Today's highlighted tech articles... https://cloud7.news/linux/linux-is-now-rebooting-faster-on-nvme-drives/ https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/maui-shell-alpha-05-04-2022/ https://www.debugpoint.com/2022/01/kde-plasma-guide/

Recorded this morning... thought it might've been missing audio, but it was just my machine. Tech Tips Roundup: Why Linux is the best desktop OS, written by a Greybeard who has been in IT since the early days. Linux filesystem path cheatsheet Best FOSS alternatives to Meet and Zoom New version of lightweight DE, LXQT... more themes and customization options How to build your own handheld with an SBC.

Tech Tuesday KDE News #1 Lots of Fixes in the KDE 5.25 Good stuff here, all. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Theme-Handling-Better Tech Tuesday KDE News #2 Plasma Wayland fixes!! Yes!!! https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Fixes-Easter-2022 If you need someone to talk to about what would be best for you and yours, in terms of technology, then to help to remotely teach you to do what is discussed, check out my Freedom Consultation (https://techfreedom.pro/product/freedom-consultation/). Tech Tuesday #3 New Version of Proton makes Linux gaming better and more accessible... https://9to5linux.com/proton-7-0-2-makes-more-games-playable-on-linux-fixes-numerous-bugs

Tech Tuesday Roundup #4 #1: Torvalds Weighs in on NTFS Drivers He is open to others taking over the maintenance, as long as the original maintainer backs out and gives permission, as it is pointless to have two unmaintained NTFS drivers in the kernel at once. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linus-Torvalds-NTFS3-Comments You may need a Freedom Consultation to help you to determine next steps and to have me help you along the way, if the tech jargon in these articles is too much, or my step 3 walkthrough posts feel too overwhelming. #2: New Manjaro-powered Ryzen 7 Mini computer released by Beelink Intriguing on the instant compatibility front, as well as interesting for anyone who may need a very small form factor machine, but something more poserful than a RasPi / singleboard computer of some sort. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linus-Torvalds-NTFS3-Comments Tech Tuesday #3: New Release for the Linux Firmware Updater More hardware support… always good. https://9to5linux.com/fwupd-1-8-linux-firmware-updating-tool-is-out-with-support-for-new-hardware-more

Tech Tuesday Tips Roundup #5 Tips Tuesday #5-1 What to do when things go sideways in Linux... might be a good reminder for some of us, and definitely good info for the rest. https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/start-here-when-things-go-wrong-on-your-linux-system-176520.html Tips Tuesday #5-2: Ever wanted a tool that could download and install .deb files for you in one fell swoop? Now there is one. https://news.itsfoss.com/deb-get-ubuntu/ Freed Phone: Have you watched 2000 Mules yet? If not, you should. One of the cornerstones of the film was the data gathered from the Mules' GPS tracking on their phones. If you want to mitigate that threat as much as you can, you need a degoogled device, such as one of my Freed Phones. (Https://techfreedom.pro/products/freed-phone/) Tips Tuesday #5-3: Been struggling with LibreOffice lately? Me too. Hopefully this new release fixes the random crashes for me... https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-7-3-3-office-suite-is-now-available-for-download-with-88-bug-fixes

Tech Freedom, [5/17/22 6:00 AM] Tech Tuesday 6-1: How to roll VM's in GNOME Boxes. I might learn a thing or two here... take a look, y'all. https://itsfoss.com/share-files-gnome-boxes/ Tech Freedom, [5/17/22 8:00 AM] Tips Tuesday #6-2: For you aspiring web developers and tinkerers out there, a Drupal tutorial... Drupal is an alternative to the ubiquitous elephant in the room that is WordPress. https://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/drupal/amp Tech Freedom, [5/17/22 9:00 AM] If you need help rescuing your data from Big Tech, try my Free Your Internet service (techfreedom.pro/products/free-your-internet/) Tech Freedom, [5/17/22 10:00 AM] Tech Tuesday #6-3 So THAT'S what broke my Endeavour OS install... #smh be aware, all. I guess wireplumber isn't 100% ready for primetime. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Arch-Linux-WirePlumber-Snafu Bonus: Good news in the privacy war... all it takes is a form to get Google to remove your personally identifiable info from searches... https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/15/how-to-ask-google-to-remove-your-personal-data-from-its-search-results.html

Memesplanation: If you rest in the goodness of God, you can be joyful in the midst of hellish circumstances, waiting for positive resolution. You can be patient in times like the present, when logic would tell you to freak out and complain loudly. Because of God's goodness, we can also pray continually, for wisdom, for strength, for courage and be at peace in the worst circumstances. New features in the next version of KDE. Cool stuff. 😎 https://news.itsfoss.com/plasma-5-25-features/ GNOME tip... I thought they killed extensions in 42... https://itsfoss.com/extension-manager/ What's the "top" command, anyway? Let's find out... https://linuxhandbook.com/top-command/

Tech Tuesday #8 Roundup Tech Tuesday #8-1 How to back up your standard Android. https://www.makeuseof.com/prepare-for-losing-your-android-phone/ Go, like this duckling, and kick ass today. Don't take discouragement sitting down. Eat it and produce success. Tech Tuesday #8-2 Something potentially helpful for anyone who does database work in Linux... https://www.linuxshelltips.com/convert-hex-to-ascii-characters-linux/ If you need a degoogled phone, try my Freed Phone. They are just what you need to reduce your privacy attack surface. What is a degoogled phone? An android or Linux Mobile device without Google apps and trackers built in to spy on you. Techfreedom.pro/products/freed-phone/ Tech Tuesday #8-3 KDE Vs Gnome... which should YOU go with, if you haven't already landed on the one you like best? https://linuxiac.com/gnome-vs-kde/

Tech Tuesday #9-1: Warp: a new Linux File Transfer app. It can use either your local network or the internet to transfer files. Very cool. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/05/warp-is-a-linux-file-transfer-app #TechFreedom #technews #linux #filetransfer #Warp Tech Tuesday #memesplanation: If you carry light, those in the darkness will always hate you. Your existence is an affront to their way of life, so they will reflexively lash out at you and try to make your life harder. They may not even do it consciously, but shine brighter, no matter. #techtuesday #TechFreedom #light #dark #kcco Tech Tuesday #9-2: More Desktop Environment Comparisons: KDE vs XFCE... which might be best for you? https://itsfoss.com/kde-vs-xfce/ #TechFreedom #techtips #linux #KDE #XFCE #whatsbetter Tech Tuesday #9-3: How to use Cron to scheule tasks in Linux https://www.maketecheasier.com/beginner-guide-use-cron-linux/ #TechFreedom #techtips #Linux #techtuesday #howto #cron Tech Tuesday #9 Product spot https://techfreedom.pro/product/freedom-overhaul/ #TechFreedom #techtips #Linux #getfree #libertyoverhaul

Tech Tuesday 10: Linux Symbiote Malware... uh oh... Memesplanation Libre Office point release... lots of fixes Product Spot Free Kali Linux Penetration Testing Training #techfreedom #technews #techtips #linux #Foss #security Tech Tuesday 10-1: https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/10/symbiote_linux_malware/ #techtuesday #techfreedom #Foss #linux #security #memesplanation Slow your roll. Choose to be deliberate rather than running on autopilot all of the time. Be conscious of your options and choices today. The bottom line is that we each need to learn how to take the moment to respond to situations rather than simply reacting to them. #presence #consciousliving #slowdown #breathe Tech Tuesday 10-2: https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-7-3-4-is-now-available-for-download-more-than-85-bugs-fixed #TechFreedom #technews #techtuesday #Linux #FOSS Premium package for degoogled phones from Tech Freedom. 2-day shipping, screen protector, phone case, Faraday bag, and up to15 pre-installed apps of your choice. https://techfreedom.pro/product/liberated-phone/ #TechFreedom #liberatedphone #degoogled #degoogleyourlife #productspot Tech Tuesday 10-3: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kali-linux-team-to-stream-free-penetration-testing-course-on-twitch/ #techfreedom #techtuesday #techtips #linux #Kali #training

Tech Tuesday 11-1: Firefox the most private browser ever, now? Idk... let's find out. https://news.itsfoss.com/mozilla-firefox-secure/ #Firefox #privacy #Foss #techfreedom #notanendorsement Memesplanation: Mr. Clemens was right. What can I say? The most crucial thing is that we are alive, only slightly less important is this: the why. What part of God did He put in you when He created you? What gap do you fill in the world? #memesplanation #techfreedom #motivation #inspiration #findoutwhy Tech Tuesday 11-2: New GIMP release. For those of you who do photo editing, these changes may make you dance a jig. https://9to5linux.com/gimp-2-10-32-released-with-support-for-8-16-bit-cmyka-tiff-files-bigtiff #techfreedom #techtips #technews #Foss Product Spot: https://techfreedom.pro/product/free-your-internet/ #techfreedom #privacy #getfree #datarescue Tech Tuesday 11-3: New Plasma point release! Moar theming options... lol Lot's of other fixes, too. https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-5-25-desktop-environment-is-out-now-this-is-whats-new #techfreedom #Foss #KDE #techtips

Tech Tips Tuesday 12: TTT 12-1: How to Thaw out a Frozen Penguin (Linux) when something breaks. Useful tips to help you make sense of what to do, since ctl-alt-del is not a thing by default in most distros. https://linuxhandbook.com/frozen-linux-system/ #techtuesday #TechFreedom #fixit #techtips #Linux Memesplanation: OK, maybe I'm harping on this one right now... this is right, though. Belief unlocks ability to achieve the objects which we believe for. Believe differently today. Stop limiting yourself. After all, God's impetus for the Babel incident was seeing that man could do anything he put his mind to... #inspiration #nolimits #TechFreedom #memesplanation #burstthebubble TTT 12-2: Dr. Tux, or: How I Learned to Love the Terminal... just kidding, but you really do need to get acquainted with it so that you can fix things more efficiently wen they do eventually break in Linux. https://itsfoss.com/love-thy-terminal/ #techtuesday #TechFreedom #Linux #techtips #terminal #moreinfo #troubleshooting #ssh #efficiency #fast #stable Product Spot: Freed computer If, after your consultation, you decide that you need a new computer, take a look at this range of laptop options that will come ready for you to use safely. https://techfreedom.pro/product/tech-freedom-freed-computer/ #freedcomputer #Linux #degoogleyourlife #TechFreedom #productspot TTT 12-3: Terminal tips to help you be more comfy with the command line. Read: make you feel more like a hacker... lol https://itsfoss.com/basic-terminal-tips-ubuntu/ #techTuesday #TechFreedom #techtips #terminal #comfy #hax #hacks

Tech Tips Tuesday 13: New Release of Unity Desktop Environment Less negativity = more peace More Linux Terminal Tips Freedom Consultation (it's free) GNOME shell Tips 10 Things to Know about Tech Freedom Tech Tuesday 13-1: New release of Unity... wow, the first new work from that project in 6 years. Unity used to be the default DE for #Ubuntu, but IMO, it was ugly as sin, and tough to use. Hopefully it is better now... https://9to5linux.com/unity-7-6-desktop-released-as-the-first-major-update-to-unity7-in-6-years #unity #Ubuntu #technews #linuxnews #techtuesday #TechFreedom Clear your mental and emotional space of fearful Freddies, nervous Nellies, angry Andys, and hateful Harrys. Stop worrying about their stuff. It is theirs. Let them stew. Then you will be far more peaceful, just like the meme says... #Memesplanation #TechFreedom #negativity #peace #ahhhhhhh Tech Tuesday 13-2: More command line/ terminal tips for Linux... https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/top-linux-command-line-tips-and-tricks/ #TechFreedom #techtuesday #techtips #terminal #hacks Freedom Consultation A free 1 hour video call with me, where we explore your options for breaking up with Big Tech, once and for all. https://techfreedom.pro/product/freedom-consultation/ #TechFreedom #degoogleyourlife #freedom #TechFreedom #productspot Tech Tuesday 13-3: GNOME shell tips to make it more customized for you. https://www.ubuntupit.com/customize-gnome-shell-tips-beautify-gnome-desktop/ #techtips #techtuesday #TechFreedom #GNOME #hacks #tweaks 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

What to Expect Tech Tips Tuesday 14: What is Sudo rm -rf Memesplanation Systemd Creator defects to Microsoft Freed Computer (Consultation) Could Gtk 5 go full Wayland? 10 Things to Know About Tech Freedom Tech Tuesday 14-1: One of the most-memed terminal commands, demystified... is it more dangerous inherently, than any other? https://itsfoss.com/sudo-rm-rf/ Just receive this now. You are important, just because you are you. You are brave: you go about your life, rather than curling into a ball every day. You are good: you desire good for yourself and do not want to hurt others to get it. Don't forget those truths, not even if today shapes up to be the worst in your life. #Memesplanation #TechFreedom #encouragement #inspiration #beyou Tech Tuesday 14-2: Not sure how I feel about this one... the creator of Systemd (which handles most of the behind the scenes grunt-work in most Linux distros) left Red Hat and has joined Microsoft... https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Systemd-Creator-Microsoft Freed computer If, after your consultation, you decide that you need a new computer, take a look at this range of laptop options that will come ready for you to use safely. https://techfreedom.pro/product/tech-freedom-freed-computer/ #freedcomputer #Linux #degoogleyourlife #TechFreedom #productspot Tech Tuesday 14-3: Rumors, rumors.... some developers for GNOME are claiming that they will drop support for x11 in GTK 5... hmmm... https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/05/gtk_5_might_drop_x11/ 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

TTT 15: GNOME 42.3 Memesplanation KDE 25.4 Freed Computer Matrix News Wife's 10 Things About TF TTT 15-1: New GNOME release... 42.3. Some good stuff for GNOME aficionados. https://9to5linux.com/gnome-42-3-released-with-screenshot-ui-fixes-better-flatpak-support-and-more #GNOME #techtipstuesday #techtuesday #TechFreedom #technews #goodstuff Give what you need today. God honors that. You will get back what you give out. Need #encouragement? Lift someone else up. Need a #kindword? Get out of your head and be kind to another. Need #money? Find someone you can #bless today. #memesplanation #karma #cycle #blessings #TechFreedom #Truth TTT 15-2: New KDE Plasma Point Release: lots of good stuff, improvements, fixes, etc. https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-5-25-3-is-out-now-with-more-plasma-wayland-fixes-various-other-changes #KDE #techtuesday #TechFreedom #goodstuff #technews Freed computer If, after your consultation, you decide that you need a new computer, take a look at this range of laptop options that will come ready for you to use safely. https://techfreedom.pro/product/tech-freedom-freed-computer/ #freedcomputer #Linux #degoogleyourlife #TechFreedom #productspot TTT 15-3: Ever heard of Matrix (many have, and that is awesome, as it is a federated, FOSS communication platform), they just crossed the 60 million user mark. https://news.itsfoss.com/matrix-sixty-million-users/ #technews #techtuesday #TechFreedom #Matrix #FOSS #communication 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

Tech Tips Tuesday 17 What to Expect: New VirtualBox version released: https://9to5linux.com/virtualbox-6-1-36-released-with-initial-support-for-linux-kernel-5-19-many-linux-fixes Memesplanation New Rust-based malware… ruh roh, raggy https://thehackernews.com/2022/07/new-rust-based-ransomware-family.html?m=1 Freed Computer https://techfreedom.pro/product/tech-freedom-freed-computer/ What’s the difference between TTY, Shell, Console, and Terminal? https://www.linuxshelltips.com/difference-between-terminal-shell-tty-and-console/ #techtipstuesday #TechFreedom #linuxtips #technews

Tech Tips Tuesday 18 What to Expect: Ventoy Update: More supported distros for your multiboot devices Memesplanation: This is the attitude we all need to practice. I can, therefore, I will... when it comes to good things that will benefit you and others, that you want to do. More Linux Malware News Free Your Internet Data Migration Service Is Wayland Core problematic? 10 Things to Know About Tech Freedom TTT 18-1: Ventoy Update moar distros can now be loaded using ventoy, so if you have a massive flash drive or external drive you want to use as a multi-boot usb installer, now you can. https://9to5linux.com/ventoy-multiboot-usb-creator-adds-support-for-fedora-coreos-more-than-940-isos #distrohopping #techTuesday #techtips #Linux #TechFreedom Memesplanation: This is the attitude we all need to practice. I can, therefore, I will... when it comes to good things that will benefit you and others, that you want to do. #sisepuedes #icandoit #iwilldoit #memesplanation #TechFreedom TTT 18-2: We’ve seen an uptick in Linux Malware in 2022.. is Linux as safe and secure as we thought? As I mentioned last week, there is more coming out because black hats are targeting it more because of the uptick in userbase numbers we’ve seen of late, so it has become more profitable to attack Linux, where in the past, it was simply too niche to bother with for hackers. I see these as growing pains as the community gets larger. https://www.makeuseof.com/linux-malware-all-time-high-2022/ #malware #linux #growingpains #realtalk #TechFreedom Free Your Internet https://techfreedom.pro/product/free-your-internet/ TTT 18-3: Is Wayland Core Protocol Problematic? First, what is Wayland? Why should you care? What does this writer say about it? https://news.itsfoss.com/wayland-core-protocol-issue/ #wayland #teethingpains #issues #linuxnews #oped #TechFreedom

Tech Tips Tuesday 19 What to Expect: 5.19 Kernel released from Apple M1 powered MacBook Memesplanation How to Use rsync Freed Computer How to Fix a read-only NTFS partition 10 Things About Tech Freedom TTT 19-1: Linus Torvalds uses Apple Hardware to release latest kernel… it’s an M1 MacBook, running Asahi Linux https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-kernel-5-19-release/ #techtuesday #techtips #Linux #Asahilinux #TechFreedom #technews Let’s get some perspective. Let’s adopt an attitude of gratitude rather than entitlement. Be grateful for what you have, as you have more than at least 75% of the world’s population. Wake up thanking God for what you have, it will shift your whole day. #perspective #memesplanation #gratitude #TechFreedom #breathe #lifeisgood #inthemoment TTT 19-2: How to use rsync to back up a server (or any other Linux machine) https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/how-use-rsync-command #howto #rsync #backup #techtips #Linux #TechFreedom Freed Computer https://techfreedom.pro/product/tech-freedom-freed-computer/ #freedcomputer #linux #nospying #safe #TechFreedom TTT 19-3: How to fix a read-only NTFS partition (dual-booting Windows) https://www.linuxtechmore.com/2022/08/how-to-fix-read-only-ntfs-on-linux.html #howto #ntfs #Linux #dualbooting #TechFreedom #techtips

TTT 20 What to Expect: Opinion Piece on Why You Should Make the Switch Memesplanation 10 Common Linux Mistakes to Avoid Free Your Internet Just Perfection v21 Gnome Extension 10 Things You Should Know About Tech Freedom TTT 20-1: Why to make the switch to Linux… Security… Windows has holes still that it had in 1991, as it was never intended to be networked, and is intentionally designed with flaws that it requires in order to just get stuff done. https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/10/opinion_column_drop_windows_for_linux/ #techtips #techtuesday #Linux #maketheswitch #security #stability #TechFreedom No matter how bad it looks, you can still find SOMETHING to be thankful for. The fact that you are breathing, your heart is beating, and able to read or listen to this are HUGE things to be thankful for. #techtuesday #memesplanation #TechFreedom #thankfulness #alwayssomething TTT 20-2: 10 Beginner Mistakes to Avoid in order to improve your experience… https://www.makeuseof.com/common-linux-mistakes/ #TTT #techtuesday #Linux #techtips #improveyourexperience Free Your Internet https://techfreedom.pro/product/free-your-internet/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft TTT 20-3: Just Perfection v21 This is a mega extension to radically change your GNOME shell in a single stop… I might be tempted to try this, if it means I can get it looking and working the way I want. https://linuxiac.com/just-perfection-21-gnome-extension/ #TTT #techtips #techtuesday #TechFreedom #GNOME #justmaybe

TTT 21: Moar RISC-V Linux Compatibility & More TTT 21-1: More Goodies for KDE users: Improvements to Spectacle (screenshot app), Dolphin (file manager), Okular (PDF reader), Elisa (music player), and other quality of life stuff too. https://9to5linux.com/kde-gear-22-08-arrives-with-xdg-portals-support-markup-and-annotation-in-gwenview #TTT #techtips #technews #fossnews #KDE #Linux #TechFreedom Memesplanation Impossible? Nah… that’s just hater talk. They see it as impossible, so it is for them. If you refuse to agree with that sentiment and keep at it, you will eventually prove them wrong. #memesplanation #impossible #possible #justdoit #grind #TechFreedom #Truth #motivation TTT 21-2: LibreOffice 7.4 Released: Lots of bugs squashed, support for webp files added, etc… https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-7-4-open-source-office-suite-officially-released-this-is-whats-new #TTT #LibreOffice #FOSS #alternatives #Linux #updates #TechFreedom Free Your Internet https://techfreedom.pro/product/free-your-internet/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft TTT 21-3: Ubuntu <3 RISC-V… Full support for StarFive’s RISC-V SBC https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-is-now-officially-supported-on-starfives-visionfive-risc-v-single-board-computers #TTT #Ubuntu #Canonical #StarFive #RISC-V #Linux #TechFreedom

What to Expect: OBS Studio 28 Released Memesplanation GNOME 43 Features Free Your Internet 3 Ways to Securely Erase Data in Linux 10 Things About TF.Pro TTT 23-1: OBS Studio 28 Hallelujah! It is here! This is a big release for all of us who stream or use OBS to power their content creation efforts. Here are the highlights: • UI framework upgrade (Qt6). • HDR and 10-bit color support. • Native Apple Silicon support. • New default theme (Yami). • Encoding improvements. https://news.itsfoss.com/obs-studio-28-release/ #TTT #OBS #technews #contentcreation #streaming #HDR #TechFreedom Let’s rise above the storm and the noise around us today… Where things are clear and not obscured by all sorts of nonsense. Get quiet. Turn off the screens and the noise, focus on today, on the moment where you are: breathing, heartbeat, what is directly in front of you. Right now. Is anything a hellfire emergency, right now? Probably not. Feel the peace in that realization. #presence #alwaysblue #flyhigher #peace #memesplanation #TechFreedom TTT 23-2: 5 New Features for GNOME 43 • Quick Settings makeover • tweaks in Nautilus ◦ GTK4 theme ◦ rubber band selection ◦ adaptive view when working witt small windows ◦ new context menu • Device Security Info • Extensions for GNOME web • GNOME Software https://news.itsfoss.com/gnome-43-features/ #TTT #GNOME #Linux #techtips #TechFreedom Free Your Internet https://techfreedom.pro/product/free-your-internet/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft #parallelEconomy #parallelSociety #shopongab #growwithgab #smallbusiness #gabsmallbusiness TTT 23-3: 3 Best ways to Securely Wipe Your Storage Devices in Linux rm only removes pointers, not data, therefore is not really secure. Shred is a multi-pass overwrite of the selected data, defaulting to 3 overwrites. Wipe will rewrite the sector in question and flushes the disk cache dd can also serve the same function with a particular set of variables added to it https://linuxiac.com/best-ways-to-securely-erase-disk-in-linux/ #TTT #techtips #secure #Linux #delete #TechFreedom 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

19 Useful CLI Tips for Linux Memesplanation How to Convert Images from One Format to another Via CLI Free Your Internet Plasma 5.25.5 Released 10 Things About TF.pro TTT 24-1: What Manner of Tips Might There Be Today? 19 CLI Tips for Linux Everything from how to display data as a table to Sorting processes by Memory or CPU usage to recording your CLI Session to using xargs, and more. Not sure that We’ll talk through it all today, but you are more than free to take a look at the article for yourself. Ever wanted to make the results of a given command in terminal display as a table for easier reading? Add the following to the end of your command | column -t -s : How about sorting processes by CPU or Memory Usage? Run ps aux | sort -nk 3 (for CPU) or ps aux | sort -nk 4 (for memory) This is useful if it seems as though the system is less responsive than usual… perhaps your browser is being more of a resource hog than usual because some plugin or webpage is misbehaving, these commands will help you to ascertain which process is bogging your computer down. Ever wondered how to record your CLI session? Just use the script command and give it a filename, then you can go back an review your commands later, and easily rerun them if you’d like to do so. script <FILENAME> then type in your string of commands and viola, your commands are now a script for you to review, and if you want to make it executable, you can do that a few ways as well, in the File Manager, You can right click on the file you just made, go to properties, and make it executable, or in CLI, you could navigate to the file, and run this command: chmod +x <file name> after that runs, you can simply type ./<filename> into the terminal and your script will run. What does xargs do? It passes outputs between commands as arguments. For instance, the following command will create two files with the output from the echo command in them: echo file01 file02 | xargs touch Of course you can alter the file names however you wish, rather than just file01 and file02, so that it will be easier to find those files in the future. This goes along with “Be the change”… If you make your attitude match that which you want to see around you, eventually, your attitude will make a big difference in your environment. If you want your atmosphere to be happier, choose to be happy no matter what. First it will feel weird, and may grate on the nerves of those around you, but eventually they will likely shift into that themselves, at least when they are around you. It is a vibes and atmosphere thing. #encouragement #atmosphere #attitude #memesplanation #TechFreedom TTT 24-2: Converting any image file type to another using CLI Install imagemagick Open Terminal: Type sudo apt install imagemagick (Debian/Ubuntu) or sudo pacman -S imagemagick (Arch-based) or sudo dnf install imagemagick (Fedora/RHEL) then navigate to the file(s) in question cd pictures then type mogrify -format <desired format> <*. current format> and all of the pictures of format “x” will now be in format “y” I actually used this tool as I was preparing for today’s stories. https://linux-tips.us/ There are many other Linux tips on this page, but this one is second from the top. #photos #convert #batchconverter #imagemagick #Linux #Linuxtips #TTT #TechFreedom Free Your Internet https://techfreedom.pro/product/free-your-internet/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft #parallelEconomy #parallelSociety #shopongab #growwithgab #smallbusiness #gabsmallbusiness TTT 24-3: New Point Release of KDE out now What’s new here? • Kwin crash related to Thunderbird email fixed • GIMP now reliably appears in the task manager when launched • Kickoff now has touch scrolling again • System Monitor widgets now maintain settings across restarts • among other things what does that mean for the rest of us that aren’t on a bleeding edge version of KDE? Not a whole lot. Many distros chose to stick with 5.24.6 until 5.26 rolls out, for stability’s sake. https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-5-25-5-is-out-as-the-last-update-in-the-series-improves-multi-monitor-support #KDE #Plasma #newrelease #Linux #Linuxnews #TechFreedom 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

10 Amazing Terminal Tips for Linux Memesplanation KDE Frameworks 5.98 Release Free Your Internet Plasma 5.26 in Public Beta Now TTT 25-1: 10 Amazing Terminal Tips rm is not always the best way to go, so if you find that you have a monsterous log file (or any other kind, for that matter) that you need to get rid of, simply overwrite it by generating an empty file of the same name in the same location as the original. This may not be hugely useful for most of us, but on the off chance, you could do something like the following: touch /random-path/filename (fill in your path and file name, and viola, the huge file goes away. Remember xargs from last week? We’re gonna talk about it again, right now… ever needed to copy some output into multiple files? Well, here’s how to get that done: echo /home/user/1/ /home/user/2/ /home/user/3/ | xargs -n 1 cp -v /home/user/my_file.txt (the above is, of course, generic, so customize it according to your needs) Did you know that you can set a shutdown time for your system? Here is how: sudo shutdown _time_, substituting your desired time for the operation in 24 hour format, rather than 12 hour. Also, have you ever found yourself running commands and wondering how to navigate from the beginning of a line to the end, or vice versa? Well, should you find yourself in that scenario, ctrl+a will move your cursor to the beginning of the command, and ctrl+e will take you to the end of the line. https://tecadmin.net/10-amazing-tips-tricks-to-work-with-linux/ #TTT #Linux #Linuxtips #CLI #terminal #TechFreedom Enjoy life as you go. Don’t be so focused on what you want that you miss what you already have. Be present, today, in this moment. See your family and friends, now. Let go of some of that drive for a few conscious minutes a day and enjoy where you are. This will help the grinding to be more sustainable. #present #enjoy #encouragement #memesplanation #TechFreedom TTT 25-2: KDE Frameworks 5.98 Big Improvements faster file transfers in NFS relative path support in KDE apps multi-cursor support in Kate GIF support for “Get New____” windows Support for ARW raw file thumbnail previews https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-5-98-makes-file-transfers-faster-in-kde-apps-brings-more-new-features #TTT #KDE #Plasma #frameworks #Linuxnews #TechFreedom Free Your Internet https://techfreedom.pro/product/free-your-internet/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft #parallelEconomy #parallelSociety #shopongab #growwithgab #smallbusiness #gabsmallbusiness TTT 25-3: Plasma 5.26 Beta Now Public You can help to bug test the new Plasma version, which should be out next month. Here’s what’s new: re-bindable mouse buttons for multi-button mice Full screenreader support for all Plasma widgets Compact menus for Kickoff menu so you can see more at a glance Plasma Bigscreen TV interface Aura browser for using the internet with your TV remote Plank Player as default for Playing Local Files Plasma Wayland Force Maliit Keyboard to appear in Touch Mode 2 ways to scale windows (Globally, via the compositor, and individually, via extant x11 HiDPI capabilities) Updates to Discover Content ratings for apps You can now change an app’s name after you submit a review New share button on the details page Can now check system free space prior to an update Can now change the frequency of update notifications Full version should be released on 10/11, ifyou want to help test it out, grab openSUSE Krypton, KDE Neon Unstable, or Fedora Rawhide KDE. Don’t use this on a machine you want to use for work though, as it is pre-release. https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-5-26-desktop-environment-enters-public-beta-testing-heres-whats-new #TTT #KDE #Linux #Linuxnews #plasma526 #TechFreedom 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

FOSS Dealing with FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) Memesplanation Pipewire News Free Your Internet Bad News for Python Users 10 Things About Tech Freedom TTT 26-1: FOSS FUD? Why? One Word: Security. As painful as it is, the last year has not been kind to FOSS, we had the Log4j breach in the Apache stack, which left many users vulnerable to hacks. Log4j is not that big of a deal for typical users though, as patching has fixed holes that were found, and as things were found, they were quickly handled, as is the typical situation in the FOSS community. This, along with news of more malware and vulnerabilities being exploited has soured many in the industry towards FOSS as a whole. Basically, a larger, brighter spotlight has been focused on FOSS in the last year or so, and I think that the community as a whole has risen to the challenges associated with it rather well. https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/09/20/open-source-security-concerns/ #TTT #techtips #Linux #FOSSnews #security #TechFreedom Discern what matters. Not everything that can be measured actually matters. Many things that can’t be measured matter more than those that can. Keep at it. Don’t give up. Have heart, and take courage that while things may look small now, on the surface, if you are doing things right, the root system is growing like gangbusters where no one but you can see it. Keep on, learn, take your licks, but keep on keeping on. #measurables #empiricalevidence #einstein #kcco #growth #encouragement #memesplanation #TechFreedom TTT 26-2: Pipewire is Getting New Bluetooth Support What is Pipewire, you ask? Why, it is a combo audio and video handler, to replace Pulseaudio, JACK, and v4l2, respectively, with a lighter, nimbler, and more versatile option that can offer better performance. What’s new? A primary developer added a commit to handle the new bt Low Energy standard in the stack. This is great news for many of us who use bluetooth headsets, and hopefully we will eventually get to have A2DP audio sinking and recording capabilities at the same time, because even pulseaudio can’t pull that off, or at least not well. This feature, if any of those devs watch my show, would make Linux an even better fit for most everyday people, particularly if we are still pulling for Linux Mobile in any form. https://9to5linux.com/pipewire-gets-initial-support-for-next-generation-bluetooth-le-low-energy-audio #TTT #pipewire #audio #video #news #Linux #FOSSnews #bluetooth #TechFreedom Free Your Internet https://techfreedom.pro/product/free-your-internet/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft #parallelEconomy #parallelSociety #shopongab #growwithgab #smallbusiness #gabsmallbusiness TTT 26-3: Python Problems… Uh oh… This is a very old problem that is coming back to bite devs in the backside. It was discovered 15 years ago, and could lead to an attack with the scope of SolarWinds from a couple of years ago. Come on FOSS community, lets get this thing fixed before something catestrophic happens. The vulnerability is somewhere in the tarfile library, which could make software supply chain attacks more easily carried out. All an attacker would have to do is add ../ to a TAR archive file, and insodoing, gain execution rights in the writing process. Be careful, you who regularly write or use Python programs. Go back through your code to check for this bugger. Yikes. https://www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/unpatched-python-library-affects-300k-projects/ #TTT #python #vulnerability #oldnews #checkyourcode #TechFreedom 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

Debian <3 Proprietary Firmware? Memesplanation Linux 6.0 Released Free Your Internet Dangerous Linux Kernel? TTT 28-1: Debian <3 Proprietary Firmware? Well, not really, but in a departure from 25 years of being staunchly Libre, even being considered the leading proponent of GNU/Linux, the Debian Community has decided to amend their social contract and adopt proprietary WiFi firmware as a part of Debian 12 “Bookworm” which should be out sometime next year. Maybe this pragmatic move will encourage more Ubuntu users who are tired of Canonical’s walled garden, but still love the rest of what Debian has to offer, to move over as it will be easier to install now. Who knows? Time will tell. https://www.makeuseof.com/debian-votes-to-include-non-free-firmware/ #TTT #technews #Linuxnews #GNU/Linux #Debian #TechFreedom Take a breath today. That’s right, you. No matter what noise is happening in your life, you need to know this. If you get still, and become present, you will sense Him at work. He is still the same God who inspired David to write this 3000 years ago. You can still count on Him, even when the shrieking around you is loudest and most shrill. Rest in that. Now. #TTT #technews #Linux #FOSS #TechFreedom TTT 28-2: Linux Kernel 6 Has Now Been Released Here’s what’s new/ different from 5.19: support for Aarch64 (ARM64) huge memory pages without splitting NVME in-band authentication PCI buses in OpenRISC and LoongArch More goodies for RISCV Lots of other stuff that likely won’t affect most of us any time soon, but is cool that it is now in the Linux kernel… https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-6-0-officially-released-this-is-whats-new #TTT #Linuxnews #Linux #kernel #TechFreedom Free Your Internet https://techfreedom.pro/product/free-your-internet/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft #parallelEconomy #parallelSociety #shopongab #growwithgab #smallbusiness #gabsmallbusiness TTT 28-3: Beware the 5.19.12 Kernel If You Have an Intel Laptop There is a bug in this kernel that can destroy your display panel, as it causes power sequencing delays that can damage, if not kill your LED panel, and it can cause white flashes to appear on screen. If you have this kernel (basically if you are running an Arch or Fedora distro, make sure that you update the kernel ASAP to 5.19.13, or if you don’t need the bleeding edge driver support for something, consider reverting to the LTS kernel, which is based on the 5.15 series now. If the updated kernel is not available to you yet, revert to the 5.15 LTS kernel. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linux-kernel-update-kills-laptop-displays #TTT #Linux #Linuxnews #alert #kerneltrouble #TechFreedom 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

JS API Vulnerability Found Memesplanation More KDE Goodies With KDE Gear 22.08.2 Free Your Internet VirtualBox 7.0 Released TTT 29-1: Uh oh, More trouble in Java-land? This vulnerability has to do with search timings for npm, the package manager for JavaScript. Here’s what happens: An attacker could probe a system for files that do not exist multiple times in rapid succession, even if a 404 error is returned to the attacker. It causes 100s of ms lag to occur in the search timing, slowing all other requests down and comparing the results of those operations. This lag allows the attack to be automated. Bottom line, as I understand it, this probably won’t or doesn’t affect you much, unless you are a developer who works with JaveScript. https://www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/vulnerable-api-exposes-private-npm-packages/ #TTT #vulnerabilities #JavaScript #npm #timing #TechFreedom Piggybacking on yesterday’s idea, Allow the Lord to fight for you today. Let Him be your Good, Good Father. He wants to step in and fight for you, if you’ll put your weapons down and rest in Him. He will avenge you. Quit getting in His way. Be blessed in the knowledge that He will fight for you, today. If He tells you to do something, do it. If not, step back and watch Him rectify the situation for you. #Bible #exodus #God #rest #encouragement #memesplanation #TechFreedom TTT 29-2: KDE Gear 22.08.2 Out NFixes and Tweaks Here’s what’s new: Samba 4.16, so that you can connect more easily with Windows Network Shares from Dolphin Ark – restored compatibility with 7-zip KDE Connect – Fix crash when no audio devices are detected Falkon – User Agent Manager FireFox Version Kdenlive – remember keyframe status, seek to item’s last fram on paste in timeline, allow effects overlay to scale when you zoom on your display Many, many more, would be here all day reading them all off, but take a look at the changelog, lnked in the article, if you want to know more. https://9to5linux.com/kde-gear-22-08-2-adds-7-zip-and-samba-4-16-or-later-compatibility-many-bug-fixes #TTT #KDE #KDEGear #updates #goodstuff #lotsoffixes #TechFreedom Free Your Internet https://techfreedom.pro/product/free-your-internet/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft #parallelEconomy #parallelSociety #shopongab #growwithgab #smallbusiness #gabsmallbusiness TTT 29-3: Oracle Releases VirtualBox 7.0 What is new in this version? Fully encrypted Virtual Machines via CLI DXVK Support for Linux/BSD/ MacOS hosts Secure Boot Support in EFI IOMMU Support for Both Intel and AMD Virtual TPM 1 & 2 Support Better Theme Support for GUI App in Linux “Top” type system manager utility to keep tabs on running VMs Can now disable screen savers on Host Machine form VirtualBox Better Audio Recording, with OGG Vorbis as the default format for webm containers Lots, lots more… https://9to5linux.com/virtualbox-7-0-released-with-dxvk-and-secure-boot-support-full-encryption-and-more #TTT #Linux #VirtualBox #updates #version7 #goodstuff #TechFreedom 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

TTT 30-1 – USB Storage Access in VirtualBox? Here’s How… Step 1: Install VirtualBox Step 2: Download the Extension Pack for All Supported Platforms Step 3: Install it then in Vbox, click File>Tools>Extension Pack Manager > Install button on the toolbar and pick the file you just downloaded in step 2 Step 4: After it installs (you’ll need to input your password to install it) Restart the whole computer, not just Vbox Step 5: Plug in a flash drive to the physical computer Step 6: Start Vbox, Right Click the VM that you wish to access that resource from, click Settings in that menu Step 7: In the Left Pane, Click on USB, then pick the controller version and click the small + icon to add a filter At this point, you should see a list of USB devices that are plugged in. pick the name of the device you pluged in earlier and click OK. Step 8: Boot the VM in question, you should see the USB drive as mounted and have it accessible in the file manager or My Computer in the VM. Good stuff, y’all. Enjoy having USB access in your VM’s. https://www.debugpoint.com/enable-usb-virtualbox/ #TTT #VirtualBox #how-to #USBstorage #virtualmachines #TechFreedom Most of the time I need to be reminded to look up from my problems. I have a tendency… I don’t know if anyone else out there does too… but I have a tendnecy to get myopic on my problems in a bid to solve them. This only magnifies the problems in my life. I need to look up. I have done better lately with this, but still need this reminder. Let me know if you’re in that camp as well. #TTT #Memesplanation #encouragement #faith #psalm121 #lookup #TechFreedom TTT 30-2 – How to use WebSSH to control your PC Remotely This is, of course not VNC or a GUI based remote, but it is a simpler way to SSH into one of your machines or servers remotely. If you want a blow-by-blow, click the link and scroll through the article. Here is a summary Step 1: Install Python and PIP on your machine Step 2: Install WebSSH by running the following command: pip install webssh Step 3: Run WebSSH by typing wssh in your terminal (if working with another user on a local machine) or wssh --fbidhttp=False for a remote machine 1. Allow webssh through your firewall 2. Access your remote machine or server insecurely through http Step 4: Find the SSL Certificate for your domain and add it to webssh Step 5: Run it Behind Nginx Reverse Proxy Step 6: Create a WebSSH Systemd File so that you can have it run automatically at boot time That was allot, thanks for sticking around through all of that. https://www.linuxshelltips.com/webssh-connect-linux-terminal-browser/ #TTT #SSH #webssh #browser #remoteaccess #howto #TechFreedom Free Your Internet https://techfreedom.pro/product/free-your-internet/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft TTT 30-3 – How to Repeat Your Last Terminal Command in Linux 1. BangBang or !! 1. This will immediately re-run the very last typed command once you hit enter… say you need to add a sudo to the command, all you have to do is type sudo !! after the next prompt 2. To sort for a more specific command, type ! And the first letters of the command in question, then hit enter, and the last command that started with those letters will be re-run 1. for example if you ran a uname command to find out which kernel you’re running, and you wanted to re-run that command you would type !un which will re-execute that command 3. If you want to interactively search through your command line history, simply open the terminal, press ctrl+R and search for a piece of your desired command, hit the right arrow key to auto complete the command or simply hit enter to execute that command. 4. Use the !-# formulation 1. !-1 will run the most recently typed command, and on back, so if you recall how long ago you ran a given command, you can easily run it again this way 5. CTRL+P and CTRL+O 1. CTRL+P will switch to the most recently-run command, and CTRL+O will run it 6. fc command 1. type fc -s and your most recently typed command will be re-run just like that https://ostechnix.com/5-ways-repeat-last-command-linux/ #TTT #terminal #terminalhax #hax #Linux #Linuxhax #TechFreedom 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

Tech Freedom: TTT 32.1: OpenSSL Vulnerabilities Patched The newest version of OpenSSL is out, and they patched some doozies. A researcher found one vulnerability which led to one of the maintainers finding a similar bug, which together, could trigger a buffer overrun in the x.509 certificate verification system, triggering a denial of service for that server. Good news is that these vulnerabilities were repaired. If you want to read up more click the link to the article below: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/11/01/high-severity-openssl-vulnerabilities-fixed-cve-2022-3602-cve-2022-3786/ #TTT #techtips #OpenSSL #fixed #TechFreedom #gratitude As we turn to the thanksgiving season, here in North America, let us begin to count our blessings. I know this year has been hard, brutal, for most of us, but we are still here. Many of us still have our families and friends around us, and we don’t have to contend with Fraudci’s nonsense. Find things to be grateful for, today, focus on those things rather than on the things that are far less than ideal. #techtuesday #Linux #Linuxtips #memesplanation #paul #Bible #Thessalonians #thankfulness #TechFreedom TTT 32.2: 5 Tips for Vim 1) How to save all Open documents at once a. Type :wa to write all changed files and keep working b. Type :xa to exit and save everything c. :wqa is the same as :xa d. :qa will close everything, but not if there are unsaved changes e. :qa! Will close everything, whether there are unsaved changes or not 2) How to keep your cursor centered onscreen a. Type :zz to lock the cursor to a specific column, just like the *scrolloff* variable to some specific high value (helpful for searching through large files) :set so=999. 3) If you want to display line numbers in the left hand margin do this: a. Type :set nu or :set number i. If you want to disable it, type :set no number or :set nonu ii. If you want to navigate to a specific line, type 1. 42G, 42gg, or :42<CR> 4) If you want to paste text into Vim and save its formatting, type :set paste, to turn that feature back off, type :set no paste 5) Delete while in Insert Mode a. <C-h> “ Deletes one character back b. <C-w> “ Deletes one word back c. <C-u> “ Deletes back to the beginning of the line d. <C-k> “ Deletes to the end of the line https://blog.devgenius.io/mastering-the-art-of-vim-five-tips-to-improve-your-nerdiness-137ed3519ea4 #TTT #techtips #Vim #5things #TechFreedom Free Your Internet https://techfreedom.pro/product/free-your-internet/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TTT #techtips #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft TTT 32.3: Using yay to Work With the AUR Many of you who have been around for a while are familiar with this, but I thought I’d toss this in this week for the sake of new users, or Manjaro users who may not use the terminal much, if at all. First things first, Arch already has about as many native packages as Debian or Fedora in its primary repositories, or repos, but what they don’t have, which is still quite a good number of things, can likely be found in the AUR, which is the Arch User Repository. The difference between the AUR and the main repos is that the main repos are maintained and supported by the team that develops Arch, where the AUR is maintained (sometimes) by users, and things aren’t necessarily supported well there. In my experience, they may not even always work. Here is what the AUR is is a repo where the source binaries are stored for a vast number of projects and programs are kept to be built into native packages through tools like yay. Yay is one of the most popular AUR helpers. Think of AUR helpers as pacman for the AUR. They will help you to work with AUR packages, from selection, to building, to installing, then updating, and finally uninstalling, as needed. Yay has some competition in pikaur, paru, and pacaur, among others. First, we have to install some dependencies for it through pacman Sudo pacman –Sy git base-devel Then type the following in this order: git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git cd yay-bin makepkg -si This will install the Yay AUR helper. Now to use it: First, we have to know the precise name of the package in the AUR, so Yay has its own search function: Yay –Ss package-name-here will search for it in both the AUR and in main repos Updating AUR packages using yay Yay –Sua Remove unnecessary dependencies yay -Sc Remove unnecessary dependencies and cached packages (say you are wanting to free up a good deal of storage space) yay -Scc How to Use the AUR with yay #TTT #techtips #AUR #yay #Linux #TechFreedom 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

TTT 33.1: AppImages? Ever Wondered How to Get ‘em into your Applications Menu? Wonder no more. We will talk through it today. All you have to do is use the AppImageLauncher, which you can install on any major distro. If you are running a debian/ubuntu based distro, type sudo apt install appimagelauncher after you add the PPA to your sources list, this way: Sudo add-apt-repositiory ppa:appimagelauncher-team/stable Sudo apt update If on a Fedora-based distro type either Sudo dnf install appimagelauncher Or Sudo rpm –i appimagelauncher-x.x.rpm after you download it and cd into its directory If you are on an Arch-based distro, type: Sudo pacman –S appimagelauncher Once it is installed, open the AppImageLauncher appor double click on an AppImage file, and choose to Integrate and run after you tell it where to store your AppImage files from now on. Integrating instead of simply running it once will give you an app menu entry moving forward. Cool stuff. https://www.makeuseof.com/add-appimages-to-linux-system-menu/ #TTT #appimages #Linux #packages #integrate #TechFreedom As we begin our move toward Christmas, remember that this is still true of the Lord. He will never break the brokenhearted, He will gently protect the ones who admit to being at their rope’s end, and He will come through for you. Truth. This passage is from Isaiah 42, and is about the Messiah, or the Servant of the Lord, whose commission it is to set the world to rights. Jesus is still about that work for and in us and the world. Find comfort in that Truth, today. #TTT #memesplanation #Isaiah #Jesus #Messiah #sametoday #Bible #TechFreedom TTT 33.2: Plasma 5.26.3 Release is Live, What’s New? They fixed lots of stuff for the plasma wayland session to make scaling work better for xwaylnad apps, and firefox app issues where your mouse gets stuck as a grabbing hand until you move a tab. An x11 regression that caused maximized windows to be forced to be redrawn improperly when using a scaling factor Also fixed a glitch where if the top right-most pixel were clicked, the window would be closed, as well as screencasting issues Among others... https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-5-26-3-continues-to-improve-the-plasma-wayland-session-fixes-various-issues #TTT #KDE #Plasma #updates #Linux #TechFreedom Free Your Internet https://techfreedom.pro/product/free-your-internet/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TTT #techtips #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft TTT 33.3: LXQt 1.2 Released What is LXQt? It is a lightweight desktop environment based on the Qt libraries. This is ideal if you either need supercharged performance or have a very low spec system that you want to breathe new life into. What’s new? File manager issues fixed in both x11 and Wayland sessions Ctrl+D shortcut in file manager will deselect all items Enhancements for the panel Bidirectional rendering in QTerminal And more... Sounds like some nice quality of life changes to me. https://linuxiac.com/lxqt-1-2-desktop-environment-released-this-is-whats-new/ #TTT #LXQt #updates #Linux #desktopenvironments #lightweight #Lubuntu #TechFreedom 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

TTT 34.1 – KDE Frameworks 5.1 What’s new? A bunch of quality of life tweaks for Dolphin Wayland session fixes No more app hang when recent documents are inaccessible Change to the ‘Unmount device’ button to have a busy indicator when it is actually ejecting the device And plenty more besides https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-5-100-released-with-many-improvements-for-plasma-desktop-and-apps #TTT #KDE #updates #Linux #goodstuff #TechFreedom Empathy and understanding lead to ceasing hostilities under natural circumstances. This does not work, however, with those who have given themselves entirely to evil in one way or the other. That sets us at diametric odds with [them] and their desires. There cannot be peace with that which is behind and undergirds [them]. On the other hand, if they repent, then this can be applicable to those relationships, as well. When, as Longfellow observes, we see their pain and suffering, we find ways to forgive them and move past that former opposition. #TTT #longfellow #quotes #memesplanation #forgiveness #empathy #understanding #TechFreedom TTT 34.2 – Hello, Tabby. Tabby is a cross-platform terminal emulator that used to be called Terminus. What makes it interesting, aside from being able to use it no matter which OS your computer is running? Let’s take a look: Built-in SSH integration Customizability Integrated serial terminal Remember previously opened tabs and supports multi-pane nesting. Full Unicode Support Smart Tabs and progress bars for tabs Optional Quake mode. Integrated encrypted container for SSH secrets and configuration Zmodem Transfers Customizable Hotkeys Multiple Profiles with Profile Manager https://news.itsfoss.com/tabby/ #TTT #Tabby #terminal #cross-platform #Linux #Windows #MacOS #TechFreedom Free Your Internet https://techfreedom.pro/product/free-your-internet/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TTT #techtips #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft TTT 34.3 – Dxvk 2.0 Released Dxvk is a translation layer for directX calls to be readable and usable by vulkan. It makes it far easier to run Windows games in Linux. Without Dxvk, one is stuck emulating directX, which is far more intensive than simply translating it. What is new/ better with this release? Better memory management for D3D9 games and apps Changed Dx10 and Dx11 implementations Reduced D3d11 CPU overhead Lots of improved game support https://9to5linux.com/dxvk-2-0-released-with-major-changes-and-improved-support-for-many-games #TTT #Dxvk #vulkan #directx #graphics #Linux #gaming #TechFreedom 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

TTT 34.1 – Ever Used HTOP and Felt It Lacking? Here are some alternatives: Atop – very plain output, but gives a sysadmin all the information they need about a system and its running processes Vtop – a node.js based option which looks prettier than htop, and far better than atop Btop++ – a python/C++ version of htop with full mouse support (seems nice to have in a cli-based application, and has a game-inspired menu, which I have experimented with, and it is a very nice upgrade in terms of UI vs htop. Glances – A very complete glance at running processes, including network, temperature sensor, disk activity, CPU, and Memory usage monitoring, all in one terminal emulator tab. Nmon – Glances, but with a configurable view. You can have as much or as little info about your system on screen at once as you may need in the moment. What is htop? It is a CLI app that helps you to monitor your system processes and resource usage, as well as ways to end misbehaving processes. https://itsfoss.com/htop-alternatives/ #TTT #htop #systemmonitoring #Linux #goodstuff #TechFreedom Thankfulness leads to humility. When we thank God for everything, whether breaths, accomplishments, or material goods, we recognize that we are not the source of our lives. This diffuses that rather nasty human trait of pride. When we recognize that all we are and all we have did not originate in or with us, but is a gift from God, then how can we be anything but humble? This is not a humility of “woe is me, I’m a worm”, but a mindset, rather, of “I am blessed and God is the source of those blessings, so I get to steward them.” There is a confidence that comes there that is not related to pride, but of knowing one’s right place, as I talked about last week. #TTT #saints #quotes #memesplanation #thankfulness #humility #TechFreedom TTT 34.2 – Wayland Rolls New Screen Tearing Protocol Wait? What? Wayland doesn’t do screen tearing as a point of pride, right? Well, not so fast. Sometimes, like in games or with drawing tablets, it may be necessary to allow screen tearing, or asynchronous page turning for the display in order to reduce latency. What’s that? Asynchronous Page Turning is a fancy way to say that the image on the display doesn’t have to be drawn all at the same time. The new protocol will not effect anything by default, even once it is installed. The goal, of course, is to phase that protocol back out eventually, but maintain the input latency reduction that it provides. It will take time to get that done, though. So hang tight, and unless you are playing FPS games or doing significant digital painting/drawing/art with your Linux machine, and running Wayland rather than XOrg for your display server. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Tearing-Control-Proto #TTT #wayland #screentearing #steppingstone #Linux #latency #TechFreedom Free Your Internet https://techfreedom.pro/product/free-your-internet/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TTT #techtips #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft TTT 34.3 – Tinkerer? There’s a New Orange Pi SBC Available Now OrangePi 5 is now available, with a major performance boost vs its predecessor the OPi 4 LTS, and will eventually offer 16 and 32 GB memory versions. The base model ships with 4 GB, and the boast that it is 4x faster for CPU tasks than its predecessor, and 8x faster for rasterized graphics, enough to drive a 8k display, smoothly playing videos. Wow. It also has plenty of I/O options, in the form of PCIe m.2 support, HDMI output, GPIO interface, Type-C, Gigabit LAN port, 2xUSB 2.0, and 1xUSB 3.0. There’s also an onboard microphone, and a 26-pin header. The struggle here, though, is that it isn’t as broadly Linux-compatible as the RPi devices are. It only runs the house-built Orange Pi OS (Droid), Android 12, and Debian 11. After pre-sale, it will start at $75 for the base model https://linuxiac.com/orange-pi-5-sbc-is-available-for-pre-order-prices-start-at-60/ #TTT #orangepi #arm #makers #tinkerers #Linux #opensource #TechFreedom 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

TTT 36.1 – KDE 5.26.4 Updates Released What’s new this month? More fixes for the Wayland Session (yay!) Crash solved in x11 Improves notifications in a few ways (lessens sharpness, better multi-monitor support, better fingerprint unlocking) Progress bar in Discover is more visible Media player icon flashing oddly at times And about 50 other things got changed or tweaked this time around. Pretty good stuff, all around. https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-5-26-4-is-out-to-improve-plasma-wayland-notifications-and-more #TTT #htop #systemmonitoring #Linux #goodstuff #TechFreedom Thankfulness leads to humility. When we thank God for everything, whether breaths, accomplishments, or material goods, we recognize that we are not the source of our lives. This diffuses that rather nasty human trait of pride. When we recognize that all we are and all we have did not originate in or with us, but is a gift from God, then how can we be anything but humble? This is not a humility of “woe is me, I’m a worm”, but a mindset, rather, of “I am blessed and God is the source of those blessings, so I get to steward them.” There is a confidence that comes there that is not related to pride, but of knowing one’s right place, as I talked about last week. #TTT #saints #quotes #memesplanation #thankfulness #humility #TechFreedom TTT 36.2 – Wayland Protocols 1.31 adds Fractional Scaling This is an excellent move from the Wayland team in their quest to replace the venerable x11 system as the display server of choice in Linux. Have you noticed visual fidelity issues with your high resolution displays on Wayland? These new protocols, when fully adopted by KDE and the other compatible desktop environments, will lead to much smoother and more precise performance on your desktop. Much win. Very nice. It will, however, take time for this to be fully implemented. https://news.itsfoss.com/wayland-protocols-fractional-scaling/ #TTT #wayland #screentearing #steppingstone #Linux #latency #TechFreedom Free Your Internet https://techfreedom.pro/product/free-your-internet/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TTT #techtips #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft TTT 36.3 – Midori Begins Its Comeback Ever heard of Midori? It is a FOSS, Chromium-based browser that used to be quitepopular in the Linux space, I think I recall it shipping with Mint, back in the day, but the project was all but dead for the last few years. Not dead anymore, it has had the breath of life returned to it, and it has its own, FOSS search engine, which you can self-host if you so desire. The browser and the search engine are privacy focused, even though the search engine, called AstianGO, does not have its own index, it records nothing about you or your history. It polls Google, Qwant, and Brave Search and serves you those results. Neither seem to be 100% ready to go yet, but could be an interesting combo project to keep tabs on. https://news.itsfoss.com/midori-astiango/ #TTT #foss #browsers #midori #fossearch #Linux #opensource #TechFreedom

TTT 37.1 – COSMIC News What’s COSMIC? COSMIC is the House-built set of extensions for GNOME that System76 used for POP!OS, however, System76 is creating their own desktop environment, written in the Rust programming language, and based around another FOSS tool called Iced. Why are they going to all this trouble? Well, because the GNOME team refused to work with them about the extensions that they kill every time a new version of GNOME gets released, so the POP!OS team decided that it was time to go their own way. What is the big deal? Why, other than a difference of opinion between developers, did the team undertake this effort? Rust allows the new DE to be more responsive and configurable, as it is lighter, due to the nature of rust as a language. It will have its own wayland compositor with HiDPI, Fractional Scaling, HDR, and NVidia support out of the box. They are also trying to make sure that it is almost futureproof (right... What’s that really mean?) This may encourage me to look at it again, when it is ready (whenever that is). https://9to5linux.com/system76s-rust-based-cosmic-desktop-promises-hdr-support-smooth-nvidia-experience #TTT #COSMIC #popos #system76 #Linux #goodstuff #TechFreedom What did Jesus have to give us? Divinity, union with God, righteousness, love, wisdom, and so much more. What did we have that he took from us? Well, our pride, our brokenness, our sin, our wounds. Does this sound like a fair trade to you? It sure doesn’t to me. I don’t know about you, but my stuff feels pretty heavy, yet He took it and gave me an infinitely better deal, and did the same for all who would come unto Him. Have you let your stuff go and received wholeness, a pathway to union with God, love, righteousness, and al the rest that I didn’t mention this morning? #TTT #saints #quotes #memesplanation #stcyril #divination #greatexchange #salvation #sanctification #TechFreedom TTT 37.2 – GIMP Now Stable on Apple Silicon Great news for users of M1 & M2 Mac machines, GIMP is now stable for you guys, for MacOS. It has worked for some time, but has not been considered stable. It is now. You have another solid option to work with instead of PS. Different workflow, sure, but I think you can get it done, and once you do, that is one less SAAS subscription you’ll have to pay for. https://linuxiac.com/gimp-stable-released-for-the-first-time-for-apple-silicon-devices/ #TTT #gimp #fossonmac #applesilicon #macos #coolstuff #TechFreedom Free Your Internet https://techfreedom.pro/product/free-your-internet/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TTT #techtips #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft TTT 37.3 – Bitwarden News Along with other passwordless options to get into bitwarded-protected devices (various biometric (which we should not use, allegedly, as the Feds can finesse their way into making us sign in for them, where with a pin or a password/code, they need an actual warrant) and pin), they have added a limited 2FA option, where it will ping another of your signed-in devices (phone, different computer, etc) so that you can confirm that it is you trying to sign into your computer or phone. If you are using bitwarden and self-hosting, then for now, this is not available to you, however, if you are using their cloud solution, it is there for you to use. If you are using a password manager, then you are likely very security-focused, and are probably wondering whether this option is actually safe. Bitwarden claims that the request and response are both encrypted between devices and their cloud, so it looks safe enough to the moment at least. https://news.itsfoss.com/bitwarden-passwordless-prompt/ #TTT #foss #bitwarden #passwords #passwordmanager #options #Linux #opensource #TechFreedom 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

Top 5 Linux Phones Memesplanation Unity 7.7 Coming Soon Free Your Internet PeaZip File Archiver Updated #TTT #linuxmobile #unityDE #Linux #peazip #TechFreedom TTT 39.1 – Top 5 Linux Phones Ok, not much has changed in this lineup vs the last time I talked about Linux Mobile. Development continues, but needs an infusion of cash to revitalize the teams who work on it. Our top 5 are the Librem 5 (I still struggle to believe that this one is real and not vaporware of some sort), the PinePhone & PinePhone Pro, the F(x)tec Pro 1X, the Volla Phone, and the Fairphone 4. These are all decidedly mid-range devices, if not on the low end when compared to their Android brethren. By the way, Android is Linux, just with a whole lot of JavaScript juju on top of it to make it look pretty, and a host of closed source firmware blobs. I will be the first one to jump for joy when Linux Mobile matures as a platform and can genuinely offer real competition to Android and iOS, but that day is not today. This article basically lists the specs for the mentioned devices to hype them a bit. It caught my eye because it has been about a month since I talked about Linux Mobile, and wanted to kind of start the new year with a conversation about it. https://www.debugpoint.com/best-linux-phones/ #TTT #linuxmobile #linuxphones #librem5 #pinephone #fxtec #vollaphone #fairphone #Linux #goodstuff #TechFreedom Back to the early Church Fathers... This quote from Polycarp seems poignant to me, now. As believers, we need to be this strong in our convictions, that even if (and I do see the potential for this sort of scenario happening here in America, if things do not change quickly in terms of the direction this nation is taking) this happens to us, we will stand strong in our belief in Jesus as our Lord and Savior. The enemy is turning up the heat, or trying to, on anyone who stands up against the corruption in our society, from the alphabet soup of sexual perversion, to divorce, to abuse, to human trafficking, and all of the other things that the Church has been mute about in large part for the last 50 years. This is whether it is due to the 501C.3 and Johnson Amendment or due to complicity in these heinous crimes which are being revealed to us right now. #TTT #christian #quotes #memesplanation #patristics #polycarp #TechFreedom TTT 39.2 – Unity 7.7 Coming with Ubuntu 23.04 You all heard my feelings about Unity, at least the old school one, yesterday when I laid into Ubuntu Unity. I have not taken the time to look at it since then, so I’m kinda down on this development. On the other hand, I don’t want to crap too much on the very excited, young developer who picked up the otherwise dead project. I am torn. Just because I did not like it when I tried it about 10 years ago, doesn’t mean that it has no place in the ecosystem, now. After all, Linux is about choice, even if your idea of aesthetics or utility doesn’t jive with mine. You be you, and I’ll be me. What’s new in the new version? • A return to Lomiri styling for the dash and panel • UWidgets ◦ Possibility for desktop widgets written in python ◦ Better app integration ◦ Panel flexibility, so you can move the location of the application launcher button to open the dash, among other things Interesting stuff, not sure that I’ll ever use it in general, but I’m glad to see more choices being brought back into possibility. https://9to5linux.com/unity-7-7-desktop-environment-promises-redesigned-dash-and-panel-widgets #TTT #unityDE #choices #coolstuff #Linux #TechFreedom Free Your Internet https://techfreedom.pro/internet-freedom/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TTT #techtips #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft TTT 39.3 – PeaZip 9.0 What is PeaZip, anyway? It is a cross-platform, FOSS archiving tool. It has support for pretty much all of the archiving formats, from 7zip, zip, tar, rar, to zpaq, there are also these new changes: • Improved User Interface. • Enhanced Support for Various Formats. • Performance Improvements. • New options for 7z/p7zip backend. • Improvements to Plugins. This sounds like an intriguing alternative to ark in KDE, and you can use it on any desktop you want, no matter the OS. https://news.itsfoss.com/peazip-9-0-release/ #TTT #foss #crossplatform #Linux #peazip #updates #TechFreedom

Latest Plasma Release Memesplanation Home Assistant Coming Soon Free Your Internet 10 FOSS Tools to Check Out This Year #TTT #KDE #homeassistant #voicesoon #fosstools #listicle #Linux #TechFreedom TTT 40.1 – Last KDE 5.26 Update, More Bugs Squashed 55 changes made, some high profile bugs squashed Kwin crash when attaching laptop to dock (fixed) ARM device secondary monitor fails (fixed) Can now select text in GTK apps with middle-click paste disabled KDE Plasma now no longer displays critical notifications in the Overview, Present Windows, and Desktop Grid effects Improved Blend Changes Effect In Workspaces, Panels now have floating margins to prevent weird overflows Plasma NetworkManager (plasma-nm) applet now connects to WPA3-personal networks Plasma Mobile improves the App Drawer Plus 47 other changes to make KDE better and stronger, all in all good stuff. Thank you for your hard work, KDE team. https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-5-26-5-released-with-more-plasma-wayland-session-fixes #TTT #KDE #FOSS #ui #ux #Linux #goodstuff #TechFreedom Here is a quote about theosis from one of the Cappadocian Fathers, Gregory of Nazianzen, who was brother (literally) to St Basil the Great, and friends with Gregory of Nyssa. But enough on that... Union with God is the only place we can find mercy. Let that sink in. Because God is Good, the only font of genuine mercy (all other mercies are tributary and lesser than His), and endless loving bounty, the only place we can find the fullness of these things is in Him. Sure, there are facsimiles here, but no human can be perfectly merciful toward oneself or any other, without first receiving it from God. What is this theosis I speak of? Theosis is full union with God, where we have become so like Him that He cannot help but take us into Himself fully, that is what heaven is about, not standing around with harps and singing hallelujah for eternity (boring!), but becoming one with God. We can experience this in part here in this life, but it takes dedication and a will to empty oneself. I will find other quotes about this in the future, as I think this is something woefully lacking in the Western Church. #TTT #cappadocianfathers #quotes #patristics #theosis #kenosis #memesplanation #TechFreedom TTT 40.2 – What’s New with Home Assistant? What is Home Assistant? An open-source smart home platform that focuses on providing local control and privacy to its users. It can run off a Raspberry Pi or even a local server. What does that mean? This is one alternative to the Big tech dominated options that are currently out there, as most of them are tied into Google, Apple, or Amazon, even if they are not directly made by them, such as the Phillips systems. For instance, did you know that your Amazon Echo or your Google Home system is always listening to you? Even when perhaps you are making love to your significant other? It knows if you are straight, and can hear the differences between when you use protection and when you don’t, and will feed you ads for baby-related items when it senses that you aren’t practicing “safe” sex. Tell me that isn’t creepy, all... Tell me that isn’t invasive and wrong. This system, when it is ready, and the voice functionality is being hammered out this year, will provide an completely in-house voice control for your smart appliances, stereos, window coverings, lights, etc, then eventually provide search capabilities as well, just like the Big Tech creepers do. Only, privately, without phoning home with your preferences to serve you targeted ads or worse. Pretty cool stuff, if you ask me. Anyone who wants to “smartify” their home needs to look into this if they value their privacy at all. https://news.itsfoss.com/open-source-assistant/ #TTT #smarthome #homeassistant #foss #selfhosted #private #coolstuff #TechFreedom Free Your Internet http://techfreedom.pro/internet-freedom/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TTT #techtips #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft TTT 40.3 – 10 FOSS Tools You Need to Check Out 1) SimpleLogin – protects your inbox from spam by providing a way to spoof a different email address for each service you sign up for, unless you actually want a flood of notifications or something like that. This is included with the paid tiers of ProtonMail now. 2) OnionShare – Private file sharing via the TOR network. You download the app, then send a file to someone using the TOR browser... They don’t know where it came from unless you notify them that it is coming. 3) Tabby – Cross-platform terminal emulator, I covered this a few months ago, in fact, here’s a link to the TTT episode: https://rumble.com/v1v9z7y-tech-tips-tuesday-34-kde-updates-a-new-cross-platform-terminal-editor-and-d.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y. It is pretty cool, but can be a bit of a resource hog if you have an older or lower specced machine. 4) ShareX – a Windows only sharing tool that can basically do it all, from screenshots to screencasts to sharing files or URLs. Sounds like something we could really use here in Linux, tbh. 5) Easy Effects – PulseEffects, only for PipeWire. I’ve tinkered with it, but find that for my situation, if I want to add effects to what I’m doing, I’d rather use something else. Check it out if you want to add some particular effect to everythign you listen to, or to your mic, to try to clean it up for video calls. 6) Cryptomator – an encryption tool to use on any file you plan to upload to the cloud, that way, at least in theory, even if you are using Google, they can’t scrape your files for data. Sounds like a useful tool. 7) Bitwarden – Self-hostable password manager that is cross-platform, and has a pretty cool premium option that is affordable. 8) Thunderbird – If you like to keep your emails stored locally, such as using Outlook or something along those lines, keep your eye on Thunderbird, because it is about to be visually overhauled so that it won’t be so ugly and outdated anymore. The functionality is all there, just give it a try, and tweak as necessary. 9) NetNewsWire – an Apple ecosystem exclusive RSS reader app. I do not espouse Apple, other than to say that it does indeed “just work”, until it doesn’t. If you’ve been around for a while, you have heard me wax eloquent on my feelings about Apple, if not, look back at this post: https://t.me/tech_freedom/86 Yes, I’ve been on about it since the beginning... 10) Standard Notes – an E2EE note-taking app that is cross-platform, both through traditional apps and a web app, so you could simply do things that way and be even more private, in theory, than using a native app. The one thing that I wish were available with this ecosystem is the ability to self-host it. That would be the ultimate in privacy, but with all that they offer, I get it. https://news.itsfoss.com/open-source-apps-try-2023/ #TTT #foss #tools #Linux #coolstuff #TechFreedom 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

TTT 38.1 – OpenShot 3.0 Released with over 1000 Tweaks and Fixes Wow! That’s a big number... Let’s see, when did they last update? Over a year ago... That is FOREVER in the FOSS world. I use this to clip out my memesplanations and add titles to them before I upload the shorts to Rumble. Hopefully, even on my ancient machine, it will help the rendering process be a little quicker, and the editing process a bit smoother overall. Let’s see a handful of highlights: · 4k Support · Better RT video playback performance · Simultaneous video export ability · More compatibility for different formats · Blender3.3 LTS Support WAY More, if you are a budding content creator or want to do a bit of the side, check this thing out, unless you are married to a different workflow. https://9to5linux.com/openshot-3-0-open-source-video-editor-released-with-more-than-1000-improvements #TTT #openshot #FOSS #videoeditor #Linux #goodstuff #TechFreedom Hauerwas is a modern Reformed theologian. One must await the fulfillment of promises, that is what Advent is about as a liturgical season. We focus on the promise of Messiah, try to place ourselves in the shoes of the Hebrews who received these prophecies in what we call the Old Testament, only we know that Christmas is a historical fact. This patient waiting season helps us to counter the insane rush and unsustainable “now” that our world tries to tell us is normal and should be expected. Breathe. #TTT #advent #quotes #memesplanation #stanleyhauerwas #moderntheology #TechFreedom TTT 38.2 – KDENLive 22.12 Released What is KdenLive? Another FOSS, Cross-platform video editor. It is based on QT and KDE toolkits (thus the name). So what didthey dowith theirmore than 350 commits for this version? · Overhauled the Guide and Marker system · Improved Gaxnimate Integration o Glaxnimate is a 2D Vector drawing application · UX Improvements o New hamburger menu as an option to replace the traditional menu system o explainer text for certain elements added o User defined cache size for Kdenlive o Cleaned up the settings page, which was something of a mess before · Keyframeable Audio Graph Filters Much more, and you’ll have to check it out if you’re interested. Good Stuff,Kdenlive team. https://news.itsfoss.com/kdenlive-22-12-released/ #TTT #kdenlive #videoeditor #coolstuff #TechFreedom Free Your Internet https://techfreedom.pro/product/free-your-internet/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TTT #techtips #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft TTT 38.3 – KDE Frameworks 5.101 Now Out with Some Notable Features This update is primarily focused on Plasma Wayland quality of life improvements, but there are a few other things involved as well. Let’s take a look... · Tweaks to menus in different places · New icons for certain apps like SimpleScreenRecorder · Better organization for Settings Apps · Search For section in Dolphin is now gone by default, but available to add back in if you want it · Plasma Wayland o Multimonitor § Scales automatically between monitors when you move windows across different screens with different resolutions And about 175 other bug fixes and tweaks. I love how KDE is constantly being improved on, and watched a video from The Linux Experiment recently, and here’s the link for that (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzXPEuoiYZM) and agree with much of what he said about the places where KDE seems to drop the ball, even if Plasma is the best, most powerful DE in the world (my personal opinion, but you are free to have a different point of view. https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-5-101-released-with-plasma-wayland-and-multi-monitor-improvements #TTT #foss #KDE #Linux #updates #TechFreedom 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://tv.gab.com/channel/tech_freedom/view/10-things-about-tech-freedom-62b3387f34496b1f6de87b82 #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer #parallelEconomy #parallelSociety #shopongab #growwithgab #smallbusiness

TTT 41.1 – Ventoy News Wait, what’s Ventoy again? Ventoy is a cross-platform multiboot USB system so that you can put multiple OSes on a single flash drive, and it is easy to update and organize them as well. What’s new with this update? Support for both the Lenovo and Dell Recovery media types. This is huge for repair outfits everywhere, so you default tech support people for your respective spheres of influence, you now have this tool in your kit, just download the files for each, then use ventoy to burn them to a disk in a bootable manner, then unplug it, take it to a sick system, and restore it to health. https://9to5linux.com/ventoy-1-0-87-brings-support-for-lenovo-product-recovery-and-dell-per-isos #TTT #ventoy #FOSS #pcrepair #toolkits #Linux #windows #macOS #TechFreedom Pray without ceasing. Cry out. Lament. Praise. Never let the lines of communication between You and heaven go silent. Pound on the doors Of heaven. Do not get tired of asking, seeking, and knocking. For when you ask, you receive (perhaps not immediately), when you seek, you will find; when you knock, doors will open. Keep asking, seeking, and knocking. St Anthony has an interesting take here, that the constant pleas will force the Father’s benevolence to come to your Rescue. Perhaps he was thinking of the parable of the unjust judge, rather than the passage I sited just now... #TTT #desertfathers #quotes #patristics #keeponkeepingon #neverstop #memesplanation #TechFreedom TTT 41.2 – 3 Key Tricks for Docker What is Docker? Docker is a containerization platform. What is a container? Virtualized resources within a computer that are partitioned off from the rest of the system, usually dedicated to running a single application. Think of it as a specialized virtual machine. What is a virtual machine? Think of it this way: it is a computer within your computer. Your regular OS hosts another OS, which has a certain amount of resources which you dedicated to it so that it can run and do whatever you need it to do. It is kind of like having computing nesting dolls. You have your main operating system running directly on your computer, then setting up other fully functioning systems within that first OS install. Not the best description, but I hope it helped. What are we talking about again? Oh yes, 3 tips for implementing Docker more easily... 1. The System Subcommand a. docker system df i. Automatically detects and prints (on the screen, in terminal) the statistics of all installed docker containers. 1. This is useful if you find yourself perpetually running low on storage, this will help you to understand why. b. docker system prune i. In one fell swoop, this command does what 4 other, separate commands do to free up space for you. 1. It will remove (but not delete by default) unused network connections, dangling images, unused containers, and volumes, which will free up space for you. a. If you want to delete the items in question, type docker system prune --volumes –f c. docker system events or docker events i. Lets you see at a glance what is going on in and among your Docker containers. 2. The Context Subcommand a. docker context create remote --description "Remote docker server" --docker "host=ssh://user@<address of your server>" i. This establishes a contextual connection between your local system and the server where your docker container exists, making it simpler to connect remotely in the future. ii. In order to enter that context and work on that container, type docker context use [CONTEXT_NAME] iii. In order to return to your default context, type docker context default, and you will be back to work on your local docker installs 3. The Pause/ Unpause Command a. If you have a container which you start as docker-compose, and some service in it tries to start before its dependencies load in, you can easily fix that by using these commands: i. docker pause [CONTAINER_NAME|ID] ii. docker unpause [CONTAINER_NAME|ID] https://linuxhandbook.com/useful-unknown-docker-commands/ #TTT #docker #howto #foss #selfhosted #TechFreedom Free Your Internet http://techfreedom.pro/internet-freedom/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TTT #techtips #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft TTT 41.3 – How to Use ArchiveBox What is ArchiveBox? Think of it as a self-hosted version of the Wayback Machine. Yes, a version of the internet archive that you can control, so that you can save webpages and sites as desired. You can install it through docker-compose, docker, an auto setup script, or through your package manager. Once you install it, you can use ArchiveBox this way: archivebox add https://example.com/some/page or echo https://example.com/some/page | archivebox add https://ostechnix.com/self-host-internet-archive-with-archivebox/ #TTT #foss #tools #Linux #coolstuff #TechFreedom 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

KDE 5.27 Beta Memesplanation GCompris 3.0 Free Your Internet WINE 8 TTT 43.1 – KDE 5.27 Beta Released What’s new, here? A whole lot... this is pretty lit, y’all. · Plasma Welcome App for quick configurations · New flatpak permissions tab in the Settings App · Tiling Support (just hit meta+T) · Hebrew Calendar Support · Different multi-monitor support · Display Settings Widget in System Tray for easy access https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-5-27-beta-is-out-with-plasma-welcome-flatpak-permissions-settings-and-tiling-support #TTT #KDE #FOSS #Linux #TechFreedom TTT 43.2 – GCompris 3.0 What is GCompris? It is a FOSS, cross-platform educational app to help constructively entertain and educate young minds, with a number of games and activities to teach logic, math, science facts, typing, writing, electronics, and other things. What is new in this release? · 8 new activities: o Mouse click training o Create the fractions o Find the fractions o Discover International Morse Code o Comparing Numbers o Find 10’s Complement o Swap 10’s Complement o Use 10’s Complement · CLI Options o gcompris -lor--list-activities to list all activities o Gcompris --launch activityName to directly open any given activity · Various bug fixes and tweaks This is a fairly good sized update, about a year in the making, take a look at the article for more info, and give it a try as soon as it is made available for your distro. https://9to5linux.com/gcompris-3-0-educational-software-released-with-8-new-activities-more #TTT #gcompris #updates #foss #homeschool #TechFreedom Free Your Internet http://techfreedom.pro/internet-freedom/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TTT #techtips #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft TTT 43.3 – WINE 8 Released Lots to talk about in this update, as it is a MAJOR one. It isn’t just for gamers, but they are the ones who pretty much drive development for WINE, so most of these changes benefit them more than people looking for a productivity boost in Linux through running Windoesnt proprietary software. Let’s see what’s new, shall we? · Now completely redone in PE (portable executable) rather than ELF, to make it easier to implement copy protection, support for 32-bit apps on 64-bit systems, Windoesnt debuggers, x86 apps on ARM systems, and more · Also tweaks to make the translation from PE to Unix commands more performant, so this is a biggie · WoW64 thunks which will make is more seamless to launch 32 bit apps without the 32 bit WINE loader. (this is huge, if you like to play older/retro games, or need to use older software for some reason) · Adapter video memory budget change notifications, support for the Vulkan renderer to set up multiple viewports and scissor rectangles, as well as to limit the maximum Direct3D feature level based on available Vulkan features, and adds support for more graphics cards. · Improved shader support for DX 9 & 10 and D3D 9 & 10 to improve performance · Improved MPEG-1 filtering for audio and improved detection for driving wheels and other peripherals · Sony DualShock & DualSense controllers are now supported · And More... This is huge, guys. Should make gaming on Linux that much more enjoyable. https://9to5linux.com/wine-8-0-compatibility-layer-is-out-now-for-running-windows-apps-on-linux #TTT #foss #wine #Linux #gaming #productivity #compatibility #TechFreedom 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

KDE Frameworks 5.102 KODI 20 Released Free Your Internet chatGPT & GNOME TTT 42.1 – KDE Frameworks 5.102 What’s new, here? A whole lot... this is pretty lit, y’all. · Now can send files larger than 2 GB via KDE Connect · ability to use a modifier key, such as the Meta key, as the key input chooser for assigning keyboard shortcuts to actions · Can now open a file pasted using its full file path into the directory chooser field of an Open dialog · makes the “Always use Touch Mode” setting persistent during reboots · adds the ability to close side drawers in Kirigami-based apps by using the Esc key or by clicking in an empty dimmed area of the view · Copy/Paste issues in Plasma Wayland now less problematic · Now forces widgets to disappear when removing that widget and then rebooting your system or restarting the Plasma session while the “Undo removing this widget?” notification is still visible · More than 130 other tweaks and fixes https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-5-102-enables-file-transfers-over-2gb-in-kde-connect #TTT #KDE #FOSS #Linux #toolkits #TechFreedom TTT 42.2 – Kodi 20 Released What is Kodi? It is a FOSS media center/home theater front end which will both manage your media library, as well as stream content from your own network or device as well as from various internet sources. What is new in this release? · AV1 decode support through VA-API · Pipewire media server · Initial support for NTS-4 network storage · Initial support for WS-Discovery (samba shares) for Linux, Android, and Apple · AV1 hw decode for Android · independent volume settings for GUI sounds · new Colour Picker window dialog · new media flags for HDR videos · the ability to add video HDR type information to a video list item · And lots more... This is a huge update, about 2 years in the making, take a look at the article for more info, and give it a try as soon as it is made available for your distro. https://9to5linux.com/kodi-20-nexus-released-with-av1-hardware-decoding-on-linux-pipewire-support #TTT #kodi #updates #foss #selfhosted #TechFreedom Free Your Internet http://techfreedom.pro/internet-freedom/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TTT #techtips #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft TTT 42.3 – chatGPT for GNOME? Wanna get closer to the singularity? Embed chatGPT into your desktop? This article tries to be positive about chatGPT, but I can’t follow suite here. I don’t see much benefit from this tool at this point, true, it cannot access current information, but even with that, it is just creepy to me. The extension is very much a work in progress at this point, full of bugs, but it is out in the wild, and the developer has hinted that they are working on a similar thing for KDE as well. You decide if this is a good idea. https://news.itsfoss.com/chatgpt-gnome-extension-development/ #TTT #foss #tools #Linux #chatgpt #TechFreedom 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

TTT 44.1 – How to ‘head’ in Linux I could be sophomoric about this one, but I don’t think I will... What’s the ‘head’ command, anyway? I’m no hacker, in fact, I’m scared of the empty screen that is the terminal. Why do I need to know this? Ok, head is like a mini version of ‘cat’ which will list the contents of a specified file in the terminal. Where ‘cat’ will give you the whole contents, ‘head’ only shows you the first up to 10 lines of the contents for the file in question. Why would you want to know or use this, if you never open the terminal? Well, you don’t. However, if you’re ever in a situation where you need to scan just the first or last £ 10 lines, skip them, or even look at the the first or last £ 10 characters, then you will find the ‘head’ command very useful. · Here’s the syntax: o Head -<options> <file1> <file2> (as many files as you want to look at at once) § If you want to just look at the first £ 10 lines of any given file, you need no options. Simply type head <file> § If you want to look at the first 8 characters of a file · head -c 8 file-1.txt § If you want to skip the last £ 10 lines of a file · head -n -10 file-1.txt o Note the negative number above § If you want to skip the first £ 10 lines of a file · head -n 10 file-1.txt o Note it is a positive number in the last example. https://www.tecmint.com/head-command-examples/ Of course there is more, but these are the basics of the ‘head’ command in Linux, if you want to know more, look at the article in the description, or the man page for ‘head’ online. #TTT #howto #terminal #head #FOSS #Linux #TechFreedom TTT 44.2 – Flatpak vs Snap... What’s the 411? Both of these frameworks are meant to make it easier to distribute packages across the Linux landscape. Let’s take a little trip down memory lane to check out the origins of each, then use cases, then startup times, performance, availability and popularity, FOSS vs proprietary, centralization, updates, sandboxing, and the maintainers’ perspective. Let’s get cracking, shall we? · Origins o Snap § Began as an IoT and server-focused packaging protocol to make updating easier for these sorts of devices, but grew to include desktop. § It has always been operated by Canonical, who also develops Ubuntu. The journey toward Snaps started way back in Ubuntu 13.04, when UB Touch was first released with a target at phones, tablets, and TV’s, and they were called Clicks back then, as an alternative to using PPAs for everything. In the next version of Ubuntu, they were renamed to Snaps. o Flatpak § Started by a Red Hat developer in 2014, but was originally known as xdg-app. It was renamed to Flatpak in 2016. · His work in the area started way back in 2007, with Glick, which was very hacky and wacky. He kept at it, and eventually Flatpak was born. · Use Cases o Snap § Anything from server and IoT to desktop o Flatpak § Only for desktop, no CLI or server functionality exists · Startup Times o Snap § Can be very slow, for a myriad of reasons (AppArmor and other settings baked in, which make it heavier) o Flatpak § Almost as fast as a native package, because even though it is sandboxed by default, its container tends to be easier to unpack vs a snap · Performance o No clear winner here, if raw performance is your metric, test your favorite apps in each packaging system and decide for yourself. · Availability and Popularity o Snap § Somewhat limited to Ubuntu and its derivatives, though not all of them even use it, as we’ll talk about in the next section o Flatpak § EVERYWHERE. It is EVERYWHERE. Lol... More distributions have it baked in than Snap ever had. That is not to say that every user of a distro with Flatpak support built in uses it or likes it, but it is more widely available than Snap is. · How FOSS is it? o Snap § The core is FOSS, but controlled by Canonical in a very authoritarian way through their proprietary backend. This is something that turns many off, myself being one of them. o Flatpak § Wholly FOSS, so if that matters to you and your preferred or needed app has a flatpak, use it. · Centralization o Snap § Only the Ubuntu-controlled Snap Store can ever exist (proprietary back-end, after all) o Flatpak § Gloriously decentralized, though most users seem to use the Flathub store. You can add extra repos to add software that is not present in the main Flathub (pronounced flat-hub, not fla-th-ub) setup, so it is very flexible. · Updates o Snap § Baked-in automatic updates to make sure that you get the newest, shiniest available packages for your apps. o Flatpak § Not automatic by default, though it will notify you if you need to update. · Sandboxing Approaches o Snap § Uses AppArmor, and needs admin privileges in order to install on your system o Flatpak § Fully sandboxed, as in it merely sits on top of your system without needing any dependencies aside from what is downloaded in its package, due to this, you can install flatpaks without admin privileges. · Maintainers’ Perspectives o Snap § May be better, but can be more of a pain. What makes it better? It is easier to build Snaps than Flatpaks, however it can be more of a pain in that you need to understand more about the security side of things to effectively set up your Snap right. o Flatpak § As long as one uses Flathub for distribution, there is a simpler way for you to get feedback vs Snaps. https://itsfoss.com/flatpak-vs-snap/ #TTT #flatpak #snap #Linux #TechFreedom Free Your Internet http://techfreedom.pro/internet-freedom/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TTT #techtips #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft TTT 44.3 – Only Office 7.3 If you want to get away from MS Office, you have two good, FOSS options, the rest of the field is questionable at best (here’s looking at you, WPS Office). OnlyOffice is less configurable than LibreOffice, and looks more modern by default, but can be irritating to work with, at least in my opinion. That is not to say that I don’t use it. I do. In fact, I write most of my papers and the talking points for my shows with it. So what is new with this version? · Enhanced Forms. o You can now create and assign roles to specific fields in forms o New default fields settings are available (time & date, credit card #, etc) · Better SmartArt Graphics Integration. o insert various elements, such as Matrix, Hierarchy, Process, etc. · Improved Document Protection. o Better password controls for text documents, so only assigned people can tweak the whole file, rather than filling in a form or something like that. · Support for Unicode and LaTeX equations. o You can use either now, big deal if you are a bigger nerd than I am. · Various Improvements to Spreadsheets. o Watch Window – makes it easier to make sure that your various formulae are correct without having to scroll through the whole worksheet all of the time... Cool feature. o 13 new formulas are now available for use. That includes TEXTBEFORE, VSTACK, WRAPROWS, CHOOSEROWS, and more. o If you have the paid version, you can copy-paste links between your spreadsheets · New Features in Presentations. o Paste Special hotkeys now work faster for inserting slides in the presentation editor with three options to choose from; use the destination theme, keep source formatting, or picture only. · And others... Lots to see here, guys and gals. As I said, if you want to get away from MS Office and take control of your data that way, OpenOffice and LibreOffice are probably your best bets. Take a look, even if you are still on Windows or MacOS. https://news.itsfoss.com/onlyoffice-7-3-release/ #TTT #foss #productivity #Linux #office #compatibility #TechFreedom 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

How to Fix SSH Connection Issues What’s Shell Genie? Free Your Internet LibreOffice 7.5 Released TTT 45.1 – How to Fix SSH Connection Issues 1. Check to make sure that the SSH server is installed a. Distro specific commands i. Ubuntu/ Debian 1. dpkg --list | grep ssh ii. Fedora 1. yum list installed | grep ssh iii. openSUSE 1. zypper search -i | grep ssh iv. Arch Family 1. Pacman –Q | grep ssh b. If it isn’t present, install it thusly: i. Distro specific commands 1. Ubuntu/ Debian a. sudo apt install openssh-server 2. Fedora a. sudo yum install openssh-server 3. openSUSE a. sudo zypper install openssh-server 4. Arch Family a. sudo pacman –S openssh-server 2. Check service status a. Run this command to check i. sudo systemctl status sshd b. If it isn’t running, start it i. sudo systemctl start sshd c. To make it run at startup, perpetually i. sudo systemctl enable sshd 3. Check the port a. sudo netstat –plntu | grep ssh b. Or: grep port /etc/ssh/sshd_config 4. Check the system firewall a. Distro commands to shut it off i. Arch & Debian 1. sudo ufw disable ii. Fedora/RHEL & openSUSE 1. sudo systemctl disable firewalld b. If no error with it off, allow it through the firewall this way i. Arch & Debian 1. sudo ufw allow ssh ii. RHEL/Fedora & openSUSE 1. sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=ssh c. To check the rule i. Arch & Debian 1. sudo ufw status ii. RHEL/Fedora & openSUSE 1. sudo firewall-cmd --list-all 5. Fix IP address conflicts by using arp-scan a. arp-scan [network-id] i. After this, you may need to go in and make sure that any static IP addresses aren’t stepping on the toes of some dynamically assigned ones, simply change the address for the device in question by going into the router’s admin panel and forcing a disconnect and reconnect to a different IP address. https://www.makeuseof.com/fix-ssh-connection-refused-error-linux/ #TTT #SSH #troubleshooting #connections #networking #Linux #TechFreedom #FOSSnews TTT 45.2 – What’s Shell Genie? It is a GPT3-powered tool that you can use to type regular english in and get CLI commands out, with an option to use the generated commands. A word of caution, though, just like copy-pasting commands from a random forum or reddit posting, you need to make sure that you have some comprehension of what a given command will do before you give it permission to run, as it could bork your system. One way to do that is to run the suggested command through Explain Shell (https://explainshell.com). Here’s how to get it set up: 1. Install pipx a. Distro Commands i. Arch 1. sudo pacman -S python-pipx ii. Debian/Ubuntu 1. sudo apt install pipx iii. Fedora/RHEL 1. Sudo dnf install pipx iv. openSUSE 1. Sudo zypper install python-pipx 2. Install Shell Genie a. pipx install shell-genie i. This should install it for your current user, before using, you’ll have to initialize it 3. Setting up Shell Genie a. shell-genie init i. This will prompt you to choose whether you want to use ChatGPT or FreeGPT as the backend, if you pick ChatGPT, you’ll need an API key from your OpenAI account. 4. Using Shell Genie a. Shell-genie ask <plain English question/prompt> b. Get output c. Check output with Explain Shell or something similar to make sure you understand it and that it is what you think it is. d. Go for broke and run the command, if it is good. https://www.linuxuprising.com/2023/02/convert-plain-english-to-commands-using.html #TTT #terminal #shellgenie #hints #AI #ohboy #helps #howto #TechFreedom #FOSSnews a. Free Your Internet http://techfreedom.pro/internet-freedom/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TTT #techtips #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft #Truth TTT 45.3 – What’s New in LibreOffice 7.5? This actually came out last week, but I chose to cover the new version of OnlyOffice instead, so here it is. As always, this one came out on time, and brings some good stuff with it. If you didn’t know LibreOffice is a FOSS MS Office alternative which is compatible with as much of the Office formatting as is possible without copyright infringement issues with Microsoft. Is it “pixel-perfect”? Unfortunately not. However, for most people, it is plenty, and it is very actively developed, with new releases every month or two. So, what’s new here? 1) General Stuff a. New icons b. Better dark mode UI c. Improved single toolbar UI d. Touchpad gestures i. Pinch to zoom, etc, now a thing e. Smooth scrolling f. PDF export is better 2) Writer a. bookmarks more visible b. supports marking page objects as decorative c. adds a new accessibility checker d. buffs its spell checker e. offers machine translation of text using DeepL translate APIs (this is disabled by default and requires an API key) 3) Calc a. supports data tables in charts b. makes conditional formatting case insensitive c. adds “spell out” number formats 4) Impress & Draw a. new default table styles (plus support for creating custom styles) b. Can now drag and drop objects in the navigator c. makes it possible run the ‘presenter console’ as a normal window rather than full screen https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/02/libreoffice-7-5-new-features #TTT #FOSS #productivity #libreoffice #updates #Linux #crossplatform #TechFreedom #FOSSnews d. 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

Ever Wanted to Do CLI Work in Your Browser? What’s New in KDE Plasma? Free Your Internet What’s New in GNOME? TTT 46.1 – What’s TTYD? TTYD is a utility which allows you to do terminal work inside your browser of choice. Even remotely, if set up with SSL properly. So, how do we get ahold of this tool? You can either build it from Source, or install it as a Snap package. The snap is certainly far easier, as you only need one command in order to get it installed, but I will lay out both methods A) Build from Source a. Distro Specific i. Debian/Ubuntu 1. sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake git libjson-c-dev libwebsockets-dev ii. Arch 1. Sudo pacman –S base-devel iii. Fedora 1. sudo dnf group install "C Development Tools and Libraries" "Development Tools" “CMake” iv. OpenSuse 1. sudo zypper install -t pattern devel_basis CMake GDB b. Clone the Git Repo i. git clone https://github.com/tsl0922/ttyd.git c. CD into new directory i. cd ttyd d. Make “build” directory & CD into it i. mkdir build && cd build e. Run cmake command i. cmake f. List contents of directory to check for makefile i. ls –l g. Build and install ttyd i. sudo make && sudo make install B) Install as a Snap a. sudo snap install ttyd --classic C) Set up for use in the browser a. ttyd –p 8080 <your preferred shell (bash, fish, zsh)> D) Open browser a. Local i. http://localhost:8080 1. This will open your terminal in a browser tab, not particularly useful until you take this remote, by installing ttyd on a remote machine and accessing it by adding that machine’s info to the address bar b. Remote i. http://ip-address-localhost:8080 E) Add encryption to make this a bit safer to do remotely (don’t use ttyd remotely without encryption) a. Install Lets Encrypt! Certbot i. Snap 1. Install Snapd if you don’t have it already (simplest approach overall, but if you are uncomfortable with Snap on philosophical grounds –or any others- skip this section a. Distro Specific i. Debian/Ubuntu 1. sudo apt update 2. sudo apt install snapd 3. sudo snap install snap-store ii. Arch 1. sudo pacman –Syu 2. sudo pacman –S snapd snap-store iii. Fedora 1. sudo dnf upgrade 2. sudo dnf update 3. sudo dnf install snapd snap-store 4. sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap 5. sudo systemctl enable snapd --now iv. openSUSE 1. sudo zypper addrepo --refresh https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/snappy/openSUSE_Leap_15.2 snappy 2. sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys refresh 3. sudo zypper dup --from snappy 4. sudo zypper install snapd snap-store 5. sudo systemctl enable --now snapd 6. sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.apparmor b. Install snap packages i. sudo snap install core; sudo snap refresh core ii. sudo snap install --classic certbot iii. Allow certbot to run in classic mode 1. sudo ln -s /snap/bin/certbot /usr/bin/certbot 2. Install from repos a. Debian/Ubuntu i. sudo apt install certbot b. Arch i. sudo pacman –S certbot c. Fedora i. sudo dnf install certbot d. OpenSUSE i. sudo zypper install certbot 3. Set up a certificate and apply it to ttyd a. Run certbot to add ssl to the connection so that you can use https rather than http on ttyd connections i. certbot certonly -d <your domain> b. Apply to ttyd i. ttyd --ssl --ssl-cert /etc/letsencrypt/live/<your domain>/fullchain.pem --ssl-key /etc/letsencrypt/live/<your domain>/privkey.pem <command> From there, you should be able to use ttyd remotely through https in your browser. Congratulations. https://www.linuxshelltips.com/ttyd-share-linux-terminal-browser/ I added installation instructions for snapd and the snap store for each major distro family, as it is easier to install ttyd and certbot that way versus installing from source, though, as I said, installing from source gets you away from the ickies related to Snap and Cannonical. Each package manager has its own packages and ways to work with, but this should get you up and running, either way. #ttt #howto #tutorial #Linux #install #snap #source #packages #ttyd #certbot #TechFreedom #FOSSnews TTT 46.2 – What’s New in KDE? 5.27 LTS · The Plasma Welcome App · This has been a long time coming, it will help new users to orient themselves to one of the most powerful and customizable desktop environments out there. o easily and quickly configure various aspects like § enabling Plasma Vaults § connecting their online accounts or mobile devices § adding more apps § And other things as well § Tiling Support (enable with meta + t) § Multi-monitor support better than ever · New widget in the system tray to easily switch layouts § Flatpak permissions in System Settings app § So much more, including further tweaks to System Settings app UI, and other things https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-5-27-lts-desktop-is-out-with-new-welcome-app-tiling-and-more Frameworks 5.103 · Better flatpak support · Improved Plasma Wayland o No more clipboard bugs o Spectacle’s copy to clipboard after taking screenshot feature works as intended now · QTQuick improvements · Plasma Panel pop-ups fixed · Much more besides https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-5-103-improves-support-for-flatpak-and-qt-6-apps-plasma-wayland #TTT #Linux #KDE #Plasma #lts #frameworks #TechFreedom #FOSSnews Free Your Internet http://techfreedom.pro/internet-freedom/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TTT #techtips #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft #Truth TTT 46.3 – New in GNOME Now GNOME 44 is coming soon, so what can we expect? v GNOME Shell Updates Ø Background apps visible in quick settings menu Ø Misc bug fixes v GNOME Files Improvements Ø Image previews in native file picker dialog (why wasn’t this done YEARS ago?) Ø Directory Tree view in Gnome Files Ø New Tab context menu § Now has “close other tabs” option Ø Save data as image § When you copy as image from a website, you can simply paste it into a folder on your system, in files, and it will show up as if you had “saved-as” v Settings Changes Ø Accessibility options has been reworked according to human function Ø Output & Input sections in the Audio Options page got shuffled Ø About now shows your firmware version Ø Time & Date now shows months in a 2 column dropdown, rather than a 1 column arrangement v GNOME Web Ø Tabbed view is improved Ø Totally updated UI, in keeping with libadwaita and GTK 4 https://www.debugpoint.com/gnome-44/ Just Perfection GNOME Extension What is it? It is an extension which provides easy access to GNOME Shell tweaks, and every time GNOME releases a new version, you can expect a corresponding version bump in Just Perfection as well, to keep up with the API changes. v More adjustability for dash icon sizes, in 8 steps from 16-64 px v Switcher popup delay Ø Allows the user to remove or reduce the delay between Alt+Tab or Ctrl+Alt+Tab and when the popup appears, making the desktop feel more responsive. v Random bits and bobs Ø Ability to disable the indicators for screen sharing and screen recording Ø Fast animation speed now a possibility https://linuxiac.com/just-perfection-23-gnome-shell-extension/ #TTT #GNOME #GNOME44 #justperfection #tweaks #updates #comingsoon #TechFreedom #FOSSnews 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer #Truth

Best FOSS Alternatives to Apple Contacts GPARTed News Free Your Internet Ardour 7.3 Released #TTT #techtips #Linux #bts #alternatives #FOSS #gparted #ardour #linuxaudio #TechFreedom #FOSSnews TTT 47.1 – FOSS Alternatives for Apple Contacts 1. KAddressBook a. This is a default KDE app i. Basic storage for contact details ii. Syncs with 1. Nextcloud, Kolab, MS Exchange, Google Contacts, and anything else that uses the CardDav standard 2. CardBook a. Part of Thunderbird i. Syncs with both CardDav and vCard systems 3. Contacts a. GNOME standard app i. Similar features to the other two, more simplified, modern UI 4. Evolution a. GNOME email, contacts, and calendar app i. Think Thunderbird goes GNOME, pretty, functional So, a handful of FOSS options, and depending on your use case, any or all of them could work just fine for you. If you really like the Apple UI, the GNOME based options will probably be more up your alley. https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-alternatives-apple-contacts/ #TTT #alternatives #contacts #FOSS #applealts #Linux #TechFreedom #FOSSnews TTT 47.2 – What’s New in GPARTed? Well, if you haven’t used Linux, you probably haven’t thought about partitions, but this is the GNOME Partition editor, which allows you to adjust, erase, and create partitions and logical volumes on your hard drive, SSD, or flash drives in Linux. It is the most common tool used in Linux installers (as it comes standard in Calamares, one of the most ubiquitous GUI based installers). Why would you need to partition your storage media? For one thing, if you want to dual boot with Windoesn’t, MacOS, or another Linux distro on the same system, you’ll need to split up your device into logical areas, which the system will read as essentially separate drives. Aside from that, if you want to experiment with more complex installations (not something I necessarily advocate for), you’ll need at least 3 partitions on the drive (boot, root, home). So, what’s new in this venerable and well-used utility? · Mostly small tweaks o Repair errors when working with exFAT devices o NO more tiny <300 MB XFS partitions o Fixed some issues that Alpine Linux had with FAT16/32 addressing and UUIDs o Fixes some issues with Btrfs o Fixes crashes with large partition copies in NTFS o And other things https://9to5linux.com/gparted-1-5-enables-repair-when-checking-exfat-file-systems #TTT #gparted #partitions #nutsnbolts #Linux #TechFreedom #FOSSnews a. Free Your Internet http://techfreedom.pro/internet-freedom/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TTT #techtips #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft #Truth TTT 47.3 – What’s New in Ardour 7.3? You might be wondering what Ardour is, if you aren’t into audio production. It is a FOSS Digital Audio Workstation, which I use whenever I make a video. What does that mean? A DAW enables low-latency recording and editing, along with the ability to add realtime effects, such as filters, EQ, compression, reverb, and limiters, to make your voice and instruments sound as professional as you are able to make them sound. I believe that it is cross-platform, so even if you are messing around in Windoesn’t, you should be able to use it, for free. So, what’s new in this release? Hopefully a little better stability, as I have seen the current version crash randomly, but other than that: · support for VST3 plugins with multiple I/O busses o allow instrument plugins to have dedicated additional outputs o sample rate independence so that audio hardware sample rate and session sample rate no longer have to match. · UI Updates o Support for search in logical but heretofore absent places § Global Preferences § Session Properties o ability to reverse the polarity of an audio region o working undo/redo in the recording page (hallelujah) o ability to directly use the MIDI tracer on physical MIDI ports. · Coming AVX512 support in 7.4 · Other Stuff o Quick Export dialog to sort range markers by time o ability to check all channel configurations before exporting o tapping tempo with a MIDI keyboard o Can now group system ports by a common prefix (e.g. by device) o Plugin Setup dialog will now limit options to “stereo” and “all” when loading a plugin with more than two outputs A solid couple of months’ work, I think. Some of these don’t mean much for my purposes, but others will be YUGE. Take a look if you want to record something in any kind of serious way. https://9to5linux.com/ardour-7-3-open-source-daw-released-with-vst3-multi-bus-support-searchable-preferences #TTT #FOSS #linuxaudio #audioproduction #FOSS #ardour #updates #Linux #crossplatform #TechFreedom #FOSSnews a. 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://tv.gab.com/channel/tech_freedom/view/10-things-about-tech-freedom-62b3387f34496b1f6de87b82 #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer #parallelEconomy #parallelSociety #shopongab #growwithgab #smallbusiness

Folder? Directory? What the hell? How to Switch Directories Free Your Internet How to Make a New Directory TTT 48.1 – Why All the Directories? Aren’t They Just Folders? Were you confused by the change in terms? Don’t feel bad about it, when I thought about it until recently, I was too. Why are folders called directories in *Nix operating systems? Let’s find out, shall we? What’s the difference between a folder and a directory in real life? A folder is simply a container for other smaller items. A directory (think of a phone book, or something along those lines) is a repository of sorts for various datapoints: names, addressses, phone numbers, etc. They do slightly different things, and are slightly different metaphorically. So, where does the directory thing come from in *Nix? It is something that got inherited from Unix, and that is because in Unix, a directory really is just an index pointing to where the contents of your files actually are, rather than actually containing said files, as in a Windows Folder. Functionally, they do the same things, but are different when the rubber meets the road, so to speak. As you learn Linux or other *Nix OSes, it will be helpful to keep the term directory in mind, particularly if you are doing things in the terminal or command line environment, as those center around the directory terminology. Why did Windows and MacOS start calling them folders instead? Perhaps because it was a useful and familiar metaphor, once we started moving to GUI environments. It is simply a good way to visualize things that wasn’t as abstract as directories and indexes. https://itsfoss.com/folder-directory-linux/ #TTT #alternatives #contacts #FOSS #applealts #Linux #TechFreedom #FOSSnews TTT 48.2 – How do you navigate amongst directories in *Nix? I could just say well, use the CD command, but that isn’t quite all there is to it. Let’s consider this. If you just type cd, it will ask you for an argument. What is an argument in programming? It is a phrase which tells the computer what to do that command to, and where it is. So, if you want to change directories in the terminal, you have to know what the path is to the directory you want to navigate to. What is a path, in Linux? A path is simply how to get wherever the directory or file you want to access is in your given file system. Think of this as knowing the Dewey decimal number for a book you need at the library, then you have to know how to find that number, that is the path. Without the path, the system doesn’t know where to look for the file or directory you want to navigate to. I’ll show you an example on my own computer. There are two kinds of paths in *Nix file systems: absolute paths and relative paths. An absolute path starts from the root and goes all the way out to the directory in question. A relative path starts from wherever you currently are in the file system to wherever you want to go. That said, cd by itself will simply take you to the Home directory on that machine. Relative paths would take you from say your user’s home directory to Documents or Videos by simply typing Documents or Videos. The absolute path route will go something like this /home/user/Home/Documents/stuff , so it starts with the slash. A couple of pro tips though, if you want a shorthand way to tell it to start wherever you are in the file system, just type cd ./path/to/where/you/want/to/go. The ./ is key here. If you want to navigate up 1 level in the system, then go wherever ../wherever/you/want/to/go. If you want to see what is in the directory where you currently are, simply type ls and it will give you a readout of the directories and files present in that directory. Be very careful with how you type things out, as Linux is CaSe SenSItive. For example, Downloads is not the same as downloads. Stay focused on typing the path correctly, then you will be able to navigate quickly. Also, if you drag and drop a directory from your file manager, it will give you the full path there in the terminal. That somewhat defeats the purpose of this exercise, but if it works, don’t knock it, https://itsfoss.com/change-directories/ #TTT #changedirectories #howto #nutsnbolts #Linux #TechFreedom #FOSSnews a. Free Your Internet http://techfreedom.pro/internet-freedom/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TTT #techtips #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft #Truth TTT 48.3 – How to Make a New Directory in Linux via the Terminal The simple thing to do is to explore the mkdir command. That is what we will do now, since you are now an adept at navigating through the Linux file system with the cd command in all its glory... The thing that we need to keep in mind though, is what is where in the Linux file structure, so I will put the Linux directory system cheat sheet up beside the terminal window for this segment of the show. So what is mkdir? It is the command which will enable you to create a directory of your choice wherever you happen to be at the moment in the file system. The basic syntax goes like this: mkdir dir_name (replace whatever is after the space with a name of your choosing). Et viola: you have a brand new directory with the name you chose, in whichever other directory where you were to begin with. Is there more to it than that? You betcha. If you want to move around in directories before you pick your spot, refer back to the tutorial we just did on the cd command. If you want to go back to your personal home directory, just type cd (with nothing after it). Once there, you can choose to drill down a level, perhaps in to Documents, or simply start a new directory there in your home’s root directory. Pick a name for your new directory, then type mk_dir playtime (or something like that) and it will make that directory for you. All you will have to do in order to see it in the terminal is to run the ls command. Then you can cd into your new directory, and we will move on. Here’s where it starts to get interesting, making multiple directories on the same level or even nesting them. Here’s how you make multiple directories at once: mkdir dir1 dir2 dir3 (change the names as you see fit once more) and you will have new directories inside of your first one in your home directory. If you want to make nested directories, the easiest way to do that is to use the –p variable like this: mkdir –p /yada/yada/yada (which will make a new directory called yada, then make a directory called yada within it, then another called yada nested within ./yada/yada . If that sounds like Greek to you, don’t feel bad, you’re just getting started on this journey. How can you make a subdirectory within a directory you are not currently accessing? Use the –p variable just as I just explained. These were the basics of the mkdir command. https://itsfoss.com/make-directories/ #TTT #FOSS #Linux #terminaltips #mkdir #directories #filestructure #howto #FOSS #TechFreedom #FOSSnews a. 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer https://rumble.com/v2blbdm-memesplanation-short-march-7-2023.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y

TTT 50.1 & 2– Shocking Plasma Updates? KDE 5.27.3 Out Now... What’s New? Just two weeks after the last update, comes the new latest: what is new here? · Night Color for ARM devices · Plasma Wayland o SDDM login touch capabilities improved, to match with Frameworks 5.104 § Tap the OSK button to open keyboard, and swipe through to your desired layout by scrolling with your fingertip o Screencasting § No more red/blue channel swapping § Clipboard history now allows copy with one action, smoothing workflows § Fix to some apps crashing when display goes to sleep · 15 minute sleep timeout · Correctly generates power profiles for convertibles · Fixed powerdevil crash on multi-display systems · Theming fixes for GTK apps · Multi-monitor icon placement hijinks patched but not 100% fixed · Many smaller things as well... https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-5-27-3-enables-night-light-on-arm-devices-that-dont-support-gamma-luts KDE Frameworks 5.104 Out Now What’s new here? Admittedly, I missed this one when I was writing for last week, would have loved to cover it, but it wasn’t out for me to say anything about at the time of last week’s writing. · SDDM works better for touch now o not that I’ll see this benefit for a while, as I just switched back to Manjaro, which lags behind the bleeding edge for the purpose of doing its own testing · Plasma Wayland o KDE app windows remember size better in multi-monitor rigs o Regression which caused Baloo to crash frequently · Major crashes with task manager thumbnails fixed · Also improves Dolphin o No more hang when displaying metadata on .mobi files · Improvements to the “Get New” system when hunting for add-ons and extensions · Many more small bugs were squished https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-5-104-further-improves-plasma-wayland-and-touchscreen-support #TTT #arch #Linux #troubleshooting #howto #FOSS #TechFreedom #FOSSnews Was my title misleading or clickbaity? You tell me in the comments. Free Your Internet http://techfreedom.pro/internet-freedom/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TTT #techtips #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft #Truth TTT 50.3 – Latest News in LibreOffice What’s new? Well, over 70 bugs got squished, so that is a big deal, and they have clearly been working hard over the last month and a half since 7.4.5. If you can update to the 7.5 series, do that as soon as you can. I covered the release of 7.5 when it happened last month. However, if you are still using the 7.4 series, and don’t have the option or desire to upgrade to the 7.5 series yet, the current series will be supported until June 12 of this year. https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-7-4-6-office-suite-released-with-more-than-70-bug-fixes-download-now #TTT #FOSS #Linux #crossplatform #libreoffice #updates #TechFreedom #FOSSnews a. 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

TTT 51.1 – Ever wanted to save and apply your desktop settings easily? Now you can, with SaveDesktop. This only works for GNOME forked desktop environments, though, as KDE is a bit more involved than a 5 step process. It is quite easy and simple for the GNOME family of desktops, from GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon, OG Cosmic, Pantheon, and MATE, to Budgie, with this easy, GUI based tool. Step 1: install SaveDesktop to your machine Step 2: open app Step 3: save your desktop config Step 4: import saved archive Step 5: Restored desktop settings https://news.itsfoss.com/savedesktop/ With KDE, it is more involved, unfortunately, though if you choose to use an app like DejaDup, you can do a similar process, as long as you make sure to back up the hidden .config file in your home directory. If you follow the directions shown in the article below, you should be home free, so to speak. 1. Install DejaDup 2. Open DejaDup 3. Click the plus sign to add a backup 4. Navigate to your home/user/.config directory 5. Tell it how often to back it up, and where to put the backup When you want to restore those settings, say after a clean install, here’s what you do: 1. Open DejaDup 2. Click Storage Location 3. Let DejaDup search for the files wherever you saved them (could even *ideally* be on a network storage drive) 4. Select the backed up files you want to restore 5. Click Restore 6. Restart your computer 7. All should be as you desire, at least according to the backup you picked https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/backup-kde-plasma-5-desktop-linux/ #TTT #SaveDesktop #GNOME #forks #KDE #DejaDup #Linux #restoresettings #FOSSNews #TechFreedom TTT 51.2 – UB Touch 25 OTA Out Now for you Linux Mobile Devotees What is Ubuntu Touch? It is a project that was originally set up by Cannonical about 12 years ago, just as Android was really taking off. This was in the heady days when the industry as a whole dreamed big, and the dream they dreamed was one of convergence between mobile and desktop computing experiences, and Unity was the way forward for Ubuntu as a whole. Ubuntu Touch is the grandaddy of Linux mobile. It still uses Lomiri (a descendant of Unity) as its UI of choice. It has been on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for over 5 years, and this release will be their last on that version. Starting in OTA 26 (due out in a couple of months), they will move onto 20.04 LTS. Hopefully that will help it to shake many of its nagging problems as well, and bring it closer to being daily driver ready. What is new in this release, though? · Notifications fixes: o emblem counters for the Dialer and Messaging apps o persistent notifications when the urgency status is set to critical o other improvements to notifications · on-screen keyboard vibration optimization on Volla Phone devices · Random bugs squished: o race condition in the XdgWatcher component o an indefinitely discoverable bluebinder issue o a bug with favorites in the Dialer app o an issue with Pickers not visible when using the Suru Dark theme · Under-the-hood stuff: o QtWebEngine 5.15.12 o Code cleanup was done by moving qtbase’s Jenkinsfile and ubports.source_location file to the debian/ directory. · Improved system-update to show series in the channel selector · And more https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-touch-ota-25-arrives-on-march-24th-as-the-last-one-based-on-ubuntu-16-04 #TTT #UBTouch #Linuxmobile #updates #FOSS #TechFreedom #FOSSnews Free Your Internet http://techfreedom.pro/internet-freedom/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TTT #techtips #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft #Truth TTT 51.3 – NordVPN App Now Fully FOSS The folks at Nord have chosen to really commit to transparency, and have open-sourced the Linux version of two of their key features/apps. Wow. That is a pretty big deal now you could fork their apps and have a fly front-end for your personal VPN, along with the community being able to help them make it better as a whole. That is huge. IF they are truly as no-log as they say, then this is even bigger, and I might even suggest you use them. It would be interesting to have one of my buddies comb through those codebases then have him tell us about it, wouldn’t it? Let’s see, shall we? Do you guys think this is a good move? Does it help you have a bit more peace? Is Nord as good as they try to say they are? I have never tried them, so I cannot speak from experience, here, and the reviews seem mixed at best. Do your research, and just because something is FOSS doesn’t mean that the service you connect to with it is worth your money. Be careful. https://news.itsfoss.com/nordvpn-linux-open-source/ #TTT #FOSS #Linux #crossplatform #nord #nordVPN #TechFreedom #FOSSnews a. 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer

TTT 52.1 – Running Ubuntu? Here’s Another Reminder to Keep it Updated Well, Canonical has released a new round of CVE (Critical Vulnerability Exploit) Patches, so run your updates to close these 9 attack surfaces down for your machine: · CVE 2022-2196 o Could leave your VMs open to leaking private data from either the host or a fellow guest OS · CVE-2022-42328andCVE-2022-42329 o Which are both race conditions in the Xen networking backend and could cause the kernel to crash § What’s a race condition? · A situation where two drivers are trying to access the same resource at the same time, and do not get scheduled properly by the kernel and it causes problems, often a denial of service (crash, etc) · CVE-2023-0266 o a use-after-free vulnerability discovered in the ALSA subsystem that could allow a local attacker to crash the system by causing a denial of service · CVE-2023-0469 o a use-after-free vulnerability discovered in the io_uring subsystem · CVE-2023-1195 o another user-after-free vulnerability found in the CIFS network file system. Both vulnerabilities could allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service (system crash) or execute arbitrary code · CVE-2022-4382 o A race condition in the USB Gadget file system implementation, which could lead to a use-after-free vulnerability in some situations and allow a local attacker to crash the system by causing a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code · CVE-2023-0045 o a flaw in the prctl syscall implementation that made the kernel fail to protect against indirect branch prediction attacks and allowed a local attacker to expose sensitive information · CVE-2023-23559 o an integer overflow vulnerability found in the RNDIS USB driver that could allow a local attacker with physical access to cause a denial of service (system crash) or execute arbitrary code by plugging in a malicious USB device https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-22-10-users-get-new-linux-kernel-security-update-9-vulnerabilities-patched #TTT #patches #ubuntu #security #Linux #PSA #FOSSNews #TechFreedom TTT 52.2 – UB Touch OTA-1 Out Now for you Linux Mobile Devotees Wow, I just talked about OTA 25 last week, and the devs shocked us with the first rebased OTA update already... Welcome to Focal Fossa, everyone. What else is new with this surprise (limited) release? Which devices is it currently available for? · Devices o Fairphone 4 o Google Pixel 3a o Vollaphone 22 o Vollaphone X o Vollaphone · New Stuff o Focal Fossa LTS o Lomiri UI o The systemd init system o Ayatana Indicators o Waydroid o a new porting style for device porters o support for building many components against GCC 12 and Qt 5.15 LTS · Improvements o fix for an issue when trying to mute the phone’s microphone during phone calls o a fix for a context menu issue in the Morph Browser o fixes for various issues when receiving MMS messages. o XWayland integration o support for running legacy X11 apps on Lomiri, o support for PIN codes between 4 and 12 digits o updates broadband provider data o adds support for USB-C USB-PD o improves PAM/logind integration o and refreshes various Lomiri effects. · New o Morph Browser § received hardware-accelerated video decoding with support for up to 2K video playback and video chat support o Camera app § supports barcode reading o Messaging app § now lets you zoom in on conversation text using a pinch and spread gesture, and the Addressbook app now lets users add notes for a contact and a URL address https://9to5linux.com/first-ubuntu-touch-ota-release-based-on-ubuntu-20-04-lts-is-out-now #TTT #UBTouch #Linuxmobile #updates #FOSS #TechFreedom #FOSSnews Free Your Internet http://techfreedom.pro/internet-freedom/ One-stop shop for getting you and your business transitioned off of Big Tech online platforms and tools, so that you have control of your data once again. I will also help you to find better alternatives. #TTT #techtips #TechFreedom #internetfreedom #nogoogle #nometa #noyahoo #nomicrosoft #Truth TTT 52.3 – Ventoy 1.0.90 With Support for Even More Stuff The boys and girls on the Ventoy team have expanded support even further by adding updated LibreElec and Chimera Linux to their repertoire. That means that the easiest USB/SD Card/ external storage bootable media creation and management solution that much better. If you ever https://9to5linux.com/ventoy-1-0-90-adds-support-for-libreelec-11-0-and-chimera-linux #TTT #FOSS #Linux #crossplatform #ventoy #multiusb #TechFreedom #FOSSnews a. 10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom. https://rumble.com/v19elx6-10-things-about-tech-freedom.html?mref=2jfr3&mc=anr3y #TechFreedom #wifeysauce #getfree #explainer