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joba2ca, in Linux Distros Evolution - January 2024 Update: Pop!_OS in Decline?

Pop has not received feature updates for years, because the dev team focuses on implementing Cosmic.

Given the overall progress of Linux Desktop environments, this might have led many users to switch away from Pop.

grym, in What's your favorite music player on Linux?
@grym@hexbear.net avatar

Musicbee with wine! I have never been able to find something that does it all as well as musicbee, and I’ve tried almost every single linux music player. I have a huge music library, I add a ton of music regularly. I need auto-tagging, i need to be able to sort, filter and search, a very customizable interface, all of the mp3 tags including obscure ones, gapless playback, configurable fade-in/fade-out, etc etc. With the exception of a few little nitpicks like not integrating well with the KDE media widget, and some occasional annoyances with pipewire, everything works great.

danielfgom, in New laptop
@danielfgom@lemmy.world avatar

Does it have to be a laptop? You’ll get better hardware and performance on a desktop plus a better screen and seating position.

BananaTrifleViolin,

True, but the focus on battery life suggests mobility is a must.

They could dock the laptop for a desktop experience at home, including a dedicated keyboard, mouse and screens, with a good desk and seating arrangement. A USB C equipped device would be the way to go for this.

But absolutely agree for price, desktop only is better value.

BCsven,

Desktop also performs better than laptop with “same” spec cpu, gpu, etc

possiblylinux127,

Desktops are not replacements for a laptop. I have a portable power efficient laptop for school and around the home. Laptops way more flexible.

moitoi,
@moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

It as to be a laptop. I’m mostly in my new activity, working outside my home. I’m using mostly trains as we can go everywhere with them. It also allows working while going somewhere.

witx,

Can I take my desktop with me anywhere? The screen and seating positions, at home, are an artificial problem…

Armando3996, (edited ) in What's your favorite music player on Linux?

Spotify-wayland on hyprland. And I also definetly dont have SpotX-bash, a great spotify adblocker installed!

fedev, in Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month

Please don’t.

TheGrandNagus, in What's your favorite music player on Linux?

Haven’t used it in a while but Amberol is simple (all I need) and gorgeous (which I care about).

chitak166, in New laptop

I highly recommend checking out old.reddit.com/r/LaptopDeals/ daily until you find something that meets your needs and budget.

superbirra,

lol @ppl who downvote this

mexicancartel, (edited )

I hope this exists, let me type !LaptopDeals

Shit it doesnt

kingmongoose7877, in (Blog) Vanilla OS 2 Orchid Stable, some clarifications
@kingmongoose7877@lemmy.ml avatar

Ahh…I get it…I saw the title and thought it was about IBM’s OS/2 in an “out of the box,” uncustomized state, hence “Vanilla OS 2” code-named Orchid…oh, never mind already.

ipsirc, in How do I see what pid/process has modified a linux routing table?
@ipsirc@lemmy.ml avatar
bizdelnick, in How do I see what pid/process has modified a linux routing table?

I guess it can be NetworkManager if it is used to configure the interface but the route is added manually.

Deckweiss, (edited ) in How do I see what pid/process has modified a linux routing table?

The better solution:

sudo apt-get install auditd

Set up watch: sudo auditctl -w /path/to/your/file -p wa -k file_change_monitor

Check log: sudo ausearch -k file_change_monitor


Alternative solution:

If you know the file that is being edited you can set up watches with inotifywait and log it to a file. This may possibly not work because lsof might not be quick enough.

sudo apt-get install inotify-tools

then put this script in autostart


<span style="color:#323232;">#!/bin/bash
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">FILE_TO_MONITOR="/path/to/your/file"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">LOG_FILE="/path/to/logfile.txt"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">inotifywait -m -e modify,move,create,delete --format '%w %e %T' --timefmt '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' "$FILE_TO_MONITOR" |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">while read path action time; do
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    # Get the PID of the process that last modified the file
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    PID=$(lsof -t "$FILE_TO_MONITOR" 2>/dev/null)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    # Get the process name using the PID
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    PROCESS_NAME=$(ps -p $PID -o comm= 2>/dev/null)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    # Log details to the file
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    echo "$time: File $path was $action by PID $PID ($PROCESS_NAME)" >> "$LOG_FILE"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">done
</span>

Don’t forget to modify the values at the top of the script and make it executable.

mikey,

They aren’t asking about changes to a file describing the routing config, rather the actual in-use routing config. Unless the routing rules are modified through a couple of files (which I doubt), this doesn’t answer the question.

Cool commands though.

Deckweiss,

My bad, I thought in Linux everything is a file

mikey, (edited )

Well, the routes might manifest somewhere as files, but I don’t expect anyone to be able to viably parse them without commands like ip or ifconfig (or know where the files even are).

Some devices (like disks for example) are very straightforward to use as files, while some other special files (like USB devices) are so weird/ugly to use that everyone uses tools/libraries to access them (like libusb).

This is very off-topic, but there’s a great talk by Benno Rice that talks about this (among many others): youtu.be/9-IWMbJXoLM

Deckweiss,

Thank you for the info and I’ll listen to that talk

stoy, in Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month

I am getting flashbacks to the multimedia keyboards on yesteryear:

deskthority.net/wiki/Multimedia_keyboard

Thanks MS, but no thanks, I don’t need it.

surfrock66,
@surfrock66@lemmy.world avatar

For real though, I loved those. That wireless Logitech one with the volume dial lasted me a decade.

AwkwardTurtle,

My mom had one, I absolutely loved using that thing when I did

pipows,
@pipows@lemmy.today avatar

I love these, it has actual useful keys

stoy,

I will admit that the volume wheel was awesome

NOOBMASTER,

yeah, the media controls are actually useful.

cyberpunk007, in Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month

It’s already bad enough that windows 11 has a bing AI button on the top left AND top right corners of the start menu. Like wtf

joeldebruijn, in Debian Bookworm and Bullseye Users Receive Important Linux Security Updates

I had a security download (but not yet installed) ready yesterday. Logged off without installing. Turned on my device today and couldnt log in. Checked my pwd 3 times before seeing "authentication service not working " iirc.

After reboot it installed and logging in worked.

Is this related or not and is it expected? Not being able to log in without a mandatory patch first so to say?

DaPorkchop_,

no that just sounds like a bug

npopov, in What's your favorite music player on Linux?

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