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Q&A ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'foo'

Here's the relevant ArchWiki page. The gist of it is that most of those warnings are probably for some fairly obscure hardware, and can be just ignored (provided that your system indeed works fine...

posted 2mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A How to export public GPG key?

This is how to save it to a file: $ gpg --export --armor key-id > my-key.pub --armor stands for the format with printable characters.

posted 1mo ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A Manually trigger cron jobs

Do any of the cron implementations allow you to manually trigger cron jobs (stuff in your crontab) right now, in the exact same manner as they would have when triggered on their usual schedule, exc...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A How do I migrate my main filesystem to a new drive?

Gnome disks can create a disk image, and then restore it to the new one. The new drive has to be same size or larger, although this is obvious. If it is larger, the partition will still be small, ...

posted 1mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Get notifications to dunst when systemd units fail

I have no experience with dunst, but generally you want a global service-level dropin file in /etc/systemd/system/service.d/ with OnFailure= setting in it. This way it gets added to all services ru...

posted 1mo ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A Moving the filesystem root to a different partition and booting from it

My primary drive is partitioned basically like so (only roughly to scale): / /home junk v v v |xx###############...

1 answer  ·  posted 1mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A Systemd unit needs to start at boot but wait for network

Yup that's the recommended way to do it. Wants adds the network-online.target as a soft dependency.[1] Systemd will try to start it if it isn't up already. Networking should work after this target...

posted 29d ago by Iizuki‭  ·  edited 26d ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A Is libostree practical for user files?

Is it practical to use libostree for user files? Or is it too specialized for tracking an entire OS? I am not familiar with libostree, but sounds like it's "Git for filesystem trees". Seems like t...

0 answers  ·  posted 22d ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Can you put systemd units under a custom path?

There are a few ways to do this. From the documentation you linked: When the variable $SYSTEMD_UNIT_PATH is set, the contents of this variable overrides the unit load path. Option 1: Edit tha...

posted 11d ago by Cadence‭

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Q&A How to export public GPG key?

No need to search for a key id, just type your e-mail associated with your key and export your public key like this: $ gpg --export -a something@example.net > my_key.asc

posted 8d ago by amarok‭

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Q&A Does Fedora have cutting edge features, and what makes it so?

I think the Fedora project documentation covers this in the "First" section (emphasis mine): First We are committed to innovation. We are not content to let others do all the heavy lifting on ...

posted 6d ago by terdon‭

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Meta How can we grow this community?

Unpopular opinion?: make it look more like SO. dark theme up/down vote without opening the question comment without opening the comment thread These kinda stuck out to me as first impressio...

posted 4d ago by JohnRando‭

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Q&A Stop Lutris from changing the screen scaling

Every time I open EA Games from within Lutris, the desktop's UI/screen scaling is reset from 150% to 100%. This is in PopOS running with a 4K resolution on a 4K screen. The resolution is not change...

1 answer  ·  posted 3d ago by Andreas from the dark caverns‭  ·  last activity 3d ago by Andreas from the dark caverns‭

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Q&A Stop Lutris from changing the screen scaling

It seems as if it may not have been Lutris causing issues, but the HiDPI daemon in PopOS. This daemon can be disabled in the PopOS settings under "screens". Disabling that process may lead to issue...

posted 3d ago by Andreas from the dark caverns‭

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Q&A How do I globally configure consistent DPI for GUI apps?

How do I configure my system so that all GUI apps use a consistent DPI, without configuring each app individually?

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A What does Gnome Disks "erase" do?

Not quite sure what exactly happens, but the Erase option should do something like overwriting the data that used to be on the disk. When formatting a disk, typically only the partition tables are...

posted 9mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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Q&A Increase incorrect login attempts before locking account

This appears to be set by the option deny in /etc/security/faillock.conf.

posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Highlight regions in an image with CLI

Another possibility is to use LaTeX. There are several ways in which you could use it to add a polygon on top of an image, one way is TikZ: % !TeX program = txs:///arara % arara: pdflatex: {synct...

posted 9mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A What does Gnome Disks "erase" do?

When formatting drives with Gnome Disks, there is an option to "Erase". The help text says this takes longer, but "completely" erases data. What exactly does this option do? Is there a CLI equival...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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Q&A Treat underscores as word boundaries in terminal using vim mode

You can't, without patching readline. What counts as a word character is hard-coded in the readline library, as of this writing. See: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/readline.git/tree/vi_mode...

posted 9mo ago by r~~‭

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Q&A How to fix DPI for Spotify

Spotify runs on my computer with higher DPI (bigger UI elements) than I'd like. How can I reduce it?

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Ergonomic way to search man pages

Not a real answer, but these days there are some nice LLM models and they're good at summarizing text. If you have the CLI scripts to interact with them, you can submit the man page as the "system ...

posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Ergonomic way to search man pages

You often have to read man pages to use Linux/Unix software. However, many man pages are not easy to read. They are very long, not always conveniently arranged, and man does not appear to have any ...

3 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by alx‭

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Q&A GUI apps stop working until next boot after some system upgrades

My system occasionally has an issue that looks like this: I run pacman -Syu Many things get updated Many GUI apps (including all display managers and Xorg) start refusing to run and throw up O...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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Q&A GUI apps stop working until next boot after some system upgrades

Typically it is recommended to reboot your machine after a kernel update (because of the issues you mentioned). If you really do not want to reboot, there is a workaround by means of the kexec sys...

posted 10mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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