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I recently encountered this error on a new server, and it turned out it was a result of a mismatch between the PHP version selected within Plesk and the PHP version in the CloudLinux PHP Selector. To resolve this, ensure that the correct PHP version is selected under both by heading to the PHP: And […]
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This post is being written because I set up an MTProto server for a friend in Russia who is concerned Telegram may be blocked soon after the country has decided to block uncensored western sites such as the BBC, Twitter, and Facebook and he is concerned Telegram may be next, but it is a good solution
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Note: April 8th 2022. This may no longer work. It worked at the time of writing, but my printers keep coming up again now. Modern GNOME based distros automatically discover and install printers on your network and there’s no easy way to disable this. In the past disabling cups-browsed was enough, but we also now need to
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Out of the box Fedora applies organisation management to Chromium based browsers, and while heading to chrome://policy doesn’t show any policies even being applied (the only one has Error as its status), browsers such as Brave will prevent you from enabling Secure DNS as long as organisation management policies are enabled showing the message “This
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My laptop has issues with coil whine, resulting in me needing to disable Intel Turbo Boost. I usually use a GNOME Extension like CPU Power Manager but at the time of writing that extension isn’t compatible with GNOME 40, and isn’t much use for non-GNOME users. Firstly elevate to sudo with sudo -i, then: nano
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Timeshift works fine on Fedora, but with a little bit of tweaking. Elevate to sudo with sudo -i, then install Timeshift with: dnf install timeshift -y Next find the name of the partition you want to use Timeshift on by running lsblk. On my laptop (ThinkPad X390) it is under nvme0n1 -> nvme0n1p3 > luks-xxxx…
How To: Timeshift on Fedora 34 with BTRFS Read More »
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that WSLg, the Microsoft-developed WSL GUI, is finally available for Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel after teasing it previously. This brings official support for Linux GUI apps to run alongside Windows ones, potentially ending the need for some people to dual-boot Windows and Linux. What works? Clipboard copy/paste ✅ Sound
Hands-on with WSLg, the official WSL GUI Read More »
Apple might not make iPods any more, but there’s something of an iPod revival going on at the moment. I dug out my old iPod mini with 4GB spinning tiny very small hard disk the size of a CF card. You’ll need to make sure Rhythmbox is installed (comes with Ubuntu and Fedora, may come
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This month we’ve picked some of the best looking GNOME/GTK3 themes available from Pling. Almost every theme we’ve picked has dark/light variants and some have coloured variants too. We’ve used the Papirus icon pack available here. Venta X Dark Screenshot: Download URL: https://www.pling.com/p/1396612 Ant Screenshot: Download URL: https://www.pling.com/p/1099856/ Orchis Screenshot: Download URL: https://www.pling.com/p/1357889/ Materials Original
Top 5 GNOME Themes: November 2020 Read More »
Download dependencies: sudo dnf install fuse fuse-devel libicu-devel bzip2 bzip2-devel cmake clang git zlib-devel Clone from Github: git clone https://github.com/sgan81/apfs-fuse.git cd apfs-fuse git submodule init git submodule update Then build: mkdir build cd build cmake .. Finally run make to build the software. make To mount a drive, use apfs-fuse /dev/<device> <mount-directory> To mount a
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