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Fedora 40 KDE - Dolphin File Manager annoying default setting?

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By default Dolphin File Manager is set to open the last viewed location, and I find that quite annoying because if the last location was a USB drive that is no longer mounted, when you open Dolphin it will try and load that last location but it will display an error as it is no longer mounted. Additionally if the last location was a folder you accessed that required sudo, it will also display an error. You can easily change the behaviour of Dolphin File Manager so that it will always open to a location of your choice, for example your home directory, which makes the most sense to me. Personally I think KDE should default to opening your /home directory and not the last location you accessed.  Or is it just me?

How to build a vanilla kernel RPM package Fedora 37

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I currently have an Intel Arc A770 LE 16GB and out of the box Fedora 37 does not support it. There are some workarounds but the best option (at the time of writing) is to use kernel 6.2.7 as that has native Intel Arc support. This is a quick guide I made for myself, it will build a linux-6.2.7 *.rpm package in Fedora 37. As with anything in Linux, there is usually more than one way to do things or a better way to do something. If you have a suggestion leave a comment below. Open a terminal  sudo dnf install ncurses-devel flex bison rpm-build elfutils-libelf-devel rpmdevtools openssl-devel dwarves perl This should install required packages to build and compile the kernel. rpmdev-setuptree This will setup your home directory for building the *.rpm package. cd ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/ We are going to go into the SOURCES directory in our rpmbuild tree. wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/linux-6.2.7.tar.xz This will download linux-6.2.7.tar.xz into the SOURCES directory. tar...