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School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety. in c/[email protected]

[–] tutus 20 points 5 days ago (7 children)

no one gives a shit what kids are doing on their devices

Except Joe. And people like Joe. Whose surveillance of kids is now not only easier, but sanctioned.

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Moving Displays On X11 Means Reconfiguring Everything? (self.debian)

submitted 1 month ago by tutus to c/[email protected]

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I'm using Debian 12, KDE, in X11.

I have a 5120x1440 monitor I use with my laptop. I sometimes use my laptop display (3840x1080) when I'm undocked.

Using Wayland this generally just works. But I can't use Wayland (see below).

In X11, when I move between displays I need to change the resolution, the scale and the Task Manager height etc. It's a PITA.

This is likely a very easily solved problem. But I'm new-ish to desktop Linux and I'm unsure of how to solve it.

Any help appreciated.

(Why I can't use Wayland - it causes problems primarily for Zoom (I know, I know, it's a work thing). I assume this is because I'm also running an NVIDIA GPU on the laptop and Debian stable hasn't got those extra bits and pieces that have been added recently, in there to help make it work (that is the beauty and the curse of a stable distro like Debian 😀). As an aside I did think of trying Debian testing to see if that helped with this.

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Debian 12, Zoom in KDE X11 - Strange chat window issue (self.debian)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by tutus to c/[email protected]

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I know about the issues with Zoom, and in particular Zoom on Wayland. I use Debian 12, kernel 6.1.0-18 (Bluetooth issues on later kernels) with KDE on X11. So I primarily use the web app, which works really well on the whole.

Occasionally, I need to use the app (reasons below for clarity, but not what I'm asking about):

When doing a presentation, for example, sharing the screen still allows you to see the other people on the call.
Controlling somebody else's presentation in the web view just doesn't work (they can't give you control, as you don't appear in the list).

I have also tried using the Flatpak and had issues (which I cannot remember).

Whenever I use the Zoom app, using the native web app downloaded from https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_amd64.deb, I have weird issues when I click the chat window. The mouse pointer turns into the icon used when dragging a window and I cannot click anywhere in Zoom (none of the buttons work, keyboard shortcuts, I can't type in the chat box). But the call continues.

This has happened over and over again in different kernel versions of Debian 12 and different versions of Zoom client (I noticed this maybe 6 months or so ago, so have been regularly trying it since then).

I have searched for an answer and for something close, and have never found anything (I could be searching for the wrong thing).

Does anybody have any suggestions?

CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft in c/[email protected]

[–] tutus 20 points 1 month ago

Being up to date is the entire point and so typically there are only global options to either grab those updates from the vendor or host them internally on a central server but you wouldn’t want to slow roll or stage those updates since that fundamentally reduces the protection from zero days and novel attacks that the product is specifically there to detect and stop.

That's not your, or Crowdstrikes, decision to make. If organizations have applied settings to not install updates automatically then that's what they expect to happen and you need to honour it. You don't "know best". They do.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/[email protected]

[–] tutus 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You might want to include that information in your original post. You are telling people over and over that their suggestions are too expensive. You're wasting peoples time.

Usb keyboard unavailable during boot until all usb devices are initialised (solutions?) [solved] in c/[email protected]

[–] tutus 1 points 2 months ago

Your title indicates otherwise so might be worth amending it.

Usb keyboard unavailable during boot until all usb devices are initialised (solutions?) [solved] in c/[email protected]

[–] tutus 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I believe this is a hardware issue. Have you checked the USB options in the BIOS?

Firefox users are unhappy with privacy tweaks in the browser's latest version in c/[email protected]

[–] tutus 15 points 2 months ago

I may have missed something.

Firefox 127 has introduced privacy tweaks that are causing user dissatisfaction, particularly due to changes like the separation of normal and private windows on the taskbar and the closing of private tabs when the main instance closes on iOS.

This sounds like it would be the expected behaviour?

Despite user complaints, the update includes new privacy and security enhancements such as upgrading subresources from HTTP to HTTPS and masking CPU architecture to reduce fingerprinting.

This sounds like a good thing?

Mozilla plans to address user feedback by reintroducing the "browser.privateWindowSeparation.enabled" preference as an opt-in and adding more intuitive privacy settings in future updates.

This sounds like a good thing?

YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount in c/[email protected]

[–] tutus 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The link I posted said this:

In the U.S., Google charges individual users $14 per month for YouTube Premium, which limits ads and offers a few additional features.

So it 'limits ads' which means there are still ads.

YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount in c/[email protected]

[–] tutus 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 children)

You pay $14 per month and you STILL get ads?!?!

WTF!?

Issue with KDE Plasma 5 and Spotify in c/[email protected]

[–] tutus 2 points 2 months ago

I use Debian 12. I use Spotify. And I don't have this issue.

What I have had is various issues with kernel 6.1.0-21. I'm currently using 6.1.0-18 on my laptop and 6.1.0-15 on my desktop and the issue I had are gone. Because of my experience, I'd suggest trying those kennels.

Cameractrls, software to control your webcamera - available as Flatpak in c/[email protected]

[–] tutus 3 points 3 months ago

Just to confirm it also works with the Logitech C930e that the OP has. This is what I use it for.

Post Office executive denies cover-up over Horizon back door in c/[email protected]

[–] tutus 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

People at the Post Office and Fujitsu need to go to jail over this.

It won't happen. They'll get away with it. Same as ever.

hello! i made a versatile file syncing tool in C++ it's called lunas in c/[email protected]

[–] tutus 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thank you. Seems like an interesting tool!