r/DIY_Geeks

Why Doesn't Linux Have a "Safely Remove Hardware" Button?

Why Doesn't Linux Have a "Safely Remove Hardware" Button?

Anyone moving from Windows to Linux eventually runs into the same small panic: they've finished copying files to a USB drive, reach for the familiar "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the system tray — and it isn't there.

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u/elastiks — 21 hours ago
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Tiny Terminal

Made my pi zero running Pi OS and waveshare 2.13 e ink v4 display into a tinyterm powered by pisugar 3

u/Grand-Tart1203 — 2 days ago

OpenIPC: The Open-Source Firmware Project Trying to Take IP Cameras Back From the Black Box

OpenIPC is not a simple mod or a cosmetic skin over vendor software — it is a full Linux distribution purpose-built for IP camera hardware, assembled using the Buildroot build system.

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u/elastiks — 1 day ago

Linux Kernel Moves to Make the Timestamp Counter a Hard Requirement for x86

A recent kernel patch, "x86/cpu: Make CONFIG_X86_TSC unconditional," strips out the last configuration logic that allowed an x86 Linux kernel to be built without support for the Timestamp Counter (TSC).

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u/elastiks — 3 days ago

The Underrated "German Car" of Linux: Why openSUSE Is a Hidden Trump Card for Enterprises and Enthusiasts. What makes openSUSE technically distinct?

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u/elastiks — 5 days ago

The x86 Backdoor Hiding in Plain Sight: Revisiting Project Rosenbridge

The x86 Backdoor Hiding in Plain Sight: Revisiting Project Rosenbridge.

Rosenbridge is a secondary, non-x86 RISC coprocessor embedded alongside the main x86 core on affected chips.

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u/elastiks — 5 days ago

Why South Korea Is Doubling Down on LFP Batteries as China Pivots to Sodium-Ion?

China dominates the lithium iron phosphate market and is now racing into sodium-ion production to escape the very raw-material squeeze Korean firms are walking into.

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u/elastiks — 10 days ago

Are ARM-Powered PCs Finally Ready to Go Mainstream?

Are ARM-Powered PCs Finally Ready to Go Mainstream?

Windows on ARM has been "almost there" for so long that the phrase stopped meaning anything....

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u/elastiks — 7 days ago

Linux 7.3 Advances Apple Silicon Compatibility: Initial Merging of M3 Pro/Max/Ultra Device Tree Support

Linux kernel developers are moving forward with early support for Apple's high-end M3-generation chips.

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u/elastiks — 12 days ago

A Rust Project Wants macOS Binaries to Run on Linux

A new open-source project is trying something that has historically ended in years of half-finished work: getting real macOS binaries to run on Linux, without a virtual machine and without emulating an entire operating system underneath them.

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u/elastiks — 14 days ago