I never had account in Twitter, but for me it looks like it’s become a honeypot for right-wing useful idiots. And it has gained a lots of attraction simply because the censorship was ended in just one night.
Hello, I’m looking to setup a simple Linux-based media center PC, as I really can’t stand ad ridden TV interfaces, using an old tiny Lenovo Thinkcentre with a Ryzen 5 2400GE or something similar....
If possible, buy an old Thinkpad for 50-100 bucks and install on a real hardware for the best experience.
I have no experience with any Mac hardware, but Virtualbox has improved a lot during the years. It won’t have accelerated graphics, but still fast and responsive.
I want to configure a tool so that I can just call with a movie as an argument and automatically download the appropriate english subtitle by file hash or name. I recall I had something configured like that but now I don’t remember what was the tool I used.
You’d expect MPV was published by MIT or Bell Labs in late 1970’s because it is so good, can do literally anything while remaining lightweight. But no, it is released in August 2013.
65% of Americans support tech companies moderating false information online and 55% support the U.S. government taking these steps. These shares have increased since 2018. Americans are even more supportive of tech companies (71%) and the U.S. government (60%) restricting extremely violent content online.
So what? You can’t even prove any of your “conspiracy” claims wrong. All you can do is to restrict other peoples freedom of speech.
If you’ve got different opinions, then debate with arguments. Currently all you have capabilities is just very low iq monkey business. But naturally that’s your choice how you want to play. Don’t expect me to give you any credits for that.
I don’t know how things function in the US, but here in Europe it’s already pretty much a standard that average joes has totally the opposite opinion what media claims to be the result.
And when multiple other polls with multiple time more responders shows the opposite result, media is always silent.
Our politicians started to push biometrics / strong identificitation last year or this for every people who connects to internet. That’s just step closer to that “you have no pricacy” conspiracy theory created by conpiracy theorist politicians.
Well, that’s good to hear then. Hopefully it stays on that track. EU and US is banning encrypted messaging currently at the same time though. And India already illegalized them, but Indian people says that so far it hasn’t affected anybody by any means.
For years, I’ve gotten by with a desktop at home running Arch and a work laptop running Kubuntu. Now I want a laptop that’s not owned by my job, so that I can use a computer outside the house and not have my workplace own the IP rights of whatever I do on it. My workload is basically just going to be emacs and web browsing,...
I have 4 icons displaying the current amount of volume with white background and for mute I use red background. It was super easy to set in the config file even I don’t speak C++.
I’ve been debating making the switch for a long time, but after spending like a week researching Proton, Lutris etc. on Linux, I decided to try it out and nuked my entire Windows 11 drive. :)...
My nephews & nieces aren’t currently allowed much computer access because their parents worry about screen time, inappropriate content and the like. But their mother was sharing concerns with me that they won’t have the basic computer skills and understanding that we learned growing up in the 80s and 90s. Having to make...
My brother is 12 and just like other people of his age he can’t use a computer properly because he is only familiar with mobile devices and dumbed-down computers...
I recommend that you install Linux on the laptop alone! Linux will work on that hdd, but will be slower. If you can, buy an used ssd for it. 256 GB should be enough for a lot. That 1 TB hdd could serve you as a backup disk.
I also recommend to overhaul your laptop. Remove the dust with compressed air and reolace thermal paste (should be done every 2-3 years anyway).
My tips comes from 3 librebooted X200s I’ve done (plus 1 fried due to user error by me):
your most important tool is a heatgun with smallest possible nossle (or is it nozzle?)
replace the stock WSON-8 nightmare chip with 8 mbit SOIC-8 chip
take a photo of red dot on the WSON-8 before heating it, it shows you the right position/angle/side for the SOIC-8 chip too
be aware that the whole bottom part (i.e. big area) of that nightmare WSON-8 stock chip is soldered
do not compile libreboot with raspberry pi nor any sbc you’re using (use real x86 computer)
when flashing, use slower spispeed than you’d use with Coreboot (older machine)
soldering the SOIC-8 chip do not require any skills nor good vision (super easy task)
With a good and especially small nossled heatgun you don’t need to cover the motherboard at all. If you melt the plastc top cover of the WSON-8, it doesn’t mind but not necessary either. Just don’t melt the motherboard (small nossle!!!) and you’re all good. Use tweezers rather than pliers, because force is bad and when the super-high quality soldering tin is melted completely, the WSON-8 chip comes off even if you just blow on it.
Flash the 8 mbit SOIC-8 before soldering it onto the motherboard.
I have no lots of soldering skills/experience, but it is fairly easy task if you just have the small nossled heatgun.
And oh yeah, some guides suggests to solder jumpwires onto the stock WSON-8 chip rather than heating it off, but that approach was way too hard for my soldering skills even with the smallest possible tip on my Pinecil soldering iron.
So any computer or laptop which you have will work just fine. No matter how old it it is.
You can also compile the rom with RasPi but for some unknown reason it caused me unworking rom even it didn’t give aby errors. I contacted the developer and he said I should never compile anything with RasPi :D
Elon Musk, Twitter and X MegaThread
Hey everybody,...
Spotify now has 220 million paying subscribers (www.theverge.com)
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Hello, I’m looking to setup a simple Linux-based media center PC, as I really can’t stand ad ridden TV interfaces, using an old tiny Lenovo Thinkcentre with a Ryzen 5 2400GE or something similar....
Really good tutorial for getting Debian setup with Timeshift ready BTRFS (www.youtube.com)
Best way to run a Linux VM(s) on intel MacOS? (mander.xyz)
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How to download subtitles automatically from the command line?
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Most Americans favor restrictions on false information, violent content online (www.pewresearch.org)
65% of Americans support tech companies moderating false information online and 55% support the U.S. government taking these steps. These shares have increased since 2018. Americans are even more supportive of tech companies (71%) and the U.S. government (60%) restricting extremely violent content online.
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Linux distro for a laptop I might barely use (lemmy.sdf.org)
For years, I’ve gotten by with a desktop at home running Arch and a work laptop running Kubuntu. Now I want a laptop that’s not owned by my job, so that I can use a computer outside the house and not have my workplace own the IP rights of whatever I do on it. My workload is basically just going to be emacs and web browsing,...
I've ditched Windows 11 for Arch Linux on my Gaming Rig! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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I would have expected Meta to have learned by Elons mistakes but I was just asked if I want to subscribe for a blue tick to verify my account to make my followers feelnsafer (sopuli.xyz)
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My nephews & nieces aren’t currently allowed much computer access because their parents worry about screen time, inappropriate content and the like. But their mother was sharing concerns with me that they won’t have the basic computer skills and understanding that we learned growing up in the 80s and 90s. Having to make...
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What the most Lightest RSS reader for Debian?
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