tutus 1mo ago • 88%
no one gives a shit what kids are doing on their devices
Except Joe. And people like Joe. Whose surveillance of kids is now not only easier, but sanctioned.
I'm using Debian 12, KDE, in X11. I have a 5120x1440 monitor I use with my laptop. I sometimes use my laptop display (3840x1080) when I'm undocked. Using Wayland this generally just works. But I can't use Wayland (see below). In X11, when I move between displays I need to change the resolution, the scale and the Task Manager height etc. It's a PITA. This is likely a very easily solved problem. But I'm new-ish to desktop Linux and I'm unsure of how to solve it. Any help appreciated. (Why I can't use Wayland - it causes problems primarily for Zoom (I know, I know, it's a work thing). I assume this is because I'm also running an NVIDIA GPU on the laptop and Debian stable hasn't got those extra bits and pieces that have been added recently, in there to help make it work (that is the beauty and the curse of a stable distro like Debian 😀). As an aside I did think of trying Debian testing to see if that helped with this.
I know about the issues with Zoom, and in particular Zoom on Wayland. I use Debian 12, kernel 6.1.0-18 (Bluetooth issues on later kernels) with KDE on X11. So I primarily use the web app, which works really well on the whole. Occasionally, I need to use the app (reasons below for clarity, but not what I'm asking about): * When doing a presentation, for example, sharing the screen still allows you to see the other people on the call. * Controlling somebody else's presentation in the web view just doesn't work (they can't give you control, as you don't appear in the list). I have also tried using the Flatpak and had issues (which I cannot remember). Whenever I use the Zoom app, using the native web app downloaded from https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_amd64.deb, I have weird issues when I click the chat window. The mouse pointer turns into the icon used when dragging a window and I cannot click anywhere in Zoom (none of the buttons work, keyboard shortcuts, I can't type in the chat box). But the call continues. This has happened over and over again in different kernel versions of Debian 12 and different versions of Zoom client (I noticed this maybe 6 months or so ago, so have been regularly trying it since then). I have searched for an answer and for something close, and have never found anything (I could be searching for the wrong thing). Does anybody have any suggestions?
tutus 3mo ago • 83%
Being up to date is the entire point and so typically there are only global options to either grab those updates from the vendor or host them internally on a central server but you wouldn’t want to slow roll or stage those updates since that fundamentally reduces the protection from zero days and novel attacks that the product is specifically there to detect and stop.
That's not your, or Crowdstrikes, decision to make. If organizations have applied settings to not install updates automatically then that's what they expect to happen and you need to honour it. You don't "know best". They do.
tutus 3mo ago • 90%
You might want to include that information in your original post. You are telling people over and over that their suggestions are too expensive. You're wasting peoples time.
tutus 4mo ago • 100%
Your title indicates otherwise so might be worth amending it.
tutus 4mo ago • 100%
I believe this is a hardware issue. Have you checked the USB options in the BIOS?
tutus 4mo ago • 100%
I may have missed something.
Firefox 127 has introduced privacy tweaks that are causing user dissatisfaction, particularly due to changes like the separation of normal and private windows on the taskbar and the closing of private tabs when the main instance closes on iOS.
This sounds like it would be the expected behaviour?
- Despite user complaints, the update includes new privacy and security enhancements such as upgrading subresources from HTTP to HTTPS and masking CPU architecture to reduce fingerprinting.
This sounds like a good thing?
- Mozilla plans to address user feedback by reintroducing the "browser.privateWindowSeparation.enabled" preference as an opt-in and adding more intuitive privacy settings in future updates.
This sounds like a good thing?
tutus 4mo ago • 100%
The link I posted said this:
In the U.S., Google charges individual users $14 per month for YouTube Premium, which limits ads and offers a few additional features.
So it 'limits ads' which means there are still ads.
tutus 4mo ago • 89%
tutus 4mo ago • 100%
I use Debian 12. I use Spotify. And I don't have this issue.
What I have had is various issues with kernel 6.1.0-21. I'm currently using 6.1.0-18 on my laptop and 6.1.0-15 on my desktop and the issue I had are gone. Because of my experience, I'd suggest trying those kennels.
tutus 5mo ago • 100%
Just to confirm it also works with the Logitech C930e that the OP has. This is what I use it for.
tutus 6mo ago • 96%
People at the Post Office and Fujitsu need to go to jail over this.
It won't happen. They'll get away with it. Same as ever.
tutus 6mo ago • 100%
Thank you. Seems like an interesting tool!
tutus 6mo ago • 100%
Genuine question. What's the difference between this and rsync?
tutus 6mo ago • 87%
I wasn't implying criticism isn't allowed.
But opinions on what somebody should do with their time and project are just that.
Feedback must be given in a respectful way or it's not effective. That often doesn't happen with open-source projects and until we change the culture around open-source, this is going to just keep happening.
Opinions ate like assholes. Everybody has one. Doesn't mean its relevant or important. The number of intelligent people who confuse opinion with fact never fails to astound me.
tutus 6mo ago • 100%
I agree.
Playing Devils Advocate it sounds like the options, for them, would be to stop providing a non-paying version entirely.
I understand where they are coming from but providing an open source version that won't get timely security updates feels like it would be more trouble than it's worth to use.
If they only want to work on a version that pays for their time I'd suggest they make the whole thing closed source.
tutus 6mo ago • 97%
The self-entitlement in open-source has to stop. This is only one example of a maintainer quitting. There are many more.
And the shaming of projects who want to make money to sustain their projects also has to stop. Nothing is free. Somebody is paying for it in time, resources or money.
If you don't like what a project is doing, or how they're monetizing, don't use it. Move on.
tutus 6mo ago • 100%
I ended up going to VMware Workstation as it just works. I could never get KVM to share between Linux and Windows host / guest no matter what I tried. Samba wasn't an option for me to use.
I'm really glad there seems to now be a potential solution in wsdd2.
tutus 7mo ago • 100%
Found them in the app. I had 'Use System Languages' selected. Changed that now.
Will see if it works any better. Thank you.
tutus 7mo ago • 100%
Hmmm. Yeah I'm pretty sloppy about my letters too. Maybe I need to be a bit more precise to get the best out of it.
tutus 7mo ago • 100%
Do you have a link to them? I can't see them on their GirHub (bit I could just be missing it).