Okay so I'm using Kubuntu and I went to update it and then of course it needs to restart after. Nothing unusual. However instead of restarting normally it's now just on a black screen with the cursor (like text cursor not mouse cursor) blinking in the top left. It's been like this for at least 15 minutes. I can type into the command line and up arrow to see previous commands. I've never had this happen and I'm not tech savvy so would it be okay to just hold the power button to turn my laptop off or should I run a command to make my computer restart? And if so, what command? I just don't want to break my laptop by turning the power off

Also, as for why this happened, could it be bc I just hit update all instead of doing the system update first then updating everything else? Is it best practice to do updates in a certain order? I want to understand why this happened for future troubleshooting if possible

Edit: okay I tapped the power button and it immediately turned off. I waited 30 sec to a minute then turned it back on. Everything seems to be working fine. I would still like to know if the order I update things matters?

I ordered some PineBuds Pro, is there an over ear open firmware option out there?

Was chatting with folks in the lunch room, and it came up (from them) about how horrible Microsoft /windows is, how they have a laptop at home with win 11 but it sucks so bad they dont use it and just use their phone instead.

I of course had to say (in a conversational way, not being elitist) my life has vastly improved since I eradicated windows from my life, and Linux is rediculously easy now. They all looked at me like a master hacker and couldn't understand how I could do anything on Linux because (their words) " you have to be a programmer to use it, its just a black screen!"

Sooo I explained how GUI desktop environments have been around since at least the late 90s, and while it operates differently under the hood, there are dozens of versions of Linux that act and look almost identical to windows. Not to mention the insane performance boost over windows. They were surprised any normal person could ever use Linux. These are smart people, they just have no idea what's possible.

Its just crazy the amount of misunderstanding there is out there ! But hopefully I made them think a little bit more about how linux actually works, I doubt they'll ever change but every little bit helps.

Crossposted from https://thebrainbin.org/m/[email protected]/t/1840283

Which approach do you think is better, and why?

1. FIDO2
2. HMAC-SHA1
3. OpenPGP (alternative guide)

Or do you think there is an even better way to use a hardware security token to unlock drives having LUKS full disk encryption?

See title.

I like the simplicity if the bamboo software but realy would love a foss firmware for the printer. Ik this isn't strictly Linux related but figured this was the best fit for the discussion. I would get a prusa printer but the cost for multi material just doesn't make economical sense. Is their some 3rd party controller board that integrates well? I run QubesOS with a designated sys-print qube to keep such activities isolated. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I'm a mechanical engineering student and would like to take advantage of my knowledge to engineer myself into a physical advantaged.

wrote CLI in C++ to sort files. it's very simple, just download and use. if you a photographer, video editor or just need to sort some files, you welcome (link in post)

A quick update on SSH Pilot, a free, opensource SSH, SFTP client I've been working on.

A new version is out with new features, aimed at meeting all your SSH/SFTP needs in a clean, user-friendly interface.

Just double-press the Shift key and all your hosts and management tools are at your fingertips. The tools include graphical frontends for SFTP, SCP, SSH-COPY-ID, Known Hosts, Authorized Keys as well as Docker containers.

Th app also supports backups to Bitwarden/Vaultwarden and restoring on other devices.

Downloads for Linux and macOS are available at https://github.com/mfat/sshpilot#download

Flatpak users can install from Flathub.

Howdy,

I've been trying to figure this out for a couple of days now. Essentially I am setting up a loaner laptop that uses active directory. This laptop is using Linux mint 22.3. I want users to be able to install apps, but only from the the gui software manager and apt install in the terminal. I don't want the other users to have any other sudo privileges. I managed to configure it to allow a non admin user from within the domain to use apt in the terminal to install packages, but for some reason it doesn't let me do it in the gui software manager without the root password.

I used visudo to edit the sudoers folder. I tried different varations of this line: %domain\ [email protected] ALL=(ALL:ALL) /usr/bin/apt-get, /usr/bin/apt, /usr/bin/mintinstall, /usr/share/software-manager

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

The Debian project is engaging in a debate and vote on whether large language model (LLM) tools may be used in the development of Debian, its distribution-specific code, and the project's website. The general resolution is currently being discussed leading into a vote on the subject.

I stopped at my local dive and a dude was there painting some pretty cool pictures so I had him do my computer. I think it looks.pretty great!

cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/[email protected]/p/859482/proton-drive-linux-client-is-being-actively-developed

I received the email this morning from Proton announcing improvements to Drive speed, and they just happened to tuck this in there:

... It also allowed us to focus on deeper integration with the rest of the Proton ecosystem (such as Drive in Lumo) and support for a Linux client, which we're now actively building.

Glad I won't have to continue using my cobbled together Syncthing solution much longer.

Here's the full email for anyone interested, seems the announcement isn't on their website yet.

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Dear Proton community member,

A faster, more powerful Proton Drive is here, giving you smoother access, stronger protection, and more control over your files.

Proton Drive is up to 3x faster

We rebuilt Proton Drive around a single, shared engine that now powers uploading, downloading, and encryption across all our apps. Uploads are up to 3x faster and downloads up to 2x faster, plus smoother scrolling and quicker loading in Photos. It also allowed us to focus on deeper integration with the rest of the Proton ecosystem (such as Drive in Lumo) and support for a Linux client, which we're now actively building.

Faster, stronger encryption

Your files stay end-to-end encrypted — that hasn't changed, and never will. But that happens more efficiently now. We've adopted a cryptographic advance in the OpenPGP standard, cutting encryption time for new file uploads by up to 4x.

More control over who can manage your shared files

When you share a file or folder, you can already choose Viewer or Editor access. Now you can also decide whether an Editor can manage sharing on your behalf — inviting others, changing permissions, or removing access. To keep that control for yourself only, open the share's Settings and toggle off access.

More power and flexibility across Proton Drive

Alongside the updates above, we’ve continued improving Proton Drive across platforms, making it easier to automate workflows, browse shared files, manage syncing, and work more efficiently.

• The Proton Drive CLI is now available for Linux, macOS, and Windows, so you can script uploads, downloads, and sharing from your terminal. 
• Grid view is now available on public Proton Drive links, making shared photo folders much easier to browse.
• On the Windows desktop app, you can now pause syncing for a few hours or until the next day, and Proton Drive automatically resumes so you don't forget to turn it back on.
• A new encrypted cache stores your 500 most recently viewed thumbnails, so albums you've already browsed load instantly the next time.
• Proton Sheets now supports custom currency, number, and date/time formats, alongside bug fixes and reliability improvements.

Protecting your privacy is our priority. Follow us on X for the latest feature releases, privacy news, and security tips. Join the discussion on Reddit for insights directly from our team, and share your ideas on UserVoice to help shape Proton’s future.

Thank you for your continued support. Stay secure,

The Proton Drive team :::

This is just a simple little happy post 🙂 I know the situation isn't super special or unusual.

I just ran an Endeavour OS + AUR update (eos-update --aur) and it had a net size of -7.38 MB. i.e., out of 138 packages, enough of them reduced their footprint to make the net change negative.

So I got a bit of SSD space back! It's not the first time either. I don't think I saw that once in 25ish years of running Windows or macOS. Maybe a video driver package would shrink on occasion, but never a major system update.

So yeah, just a lil' shoutout to all the maintainers out there optimizing your apps and services. You're great 👍

Edit: Thanks for all suggestion! In my case (Thinkpad) I managed to make it persistent via udev, as described here.

It looks like there was a pre-existing udev configuration about this, but had slightly wrong SUBSYSTEM and DRIVER parameters:

• old: SUBSYSTEM=="acpi", DRIVER=="button"
• correct (in my case): SUBSYSTEM=="platform", DRIVER=="acpi-button"

maybe because of some recent systemd changes?

Hope this may help others.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/68100295

I have Kubuntu on a Thinkpad, and a S3-sleep state selected in the Bios.

My setup has always been to not resume from sleep when the lid is open. I achieved this by running once

echo "LID" | sudo tee /proc/acpi/wakeup

which toggles the wakeup-on-lid state. The behaviour would be respected upon restart.

Here's my problem: since some recent update – I don't know whether from apt or fwupd – I discovered that the laptop was waking up upon lid opening. So I issued the command above again. It works, but it gets reset upon restart, unlike before.

Anyone has good tips on how to make this setting permanent?

In the Bios I didn't find any settings about this.

Cheers!

How about a BASIC that uses Labels instead of line numbers, and actual names for variables - some of the statements are different, for example instead of 'Input' labelbasic uses 'ask' (Each statment begins with a unique letter)

git your own copy at : https://codeberg.org/WasPentalive/LabelBasic.git

I've just been running it for a couple of days on my gaming setup and it's so good.

It's rolling release with a role back function to a previous state that is 100x snappier, more organic and less awkward then all the immutable distros and atomic desktops I tried !?

It seems totally independent and made by a small team.

Why is nobody talking about it?!!

I am still genuinly looking for whats the catch?! Please someone tell me!

It's only rank 30 on distrowatch, I hadn't even heard of it until recently.

Is it just because the branding isn't the best?

Granted it was kind of awkward to install especially with encryption but arch was also awkward to install for a while and people still talked about it.

I just wanna make sure that everyone isn't sleeping on this because I am genuinely confused.

I feel like I am living the distro hoppers dream where you stumble over a random distro and it's actually better then everything you tried before xD.

The Linux Foundation has twelve platinum members, which donate $500000 per year, followed by twelve gold members, who donate $100000 per year. Below these two primary tiers lie the silver peasants, who each donate $5000-$25000 per year, based on number of employees. Looking at the list of twelve platinum members, I noticed something interesting.

Of the twelve platinum companies, six are “AI” companies or companies with massive investments in “AI”: Google, Huawei, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM/Red Hat. Then there’s Samsung Electronics, which is raking in stupendous amounts of money thanks to the “AI” bubble. Additionally, one of the gold members is Anthropic, another major “AI” company and makers of “Claude”, the sloppiest of slopcoding tools.[...]

Anyway, a large chunk of the funding the Linux Foundation, Linus Torvald’s employer, receives is coming from increasingly desperate companies frantically trying to convince a populace deeply skeptical and often downright hostile towards “AI” to spend money on “AI” before the bubble bursts.

• I have two machines:
  • one with arch and KDE (installed with pacman -S kde)
  • one with asahi fedora spin (installed with curl https://alx.sh/ | sh and chose the KDE spin)
• after booting and changing to another TTY with ctrl-alt-f4 and loging in I see vastly different memory usages:
  • arch: 600MB
  • asahi: 1900MB
• On arch I use sddm and on asahi kde plasma-login-manager
• Do you have any ideas why the difference in RAM usage is so stark and how I could further investigate?
• PS.: Normally I wouldn't care about this memory footprint but the asahi hardware only has 8GB of RAM and I had to increase swappiness from 60 to 70 to run thunderbird + firefox + some electron apps.

Just discovered this and though I'd might share for those who want a unified look between their phone. The Wallpapers are high res and GPL

(upvotes to the left)