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Brickfrog

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  • what is good remote desktop software?

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  • RDP (the same protocol Windows Remote Desktop uses) works fine on Linux. I'd suggest investigating why that suddenly stopped working for you.

    For what it's worth Xrdp seems to work well on Linux for enabling a RDP Remote Desktop server.. I suspect you are / were(?) already using Xrdp and just need to figure out why it stopped working.

  • what is good remote desktop software?

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  • PeerWeb - Decentralized Website Hosting

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  • Not really. Decentralized does not mean anonymous.. and I doubt people sharing that type of content are doing it publicly with their public IP addresses.

    Looks like PeerWeb uses WebTorrent - so that means every single IP address serving the website is easily found in the peer list of the torrent swarm. Nothing anonymous about this.

  • Just noticed Bitwarden premium goes from 10$ per year to 19.80$, what do people here think? Bitwarden launches enhanced premium plan: Complete online security for everyone | Bitwarden

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  • Yes indeed. I'm done with LastPass and would never go back but I suspect to the general public they're still the most well known password manager (for better or worse) so it seems fair to compare against them.

  • Just noticed Bitwarden premium goes from 10$ per year to 19.80$, what do people here think? Bitwarden launches enhanced premium plan: Complete online security for everyone | Bitwarden

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  • Still cheaper than LastPass Premium and I prefer Bitwarden overall so while the price increase is a bummer I'll probably stay with them. But if it really bothered me I'd maybe stick to using KeePass.

    What might be better is if Bitwarden would remove the 5 GB storage for attachments from their plan and turn it into a $ monthly add-on. Then keep the Premium minus file storage at its original price. Seems better than bundling the two and increase the price together IMO.. I suspect most people don't need their hosted file attachments and just want a password manager.

  • TigerVNC 1.16 Released With Wayland Desktop Sharing Support

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  • Yeah I was going to say the same. A year ago I couldn't get any VNC to work under Wayland and gave up on the idea, nowadays just use RDP (Xrdp, Gnome RDP, etc.). I don't usually need screen sharing specifically so RDP fits my use case perfectly.

    But it's great to see VNC catching up, more remote options are always better.

  • Are there still any email providers that offer free anonymous registration?

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  • tutamail, for example, states that the free plan is not to be used to signup for services.

    Just.. don't. Tuta is probably fine for paid services but they're well known for nuking free accounts for various reasons. And they might not enable you to send/receive from a free account to begin with - Last time I attempted to create a free account there, then asked support if they could enable me to be able to send/receive some emails, instead of responding they simply nuked my new free account.

  • An alternative decentralized internet for sharing text and media: The Gemini Protocol

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  • Funny enough I wasn't too sure what this was about either, figured it was about Google's AI or maybe it was a protocol for decentralized cryptocurrency blockchain tech. The Gemini cryptocurrency exchange has been around since 2014 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(cryptocurrency_exchange)).

    There's just too many things named Gemini.

  • Best way to update a msi oled monitor with linux? It requires an exe and access to displayport

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  • You already tested with a standard Windows 10/11 install ISO? Put that on a bootable USB along with your exe but instead of installing you go into the recovery options and should see a way to get to the cmd prompt where you can test run that .exe. It might have the same results as Windows PE but it's worth a try and downloading the Windows ISO is free anyway.

    Worst case if you have a spare HDD/SSD you can put that into your system, temporarily install Windows 10/11 onto it (I don't think you even need to worry about activation), run your .exe, then shutdown and swap your drives back to your normal setup and be done with it.

    But yeah I get what you're saying, ideally there's a better way but I'm not too sure what else to suggest within Linux itself.

  • My Linux journey the past 2 days

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  • A little research got me to a “systemrescue” iso and that one worked fine. The live environment fired up and I was able to save all my data by mounting the partition via terminal into /mnt/mountfolder/.

    Nice. I always keep an ISO of systemrescue on a bootable USB for these occasions, it's gotten me out of jams in both Windows and Linux situations.

    Not sure what to make of your issue with Ubuntu stopping from working, including the live boot, only for it to work again for you in the end. My hunch is wonky hardware but can't really say.

  • What's the best open-source email app?

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  • I don't know about "best" but on Android I've been using the K-9 mail app for years without problems. Supports multiple email accounts as well as standard IMAP/SMTP email protocols which is all I really need. The project was merged with Thunderbird so now it's Thunderbird for Android.

    source: https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android

  • Need help setting up a software RAID 1 through Calamares Installer (Debian 13 Trixie)

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  • Will be curious what solution you come up with. I tried to do this with my current Debian installation but never quite got it to boot off the RAID-1 array. In the end just went without RAID on the drive with Debian installed, maybe will re-attempt next time I do an OS install. I do have mdadm RAID-1 working normally for my data drives, just not the boot drive... you technically could just do that if you want to have your RAID-1 data drives separate from your OS boot drive.

    Can't comment on the Calameres installer but the regular Debian installer does detect RAID configurations from other mdadm setups. So you could either create your RAID-1 configuration in the shell during the Debian install or even create it in another Linux boot shell before jumping into the Debian installer. e.g. booting any live Linux with mdadm in it, configure the RAID-1 there, then boot into the Debian installer - the Debian installer will know there's a prior RAID-1 on those disks and allow you to proceed with installing on the array if you wanted.

    What tripped me up afterwards was trying to get it to boot off that RAID-1 afterwards, that part is not so straightforward. The link in the other comment does go into that so maybe it'll helpful.

  • What's your opinion on Tuta mail?

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  • They have a reputation for deleting free accounts. If you plan to use Tuta for more than a few months be sure to use their paid plans, not free.

    e.g. https://lemmy.ml/post/41480556

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    Jellyfin on Ubuntu

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  • maybe the comments in this post help? https://lemmy.ml/post/40864672 and/or consider posting in one of the jellyfin communities like /c/jellyfin@lemmy.ml or /c/jellyfin@lemmy.world ?

    My guess is you probably need to go into terminal and probably fix the folder/file permissions for your media library folders (using chmod), then remove/re-add that media library in jellyfin itself so it can scan the folder properly. But that's just a guess without really knowing your actual set up.

    PS - Don't worry about Ubuntu, once you get your initial setup figured out everything will run stable.

  • Remote desktop, not sharing desktop, how ?! [solved]

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  • Some ideas for the future

    Xrdp fail… plain and simple…

    Xrdp usually works fine, you should try to find any specific error messages or logs. Xrdp also runs a service so you could also see if the service itself is running or what it's status is (systemctl status xrdp).

    For me Xrdp did fail when I initially tried to run it. I don't remember the exact error being produced but there was something wrong with the port number xrdp wanted to use.. in the end I had to stop the service, edit /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini and set the port to a specific port number without using vsock. xrdp by default was set to use vsock ports which wasn't working for for me.

  • Mom's Linux mint install keeps going to a black screen

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  • Set up SSH on it and make sure you're able to connect into it while it works normally, that way when the issue occurs you can do a quick test to see if the system itself is still up and running.

    I'm not on Linux Mint but I've occasionally seen Gnome sort of hang/freeze so the screen becomes non-responsive. After a couple of times of that happening I ended up setting up SSH on the system and configured a SSH client on my phone so I can do a quick connection into the desktop and force-logout my user (which apparently fixes the issue and brings my main desktop back to a normal login screen). I haven't quite figured out if it's Gnome issues or something to do with my Nvidia GPU.. though usually if Nvidia is involved then the problem is usually Nvidia, ugh.

    Also if you're physically at the computer when it happens try unplugging/replugging in the monitor cable, maybe there's something wonky going on there or with the display connection.

    Just some ideas to help you along :)

  • Replace Windows, Excel needed

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  • Do I need to run a virtual machine with win11?

    Yes this definitely works fine. QEMU with Virt-Manager works well, you can set up as many versions of Windows as you like. Other people use VirtualBox, VMWare Workstation, etc. These all work well enough to run Windows + standard apps like MS Office or whatever you need.

  • Warning to new tutamail users, your account could be temporary

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  • Was it a free account, or paid? Tuta is pretty strict with the free accounts especially when new. I definitely would not consider using Tuta free for anything long term, they'll just come up with all sorts of reasons to restrict or disable your account.

    I've read they don't do that sort of thing with paid accounts but can't confirm, only ever used their free accounts for temp usage.

  • Weird app paying you to scan receipts

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  • The Google Rewards Opinion app does this, scan receipts or answer random questions for Google Play cash. I assume they do it for market research to figure out better advertising (Google is in the advertising business after all).

    Never heard of other apps doing that but I'm sure it's the same idea, other apps must use or sell that data to ad brokers.