GNOME 40 Will Now Handle XWayland On-Demand By Default
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1673

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I legit HATE the auto-moderation here!

Like how goddamn long does the post have to be? Four and a half lines is considered “short” somehow? What IS the minimum length? Why is trying to be concise punished? Who thought that was a great idea?
Is there anyway around this WITHOUT having to pad the stupid post out for no other reason than to try and avoid a nebulous “minimum”?
This sort of crap is what irritates me with Reddit lol.

“you are doing that too much. try again in 11 minutes”
YES YOU DUMB Fk BECAUSE YOUR BRAINLESS BOT JUST REMOVED MY LAST POST!!!
Ughhhhhhhhh!!!

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Great new features coming to rpm-ostree
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/MQWBKRFCYH2GB3CW5CG722RGQAEPHHAN/

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The Linux Foundation launches 7-part open source management training program
https://planetstoryline.com/the-linux-foundation-launches-7-part-open-source-management-training-program/

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Hardware video acceleration now available in google chrome 88

In builds of chromium/chrome 88 or later hardware video acceleration is available (not enabled) by default. One toggle is currently needed: go to chrome://flags and enable Hardware-accerlated video decode and restart. Note this currently only works on x11, and I’ve only tested on intel (amd should work too, nvidia I’m not sure).

You can verify vaapi video decoding on intel by installing intel-gpu-tools (available on most distros), and then running sudo intel_gpu_top.

While this was available for a few years now in many distros chromium builds, only as of v88 it is available in google chrome itself, and by extension every build of chromium that sticks to defaults.

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Introduction to eBPF
https://oswalt.dev/2021/01/introduction-to-ebpf/

https://redd.it/l0s4pl
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Container networking is simple
https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/container-networking-is-simple/

https://redd.it/l0qz6y
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OpenWrt 19.07.6 - Service Release
https://openwrt.org/releases/19.07/notes-19.07.6

https://redd.it/l1757x
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Cache Poisoning and Remote Code Execution in Popular DNS Forwarder dnsmasq
https://www.jsof-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/DNSpooq_Technical-Whitepaper.pdf

https://redd.it/l174ie
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User power, not power users: htop and its design philosophy
https://hisham.hm/2020/12/18/user-power-not-power-users-htop-and-its-design-philosophy/

https://redd.it/l17fqa
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New Year, new Red Hat Enterprise Linux programs: Easier ways to access RHEL
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel

https://redd.it/l19kx0
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Ubuntu boot on Apple M1 Macs achieved; port to be released later today
https://twitter.com/cmwdotme/status/1351838924621099008?s=21

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Anthony from Linus Tech Tips (not that Linus) has an unboxing and first impressions of the Librem 5 from Purism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH8DRyKUZDg?

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Linux Terminal Chess With Source
https://iibbrr.itch.io/linux-windows-terminal-chess-with-source

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RHEL is now Free* for up to 16 production servers
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-rhel-is-now-free-for-up-to-16-production-servers/

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Rocky Linux: January 2021 Community Update
https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/community-update-january-2021

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Issues with language localization with Linux UPDATE

A few days ago, I posted a rant about how difficult it is for non-Latin Language users to use Linux based operating systems.

In that post, I declared Ubuntu for having the best out of the box experience with Asian input thanks to Gnome's well-integrated IME support.

Well, today I am happy to say that the Linux Mint Cinnamon edition has the easiest to use Asian input method to date.

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https://preview.redd.it/ogceagv29ic61.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=873efc6f563f64a4dff3c0ffccf1a1ce088755fd

As you can see from the screen shot above, not only does Asian input work right after a reboot, the language settings page contains easy to follow step by step instructions on how to enable the majority of languages direction from the GUI.

I'm glad taht The Mint team has created an easy to use GUI for localization and this further cements Linux Mint as a truly beginner friendly distro.

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Package managers all the way down [LWN.net]
https://lwn.net/Articles/712318/

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unbound-adblock: The Ultimate DNS firewall
https://geoghegan.ca/unbound-adblock.html

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Is it worth switching to M1 Mac as a Linux User

As Linux user, I would love to hear the opinion of my fellow linux users how they feel about the M1 Mac and is it worth making the switch to apple m1 macbook, if not then what are some powerful alternatives that we could use that would be as powerful as m1 macbook and run linux

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Have linux watch windows folders

I have a setup in my home with a ubuntu pc that acts as a server, and my work/gaming pc which runs windows.
The server is for data storage and I'd like to somehow monitor certain folders with linux so that when a new object is added/created in said folders, it first activates a task in windows, in the folder (a powershell noscript to be precise) and after a set amount of time, it should import the created file to the ubuntu server. The ubuntu server can access the folders on windows via smb, windows hovever can't access and modify the Ubuntu files (samba doesn't work for some reason, permissions etc are set correctly)

Is something like that even possible? I'm relatively new to Linux so I don't know if something like this could be done.
Any ideas and suggestions are welcome

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