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Tricks
Remote Desktop on Wayland in 2026
Remote Desktop on Wayland in 2025: What Changed for Linux Support Engineers | Stackademic
Tricks
Manually updating font list
This is not needed if you use high-level facilities, but in case of manual, low level manipulation of fonts repositories in your machine just issue fc-cache -f -v to update the available font lists. I looked for it far too many times; taken https://askubuntu.com/questions/3697/how-do-i-install-fonts
Software, Software Libero, Tricks
Hooray for the sheep!
No, not Shaun the sheep, this sheep:
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VirtualBox can’t enable the AMD-V extension?
Scared by this error and by the almost menacing suggestion to recompile the kernel? No worries, just “sudo rmmod kvm_amd“. Well, actually I shall thank the AI of search.brave.com for the summary…
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AI ‘Bloat’ in browser blowing up CPU and drains battery
Slashdot tells us that a new “AI-bloat feature” of Firefox 141 blows up CPU and energy usage referring a neowin.net article that luckily offers an easy solution: disabling it. Here’s how: you can disable them through the browser’s advanced settings. Head to about:config in a new tab, accept the risk warning, and use the search…
Debian, Tricks, Ubuntu
Some sources can be modernized. Run ‘apt modernize-sources’ to do so
Thanks to Alan Pope that explained so clearly the Run ‘apt modernize-sources’ to do so issue at discourse.ubuntu.com:
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sshfs with a jump host
From https://serverfault.com/questions/941934/sshfs-over-a-jumphost where John Kearney and Omar Buhidma suggest using ~/.ssh/config, this will accomplish this simpler syntax:
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Stop GNOME Software Background
To avoid GNOME Software from running in the background, you can take several approaches based on the solutions discussed in the context. One effective method is to disable the autostart entry for GNOME Software. This can be done by copying the file /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-software-service.desktop to ~/.config/autostart and adding X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false at the end of the file. This…