’t great, and is very hand-wavey, but without more details outside of you’re on KDE I can’t really help much. Unfortunately for you, I switched over to Sway which apparently has better Wayland support out of the box.

db2, in How to update the BIOS on a Dell laptop running Linux

tl;dr boot Windows. 🙄

embed_me,
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😂😂🤣🤣 (no)

lemmyvore,

The command prompt to be exact. Which is presumably a version of MS-DOS. Which makes me wonder if you can’t simply boot MS-DOS or FreeDOS — assuming you can find a copy that boots under UEFI. It’s certainly lighter then a whole Windows iso and you can include the firmware with it on a tiny FAT partition.

SuperIce,

Windows hasn’t been based on DOS for over 2 decades at this point…

lemmyvore,

Windows hasn’t but the command prompt they put on the ISO could still be DOS. It’s perfect for this use case, it’s single process and lightweight.

sebsch, (edited ) in The last few weeks in KDE: It’s coming… it’s coming… it’s coming

I already installed it at my private workstation and it’s bonkers.

Some bugs left, but all in all it is working super already.

Kudos to the people from kde. This one will clearly be a superb product

Ramin_HAL9001, (edited ) in NixOS is better because...

What is good about NixOS (and GuixOS) is that they apply to package management the same principles that Git applies to managing source code. The Nix store is basically an append-only database (you might even call it a “blockchain”) of inter-dependent packages.

So from an individual computer user’s point of view, it is much safer to install and roll-back software with Nix than with an ordinary package manager that might allow you to accidentally delete package dependencies and break your system. With Nix, you can install packages that actually do break your system, but because of the append-only nature, you can actually roll-back the install automatically right from the Grub boot menu, no need to re-install anything.

Another advantage of NixOS, though this is more from a system operator’s point of view, is that you can guarantee reproducible builds. If the package you have installed has the same hash on all of your computers, that is a simple, human-verifiable proof that all of those systems are running the exact same build of the software. You can probably see that this is very useful for people running servers, like compute clusters, or doing things like A-B testing.

pelya, in Call For Tegra U-Boot Testers

Are there any new phones or tablets using Tegra SoC? It seems like they are only used in car electronics

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