elucubra

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's one of the beauties of Linux, if you need something else than want you can probably get another distro that suits your needs. OP was asking about newbies. I set up Mint for my mom. I can guarantee that she won't change.

My son on the other hand distro hops.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Remeber, If it's "free", you are the product.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

I'm mainly Android, most Linux, some Win, and an iPad. I consider Ai free a feature.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Not just a wig, a cheapo Aliexpress wig. I had an employee who bought a quality hairpiece, and it was uncanny. He paid through the nose for it, but it was worth it for him, as he was quite bald in his 20's.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

1st. You dou you. 2nd. Kudos for the design and ingenuity.

Now the buts:

I personally don't agree with the concept of "I'm going to print this just to prove I can", especially if it's subpar.

I have so much h to print, for me and for others, that I see this as a waste of time an filament.

My own personal point of view.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You want wild? I see it white and gold in the PC, and blue and black(ish) on the phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

My cheapo countertop induction stove can be programed and has power/temp settings. I spent some time testing the temp feature and it was pretty accurate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you use on an induction stove, it's probably more efficient

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

They banned linux packages?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

I hope this goes forward. I used to use sleepers a lot, but they were slowly deprecated. The idea of spending a day or more getting to the destination, is not very attractive to me. High speed rail, for under 4h trips is pretty much my limit for daytime travel by train.

Sleepers on the other hand! They are like teleporting! You go in, blackout, and suddenly you are there! Magic!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Prostitution works for me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Oh, FLAT hub!

 

I've been using rustdesk for while, and it works very well for me. The news of it being somewhat opaque, and developed from China, makes me a bit nervous.

Is there a FOSS equivalent that won't make me jump through hoops, and be easily installed by someone else remotely?

I would like to be able to have it run at startup in Linux and windows, have a fairly complete feature set, like file transfer, copy paste, etc.

Also it'd be great if it could be easily installed by someone else remotely. I do SMB support, usually onsite, which is why it's not cost effective to pay for a Teamviewer or Anydesk license.

I'm taking a look through flathub, but recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

What do you consider to be the "Goldilocks" distro? the one that balances ease of install and use, up-to-date, stability, speed, etc... You get the idea.

I'm not a newb, these last few years I've lived in the Debian and derivatives side of things, but I've used RH, Slackware, Puppy :), and older stuff, like mandrake/mandriva and others. Never tried Suse or Arch, and while Nix looks appealing, I need something to put in production rapidly. I have tried Kinoite in a VM, but I couldn't install something (which I can't remember), and that turned me off.

Oh I'm on Mint right now, because lazy, but it's acting up with a couple of VMs, which I need, I really don't have the time or desire to maybe spend two days troubleshooting, and I'm a bit fed up with out of date pkgs.

 

Does anybody have the impression that Stremio may be a honeypot of some sort?

Thay are allegedly a legal service where some nefarious actors provide torrenting plugins etc. I tried to find out how they were financed, and found northing but a site purportedly selling "Web3" advertising, and filled with technobabble nonsense. No address, no way to purchase their services no GDPR notice or anything...

All I can find regarding their safety are "It's legit, nothing has happened to me so far" comments in reddit and other boards.

They have your email, they host the service, they can track all you do...

Seems kind of fishy.

Ive tried it, ironically, to watch stuff that I pay for, I have Netflix, prime video, Disney... But Stremio gives me much higher resolutions.

Even though I live in a country where sailing the high seas is not persecuted, as long as you are the end-user and you derive no profit, I'm going to delete my account (made with an email address I have for bullshit stuff ), make a new one with a truly disposable email and get a VPN.

 

I'm having the hardest tine setting up a shared folder between a Linux host and Win11guest. I want to get rid of dual boot, but there are a few programs that I use which are Win only. I have set up a VB VM, but I want a fine tuned KVM VM. On VB sharing is trivial, but I can't get it to work in KVM. I have the host sharing the folder with Samba, and can see it from another Linux VM, but not from windows. Any clues?

 

I have looked everywhere (so it's probably in front of my face). Where are saved posts? Are they in my instance, in lemmy? How can I find them?

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