Building a secure torrent download station by combining Private Internet Access (PIA), OpenVPN and transmission through docker
https://snikt.net/blog/2019/08/05/building-a-secure-torrent-download-station-by-combining-private-internet-access-pia-openvpn-and-transmission-through-docker/

https://redd.it/cmb6zg
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LibreSSL 3.0.0 Released
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=156500965928485&w=2

https://redd.it/cmbpn2
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What is a common way to rescue a partition from a hard disk with bad sectors?

I have a hard disk with partition A and partition B

Partition A has bad sectors

I want to rescue partition B but because of bad sectors in A, the entire hard disk is unable to be read.

dd_rescue?

dd_image?

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App Grid in GNOME Shell – Georges Stavracas
https://feaneron.com/2019/08/05/app-grid-in-gnome-shell/

https://redd.it/cmd36d
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With more AMD CPU desktop sales, can we expect more AMD laptops?

There have been [lots of stories](https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2019/04/09/amds-ryzen-5-2600-outsells-every-other-desktop-cpu-as-intel-loses-market-share/#1b29da63356b) in the news about AMD dramatically outselling Intel CPUs on the desktop. I'm jonesing for an AMD laptop, and while I'd be happy with a 17 " [Dell Inspiron 3000](https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/new-inspiron-17-3000-laptop/spd/inspiron-17-3785-laptop/NNlok7am204s), I wonder if I were to hold out until Christmas if there would be more options available.

The Dell is nice, but a little more power like a Ryzen 7 would be great, but those seem to be limited to gaming laptops that are a little too over powered (and expensive) for me.

So do you think we will see more Ryzen laptops in the near future?

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Program-specific xbindkeys bindings.
https://gist.github.com/oltodosel/a6ad22ce85bb40018a8af4de41a6612b

https://redd.it/cmde51
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Let's talk about the elephant in the room - the Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/4/15

https://redd.it/cmg48b
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The state of OLED brightness on Linux

I bought myself a laptop with an OLED-panel (XPS 7590), unbeknownst that brightness adjustment actually isn't supported in Linux.

This is something that I can live with, the xrandr hack is working fine, although with a caveat, which is reduced color depth at low brightness.

But I'm very curious to why this has been the case for so long, and why I can't seem to find any mailing lists or ongoing discussions around this fundamental flaw. OLED has been out for a while now, and laptops with OLED is starting to become commonplace, at least in the high-end market. It would be terribly disappointing for many Linux users to find out that their fancy new laptop is lacking something as basic and essential as screen brightness control.

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The FUTURE of Computing Performance - CoreTeks on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=qZ7CeYF6jLE&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D3PjNgRWmv90%26feature%3Dshare

https://redd.it/cmh0wu
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Found a Linux user in the wild
https://redd.it/cmizub
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App for tracking computer usage??

looking for something that monitors which apps are being focused and for how long, only found "thyme" (which is not maintained) and two big enterprise solutions.

https://redd.it/cmke9t
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I want to untar themes and icon packs but apparently I don't have the right permissions. I've tried the terminal method as shown below. I've also tried the GUI method of right click, extract to, other location usr/share/icons with zero luck. How do I get the tar.gz to unpack where I want them to?
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So I tend to lurk and are on the cusp of building my pc

I plan to dual-boot using Majaro and Windows 10. My question is which should I do first so I can access all my files on either OS? I want to use Linux for programming and system maintenance and such. But all the games I want to play work best on Windows plus all the browsers are made for Windows. I just want full control ALL the time

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Improving the appearance of CSD applications in KDE Plasma 5
https://schristiancollins.wordpress.com/2019/08/05/improving-the-appearance-of-csd-applications-in-kde-plasma-5/

https://redd.it/cmoyzj
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File manager nnn v2.6 released with many new features
https://github.com/jarun/nnn/releases/tag/v2.6

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Control grub without keyboard or Mouse
https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/cmq9n7/control_grub_without_keyboard_or_mouse/

https://redd.it/cmqjld
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FreeCAD BIM development news July 2019
https://github.com/yorikvanhavre/BIM_Workbench/wiki/FreeCAD-BIM-development-news-28---July-2019

https://redd.it/cmrnfw
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FFmpeg 4.2 released with AV1 decoding support & more
http://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr4.2

https://redd.it/cmsdo0
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GNOME 3.33.90 released (First 3.34 Beta / Feature/API freeze)
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2019-August/msg00001.html

https://redd.it/cmrmzp
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Interview: Why Canonical views the Snap ecosystem as a compelling distribution-agnostic solution
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-canonical-views-the-snap-ecosystem-as-a-compelling-distribution-agnostic-solution/

https://redd.it/cmse4r
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RockPi and an easy place: Panfrost & Wayland on a Rockchip board

Ongoing work on the reverse-engineered Panfrost OpenGL ES driver for Arm Mali GPUs has turned the RK3399 SoC into a very attractive platform to try out Wayland on ARM devices.

[https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2019/08/06/rockpi-panfrost-wayland/](https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2019/08/06/rockpi-panfrost-wayland/)

https://redd.it/cmueyv
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