What is the worst case of keeping up with the Joneses that you have seen?
are tiling WM good only for terminal?
I only tried a tiling WM for a few days several years ago. I am ok using the terminal but not everything can be done easily there. In the screenshots of people setups, there are always fancy terminals. Are tiling WM good also for other GUI a part from terminals?
Ripping Amazon movies
Hi people, since we see more and more complaints regarding old movies being not politically correct anymore, I am getting more and more concerned about some purchases I made some years ago. Specifically, there is a set of local movies in my mother tongue which I bought and therefore want to download them in case they are...
If you were to give feedback to the Devs of "Life", what would you say?
[Long post] Do more or fewer communities lead to increased engagement?
As I watch The Internet look like it’s starting to adopt a new phase (let’s call it federation writ large), I’m watching for signs of both success and struggle. I have some strong opinions of features and functionality lacking in the current suite of UIs that might help adoption, but thing I’ve been thinking about more...
When is Cinnamon 6 expected to drop and is it an automatic download?
Does France have a terrorism problem?
It seems like France stands out among terrorist attacks in the news. Is it because they are more likely to be critical of Muslim culture than other European nations? Is it because there is a security failure allowing terrorist to come in and organize better?
As a normal, boring user that does nothing special other than browse the internet and the occasional "casual coding" -- what am I supposed to do with 32GiB of ram?
Title. Besides setting tmpfs to use 10GiB of it to store downloads.
Indians and Pakistanis, do you think partition was a mistake? What do you think should have happened?
Where can I find audiobooks?
Looking for a way to get audiobooks to listen to. Preferably in a format compatible with Apple Books app.
Just moved to linux
So I’ve been wanting to try to move to linux for the past few months but have been waiting to be done school, so I could the MS office suite behind me. I’m mostly writing this to share my experience for people who are considering switching....
How do I get virtual sorround sound working?
You have heard the story “I have moved to Linux (arch btw).”, well… this is also my story. Anyways I have problems with my headset’s virtual surround. I realized that almost all of the drivers are just simply not working on Linux, but also that there are a bunch of alternatives. I have a HyperX cloud 2 (it was cheap),...
Which of your favorite creators content quality went downhill very quickly?
Kind of a trend, the amount of youtubers who i had loved but their content became generic after gaining popularity is quite a bit, most drastic one being mrwhosetheboss, his uniqueness went down faster than MH27 MH17
What to do with extra HDDs
Hey guys, I’m setting up my NAS (openmediavault) and very much enjoying it! It now runs my Nextcloud and a couple of services. I got a mirror ZFS setup of two 8TB drives....
why are threat actors using telegram and not simplex / briar /jami etc.
I dont understand why threat actors / hackers use telegram which obtains your phone number and not simplex or even signal for that matter
Got two shit tablets for free, want to install mobile linux distros on them. Any reccomendations?
Hello! I’ve got 2 alcatel 1T7 tablets completely for free from my internet provider some time ago, didn’t use them at all because the thing is lighter than a rasppi. Want to tinker on it now, thinking of installing a linux OS for more freedom on what to do and also to degooglify the tablet. Any recommendations on OS...
What are some "no brainer" inventions or features that just haven't made it to the consumer yet?
[Solved] Help with PollyMc
I have been trying to use PollyMc but I can’t really figure it out. So I launched minecraft after adding an offline account but it doesn’t seem to work after closing the launcher and opening minecraft again. If I have internet it starts to download some library files again and then it does launch minecraft. Do I have to...
I don't have anything to hide, so I don't care
What to say to people who say this kinda of thing? Usually I just say “ok then”
What's something you're oddly obsessed about? (SFW)
Linux doesn't serve birth time attribute over NFS
According to this Phoronix article, Linux should support the birth time attribute in the NFS server since 5.18. However, it doesn’t show up in the stat output when looking at the file through the NFS mount, or elsewhere (at least, the Dolphin file browser and also a macOS client):...
Why aren't modern 3D platformers as good as the PS2 era of 3D platformers?
Please prove me wrong and suggest me some modern ones that stand up to the older ones....
Recent and perplexing ordeal with YouTube
I worked for many years (hundreds of hours) locating, remastering and uploading content for a fan-based YouTube channel named ‘R.E.M. Archive’. I did 99% of the work and was happy to do this for the huge fan base. I believe the channel existed for about 6 years or so....