USB 3.0 Laptop Dock with HDMI

As the noscript says I’m looking for a USB 3.0 laptop dock with a HDMI connection that will work with Linux as well as Windows so I can switch easily between my work and personal laptops. If it supports dual monitors so much the better. Any recommendations gratefully received.

https://redd.it/m4pf9m
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Taking Over an Abandoned GPL/LGPL Project

This isn't strictly Linux related, but I'm hoping you all have experience and can help. I found a project archived on Google Code I'd like to continue. It's a java project with a GPL 2.0 jar and 3 LGPL 2.1 jars. Each source file has a copyright declaration by the authors company.

My understanding is I can use this project as I see fit, and convert it to GPL 3 no problem. And any code I write, I would hold the copyright on. Specifically there's nothing in the project to indicate contributions have to be assigned to anyone. All i have to do is also make my version freely available.

Is that all correct? Can I also rename the project?

https://redd.it/m4ogub
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What happened to k1ss linux and Dylan Araps?

The primary site has lost its domain to a domain squatter.

I checked their github projects and it looks like activity has really dropped off.

Dylan Araps is the guy behind the project.
https://github.com/dylanaraps
His activity declines sharply in late November.

This looked like a really interesting distro, so I'm sorry to see this happen.
I hope Dylan is ok.

https://redd.it/m4pwix
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Looking for certain features in a media manager

Hi all, I am curious to know if there is any media manager software that uses a web page as it's interface? (instead of a client application)

I was just thinking it would be nice to be able to browse my library from my pixel tablet in the living room while my media sits on a server in the basement. or, my wife could browse it from her Macbook. Does that make sense?

Does such a thing exist? (preferably for Ubuntu)

I have no experience with media manager software at all. :)

https://redd.it/m4olsy
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Bootable Kali Linux

So I installed Kali Linux on my pen drive as a bootable drive. That's all good. But what I'm not sure about is, does the data I saved in Kali Linux, got saved in my pen drive as well? or is it somewhere in my computer's hard drive?

https://redd.it/m4sc3n
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Is there ANY way to do this?

Hi, so i have a very old dell chromebook 11. i am not allowed to switch it from beta mode, and it doesnt have the built in linux feature. i dont have any external technology or usb stuff i can use with it. is there ANY way i can get linux on this thing??

https://redd.it/m4q6ci
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Reinventing tabs in GNOME
https://blogs.gnome.org/alexm/2021/03/13/reinventing-tabs/

https://redd.it/m4ueri
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How do i remove corrupted mysql-community-server

I tried purge, i tried force remove, but everything come back with this error

invoke-rc.d: initnoscript mysql, action "start" failed.
Unit mysql.service could not be found.
dpkg: error processing package mysql-community-server (--configure):
installed mysql-community-server package post-installation noscript subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
mysql-community-server

https://redd.it/m4v291
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Out of The Top 50 Games, 70% Work on Linux Now
https://boilingsteam.com/out-of-the-top-50-games-70-work-on-linux-now/

https://redd.it/m4u5vd
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How to Switch Between Different Back Ends in Haproxy Using Hatop
https://blog.ivnilv.com/posts/how-to-switch-between-different-backends-in-haproxy-with-hatop/

https://redd.it/m4vw0l
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XKB Keyboard layout for writing in Portuguese in the German QWERTZ keyboard

I created a variant for the German QUERTZ keyboard to facilitate writing in Portuguese. I have a laptop that I bought in Germany, and I was motivated by the pain that is to reach the dead tilde (\~) every time to build the nasal vowels. The new layout changes the keys with umlaut Ä and Ö to type ã and õ. Optionally ẞ is changed to type ç. The letters with umlaut still be obtained with `Alt Gr` + `Ä` or `Ö`.

The keyboard layout can be downloaded here:

https://github.com/g7fernandes/german-portuguese-keyboard-xkb

​

If some Windows user find this topic, just use the Microsoft Layout Creator.

​

Keyword for searchers:

Layout de teclado alemão com til e c cedilha para português.

Deutsche Tastaturbelegung mit Tilde und c Cedille für Portugiesisch.

https://redd.it/m4wdmo
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Checking inbound data via USB connection

Hi guys, I was wondering is there any application for Linux which can "catch" inbound data from USB? I'm creating a program Linux "car monitor" in my raspberry pi, and I want to check data from ODB from my old car, but before this, I want to just know what data can i "catch", and how those data look like. Any suggestion?

https://redd.it/m50p2x
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[Tooling] Memcheck-cover: A valgrind's memcheck tool wrapper and HTML report generator -- v1.2
https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/m5216w/tooling_memcheckcover_a_valgrinds_memcheck_tool/

https://redd.it/m521r0
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A common issue with using NVIDIA on linux and X11 is that the drivers tend to break for seemingly no reason. I made a guide that might fix that!
https://github.com/devins2518/nvidia-pain

https://redd.it/m4vz8a
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How I earn a living selling my open source software
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-earn-a-living-selling-my-open-source-software-476f6bb07e

https://redd.it/m54cm6
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Update your asdf plugins to their latest versions with a little noscript

asdf is a CLI tool that can manage multiple language runtime versions on a per-project basis.
I wrote a little noscript to update these plugins to their latest version if necessary.
https://gist.github.com/developer-guy/4de4e2ff2eaa31633a0fef719c92eada

https://redd.it/m4us5r
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Push notification service

There's a lot of push notification apps for Android which will alert you when an API call is made to the appropriate backend. The best one I've come across to date is WirePusher (http://wirepusher.com/)

Very simply you POST a link like https://wirepusher.com/send?id=ab2cdeFgn&noscript=HomeAlarm&message=Alarm%20has%20gone%20off!!!

...and your phone notifies you within about a second.

I'm building my home security around this but am fearful that one day the service could fold and I'm left without an alerting solution. Was wondering, does anyone know of a Linux based solution I could implement myself that provides push notification services (not a third party solution)?

https://redd.it/m4u1i9
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Linux evangelism

I would consider myself something of a 'Linux evangelist' (is there a less ridiculous way to phrase that?), and believe now we are at a cross roads where Linux could come out strong - software is great on Linux, Valve has done a lot of work to make gaming much more feasible (although it's far from perfect), there's a lot of user friendly distros out there as well.

1. With the recent string of breaches in Microsoft software, I believe there is fertile soil for the Linux case (this is also a cloud issue, of course, not just operating-system)

2. Linux can be run on old hardware - either a person could install Linux on their old and slow machine, or perhaps some enterprising individuals/friends could help people/friends install it on their computer

3. Microsoft's monopoly is under threat. ChromeOS is fast filling the role of cheap, basic computer, except it does it better than Windows. However, I am of the persuasion that Linux can do this better. Take Pop OS! for example - it's a very user-friendly OS. The only problem is there aren't 'OEM' cheap laptops coming out with Linux on it, like there are chromebooks (I'm considering ChromeOS different than 'Linux') (ie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8kaMQuqnLM&t=7s)

A big part of making change is realizing when there is 'unrest' in the air, and to properly capitalize on that. I'm not sure exactly *what* to do, but this seems like the moment, if there was one, for Linux to come up.

And why should we care if Linux becomes more popular? Ofc, it will mean more malware and all that, an obvious risk, as it becomes more popular - we have a cozy niche as it is. But it also means a larger development community, it means (by virtue of using an operating system which is more transparent with security, and less of a delinquent baby sitter) more security awareness by individuals in the greater population - this has secondary and tertiary benefits of individuals in the workplace having a greater sense of security, perhaps avoiding future crises such as the Florida water plant hack (which is largely a fault of bad 'opsec' than anything). It might mean being the likes of Adobe on board (which I guess it's a circular argument there, especially if you really hate on proprietary software), and forcing hardware companies to be more accommodating with drivers and such. It also means a greater appreciation of the open-source process, which I think is an excellent counter example (although with qualifiers) to the argument that 'innovation is profit driven', and that anything free means 'you are the product' (as we know, it's different with libre FOSS!).

Basically, I believe a less-centralized and more open-source world will be more secure, and 'anti-fragile' - although Linux is accessible enough that it can be advertised on its usability alone, without appeals to FOSS or security (which fall flat on a lot of people, who understandably 'just want something that works'). Linux development, as far as I'm aware, is inherently more suitable to responding to security crises than a more commercial setting (this is more 'opinion', but I think there is merit to it). And finally, Linux is like an old car - it's generally easy/accessible for a large chunk of the population to 'pop the hood' and fix things, maybe with some online help - and the resulting computer literacy is another key component of a more secure 21st-century society, imo.

Idk, maybe others don't think 'spreading the word' is as important - it doesn't necessarily help your workflow - but I think Linux is part of an important counterweight to the current tech trend - harder to repair, more spyware, more centralized, more online, less transparency. I think a push for Linux would also entail a push for right to repair, and issues surrounding that.

I'm wondering what other peoples takes are on this, if I'm just p*ssing in the wind, or if others are feeling this atmosphere as well. After seeing water plants, thousands of companies, and government agencies get compromised over and over this past year, I've got

actual long-term concerns for the country (USA) itself if we continue living in the purgatory of Microsoft+cloud 0-day patchland, and well, I guess I'm biased to think more-popular-Linux could and should be part of the solution, and it's up to us Linux users to cultivate the zeitgeist... but that ofc depends on Linux users thinking that's the move.

https://redd.it/m4m2yn
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magick fails with "no images defined evan.gif' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3322"

I downloaded, installed and checked ImageMagick. I tested the installation afterwards with no errors.

I try to test the installation with

convert -density 300 \~evan/data/test\_file.pdf -quality 100 evan.gif

and I receive the following error:

convert: no images defined \evan.gif' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3322.

I made sure the file "\~evan/data/test_file.pdf" existed.

I tried different output types, jpg, png and tiff but I received the same error.

HELP!!!

https://redd.it/m59zj5
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Revolution OS: Documentary on the history of GNU, Linux and free software (2001)
https://libre.video/videos/watch/ea0b887f-2d4f-4b77-bba2-4459a5214e8d

https://redd.it/m57vh4
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