Sleep on Wayland/Sway

I am using the Debian Stable. I want an advice for configuring lock/sleep on Sway. I have following settings in my Sway config. And below is my observation. --8<---cut here---start->8--- exec swayidle -w \ timeout 300 'slock' \ timeou

Chrome screen sharing on Sway crashes the browser

This is most probably a bug in Google’s Chrome browser. But I just wanted to confirm if someone else has also noticed it. Google’s Chrome works fine with Default (Gnome) Desktop. But when I switch to Sway. The screen sharing sessions in Google Meet and Skype, crashes the browser itself. Has anyon

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 08:27:46PM +0100, Brian wrote: [...] > The scene is Margaret Thatcher in a restaurant with her Cabinet. > > Waitor: What do you want, madam? > Margaret: Lamb staeks. > Waitor: What about the vegetables? > Margaret: They will have the same as me. :-) > Satire is

Re: smartctl puzzlement new disk

On Sun, 15 May 2022 at 05:13, ghe2001 wrote: > Got 7.2. Now 22 is helium level, but it still says it fails. Maybe it's faulty. I would ask vendor/manufacturer for advice, who will probably advise to test it using manufacturer diagnostic software.

Re: Acer CMOS Setup and Ctrl+S [was Installation fails to recognize SSD]

On 5/14/22 09:52, Felmon Davis wrote: On Fri, 13 May 2022, David Christensen wrote: Does Acer document the CMOS Setup Ctrl+S key combination? the only 'documentation' I've seen is in the webs. I noticed if you search "Acer AHCI" you get a ton of hits on something called

Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root

On 5/14/22 05:57, Richmond wrote: writes: On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 10:50:46AM +0100, Richmond wrote: Richmond writes: David Christensen writes: [...] I expect there is some component of xfce4 which is supposed to prompt for the root password. Perhaps it is not installed. I don't know w

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

On Saturday, 14 May 2022 14:43:08 EDT Brian wrote: > On Sat 14 May 2022 at 15:21:06 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 12:42:28PM +0100, Brian wrote: > [...] > > > > Let me introduce you to my bank: they reduced the maximum 20 chars > > > to 16 and did not allow some specia

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

On Sat 14 May 2022 at 20:51:14 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 07:43:08PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 14 May 2022 at 15:21:06 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [FIVE blades!1!!] > > > I have just realised that PayPal does 5FA. It meets the Gillete > > standard. Or sh

Re: smartctl puzzlement new disk

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Friday, May 13th, 2022 at 10:08 PM, David wrote: > See also here: > https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/#index3h2 > "All backports are deactivated by default " ... Got 7.2. Now 22 is helium level, but

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 07:43:08PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 14 May 2022 at 15:21:06 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [FIVE blades!1!!] > I have just realised that PayPal does 5FA. It meets the Gillete > standard. Or should that be the MAD standard? Our capacity to > put up with sysadmin (manage

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

On Sat 14 May 2022 at 15:21:06 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 12:42:28PM +0100, Brian wrote: [...] > > Let me introduce you to my bank: they reduced the maximum 20 chars > > to 16 and did not allow some special chars such as "!" and ".". > > Mind you, I feel much more s

Re: dlna server for roku?

On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 05:29:36PM +, Lee wrote: I'd like to watch my own video files on a Roku; apparently what I need is DLNA software on my server.. ... I haven't read anything really good about MiniDLNA/ReadyDLNA/ReadyMedia, so before I spend who knows how much time tring to get it work

dlna server for roku?

I'd like to watch my own video files on a Roku; apparently what I need is DLNA software on my server.. I found this note: https://support.roku.com/article/208754908 Roku Media Player has been tested to work with the following DLNA servers: MiniDLNA/ReadyDLNA/ReadyMedia -- and a few othe

Re: Acer CMOS Setup and Ctrl+S [was Installation fails to recognize SSD]

On Fri, 13 May 2022, David Christensen wrote: Does Acer document the CMOS Setup Ctrl+S key combination? the only 'documentation' I've seen is in the webs. I noticed if you search "Acer AHCI" you get a ton of hits on something called . as far as I've looked so far,

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

On Sat 14 May 2022 at 15:21:06 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 12:42:28PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 14 May 2022 at 07:23:47 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > > [strong, unique, random] > > > > > > That's it. The unique part can't be stressed enough: if your

Re: Texas electricity (Heather Cox Richardson)

And this is relevant to Debian users (and the rest of the world) how? On 14/05/2022 15:23, ghe2001 wrote: [T]he Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has asked consumers to scale back energy use to make up for six power-generation facilities that failed just before a hot weekend. Most

Re: Texas electricity (Heather Cox Richardson)

Not news. :) From my iPad Betty > On May 14, 2022, at 9:24 AM, ghe2001 wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > [T]he Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has asked consumers to > scale back energy use to make up for six power-generation facilities that >

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 12:42:28PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 14 May 2022 at 07:23:47 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 02:40:53PM +1200, Ash Joubert wrote: > > > On 13/05/2022 12:23, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > > That's the value added in exchange for Ash's "massiv

Re: AMD Ryzen 7 4700U No HDMI Audio

Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > I have an AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics. It shows two HDMI Output > devices. One device has a connection, HDMI2. When I select this device I > get no sound output. I know the cable is good because I tested it with my > notebook and it worked fine. Has this

Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root

writes: > On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 10:50:46AM +0100, Richmond wrote: >> Richmond writes: >> >> > David Christensen writes: > > [...] > >> > I expect there is some component of xfce4 which is supposed to prompt >> > for the root password. Perhaps it is not installed. I don't know what >> > it is

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

On Sat 14 May 2022 at 12:02:49 -, Curt wrote: > On 2022-05-14, wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 08:58:37AM -, Curt wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> What about data breaches, and sites keeping your password > >> in plain text (though it seems access to the cryptographically hashed > >>

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

On 2022-05-14, wrote: > > On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 08:58:37AM -, Curt wrote: > > [...] > >> What about data breaches, and sites keeping your password >> in plain text (though it seems access to the cryptographically hashed >> passcodes is already a pretty good leg up)? What good is our entropy

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

On Sat 14 May 2022 at 08:58:37 -, Curt wrote: > On 2022-05-14, Ash Joubert wrote: > > On 13/05/2022 12:23, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > >> That's the value added in exchange for Ash's "massive pain in the arse". > >> Just making the 1st factor be > >> a loong password is not equivalent to 2FA i

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

On Sat 14 May 2022 at 07:23:47 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 02:40:53PM +1200, Ash Joubert wrote: > > On 13/05/2022 12:23, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > That's the value added in exchange for Ash's "massive pain in the arse". > > > Just making the 1st factor be > > > a

Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root

On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 10:50:46AM +0100, Richmond wrote: > Richmond writes: > > > David Christensen writes: [...] > > I expect there is some component of xfce4 which is supposed to prompt > > for the root password. Perhaps it is not installed. I don't know what > > it is called. > > Is there

Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root

Richmond writes: > David Christensen writes: > >> On 5/13/22 09:02, Richmond wrote: >>> David Christensen writes: On 5/12/22 07:17, Richmond wrote: > David Christensen writes: >> On 5/11/22 06:55, Richmond wrote: >>> I have a network manager applet on my xfce4 desktop. I am logg

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U No HDMI Audio

All, I have an AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics. It shows two HDMI Output devices. One device has a connection, HDMI2. When I select this device I get no sound output. I know the cable is good because I tested it with my notebook and it worked fine. Any help is appreciated. Thanks Tim

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 11:21:39AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 08:58:37AM -, Curt wrote: > > [...] > > > What about data breaches [...] > As stated elsewhere: unique passwords [...] Or, if I may put it in another terms: Recycle your trash. Never recycle your pas

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 08:58:37AM -, Curt wrote: [...] > What about data breaches, and sites keeping your password > in plain text (though it seems access to the cryptographically hashed > passcodes is already a pretty good leg up)? What good is our entropy then? As stated elsewhere: unique

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

On 2022-05-14, Ash Joubert wrote: > On 13/05/2022 12:23, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: >> That's the value added in exchange for Ash's "massive pain in the arse". >> Just making the 1st factor be >> a loong password is not equivalent to 2FA in any way. Machine reaching back >> to you is the difference.