I've downloaded an entire "All Mail" folder for a gmail account using IMAP to a locally running Thunderbird v136.0.1 desktop client. Global search works, but it fails to find some messages that are easily found in a folder-specific search. This All Mail folder has 165,881 messages, but the activity manager shows "Indexed 73955 messages..." after a full rebuild, I think meaning that indexing finished and it only indexed some of those 165,881 messages. Why doesn't it index all of them? I'm not getting any errors, although I haven't enabled any special logging and I don't have anything open except the main email window view and the activity manager. Is there some limit on how big global-messages-db.sqlite can be (mine is 468MiB), how many messages can be processed, or something like that?

Possibly related: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1813306

I see the GRUB menu, then it goes to an inactive black screen. If I select recovery then resume, it works fine. As this is supposed to be a remote machine, the problem defeats the purpose. I've heard this is usually a GPU drivers issue, so I followed the suggestions here: https://documentation.ubuntu.com/server/how-to/graphics/install-nvidia-drivers/index.html

and here (I'm running 22.04 and can't update, separate issue though): https://askubuntu.com/questions/760934/graphics-issues-after-while-installing-ubuntu-16-04-16-10-with-nvidia-graphics

Yet I still have the problem with a black screen. While I'd like it to "just work", I'm also open to extreme measures including...

-removing the GPU (assuming that would help) -having a script run that auto-selects recovery then resume then logs in on my behalf (I'd need help figuring that out though)

I also updated the grub file after adding "nomodeset", that didn't fix it either.

Hello everyone. I've currently been experiencing crashes when playing certain games. After a while, I realized that the only games where this happened were Unreal Engine games (Fortnite on Windows, Helldivers 2, Marvel Rivals and PayDay 3 on both Windows and Linux). Originally I believed that the problems were game related (the problems began when new Fortnite and Helldivers seasons began) but now that I noticed that Payday 3 crashes too I realized that all of these games are made in Unreal. These are my specs:

GPU: AMD RX 6600 XT CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600 RAM: 2x16 GB XPG (not sure about speed)

Some more info:

• Other games seem to work fine. I've mostly played God of War, GoW: Ragnarok, Doom Eternal and Street Fighter 6.
• The issue doesn't seem to be related to workload. Fortnite and Payday 3 will handle loading stuff and having may enemies on screen only to crash on calm moments.
• I ran Unigine Heaven 4.0 and it worked fine, I ran it in high and ultra settings and got around 200 fps. I let it run for a few minutes, nothing happened other than my PC sounding like a turbine.
• I have not messed around with overclocking or undervolting the GPU or CPU. The PC is second-hand (only 1 year of not intensive use) and the guy was not tech-savvy, so I don't expect him to have messed around with anything like that either.

I would really appreciate any help, thanks in advance.

Edit to add some info about the crashes: most of the time the game just crashes, it closes itself and that's it. Every now and then (not most of the time) the game takes my entire computer with it. My whole computer freezes with the last second of sound being played on repeat and then it shuts down and reboots. I could cope with this if it was just crashes but I'm afraid that this is causing actual damage to my GPU and PC in general.

Final edit: after running integrity tests and using OCCT I was able to figure out that one of my RAM sticks was faulty. After removing it I was able to play Fortnite for a couple of hours without errors.

Hello everyone. First post in tech support.

I have been using Joplin and fed up with its accumulating errors. What alternatives that support similar features do you recommend? (ranking from most important)

• Can insert image
• Hyperlink by markdown language
• Supports LaTeX
• Supports Mermaid flowchart
• Export to PDF
• Can handle a lot of notes
• Windows and Android
• Migrate a chunk of markdown files all at once

Thanks a lot. Have a nice day :)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.radio/post/6473282

One of our fellow amateurs needs help to recover their Google account. They have the credentials, but no longer have access to their recovery phone number.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed? My Google-fu is only unearthing unhelpful forum posts without any firm process described by Google.

Anyone have any links or contacts?

On my system monitor my laptop idles at 80+ degrees celsius

EDIT: strangely enough, it has a similar temperature on high load

EDIT2: Yes I think I will order thermal paste

I got a Dell Latitude 7400 2 in 1 from my job they were going to ewaste. I daily drive KDE Neon on it and I love it. However, one of its two USB type C ports isn’t working for charging or data transfer. I inspected the port but found no obvious damage. How can I troubleshoot and fix this? I’ve searched YouTube and online sites but haven’t found helpful guidance.

So I have an aging DellM4800 15.6" laptop. It's actually built to last, upgradeable MXM A GPU, replaceable battery, professional keyboard, good build quality, easy to get to parts, and has a great matt screen. I use it as a portable laptop, rather than a mobile desktop unit.

Still, Somehow the hinge on one side has become warped. I have no clear idea but suspect that from where it used to be on my lap, the rear fans blew its heat onto it. Or maybe it took a knock somewhere. This would be quite a knock.

Anyway, the plastic cracked and broke off due to the warped metal, and the one side feels a bit, loose and wobbly. It opens fine-ish and just makes a clicking sound each time its opened.

Are there usually generic metal hinges for laptop screens or are they unique to each device? I don't particularly want to have to buy a whole new screen or worse, a new case just for hinges for one side. The missing plastic is small and I can deal with it, but would like to get this one side feeling as solid as the rest of the case.

The blacked out part are IP addresses.

I'm running a snowflake using Orbot on Android.

So, when the user sends a request for a webpage, I'm supposed to see download traffic, right?

Or does the web page request just go through the broker?

I have no idea how this Snowflake thing works. Is this running correctly.

The log is via Rethink DNS App, its set to bypass all proxies and firewall.

Earbuds are only 1 month old, they did not have this issue before

Now when the buds reach 60% battery it drains and goes from 60 to 0 in 10 or 20 minutes (not joking), thus only giving me 2 hours of battery life.

Earbuds and phone (Galaxy A55 5G) are up to date. ANC is on as well but still it shouldn't cause them to drain the battery so fast

https://files.catbox.moe/yysrxw.mp4

Found this while thrifting. The cable is for a sennheiser hd 203 headphones. Even having the headphones I cant find anything about this cable online.

I have several usb-c devices:

My Samsung Galaxy phone

My camera battery charger

My rechargeable head torch

My portable battery/device charger

I would like: One cable to rule them all, one cable to find them, One cable to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them; In the Land of my travel shit where the shadows lie.

What wattage, version, output, recommendations can you give me.

Currently I have 5 cables, but I should really only need one.

Thanks in advance

EDIT2: Hello, person most likely from the future. I have solved this by reinstalling dovecot and basically re-doing everything from scratch (after I tried, briefly, to get 2.4 running, but there are no easy guides yet, and I am in fact a newb).

So - the problem was this: I was following this guide, which is fine, but I missed, that it needs a config that includes %n instead of %u as the username format. So, when I looked up solutions to my problem, and - having forgotten that - updated the config to %Lu, the system wasn't able to find any usernames any more, because looking up the whole name was returning in a (frustratingly silent in the journalctl output) error.

switching it to %Ln did the trick! In hindsight, that makes all the sense!

EDIT: Okay, after some more testing and such, I think something I did yesterday evening in a sleepy stupor must have borked things even more. Now, the mailserver seems to not accept any emails sent to it, but it can still send outbound mails. I will try more stuff today to find out what the hell I managed to mess up yesterday - you are still welcome to give some advice to the original problem, though.

So, this has been a headscratcher for me ever since I began setting up my own Fediverse stuff here. It's on a dedicated Server, running Debian 12. I followed a guide to install and set up a mailserver with dovecot - and it seems to work fine, generally. I can connect to it with Thunderbird, the PeerTube server can connect to it (I still have to update the Lemmy SMTP-config) - but if I try to mail one of my users, the address remains case-sensitive.

So:
Expected behaviour - mails are delivered to both AbnormalHumanDev@abnormalbeings.space, as well as abnormalhumandev@abnormalbeings.space

Actual behaviour - mails to the former result in a "Undelivered Mail returned to sender", with "User doesn't exist" as the server answer, while the latter address works fine.

Dovecot version:
# dovecot --version
2.3.19.1 (9b53102964)

My config file in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-auth.conf:

##
## Authentication processes
##

# Disable LOGIN command and all other plaintext authentications unless
# SSL/TLS is used (LOGINDISABLED capability). Note that if the remote IP
# matches the local IP (ie. you're connecting from the same computer), the
# connection is considered secure and plaintext authentication is allowed.
# See also ssl=required setting.
disable_plaintext_auth = yes

# Authentication cache size (e.g. 10M). 0 means it's disabled. Note that
# bsdauth and PAM require cache_key to be set for caching to be used.
#auth_cache_size = 0
# Time to live for cached data. After TTL expires the cached record is no
# longer used, *except* if the main database lookup returns internal failure.
# We also try to handle password changes automatically: If user's previous
# authentication was successful, but this one wasn't, the cache isn't used.
# For now this works only with plaintext authentication.
#auth_cache_ttl = 1 hour
# TTL for negative hits (user not found, password mismatch).
# 0 disables caching them completely.
#auth_cache_negative_ttl = 1 hour

# Space separated list of realms for SASL authentication mechanisms that need
# them. You can leave it empty if you don't want to support multiple realms.
# Many clients simply use the first one listed here, so keep the default realm
# first.
#auth_realms =

# Default realm/domain to use if none was specified. This is used for both
# SASL realms and appending @domain to username in plaintext logins.
#auth_default_realm = 

# List of allowed characters in username. If the user-given username contains
# a character not listed in here, the login automatically fails. This is just
# an extra check to make sure user can't exploit any potential quote escaping
# vulnerabilities with SQL/LDAP databases. If you want to allow all characters,
# set this value to empty.
auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@

# Username character translations before it's looked up from databases. The
# value contains series of from -> to characters. For example "#@/@" means
# that '#' and '/' characters are translated to '@'.
#auth_username_translation =

# Username formatting before it's looked up from databases. You can use
# the standard variables here, eg. %Lu would lowercase the username, %n would
# drop away the domain if it was given, or "%n-AT-%d" would change the '@' into
# "-AT-". This translation is done after auth_username_translation changes.
auth_username_format = %Lu

# If you want to allow master users to log in by specifying the master
# username within the normal username string (ie. not using SASL mechanism's
# support for it), you can specify the separator character here. The format
# is then <username><separator><master username>. UW-IMAP uses "*" as the
# separator, so that could be a good choice.
#auth_master_user_separator =

# Username to use for users logging in with ANONYMOUS SASL mechanism
#auth_anonymous_username = anonymous

# Maximum number of dovecot-auth worker processes. They're used to execute
# blocking passdb and userdb queries (eg. MySQL and PAM). They're
# automatically created and destroyed as needed.
#auth_worker_max_count = 30

# Host name to use in GSSAPI principal names. The default is to use the
# name returned by gethostname(). Use "$ALL" (with quotes) to allow all keytab
# entries.
#auth_gssapi_hostname =

# Kerberos keytab to use for the GSSAPI mechanism. Will use the system
# default (usually /etc/krb5.keytab) if not specified. You may need to change
# the auth service to run as root to be able to read this file.
#auth_krb5_keytab = 

# Do NTLM and GSS-SPNEGO authentication using Samba's winbind daemon and
# ntlm_auth helper. <doc/wiki/Authentication/Mechanisms/Winbind.txt>
#auth_use_winbind = no

# Path for Samba's ntlm_auth helper binary.
#auth_winbind_helper_path = /usr/bin/ntlm_auth

# Time to delay before replying to failed authentications.
#auth_failure_delay = 2 secs

# Require a valid SSL client certificate or the authentication fails.
#auth_ssl_require_client_cert = no

# Take the username from client's SSL certificate, using 
# X509_NAME_get_text_by_NID() which returns the subject's DN's
# CommonName. 
#auth_ssl_username_from_cert = no

# Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms:
#   plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop anonymous gssapi otp
#   gss-spnego
# NOTE: See also disable_plaintext_auth setting.
auth_mechanisms = plain login

##
## Password and user databases
##

#
# Password database is used to verify user's password (and nothing more).
# You can have multiple passdbs and userdbs. This is useful if you want to
# allow both system users (/etc/passwd) and virtual users to login without
# duplicating the system users into virtual database.
#
# <doc/wiki/PasswordDatabase.txt>
#
# User database specifies where mails are located and what user/group IDs
# own them. For single-UID configuration use "static" userdb.
#
# <doc/wiki/UserDatabase.txt>

#!include auth-deny.conf.ext
#!include auth-master.conf.ext

!include auth-system.conf.ext
#!include auth-sql.conf.ext
#!include auth-ldap.conf.ext
#!include auth-passwdfile.conf.ext
#!include auth-checkpassword.conf.ext
#!include auth-static.conf.ext

If needed, I can of course also provide other config files. I haven't found much else as a solution, besides changing the auth_username_format value here, which also seemed intuitive to me.

I have also since tried restarting the service, restarting the server, searching more on Duck Duck Go and only finding the same solution.

Have I maybe accidentally edited a template config file instead of a live one? That was a guess I had, but then I couldn't find much about that when searching for it.

Thanks in advance for your time!

(Also, if anyone knows good guides to get my mailserver compliant with gmail and other big mail services, DKIM and such, that will be my next project)

so in a series of fuck ups a family member took my main phone and decided to flash something on it. said family member neglected to back up the boot.img or whatever file? the phone physically will not shut off. it keeps boot looping itself back on.

I have to have this as my old phone is busted and I really can't go and buy another one.

Hey, I’m looking for some kind of way to be able to remotely turn my car alarm on/off, and also possibly be notified about activity and motion around my car.

Any ideas for reliable stuff like this please?

I need it because of serious issues with people vandalizing my car

This is probably my fault as I was debloating using App Manager (from F-Droid) & apparently didn't pay enough attention to what I was doing. I feel pretty stupid for not making a restore point first. Can someone help me figure out which app I need to reinstall? I would really really appreciate it. Even just a source on where I could find this info would be really appreciated

On a non-rooted Moto G 5G, Android version 14, happy to give other device info if needed

Title pretty much!

Just wanting to limit my time for various different websites. Enough doom scrolling ..

At work I got Windows 11 24H2. It has a bug, known from september 2024, that resizes all the windows in a tiny corner.

Basically, when the screen shuts off for standby, Windows thinks the resolution now is no more 3840x2160 but 640x480. EVERYTHING gets resized in the top left corner at 640x480 and it's ULTRA INFURIATING

Because microsoft took 3 years to fix the taskbar and 4 years to fix the "restore explorer windows at boot" checkbox, I'm not confident that they will fix this issue in this decade, and I must find a solution, or i will become crazy.

Workarounds tried:

• using fancywm - every time i wake up screen i need to wait 10 seconds to see all the windows rearranging and resizing and it's still infuriating.
• disabling monitor timeout and replacing it with a screensaver - I'm at work and group policy mandate monitor timeout at 5 minutes
• updating the AMD drivers
• uninstalling 24H2 - the admin removed the uninstall files, i can't revert to previous version *uninstalling powertoys in the chance if it was caused by fancyzones
• changing UI scale from 150% to 100%

What I did not try:

• replace the displayport cable with a hdmi one (but it should have only 30hz refresh rate in that case)
• use a dummy video adapter
• use a lower resolution
• wipe and reinstall everything, i have too many stuff with too many settings

Dell M4800 with a K2100 and I want to shove an M2200 in there. Both are MXM A. When putting the new card in, do I need thermal paste on the main chip or do I just bung the heatsink over it?

I bought the card from AliExpress, it looks shiny new and hoping it isn't a surface fake, so it reports it's an M2200, but burns out after a month!

Does anyone know if online banking is really less safe than only being able to access the bank in person?

My grandparents refuse to open online banking for their account. I'm wondering if there's a way I can convince them?

Hiya there!

I've recently been struggling more and more with this monitor issue as depicted in the picture. It happens whenever I turn the computer on, e.g. when the monitor has been inactive for a while. These lines only occur then, and slowly go away by themselves - unless i change the refresh rate of the monitor. To be frank, this has been an issue for probably over 2 years - but its never been "this bad" before.

Got no idea what has caused this, why it (seems) to be getting worse, or what this type of monitor issue is called.

This is a AOC 32" screen, dont have the exact model - but if it matters ill try to dig deep to find that.

Appreciate any tips or pointers to this.

I have a shared calendar that has all my university classes. Unfortunately it also has entries for cancelled classes that the teacher hasn't bothered to remove.Since the calendar is read-only I can't delete them. I want to copy all the events to another calendar so I can delete the unnecessary ones. I tried exporting the calendar on outlook but it doesn't export any of the events.

What are my options?

My PC has an X570 auros master, and it has always had a hard time sleeping. When I let it sleep on any operating system the top row of USB 2.0 ports goes out, and sometimes it hangs and can't wake at all. My preference would be to fix this issue, if possible. My current operating system is garuda (arch based), but I also have a KDE neon and win 11 machine installed if needed.

If it's an issue without a good solution, I need to know how to protect my monitors from burn in and other runtime related wear without sleeping the PC. I tried the settings that turns off the screens without suspending, but when I woke them only one made it back up and the mouse couldn't reach it, which makes me think the machine was frozen. I'm aware of and open to other solutions like a screensaver program or messing with DPMS. But I would prefer a more straightforward and integrated solution if possible.

I'm working on trying to streamline the process of ripping my blu-ray collection. The biggest bottlneck in this process has always been dealing with subtitles and converting from image-based PGS to textbased SRT. I usually use SubtitleEdit which does okay with occasional mistakes. My understanding is that it combines Tesseract with a decent library to correct errors.

I'm trying to find something that works in the command line and found pgs-to-srt. It also uses Tesseract, but it appears without the library, the results are...not good:

Here's the first two minutes of Love, Actually:

00:01:13,991 --> 00:01:16,368
DAVID: Whenever | get gloomy
with the state of the world,

2
00:01:16,451 --> 00:01:19,830
| think about
the arrivals gate
alt [Heathrow airport.

3
00:01:20,38 --> 00:01:21,415
General opinion
Started {to make oul

This is just OCR of plain text on a transparent background. How is it this bad? This is using the Tesseract "best" training data.

Edit: I’ve been playing around with ocr-to-pgs which also uses tesseract and discovered that subtitles having black outlines really messes with it. I made some improvements.

https://github.com/wydengyre/pgs-to-srt/pull/348

Not sure a good discussion place to post this. I just want some brainstorming.

Looking for ideas on how to set up a faux-TV in the living room using a computer. I want to put an entertainment center across from the couch and have a place to watch media. But I have no interest in paying for cable/satellite/public broadcasts. (Why pay to be advertised to?)

I have a good collection of shows and movies on external hard drives. I figure I could buy a big monitor and plop it up there with a laptop attached. I could do a makeshift mouse using a game pad and Steam.

I just wanted to check if anyone had alternatives in mind. The mouse situation is suboptimal. Having to get another laptop is also suboptimal. The "TV" would also be about 200cm (6.5ish ft) away from the seating area, so I wonder how expensive an appropriately sized monitor would be. But I can't think of any other way! Any ideas or have I pretty much figured it out?