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Looking for a tool to display DDR5 RAM timings/MT profiles. decode-dimms gives (both with and w/o sudo): No EEPROM found, the kernel probably does not support your hardware. sudo modprobe eeprom ...
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... I came across something called 'Instagraph' and it sounds interesting but it has zero documentation that I can find. The download site tells you how to install it, but nothing about what it is, ...
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Does anyone know of an open source application or perhaps how to integrate an existing find dupes script with some OS tool (emacs, vim, Finder.app, mc, etc...) to open a file before marking that file ...
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I’m seeking practical recommendations and tools to improve the security of my Linux server (CentOS) and minimize unauthorized access. I’m interested in both fundamental and advanced solutions that can ...
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I want to provide information to users. For example, it would be helpful to provide curated lists of recommended programs tailored to users’ needs-such as a Disk Usage Analyzer for those managing ...
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Looking for a private journal app that is customizable in font size and style and similar functions to Libra writer. Why you ask? I am a Tinkerer, and a Philosopher of sorts, and am looking for that &...
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I want to check the details such as sample rate and bit depth of a sound file. The things that on a Windows system are shown as "properties". I could also see this information in the player ...
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I recently took the leap to Pop OS, but I am struggling to find a Sidebar & Clock / calendar similar to my Windows set-up, see pic attached. Would really appreciate it if anyone has a similar set ...
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I am looking for a (free) VoIP Software that can do some special. I will run this Software at my Linux Computer. The Programm should use my VoIP Account/Number that i become from my ISP. If someone (...
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I need an FOSS pdf viewer library that can display the pdf file provided by its caller process in a seperate window and send back data like what page(s) the viewer is currently viewing, the visible ...
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I know there is "midnight commander", but it kind of sucks. I am looking for a file manager with lots of features, like "dos navigator", but for linux.
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I am in the process of finally switching my main machine over to Linux. One of the last items I am still urgently trying to solve is to find an email client that is capable of taking advantage of the ...
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I am looking for any opensource software which is capable to create virtual tape library. I am aware of two such software like mhvtl and quadstor VTL. I tried both but the problem is that there is no ...
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System Information: $ inxi -S System: Host: ... Kernel: 6.8.0-49-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: awesome v: 4.3 Distro: Linux Mint 22 Wilma I currently try to optimize my workflow and I am ...
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As we work with a local drive, we create read and write requests to the backend block devices. In general, they can not be and should not be fulfilled in their issue order. For example, write requests ...
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I have a Debian Linux desktop PC. I wish to run a TOTP Authenticator on this platform. I have found two possibilities in Snap Store :- Authme and SMART 2fa authenticator TOTP. However I have not been ...
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TTY devices are assistive devices for deaf and HOH (hard of hearing) people. Today these devices are obsolete because they are replaced with sms via cellphone and emails. However, government are ...
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As the title says, I'm looking for a monolingual french dictionary that I can query on the commandline, ideally offline. For example to have a low latency way to check the gender of nouns. I looked at ...
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Ok, so I'm looking for a simple live-dictation tool that will run natively in linux, not a web-based app. For context, I've looked around on Google, Checked out other SE posts asking the same thing in ...
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Is there a software recommendation for an application for the Cartesian field in Debian?
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As the title suggests, I have inherited a file structure where there are about 30 "complete or partial backups" of a fileserver full of text files. This obviously makes no sense, and I'd ...
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I'm looking for a command line Markdown viewer for many .md files somehow similar to image viewers. I need: simple/fast navigation: preferably left, right arrows (no combinations like :n, :p), and a ...
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I need to install an app, betaflight-configurator_10.3.1_linux64.zip, on manjaro os. I have the most recent version installed via Aur and the software manager but need an old version which i ...
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I am mainly a Windows user who occasionally uses Linux via ssh terminals. Currently, I am using nano as the text editor. However, I am so fed up that I am planning to write my own text editor ...
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I am searching for a lightweight terminal image viewer like feh,meh, sxiv, pqiv, or qiv, with the end objective of having a terminal image viewer that allows you to explore all pictures in a folder ...
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I try to make an ioctl() call from bash. This is very easy to do in C, so there are tools ( https://github.com/jerome-pouiller/ioctl ) which wrap this functionality. But it would make the distribution ...
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I have a text file contains about 50 song titles. I'm searching for a CLI utility that can take each title from the text file, search for it on YouTube, get the top 4 video links then download the ...
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Kitty terminal has a feature where one can run a python script that captures text via regex and allows copying directly to clipboard (see https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/hints/) The matches ...
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I use LibreCMC (based on OpenWRT) for my wifi router, and I really hate it. Every time I upgrade, everything breaks, and I have to manually log in and fix everything, by hand, and remember what I did ...
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I'm looking to satisfy the following use cases Occasionally automatically copy all data from a removable storage to fixed folder (and in reverse) Occasionally automatically sync a folder with a ...
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I sometimes cat a c file or a JSON file, there is no colorful format text. Is there any command line tool that can show colorful format text as it is in ex: gedit?
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I have been using the Print Booklet -function of Adobe Acrobat Reader on Windows. However the program does not have a Linux version, see download page. Also I don't see the option on Evince. Are there ...
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Is there a flavor of Linux designed for building neural networks and layering statistical packages for training transformers? I'm looking for an open-source OS version with PyTorch, Keras, or ...
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Instead of using non-POSIX tools such as unxz, what POSIX utility can I use to decompress files with the .xz extension? Neither xz nor unxz is a POSIX command, so if I want to run only POSIX commands, ...
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ascii command in Linux is fast and great. It allows us to search for a character or for a code point and returns all relevant results for a given search. Is there something similar for ASCII extended (...
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Is there a GUI linux application that shows per mounted disk i/o transfer rate in a graphic? (Like gnome-system-monitor do for the swap mount but for each mounted drive) I'm looking for an application ...
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I want to generate a secure random password for the encrypted Linux system. What offline tools should I use? Any advice if I should use xkcdpass, apg, diceware, or another utility, and how built ...
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It is known that there are other approaches besides ECC memory that can help avoid data loss due to e.g. flipping of RAM memory cells by cosmic rays (bit flip problem): What the Bit Flip Problem is: ...
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There are many applications for visualizing the files/directories that take up the most space, for example all of these: How to understand what's taking up disk space?, and other similar ones for ...
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I am trying to move directories (with sub-directories and files) to another directory. With mv some folders are not merging because the same directory exists with files. This is no good because even ...
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What I'm looking for can be stated simply as: Are there any existing tools/approaches, that would allow me to (at least partially) automatically format C source code comments for documentation? I'm ...
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Most of the SSD benchmarks you see out there use solely Crystal Disk Mark for Windows on an empty SSD. This allows to show speeds of 300~550MB/s (SATAIII), which is amazing compared to most HDDs. ...
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I've been looking for a Remote Desktop solution for Ubuntu 22.04. 'gnome-remote-desktop', Ubuntu 22.04's standard RDP solution, automatically quits when the user logs out and it does not support login ...
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I'm looking for an app to display & edit CSV files as a tabular data in cells, similar to GUI spreadsheets like LibreOffice Calc. I just need simple viewing, cell editing & easy navigation ...
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I'm using dwm on Arch Linux. Is there an existing program I can use to draw on the screen? For example, if I'm in a zoom meeting, sharing my screen, I'd like to scribble over the code I'm showing in ...
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Notepad++ has a feature where you simply right click on a text and select "hide lines", for example a base64 encoded jpeg in a markdown file, which is a large blob of text. I have not ...
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I'm looking for a Linux open source document management system (DMS). Ideally I would like to install a Server on my workstation Linux Mint. What I need from this system is: write wiki page to ...
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I seek a music player which will let me rate my music and later play highly rated ones. I am aware that rhythmbox can do this, but seek alternatives with better UI. Other features sought: Ability to ...
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I looked at various Open Source translation software (desktop OR web like: weblate, omegaT, pootle, etc.) and I cannot find this 'feature' or I am incorrectly searching to find it or it doesn't exist. ...
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I'm looking for a dummy SSH server that will simply reject any logins, even if they use the credentials of a real system account. As I search, I'm finding honeypots, but I don't want the hacker to ...
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