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Sir, this is an AppleBees.

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Can confirm. I’ve used Dos, Windows, Dilinux over Windows, Redhat, more Windows, MacOS, Windows again, Ubuntu, and now I’m on Debian.

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Snapper has a hook in apt so that it fires a snapshot whenever you do package things. It must have the same for other packaging systems.

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It is a bit different. Have you invested thousands of hours developing skills with a piece of productivity software, and locked your data into their proprietary data format? Has that vendor looked at your investment, and found that they have plenty of leverage to turn the screws on you?

With a game, you invest tens of hours developing skills, lock your “master sword” in a proprietary save format, and then you save the princess. After that, you’re done. It is an ephemeral experience, give or take wanting to replay a few really good games. The game vendor doesn’t have that much hold over you, and their grip doesn’t get stronger the more you use it. I can replace your game with hundreds of other games, and I don’t really lose anything by doing so.

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Under EFI, each bootloader has its own folder in the EFI partition. Each of those are registered with the firmware, and one of them is designated as the default. Grub is still there, but you’ll have to mash (different key for every OEM) to get to the chooser menu.

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Twitch dot tv

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I think “cups, just cups” pulls in enough to do airprint as is.

The fuk? Please help me complete this insane captcha (lemmy.world)

Fridge fridge hamburger truck truck… ??? What’s the blue thing? I thought hamburger would be the answer, but it isn’t? I just get the same captcha with the hamburger in a different place. WTAF is happening? And what’s the blue thing? I answer and it refreshes with the same icons in different places. I AM HUMAN!

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LG is the king of shitting out its own compressor

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How lightweight do you really need to go? I have a Lenovo “barely worth calling a chromebook” with 4GB/64GB/2 core N4000. It’s fine with Gnome on Bookworm.

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I would gander that a “gaming distro” is more aggressive at chasing the latest video drivers, stability be damned.

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Yeah, an intel N95 puck will absolutely demolish any Pi. By the time you add a case, a drive, a stable power brick, enough memory, a cooler, you’re at the same price. With a PC, you’re getting an NVME drive (2 pcie3.0 lanes because Intel can’t let it eat the i3 market) @ 800MB/s. With a Pi, you are living off of a microSD card running at 50MB/s (and that craters with any writing or seeking).

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There’s a simple solution. Open up your drivers Nvidia, like Intel and AMD have done.

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What’s the fuss over an “installer”? You just need a folder with the game’s files. If you really insist, that folder can be rolled up into a zip file dot exe.

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It’s a miracle that the battery is still working at ten years. The most realistic thing is to just keep up with your backups, and be ready to dispose of that laptop the moment the battery starts swelling.

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TLP is my favourite tool for messing with the charge limit. And also far, far too many power/thermal management knobs.

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It’s been a while since I’ve seen Sinfest, I wonder what that delightful little comic of yesteryear is up to now…

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Ubuntu has an installer that largely works. I just went through trying to install Bazzite (fedora), it insisted that I needed another -890GB of space. At best, I managed to get to where it errored out at the end of another install attempt, and left a broken grub setup.

(Newbie question) Did i handle my system crashing correctly?

Ive just installed Linux (Fedora 40 KDE) on my main PC over the weekend, so im a complete newbie and i apologize if some of my questions are nonsensical 😅. Yesterday evening the system seemed to completely lock up at a certain point while playing Red Dead Redemption 2 for the first time (installed & run via steam using proton...

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Do the sysreq sometime when your system isn’t hung. If it isn’t enabled, welp you have to enable it harder.

Having ssh set up would be a way in when the whole graphics stack falls over (but the kernel is still alive in there). On intel there are /sys entries to dump GPU state, ATI probably has something similar. You have a reproducible bug, if you can get in and grab data while the gpu is in la-la-land, you might be able to submit a valuable bug report.

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Frosty Diarry Dessert®️

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The database is running on an IBM made in 1954. Commas literally weren’t invented yet.

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Btrfs, snapper, cp --reflink stuff back out of a snapshot.

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Is it The End Of Days?

Is EA actually getting … less shitty??

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Would you know a virus if you saw it?

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If you’re RDPing from a malicious client, how do you know what you’re seeing is real? How do you know that your viewer didn’t show the same screen for just a little too long while the host popped up a cmd, curl, run, close, continue in the background? How do you know that closing your session isn’t “forwarding it to someone else for a bit, but they’ll close it when they’re done”? One time you start a session, verify it with your phone, waiting waiting waiting, an error occurred try again. Did it fail, or did it go to someone else?

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Snaps (and flatpaks) have a much better way of handling DLL hell than good ol deb/rpm/pacman. As such, each app is better able to chase the latest version of all of its dependencies, without worrying about messing up the libraries for anyone else.

Snap/flatpak also sandbox their apps, reducing the blast radius of exploited or bad apps.

My personal preference is to use flatpak, and set it up so that it is all --user. With a --user install, you don’t need sudo to update anything. Use Flatseal to tighten up or loosen the sandbox, use Warehouse to roll back any broken updates. I don’t think snap has any tools like Flatseal or Warehouse, which makes it the weaker packager.

Anything that can be installed as a flatpak, I do it there first. Then I can just pick up my home directory, drop it in a different distro, and almost all of my stuff follows. A distro becomes little more than “a kernel, a compositor, a baseline desktop environment, and some background daemons”.

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