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adarza

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  • my first install of debian was before it had names. my most recent was last tuesday. i've strayed for short stints, but debian is where it's at. i do have a couple 'others' but they are special setups for specific things.

    if you like the deb-based system but want to get away from canonical, trixie is ready to rescue you.

  • If you're fond of restoring 30-year-old PCs, but then you see some old PC parts being obliterated by scrappers just to get small pitiful pinches of gold.

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  • that's where we take a lot of our junk, too.. but we also buy from there when we can, instead of amazon.

  • First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales

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  • western digital was the parent, they bought sandisk in 2016.

    last year they spun-off the flash storage business back into a new entity (also) named sandisk, leaving western digital ('wd') with only the traditional hdd business.

    the spin-off also included wd's previous sd card line as well as their popular computer ssd products (which are being re-branded by the 'new' company).

  • Copilot is now injecting ads into PR descriptions

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  • someone with a corner office in redmond reminded someone else that shareholders expect to see an immediate return on their $100+ billion 'investment' in this shit.

  • Give me European Alternatives

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  • the one baked into firefox downloads small specialized models and runs on your device.

  • Advice for upcycle build

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  • hope you have your motherboard sourced already. lga1200 mini-itx gonna be a tough one to find reasonably priced, otherwise.

  • Why sometimes Linux is hard to switch to

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  • cachy is the current 'flavour of the day', apparently.

  • How to install recommended packages after installing the app(Linux mint)

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  • manjaro is arch-based, with different repositories than ubuntu or debian-based distributions. what it offers via the DE's software 'manager' will likely be a bit different.

  • How to install recommended packages after installing the app(Linux mint)

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  • i use aptitude whenever i want to take a closer look at recommends and suggested packages in a .deb-based system. it's been my preferred package manager since it was originally released back around woody (deb 3.0)

    for games or a mix of games and applications, i would also consider using proton or similar instead of messing around with wine directly on its own.

    i use bottles myself, because i just have a few smaller windows applications to set up and it works well-enough for those.

  • As fuel prices rise, US lawmakers push to suspend the federal gas tax

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  • oil companies and gas stations already drooling over the thought of an extra ~ 20c a gallon pure profit.

  • Jdownloader2

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  • 'clean' installers are linked from this forum sticky: https://board.jdownloader.org/showthread.php?t=54725

    note that the program updates itself at install (and frequently thereafter) so you don't need an 'updated' installer every time you want to install it on something.

  • Converting HDMI to composite

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  • they do exist.

    i'd just pick one up on bestbuy's site (their store brand, on clearance, $20). i've had good luck with their brand for other video converters (have ones that go usb to vga, hdmi to dvi, and dp to hdmi).

    they're also easily found on azn (for even less. look for ones with both a good rating and many reviewers). get one to try, then get a second one once you've checked it out.

    note that these are all probably not bi-directional, and that converters that go the other way (composite to hdmi) also exist--so be careful when buying that you get one that goes in the correct 'direction' you need.

  • Whats everyone having for supper tonight?

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  • leftovers. breakfast taco, fish sandwich, reheated french fries from friday's lunch, maybe part of a burrito.

  • bold words

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  • Me at 18 in 1980's: "wtf is a bitcoin?"

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  • letterboxing built into the video so DVD players show them correctly. Since that loses some pixels up front, they require using higher quality levels to prevent visual lossiness.

    Letterbox and pillars baked-in actually has very little, if any, impact on filesize or quality, when encoding from the same source and settings (other than the one dimension that was trimmed)

  • RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs

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  • My base starting point parts list (full build with 9800x3d, 64GB/4TB, 9700xt) was 2000usd about five months ago when it was last used to base a build on.

    It's currently 'down' to about 3400 after peaking last week at over 3500. The excess is nearly entirely from RAM and SSD prices.

  • Motorola Moto G Power (2026) review: The cheapest Moto you should buy

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  • Boss has the 2025, bought unlocked. Was about the cheapest 'any carrier' unlocked available at retail with 128GB and an SD slot. She likes it. Moved from an android 10 moto

  • Is there a program to speed up the process between my external harddrive and USB? If used to run super fast now it seems to slow down. Hopefully something I can use offline. Thx

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  • Flash is slow to write to. Even 'USB3' ones can get bogged down on long writes or copying lots of little files.

  • Can you touch type?

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  • I am old enough to have had a class in high school. On a normal keyboard, I can still hit 100 wpm with no errors. On a phone (which I don't use often), though, it's poke-poke-poke.