I just got an ASUS Zenbook 14 and installed Fedora, but on boot the function row on the keyboard works as F1-F12, rather than as volume/media and other system function keys. I went into the UEFI and found the only option to customise is to just completely disable media keys and then stumbled upon this […]
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[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Note: This may also be seen as error: “Ive_destroy: destroy operations are not allowed from LVE context” in kernel logs/on the hypervisor KVM.[/box] I came across this error on a couple of new CloudLinux 8 servers running Plesk encountering users with newly imported/backup restored users from entering cagefs, with this error
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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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[box type=”warning” align=”” class=”” width=””]Please note this guide now uses a fork of the official MTProxy software. The official version is unmaintained (no updates in 5 years), and there is a bug from 2019 that remains unfixed and makes using MTProxy on newer Ubuntu releases difficult. The fork used is the most popular on GitHub
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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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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
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[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=”100%”]Note: This guide is based on the guide made by the developer available at https://github.com/sgan81/apfs-fuse, but that guide is for Ubuntu.[/box] 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:
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As many are likely already aware, Fedora is RedHat’s free (in both senses) Linux distribution. It shuns proprietary software and code and instead only includes FOSS at every level from kernel to userland. Fedora 33 launched today, so let’s have a look and see what’s changed. UI Updates: GNOME: Fedora 33 ships with GNOME 3.38,
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Kali for WSL comes with a GUI baked right in, but since I only just realised this I thought it was worth doing a quick post on it. To get the Kali GUI on Windows, install WSL first – we have a guide on installing WSL 2 here: https://www.gadgethow2.com/2020/10/16/windows-10-wsl2/ Then download Kali from the Microsoft
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RPM Fusion is a repository project offering software the Fedora team does not want to include in their own repositories. There are two different repos (free and nonfree). They’re both free as in money, but nonfree includes proprietary software. To enable the repos, use the commands below (running both is fine, but it depends on
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