overview for JustARegularNerd

Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

That's the way I fully got into it - started off on an old laptop and ~~manifested~~ continued from there.

Objectively false. Checkmate, libs. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel it always has been rigged, it's just that the rigging has always been so incompetent

No words in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'll add to this too, taken a while ago of my old car in an Australian shopping mall, and Nissan Patrols aren't even the most egregious here.

Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

No, this is victim blaming - Samsung does something very anti-privacy and anti-consumer and you blame the user because of the way they use their phone? You are detracting responsibility from the company that has started doing this.

Tesla Cybertruck sales collapse, company accepts trade-ins with extreme depreciation in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I thought you were going to link to a Trabant, but I'll also be with you that any vehicle in Robert's fleet is more durable and better designed.

Philosophy moment in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It was posted to the Reddit thread (I too reached into the depths to find it).

Do you do the virtual one sided interviews? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That's what my previous job did exactly - I put my application in and answered some custom questions they had. My future supervisor calls me and we talked for about 10 minutes, then he asked me to come in for an actual interview. Did the interview and next week found out I was hired.

Who would have guessed?! in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Can confirm. Study laptops are on Linux Mint Debian Edition, gaming PC is on CachyOS currently but it changes all the time, had Bazzite on it beforehand

Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I imagine you could filter it with uBlock right?

[NO LONGER ACTIVE] Announcing an April charity event! in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can't afford to donate to them currently, so have a Lemmy silver to go towards you !lemmysilver

Purchased an Osborne MPV1024 monitor and it just works in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I imagine a lot of these went that way unfortunately, including this one. They were difficult to use on Windows 95 onwards as far as I've found due to the SVGA resolution being interlaced, making them more tempting to toss once the Osborne PC became obsolete.

It's quite amazing he continued using it up to the 2010s, but I suppose when you have a completely offline system that already meets your needs, then it can't really go obsolete.

Purchased an Osborne MPV1024 monitor and it just works in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the heads up - it'll stay as a very occasional use monitor until I either feel comfortable enough to look inside (after lots of research, given the voltages within) or find a friend experienced in CRTs. I really wouldn't want to blow it up when it could've been prevented easily by maintaining it.

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Purchased an Osborne MPV1024 monitor and it just works (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Last week I made a post asking if I should buy an old vintage monitor.

Well, I went back to the recycled goods store this week and it was still there, so $30 later I have it, and it seems to just work*

There's very little about this monitor on the internet, so I'm thinking of documenting as much as I can about it, especially as it's Osborne branded so there could be some interesting history behind it.

* The power button is stuck on, and it does an occasional unsettling arc sound and the image slightly distorts for a millisecond. I believe the latter is fairly common among old CRTs but I don't know much more than that.

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Osborne MPV 1024 CRT monitor - worth buying? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello!

I came across a cosmetically good condition CRT monitor at the local recycled goods shop, but I can't seem to find much information about it.

It is an Osborne MPV 1024 14" CRT monitor. I was able to find a manual for it on the Internet Archive, and an old forum question about using it with a then new Windows 95 machine, but that's about it.

The thing that confuses me though is that I wasn't aware of Osborne making individual computer monitors, or peripherals of any kind. I also don't seem to see anyone online talking about these monitors.

I want to find out if it's rare or otherwise special in some way, or if it's just a generic CRT monitor of the 80s/90s that just reused the Osborne branding.

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Found a security bug in LMDE6, need some help (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have an older Intel laptop that has a 1600x900 display, and I find that if I put the machine to sleep, connect an external monitor with a higher resolution, and then turn it back on, the login screen doesn't adjust to the new resolution and it reveals what I had open (see photo).

However, I'm not that familiar with Linux Mint (even though I've daily driven Linux for nearly 10 years, I very casually use LMDE) and I'm not sure if this is a Cinnamon problem or if the lock screen is under a different program.

Looking at Linux Mint's webpage on reporting a bug (https://projects.linuxmint.com/reporting-an-issue.html) they seem to mostly use Cinnamon as an example, but I don't want to report this issue as a Cinnamon issue if it's the wrong project.

In case this is platform specific, my device's details are below:

Host: Dell Latitude E6420
CPU: Intel Core i7-2630QM (Sandy Bridge)
GPU: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family
Kernel: 6.1.0-21-amd64
DE: Cinnamon 6.0.4
WM: Mutter (Muffin)
Display Server: X11

I've never filed a bug report in my life before, usually I just put up with the issue until it's eventually fixed, but I feel this is a moderate security issue that should be flagged.