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After a recommendation from Lemmy, I downloaded KDE mobile alongside plasma desktop to see if my touchscreen would work better.

This took a little tinkering and figuring out but I really enjoy this interface.

^borrowed and reconfigured fastfetch theme from a Lemmy user (lost access to old account so I can't tag them, sorry)

^ the slide-up app drawer for KDE Mobile. ^interatellar, gui client for Lemmy.

^Tuba, gui client for Mastodon.

OC by @HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world

Article on the new wave of AI-generated bug reports, and how patches are quickly turned into exploits with automation assistance.

There are really plenty of them, including in commercial software - Firefox has for April twenty times more security bugs reported than normal.

I can't tell how dramatic this is really. Maybe this is being cooked a tad hotter than it is eaten. Some reports on AI capabilities are basically clever marketing - or even outright misleading.

What is clear is that distros will need to fix more bugs, and it will take some time until most uncovered bugs are fixed.

Users will need to update more frequently.

Frugal configurations might become even more attractive.

Who is in for a bad time are probably vendors and users of "connected" devices which were never designed to be updated. Every Smart TV, Amazon Echo, "Smart" home device, or "Smart" toothbrush will likely become open to black hats or enemies of peace and democracy which invade your home network. Including medical stuff...

Some devices should probablybe put in a Farady cage - say anything that would be able to start a fire.

Since Microsoft owns Github, Gitlab is Corp owned now since 2022, why are so many who preach privacy or using Linux, etc, still using a MS product?

Genuine questions. I'm assumming either familiarity & simplicity with GH or difficulty migrating elsewhere?

All of these screenshots are taken using touchscreen mode only. I also have plasma mobile running on it. I'll post pictures of that soon.

Librewolf browser with Bonjourr.fr home page. (Used CSS to customize layout for mobile. )

Stock Spotify for Linux.

Newsflash rss reader.

All in all it wasn't a terrible experience getting it all set up. Def worth the time.

OC by @HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world

Frances switchted to Linux on 2.5 million PCs

I'm trying to install Debian 13 (Trixie) with BTRFS configured to work with TimeShift. Because installing on a BTRFS filesystem apparently only gives you a @rootfs subvolume which is not only lame, but also incompatible with tools like TimeShift or Snapper.

I've been trying to set it up on Debian with very little success. I've followed some how-tos but keep ending up with a broken GRUB entry, or broken fstab or other bullshit. I've tried configuring it during installation with the non-graphical installer, or after installation is complete by creating and renaming subvolumes, moving files, etc. But it's a such fucking chore. At least Ubuntu automated this and created all the subvolumes correctly.

I really want to be using Debian for it's stability and also because I've become very used to the Debian apt package management system through Ubuntu. There seems to be a lot more documentation on Debian than OpenSUSE Tumbleweed also. But this BTRFS thing is a real challenge for me.

The layout I'm trying to use is the following:

@ - /

@home - /home

@var - /var

@tmp - /tmp

@swap - swap "partition". (That's how Ubuntu set it up)

@snapshots - /.snapshots (For Timeshift and btrfs-grub I think)

If you have any advice to give me on how to set this up with the least problems possible, please let me know.

I've been shopping around for my next Linux distro. I'm moving away from Ubuntu after having used it since it's creation in 2004.

I think I might settle on Debian, but OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is really getting my attention.

I'm avoiding anything too bleeding edge because I want to minimize any problems. I don't have any time to troubleshoot my PC. I just want something stable that works. So distros like Arch are out of the question.

Fedora seems to hit the sweet spot, but doesn't have multimedia codecs out of the box or any easy way to install NVidia drivers out of the box either. Which I find ridiculous to be missing in a distro in 2026. I also hate how RedHat, the parent company, is also a genocide enabler by providing software and services to the Israeli government and their army. (Source1, source2) And they're also an American company. So fuck 'em. Who knows what bullshit they're about to add in their repos and how they're going to manipulate their software packages.

There's OpenSUSE Tumbleweed that seems very nice. Not quite bleeding edge, but on the edge at least. It's got Snapper that takes snapshots before each update so you can roll-back via the grub menu which is really nice. But I find it has a LOT less community support and documentation than any other popular distros. And if you download an RPM for a 3rd party driver (like the printer for example) chances are there will be unmet dependencies because it was meant for Red Hat.

Then there's Debian. Trusted. Stable. Community-led. A bit late, but 2 years ain't that bad. It's about the same with Ubuntu. More documentation. A bigger community. Compatible with Ubuntu for troubleshooting most of the time. But requires LOT more manual work to set it up.

Seriously, Debian needs to get up to speed in the user friendliness and usability department.

Great success!

Also: https://kde.org/announcements/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-kde/

https://old.reddit.com/r/cemu/comments/1tbbusq/security_psa_linux_malware_from_cemu_official/

Windows, MacOSX and the Flatpak are unaffected.

The compromised releases are:

Cemu-2.6-x86_64.AppImage

cemu-2.6-ubuntu-22.04-x64.zip

SAFE SHA256 checksum:

Cemu-2.6x86_64.AppImage 0c20c4aeb800bb13d9bab9474ef45a6f8fcde6402cad9b32ac2a1bbd03186313

cemu-2.6-ubuntu-22.04-x64.zip5e4592d0dae394fa0614cb8c875eff3f81b23170b349511de318d9caf7215e1b

Infected SHA256 / Checksums:

sha256: f140e76236b96adf7cdc796227af9808665143bc674debb77729fa3e4b8327cc

sha256: d07a29c4458d00e42d5d9e6345932592e91644d6b821bacdb7a543c628e0b41a

KDE: (Right-click your CemuApp Image -> Properties -> Checksum -> SHA256 button).

If you've run either (f140e or d07a29) to play some games or configure you may want to consider reinstalling your system if you've got any sensitive information, passwords or any of that in use. You're most likely safe if you didn't run the infected releases, but if you've updated and run Cemu recently, you're going to want to make sure you're in the clear, because if you're not then a reinstall may not be the worst idea.

From preliminary analysis it seems that mostly it is trying to spread itself rather than cause direct >damage, it does that by stealing SSH keys, github tokens and a lot of other passwords or keys that >they can then use to infect more packages or software releases.

This is likely also how we got affected. The other Cemu author (MangleSpec/Petergov) ran software >in WSL which was compromised through which they got hold of his github token. At least that is our >leading theory.

HOWEVER if your region is Israel (it detects this via keyboard layout and timezone settings), then it >will have a random chance to wipe your filesystem (subprocess.run(["rm", "-rf", "/*"])) every time you >start the compromised software.

So my immediate advice is this:

Delete the compromised Cemu files (Cemu-2.6-x86_64.AppImage and cemu-2.6-ubuntu-22.04-x64.zip). Note: You are not affected if you downloaded before 6th May. Reset all your passwords, ssh keys and service tokens Block IP 83.142.209.194 just in case. This is hardcoded and used as a remote endpoint

Source: ExZap - https://github.com/cemu-project/Cemu/issues/1911

The investment will be used to strengthen the structural reliability and security of KDE's core infrastructure, including Plasma, KDE Linux, and the frameworks underlying its communication services.

I set up a Linux pc to replace my smart TV and add some gaming capabilites. It took some time but I learned quite a lot (Thanks to Debian and Arch wikis). And I haven't missed any TV functionality.

The launcher is flex-launcher on a labwc environment/compositor on a Debian stable distro. (For testing and easy setup, I also did it on Ubuntu Gnome but I don't need a full DE in the background that I don't use. But it's adaptable to other distros and DEs.)

It's now fully usable with a gamepad including turning the TV on and off, so I have also fully replaced the TV remote.

I hope some people may find it interesting. It was also quite a lot of fun, actually.

Hello all!

I'm kinda finally done with windows, but I have a lot of small, maybe dumb questions.

I guess my first question is whether Linux knowledge in general is interchangeable between distros?

And second, more importantly, what are the good resources for learning basic things? Like if I want to play games I bought on steam, how can I expect that process to be different? If I want to manage files and folders and extensions and such how does that differ if at all from Windows. I'm coming from specifically windows, but I assume for people coming from Mac OS as well what are the do's and don'ts that you wouldn't necessarily think of when switching?

Are there any particularly well made and comprehensive instructional/introductory podcasts/YouTube video series/what have you that you would point me towards?