linux

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...

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...

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,...

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....

One for those running #ZFS on #Linux systems. I realise that you can’t have hibernate aka suspend to disk on a swap in the encrypted zpool but if you don’t use hibernation then is it OK to use swap using the likes of the command example below to set it up in the encrypted pool?...

Clothing, accessories, etc. I remember back then buying hoodies from the Canonical Store, but they are not available anymore....

Apologies if this isn’t the correct forum. A couple of days back, maybe a week, someone made a post asking if a certain pre-built SFF PC would run Linux. Several people responded that they run that same PC and that it works great. I’m planning to build a PC for my mother and this would be perfect for her needs. However, I...

I work away from home for weeks at a time, and I hurriedly set up my server on my last day at home last month...

Hey, I use a Macbook 2020 i5. I installed fedora on it. But my tochpad and keyboard are not working.

Any experiences with www.freewear.org or www.hellotux.com?

For whatever reason the main website links for this version aren’t working, so if anyone is looking for this edition, I found it here:...

Is there an application for building/drawing stuff. I know blender exists, but its a little overcomplicated for what I’m thinking of....

Focus on feature like line smoothing, palm rejection. Good amount of brushes extra points for custom brushes.

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I’m looking for recommendations for a dotfile manager - there are so many out there I’ve got a bit of options paralysis!...

I have always been a history enthusiast. Unfortunately, I don’t know much about history in the context of computers. I am therefore interested in learning more about significant events and people like Richard stallman and all the related events such as Windows refund day. I am interested to read and explore the timeline, I...

if you could pick a standard format for a purpose what would it be and why?...

I used to read DevOps’ish, but Chris is no longer making it. Are there any other interesting newsletters, blogs, etc resources related to...

I’m currently using an HP with Windows 11 and WSL but I’d love to switch to Linux, proper - at least just on my development machine. I’m standard LAMP, though I also would use Node and Rails, too....