Arm Frame Buffer Compression (AFBC) support for Rockchip, coming soon to mainline Linux

Since late 2018, the Mali-DP display drivers, malidp and komeda, have had the ability to use AFBC, and now support for Rockchip (RK3399) is also on its way. While the initial work was done by Rockchip in 2014, it unfortunately wasn't upstreamed. Efforts to provide AFBC support for Rockchip in mainline have recently concluded and the feature is available in drm-misc-next tree.

[https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2020/04/08/adding-mainline-arm-frame-buffer-compression-support-for-rockchip/](https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2020/04/08/adding-mainline-arm-frame-buffer-compression-support-for-rockchip/)

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Open Tech Will Save Us - Virtual Meetup w/ Talks feat. Matrix.org, IPFS and Jitsi. Stream starts in 7 hours.
https://matrix.org/open-tech-meetup/

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How to restore the old Firefox address bar
https://www.ghacks.net/2020/04/08/how-to-restore-the-old-firefox-address-bar/

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My Second Tutorial: Using the Fish Shell in Linux . Finally, a shell for the 90's!
https://gitlab.com/johanmcos/tutorials/-/wikis/Fish-Shell-Cheat-Sheet

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Windows 10 is getting Linux files integration in File Explorer
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/8/21213783/microsoft-windows-10-linux-file-explorer-integration-features

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Jitsi Meet features update, April 2020
https://jitsi.org/news/features-update-april-2020/

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BlackBerry Report Examines Decade-Long Compromise of Linux Servers by Chinese APTs
https://www.blackberry.com/ca/en/company/newsroom/press-releases/2020/blackberry-report-examines-decade-long-compromise-of-linux-servers-by-chinese-apts

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My new laptop don't have drivers for APU and GPU but it's AMD, so...I just wait?

Hello there the beautiful community. First of all I wanna thank you all for giving us the chance to get rid of Windows :) I've bought myself a new laptop MSI Alpha 15.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 - 3750H + Vega10 integrated graphics.
GPU: AMD RX5500m 4gig.
There're no drivers for VEGA10/APU or GPU on AMD website but as far as I know the AMD is pretty open to open source community and has lots of hardware fully comparable with Linux, so...I have yo just wait? Also would that be a good idea to stay with ubuntu/pop\_so over Manjaro, since my hardware isn't supported yet, should I focus of drivers only or the riling release for new kernel with support? Thanks for the answer in advance!

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Community Engagement Challenge launches
https://www.gnome.org/challenge/

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How do you make screen bigger? (sorry noob question, new user) I'm using Xubuntu on a surface pro 6
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Home - /dev/null as a Service
https://devnull-as-a-service.com/

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Found a great article regarding fractional scaling on X.org

[https://ricostacruz.com/til/fractional-scaling-on-xorg-linux](https://ricostacruz.com/til/fractional-scaling-on-xorg-linux)

Instead of scaling up, the writer implies first scaling up on an integer base and scaling down from there. This makes more sense, as it might prevent blurriness in some scenarios.

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NCSA Linux Certifications?

So I have been looking at some Linux certifications and ran across [this](https://www.ncsacademy.com/certification/linux_ubuntu.cfm) one, NCSA Ubuntu. I have never heard of this one, but was wondering if anyone here had experience with NCSA certs. Thoughts?

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Loopfs: a new loop device file system for Linux
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/4/8/506

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Netflix Desktop App

I made a chrome based linux desktop app for Netflix (requires chromium or a chromium based browser)

[https://github.com/Rahul-Imran/chromeFlix](https://github.com/Rahul-Imran/chromeFlix)

All instructions in the readme

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Started using linux in a VM

Found a free course on youtube that's teaching me everything from basic command lines in terminal to using Python. As a future computer information systems student I'm really happy to start learning before I even get to school! This is so fun :) can't wait to learn more.

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The linux Web remote desktop: linux-remote 4 bata has been released.
https://github.com/linux-remote/linux-remote

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I created a tool for automatically authenticating mopidy-spotify with spotify.

I use Spotify to listen to music. It's cheap, it's easy and it works everywhere.

I also wanted to use mopidy + mpc + iris, because I'm a nerd and I want to make my life hard. Also waybar integration. Mainly the first reason, though.

Anyway mopidy works great pretty much out of the box, no problem there. Mopidy-Spotify also seemed to work nicely right away, but then I tried to play some music after a restart. Mopidy was not authorized to actually play any music. I had to reauthenticate and update my mopidy.conf. Annoying to do this on every startup. Shouldn't be hard to write a noscript for this?

Five days later: [https://github.com/JanneSalokoski/msah](https://github.com/JanneSalokoski/msah)


I now have a noscript that starts a firefox window, controls it navigating over to Mopidy-Spotify-authentication page and proceeds with the authentication over on spotify. The noscript reads outputted client\_id and client\_secret, gets sudo access and updates mopidy.conf. It also waits exactly one (1) second before restarting mopidy. It just wouldn't work without...


I learned loads of new things while creating this noscript. Many I wouldn't have wanted to learn, but now I know. Lucky for you, you don't have to learn everything yourself, since I wanted to share this program with you. Or then I maybe just wanted to share my troubles with everyone.


Anyway here you have my final product. A tool for authenticating mopidy on spotify, so you save a few clicks if you go through the trouble of installing my tool.

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Razer laptops now have native keyboard backlight control under Linux

TLDR; Razer uses some odd proprietary way to control keyboard brightness via software that only works under Linux. My project I've been working on for a while finally allows for easy configurable keyboard brightness control

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This has been a 3 month journey to get to this point. Razer uses a very strange way of controlling the keyboard backlight on their keyboards, such that even Windows does not recognize it like it does for thinkpad keyboards, no keyboard backlight control without synapse under windows.

So I'm pretty happy that I finally worked on this, but essentially managed to expose a sysfs file in /sys/class/leds/ that now allows for KDE and Gnome to see the keyboard backlight as a 'normal' keyboard backlight, and can control the keyboard backlight natively depending on what i set in power management for AC or battery power.

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Demo video of this working with KDE:
[https://youtu.be/9HrKqD5xZVU](https://youtu.be/9HrKqD5xZVU)

Project link (the testing code is in the procfs\_test branch):
[https://github.com/rnd-ash/razer-laptop-control](https://github.com/rnd-ash/razer-laptop-control)

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Feedback is welcome from any devs here (I reckon my codebase is seriously messy and needs work).

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I do eventually hope to mainline this some day!

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Why you want a Linux bootloader even on UEFI systems
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/WhyBootloaderOnUEFI

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Not-actually Linux distro review: FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/not-actually-linux-distro-review-freebsd-12-1-release/

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