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Sometimes adding a blank character helps with formatting. For example on Lemmy, it helps me separate lines of text if I insert a blank character between other lines. Currently, do that by copy-and-pasting the blank character from elsewhere. Here is an example...

Title. I’m trying to come up with a fully functional, optimal yet read-only scheme for fstab and I could use some pointers....

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/9339950...

Is there any way to disable the power button popup window? I’d like it to be just an immediate shutdown switch, not have to confirm or wait 60 seconds…...

Newbie here. First of all, I successfully took ownership of a folder using the command line and I am proud of that. Even though it ended up being irrelevant for the problem in the end, it was still satisfying to be able to figure it out finally. Using the command line makes me feel like I’m doing cool stuff B)...

cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/24413858...

I tried using the default ‘eddy’ installer as well as ‘gdebi’ but both of them throw an error message....

I’ve just put Fedora40 on my Lenovo legion. I installed kde spin. I’ve got two strange issues....

cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11540913...

I’m trying to invoke scrot with a bindsym so I have a keyboard shortcut to take screenshots...

Hey just wanted to ask for some recommendations on tethering my phone to my laptop. Would be nice to have options to hide tether usage if possible. Thanks

It’s a laptop from Microsoft, Surface Book 2. I run Fedora Linux and Arch Linux, both of them have this issue. Either vanilla kernel or surface kernel has the same problem....

The propaganda worked. I bought a Thinkpad, the thigh highs are on the way, penguin stickers are already here. Now it’s time to actually put Linux on my machine....

So I just bought this refurbished laptop with Mint pre-installed, and it’s showing these error messages when booting. Boots just fine afterwards and seems to work normally. Is this normal? Should I get my money back, or should I do a fresh install?

cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11236710...

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System: laptop with HDD(no money for ssd) and power issues + old non-smart TV + router under TV OS: Fedora server...

I have a pretty decent PC that I use to virtualize from time to time. I’ve used VirtualBox and it worked perfectly but I wanted to give the jump to Qemu and using KVM the difference in performance is huge but ONLY when the virtual disk is on an SSD, when is in a HDD the performance is just disgusting....

I wanted to get an opinion on how to partition various disks. My Win 10 machine is going to Linux Mint with Win 10 ending support. I currently have three disks: SATA SSD which is the C: drive, a traditional HDD for bulk storage (D:), and a M.2 SSD for games (F:). I was looking for an opinion on how to partition the M.2 SSD. It...

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Hi, I just read online that you can apparently run apt --fix-broken install....

I’m not a tech person, so I used to use Linux Mint. LM is a simple and easy distro with relatively minor issues for the average user. Additionally, their main forum was active and quite supportive of noobs/non-techies. However, I have switched over to KDE Neon and not found similar support yet. Is their a site that is active...

On Ubuntu Server and Arch I was able to change the following line in /lib/systemd/system/getty@.service...

I don’t always want to open a terminal as a window in a container layout (tabbed, stacked) but I simply want to open it as a floating window, is it possible to make that for example, pressing $mod+return+space opens the terminal but in floating mode?...

I have gotten Wake On LAN (WOL) setup and working. However my machine is a Ubuntu machine using full disk LUKS encryption which means when booting it up, it requires a password/passphrase to unlock the machine before it boots into Ubuntu. The WOL systemD service I created will always make sure WOl is enabled for the next time...