convert Intel Compute Stick to Amazon Firestick via Linux?

I have an Intel Compute Stick. I installed Lubuntu, which worked okay, but my wife didn't like using a wireless keyboard and mouse to watch Netflix/Amazon movies.

Is there any way to convert my Compute Stick to a replacement for Amazon Firestick by using a different OS (with or without generic remote control)?

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Flameshot Not Starting On GNOME, No Errors – FIXED

Hi guys.

I saw some GNOME users have issues with Flameshot not stating on GNOME [with no errors in the terminal\]. So I made a small guide on **fixing this Flameshot issue** in case it happens to you.

I hope it helps.

Cheers.

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When this post is 15 minutes old, we hit Unix time 1616161616

If you want to follow it on the command line, this outputs the remaining time in minutes:

echo "( 1616161616 - $(date +%s) ) / 60" | bc

Wikipedia article on Unix time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix\_time

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Linux in the wild. Someone get some data on some USB storage, will ya
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When you haven't updated arch for 2 days
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Rust support for the kernel hits linux-next
https://lwn.net/Articles/849849/

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Response to flatkill.org
https://theevilskeleton.frama.io/2021/02/11/response-to-flatkill-org.html

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Software to index a large archive of Text?

What I am looking for is more or less some software that could make a reasonably quick, searchable database of more than 10GB of .TXT files. Most of the files have tags, none of it is standardized. I want to be able to type in some key words and have it return reasonable matches.

Thoughts?

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How to remove record from samba's tdb file?

I noticed big gap in winbinddidmap.tdb in UID/GID. It goes from 10000 to around 25000 and then jump to 1600000. I have checked that no user is using UID bigger than 25000. I wanted to remove UID 1600000 from tdb using tdbtool or dbwraptool but even when I delete it from tdb after starting winbind service I'm still getting incremented from uid 1600000 for new users.

Does anyone managed to remove UID/GID from tdb file?

p.s. I tried to remove mapping with wbinfo too... didn't work.

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Ihor E. Novikov, developer of sK1 & UniConvertor, has died
https://github.com/sk1project/sk1-wx/issues/282

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Speedtest-cli multiple servers

I installed the Speedtest-cli but I get consistently low speeds. 50Mbps vs 250Mbs via the browser.

Reached out to Ookla and they came back with this reply: "Speedtest cli uses a single server to test the internet speed of the client.
The portal uses more than one server to test the internet speed of the client."

Imo this would defeat the purpose. Or am I missing the usecase?

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Building sway-borders in gentoo?

I fucking love this fork but I can't build it on gentoo. It's one of the few things my system is missing, and something sway needs to add.

While trying to build [sway-borders from github](https://github.com/fluix-dev/sway-borders), it fails on my gentoo system running the stable branch's wlroots 12.0 package.

meson build says:

Neither a subproject directory nor a wlroots.wrap file was found.

Subproject wlroots is buildable: NO (disabling)

Run-time dependency wlroots found: YES 0.12.0

WARNING: Project targeting '>=0.53.0' but tried to use feature introduced in '0.54.0': internal arg in dep.get_variable.

WARNING: pkgconfig variable 'have_xwayland' not defined for dependency wlroots.
...
WARNING: pkgconfig variable 'have_elogind' not defined for dependency wlroots.

Then the ninja -C build fails:

undefined reference to `wlr_xdg_foreign_registry_create'

... `wlr_xdg_foreign_v1_create'

... `wlr_xdg_foreign_v2_create'

... `wlr_layer_surface_v1_for_each_popup_surface'

... `wlr_xdg_surface_for_each_popup_surface'

I compiled wlroots from github, but ninja -C build doesn't search for the headers in

/usr/local/include/wlr/

to link.

Can I use meson to fix this?
Can I use pkg-config to fix this?
Can I find a version of this fork that works with 12.0?

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Google ads editor on ubuntu via wine

Trying to run the above on my pc, successfully installed and ran, now I encounter a situation where i need to add an account, and google ads editor tries to open my browser unsuccessfully and freezes. Any ideas for a work around?

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is there a distro that comes with only posix compliant shell and no bash?

I use zsh and never touch bash. I can live without bash noscripts since most of them would work fine with /bin/sh anyway. I would really love a distro where the package manager or another core part of the system doesn't depend on bash so I don't have to have it installed at all times even if I never use it.

https://redd.it/m8rkdp
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edw · elementary Developer Weekend
https://edw.elementary.io/

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Rebuilding a "software development stack"

I'm the admin on for a small workstation/cluster used by my research group which manages it's software using Environment modules. I've just finished compiling a sequence of dependant software (e.g. gcc 9 -> cuda -> open-mpi -> FFTW) and am about to start the process again using a different starting compiler (e.g. intel compilers -> cuda -> ...).

I'm writing a BASH noscript to automate this process, but it's lead me to wonder how this scenario is typically handled?

I'm working in computational physics and have done a decent amount of software development for simulation packages in my particular niche. But I've no formal software development training. It be great if some could give/point me towards a high level overview so I could incorporate some relevant terms into my "Google-fu".

EDIT: To clarify, I'm wondering if it's typical to use BASH noscripts, make, or some other tool all together? Is there even a standard practice?

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Are there any Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) certified folks here?

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for some solid study material for the Red Hat System Administration I (RH124)?

I have VERY little knowledge Linux and I am just looking to expand my career in IT with Linux.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Why is systemd disliked?

Note: I know there was already a post about this. It’s a few years old, so I wanted to ask again and see if anyone’s opinions changed.

A lot of people don’t like systemd, saying it does too much stuff, does more than it should, and saying it goes against the UNIX philosophy. I don’t really find the last point valid since Linux isn’t UNIX, but I mean whatever you want to believe I guess.

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Cannot Boot Linux after Optee

Hi,

I'm working on the ZC702 board and trying to boot Linux and Optee. My boot flow is:

FSBL--->U-Boot--->OP-TEE--->Linux

Although Optee is booted successfully, Linux hangs on the 'zynq_early_slcr_init' function at booting.

Probably Op-tee OS locking down access the SLCR. So When Linux accesses SLCR, the system crashes.

How can I solve this problem?

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This week in KDE: Some cool new features
https://pointieststick.com/2021/03/19/this-week-in-kde-some-cool-new-features/

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Which WiFi for Linux?

Hi guys

I have a problem with my WiFi I switch form windows 10 to Linux elementaryOS and my WiFi is so slow.

I installed Manjaro and didn’t work at all.

Which WiFi would you recommend to buy? Linux friendly.

Regards

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