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Is there a way to remap any of the keyboard indicator LEDs on a laptop to another function? My HP Victus 15-fa1093dx has indicator LED’s for TrackPad-Lock, CapsLock, Speaker Mute, and Power, but not NumLock. The number-pad contains the only Home/End/PgUP/PgDown keys, which has me reaching for the NumLock-key more […]

Following script is meant to be copied and run on the remote host, i.e. 192.168.1.142, ansible-playbook -u root -i inventory.ini sync-w-ctrl.yml: #!/usr/bin/bash au=jimmy dirs=( "/home/${au}/Music" ) ctr_st="192.168.1.112" sync_w_ctrl() { for d in ${dirs[@]}; do rsync -e ssh -av --delete --no-o --no-g --chown=oumaima:oumaima "root@${ctr_st}:${d}" /home/oumaima/Music done } sync_w_ctrl #apt update # […]

I have two monitors. The main monitor is FullHD, works via HDMI. The second HD monitor works through the VGA. Connection diagram: The main monitor is connected to the HDMI video card, the Second monitor is connected to the VGA motherboard. Previously there was a GTX 650, and an I3-3210 […]

So, I’m trying to compile VLC myself, as I noticed the Debian package refused to show VA-API support in the settings (and according to intel_gpu_top isn’t using it). And while the flatpak version does include it, it still can only use XWayland and thus is blurry when using fractional scaling […]

I need to install and power the (circa 2018) Quadro RTX 6000 (QR6) GPUs in a Dell EMC 8440. The Dell 8440 uses the “Special 14 Pin to 8 Pin PCIe Cable” for GPUs, but because the QR6 is a desktop model it is not compatible with the special power […]