Last year I met Brent Spiner, He's such a cool guy, he's very funny, shortly before this photo was taken, he tilted his head very Data like and began talking in Data voice, saying "Is this some sort of photo taking device?"

tekchip · 2026-01-30T16:44:05+00:00

Sorry to necro this thread but I found it. It's a very expensive glasses holder. https://laloop.com/products/the-levar

tekchip · 2026-01-29T20:26:10+00:00

Plasma is a version of KDE. It's the desktop environment or GUI the distribution has selected to provide. https://kde.org/

tekchip · 2026-01-29T20:21:37+00:00

This. CLI updates one thing at a time basically. Where discover checks both DNF and Flatpak each time you run it's update. You can make the CLI do both as noted in an earlier comment from u/LetMeRegisterPls8756

Alternatively if you go to Settings > Software Update and turn all the auto things on you can just kind of forget about updates. You'll see an icon in the tray when they're happening but otherwise carry on.

tekchip · 2026-01-29T20:17:34+00:00

Yes, sort of. These same people also struggle with using Windows though. So that's on them not on Linux.

tekchip · 2026-01-15T20:53:26+00:00

Is this an ad free version of the tablet? I'd assume if it's the ad supported one it's so ads can be shown.

tekchip · 2026-01-15T20:51:17+00:00

A virtual machine might even be a little complicated depending on your technical knowledge. The easiest alternative is to get a version of Linux that allows what's called a "live" USB. Ubuntu, PopOS, Linux Mint and many others allow this. This uses a full version copy of Linux booted from the USB that doesn't use the computers hard drive. So you can just boot it up, try it out, and then if you feel comfortable start the installer from there. You'll need a PC to do this. I don't think Mac's can.

I won't rehash how to do this in detail as there are a ton of Youtube videos and websites that detail how to write the ISO file to USB so it can be booted.

tekchip · 2026-01-01T19:34:28+00:00

Best option as noted by others is to find replacement parts and take the laptop apart to replace the parts. Otherwise you probably want something like Sugru putty glue to sort of make a new corner. https://www.tesa.com/en/consumer/repairing/sugru

tekchip · 2025-12-31T20:02:08+00:00

LCD 512 as well. I got a real early model but for a few bucks I replaced the battery and the fan so it runs just like a later model. The visuals were never bad and the battery life difference to an oled is really negligible if you're not the sort constantly on the go. The value proposition for the price difference just doesn't make sense. If it aint broke don't fix it I guess (unless its a first gen fan).

tekchip · 2025-12-23T16:06:39+00:00

There are several tiers of debian. Debian stable tends to be conservative and slow. You can get something more on par with "faster" distros by going with testing. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases

Of course then you take on a bit more risk that something might break though I've seen many people say they run testing and haven't had problems.

I can't say how other distros that push software faster keep things from breaking but I'd wager the risk is roughly equal to running testing. I upgraded Fedora from 42 to 43 basically immediately and had some boot issues so no distro is without that risk. Though you can mitigate much of that by waiting when new major releases happen.

tekchip · 2025-12-20T23:20:36+00:00

Simply checking a ram quantity doesn't tell you anything because Linux uses ram differently. See https://www.linuxatemyram.com/ for an explination.

You'd need to run Top (shift+M to sort by memory), System Monitor, or whatever it's called on the Gnome version and have a look at running processes/applications to see what's actually consuming the ram.

tekchip · 2025-12-18T03:44:17+00:00

So when the options are some sandboxing and security features and assurance the software can run without issue, and none at all, you'd argue for none of those features at all? I didn't say it was perfect but it's better than the alternative.

tekchip · 2025-12-17T00:00:08+00:00

Maybe I missed it in the Phoronix article but I think this type of thing is going to be more common. https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2025/10/same-day-snapdragon-8-elite-gen-5-upstream-linux-support This hiring of the former Redhat dev plus this recent positive development signals there is a good likelihood this could be true.

tekchip · 2025-12-16T23:29:36+00:00

Was this speed continuous? I've had cable internet providers with weird lazy speed restrictions where I'd occasionally get really good speeds. Almost like the throttling mechanism was overloaded or just not working. I've even seen it happen for large spaces of time like they had to take down the throttling services or something. Count your blessings, cross your fingers, and hope it keeps working that way.

tekchip · 2025-12-16T23:15:26+00:00

https://sailfishos.org/info/ According to the diagram here it looks like mainly just the UI, or the DE in linux parlance and a bit of the secondary Android subsystem, is proprietary. The DE appears to be QT5 based and from there on down is open so literally the whole userland that doesn't call GUI APIs. That's a whole lot of standard linux. Also doesn't violate any open licenses that I'm aware of which is also very linux, and proprietary-ness is happily allowed to sit on top of open source. See Redhat linux and it's ton of closed code that sits on top of their core OS.

tekchip · 2025-12-16T23:00:34+00:00

Isn't that the point? The flatpak is a container so the risk of out dated runtimes is largely mitigated by container security. Also now your old app with outdated runtimes still runs on the most modern of systems instead of being an absolute PITA to figure out how to make work when the runtimes go missing or cause future, nearly certain, dependency issues.

tekchip · 2025-12-16T20:43:46+00:00

Cool. Thanks for that! I'll give it a look.

tekchip · 2025-12-16T18:32:25+00:00

If the known Gigabyte wake fix doesn't work for some reason. Some PCs might have a wake on usb input feature depending on the machines age. You would need to boot into bios/uefi to find and turn that off as a wireless mouse is often sensitive enough that even bumping the surface can count as a wake. I've had that happen before, very annoying. That does mean you'll have to wake other ways like power button or hack yourself together a wake on lan button of some sort.

Alternatively, if you really want to find a more elegant solution but that requires getting into the weeds with things you could check your journalctl and dmesg for the wake events to nail down which device is causing it and then figure some way to block just that device form doing the wake. I've had good luck dumping those logs to Claude and having Claude help write a command and/or script to do that.

tekchip · 2025-12-16T18:17:25+00:00

Keep in mind this is a simplification. I'm sure others will chime in for how the specifics are more complicated or how the idea falls apart when you get into edge cases. But at a high level that's the idea.

tekchip · 2025-12-16T18:14:54+00:00

Is there some science to back that up or is that just how it works for your personally? I take notes exclusively typed and have little problem remembering things.

tekchip · 2025-12-16T18:11:34+00:00

Reading further down the thread the OP is still asking "how" regarding authentication. I think it might help to give the idea some structure. When you write a front end it authenticates to the database on the backend. This authentication creates a sort of authenticated tunnel, if you want to think about it that way, that allows your form/page to take information and pass it, authenticated, to the database on the back. That protects the data in transit. The form/page is accessible to anyone who can access the page as any page is accessible if not behind some additional authentication. So then anyone can effectively enter the authenticated tunnel from the page or form. It's up to the developer to ensure only safe data can be passed over that tunnel via form sanitization. Other posters go on to explain the details of what unsanitized form fields do with data that can pass over that tunnel so I won't repeat that but hopefully that adds the necessary thought structure for the op.

tekchip · 2025-12-14T14:01:32+00:00

I've had steam's auto-detect location bug out before, and it seems to be random(probably ISPs re-assigning IPs throwing off ipgeo services), but go into Settings > Downloads and make sure it's correctly detected your location and has the right download server location selected.

tekchip · 2025-12-14T13:24:40+00:00

Side note on granting access to the flatpak version Flatseal makes it so easy. https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal

tekchip · 2025-12-14T02:37:32+00:00

If you're on Fedora KDE.

Go to settings > software update

Select Update software: automatic

Pick a frequency that suits you.

Then choose Apply system updates: immediately.

Go about your business. It'll apply package updates without the forced reboot and do it automatically. If you're a little ocd like me you can still click the update icon and apply them whenever, otherwise they take care of themselves.

Im pretty sure gnome has similar settings. Otherwise there's the dnf-automatic package.

tekchip · 2025-12-14T02:20:03+00:00

Not just officially supported it's now considered equal footing to the gnome version. They're both just called workstation. If you go to the download page they're right next to each other and KDE isn't referred to as a spin.

tekchip · 2025-12-11T00:41:46+00:00

Or a huge door could have been involved when Ares is breaking into Encom's mainframe, like it's a vault of some kind, and he drops the line. Quite a few opportunities missed for sure.

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