Some middle-aged guy on the Internet; Seen a lot of it and occasionally regurgitate it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4.
Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Now I'm here.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
Applying for mod in places where an occasional mod would better than none at all.
If social media was your therapist [Mr. Lovenstein] (lemmy.world)
mrlovenstein.com
Father of the year [Hagar the Horrible] (lemmy.world)
[linux mint, cinnamon] how can i resize the panel's width?
i tried out plasma on opensuse (in a vm) and liked how they handle panels, i especially liked how i could set the bar to be only as wide as the content inside it....
My friend didn't have a great experience with Linux
I have been daily driving Linux for over two years now and I have switched distros many times. So, when my friend bought a new laptop, I convinced him to install Linux Mint on it. I asked him if he wanted to dual boot, he said no because it would fill up all his storage. We installed Linux Mint. The other day, he wanted to play...
PayPal plans an ad network built off your purchase history (www.theregister.com)
Mmm, a cinnamon roll... (lemmus.org)
Comic by Liz Climo, May 28, 2024.
Viruses & Task Viewers
Hello everybody! I can say I’m a newbie at Linux. Wanted to ask about Linux’ task viewers. On the famous task viewers such as bpytop, htop etc., can viruses hide from them? Excluding the injected codes, can virus & tracker/logger softwares hide from classic task viewers of Linux? Do they show all kinds of services and...
All the King's horses send their condolences (lemmus.org)
Too Much Coffee Man by Shannon Wheeler for May 28, 2024.
Only telling people my height in cm from now on
How did you get out of Vim before you knew its hotkeys and commands? (lemmy.world)
Neuralink looks to the public to solve a seemingly impossible problem (www.cbc.ca)
Elon Musk’s quest to wirelessly connect human brains with machines has run into a seemingly impossible obstacle, experts say. The company is now asking the public for help finding a solution....
UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
A big biometric security company in the UK, Facewatch, is in hot water after their facial recognition system caused a major snafu - the system wrongly identified a 19-year-old girl as a shoplifter.
Do all DEs store the trash in the same place?
On Cinnamon and LxQt, the trash is in ~/.local/share/Trash. Is it the same for all desktop environments?
We've all been there... (sh.itjust.works)
I usually use .bak… .old seems so… old.
Real find in a website's javascript (discuss.tchncs.de)
Checkmate (lemdro.id)
Voter ID | The Electoral Commission (www.electoralcommission.org.uk)
Please check that you’ll be allowed to vote!
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toxic help forum (lemmy.world)
Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza (www.theverge.com)
Arry Otter (sh.itjust.works)