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Summary Russia is now starting to run out of high spec CPUs and is having to resort to obtaining their computational power for their war effort elsewhere and are resorting to butchering washing machines and other household appliances to get the CPU's to be able to power their invasion of Ukraine Quotes My thoughts I think this is a rather interesting set of affairs really. The war in Ukraine has been going on since the 24th of February 2022 in which Russia has been rather agreesive and committing their troops to walls of death. Russia who thought this would be a 3 day operation has now been fighting this war for the past 7 months and is now suffering the effects of the global chip shortage themselves because of how large their losses have been in their fight with Ukraine. Russia is using Texas Instrument chips in their missiles that are being launched at Ukraine. Their supply of chips is either being cut off or entirely cut off not only because of the shortage but also because of sanctions. If their supply can be permanently cut off then the Russian war effort cannot be resupplied effectively bringing the war to end through technological attrition. Everything from FPGA's to RS-232 transceivers and GPS receivers are being used by Russia in their weapons. With supplies drying up and tougher and tougher international sanctions on Russia preventing more high tech equipment reaching the war effort it is going to make it easier for Ukraine to fight back against Russia and hopefully push the Russians back to the boarder. Sources https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/special-resources/silicon-lifeline-western-electronics-heart-russias-war-machine/interactive-summary RUSI summary into technology used by Russia to https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62464459 <--- BBC news article and the corresponding video A Texas Instruments chip on a circuit board found inside a Russian 9M727 missile collected on the battlefield by Ukraine's military - Credit Reuters

\If you are a user of Ubuntu there is a good chance at some point in time you have used Wine at some point in time. And at some point you have also questioned why things are the way they are and how to install wine. And when you install Wine through the terminal you do not get the latest version of Wine, in this case Wine 7.0. Well I am going to walk you through how to install Wine 7.0 through the terminal and I will also give you access to an install script repository and a video I made so that you can choose your own method of following along. So lets get into the installation process shall we. Step 1 Enabling the 32 bit architecture. This is something that needs to be done to prevent any conflicts with installing any software through wine. sudo dpkg -add-architecture i386 Step 2 Next you need to download the WineHQ key to be able to download from the WineHQ sources wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key Step 3 Now you need to move the key into the correct place sudo mv winehq.key /usr/share/keyrings/winehq-archive.key Step 4 Now you need to add the WineHQ repository to the sources list wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/jammy/winehq-jammy.sources Step 5 Now you need to move the WineHQ sources to the sources list sudo mv winehq-jammy.sources /etc/apt/sources.list.d Step 6 Now you need to update the system sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade Step 7 Now we install Wine version 7.0 sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable Now you have Wine version 7.0 installed. Which now means you can install any Windows software without too many problem. I can also vouch that Epic Games Store will also work through Lutris as well. Now go fourth and use Linux how you want it without the bloatware that comes with Windows. Code repository https://github.com/Nmatt1/Wine7.0 Video

Wine 7.0 Install Instructions So you have decided that you want to install Wine 7.0 for Ubuntu, Ubuntu variations and Debian. Well this quick and easy install guide will take you over how to install it directly from WineHQ. As of the time of writing the Wine binary has not been updated on the official repository so the only way to get Wine 7.0 is to download and install directly from WineHQ. This is pretty easy with no issues. Preparing for install When are ready to install Wine 7.0, check to see if you have wine installed first. To do this open up a terminal window and type the following wine --version Once you have done this and established that you either have Wine installed or you are Wine-less we can now move on. Removing older versions of Wine This is pretty easy to do. Type the following into the already open command terminal that you have open. sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove winehq-stable Installing Wine This is the part where we install Wine. Follow this list of steps This enables 32bit architecture on your operating system allowing the use of said 32bit software. sudo dkpg --add-architecture i386 This step downloads the public key from WineHQ to allow the installing of Wine software. wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key This step adds the public key file to your keys file. sudo apt-key add winehq.key This step adds the Winehq repository for version 7 to the repository list sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ bullseye main' It is HIGHLY important that you do not forget the '. If you forget the ' It wont work and you will get a blinking >_ If that shows up just CTRL+C and correct the mistake. This step updates your system sudo apt update This step finally installs Wine7.0 sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable This will install Wine 7.0 This will get the most update to date version installed. You will be able to run Windows software with no issues at all. You are likely wondering where the Debian version is. Well I made install scripts for all of this on my GitHub that cover both Ubuntu, Ubuntu variations and Debian versions 10, 11 and testing. You can also watch a guide video that I made if you don't want to use the install script. Thank you for reading this. I hope you have a good rest of your day! GitHub: https://github.com/Nmatt1/Wine7.0 YouTube:

I find this is easier to do and explain to new users. I will be expanding on this in the future.

So you are wondering how to install DWM on Arch Linux? Well look no further! In this post I am going to show you how to install DWM and get it working! Preamble STEP 1 Lets create a new user. In this case our user will be called DWM. This is done by by useradd -m dwm. You must remember to add -m to the command otherwise it will not create a directory for your user. useradd -m dwm passwd dwm STEP 2 Now you want to give your new user sudo permissions. This can be done by going into the sudoers file in /etc/sudoers with your favorite text editor. Once you are in the sudoers file you want to scroll down to User privilege specification and add your user. As you can see here we have 3. root, nick and dwm. DWM is the one we are working with now. Once that is done we move onto step 3. STEP 3 Now that the dwm user has been created we can now log into it and download the packages we need. Lets also download Firefox now as well. sudo pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-xrandr xorg-xsetroot firefox STEP 4 Once everything has been downloaded and installed we need to copy the xinitrc file to our home directory with the following command. cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc .xinitrc STEP 5 If everything has gone well so far your home directory should look something like this... STEP 6 Once that has been done and we have confirmed xinitrc is in the correct place. We need to go into the file using a text editor and make a change. So open the file and go down to the very bottom and remove the last 4 lines. Once that is done replace them with exec dwm It should go from this To this Once that is done we move onto step 7 STEP 7 Now we move onto download the software we need. We will be downloading 2 git packages from suckless.org git clone https://git.suckless.org/dwm git clone https://git.suckless.org/st Once they have both been downloaded we need to CD into them and compile the software with sudo make clean install The output from the compiling should look something like this Once that is done we can now move onto the final step. FINAL STEP All that is left now is to type startx And it should give a desktop that looks something like this! You have now installed DWM and Simple terminal on Arch Linux! This should work on any Linux Operating system but of course keep in mind your install manager EG changing sudo pacman -S to sudo apt install. If you want to follow it along in a video format I made a video here as a guide. I hope you find this guide useful. Have a good rest of your day! Nick Matthews LinuxPanic

Summary A recently discovered PS4 emulator has appeared by the name of PCSX4 copying the naming convention of PCSX and PCSX2, which is keeping the Sony naming theme. Except when you go to download it you are forced to go fill out a survey for money or install a third party extension which doesn't work when attempted. When checking the listed GitHub on the PCSX4 website it shows that the last update was 4 months ago. The GitHub also has less documentation then an OSU graphics tablet drivers. Along with conflicting information all over their website. In their terms of server (which is on the website as Tos. Why?) It says that PCSX4 is governed by the laws of France. Meanwhile on the GitHub page is says the country is the Netherlands. It also claims to advertise that it can run the games at 4K60FPS. Now that is only possible for the PS4 Pro not the regular PS4 which this appears to be advertising to. And a further catch is on the website blog it talks about only getting the 2018 PS4 Spiderman only working this year when its been advertised to be working since 2019 on their Facebook and YouTube. There is no substance to any of their claims and this scam has been planned for some time because the website has been registered since June of 2014 according to who.is Quotes My thoughts My thoughts on this are clear. It is 100% a scam. There is no sort of documentation for anything of worth. There are OSU graphics tablet drivers (as mentioned before) that have more documentation then this entire project. It is being used solely to farm money and data at the expense of the public. It has no true basis in reality and its making a big fuss and attention grab at nothing just to farm money. Sources https://www.pcsx4.com (Main Website) https://www.pcsx4.com/d (Download Page) https://pcsx4.com/tos (Terms of Service) https://github.com/hawku/TabletDriver (OSU Tablet Driver) https://github.com/ps4emurepo (PCSX4 GitHub) https://www.facebook.com/pcsx4 (Facebook Page with no updates since 2019) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCadIRTx7kExOs_jRFu1UC-Q (YouTube with no updates since 2019) https://pcsx4.com/posts/spider-man-2018-pc-ps4-emulator (Spiderman 2018 Website Blog Entry) https://who.is/whois/pcsx4.com (Who.is website information)