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• Hauling Ass

  Americans; I am trying to understand the subtlety and nuance of your expression “to haul ass”. Does it mean “to hurry”? Or more “to move under strain”? Or something else?

• Printer for making flyers?

  What is a good option for making A5 flyers? I’m looking for something with FOSS drivers, compact, reasonably affordable to run, and that doesn’t mind being switched off for a week at a time. Image quality is not paramount but should be respectable. Do I have any decent options?

• Post #787662

  That’s really funny - I’m definitely running a Shadow IT Operation at my workplace! My attitude is that as long as my output is interoperable with the software and systems that my colleagues are using I should be free to work however I like.

• How to connect to local private network?

  I’m trying to connect my Linux laptop to the network at my workplace so I can share files with colleagues, but it’s not clear how to do it. I can plug in the Ethernet cable and get a connection to public internet but cannot see any storage drives on the local network. What should I do? Debian 13, GNOME 43.

• Post #655746

  It would also instantly make it impossible to find for everyone who knows it as GIMP, and mean that users of the new version wouldn’t see any of the huge amount of existing tutorials for it. The word only really has two meanings in one country anyway (the US).

• Post #632094

  Yeah, it could have been something similar for me. I moved a lot of dotfiles over when I switched from Fedora to Debian. I don’t remember bringing this one with me but it could have happened.

• No audio for videos but only for one user and with pipewire

  I’m suddenly unable to get audio for video files, but only for one user and seemingly only with pipewire… It’s the same in all video players I’ve tried, flatpak and deb. If I log in as a different user everything is fine. And if I change the audio to alsa in mpv I get audio again there. Music files are unaffected. I don’t know if a permissions issue has arisen somewhere, another application is ‘hogging’ pipewire, or something else. Any help much appreciated! Debian 13, GNOME 48, Wayland

• Post #435778

  What’s the correct process to install and run a .py application and its dependencies? Where should I save the .py file, where should I run it from, and can it interfere with the rest of my system? Often there is an application/script I’d like to use and it is provided as a .py file download, along with a list of other applications/scripts that need to be installed separately for it to work. Often not all of these dependencies are available in my distro’s repository. There seems to be an assump...