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/

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

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

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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/

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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

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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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BTRFS, defragmentation and compression: unclear/divergent informations.

So, I recently installed my OS with BTRFS and I've trying to learn better about it. But I just found conflicting information about compression and defragmentation.

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670\_01/E37355/html/ol\_use\_case1\_btrfs.html

This Oracle page says that "LZO offers a better compression ratio, while zlib offers faster compression".


https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Compression

While, the wiki says that

"ZLIB -- slower, higher compression ratio (uses zlib level 3 setting, you can see the zlib level difference between 1 and 6 in zlib sources).

LZO -- faster compression and decompression than zlib, worse compression ratio, designed to be fast
ZSTD -- (since v4.14) compression comparable to zlib with higher compression/decompression speeds and different ratio levels"

Some of them should be wrong OR it's something about the level option for ZLIB. Maybe when it's a low level of compression it's faster and when it's a higher level of compression it has a better compression rate. Anyway, does anyone have a clarification about that?

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Also, about defragmentation: the wiki says "Currently (v4.14), it's not possible to select "no compression", using the defrag command. This may change in the future." while the Oracle page instructs to use the "-c" option to compress while defragmenting. Is the wiki out of date or something?

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How would I monitor my GPU usage like in windows task manager?

I can't seem to find any apps that display my GPU usage which is very important because I'm planning on gaming on this machine and I'd like to see how well my GPU is performing. Right now I'm using a crappy placeholder GPU until I can find a good one. Any help would be much appreciated thx :)

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Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys
https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver/issues/354

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Raid 1 SSD+HDD

I know, stupid question, but I'ma post it anyways: Can I set up a fast SSD and a reliable HDD in RAID 1, so that it is not slowed down IN READING (!) by the HDD? The use cases I'm thinking of are:
1. Network storage where upload speed is negligible, while download speed is crucial.
(Usually uploading is a task whose completion does not need to be awaited for you to start doing the next thing, while downloading usually happens when the file is crucial for the continuation of your work, leaving you in a busy-idle state. Ofc this is not always the case, but in my experience a general tendency.)
2. Fast booting times of an SSD in combination with the reliability of an HDD.... Yeah ok scrap that one for linux. But if anyone wants to still play advocatus asini, one could argue that the user who wants that has the stupidity of not being able to mount the HDD at the right place, combined with the craziness of making such a sophisticated setup.

Would you suggest such a setup for the first scenario?

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