Girens a GTK Plex Media Player client just released version 1.1.0

I'm creating a GTK Plex Media Player called [Girens](https://gitlab.gnome.org/tijder/girens). That can be installed as a flatpak from [flathub](https://flathub.org/apps/details/nl.g4d.Girens). There are more Plex clients that can be used on Linux. For example the Plex website and the Plex media Player. Those Plex clients are lacking functions which I like to have. For example: a responsive layout (so you can use it on a small screen), function to download media items to the device and GTK+ is awesome.

Version 1.1.0 has many bug fixes and the following things added:

* Plex token saved with Secret Service
* Advertise as Client on the local network
* Add option to play media without transcoding (direct play)
* About dialog added
* Shortcut dialog added
* Fix crash when playing media

If you have some suggestions or found a bug let me know here or create an issue on [Gitlab](https://gitlab.gnome.org/tijder/girens/issues).

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Concept Art with Krita by Ramon Miranda
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I'm making an open source search engine called Liberch. It used DuckDuckGo to find sites, but uses its own ranking algorithm and becomes less reliant on DDG over time.
https://liberch.com

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Zsync HTTP-based File Transfer Utility Transfers Large Files Efficiently
https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/11/21/zsync-http-based-file-transfer-utility/

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Change/Replace Kubuntu by Fedora-KDE (Custom)

Hi, guys.

I want to change/replace my current distro, Kubuntu, by Fedora-KDE. My system has three partitions: (/), /home and /swap, so all I want/need is to change the partition (/). I couldn't find any guides or tutorials to do this. In everything I've seen or read, they always do the installation automatically from scratch; it's pretty rare to find guides or tutorials to replace distros.

In the little I've seen, the installation interface is quite different from Ubuntu/Kubuntu, which is where I come from. There's a video that's quite close, but the process gave me a couple of extra doubts: what is the LVM partition scheme (I've never seen it in Kubuntu) and what is it, what it's for and what does the /boot partition do? What is the ideal/recommended size of the /boot partition?

Another thing to point out, is that I'm going to do the installation via DVD ISO Image, 'cause I just have one USB drive right now and I need it to back up my /home for precaution.

The latter has to do with the integration of my /home and /swap partitions. How do I ensure that they are well integrated with my new (/) Fedora partition?

If you know of guides/tutorials, please share the links with me. Or if anyone would like to respond with a step-by-step answer to do this, you will be welcome.

Thank you.

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US Student Allegedly Building Gentoo Linux Platform for ISIS
https://viraltube.my/watch?v=dMRD3dWRfbo

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System76 Will Start Designing And Building Its Own Linux Laptops Beginning January 2020
https://www.linux4everyone.com/18-system76-superfan-special

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Zorin OS 15 Lite is Here: Breathe New Life into your Old Computers
https://zoringroup.com/blog/2019/11/20/zorin-os-15-lite-is-here-breathe-new-life-into-your-old-computers/

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AWS promotional credits for open source projects
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/aws-promotional-credits-open-source-projects/

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Searching Through All systemd Unit Files for a String
https://medium.com/@trstringer/searching-through-all-systemd-unit-files-for-a-string-1966f04010b1

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Windows and Linux

In what ways do you think _using_ windows is better than using Linux?

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GNU Readline Library cheatsheet for VI+Emacs Editing Modes
https://gnureadline-reference.herokuapp.com/

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Weekend Fluff / Linux in the Wild Thread - November 22, 2019

Welcome to the weekend! This stickied thread is for you to post pictures of your ubuntu 2006 install disk, slackware floppies, on-topic memes or more.

When it's not the weekend, be sure to check out r/WildLinuxAppears or r/linuxmemes!

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Plasma Mobile weekly update: Phone calls work in progress on PinePhone, Application updates
https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2019/11/22/Plasma-Mobile-Weekly-update-7-8.html

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The Librem 5 has been “shipping” for a month—but not to backers | Arstechnica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/the-librem-5-has-been-shipping-for-a-month-but-not-to-backers/

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Linux Academy Black Friday sale is ON!
https://linuxacademy.com/pricing/individual/

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This is where an intel HD630 will beat an nVidia RTX2080

Participated in a development project where 4 real-time 1080p streams had to be re-encoded on a NUC sized device. It's obviously not possible on CPU in this case so GPU rendering was my first thought. The intel Iris GPU in the NUC handled 4 decoding and 4 encoding sessions without any issues flawlessly in real time.

Then I was playing around with an nVidia GT1030 in another machine which must be even better - one would thought - but it turned out that actually no, it doesn't have the necessary nvenc hardware. Then I found this: [https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-decode-gpu-support-matrix](https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-decode-gpu-support-matrix)

So GPU rendering (nvenc) is simply not possible on anything below the GTX1050 but the real surprise is that nVidia limits concurrent sessions on all consumer cards, be it a GTX1650 or an RTX2080. You'd think that it is because of the nvenc hw chip but if you look at the GTX1060 or the Titan V for example you see that it's not the case.

So what does it all mean?

To be fair the nvenc hardware is much faster on the nvidia cards compared to intel HD, so if you are going to encode a 2 hour movie it is the better choice. But if you'd like to use the GPU to encode 3-4 (or even more) real-time streams it's simply not possible even with the most powerful consumer nvidia card.

I tried it on my HTPC (i3-7100, HD630, 2x 4GB 2133 DDR4, Manjaro KDE and no dGPU) and it handled the 4 streams (screen capture via vaapi in this case) without any issues. Tried it with 5 concurrent captures as well but there were some frame drops on one of them due to the unusually high memory bandwith, the GPU was far from being overloaded (around 70% utilization). With 4 streams there were no drops, and power consumption was below 6W.

So this is where an HD630 will beat an RTX2080 :)

(on the terminal tab #1 is htop, tab #2 is intel gpu tools, tab #3-6 are the ffmpeg captures via vaapi, #6 being what has been uploaded).

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NFSv4 with only one open port
https://peteris.rocks/blog/nfs4-single-port/

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Why don't Debian/Ubuntu default to debdelta?

So if I understood correctly, Fedora and OpenSUSE will normally only download those files of a package which actually changed. This implementation seems like a no-brainer to me, but debdelta as an apt equivalent is not only abandoned, it's not even in the Ubuntu repo.

Does anyone have the insight why that is?

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BIOS Fast Boot option

I only use Arch Linux, no dual boot. Does Fast Boot option in BIOS settings still matter or it's only relevant for Windows?

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PrivateInternetAccess, a privacy-focused VPN provider, and huge contributor to many open-source projects (KDE, Blender, GNOME, Krita, freenode...) is merging with Kape, a company well known for exploiting user data and distributing deceiptive, privacy-threatening software.
https://old.reddit.com/r/PrivateInternetAccess/comments/dz2w53/our_merger_with_kape_technologies_addressing_your/

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