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      A Practical Guide To Grub Repair On Ubuntu (And Probably Linux Mint)

      news.movim.eu / gadgeteerza-tech-blog · Sunday, 31 January, 2021 - 11:11

    I must say I have messed up my Grub twice on Manjaro Linux and have learnt to just take a deep breath, go grab some coffee, and get on with figuring out the repair. I've never lost any data and both times it was my own stupidity, and usually related to writing a Grub change to /dev/sda where actually my boot drive is /dev/sdb and that is where my Grub is supposed to write to.

    So if you still panic (or have never had a Grub issue and don't know what panic is) then this is a good guide to read through and keep for that future event.

    See https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/ubuntu-grub-repair-guide/

    #technology #linux #tips #opensource #grub

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      Hushboard For Linux Mutes Your Microphone While Typing

      news.movim.eu / gadgeteerza-tech-blog · Saturday, 30 January, 2021 - 10:47

    The PyGTK3 application sits in the tray, waiting for you to type, and as soon as you start typing it mutes your microphone. The Hushboard microphone icon displayed as a tray/appindicator changes depending on your microphone state: enabled or muted. The tray also allows you to pause Hushboard and quit the application.

    I'm going to try this out as my mechanical keyboard is especially loud when typing. It's working fine on Manjaro Linux for me and I see there is a Snap install too.

    See https://www.linuxuprising.com/2021/01/hushboard-mutes-your-microphone-while.html

    #technology #linux #opensource #audio #mute

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      The Famous Linksys WRT54G Router Hackers Actually Loved - It Achieved Legendary Status Through A Sloppy Oversight With Linux Licensing

      news.movim.eu / gadgeteerza-tech-blog · Thursday, 28 January, 2021 - 14:41

    I still have my router although its resting now in a cupboard. As Lifehacker put it way back in 2006, it was the perfect way to turn your $60 router into a $600 router, which likely meant it was potentially costing Cisco money to have a device this good on the market.

    The article below delves a lot into what happened with the outsourcing of code (3rd part sources are often a contentious issue for later resharing code as open source) and how especially in the early years proprietary companies thought they could just use anything and then lock it down and sell it. Some sloppy outsourcing work resulted in a treasure chest being opened. So true though that with the Tomato OS that I loaded on mine it was giving me $600 performance back then. I always felt crippled when I moved to newer routers and was really missing a lot of the functionality from Tomato OS.

    See https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpnpb/the-famous-router-hackers-actually-loved

    #technology #hardware #opensource #linux