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adarza

@ adarza @lemmy.ca

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  • 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.

  • What's stopping youtube from just going full authoritarian and mandate DRM for all their videos in attempt to prevent people from downloading it or block ads?

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  • It is often the graphics hardware blocking it in this case.. disabling hardware decoding in the browser may 'help', if your CPU can handle it (you can still use hardware encoding, tho)

  • The Wall Street Journal Gets Community Noted For Saying Gen Zers And Millennials Are 'Splurging On Rotisserie Chickens'

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  • I only buy one of these when they're on clearance ('day old' in the cold case) for two dollars...

  • What's yours?

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  • Rampart, this is Squad-51. How do you read?

    I suppose that would be OK.. as long as the 'curse' came with the requisite knowledge and skills.

  • It's a new life for me / and I'm feeling good.

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  • 'removed from public access, but retained for our own or for legal purposes'

  • G.Skill settles with plaintiffs following $2.4 million class action lawsuit over advertised memory speeds, denies all wrongdoing

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  • yea, they do.

    g.skill was probably just the 'easy target' for the legal vultures.

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  • even with all 'legit' sources for everything wordpress-related, maintaining it is a PITA--which is why i send anyone who asks me about wp to their own hosting service. i don't wanna deal with that shit.

  • Which directories should I back up in Windows before moving to Linux?

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  • you don't need "everything".. and if you did, you'd perhaps also need to recreate the entire working windows environment. so make full hdd backup image to satisfy that requirement---or, don't reformat and reuse the drive, just pull it as-is for safekeeping--executing a full shutdown first: shutdown /s /t 0

    as far as the user files go... this is the basics of what i do (migrations for home users is about half of my workload):

    copy user libraries (the default locations windows saves your files to) for each user account:

    robocopy c:\users(windowsuserprofiledir) d:(destinationonexternal) /e /dcopy:t /copy:dt /xjd /xa:sh /xd appdata /r:1 /w:1 /mt:2

    put each user's files into their own destination directory.

    use care when backing up directories linked to or taken-over by cloud services (looking at you, onedrive). make sure the files copied actually exist on the destination drive.

    export bookmarks and saved passwords from every browser and browser profile from each windows user account.

    backup steam or its directories for later restoration, if wanted.

    save mailstores from local mail clients. not many home users run a mail client with local stores anymore. the windows-only free-to-use (but not foss) 'mailstore home' in portable mode run off an external might be useful (yes, it can run in a vm later if needed). don't forget to jot down mail server configs.

    check 'public' and other places for stray files.

    optionally, backup browser profile directories, zip 'em up (fastest compression is enough). if you restore entire profiles, you might preserve more of the browser environment.. but chromium ones will still choke on logins, so having password exports is critically important. most people are fine with just having bookmarks and passwords migrated--which are easily backed up, and normally what i restore instead of entire profiles (unless it's firefox to firefox, and windows to windows).

    make sure you know the credentials for and can login to important sites and services from a different pc or a private window without leaning on saved sessions in existing browsers on the current windows pc.

    if there's something else specifically that you want to save, like a wallpaper that you don't have the original source file for.. a quick web search will likely reveal its location.

  • how much storage space does an immutable Distro need in the long run?

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  • my flatpaks and appimages consume a hell of a lot more space than silverblue itself (which is essentially just a 'browser launcher' with an appstore 'out-of-the-box').

    (and then there's the data, which uses even more)

  • What should I NOT do in front of rich people?

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  • pizza is usually a finger food, unless it's something like a chicago deep dish.

  • What should I NOT do in front of rich people?

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  • you should probably not hock-up a nice big loogie, then swish it around your mouth for a minute like you're at a fine wine tasting event, then swallow it in one big, noisy GULP.

  • Which distro is closest to 'GUI/UX for everything, absolutely no CLI' approach like Windows or Mac + and just works (ie passes LTT Linux test)

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  • it really depends on what demands you are going to place upon the system..

    gaming? have weird hardware? you're gonna visit a command line and have to 'research' things...

    but just basic tasks and well-supported hardware? many can give a mostly or even entirely 'point and click' experience.

    i have a number of users on silverblue and endless that would be terrified if they ever had to open a terminal, and i rarely open a terminal on my own desktops (xfce manjaro, cinnamint, endless, silverblue)

  • Mobile carriers can get your GPS location

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  • we're safe from that particular method here in the boonies. we're lucky to even have one tower from any provider within range anywhere around here.

  • Turkey face

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  • i know that big magic box in the food room has more.

  • 'Minnetoba'? Some Minnesotans want to join Canada as tensions flare with Trump administration

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  • the twin cities doesn't have a 'chinatown' or a 'little italy'--they have little canada

  • Looking for a Non-Chromium Browser That Actually Works

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  • there used to be an addon to 'fix' that but i dunno if it still exists. it's been awhile since i did a month of netflix.

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    self care

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  • still does.

  • Looking for a Non-Chromium Browser That Actually Works

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  • drm on linux to watch commercial services like prime or netflix sucks. there is no browser or linux distribution that will give the same level of drm that a closed system's native browser can (edge on windows, chrome on android, safari on mac/ios).

    you can still watch most anything, just perhaps not with as high a quality and you may need to fudge a ua string or something.

    vertical tabs have been in firefox since ~ v136.

    just use firefox. tweak settings as necessary for your 'needs', including enabling the drm which is disabled by default by most distributions.

  • European propaganda DESTROYED

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  • that's when the two scales collide...

    -40FC...

    'fucking cold'