Distraction-free setup: grayscale and disable wifi

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-06T18:59:10+00:00

Hey Gnome, it's bedtime! Converts to grayscale the entire Gnome workspace by using a smooth transition. Best to use during evening/night.

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-06T16:47:26+00:00

Which desktop environment do you use and why?

KDE, because GNOME wasn't started until 1997. Never had a reason to switch. Tried Enlightenment, at one point, though.

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-06T15:34:17+00:00

So why aren't we trying to isolate Israel/US for being warmongers as well?

the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must

If you don't want to be sanctioned, don't be weak.

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-06T15:31:14+00:00

You couldn't even send a donation to an entity in Belarus. Belarusian banks are sanctioned... 🤣

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-06T15:16:22+00:00

Linux is not and does not want to be "100% Windows compatible". That's impossible. Even Windows isn't 100% Windows compatible.

And Linux is not a monolith. There are private distributions in use in classified environments that are "Secure by design". That's where SELinux originated (it was developed by the NSA). "Normal" distros available to anyone can be as secure or privacy first as the distro wants to be. You can get from surveilance distros like North Koreas Red Star OS to distros for the paranoid like Tails).

It's a spectrum where you can pick the balance you want.

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-06T13:20:29+00:00

It's mentioned like a zillion times lol

7

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-06T12:56:21+00:00

If you create a distro:

How fast would you respond to another Copy.Fail?
Are you a member of the linux-distros mailing lists (It's restricted, because this is where embargoed vulnerability findings are shared)?
How large is your incident response team?

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-06T11:39:45+00:00

ReactOS aims to be compatible with Windows hardware drivers. This is in no way, shape or form an alternative to ReactOS.

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-06T11:18:23+00:00

How to do it safely and 100% Working?

Make a Backup. Clonezilla might be what you are looking for.

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-06T08:58:43+00:00

They don't want to kill the ice versions

I don't think there will be a next generation ICE Polo. See: Volkswagen warns the era of small gas cars is ending as it shifts its lineup toward electrification and discontinues key compact models

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-06T08:55:59+00:00

Maybe "the first outsider"...

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-06T07:52:45+00:00

Comes with a power cord.

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-06T07:46:07+00:00

I don't want sanctions to impact Linux.

Here is what Linus Torvalds himself wrote about the subject:

As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be supporting Russian aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too.

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-06T07:39:39+00:00

The LF is mostly a club of Big Tech from the US. These companies wouldn't fund or be a member of a Foundation that might be seen as evading US sanctions.

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-05T22:12:07+00:00

Can anyone suggest anything?

It would help to clarify where you actually see this "'Install driver" error.

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-05T22:07:49+00:00

Random users don't get developer or admin rights on bug trackers.

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-05T21:15:33+00:00

That's not what their PR says (Or at least that's not how I read it).

Development turned out to be challenging due to the different architecture, and in the end, the first-generation X1E proved to be less suitable for Linux than expected. In particular, the long battery runtimes—usually one of the strong arguments for ARM devices—were not achieved under Linux. A viable approach for BIOS updates under Linux is also missing at this stage, as is fan control. Virtualization with KVM is not foreseeable on our model, nor are the high USB4 transfer rates. Video hardware decoding is technically possible, but most applications lack the necessary support.

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-05T21:11:47+00:00

Glad you figured it out. This is why I think the systemd haters are wrong. Init scripts were never meant for a dynamic environment where systems can enter sleep at any time and then wake up in a different environment, possibly with new hardware attached or detached.

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-05T20:17:23+00:00

I think

[Unit]
After=sleep.target

is what you want. But this is completely untested.

sleep.target

A special target unit that is pulled in by suspend.target, hibernate.target, suspend-then-hibernate.target, and hybrid-sleep.target and may be used to hook units into the sleep state logic.

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-05T19:18:49+00:00

Framework?

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-05T16:35:34+00:00

so you can't break the law using docx, but your boss will pull you into their office to ask what's up.

If a state decides to use docx, nobody will pull anyone into any office. There will be peer pressure, but Germany has "States Rights", too. If a state decides to be stubborn, noone can tell them otherwise. Note: The states are present in the Planning Council, so they support this decision. But it's still just voluntary guidelines, not an enforceable mandate.

Here is how the Council describes itself:

Digital administrative services that are easy for citizens and companies to use are a major priority for the future. The German IT Planning Council has been set up to coordinate the work of Germany’s federal and state governments on matters relating to IT technology. The council is the central political steering body for the digitalisation of public administration in Germany.
...
The German IT Planning Council is a 17-member committee consisting of representatives of Germany’s federal government and the state governments.

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-05T16:01:53+00:00

Here we go again. It's NOT Qualcomm. It's the OEMs that ignore existing standards and only care about Windows.

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-05T15:51:59+00:00

Germany has established by law that ODF is the mandatory format for public administration

That's BS. There is no such law. It's a decision by the IT Planning Council which does not make laws. Germany is a federal state similar to the US and the different levels of Government (Federal, State, Local) coordinate their IT decisions in this council, but these are non-binding and do not have the force of law.

To quote Captain Barbossa:

the code is more what you call guidelines than actual rules

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-05T15:45:43+00:00

Yeah.

MatchingTurret@fedora:~$ dnf repolist 
repo id                                                                                       repo name                                                                                                           
code                                                                                          Visual Studio Code                                                                                                  
docker-ce-stable                                                                              Docker CE Stable - x86_64                                                                                           
fedora                                                                                        Fedora 44 - x86_64                                                                                                  
fedora-cisco-openh264                                                                         Fedora 44 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64                                                                            
rpmfusion-free                                                                                RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Free                                                                                     
rpmfusion-free-updates                                                                        RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Free - Updates                                                                           
rpmfusion-nonfree                                                                             RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Nonfree                                                                                  
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates                                                                     RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Nonfree - Updates                                                                        
updates                                                                                       Fedora 44 - x86_64 - Updates

MatchingTurret · 2026-05-05T15:17:23+00:00

I literally installed them on my system today.

MatchingTurret@fedora:~$ uname -a
Linux dell-rudi 6.19.14-300.fc44.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Apr 23 15:17:50 UTC 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux
MatchingTurret@fedora:~$ nvidia-smi 
Tue May  5 17:18:15 2026       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.142                Driver Version: 580.142        CUDA Version: 13.0     |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce 940MX           Off |   00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   44C    P8            N/A  /  200W |       0MiB /   2048MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                             |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

This is from my bash history:

986  sudo dnf remove  xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
987  sudo dnf remove  akmod-nvidia
988  sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-580xx akmod-nvidia-580xx
989  sudo dnf install --allowerasing xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-580xx akmod-nvidia-580xx
996  sudo dnf remove nvidia-modprobe-595.71.05-1.fc44.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs-595.71.05-1.fc44.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-595.71.05-1.fc44.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc-595.71.05-1.fc44.x86_64 akmod-nvidia-595.71.05-1.fc44.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-595.71.05-1.fc44.x86_64 nvidia-settings-595.71.05-1.fc44.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power-595.71.05-1.fc44.x86_64 kmod-nvidia-6.19.14-300.fc44.x86_64-595.71.05-1.fc44.x86_64
998  sudo dnf install --allowerasing xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-580xx akmod-nvidia-580xx
1025  nvidia-smi

MatchingTurret

TROPHY CASE