What can I say the clankers are good at ops.

#linux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdzLbJOfR3o

RE: https://mas.to/@OrionKidder/116706187007919449

The only solution to this #enshittified #wifi was to log in using vanilla #Firefox. Neither #Waterfox nor #ZenBrowser are insecure enough to allow me onto this #HotelWifi.

This does not speak well about Firefox.

#computers #hack #workaround #kludge #Linux

Orion Ussner kidder » 🌐 2026-06-07 / 2026-06-07
@OrionKidder@mas.to

So I'm a hotel with #enshittified wifi. My Linux laptop can't connect to it bc my browsers are like, "Hell no, we're not touching that corporate surveillance crap." So...

#Linux #phone #wifi #hack #workaround #computers #kludge

RE: https://mas.to/@OrionKidder/116706193743600090

Public service announcement: THIS DOES NOT WORK!

My computer was drawing on the cellular data plan. Somehow, the enshittified wifi refused the hotspot tether.

#wifi #HotelWifi #computers #iphone #hack #workaround #kludge #Linux

Orion Ussner kidder » 🌐 2026-06-07
@OrionKidder@mas.to

I got my #iphone on the #wifi, I plugged the phone into the computer, and now it's a tethered internet connection.

NB: It's #Gnome on #Debian, which might make a difference.

#hack #workaround #kludge #computers

Moon Child can now also be played on Linux hand-held devices, via Portmaster. 😃

Get it here:

https://portmaster.games/detail.html?name=moonchildfe

#TeamHoi #MoonChild #PixelArt #GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #windows #linux #commodore #amiga #FOSS #OpenSource #1990s #tech #digital #DigitalArt #graphics #CGI #CharacterDesign #design #artwork #art #artist #arte #arts #GraphicDesign #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

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Photo of a Linux hand-held device, displaying the Moon Child platform game on its screen.

Don't tell me you think #Linux #Documentation is adequate.

Go install CachyOS and somehow manage to change both the console font in Limine, and upon bootup, and then tell me the documentation is adequate.

I give up. I'll just squint while logging in. You'd think stuff would be smart enough to say "Gee, the screen is 1080p, maybe let's not use an 8x16 console font. 🤦‍♂️

So I'm a hotel with #enshittified wifi. My Linux laptop can't connect to it bc my browsers are like, "Hell no, we're not touching that corporate surveillance crap." So...

#Linux #phone #wifi #hack #workaround #computers #kludge

Did you know - you can also grab free #Linux based VPS now!

We took your feedback seriously and instead of breaking the philosophy at #BoxyBSD, @gyptazy crafted the @BoxedTux project with the same spirit and philosophy.

Free Linux based instances for learning, testing and educational content. Supporting #Debian, #Ubuntu, #Fedora, #RockyLinux, #Devuan, #Suse and many more ones!

#BoxedTux is also powered by @gyptazy to support the community and beginners just focussing more on Linux based systems. No worries, #BoxyBSD remains as it is!

Website: https://boxedtux.com
Demo (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FEv3ANz5hc

#virtualization #community #education #learning #freevps #support #devops #bgp #dn42

Would you say that #Linux (be it the #kernel or any of your #distro favourites) encourages you to create things / be #creative?

E.g. to create #systems using the kernel + some custom userland, possibly an appliance, or to build #apps for your favourite environment, or to set up a custom desktop, make #art and #music, write #poetry ...?

@stefano
@jana

Thank you Jana for this great talk and introduction to FreeBSD.

#GPN24

#Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #RunBSD #Linux #OpenSOurce

I have a Windows 98 VM and everything.

I am trying to reverse engineer the control protocol my Altec Lansing ADA-305 Speakers had over USB.

Unfortunately, I can not for the life of me find the drivers, which don't work on anything newer than Windows 98.

Can anyone find these drivers?

#Linux #Reverseengineering #audio #programming #Retro #retrocomputing #retrogaming

TIme for this week's #Linux and #OpenSource news video!

As a heads-up, I'll be on vacation next week, so no News video next Saturday, although I'll be back wit the regular schedule the week after that :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ2Pb0YNeqE

Hello, BSD and Linux friends!

Don't miss @jana 's great presentation later today: "How is FreeBSD different from Linux, what does it do well and why should I care?"

The live stream can be found here: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/gpn24/vortragssaal

The recording will be available afterwards in: https://media.ccc.de/c/gpn24

https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn24/talk/ZSNZ89/

#Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #RunBSD #Linux #OpenSOurce

#Linux

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Meme. Screenshot from the Green Mile movie. Text reads - Me: Installing 300th distro on my computer My computer: I'm tired boss.

Heya folks! It's sync day, and that means it's time for the weekly Solus roundup! Read all about it on our forums: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12768-week-23-2026

#FOSS #Linux #Solus #OpenSource

- Evan

@fedora My first way of contributing to #Fedora happened over IRC. As I was trying to figure out how to do #Linux, I found others would ask the questions I asked before, so I could pass on what I just learned to them, and ended up sticking around more intentionally to help other users just as the community had helped me.

#CommitHistory

What laptops do people on here like for running Linux these days? Are System76 and Star Labs worth it? I'd be looking for something faster than a 2019 Intel Macbook (7 years ago? really?), with decent graphics performance, as anything I get will certainly be commandeered for games at some point.

Notes:

1. I'm well-versed in running Linux on desktops where I can pick hardware components for compatibility, but much less so on laptops.
2. I'm also quite familiar with running Steam games on Linux.
3. I would not be the only user of such a laptop.
4. Boosts welcome.

#Linux #Laptops #AskingForAdvice

We revisit the topic of the dire situation with hardware prices, this time with a focus on getting the most out of machines with limited resources.

https://linuxafterdark.net/linux-after-dark-episode-123/

#linux #podcast #opensource

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Linux After Dark artwork

[$] Moving beyond fork() + exec()

Since the earliest days of Unix, two of the core process-oriented system calls have been fork(), which creates a child process as a copy of the parent, and exec(), which runs a new [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1076018/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git

Linux friends, why do I keep getting told "please switch to another Linux Mint mirror, your APT configuration is corrupt"?

I have clicked the button and changed the bits there repeatedly since I started seeing that a few days ago and yet it keeps coming back?

#Linux

Ruby's Bundler adds a cooldown feature

https://lwn.net/Articles/1076526/ #LWN #Linux

Security updates for Friday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1076605/ #LWN #Linux #security

KDE turns 30 this year - and they want your support https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/kde-turns-30-this-year-and-they-want-your-support/

#KDE #OpenSource #Linux #KDEPlasma

SteamOS 3.8.7 Beta brings improvements for Intel handhelds, audio popping and other fixes https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/steamos-3-8-7-beta-brings-improvements-for-intel-handhelds-audio-popping-and-other-fixes/

#SteamOS #SteamDeck #Linux #SteamMachine #SteamFrame

Steam Machine and Steam Frame shipping "this summer", Valve now rolling out verification systems https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/steam-machine-and-steam-frame-shipping-this-summer-valve-now-rolling-out-verification-systems/

#SteamMachine #SteamFrame #Linux #SteamOS

Dave Airlie on Linux Kernel Maintenance (SE Radio)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1076478/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Rust

[$] Splicing out vmsplice()

The splice() and vmsplice() system calls are meant to improve performance for certain data-movement tasks by minimizing (or avoiding altogether) system calls and the copying of dat [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1075838/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #SUSE

One step forward, two steps back on CA age bill (EFF Deeplinks Blog)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1076377/ #LWN #Linux #security

Here's what's coming to GeForce NOW in June including NTE: Neverness to Everness, SpaceCraft, Gothic 1 Remake https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/heres-whats-coming-to-geforce-now-in-june-including-nte-neverness-to-everness-spacecraft-gothic-1-remake/

#NVIDIA #GeForceNOW #CloudGaming #Linux #Gaming

Security updates for Thursday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1076364/ #LWN #Linux #security

Over the years, I've managed to lock myself into a corner made of proprietary software, even though I use #linux

I decided to make changes, so here is how I'm removing almost all proprietary software from my Phone and my PC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rtuxo1Bw04

KDE Plasma waves goodbye to X11 for Plasma 6.8 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/kde-plasma-waves-goodbye-to-x11-for-plasma-6-8/

#KDE #Linux #OpenSource #Plasma #KDEPlasma

(sorry, one more edit! 😁 like @SuperDicq@minidisk.tokyo and @whimsy pointed out, debian stable does not upgrade packages to newer versions, but only backports important (security?) fixes (hope I'm paraphrasing correctly); so that means we're safe until debian trixie's LTS ends in 2030 🙏 problem still remains for the longer run tho, but I'm stressing out a bit less for the time being! thanks everyone!)

okay, some big debian questions; so I'm using rsync daily to backup all my important stuff (both locally and to offsite)

my debian stable (trixie) has version 3.4.1, which is fine; but I don't want the newer, sloppified version..

so I wondered:

- can I tell my debian install to just keep this version forever? or will that break things sooner or later?

(to everyone explaining how to hold a package, yes thanks but I know that; my question is more like "can I do that forever without things breaking". but I understand the answer must be no 😅 maybe the question was more out of desperation; that clearly isn't the way to go in the long run.. a real solution must come from the debian team then =>)

- since debian tends to be pretty strict when it comes to stability (it's called debian stable after all), is there an active discussion going on, in the debian community, about how to deal with obviously sloppifying packages like rsync?

will debian maybe freeze them at the last non-sloppified version too somehow, so I don't have to deal with that?

surely, it can't be that obviously worse versions of packages go from debian experimental, through testing, to stable, right? 😬

I'm rather curious/puzzled/anxious how debian will handle cases like this, since there's bound to be a ton of them before long.

does anyone, someone more familiar with the debian community, have some insights on this process, and if this is being actively discussed? I really hope it is!

because this is going to be a massive, make or break, problem before long - it kinda already is, at least for me, a random user, who is worried their backups might start breaking soon 😬

btw. I understand I could switch from rsync to some forked version, and I probably will if the answer to my question is "no, there's little discussion, and they are going to let the sloppified packages trickle through the experimental => testing => stable chain"; but that only works around the problem for this specific package.

I don't have time to find slopfree alternatives to all of these hundreds of tools that exist in a standard debian installation..

or maybe, would debian at some point maybe switch to forked, non-sloppified versions of packages, and denote them the new defaults, and handle the upgrade in somewhat automated fashion?

I remember how mariadb became kind of the new standard mysql, after oracle acquired that. but of course that only works if there is a big enough community of hobbyist programmers to maintain these unslopped forks - if only for security fixes; I'd be happy enough if everything just stays mostly fixed in functionally from this point in time on.

questions, questions! sorry this got a bit long and winding. just worried about the future of linux. I'm sure we all are.

#linux #debian

Steam Survey for May 2026 is out - Linux down at 3.99% but still above macOS https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/steam-survey-for-may-2026-is-out-linux-down-at-3-99-percent-but-still-above-macos/

#Linux #Steam #SteamOS #LinuxGaming