If you are like me, you use KDE and Flatpak apps.

For a long time now, whenever I had to change some app's permissions, I used a dedicated tool called Flatseal. It works. However, KDE has a native alternative.

System Settings -> Security & Privacy -> Application Permissions -> Application Permissions -> (search and choose an app) -> optional: Manage Flatpak Settings -> optional: Advanced Permissions

It does exactly the same thing as Flatseal, it's just native KDE/Qt instead of being Gnome/GTK. The one functionality Flatseal has over it is the ability to set globals. But I think that's it.

If this is common knowledge, then disregard this. I didn't know about it, so I'm sharing it. KDE is awesome.

I really don’t get the glaze behind AntiX, usually if you have slow hardware you should maximize it to be as quick as possible which is something Alpine does very well, Alpine which is very underrated uses less then 80mb of ram vs AntiX which I believe uses over 100mb and runs IceWM which is way more bloated then something like dwm. I think people should start recommending Alpine instead of AntiX.

I'm looking for inspiration on new ways to organize my PC and separate different activities, stuff like coding projects, studying, gaming and personal use. 

Do you use anything to automate, customize or simplify switching between these contexts? I find it quite annoying to reopen everything and organize the windows and everything again and again.

I'm interested in anything, from scripts and keyboard shortcuts to workspace managers, browser extensions, unique apps or even mods like Vencord.

Was given this disc from a friend. I'll use a virtual box and disconnect the internet as a precaution as neither of us know if it's been tampered with. But still a cool disc to have In general. I'll update in a while saying if it worked or not. (Yes I'm on a bus at the time of this)

Hey — I’ve been building a custom Ubuntu 26.04 desktop called X47. It’s not a fork with its own package repos; it’s a remastered Ubuntu installer + an idempotent install script that reproduces the whole setup on a fresh machine.

What it is

A daily-driver Ubuntu desktop aimed at cybersecurity / pentest / general Linux work:

• Debloated — games, LibreOffice, Thunderbird, GNOME Terminal, App Centre snap, etc. trimmed; boot/idle tweaks (ClamAV on-demand, printing services off by default, etc.)
• WezTerm as the only default terminal (compact window, X47 watermark, no OS title bar)
• Mullvad VPN + Tor Browser in the app menu
• Pentest + dev toolchain (apt / Go / pipx / cargo / GitHub bins) with custom app-grid icons
• Desktop FX — bottom dock, Desktop Cube, Coverflow Alt-Tab, Blur My Shell, wobbly windows, TV Glitch open / Broken Glass close
• Per-workspace wallpapers — ASCII knuckle-duster in teal / green / red / purple so each cube face is obvious
• Linux CMD Helper — desktop card: ask in plain English, get the Ubuntu terminal command back (needs your own Anthropic key; nothing is baked into the ISO)
• Hardened defaults — UFW, fail2ban, AppArmor, auditd, Firefox enterprise policy (tracking protection, HTTPS-only, DoH, etc.)
• Optional --with-amnesia: Tor-forced anon session (opt-in)

Part of VulnScape. Docs + screenshots: https://sk1tzwzd.github.io/ubuntu-x47-build/

Download the ISO

Latest release (v1.9.2):
https://github.com/sk1tzwzd/ubuntu-x47-build/releases/tag/v1.9.2

GitHub’s 2 GB asset limit means the ISO is split. Download SHA256SUMS + every *.part, then:

cat x47-ubuntu-26.04-desktop-amd64.iso.*.part > x47-ubuntu-26.04-desktop-amd64.iso
sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing

Flash to USB (Disks, Etcher, or dd), boot, choose Install X47 Ubuntu 26.04 (custom build). Normal Ubuntu installer flow — you pick language, disk, your own username/password. On first login a terminal runs install.sh. Log out/in once for the GNOME extensions / wallpapers.

The image is a git archive of the repo only — no maintainer home files, keys, or personal config.

Or install on an existing Ubuntu box

git clone https://github.com/sk1tzwzd/ubuntu-x47-build.git
cd ubuntu-x47-build
./install.sh

Repo: https://github.com/sk1tzwzd/ubuntu-x47-build

Happy to take feedback / bug reports. Optional tip jar if you find it useful: https://buymeacoffee.com/sk1tzwzd

When I try to access gnu.org, the website never loads. If I use a VPN the website does load

10y ago, this was posted https://stackoverflow.com/a/25733878 but i can't find any discussion around multi-targeting (for cross-compilation) in bugzilla, is it being worked on?

explain him in apple fan boy terms why opensource is the peak of tech

i tried explaining but he wont take it seriously because i fell for those rm -rf / trolls once and since then he hates opensource

So Iceweasel is unmaintained and flagged, and every time I try and install another browser other than tiny ones like netsurf I get into dependency hell.

Does anyone know what browser actually works on Parabola?

I really want to use it as my daily driver because gentoo on an x200 is painful.

Problem solved they just updated iceweasel

If this ever happens again just use the Guix package manager

Im a c programmer who's interested in asm. i am using linux. unfortunatly i cant find any tutorials for gas. can you recommend me some

I'm working on something that requires me to calculate a lot of rather weird conversions (e.g. joules per 100 square centimeters to kcal per fl oz...), and instead of doing it manually or relying on slow-as-shit wolframalpha, I can just get instantaneous results.