I’ve used Fastmail with a custom domain for a few years now… (5+?) and have been really happy with it. I wish it was a bit cheaper (or had a better family plan), but it works well with my terminal email client (mutt).

The web client is pretty quick and I use the calendar there all the time. Fastmail supports all the normal standards such as CalDAV, so you can use it with third party applications.

Another video: COSMIC Epoch - Tiling per workspace demonstrating per workspace tiling/floating.

You can self-host libreddit, which is what I do, and it will still continue to work. That said, it is on borrowed time as development has mostly stopped.

All the public instances are unusable b/c of the rate-limits, unfortunately.

And that’s exactly what happened in your case David. Which is why I’m so happy (also because I fixed the tools from an author I like and already had the books at home :-P):

Really detailed and cool response from the kernel developer. I also found the use of the recent BPF feature to provide a workaround until a proper kernel fix lands really interesting.

Single tap/click for left click and two finger tap/click for right click work right out the box for me on my laptop.

There is also an option in the Gnome Settings application to configure this.

They just pushed out an update 290

Great, I’m glad you now have sound :)

To have the script run at boot, you need to create a service file:

sudo gedit /etc/systemd/system/necessary-verbs.service

That should open a text editor that you can write into. You can replace gedit with vim or nano if you prefer those.

In that file, you want to put the following contents:

[Unit]
Description=Run internal speaker fix script at startup
After=getty.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/necessary-verbs.sh
TimeoutStartSec=0

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target 

Once you save that file, you can enable it as follows:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable necessary-verbs.service

Now, when you boot, this service will run that script and thus setup your audio.

See if you can get that to work.

Just to note… I’m not the author of the blog post, I just shared it b/c I thought it was an interesting story. I don’t think the author is on Lemmy.

Hmm. Unfortunately, if the script doesn’t work then you probably need a different set of verbs for your particular laptop model. I’m not really sure how to determine which verbs to use. Sorry :|

Actually, after a quick look, I found an entry on the Arch Linux Wiki:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LG_Gram_16_2-in-1_2023

This says there might be a workaround here:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212041#c14

It would be the same idea: download a script with a bunch of verbs, run the script, and see if the speakers work.

Perhaps one of the scripts in that comment will work for your laptop.

You probably need to install the package with the hda-verb command:

sudo apt install alsa-tools 

After you do that, try to run the script again and see if it works.

To test out the script, you can do sudo /usr/local/sbin/necessary-verbs.sh. See if that works.

If it does, then I can explain about the Systemd unit.

You may need to use sudo to move the file there since it is a system directory.

Otherwise, if you could provide a screenshot or a paste of the error, we may be able to help you further.

There is this gnome extension you can try:

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/16/auto-move-windows/

This appears to be a common issue with the LG Gram. I found the following thread on the Linux Mint forums:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=401957

This lead me to an upstream bug report in the sof project (audio firmware):

https://github.com/thesofproject/linux/issues/4363

In this bug report, a user reported running a script that used the hda-verb command to configure the firmware worked around their issue and produced sound. Details about this script can be found on the Fedora forums here:

https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?331130-Fixing-ALC298-audio-(no-sound-from-speakers)

Anyway, YMMV with this, but I guess this shows why buying hardware that supports Linux out of the box can make life easier. Good luck!

I read that, but I don’t know if that means they will publish stable releases via the same repository. That just sounds like the packages themselves will end up being in those channels (which makes sense, nightly becomes beta, which becomes a release, which ends up as esr). It doesn’t necessarily mean this apt repository will be a release channel itself.

That said, there is the Mozilla Team PPA.

Would to see them publish stable releases via this apt repository as well.

Could be what communities you are subscribed to. I run a small instance with about 3ish users, and here are my stats after about 3 months as well:

9.5G ./pictrs
12G	 ./postgres
8.0K ./lemmy-ui

What version of lemmy are you using? A recent update also introduced some space savings in the database (I think).

Some of the Latitudes are pretty lightweight too. My Latitude 7420 is 2.7 lbs while the most recent XP 13 is 2.59 lbs. I should note that the Latitude 7420 is a 14in display rather than 13in and it has an HDMI port, 2 USB-C/TB ports, 1 USB-A port, and a microsd card reader (oh yeah, and a headphone jack). So for a small amount of more weight, you get more I/O and a larger screen.

Not a fan of the XPS line (expensive, not great thermals, and meh port selection) and I have never own one (though I’ve seen others with them). That said, I have a few of their Latitudes (currently using Latitude 7420) and one Precision and those run Linux really well.

One thing most people don’t realize is that Dell does support Linux (ie. Ubuntu) beyond the XPS line and you can buy Latitudes or Precisions with Linux support OOTB. Additionally, Dell ships firmware updates via LVFS on their XPS, Latitude, and Precision lines. The support isn’t perfect, but I have been happy with using Dell hardware and Linux for over a decade now.

PS. You can get really good deals via the Dell Outlet (my current laptop is refurbished from there), and you can usually find a number of off-lease or 2nd systems or parts on Ebay (very similar to Thinkpads).

Great video. Our Linux Users Group will watch it every few years… it’s amazing to see how much has changed in 20 years.