It’s option caps:escape_shifted_capslock I think.

You can look through /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst for all the options.

Edit: Just looked up when this was added, this is a new option from 2024:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/-/commit/6bf17ba73bd94dd02e036a8c99c4a684a83f13fb

IDK if this will work but maybe doing exec sudo -i does the trick.

Otherwise just enable the root account and log in as root. Should be passwd -u root to unlock (passwd -l root to relock), also need to set the root password using passwd root.

The file autostart.sh file needs to be executable. This might be why it’s not working.

You cannot realistically make it impossible to detect that you’re running on wine. Wine just implements the Windows ABIs. The actual code running is totally different. Even just reading any of the binary code of literally any function would reveal it’s different from the Windows code. How are you going to stop it from doing memory reads on stuff that it needs to be able to read? You can’t. You’d need a full hardware emulator for that.

Anti cheat software tries to find cheats running on the computer, and in order to that, so called kernel-level anticheat hooks into NT (Windows kernel) internals, and runs at the highest possible privilege level. It has to do that so it can monitor everything going on in the system. If it didn’t do that, the cheat could just hide from the anticheat software by running with superior privileges.

Wine does not implement undocumented/internal parts of NT, and neither does it run at an elevated privilege level. It also cannot realistically implement any and all possible NT kernel internals, and it cannot possibly hide the fact that it’s actually wine, and not real Windows, from any program that really wants to figure this out.

If wine tried to implement a specific workaround for a specific anti-cheat software/version, in order to it trick into thinking it’s running on a real Windows system with elevated privileges, the anti-cheat vendor would likely interpret this as a kind of deception, and they could easily update their software to detect this situation.

Theoretically, anti-cheat vendors could do kernel-level anticheat for the Linux kernel specifically if the game runs on Linux, but this has problems: First of all a general backlash and complete lack of cooperation from the Linux community (btw, Microsoft isn’t too happy about them doing this on Windows either, and they might at some point do something about this, since it’s bad for security and stability). Also, Linux kernel internals aren’t at all stable, and so just practically you cannot hook into the Linux kernel nearly as easily as you can into NT.

Some anti-cheat vendors do support Linux though, but only optionally if the game dev allows that. In practice, this just means many checks will just be disabled on Linux, which is presumably why many games do not enable the Linux support.

tl;dr: No. Only the anti-cheat vendor / game dev can realistically fix the situation, and they may not want to because it’ll be worse at actually detecting cheats on Linux in practice.

I have had USB thumb drives that just wouldn’t boot on some computers. Try a different USB drive maybe.

https://lwn.net/Articles/335415/

The evince PDF reader ran into this issue back in 2005. It is now rare to find a distributor shipping a version of evince which implements copy restrictions. Xpdf implements copy restrictions unconditionally, but Debian patched that code out in 2002, and that patch has spread to other distributors as well. In general, as one would expect, free PDF readers tend not to implement this behavior. Okular is about the only exception that your editor can find; it’s interesting to note that the version of Okular shipped with Fedora Rawhide also implements copy restrictions by default. Perhaps this behavior is result of the relative newness of this application; as it accumulates more users, the pressure for more user-friendly behavior is likely to grow.

Another downside of flatpak is that I don’t trust upstream devs to have my best interests at heart, but I trust Debian developers far more. I’ve seen upstream do some annoying or stupid shit and the Debian maintainers not budging.

I think it was poppler or evince that decided they were going to enforce the no-copy-and-paste bit you can set on pdfs. Debian patched it out. I’ve seen Mozilla decide they were going to enforce their trademarks. They carved out special exceptions for various distros but that still would have meant you would have to rename Firefox if you were to fork Debian. Debian had none of it. There were many dodgy copyright and licensing problems upstream devs gave no shit about. Debian not including these often eventually but pressure on them to fix this shit or for some replacement to get developed.

He’s an anti-woke crusader and bigot. A large chunk (probably most) of his “content” is actually about that.

Oh it’s infamous racist Bryan Lunduke. Is there no rule against posting that guy?

Try to fix it.

Good video.

Oh no someone’s doing piracy! I don’t know about their addons but DaVinci and Houdini have Linux versions. Seems like a valid complaint to me. Piracy is no worse than paying for proprietary software.

Debian doesn’t support PPAs. That’s an Ubuntu feature. Even if you somehow managed to enable a PPA on Debian, the packages will be for Ubuntu and are likely not install or work correctly.

It’s about as unhinged as someone assembling their own bicycle really. Most people (well, in a reasonably bikeable place, i.e. not in the US) just use their bikes for commuting or whatever, and don’t want to assemble a bike (I sure don’t). Some people like tinkering with their bikes though. That’s totally fine.

If you’re not prepared to get your hands dirty, don’t buy bike parts you have to assemble yourself. And don’t install Arch. You are correct in the assessment that Arch isn’t for you (or me).

There are bicycle repair shops, but there are no Arch repair shops. You have to be able to fix it yourself. OP is correct: Don’t recommend Arch to people who can’t do that. Recommend something that doesn’t push bleeding edge untested updates on its users, because it will break and the user will have to fix it themself.

tl;dr: Arch existing is fine, in the same way any tinker hobby is fine. What is not fine is telling people to use it that just want to get work done or won’t know how to fix it.

MEM% for each NetworkManager process is 0.4 % of 3.28 G ≈ 13.1 M. Additionally, almost certainly most of this will be shared between these process, as well as other processes, so you cannot just add them together.

The virtual size (315M) is the virtual memory. Quite clearly only 13.1 M of this are actually in use. The rest will only start getting backed by real physical memory if it is being written to.

The way this works is that the process will get interrupted if it writes to a non-physical memory location (by the memory management unit (MMU); this is known as a page fault), and executions jumps to the kernel which will allocate physical memory and alter the virtual memory table, and then proceed with the execution of the write operation.

Many programs or library functions like to get way larger virtual memory buffers than they will actually use in practice, because that way the kernel does all this in the background if more memory is needed, and the program doesn’t need to do anything. I.e. it simplifies the code.

I’m not just talking about the US police. I’ve ever been to the US, and I assure you the police is shit here too. Ts’o is American, and that “thin blue line” saying seems especially American or Anglo. I’ve never heard that over here. So I’m not sure how that’s even relevant to the discussion.

I fail to see how anyone could interpret what can only refer to holding the line as not a heroic act and a military metaphor. And that’s how it’s used, and that’s what it means, and that’s where it comes from.

And Ts’o clearly knows this as well, since it he appropriately uses it as a metaphor for keeping chaos at bay and out of the kernel.

I usually see “thin blue line” (and the flag) used by reactionaries, racists, and white nationalists. Especially since BLM. Don’t know what sort of politics Ts’o has, other than he’s probably not an anarchist (ACAB!), but I guess (benefit of the doubt and all) he could be some ignorant lib with a head full of copaganda, so getting out the code of conduct for racist dogwhistles might be a bit premature.

It comes from The Thin Red Line, which is about some Scottish regiment standing up to a Russian cavalry charge. Even if you don’t know that, it seems quite obviously a military metaphor, and that indicates a militaristic view of what policing should be like, veneration of the police as heroes, and total ignorance about what the police actually are and do.

Setting level to 3 in show-text just means that the it won’t show up unless the user has set --osd-level to at least 3. It’s like specifying how important the message is, so the user can disable less important information while still showing other stuff. It has nothing to do with what you’re trying to do.

I don’t know enough about mpv’s IPC stuff to know to show the progress bar and some text at the same time, sorry.