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I'm new here and have only looked at a dozen Q&A posts so far. TL;DR how about waiting until there is more traffic? I was about to post a Linux Systems "also relevant for BSD", and while I su...
The shell uses ; to reliably end a statement, with foreground execution. In some cases, a line break also ends a statement with foreground (except that when the statement is not obviously complete...
The following question was asked by SE user RAKK. The original source can be found here. I am running Debian 11 Bullseye for AMD64 on an HP Pavillion Touch 14-N009LA laptop, using IBus and MATE ...
Karl's advice is good. I would also recommend trying LVM2 to give yourself more flexibility in future. Ubuntu flavour docs but it's essentially the same in all distros. The thing it does for you ...
Possibly Home Assistant is relevant, or helpful in discovering other relevant tools? I think it includes Threads, which I think can be transported on Zigbee. (My research here is incomplete / I ha...
I answered this question over SE, as it can be found here. UPDATE. I've found that the latest commit in the IBus source has the blacklist already implemented, and that all Latin American layouts...
(This answer updates this one.) This issue seems to be fixed in IBus 1.5.27. As this commit shows, the offending line xkb:latam:*:* has been deleted from engines/denylist.txt, which now allows ...
It's been a while since I did proxy server stuff with Chrome and friends. (I'm mostly a Firefox user.) But when I was into it, I used an extension called SwitchyOmega. That extension itself has app...
Rationale Occasionally, audio from a very useful proprietary application is too quiet to be audible. This is impossible to remediate at the application level because: I am unable to request t...
Hello everyone 👋 The problem I have ~200 video files (.MP4) that I would like to organise based on their dimensions. However, the Dolphin File Manager (that I installed with Flatpak) does not di...
Hello, fellow Arch user. I had never heard of this wireless protocol until reading your question. A web search for zigbee linux brings up Zigbee2MQTT and a couple pages with setup instructions: ht...
Bottles has a builtin dependency manager which it looks like you are using. The manager downloads dependencies from their official location and installs them in some way that works "better" for Wi...
For functions, you could dump all currently-defined functions to a file such as appending to ~/.bashrc. typeset -f >> ~/.bashrc Note that this specifically will display every function, re...
Are you familiar with the Bash history shortcuts? The most basic is !! to refer to the last command you entered. This lets you do things like sudo !! to run the last command with privileges. You co...
There are two key ideas here: Moving data between partitions entails copying it onto the new one and then deleting it from the original - just like copying between different physical drives. H...
Hi, i need to setup a script to validate the raspberry hardware connected to a desktop PC, and im not sure how to go about it. We are in an environment where we need to flash an OS + some goodies ...
Turns out this is a known bug in QT 5 that has been fixed in QT 6. It only happens in the following constellation, which I hit exactly: Wayland Two or more screens different scaling per scree...
I want my SysRq key to be fully functional. When I look in sudo sysctl -a I see kernel.sysrq = 1 in the output. This tells me it should be working. To test, I run echo h > /proc/sysrq-trigger ...
Some Linux users prefer to have /home mounted on a separate partition from the filesystem root, while others prefer a unified partition. I can find plenty of tutorials out there for moving /home on...
Just run the installation again, Bottles already deleted the file with the not-matching checksum. This might be required multiple times if there are multiple files to be downloaded and installed al...
How do I solve the error 'Dependencies installation failed' when installing a program using an installer in Bottles? I'm using Bottles 51.15. Console log 15:08:16 (INFO) Installing dependenc...
I couldn't find a definitive authoritative documentation anywhere but this seems pretty good: Mel Gorman: Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager, Section 13.4 Once a task is selected, t...
I managed to disable the feature via polkit. To do this I created two policy files: /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/50-disable-linger-self.pkla [disable loginctl linger self] Identity=un...
tar can do it all: $ tar --extract --ungzip --one-top-level --file archive.tar.gz That will result in a directory named according to the archive (so just archive in this case) containing the ex...
Airflow is a distributed workflow manager intended for complex cloud computing use. However, it can be used to run tasks locally. You can run Airflow in single-node mode, with LocalExecutor, and w...
