For an ongoing discusion on Lemmy and a more detailed article see here

Kein “SPRICH”? :(

Let’s say, hypothetically, that there was a way to access this article without paywall

It was a bit of a long shot experiment to begin with. The commands I posted can be useful when an audio device suddenly stops working after it has been working initially during a session, but since your problem is most likely about your device not being recognized at any time, it’s not too surprising that they don’t do much. Just worth the try.

Do any of

alsactl clean 0
alsactl clean 1
alsactl clean 2

do anything for you? (The numbers are for sound card 0, 1, and 2. It looks like, if anything, only 0 would be relevant for you, but you can try the others just in case.)

This command cleans the controls created by applications.

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/questing/man1/alsactl.1.html

I didn’t know about the web interfaces of Invidious instances. Definitey looks cool, and this redicrect domain is handy to quickly find a working instance.

Still, FreeTube has a couple of major advantages. One is that even if your go-to Invidious instance becomes unusable, your local FreeTube configuration (subscriptions, blocks, ricings, you name it) remains 100% in effect, because FreeTube just picks a different instance. Even when Google again makes all Invidious instances dysfunctional, FreeTube may still be usable by accessing YouTube directly. Also, FreeTube likely has A LOT more options—the settings page is quite sizeable. Finally, I find it increasingly nice that it’s a standalone client separate from your browser. It makes it more deliberate to start watching videos, so that I’m less likely to go on senseless watching sprees; and conversely, when I’m watching useful videos, I’m less likely to interrupt them by going to some irrelevant website.

They’re all innovating hard to bring us even better ink cartdridge DRM.

Came here to point to this.

Also, if outside noise is preventing one from keeping the windows open over night, get custom-fitted silicone earplugs.

There is forum software that’s integrated in the fediverse. Most often I’ve heard about NodeBB, which is open source and one can self-host it for free; there is even a YunoHost package.

What hardware do you currently use and what software do you intend to run on the new machine? And what’s your budget situation?

In any case, I would always recommend to buy used or refurbished hardware. Even if it’s not necessary financially, it’s better for the environment.

That’s very cool indeed – although I dread the moment he starts talking to his followers about Lemmy.

This is in all likelihood the way to go. These instructions from VeraCrypt might lead the way.

Of course, OP should create an exact duplicate of the disk to another drive before making any changes to it.

As an aside, I know that GPT partition tables likewise come with a backup header at the end of the disk. Whether LUKS encrypted devices also have backup headers, I don’t know, but it doesn’t seem so. So, my fellow LUKS users, perhaps you would like to run the following:

sudo cryptsetup luksHeaderBackup /dev/LUKSDEVICE --header-backup-file ~/nas/backups/lenovo_x280.luks.bin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYoh6hVHufI

There’s a provision that says the trust structure can be changed without everyone’s consent if the intended change is in the interest of all trustees. Rupert, Lachlan and their team want to exploit this by arguing that the ongoing financial success of the media empire is dependent on it retaining its staunchly conservative editorial line, so that it is in fact (from a financial point of view) in the interest of the three non-conservative children if they don’t get to have any influence. The first judge wasn’t buying it; let’s hope that the others will rule the same way. (One argument in their favor is that the $787 million settlement that Fox News has to pay to Dominion Voting System due to a defamation lawsuit was a consequence of Rupert’s or Lachlan’s die-hard conservative messaging.)

What’s less good: I remember dimly that, should Rupert live long enough (past theö year 2030?), he can change the trust at will again.

Thank you, that’s interesting and good to know. At least it’s probably a good idea to not increment/decrement properties in very small steps (like 2% at a time) on a regular basis. I suspect the 5% steps I’m using for brightness should be fine, but I’ll implement some shortcuts that go in bigger steps just to be sure.

The most staggering thing though is that the show has had quite noticeable repercussions on the dealings of the real-life Murdochs. Anyone who would like a long read on all this can check out the Atlantic article linked in the post description.

The Atlantic article that I linked in the post description talks at length about the spicy shit (especially about the family relations and only comparatively little about the legal aspects).

Someone should make a Monty Python style sketch out of this

I’m curious about both things you mention. Do you have the name of the kernel module at hand? And can you point me to a source on the monitor flash memory (as I couldn’t find anything on that)?

To add to this, I’d recommend to go through the BIOS/UEFI settings and turn off things you don’t need, e.g. certain card slots, ports, fingerprint scanner, maybe the webcam.