The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Yandex Captcha Solver]

Does anyone have any experience getting a USB-DVB to work with rocky linux 9? It looks like the DVB modules are not included in the rocky-9 kernel by default.

I don't really want to have to recompile the kernel.

Does "sudo modprobe dvb-usb" just tell you module not found? If so it looks like Rocky Linux has a few packages called kernel-modules-extra, kernel-modules, and kernel-modules-core whcih may need to be installed.

 

[khaine]

Does "sudo modprobe dvb-usb" just tell you module not found? If so it looks like Rocky Linux has a few packages called kernel-modules-extra, kernel-modules, and kernel-modules-core whcih may need to be installed.

Thats right. I tried installing kernel-modules-extra but it didn't contain dvd-usb. I didn't try kernel-modules and kernel-modules-core because they were already installed.

 

[Aidan]

is there something that will let me batch edit text files that are inside zip folders without unzipping (if it can unzip and rezip without changing the name or keepign a unzipped copy is fine)?

I have a ebook collection that is in .epub format, which is a bunch of .html files in a renamed .zip archive. I got a bunch of them that from OceanofPDF, but it adds the following watermark to the end of each chapter, which is it's own html page. the books are in series folders that are inside author folders, and may have more or less folder directories.
<div class="calibre2" id="calibre_pb_34"></div><div style="float: none; margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px; text-align: center;"><p><a href="https://oceanofpdf.com"><i>OceanofPDF.com</i></a></p></div>

How can I write a script that recursively checks a folder and it's subdirectories for .epub files, then looks inside them for the html files and removes this line from each file (if it exists) without changing the name or making additional files?

The simplest thing to do would be to unzip everything, edit the files, then rezip them. You could do that with 3 lines of find.

1. Find the zip files and unzip them to a directory of the same name
2. Find html files containing the line and remove it with sed or something
3. Find and zip the directories back and delete the directories to clean up
   1. You can find where a directory and .zip of the same name exist, for example

You could do this with one find line and more robustly if you have a sane directory structure. You could also have a file that stores updated epub names to avoid redoing that on the same epubs, plus allowing you to blindly run the script over and over as you add new files. Do whatever makes sense and works.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

More of the same thing we see too often now. Though. This seems particularly egregious.

 

[GNU Abyss]

is there something that will let me batch edit text files that are inside zip folders without unzipping (if it can unzip and rezip without changing the name or keepign a unzipped copy is fine)?

I have a ebook collection that is in .epub format, which is a bunch of .html files in a renamed .zip archive. I got a bunch of them that from OceanofPDF, but it adds the following watermark to the end of each chapter, which is it's own html page. the books are in series folders that are inside author folders, and may have more or less folder directories.
<div class="calibre2" id="calibre_pb_34"></div><div style="float: none; margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px; text-align: center;"><p><a href="https://oceanofpdf.com"><i>OceanofPDF.com</i></a></p></div>

How can I write a script that recursively checks a folder and it's subdirectories for .epub files, then looks inside them for the html files and removes this line from each file (if it exists) without changing the name or making additional files?

I don't think there's a ready-made solution for this, at least I'm not aware of one. Python would probably work because of all the batteries included into the standard interpreter by default. Relevant built-in modules in no particular order: zipfile (lets you work with files without extracting them), os (for walking your directory tree), etree from xml (it's XML, but whatever. A DOM's a DOM. Only good if you don't want to pull in the more suited beautifulsoup.) Alternatively, you could unzip files into a pre-made tmpfs volume and use whatever CLI utilities you know. no disk writes that way.

 

[AmpleApricots]

I've been ricing my heart out like it's 2001 in the last few days, playing around with fvwm (which is amazingly obstruse to configure, I forgot all about it) and remembering my old openbox etc. days. I threw in a few old school looking things, like pcmanfm and mate-terminal. It's interesting how you can make a current linux desktop look and feel like some hypothetical and bizarre Win9x/cde solaris cross, witn nary a modern element in sight. Yes, this is a solid waste of my time, very aware of it. I even found quite a few GTK 3 styles that bring that faux 3D motif/Win9x-like look back. I wouldn't say it's useful but it's quite nice that it's possible. I'm kinda surprised GTK theming still lets you go that far (even if it is sort of janky), last time I cared about GTK themes was around GTK 2.


It's called style, look it up

Modern browsers of course all shit and piss over any kind of more advanced theming you are trying to apply to them and enforce flatism, but does that really surprise anybody?

I'm actually curious how many people use tiling WMs. Every time I wrap back around to stacking window managers, they seem more chaotic, but also more efficent with my screen real estate. (If I don't use fullscreened programs) Letting windows overlap can be useful, who whould've thought.

 

[jONALD]

I'm actually curious how many people use tiling WMs. Every time I wrap back around to stacking window managers, they seem more chaotic, but also more efficent with my screen real estate. (If I don't use fullscreened programs) Letting windows overlap can be useful, who whould've thought.

I don't even know what a window manager is nor do I think I have a use case for one. I just use XFCE with a part of Oldiewaita for the style and the Haiku Os icons with the Terminus Regular font. It feels decently oldskool for now.

 

[DavidS877]

I don't even know what a window manager is nor do I think I have a use case for one. I just use XFCE with a part of Oldiewaita for the style and the Haiku Os icons with the Terminus Regular font. It feels decently oldskool for now.

It's the thing that manages your windows. Unless you just have one giant full-screen window. If you can drag them around, then you have a window manager. XFCE's is called "xfwm".

 

[Betonhaus]

Is there any benefit to setting up a kerberos server for home use? like synchronizing your account across multiple computers?

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

Is there any benefit to setting up a kerberos server for home use? like synchronizing your account across multiple computers?

I've done it, but mainly to learn how it works. It's also useful for your user ID to propagate correctly to NFS shares.

If you do it, I'd recommend doing it via Samba and Active Directory, which is Microsoft's Kerberos + LDAP. That way you get the benefit on both Windows and Linux.

 

[HahaYes]

Modern browsers of course all shit and piss over any kind of more advanced theming you are trying to apply to them and enforce flatism

Tor is the only browser I've seen lately which actually works with any ricing, at least with KDE. It takes on the selected window decoration and a little bit of the plasma style selected for the rest of the desktop

 

[HootersMcBoobies]

Is there any benefit to setting up a kerberos server for home use? like synchronizing your account across multiple computers?

I've done it, but mainly to learn how it works. It's also useful for your user ID to propagate correctly to NFS shares.

I started down the path of setting up Kerberos for NFS; setting up local DNS records and using the lerberos tools. But I remember how nearly two decades prior I had basically locked myself out of all my boxes because I the LDAP box died. I had setup local fallback in PAM, but .. it didn't work. So I've always just done local accounts.

As I was getting frustrated with Kerberos, I realized it just wasn't worth it for encrypted NFS. So instead, I setup wireguard internally in my own house. I setup NFS to only work on the wireguard IP addresses and just use NFS over wireguard for security. I kinda wish I had setup Kerberos too in order to test the speed of native NFS encryption vs NFS-over-wireguard, but I have 10G connections everywhere so I really don't care that much.

If you do it, I'd recommend doing it via Samba and Active Directory, which is Microsoft's Kerberos + LDAP. That way you get the benefit on both Windows and Linux.

Back in the day openSUSE's YAST was really good at adding machines to ActiveDirectory. That's what I did with all the machines at a startup I was with years ago. It's difficult to automate using configuration management (puppet/ansible/chef/etc.) or at least it was back then; might be better now.

 

[Pepe Cortisona]

This is the straw that broke the camel's back. My windows desktop just made me lost work progress. Left my desktop pc doing a render while I went to sleep. When I came back, I was greeted with this "intimidating" upgrade screen.


Fuck this shit, it basically decided to update less than an hour after I left. Shit like the forced updates are what made me switch slowly to Linux, because fuck your time, fuck your privacy and fuck you in general.

I was already using Ubuntu Studio as my daily driver for quite some time on my laptop, when I'm done with this pending job, I'm installing US in this fucker too.

 

[Susanna]

View attachment 6306304

"October 14th, 2025"
So it's absolutely not at all urgent, they're just trying to annoy people.

 

[Never Scored]

This is the straw that broke the camel's back. My windows desktop just made me lost work progress. Left my desktop pc doing a render while I went to sleep. When I came back, I was greeted with this "intimidating" upgrade screen.
View attachment 6306304

Fuck this shit, it basically decided to update less than an hour after I left. Shit like the forced updates are what made me switch slowly to Linux, because fuck your time, fuck your privacy and fuck you in general.

I was already using Ubuntu Studio as my daily driver for quite some time on my laptop, when I'm done with this pending job, I'm installing US in this fucker too.

Even after end of life, you'll most likely be perfectly safe as long as your software like the browser is up to date. I wouldn't use it for work, but just shitposting, using a browser or playing games? It's going to be several years before it matters. Do you have any idea how many people are going around with phones no longer receiving security updates in their back pockets?

And even then, you can use a program like Rufus to make a Windows 11 install USB that bypasses TPM check and install 11 and get security updates anyway. It's retarded that Mircosoft makes you jump through these hoops when 11 will technically work on basically every PC 10 will, but they've always been this way and that's why everyone hates them.

All that being said... if you can use Linux for everything, I think you should because it's generally less bloated and snappier than Windows on the same hardware. I'm just being a realist here and understand some important applications still require Windows. I need some for work myself.

 

[woowie queen]

it's me, again. so, last time i popped in there, i was lamenting about my xp-pen screen tablet showing some weird issues with endeavouros kde, probably connected to the fact that wayland seems to still have issues with multi monitors or something. i was thinking, if i do install endeavouros with xfce, i should not get wayland with it, no?

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

it's me, again. so, last time i popped in there, i was lamenting about my xp-pen screen tablet showing some weird issues with endeavouros kde, probably connected to the fact that wayland seems to still have issues with multi monitors or something. i was thinking, if i do install endeavouros with xfce, i should not get wayland with it, no?

XFCE and Wayland are extremely, extremely bare-bones and exclusively a thing in its current beta (XFCE 4.19), which isn't something EndeavourOS provides in their ISOs.

Just to note, it's been forever since I booted into an EndeavourOS live environment, I know they offer a metric shit ton of options for each desktop install, but I don't know whether or not they recently started providing betas of desktops in their live install ISOs.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Tor is the only browser I've seen lately which actually works with any ricing, at least with KDE. It takes on the selected window decoration and a little bit of the plasma style selected for the rest of the desktop

unfortunately it also uses faggotfox for default. I've had to compile ungoogled-chromium for tor because of that alone.

 

[Pepe Cortisona]

"October 14th, 2025"
So it's absolutely not at all urgent, they're just trying to annoy people.

They are also trying to intimidate the users, just like they did with Windows 7 and 8 back then.

All that being said... if you can use Linux for everything, I think you should because it's generally less bloated and snappier than Windows on the same hardware. I'm just being a realist here and understand some important applications still require Windows. I need some for work myself.

I started distro hopping in 2020 to test what worked best for me and to see if migrating to Linux was as challenging as some claimed. In the end, I decided to stick with Ubuntu Studio. My only grievance is that my laptop's trackpoint is very sluggish (this didn’t happen with vanilla Ubuntu), but other than that, I'm happy with the performance. Thankfully, my "critical" software runs fine on a Windows 7 virtual machine, and even the LTP1 adapter I need works perfectly. Overall, I’m very happy with my setup so far.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Anyone know the security implications of Xen vs KVM? Also, Anyone ever had luck with GPU passthrough with an SSH shell on base OS?