today's howtos
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How to Create Data Visualizations in the Linux Terminal With YouPlot
Data is the new oil—or so we're told. But the effectiveness of your data often depends on how you present it.
Charts, graphs, and plots can give you and your audience an instant overview in a way that tables of figures simply can't manage. Here's how to create awe-inspiring data visuals in your Linux terminal.
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Adjust Touchpad Scrolling Speed in Ubuntu 22.04 | 23.04 GNOME Wayland | UbuntuHandbook
This simple tutorial shows how to increase or decrease the touchpad 2-finger scrolling speed in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 22.10, Ubuntu 23.04 with default GNOME on Wayland session. GNOME, the default desktop for Ubuntu, Fedora, and optional in many other Linux, so far lacks option to configure the mouse/touchpad scroll speed.
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Gratitude For a Web That Tries Not to Break
Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS easier to learn.
His response is great. And his tabular comparison of properties is short and concise and punchy in the way only Chris Coyier can reason about CSS.
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Forcefully breaking NFS locks on Linux NFS servers as of Ubuntu 22.04
We've tested doing this on our Ubuntu 22.04 fileservers (both in production and in a testing environment) and it appears to work and not have any unexpected side effects. It turns out that contrary to what I thought in my /proc/locks update for 22.04, the Ubuntu 22.04 lslocks can still mis-parse /proc/locks under some circumstances; this is util-linux issue #1633, which will only be fixed in v2.39 when it gets released. Until then, build from source or bug your distribution to pull in a fix.