absurdity_of_it_all

I'm on Solus Plasma. It's worth noting that this never happened on Solus GNOME which I was driving for a few months before switching to KDE.

So this doesn't happen every time I shut down, but it's pretty frequent. What usually happens is I initiate shutdown (using either KRunner or from Application menu clicking shutdown). The monitor and keyboard and mouse switch off, but the CPU does not. Fans are running, RGB is on. I can't wake it up with any keys. I can only long press power button on the cabinet to force shutdown.

Couple of things I observed:

1. I noticed sometimes my external HDD was not auto mounting when I started the PC, so I thought maybe it was automount that was preventing shut down also. So I tried to see if the times automount didn't work, coincided with the times I had to force shutdown - they don't. Even if it shuts down without issues I sometimes notice automount not working. And not every time I force shutdown I have automount issues.

2. I thought maybe clicking the shut down immediately button on the confirmation screen is what is causing the issue. I tried letting it shutdown on its own after the 10s countdown, but that also yielded inconsistent results.

I'm at a loss for what to do now.

I've had an issue with brightness control ever since I moved to Linux, on all distros (pop, fedora, now solus). The keyboard keys don't work and neither does the slider in the system.

I was using GNOME mostly until a couple of weeks back and I used to install an extension called Soft Brightness as a workaround for this. It would make the slider work at least even if the keys still didn't work. I'm not able to find something like that on Plasma.

Laptop: Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 ARH05. Ryzen 4600H processor with AMD integrated graphics and a discrete GTX 1650 mobile GPU.

I've been using Fedora for the past few months and Pop OS for some months before that.

Debian was my first choice after Pop because of ideological reasons - non corporate structure mainly. But I couldn't get games to work properly (my PC is only 7-8 months old). So I've been trying Fedora, but the more I learn about Red Hat and it's involvement, it's harder to stick to the distro.

What would be a good way to setup Debian (and KDE, because apparently GNOME is also Red Hat's, although I do like the environment) so that it works well for my use case? The two year old DE and app versions does bother me but I guess I can learn to live with it. Do I try testing? Do I use backports?

PC specs: Ryzen 5 5600 Processor, RX 7600 GPU

I currently have an email provider who also gives me my own nextcloud account. If I were to setup my own server in a while (which I would like to do), will I be able to carry over all my things (contacts, calendar,Talk conversations, appointment pages, etc) in some easy manner?

I've not yet started using these things because I'm not sure if it will be too much work to shift later.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26074446

I'm trying to see if I can host my own Fediverse instance for friends and family and I want to know what kind of device would be required. I'm an absolute beginner to self-hosting so I was wondering if I can start cheap (Raspberry Pi 2GB RAM is something I can definitely consider).

Also, can one device host multiple software? Like if I wanted both a WordPress instance and a Hubzilla instance or a Matrix/XMPP instance

I'm trying to see if I can host my own Fediverse instance for friends and family and I want to know what kind of device would be required. I'm an absolute beginner to self-hosting so I was wondering if I can start cheap (Raspberry Pi 2GB RAM is something I can definitely consider).

Also, can one device host multiple software? Like if I wanted both a WordPress instance and a Hubzilla instance or a Matrix/XMPP instance

I'm considering getting a domain with a .place TLD. Will it cause any issues like emails being blocked or something? I searched and it doesn't seem particularly notorious for spam or anything, but I wanted to find out if there are people who can tell me from experience.

Edit: This is not for running my own server - I have a provider, Disroot.

I'm looking to add a custom domain to my email to start building a more permanent identity on the internet (I have been shifting providers since I started degoogling).

I also want to either host a WordPress site or a fediverse instance (haven't decided) like Hubzilla for things like my writings and a general place to find my stuff online and maybe even host a few friends' pages.

Can I buy one domain and use it for both?

There seems to be a lot of microblogging going around, but I want a place to put my writings that are much bigger. I know that having my own website is also an option, but I'm finding filtering ethical hosting providers and website builders to be a lot more difficult than I thought it would be, and I'm afraid that even if I find them, it's going to be too expensive.

I'm only on a free Proton plan but I'm still considering switching because of recent news. I've seen disroot's website before and they seem more politically left-leaning which I appreciate. How have people's experiences been?

I need to use a Windows VM to do a few things - I'm on Fedora and my Xbox controller has been glitching out a lot and I need to try updating the firmware. Also, I got a new RGB keyboard and I'm not able to use the proprietary software using Wine and OpenRGB does not support my keyboard (Cosmic Byte GK34 Firefly).

But when I try to install a Win 10 ISO it won't let me past the Microsoft account page and the oobe command that's suggested everywhere on reddit is not working. It says no such command found.

Windows 11 ISOs also aren't working because even if I put 6GB memory and 80GB Storage for the VM (Microsoft lists 4GB and 64GB as requirement) it still says system does not meet requirement. I'm using the Boxes app for the VM creation.