Okay so I'm using Kubuntu and I went to update it and then of course it needs to restart after. Nothing unusual. However instead of restarting normally it's now just on a black screen with the cursor (like text cursor not mouse cursor) blinking in the top left. It's been like this for at least 15 minutes. I can type into the command line and up arrow to see previous commands. I've never had this happen and I'm not tech savvy so would it be okay to just hold the power button to turn my laptop off or should I run a command to make my computer restart? And if so, what command? I just don't want to break my laptop by turning the power off

Also, as for why this happened, could it be bc I just hit update all instead of doing the system update first then updating everything else? Is it best practice to do updates in a certain order? I want to understand why this happened for future troubleshooting if possible

Edit: okay I tapped the power button and it immediately turned off. I waited 30 sec to a minute then turned it back on. Everything seems to be working fine. I would still like to know if the order I update things matters?

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I like the simplicity if the bamboo software but realy would love a foss firmware for the printer. Ik this isn't strictly Linux related but figured this was the best fit for the discussion. I would get a prusa printer but the cost for multi material just doesn't make economical sense. Is their some 3rd party controller board that integrates well? I run QubesOS with a designated sys-print qube to keep such activities isolated. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I'm a mechanical engineering student and would like to take advantage of my knowledge to engineer myself into a physical advantaged.

I ordered some PineBuds Pro, is there an over ear open firmware option out there?

Crossposted from https://thebrainbin.org/m/linux@lemmy.ml/t/1840283

Which approach do you think is better, and why?

1. FIDO2
2. HMAC-SHA1
3. OpenPGP (alternative guide)

Or do you think there is an even better way to use a hardware security token to unlock drives having LUKS full disk encryption?

Was chatting with folks in the lunch room, and it came up (from them) about how horrible Microsoft /windows is, how they have a laptop at home with win 11 but it sucks so bad they dont use it and just use their phone instead.

I of course had to say (in a conversational way, not being elitist) my life has vastly improved since I eradicated windows from my life, and Linux is rediculously easy now. They all looked at me like a master hacker and couldn't understand how I could do anything on Linux because (their words) " you have to be a programmer to use it, its just a black screen!"

Sooo I explained how GUI desktop environments have been around since at least the late 90s, and while it operates differently under the hood, there are dozens of versions of Linux that act and look almost identical to windows. Not to mention the insane performance boost over windows. They were surprised any normal person could ever use Linux. These are smart people, they just have no idea what's possible.

Its just crazy the amount of misunderstanding there is out there ! But hopefully I made them think a little bit more about how linux actually works, I doubt they'll ever change but every little bit helps.

wrote CLI in C++ to sort files. it's very simple, just download and use. if you a photographer, video editor or just need to sort some files, you welcome (link in post)

A quick update on SSH Pilot, a free, opensource SSH, SFTP client I've been working on.

A new version is out with new features, aimed at meeting all your SSH/SFTP needs in a clean, user-friendly interface.

Just double-press the Shift key and all your hosts and management tools are at your fingertips. The tools include graphical frontends for SFTP, SCP, SSH-COPY-ID, Known Hosts, Authorized Keys as well as Docker containers.

Th app also supports backups to Bitwarden/Vaultwarden and restoring on other devices.

Downloads for Linux and macOS are available at https://github.com/mfat/sshpilot#download

Flatpak users can install from Flathub.

Howdy,

I've been trying to figure this out for a couple of days now. Essentially I am setting up a loaner laptop that uses active directory. This laptop is using Linux mint 22.3. I want users to be able to install apps, but only from the the gui software manager and apt install in the terminal. I don't want the other users to have any other sudo privileges. I managed to configure it to allow a non admin user from within the domain to use apt in the terminal to install packages, but for some reason it doesn't let me do it in the gui software manager without the root password.

I used visudo to edit the sudoers folder. I tried different varations of this line: %domain\ users@MY-Domain.com ALL=(ALL:ALL) /usr/bin/apt-get, /usr/bin/apt, /usr/bin/mintinstall, /usr/share/software-manager

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

The Debian project is engaging in a debate and vote on whether large language model (LLM) tools may be used in the development of Debian, its distribution-specific code, and the project's website. The general resolution is currently being discussed leading into a vote on the subject.

I stopped at my local dive and a dude was there painting some pretty cool pictures so I had him do my computer. I think it looks.pretty great!