Stupid Mint question about setting log in picture.

So It only lets me select premade login pictures and setups, how the heck do I get root access to pit in my own pictures and is their a way to set up my own login styles at all (I can use what is there fine but if I have to go through this much trouble to change a picture I may as well go all in).

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WiFi adapter driver not found and will not connect to Linux virtual machine. Any help?

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faster reboots with kexec!

cool tool i found out about today cut my server reboot time in half! i know it sounds fake but by only rebooting the kernel level and above you can cut out the hardware reboot time. just install kexec-tools then set your kexec config to use grub config and run sudo systemctl start kexec to reboot. (not written very well cause on mobile but wanted to share anyways )

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Rust in the Linux kernel
https://security.googleblog.com/2021/04/rust-in-linux-kernel.html

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Has anybody found a good eink device for Linux?

I've always wanted to code outdoors. I've looked into buying eink screens (eg. From adafruit) and which laptops they might be compatible with (that thinkpad), but I've never dove into buying hardware that I might not get working.

I found out about this thing recently: https://getfreewrite.com/blogs/writing-success/freewrite-2nd-gen-vs-freewrite-traveler, but I can't find any specs for the hardware nor information about how I might convince it to boot off a usb stick, into a Linux environment.

Has anybody found a decent eink device (with a keyboard as primary input) they can run Linux on?

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How to hack your Nintendo Switch on GNU/Linux. [Spanish] https://cempazuchitl.org/2021/04/14/hackear-nintendo-switch-desde-gnu-linux-y-un-clip/
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NTFS drive showing as unallocated on Win10/Ubuntu dual boot

Hi all!

I wasn't sure where to post this, but hopefully someone will have an idea! I've been digging around the internet for the last couple of hours and can't find any satisfactory solutions.

I have four physical drives with a partition each (not including the boot partition):

Ubuntu 20.04 (EXT4)
Windows 10 (NTFS)
Data 1 (NTFS)
Data 2 (NTFS)

The data drives were formatted to NTFS so that they could be shared between the both operating systems. However, only one of the drives show up on Windows - the other shows as two unallocated partitions.

Here's a screenshot of disk management in Windows - disk 1 is the culprit.

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The only ideas I have are to either:

attempt some sort of disk recovery via Windows, which will maybe rebuild the partition table.
This scares me a little, as I have 5TB of valuable data that I'm afraid to mess up.
move all of the data off the disk, format it, then copy it back again.
This will involve using a multitude of smaller hard drives, and takes forever to do!

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Has anyone encountered this before or have any advice? Is the disk recovery option actually dangerous?

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Linux alternative to running as a administrator.

I was recently wondering like how on windows you can right click an executable or a program and click "run as administrator." I was wondering if there is any type of way to do that on arch linux using KDE without the use of a terminal and sudo.

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I just discovered a new Distro but don't get mad at me.

Winix: Basically I loaded up Windows subsystem for Linux and installed Opensuse and it felt good. Then I remembered a long time ago back when America was sort of normal there once existed Windows shell alternatives. I hit DuckDuckgo and found the shit was still around. So, I loaded Ciro shell for Windows 64bit and it was cool. Then that very minute, it occurred to me,. a long time ago I was bullshitting around with... what was the name of it, BlackBox for windows. I saw it was still being maintained and down that shit, son. Now, don't cuss me out but I came to realize I can now use all my Windows applications such as Abobe premiere and photoshop, along with all my Windows based PC games and so on.

And i took a pause and I ponder, bothering my own mind and I said to myself, "Taokiller", "File explore" must go and replaced that shit with "File Voyager".

So how do you like me now... I'm computing with an altered beast. Hybrid of two different computing worlds, maybe just maybe, a god damned abomination. I can run and create bash noscripts, play with hacking tools, and Nmap, play Steam games, recording on Adobe Audition, plus Protools, and I'm doing it all on one system. No virtual machine shit this might be obscene. Now I do not know if you find any of this shit here as refreshing as I do but I discovered for myself the best damn Windows operating system of all times.

I didn't create any pics because don't have any place as of now to upload but will provide you the links.

Black box for window: http://bb4win.sourceforge.net/ Cairoshell https://cairoshell.com/ FileVoyager https://www.filevoyager.com/ Windows subsystem: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

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Firefox Stable gets option to show modified preferences on about:config only
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/04/15/firefox-stable-gets-option-to-show-modified-preferences-on-aboutconfig-only/

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Something really interesting I saw

A while ago I was scrolling thru Google images to find myself a nice Fedora wallpaper. I came across something that drew my attention. I thought it was a win-key with a fedora sticker over it but no, it was a fedora-key! The dude was making "win" - keys for mechanical keyboards each with their own distro logo. I forgot about it in the meantime but now I would pay good-money for it. If I remember correctly he was 3D printing the whole button so the distro logo itself was embedded into the button. If you were distro hopping you could easily change your pop-key to arch-key to etc

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Most popular Linux distros 2021 according Alexa website ranking.

This ranking is based on Alexa(.)com. It doesn't mean popularity by desktop users. This ranking is based on website ranking worldwide. ( # is the worldwide page ranking for last 90 days according to alexa.com )

1. Ubuntu - ubuntu.com - # 3,771
2. ArchLinux - archlinux.org - # 11,779
3. LinuxMint - linuxmint.com - #12,389
4. Debian - debian.org - # 13,561
5. Deepin - deepin.org - #32,398
6. Manjaro Linux - manjaro.org - #38,554
7. Fedora - fedoraproject.org - #39,316
8. Gentoo Linux - gentoo.org - #53,634
9. Pop_OS! - system76.com - #56,075
10. OpenSuse - opensuse.org - #58,327
11. ElementaryOS - elementary.io - #107,105
12. ZorinOS - zorinos.com - #110,449
13. MxLinux - mxlinux.org - #121,808
14. Puppy Linux - puppylinux.com - #194,188
15. Solus - getsol.us - #294,234

Others:

Kali Linux - kali.org - #9,838

ParrotOS - parrotsec.org - #99,909

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Carbs Linux | April 2021 News Post
https://carbslinux.org/blog/20210415.html

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How to fight back against Google FLoC
https://plausible.io/blog/google-floc

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Found this at the supermarket. Figured you guys would enjoy.
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Trouble programming on Linux

I switched to Linux and I'm more than satisfied but I had a hard time with programming. People recommend me not to use system dependencies and use virtual environments for ruby python and java. The only programming language I've been able to use without a problem was javanoscript since it isn't system dependent. Someone explaining me virtual environments would be very helpful

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LXQt 0.17 Released
https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/releases/tag/0.17.0

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The text editor war returns. New co-workers make the wrong choice.

<This post is meant mostly in jest and is intended to start a friendly conversation. If you're upset or inclined to otherwise be unnecessarily confrontational ... chill out a bit, okay? Just let people enjoy things.>

I am doing my best to proselytize my co-workers to Linux and today I tried to lead them to the light of vim, the one true text editor.

all hail bash and vim, the one true editor ... end of line

The response I received shocked me to my core, and I quote:

> nano or nothin

The ensuing conversation inspired the following work of creative genius that I hope will make a few of our caffeine addled brains happy.

I give you,Tolkien on emacs:

Three plugins for the helpdesk with bags under their eyes,
Seven for the sysadmins in their dim cubicles,
Nine for the dev team, who wish for an IDE,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of emacs where the plugins reside.
One editor to rule them all, One editor to find them,
One editor to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of emacs where the Shadows lie.
:wq

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Linux World Split in Two
https://odysee.com/LinuxWorldSplitInTwo#d

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Why would someone use Windows Subsystem for Linux?

I'm really confused, and I'll be really grateful if somebody helps.

Due my situation, I can't use a Linux distribution as my main operative system mainly because I use some software and drivers that aren't compatible with Linux. Therefore I did some research and I'm considering to usea a virtual machine (VirtualBox seems like a good option) but I'm not quite sure it can help me since I only have around 30 GB of free space on my SSD. Is it enough space to run a virtual machine? How well optimized would a VM run in a HDD?

Then I researched more and started to consider the use of WSL. But I'm not sure how it works. I mean, WSL 2 is kinda a weird VM, right? One even must enable a VM feature (as you can see in the [installation guide](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10)).

After doing more research I also found that one can just download the distributions available on the Microsoft Store, which are just Ubuntu, SUSE, Debian and Kali; so I can't use other Linux distributions even if they are based upon that distributions, right? Let's say, I can't use Kubuntu or Pop!\_OS, right?

Now, my questions are:

* Which are the main differences between WSL 2 and a VM?
* What are the advantages of WSL 2 vs a standard VM?
* Why would someone use Windows Subsystem for Linux?

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Oneshot: easily transfer files to and from your terminal and any browser + support for serving from stdin and to stdout, CGI, setting custom headers, redirects for link sharing, bot detection, homescreen icon, custom CSRF tokens, custom upload client page and more (v1.5.0 update)

Just released a major update for oneshot, the first-come first-served single-fire HTTP server.

The aim of oneshot is to make it as easy as possible for you to transfer data to and from your terminal and any browser, no matter the use case. With this in mind, the following features have been added since the last announcement on here:

\- Filter out bots; you can now share oneshot links over iMessage without the preview stealing your download.

\- Redirects; makes it really easy to share links without needing to write HTML / JS for it. You can even set the HTTP status code if you want.

\- Homescreen icon; makes for a nice and easy oneshot client on mobile devices.

\- CSRF tokens; have tighter control over your file uploads.

\- Custom upload page for clients; you can now present a custom upload page (can be a Go HTML template that receives a .CSRFToken string)

\- Several bug fixes

Github link: https://github.com/raphaelreyna/oneshot

Feedback is appreciated, thanks!

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