I want the ability to manually control when my laptop connects to my bluetooth speaker - so disabling autoconnect. I usually play music from my phone so the laptop autoconnecting can result in it taking over the phone.

The Internet says the way to do this is to "Untrust" the speaker, but then I get this dialog like 5-10 times after turning on the speaker, it's incredibly annoying to have to keep pressing deny.

Any ideas how to stop this? #Linux #EndeavourOS #ArchLinux

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Ageless Linux aims to openly oppose the California age verification law, will provide instructions about how to remove age verification mechanisms if they get implemented:
https://agelesslinux.org/
https://agelesslinux.github.io/
(It's a bit confusing though that they have two websites, with slightly different content.)
They also report the status of age verification:
https://agelesslinux.org/distros.html
https://agelesslinux.github.io/age-reporting/distro-specific.html
(Systemd laying the ground work is pretty worrying, I wasn't against Systemd until now, but I feel like it might be better to get out, and use some Systemd-free distros, will look at the options out there. Artix openly opposing and doing nothing is good to see, hopefully Devuan, Gentoo, Alpine, Slackware, etc. will do the same, although if a specific distro implements it, it will probably be relatively easy to remove it, Ageless Linux is pretty likely to provide some useful instructions for it, the Systemd thing is more worrying though.)
(Surprised about Kicksecure/Whonix, it's a distro which is used by people with especially high threat model, so implementing the age verification crap probably defeats the whole purpose of the distro.)
(I'll probably also download binaries for the programs I use, just in case Flathub also decides to comply with the App Store Accountability Act. It sucks pretty much that most programs don't have a built-in update mechanism, have to rely on package managers (except for Brave and a few others). It can also be pretty bad for YouTube frontends/downloaders like FreeTube and yt-dlp which break pretty often, quickly become unusable if they can't be updated... And of course, using a browser without updates is also a huge security risk.)
(Might be useful to download some webpages too, before they start requesting the age bracket.)

EndeavourOS Titan released, devs comment on age verification laws:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/endeavouros-titan-released-devs-comment-on-age-verification-laws/

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Image Thumbnails in Nemo File Manager (EndeavourOS)

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/image-thumbnails-in-nemo-file-manager-endeavouros-03-17-26/

The Arch-based Linux distribution EndeavourOS Titan is out now, bringing with it plenty of nice sounding upgrades and some comments on age verification.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/endeavouros-titan-released-devs-comment-on-age-verification-laws/

#OpenSource #DistroNews #EndeavourOS #Misc #ArchLinux

EndeavourOS Titan released, devs comment on age verification laws https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/endeavouros-titan-released-devs-comment-on-age-verification-laws/

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