I'm going to use this guide to downgrade Firefox to something around version 127 or below because I did not have this issue with earlier versions of FF.

Btw where does Firefox store crash logs? I typed "about:crashes" in the URL bar but it says that "No crash reports have been submitted". I have also used journalctl to find these errors but I'm not sure how relevant they are:

org.mozilla.firefox.desktop[15004]: Exiting due to channel error.

org.mozilla.firefox.desktop[49355]: [Parent 2, Main Thread] WARNING: g_strv_length: assertion 'str_array != NULL' failed: 'glib warning', file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp:187

firefox-bin[49355]: g_strv_length: assertion 'str_array != NULL' failed

After my last post got quite a lot of interest, I thought I'd do a follow-up. And, what can I say, it's been a journey:

Hardware

Installing the hardware was pretty easy. I'm just always a bit apprehensive about these things because I don't do this very often. But it went fine.

First boot

Nothing. No reaction at all. Well shit. After trying to reboot about 10 times, I removed all the drives one by one, but no change. I tried reseating the RAM but that also didn't do it. Then I left the machine alone for a few minutes while I was doing something else and suddenly I was in the BIOS. I'm not sure if it was the reseating or if it just needed some time for RAM training or something. Anyway, finally some result. So I put it all togther again and proceded to the next level.

Openmedivault installation

Plugged in the USB stick, it booted straight into the OMV installer. Then I hit a snag as it was trying to connect to the network. It only showed the Ethernet connections, no Wifi. But I hadn't plugged it in because my desk is not near the router. I wanted to set it up with Wifi and then plug it in at the router. First I thought the Wifi card is buggered. So I booted into a Linux Mint live system. It showed the Wifi card and connected without issue. I don't know if it's a driver issue or if OMV simply doesn't suppot Wifi. That would seem a bit silly, though. Maybe someone here has some insight? So anyway, after some very janky cable routing I managed to hook it up to both Ethernet and HDMI, after that the OMV installation went through without any problems.

Setting up the RAID

Well, in hindsight it was easy. Better documentation would really have helped, though. I created file systems on the disk first and thought I could then add these to the RAID. But what you have to do is download the RAID plugin first, then create the RAID and then create a file system with your disks. No problem if you know how to do it. But it took me a lot of searching and trial and error to figure that out. ** Sharing the Drive**

Next I created a shared folder and proceeded to mount it on my PC via NFS. That didn't go too well, as I could see the shared folder on the PC but didnt have write permission to put any data on it. After spending literally all evening trying out various permutations of NFS settings on both the server and client side, I finally figuered out that I had forgotten to set an ACL on the shared folder, which prevented me from accessing it on the client. Again, better documentation would have helped a lot there. Maybe it's out there and I just didn't find it.

What's next

So anyway, I have a functioning NAS now. Could have been easier but I guess that's just how it is round here. Next I want to set up some docker apps, like Jellyfin and paperless-ngx. Let's see how that goes. The main drawback so far is the noise. That thinhg is loud. Even when it's in a closet, the fan makes it difficult to be in the same room. That's definitely something I'll have to address. Someone suggested swapping out the fan but I'm not sure how I'd find one that is suitable. Any suggestions are welcome. If you guys are interested, I'll keep writing updates about my progress.

So this is not a question about how to do this. I know how to do this. I also know that (at least under GNOME) it is neither easy nor intuitive. It involves manually editing several different text files to define MIME types and associating an application with that MIME type. My question is: is there an easy to use GUI tool to do this. I don’t think there is. Associating a file type to open with a specific app is easy, trivial even, to do on MacOS or Windows. Why is this seemingly simple task so hard to do in GNOME?

It's an Aoostar R1. A mini PC with an Intel N100 and two HDD drive bays. It's going to be my new NAS.

Hey guys, I switched to Bazzite about 5 months ago, but I currently have two seperate 2TB SSDs, one has Bazzite and the other still has my old Windows 11 install. I recently bought a 1TB SSD so that I can migrate Windows to the 1TB SSD and have two Linux distros installed at the same time on my two 2TB SSDs. I'm going to use BTRFS for both installations so I don't think I should have any problems accessing files between the seperate installations. I'm gonna keep one of the SSDs for Bazzite, and on the other I want to install CachyOS. I'm almost ready to wipe my old Windows 11 install off my 2TB SSD, I've made a fresh (debloated) Windows install on my 1TB SSD and copied over the stuff I care about keeping, so I'll soon be able to put a Linux distro on my 2TB SSD that's about to freed up.

One of my main concerns is being able to share Plex watch history/data between the 2 seperate distros, I currently run Plex media server in a Debian distrobox and I'd like to have both my Linux installations to share the same Plex data so I don't have seperate watch history etc when I switch between distros. How do I go about having 2 distros share the same Plex data? I've tried searching but I can't quite find the right answer as to where my Plex media server data is while installed through distrobox.

I'm open to migrating my Plex media server data to something else if that's the optimal way to go, but I'd prefer being able to just install a Debian distrobox instance on CachyOS, and then sharing that same data with my current Bazzite Debian distrobox instance so that no matter which OS I'm booted into, I have my watch history being updated and shared between the 2 OS'.

TLDR, how to I access Plex through two seperate Linux installations while keeping my watch history? I want to be able to boot into either CachyOS or Bazzite and have them both share the same Plex history and data. I currently run Plex media server through a Debian distrobox install on Bazzite and I want CachyOS to share the same Plex data.

Thanks in advance for anyone that can help!

Edit: Where is my Plex data when it's installed through a Debian distrobox anyways? I've searched but I can't find the right answer. Where and how would I even point a new Debian distrobox install to my current Plex data?

Edit 2: I have a 12TB HDD that contains all my TV shows and movies, and I know how to access it through all my different OS' but I want to keep the same watch history across two seperate Linux insallations. My current Plex media server installaion is running in a Debian distrobox in Bazzite, and I want to share that same data with a new installation of CachyOS or any other Linux distro that I choose to install. How do I do that?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20783411

The Clipboard Project is a clipboard manager that works entirely in your terminal. It has tons of swanky features including this new one in 0.9.1 that lets you securely ignore copying passwords and other things like that!

Link to the code: https://github.com/Slackadays/Clipboard

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21244508

The Kubuntu Team is happy to announce that Kubuntu 24.10 has been released, featuring the new and beautiful KDE Plasma 6.1 simple by default, powerful when needed.

Codenamed “Oracular Oriole”, Kubuntu 24.10 continues our tradition of giving you Friendly Computing by integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including a new 6.11 based kernel, KDE Frameworks 5.116 and 6.6.0, KDE Plasma 6.1 and many updated KDE gear applications.

I may have messed things up....... I had a lot of docker config and data stored in /home/skynet I then ran a sshfs command and it disappeared. I was trying to send the contents of /home/skynet (server) to /home/shady/skynet (desktop). This was in order to be able to edit the files on the server on the desktop via VSCodium.

I'd love recommendations on how to do this, but first how do I get my files back???

Here is what I did

skynet@skynet:~/docker/keycloak$ sudo sshfs -o allow_other,default_permissions shady@192.168.50.16:/home/shady/skynet /home/skynet
shady@192.168.50.16's password: 
skynet@skynet:~/docker/keycloak$ cd
skynet@skynet:~$ ks
-bash: ks: command not found
skynet@skynet:~$ ls
skynet@skynet:~$ ls -a
.  ..
skynet@skynet:~$ lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda           8:0    0   3.6T  0 disk 
├─sda1        8:1    0    16M  0 part 
└─sda2        8:2    0   3.6T  0 part /media/devmon
nvme0n1     259:0    0 476.9G  0 disk 
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   476G  0 part /
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0     1K  0 part 
└─nvme0n1p5 259:3    0   975M  0 part [SWAP]
skynet@skynet:~$ cd /home
skynet@skynet:/home$ ls
changedetection  linuxbrew  skynet  syncthing
skynet@skynet:/home$ cd skynet/
skynet@skynet:~$ ls
skynet@skynet:~$ ls -a
.  ..
skynet@skynet:~$ cd /home
skynet@skynet:/home$ ls
changedetection  linuxbrew  skynet  syncthing
skynet@skynet:/home$ fusermount -u /home/shady/skynet
fusermount: bad mount point /home/shady/skynet: No such file or directory
skynet@skynet:/home$ sudo journalctl -u sshfs
-- No entries --
skynet@skynet:/home$

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20670854

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/c-squares

c-squares written in the C language will render random coloured rectangulars in the terminal, while the font, speed, density, color, ratio and number of the shapes drawn are fully costumizable.

Every time a rectangular is complete, a new one starts to take shape.

Feel free to explore the endless variations.

The host is the most important thing here, since I am finding it hard to get a full replacement for the screen. If someone has an answer for a fix, that would be awesome.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21161182

Plasma 6 has come into its own over the last two releases. The wrinkles that always come with a major migration have been ironed out, and it’s time to start delivering on the promises of the new Qt 6 and Wayland technology platforms that Plasma is built on top of.

Plasma 6.2 includes a smorgasbord of new features for users of drawing tablets. It implements more complete support for the Wayland color management protocol, and enables it by default. There is also improved brightness handling for HDR and ICC profiles, as well as HDR performance. A new tone mapping feature built into Plasma’s KWin compositor will help improve the look of images with a brightness or set of colors greater than what the screen can display, thus reducing the “blown out” look such images can otherwise exhibit.

When it comes to power management You can now override misbehaving applications that block the system from going to sleep or locking the screen (and thus prevent saving power), and you can also adjust the brightness of each connected monitor machine separately.

Plasma’s built-in app store and software management tool, Discover, now supports PostmarketOS packages for your mobile devices, helps you write better reviews of apps, and presents apps’ license information more accurately.

In Plasma 6.2, KDE have overhauled System Settings’ Accessibility page and added colorblindness filters. They've also added support for the full “sticky keys” feature on Wayland.

This and more in full anounncement and changelog.

I had uninstalled snap a while ago. This just popped up in my update list on Discover (KDE Neon).

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20575347

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/2098933