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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.

https://redd.it/fx553x
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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?

https://redd.it/fxa0al
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Loopfs: a new loop device file system for Linux
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/4/8/506

https://redd.it/fxltj4
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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

https://redd.it/fx9u36
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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.

https://redd.it/fxno5e
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The linux Web remote desktop: linux-remote 4 bata has been released.
https://github.com/linux-remote/linux-remote

https://redd.it/fxojgc
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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.

https://redd.it/fxpp42
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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

https://redd.it/fxqztv
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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/

https://redd.it/fxrto7
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Managing Podman pods with pods-compose
https://balagetech.com/managing-podman-pods-with-pods-compose/

https://redd.it/fxrnqf
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BlackBerry researchers say China-affiliated groups have infiltrated Linux systems for years
https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/china-affiliated-groups-have-infiltrated-linux-systems-for-years-according-to-blackberry-researchers/429457

https://redd.it/fxuqyr
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System76 Lemur Pro is now available to order ($1,099+, open source firmware -Coreboot and EC)
https://system76.com/laptops/lemur?utm_medium=social_post&utm_term=LemurLaunch2020&utm_content=LemurProLaunch&utm_campaign=social

https://redd.it/fxvc48
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[opensuse-announce] Bringing Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise closer together
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-announce/2020-04/msg00000.html

https://redd.it/fxw0az
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trofi's blog: GCC 10 in Gentoo
https://trofi.github.io/posts/213-gcc-10-in-gentoo.html

https://redd.it/fxyljx
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ww - watch, but better

I have been using this snippet as a way of `watch`ing things in a terminal for some time and found it incredible useful. Have posted it to Github in case anyone else also finds a use for it.

In a nutshell, it is `watch`, but with inotify (i.e. file-watching) support, shell alias support, one highlighting support and a few other bits. For my style of working, just makes it way more productive in little things.

https://github.com/jtyers/ww

https://redd.it/fxpozs
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The end of the Linux Action Show/News
https://twitter.com/ChrisLAS/status/1248341347980853248?s=19

https://redd.it/fy0sri
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Simula: A VR window manager for Linux
https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula

https://redd.it/fy0op8
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Was cleaning out my bedroom and found an old Ubuntu install disk. Probably circa 2005? Was using Suse out of college in 2003. Switched to Ubuntu a couple years later, then to Debian after the Cannocial/ Microsoft partnership. I've played with other distros. What is your distro journey?
https://redd.it/fy1tsh
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The story of how I created a way to port Windows Apps to Linux
https://www.blinkingcaret.com/2020/04/09/the-story-of-how-i-created-a-way-to-port-windows-apps-to-linux/

https://redd.it/fy35od
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