When you install any new distro, most of the time it does not come with the video and audio codecs to play videos online and offline. The best way in my opinion to use codecs without spending hours installing is: **Install needed apps as flatpak.** The most common apps that need codecs is browsers and video players like vlc and mpv. Just install them(Make sure you enable [flathub repo](https://flathub.org/)) as flatpak (installed by default in most distros) and you will not need to spend time installing codecs from untrusted third party repos ever again.

[Announcement on NixOS Discourse](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-init-generate-nix-packages-from-urls-with-hash-prefetching-dependency-inference-license-detection-and-more)  ### Features - Hash prefetching powered by [nurl] - Dependency inference for Rust packages using the [Riff](https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/riff) registry and python projects - Interactive prompts with fuzzy tab completions - License detection - Supported builders - `stdenv.mkDerivation` - `buildRustPackage` - `buildPythonApplication` and `buildPythonPackage` - `buildGoModule` - Supported fetchers - `fetchCrate` - `fetchFromGitHub` - `fetchFromGitLab` - `fetchFromGitea` - `fetchPypi` - All other fetchers supported by [nurl] are also supported, you just have to specify the tags manually ### Usage ``` Usage: nix-init [OPTIONS] <OUTPUT> Arguments: <OUTPUT> The path to output the generated file to Options: -u, --url <URL> Specify the URL -c, --config <CONFIG> Specify the config file -h, --help Print help -V, --version Print version ``` [nurl]: https://github.com/nix-community/nurl

Finally! Sucked when you opened a doc then closed the program, you couldn't open another doc without a system restart. Stoked its been addressed!

1. Fish Shell 2. Nushell 3. Dune 4. Xonsh 5. Hilbish 6. Elvish 7. Oh 8. Solidity 9. Yash

Microsoft created PLUTON, the next gen TPM chip. And now it’s possible to ban devices which don’t run these locked down operating systems.

Upgraded Ubuntu to 22.04, where Firefox is Snap by default. Wasn't going to fight it, especially since Canonical has made 3 blog posts talking about how much faster they made Firefox on Snap. Since then, I've had subtle but annoying issues. * Can't Google things that have a colon after the first word- i.e. `error: file not found` doesn't work * I get *notifications* for pending updates * Other apps like Gnome's Software take a minute+ to load on my beefy computer This isn't even a meme. Snap is trash. I wanted to be neutral and not join the "hate train" but seriously. Snap is that bad.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/365408 > I was looking for a way to scan a QR code on my mobile using my laptop, but couldn't find a perfect solution. So I ended up making this tool. > > Repo: https://github.com/sayanarijit/qrscan > > Language: Rust > > Supported platforms: Currently tested on Linux, but should also run on Unix, Linux, Mac, Windows > > I just published this, so expect a few bugs here and there. If found please report.

Hi there. I'm pretty new to linux still, and just wanted to ask: How often do you all install security updates? It seems that I have a couple hundred MB of security updates every day (KDE Neon).

So, my PC is built with RST literally unable to be disabled. (I've tried, trust me. I've followed every tutorial online and reply on my help posts to no avail. I'm pretty sure it's impossible.) I currently don't have the funds, nor any reason, to buy a new PC. It still works just fine, but Windows is becoming increasingly pushy about switching to 11. I really wanted to switch to Mint, but seeing as how it's apparently impossible, I'm not sure what to do. Is there anything that can be done physically inside the PC to fix the "untouchable RST" issue? I'm not a massive techie, and I'm worried about ruining my PC since, like I said before, I don't have the money to get a new one, but if there's a fairly safe/easy way to fix this, if any way exists at all, does anybody know? Apologies for my ignorance. I'd like to learn more about PCs and Linux, too, so I'm hoping this will explain things as well, even if I don't fully grasp it yet.