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I have an Laptop with i10CPU and RTX3070 running Debian 11. Currenty I can't use an external TV screen via HDMI (or any other built in) video connections. I have followed the Debian Wiki relating to NVIDIA Optimus. So far I have installed the proprietary NVIDIA drivers and they are confirmed working...

I have an external 2.5" 5TB disk that I use to store Timeshift snapshots of my two Debian systems. The disk is partitioned into 2x 2TB Luks partitions plus a spare 1TB partition (currently unused). When setting up my two systems last year I was scrambling to get my children online during lockdo...

Thank you, Steve - I have been following your chromium work via the thread on the forum and really appreciate all the hard work you are doing for this community. I will look into the options you have suggested (but am a little bit apprehensive about xserver-xorg-video-intel since the wiki says its u...

Hello, I have a ThinkPad W541 [Haswell] i7-4810MQ with HD4600 iGPU and Nvidia Quadro 2100m. Scrren resolution is 2880x1620. Whilst I am not running GU intensive programmes I am experiencing tearing when watching Netflix or iPlayer (BBC UK streaming). In my setup it would be sufficient to use the Nvi...

Thank you, Head_on_a_Stick - I have followed the guide in the Debian Wiki for unattended-upgrades . When running the debug command it appears that everything is configured correctly. Could you please confirm that I should now set the "Automatically check for updates" preference in Software...

I am new to Debian Buster and have set up a system with several users. There is only one user with sudo privileges and all the other ones have standard privileges. More often than not when one of the standard users logs in a password prompt will appear saying "Authentication ie required to refr...

Then deleted all the chromium packages and installed the ungoogled-chromium ones (plus installed the chromium web store extension from NeverDecaf), Thank you - I managed to install ungoogled chromium, too and HW acceleration is confirmed. When removing the stevepusser chromium package I simply did ...

Yes, my suggestion won't work unless the umask is set to 002. Both the X & Wayland sessions for GNOME obey ~/.profile in my Debian buster box but if you're using the X session then you can try adding the umask line to ~/.xsessionrc instead. Thank you for clearing that up. I edited ~/.bachrc acc...

^ I think this. ^ That works for me. Yes, those 's's, I rarely use them, thanks for correcting HOAS. I am not following, sorry. Do you mean the "s" in rws ? I am still struggling to understand why this isn't working. the shared folder has permissions and gid set correctly but when I creat...

should it be edited to 002 ^ This. Read the umask(2) man page to find out what that means. Thank you - I have been reading up on umask and chmod Unfortunately, the setup is not working as it is supposed to. These are the steps I have taken: su - root and create directory 'shared' in /home groupadd ...

Just double-checking this after re-reading your previous post (and the linked on on the MX Linux forum):

Should the uncommented line in ~/.profile say 022 (the default entry) or should it be edited to 002 (as in the post you linked to on the MX Linuz forum.

I managed to get your version of chromium installed, Steve - thank you. Did you try ~/.config/chromium-flags.conf? I think that applies for the Debian chromium package as well. So, it doesn't seem to work for me. I also tried moving the file from ~/.config/ to ~/.config/chromium/, but still no succe...

It's not perfect because the meeting is hosted on Zoom's servers so they can view and record everything but at least they can't exfiltrate data from my system. I take it Zoom, owning the server, can view and record anything happening during the call. Will that be limited to the one process running ...

I am a n00b trying to follow the advice in this post. Before I begin to get too deep into it:
Has the glorious moment passed already? Is HW acceleration dead as per the two most recent stevepusser posts?

Or will this still be working with Chromium below v.81?

Thank you all for your helpful replies. Seeing that I can use Zoom from within a browser what would the privacy implications be for that? It seems a far easier approach for a n00b like me compared to having to learn how to use QEMU properly (which I would like to do but I haven't even managed to get...

I am also forced to use Zoom so I run it in a virtual machine (QEMU) which is created just before the meeting and destroyed afterwards. It's not perfect because the meeting is hosted on Zoom's servers so they can view and record everything but at least they can't exfiltrate data from my system. Tha...

With the current lockdown it has become necessary for me to use proprietary video conferencing software (mainly Skype and Zoom). I am delighted to see they offer native Linux clients but also wary about installing them: I am new to Debian and Linux on the Desktop. My previous experience of Linux com...

I would guess OP missed the grub installation path setting during installation, a mistake I have made in the past. And one I always check now :) That is exactly what happened. It was difficult enough to get through the initial install (mainly because it was a new way of doing things for me) because...

You could run Windows in GNOME boxes or in virtmanager. To avoid booting different operating systems. That is a good point, thank you. But the only reason for me to boot into Windows is to run music software which will not work well in virtualised environments. thank you for the heads up on GNOME b...

I have a dual boot system with Windows 10 and Debian Buster on one SSD and have since installed a second (M.2) disk with a fresh install of Debian 10. The plan is to eventually restore an installation from my other laptop onto the freshly installed system (M.2 disk). The problem is that the Grub2 en...