no the user is not insane, there really was a command named “last” which displays the last logged in users or the last boots and reboots was removed from Debian13 and replaced by entirely different program that needs to be […]
it’s the same old same old problem X-D WARNING! BACKUP ALL DATA BEFORE TRYING THIS EXPERIMENTAL WAY OF GETTING REALTEK WIFI ADAPTERS TO WORK FOR DEBIAN 13 😀 strange enough, there is no apt package (yet) hostnamectl Operating System: Debian […]
why have one package management system if the user can have 3x 4x 5x? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APT_(software) https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt.git to keep it simple imho it would be better to use only one “one to rule em all” (maybe python pip as exception) https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/a364ii/proscons_of_snap_vs_apt/ […]
“A Flash Player emulator written in Rust ” this is PRETTY cool yes html + javascript basically decimated the use of the FlashPlayer but flash had some strong points: java like language flexible % layouts were easy to make still […]
but this one has this one has too but it’s slow most mirrors have https ssl tls enabled but throw a “cert not valid warning” # in order to use apt over https apt install apt-transport-https cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb https://ftp.byfly.by/debian/ […]
how to install GNU Linux Debian 13 (Trixie) re-tested (2025-02-08) and graphical installer now works 🙂 (thanks all involved) https://chuangtzu.ftp.acc.umu.se/images/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso (sha512sum: 64632b0d93d0aa3b164ecdaa4a0a4882dd58cb018b20a635a49215d56cc00969a9f9d2fc2b01b2188531882e85599cfc1523da68e392fe9a672e218e1e19e787) but this is a weekly build, so the build next week will have a different sha512sum and might […]
update! unfortunately someone screwed up: INSTALL THE BELOW IMG AND NO UPDATES! 🙁 because 2nd nic will stop working 🙁 imho of course ARM is very energy efficient (like 3W?) so it can run for hours from a powerbank so […]
htop has a column called “S” (State) if the state of a process is “Z” (Zombie) that ain’t good htop states: S for sleeping process is waiting for an event to complete, could be I/O completion, a signal, or some […]
WARNING! don’t do this on productive systems! 😀 only on test systems! (it has worked twice before 😀 on 2024-10 on a very used and very fresh Debian 12 but be careful) backup the whole system and all data via […]
echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE x11 <- not wayland yet # remove the settings dir rm -r ~/.ssr # start it from a non-root terminal to get more details: /usr/bin/simplescreenrecorder [libmp3lame @ 0x556275c64000] Specified channel layout ‘2 channels’ is not supported by the […]
sometimes the most simple things are the trickiest X-D the question was, why if shutdown -r now is specified in a script or crontab directly: why won’t the server reboot (to activate newly via updates installed kernel?) the answer: crontab […]
Debian running on ISS “pretty sure that no Windows systems are being used anymore. All/most laptops used by the astronauts have a Linux based operating systems (Debian)” (src: space.stackexchange.com) 2007: Debian: Anatomy of An Open Source Project WARNING! SHOCKING! NO […]
that’s what mankind needs… more advertisement 🙁 *not* well it’s rally not Debian’s fault if GNU Linux is put to bad use by another system…
scroll down to: “how to access user-dev-admin’s home network boxes from anywhere via reverse-ssh-tunnel! :D” ssh tunnel remote deviceD’s port access a device’s port that is only available via a specific machine 😀 or in other words: ssh-tunnel port of […]
git is a complex source code repository management system that completely relies on file transactions this means: there is no running service or open port (except if git-over-ssh is used, all it needs for network multi developer cooperation is a […]
variant1: the most minimalist approach works but imho it is very primitive 🙂 (but it works) variant2: a wee bit better let’s go hostnamectl; # tested with Virtualization: kvm Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-94-generic Architecture: x86-64 # […]
it works now! 😀 THE PENGUIN CAN NOW MEASSURE THE TEMPERATURE! thanks ALL INVOLVED 😀 TIP: it actually has 2x temp sensors 1x meassures inside usb stick 1x meassures with the metal-probe at the end of the cable WARNING! it […]
PyDev enables Eclipse to support Python (and is among the leading tools for Python coding) It’s also an open source project created by Aleks Totic in 2003 and kept going by Fabio Zadrozny since 2005 The latest release of PyDev […]
ssh next to https (TLS/SSL) is probably THE most essential building block of secure (unhacked) open source networked computing. CVE-2023-48795 is a (wo)man-in-the-middle-attack, so an attacker would have to sit on the same network (LAN) or somewhere between ssh client […]
software minimalism & audio interface minimalism: to make management of audio interfaces easier, disable those the user does not use a lot of monitors are hdmi connected that can also transport audio signal but a lot of the build-in speakers […]
“os-prober is disabled with the grub 2.06 upload, which is obviously a bit controversial and the outcome is not necessarily in the best interest of our users” “os-prober is inherently insecure as it mounts all partitions on your disk using […]
scientists predict human leven AI by 2047 ChatGPT says 2035 https://www.nomic.ai/gpt4all so DON’T HOLD THE BREATH What is GPT4All-J?: An Apache-2 Licensed Assistant-Style Chatbot What is Mistral Orca? https://huggingface.co/ “The AI community building the future.” “The platform where the machine […]
the user knows, here the user get’s only the tested howtos that truly work and save a massive amount of time, trying out all the non-working howtos X-D what is mongodb (written in C++, JavaScript, Python) In 2013, 10gen changed […]
rawtherapee.com is an awesome corss OS photo-picture-post-processing program (THANKS ALL INVOLVED! :D) “raw image converter and digital photo processor” “RawTherapee is an advanced program for developing raw photos and for processing non-raw photos. It is non-destructive, makes use of OpenMP, supports […]
This is actually VERY usefull to find files that waste disk space. lsb_release -a; # tested on Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) the solution: czkawka_cli install rust like this (no need to install rust as root) install […]
How to upgrade from Debian 11 to Debian 12 update from Debian 11 to Debian 12: please note that major release updates are prone to problems. for the savest way to upgrade: keep data sepearte from programs and reinstall. on […]
why? because it would be a shame to put all those intel Macs to the trash not particularly big fan of the aluminum bodies (uses loads of energy to make also not healthy to be touched daily) but they surely […]
if the spice tools are installed, clipboard sharing between host and guest (copy & pasting text and even images (!)) should (!) work 😀 What is not working virtualbox-easy-style (yet) is easy-host-to-guest-and-vice-versa-file-transfer (which IS VERY ANNOYING (RedHat are you listening? […]
The Flashplayer was a (unfortunately closed source, why not release the source NOW? Adobe? 😀) runtime binary to enhance multimedial capabilites of the browser THE FIRST possibility to stream videos inside the browser (youtube once used flash, now they shifted […]
Hello data travelers, cudos to the palemoon.org project, an excellent fork of Mozilla Firefox (migration is a breeze, even the hotkeys & shortcuts are the same like ALT+D “select address bar”). strange thing: when starting palemoon via mozo (excellent program! […]