automatic bind mount/unmount
I have bind mounts configured in my /etc/fstab. The source (i.e. where the files physically exist) is on a removable USB drive. Right now it works but I have to mount/unmount everything individually when I plug/unplug the drive. I would like to be able to have the bind mounts follow the state of of the USB drive automatically. Is there a way?
Comparison of Linux Distributions
How to configure Nobara to require manual username for login?
Rename “Star Trek Next Generation Season 1 Episode 1 - Encounter at Farpoint.mkv” to “S01E01 - Encounter at Far Point.mkv” etc.
Hi, y’all. Running Linux Mint and I have the puzzle presented above. From what I gather, I’m using rename (1p) which makes mention of Perl and in the man page it says it will also run as file-rename. I’m not sure if this is the right rename utility for the common argument s/old_pattern/new_pattern/ but any time I try to run anything (including -n), I just get an angle bracket > and have to ctrl-c out. I’d also need some details on how the wildcards work, which seems to be lacking in the documentation.
What tips for initial setup?
I installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS about a year ago. Now that 26.04 is out, I was planning to upgrade, but instead I think I’m going to wipe and re-install from scratch. Does anyone have any tips or tweaks they recommend for new installs? Things like, do or don’t encrypt the drive during the install process, make an administrator account separate from your regular user account? I already plan to install the Flatpak repo and the Gnome Software Center. Thanks!
MySql Workbench
I’m just curious here. I use MySql Workbench on Windows and Linux. I am not storing the password in Workbench. On Windows, I click the database I want, enter the password and go about my business. On Linux (Mint), I enter my password…and then it prompts me for my password randomly from there on out. I might use it for fifteen minutes without a prompt. Then, I might get prompted for a password four times in a row. It does this if I start Workbench up as a user or as root. Anything obvious I could do to make the Linux version mirror the Windows version a little better in this regards? Also, just as an observation, the Linux version of Workbench is definitely inferior to the Windows version. There are all kinds of quirky things going on in the Linux version. Thanks,
Fedora 44 - the start menu takes WAY too long to find the right program?
I’m several months into my Linux journey and this is one thing that is driving me absolutely crazy because it legit just works on Windows and OS X. 1. I hit the start button 2. I type “note” 3. I hit enter. If I give it a full second between steps 2 and 3, Notesnook opens as intended. But if I hit enter at a normal speed, a game (Necesse) launches. This is presumably because it’s executing the command before the search finishes. Can I change this behavior? I use AutoCAD for a living so typing a command and hitting enter really fast is a habit I won’t be able to break.
Is there really no decent way to access a UPnP media server on Linux?
systemctl vs service vs init.d — Service Management
How to: Verify Github downloads?
So I run Linux for a bit now but I am still not fully confident with downloading “random” Appimages or .tar archives (I don’t even know how to run/compile the archives but that is another problem lol) from Github or something. I try to verify the hashes or GPG signatures for all the programs but not every developer provides a latest.yml. I revently noticed sometimes Github shows a sha256 sum next to the files in the release tab but not in every repo and is this just a second layer or is this a substitution for the latest.yml? Is there something I am missing or should I not worry too much when using Appimages or Flatpaks because they are sandboxed anyways?
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