Anubis: self hostable scraper defense software
https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

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The drive thru broke
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This Week in Plasma: 6.4 Improvements
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/22/this-week-in-plasma-6.4-improvements/

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Firefox: Mozilla is working on Progressive Web Apps (PWA) support
https://www.ghacks.net/2025/03/17/firefox-mozilla-is-working-on-progressive-web-apps-pwa-support/

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Introducing two new open source PebbleOS watches!
https://ericmigi.com/blog/introducing-two-new-pebbleos-watches

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ReactOS 0.4.15 released
https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-0415-released/

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Just sharing a small achievement that I just did!

Recently got into Linux like \~4ish months ago, and progressed very well. Landed a Helpdesk Job N1 with no prior profissional experience nor a degree at all.

Just started yesterday studying virtualization, Dockers, and my previous knowledge of networking, and got QEMU/KVM working via libvert, virt-manager, learning it was kinda hard but I eventually got the hang of it.

Because of that, I conviced the company that I work at (it's a small one) to switch their NAS from Windows to Linux and to reduce costs, they were planning to buy more RAM because Windows was eating a f* lot of RAM, haha.

Just built and configured OpenMediaVault and planning to get a Alpine Docker with SQL Server 2022, since we still rely on it. Proud of myself!

If any more experienced people can get me tips, I would glad take them!

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Calibre 8.0.1 released (e-book manager)
https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new

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Looking for any references on porting Windows software to Linux

My company produces a Windows-based program that we are considering porting to Linux and while I'm not the coder I am curious to see what the gotchas are for porting. My thoughts for this involve things like dealing with Linux flavors, installers, and desktops. Do we pick one or two to build for and if so what's a best option to start? Are all package managers capable of handling the various installers in a fashion and if not what is a best staring option for distributing? These are the questions I have, and many mo, that I am looking for a place or reference to help plan and understand the waters we are looking to swim in.

Since this is not my project nor an official question I will not mention the software. I am a user from way back and interested in what will happen and how.

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Linux Perception vs Windows

I've been in the tech field for almost twenty years, between being the family/friends TechSupport guru, building PCs, working at my University's HelpDesk, working for MSPs, now a Sr. Linux SysAdmin for a software development company. One thing I've noticed that always blown my mind is the amount of liberty and excuses people give Windows for issues, that aren't offered to Linux. Even people who use Windows and hate it, rarely view Linux as a viable option.

When people talk about Linux all I hear is how it's unstable, can't be used as a daily driver due to failed updates or being too hard to use. But yet, Windows has constantly had the same issues, if not more. Just reading through some of the issues in the r/techsupport subreddit, so many issues with Windows. The amount of times I've had to reimage a Windows PC due to a bad/failed update, and even malware. The way Microsoft is constantly moving parts of the OS to different locations, massive UI overhauls, etc. None of that is viewed as an issue, but yet trying Linux is for the same reasons. The strides Linux has made in the past few years to be more accessible to the general pubic and those who don't want to use the command line, to being more compatible with gaming and content, media consumption, it just feels like it should be given a more fair shake. I know it won't become more "mainstream" due to computers just coming with Windows pre installed, but man, I wish people would be more open minded and willing to extend the same grace that Windows gets towards Linux.

Sorry, just a little mini-rant that's been on my mind that's bothered me and wanted to get off my chest 😅

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Here's how to access your Android phone's files from the new Linux Terminal -- "Android makes its downloads folder available to the Linux VM, but unfortunately other files aren’t available"
https://www.androidauthority.com/access-android-files-from-linux-terminal-3536713/

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GIMP 3.0 released. Real talk about GIMP 3.0, caveats, future plans, project funding, and the name change
https://librearts.org/2025/03/gimp-3-0-released/

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The number of commands I got is absurd.
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PSA: Readability-enhancing opensource font 'Atkinson Hyperlegible' has got a 2025 release with a new 'Mono' variant and improvements to the original called 'Next'. Enjoy!
https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/

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Backup 2TB of data to a new disk

I have been merging data from 2 drives to a new bigger sized drive... I used the following command:
rsync -av --progress --ignore-existing /mnt/disk1 /mnt/newdisk
rsync -av --progress --ignore-existing /mnt/disk2 /mnt/newdisk
In both of the disks there was repeated files and I would like to make sure that the files in the new drive are exactly as they are supposed. I saw in the rsync documentation that there is a --checksum command. Would that be the right way to go with it?

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Very initial stages of porting NVK Nvidia driver to HaikuOS
https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-nvidia-porting-nvidia-gpu-driver/16520

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My business made me miss out on Linux

So, years ago, I started doing a LOT of photography work.

I had dabbled in Linux starting in 1994 but in 2004 I started getting more and more into Linux. I was dual Booting Linux and Windows but I was using Linux 80% of the time. Only switching to Windows to do things I knew I couldn't do in Linux at the time.

Then in 2010, I started taking LOTS of photos. I was shooting portrait sessions, weddings, you name it. If it involved still photography, I was doing it! I did this until 2017. Photoshop and Lightroom were my 2 most important tools during that time period because I just couldn't use Linux. I got to the point where I was barely in Linux at all. I'd process the photos, then upload them to my picture viewing site and I'd answer emails, and do lots of business stuff in Windows. It seemed impractical for me to log out of Windows after I was done processing images then upload and do everything else in Linux. I was in Windows, I was there, It was way more convenient to stay in Windows. I even bought an upgrade for a Windows version or 2 in that time I believe. Because I needed to.

I stopped shooting the bulk of my photography early in 2018 because everyone else was seriously undercutting me at everything. My rates weren't high either. But I was being undercut to the point where wasting the fuel to get to a shoot was, my time, etc. barely breaking even just made it seem pointless to continue on. In early June of 2018, I downloaded and installed Linux Mint 18.3. I think about a week later, 19.0 came out and I just went ahead and did a fresh install of that. From that point on, I never touched Windows. I did buy Windows 10 just before switching to Linux. But Windows 10 would not run on that already 8 year old machine. It was a dog and took forever to do anything with. I was not about to build myself a new computer. I already had 5 computers in a closet that ran fine. It was just Windows newer versions wouldn't run on them. And this particular PC had 32GB of RAM in it, LOTS of HDD space and it just wasn't ready to be put into a closet yet. I started using Arch Linux with that same computer in February 2020. Then about 5 or 6 months later, that computer finally stopped working for me. It was about 10 or 11 years old and I got a LOT of use out of it for sure! Thanks to Linux. I got 3 extra years use out of it and used it til it died. First time I think I ever did that BTW... Ran a computer til the hardware died. It wasn't because a new OS couldn't handle the hardware. Linux handled that old hardware quite nicely!

So, 14 years PRIOR to me getting heavily involved with Linux, like I am now, sort of put Linux on the back burner for me... There were times where I'd boot into Linux just to see if I could do the raw photo editing like I could in Lightroom and Photoshop but it just wasn't really there yet in Linux. GIMP just couldn't handle RAW camera files from my Canon 5D Mark II yet. It was close but I think it had issues with the file sizes. It would try to open them but they would freeze half the time while loading. Some photos opened but others didn't. I couldn't have that happen while I was working on an actual job. Lightroom and Photoshop opened every photo, handled the light-weight editing I needed to do with them. They were perfect!

So, I think, had I not gotten as heavily into photography as I did in the early 2000s, I might be using Linux now for 21 years straight. Instead, I have this broken usage thing going on. I feel inferior (sarcasm). Even though I run Arch and I have installed Gentoo in the past and I could probably install both with my eyes closed now. Except, I only have a 7 year nonstop Linux Record as opposed to the 21 years I could have had.

In no way do I think using Windows instead of Linux to make money was a bad move! Not by a long shot! I had an idea, tried to make Linux work but couldn't. So I went with what I knew worked. I had no ill will towards Linux because it couldn't handle editing a couple hundred wedding photos in a session. I had no ill will towards

Linux because it seemed a little inferior to Windows to me at that particular time. I thought Linux was a great prospect for the future back then. I always kept my eye on it. At one point, I did have an A/B Video/Keyboard/Mouse switch where I had an older PC running Linux on it and I could just flip a switch between Linux and Windows and use the same keyboard, mouse and monitor between them. But I spent WAY more time in Windows than I did Linux back in that time frame still. BUT, I did keep Linux percolating in the back of my head though. I kept thinking, 'Some day...'.

Anyone else have this sort of thing happen with them? I imagine there is probably a lot of the new Linux users out there who thought about it but just couldn't pull away from the Microsoft machine.

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Im tired of corporate Linux

(Rant portion) There will undoubtably be someone who responds in this thread saying, “but the biggest contributors are our large companies like Microsoft, Google, etc.”. I understand this and I’m appreciative, but Linux wasn’t started for them, it was started in spite of them, and because of them.

I work in cyber security, I watch companies destroy everything, leak our data, remove choice, while forcing marketing down our throats at every turn. All while acting like they are the good guys.

Linux is a break from this, it represents the ability to raise our heads out of the ocean of filth and take a vital breath. That’s why recent decisions by entities supposedly on our open source team, and buy outs of major Linux brands, have me rethinking my distro of choice (Rant over)

Most distros boil down to Arch, Debian, or Fedora. I like to use root distros. I feel like my options for Linux without corporate interests muddying my future and making things annoying for me are pretty much Arch or Debian (with the possibility of Mint LMDE). I love tinkering but don’t have time for a lot anymore. But this feels like I’m cornering myself with Debian which will quickly become stale after a new release, or I risk breaking it with amendments. Or, I use arch and do my best to stabilize it but it will inevitably bork itself sometime in the near future.

Please, I know this sounds opinionated and blunt, but I’m asking for support and honest help / feedback. What are your thoughts??

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Hyprland 0.48.0 is now available!
https://hyprland.org/news/update48/

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Seeking a Linux Music Player Alternative That Can Handle a 250GB Lossless Library – Beyond Basic Play and Shuffle

I want to preface this with saying that I've been running arch for 3 years on my thinkpad (I use moc, but don't have a big library, nor the need to organize it that well on there) , which I use everyday, this is related to my desktop

I'm a Music player poweruser (feels wrong to say haha) So to start, I'll say that this is really a last ditch effort on my part. 3 years ago, I tried Every single music player available on windows (I do mean every single one unironically) After months of tirelessly trying every single one of them to find one that worked for me I stumbled upon music bee, now the problem is that it doesn't work under wine or bottles.

Now I think it might be best to explain my use case to avoid misunderstanding. I do not use streaming services whatsoever because they simply don't have the music I want. I have over 250gb of lossless music. multiple discographies from various different artists, some so underground that even by googling the band name and specific song name, you won't find anything. So I need a music player that can handle that much lossless music. I also need to be able to edit metadata. Again I have thousands of songs, they need to be organized properly. I also need playlist support. What I just described is the bare MINIMUM that a music player should be able to achieve. heck at this point I don't even care if the UI makes my eyes bleed. I just want a music player which can achieve the bare minimum for my use case. I don't care anymore about dynamic playlist support, lyrics support, granular UI customization and the sleuth of other features that Music Bee offers. I just want a music player which can properly organize, play and manage my enormous library.

Like I said this is a last ditch effort as I've already tried a lot of stuff and nothing came even close to achieving basic functionality. I'm really hoping someone with more knowledge than me on linux might know of some very unknown music player supported under linux that can achieve that.


EDIT: Thanks for the replies, I think I got what I was looking for. Everyone who took time out of their day to answer I can't even begin to thank you enough. Kudos to everyone here, I hope everyone has a nice day!

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