I run Debian 12 with KDE on my laptop. It is set up, that it locks the screen after 10 mins of inactivity. And that is typically want I want. But some times I use it with an external screen like a TV over HDMI to watch some videos, and forget to overwrite the setting to not lock the screen.

Is there some way to not lock the screen when connected to an external screen (and preferably to AC) but resume the previous behavior if no HDMI connection is made?

I would like to share a bash script I made for when you want to simply run a rust script once and delete it. Instead of having compile the script with rustc, running the binary and then deleting the binary, you can achive all of this with this bash script below.

The first argument will be the rust script file name. The .rs file extension is optional. The rest of the arguments are passed into the executed binary.

Simply name the bash script to something like rust-run.sh.

#!/bin/bash

#Get file path from first parameter
path=$(dirname "$1")

#Get file name from first parameter
fileName=$(basename "$1")
fileName="${fileName%'.rs'}"

#Compile executable and save it in the same directory as the rust script
rustc "${path}/${fileName}.rs" -o "${path}/${fileName}"

#If rustc commands retuned any errors, unable to compile the rust script
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    return
fi

#Execute compilled executable and pass the rest of the parameters into the executable
"${path}/${fileName}" ${*:2}

#Delete compillled executable
rm "${path}/${fileName}"

If someone wants to rewrite this in rust or add these features into the rustc, feel free to do so.

3rd day working on my new project in Godot, what do you guys think?

It's a very early glimpse on my logistics tycoon style game, possibly mixed with some puzzle solving.

Work in progress name of the project: Freight Minds.

Here's an alternative TikTok link nobody asked for.

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Our workflows and productivity metrics regularly ask knowledge workers for things that do not make good knowledge work.

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The Steam Deck 2 might be significantly faster than its predecessor.

They seem to be from 80', and somehow made their way into a french university. Has anyone here gotten a chance to read them? Some of the chapters seem interesting, lots about DOD stuff.

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I've been migrating to linux recently and next headache on the list are my starr apps (sonarr, radarr, etc). On windows I just had them installed as background services but I wanted to give (rootless) podman a try on linux since everyone kept recommending it and saying how much better the experience is than on windows.

Anyway, I've set everything up and some of the services work, but specifically sonarr and radarr can't write to the main media folder with the error: Folder '/data/media/tv/' is not writable by user 'abc'

So, first of all, I didn't make user 'abc', it is some internal docker/podman/starr user allegedly and it's supposed to be mapped to my real user, which I did by providing the PUID=1000, PGID=1000 env variables.

Second, I tried to give read and write permissions to everyone for the placeholder folders but it didn't change anything. I don't think this is the issue since other services like the one for sabnzbd or jellyfin had no problems using folders I created.

Googling for the issue brought up some topics about NFS shares but I don't know anything about this - this is not a NAS or even some external drive, it's just podman installed on fedora.

Any help is appreciated, here's a pastebin of my compose file if it's relevant https://pastebin.com/uX9Saqvj

Hi. I read somewhere that you need to tinker with bios / secure boot? In order to install NVIDIA drivers on Linux. Is this true?

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