software minimalism & audio interface minimalism: to make management of audio interfaces easier, disable those the user does not use a lot of monitors are hdmi connected that can also transport audio signal but a lot of the build-in speakers […]
might be minor change to some but it is actually pretty interesting to see that: what is the state of resources? from the left to right: CPU usage, RAM usage, NETWORK usage, SWAP usage, disk usage GNU Linux is not […]
vendors & users can do: keep firmware and apps as up to date as possible this requires that vendors also publish patches for critical security problems for old devices (!!! AVM Fritz does it, Samsung & Apple can too!) install […]
“os-prober is disabled with the grub 2.06 upload, which is obviously a bit controversial and the outcome is not necessarily in the best interest of our users” “os-prober is inherently insecure as it mounts all partitions on your disk using […]
today gotta say “thank you Apple” for still developing cups.org further 😀 (well “further” is kind of an exaggeration as the last release was Apr 28, 2020) it got a management web interface since forever available via localhost:631 just a […]
want to see what’s going on in the Open Source part of Android OS? alternative “free” hardware: let’s face it, maybe a dream setup would be: either: de-googled phone WITH MICRO AUDIO JACK (or it can not be used to […]
want to see what’s going on in the Open Source part of Android OS? e-OS is available for many many (but not all) devices here is a detailed review of the ROM in terms of privacy. IT IS AN EXCELLENT […]
scientists predict human leven AI by 2047 so DON’T HOLD THE BREATH What is GPT4All-J?: An Apache-2 Licensed Assistant-Style Chatbot What is Mistral Orca? https://huggingface.co/ “The AI community building the future.” “The platform where the machine learning community collaborates on […]
if there is a website or a writing, that the user fears will be offline tomorrow… go archive it 😀 (https://archive.org/ is doing a good job, but often-sometimes they only have stored the front page) it is possible to archive […]
is VLC still the currently BEST music player for GNU Linux? vlc is excellent for simplicity, compatibility (best format compatibility ever seen, it has some stuttering when skipping forward or backward with mp4 x264 files, mplayer might still be the […]
so every android user is in a hurry to update update update to Google’s latest firmware because of it’s security issues really would like to see a smart phone that can run almost unchanged GNU Linux kernel 😀 (yes would […]
in the past, this was no issue. no matter what. neither: ifup enp0s25 # nor ifconfig enp0s25 up # nor ip link set enp0s25 up # worked two notebook NICs were connected with a known-to-be-good LAN cable but both interfaces […]
the user knows, here the user get’s only the tested howtos that truly work and save a massive amount of time, trying out all the non-working howtos X-D what is mongodb (written in C++, JavaScript, Python) In 2013, 10gen changed […]
https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2023-12-01?hl=en <- unfortunately does not export an RSS feed so a user needs to write a converter-aggregator https://www.heise.de/news/Patchday-Android-Android-11-12-13-und-14-fuer-Schadcode-Attacken-anfaellig-9548839.html as seen in https://www.heise.de/security/rss/alert-news-atom.xml for the news junkies – how to read news in the 21st century (APPs & RSS FEEDS) – […]
in software development, testing needs to go as automated as possible and as fast as possible 😀 hostnamectl; Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-13-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 # tested with gcc –version gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0 PROGNAME=”string_pointer_const.c”;time gcc […]
“wlx123 Interface doesn’t support scanning : Device or resource busy” this error occurs during manual terminal bash based scanning of wifi wlan networks: hostnamectl; # tested on Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-13-686-pae Architecture: x86 su – […]
rawtherapee.com is an awesome corss OS photo-picture-post-processing program (THANKS ALL INVOLVED! :D) “raw image converter and digital photo processor” “RawTherapee is an advanced program for developing raw photos and for processing non-raw photos. It is non-destructive, makes use of OpenMP, supports […]
system A mounts the share just fine, but system B won’t? mount -t cifs -o username=admin //192.168.123.123/sharename /media/username/mointpoint/ dmesg; # reports [17666.614556] CIFS: Attempting to mount \\192.168.123.123\sharename [17666.641743] CIFS: Status code returned 0xc000006d STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE [17666.641755] CIFS: VFS: \\192.168.123.123 Send error […]
how to fix sim card not working: PLEASE WITH SIM CARD INSERTED BOOT STOCK ROM AT LEAST ONCE! while still in stock rom insert sim card and TEST & CONFIRM that CALLING and INTERNET (LTE) are working (test if stock […]
LANCOM is not so well known German company that is the partner when it comes to “business” DSL routers for Telekom and T-Systems customers and as such they are conducting the worst closed source rippoff of their customers possible. multiple […]
once upon a time… found a strange looking cable.. Double micro audio jack? WHAT ON EARTH IS THAT? It is a serial-to-usb programming radio cable for RETEVIS handheld “walkie talkie” radios, that allows to set different modes of the radio […]
always say something positive first: then the critique: follow the excellent guide: https://getcomposer.org/download/ mkdir /var/www/html/composer cd /var/www/html/composer php -r “copy(‘https://getcomposer.org/installer’, ‘composer-setup.php’);” php -r “if (hash_file(‘sha384’, ‘composer-setup.php’) === ‘THISWILLHAVECHANGEDBYNOW’) { echo ‘Installer verified’; } else { echo ‘Installer corrupt’; unlink(‘composer-setup.php’); } […]
https://kleinanzeigen.de previously known as https://ebay-kleinanzeigen.de the most used second-hand platform in Germany was sold from ebay to an norwegian Investor Adevinta Also “ebay for cars” mobile.de was sold from ebay to Adevinta. “In June 2020, Adevinta won the bid to […]
once upon a time, compressing massive amounts of binary was required. hostnamectl; # tested on Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-12-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 lscpu | grep -E ‘Architecture|Model name|Thread|Core’; # tested on CPU Architecture: x86_64 Model name: […]
Musk grabbed deeply into the Toilet, by wasting Billions on it’s twitter buy, he could have build 100x Twitters from scratch, with this amount of money. Understanding Elon Musk – (the day Elon almost destroyed Tesla by accident) – good […]
QNAP is ignoring UNIX KISS and load heaps and heaps of programs pre-installed, pre-activated on their QNAP NAS which not only slows down the NAS, it is also a privacy (thumbnails that NEVER get deleted) and security problem.
https://doodlejumporiginal.com/ there is also the version for xbox kinect, where the user actually is steering the doodle with user’s body (cool, but that SHOULD also be possible with a smart phone’s front cam right?) game ideas: while doodle jump […]
This is actually VERY usefull to find files that waste disk space. lsb_release -a; # tested on Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) the solution: czkawka_cli install rust like this (no need to install rust as root) install […]