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By David Uzondu · Posted
Linux Mint is finally getting native fingerprint login support by David Uzondu In the latest monthly news roundup from the Linux Mint team, the developers announced a feature that users have wanted for a long, long time. The famously user-friendly distribution is finally getting proper, integrated support for fingerprint login. For a distro that has built its reputation on providing a comfortable, "it just works" experience for people new to Linux, the absence of this convenient security feature has been a noticeable gap, especially on modern laptops. The new feature will arrive in Linux Mint 22.2, powered by Fingwit, a brand new XApp built by the Mint developers. It handles detecting your fingerprint reader and recording your prints. Once configured, you can use your fingerprint for the login screen, the screensaver, authenticating sudo commands, and any other administrative actions that pop up a password dialog (pkexec). What makes this particularly interesting is how it deals with situations where a fingerprint just will not work. Fingwit uses fprintd for the backend work, but the Mint devs say its custom authentication module is clever enough to detect tricky cases. For instance, if your home directory is encrypted, you absolutely need your password to decrypt it at login. Just using a fingerprint would lead to a crashed session. Fingwit sees this coming and dynamically prompts for your password instead. The Mint team says Fingwit will be able to run "in any desktop environment and on any Linux distribution." A significant driver for this development has been the team's ongoing work with Framework. Testing the company's hardware has pushed the Mint team to better support the features packed into modern laptops. This partnership is also the reason Mint 22.1 got power profiles and why Mint 22.2 will ship with a newer HWE (hardware enablement) kernel. The team also announced a slew of other changes for the upcoming release. As part of this work, core applications like gnome-calendar, simple-scan (the document scanner), and baobab (the disk usage analyzer) will be upgraded to their newer libAdwaita versions. To solve the long-standing frustration of libAdwaita apps ignoring system themes, the developers have patched the library. Taking it a step further, they have forked it entirely into a new project called libAdapta. On a final, critical note, the team also had a serious warning for users of older versions. The Linux Mint 20.x series, which includes versions 20, 20.1, 20.2, and 20.3, officially reached its End of Life in April 2024. Your system will continue to function, but it will no longer receive any security updates from the official repositories, leaving it vulnerable. The team laid out two options. The recommended path is a fresh installation of a newer release (22.1), which provides support until 2029 and is the cleanest way forward. Alternatively, you can attempt a long and complicated in-place upgrade, which is a multi-step process from 20.x to 21.3. -
By freakyfriday · Posted
hey all. i recently upgraded my pc: i rma my old motherboard and got a B550 board so i had to get a new cpu. this is what i have right now. Ryzen 7 5800x( seperate cheap cooler) B550M PRO-VDH MSI 2x16gb DDR4 3600mhz 256GB SSD nvme 1.81TB Games drive 465GB backup Drive 1.36TB Games Drive 2x 2TB MyBook USB Drives RTX 3050 8gb OC Aura case with glass 1000 watt MSI Mag PSU 1650x1050 22" Dell monitor( got it for free off of facebook) everything is canadian prices i might get a 4k monitor next year SO i was planning to get a new gpu then some items were on sale on amazon canada. Canadian Prices total budget is 864.05 i can either get upgrade too: i would return the cpu, ram(have to anyway) and gpu 5900x( without cooler, will use my cooler that i have here from my old 2700x)- 314.10 ddr4 3600mhz( i have to return them and get another one because there is something wrong with the ram- getting blue screens)-68.33 ASUS Dual Radeon™ RX 7600 EVO OC Edition 8GB GDDR6 -370.79 total 845.26 with 5.00 off amazon coupon or keep my 5800x with the fan return my gpu and get a better gpu. the rtx 3050 8gb is my current one i have until june 16 to return it. these are the gpus that i can afford with keeping the cpu with fan but getting new ram. MSI Gaming RTX 5060 8G Shadow 2X OC Graphics Card - 439.99 MSI Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 12GB 15 Gbps GDRR6 - 427.69 ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 4060 8GB Solo DLSS 3 8GB GDDR6 -- 446.20 ASUS Dual Radeon™ RX 7600 EVO OC Edition 8GB GDDR6 - 370.39 Sapphire 11310-01-20G Pulse AMD Radeon RX 6600 Gaming Graphics Card with 8GB GDDR6, AMD RDNA 2- 382.18 Sparkle Intel Arc B570 Guardian OC Graphics Card, 10GB GDDR6- 437.39 -
By leonsk29 · Posted
Wi-Fi 6E in 2025? Why? Everything should have Wi-Fi 7 by now, IMO. -
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By LoneWolfSL · Posted
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is out this year, landing with a "mind-bending" co-op campaign by Pulasthi Ariyasinghe A surprise Call of Duty announcement landed during the Xbox Game Showcase event today, with Treyarch and Raven Software unveiling Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 as the next entry in the massively popular FPS franchise. While many were expecting the 2025 entry to be a Modern Warfare game, this will be the first time in the history of the series that two Black Ops games will be releasing back to back. Watch the teaser trailer above. Black Ops 7 will be set 40 years after the events of Black Ops 6, taking players to 2035 for a more futuristic experience. "Wielding cutting-edge technology, David Mason and his team must fight back against a manipulative enemy who weaponizes fear above all else," says the company. "The Black Ops universe is amazing. The creativity and imagination that goes into the storytelling, the rich character depth, and the incredible moment-to-moment gameplay across all modes is really exceptional," says Matt Cox, General Manager of Call of Duty. "As a team, our vision from the start was to create a back-to-back series experience for our players that embraced the uniqueness of the Black Ops sub-franchise." In another twist, the complete campaign will be playable in co-op in addition to offering solo play like usual. The story will follow a world that's on the brink of chaos, according to Treyarch, where violent conflicts and psychological warfare are rampant. Of course, a complete multiplayer portion with new maps and weapons, as well as another dose of round-based Zombies in the Dark Aether will be included in the package too. The complete reveal for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will be releasing later this year before the full launch The title is coming to PC, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, and PlayStation 4. Game Pass subscribers are gaining access on day one too.
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