What do you like about liberalism, capitalism and conservatism?
Lottery winner
If someone won $500,000,000 in the lottery, what would be the most effective way to spend it to change the political situation in America?...
Anyone get any good cooking presents?
Anyone get anything good for the holidays? Cooking ingredients, equipment, books, etc?...
So, who or what ruined Christmas this year?
What's a food you love, that isn't worth making from scratch?
For me, crepes ain’t worth the stress to make fresh. Just buy a little pack from store and focus on filling is my go to.
What would be the best way for me to recover data from my old laptop's hard drive, which seems to have a bad superblock?
I got an external hard drive enclosure for the purpose of recovering some of the files from my old laptops hard drive. The hard drive and all of it’s partitions show up in both disks and gparted but it wont mount. When I tried to mount it manually, it gave the error message stating that it can’t read the superblock. I’ve...
any safe TL legacy downloads
safe for this means is not malware and not owned by tlauncer inc.
Is anyone here using their hardware TPM chips for credentials?
I’m curious about the possible uses of the hardware Trusted Protection Module for automatic login or transfer encryption. I’m not really looking to solve anything or pry. I’m just curious about the use cases as I’m exploring network attached storage and to a lesser extent self hosting. I see a lot of places where public...
NixOS beginner resources
Heya, been hearing about NixOS for a long time now, mostly from the peeps over at the Linux Unplugged podcast. So was thinking about jumping onto the nix-train, however it seems like it has a learning curve. Does anyone have any good learning resources, blog-posts, guides, whatever beans that you used to get started with NixOS?...
"TV box" reccomandation
I’m looking for a privacy friendly device to use as TV box which can play 4K HDR ~90GB movies without problem, do you guys think the orange pi 5 could handle this type of files?
What's a song that really expresses or imparts a skill or important truth to internalize
Little Black Sandals - Sia...
25 December 2023
how's your holidays going, Beehaw
it’s a special Christmas/New Years edition of the Beehaw weekly thread! post all the shenanigans you’re up to
Satellite GPS Messenger
My mom got me the spot gen 4 for Christmas. Im out in the middle of nowhere a lot of the time and am interested in having it for emergencies or communicating when I have no signal however I am not a fan of being tracked on the go. Is there anything to be concerned of with these type of products? Id say yes but I cant find...
Unused Airtag slot
I’ve been bought a nice wallet which has an airtag slot on the front of it. I use android and therefore don’t want to put an airtag in to the slot, but also don’t want to leave it empty....
Should I use Restic, Borg, or Kopia for container backups?
I’m planning to set up proper backups for my server, but I’m not sure which software to use. I’ve looked for solutions with encryption, compressed, incremental backups. These seem to be the best options:...
Google image search swoosh animation
I have noticed that sometimes when browsing image searches on Google (android phone) it will make a swoosh animation across a part of clothing. I made a short clip to demonstrate. I used Arnold, because Arnold, but seems to happen mostly on famous people...
What's the consensus on swearing here
Noticed not many people use curse words....
What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?
I’ve been using Linux Mint since forever. I’ve never felt a reason to change. But I’m interested in what persuaded others to move.
My Linux Journey
Hello everyone, I’ve been using linux on my main system for the past few years and am very happy with the results. From repurposing old family laptops to give them new life, to being able to play triple A games with little to no issues, Linux has turned into my OS of choice....
File transfer to USB drive fails after 4.3 gb
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/9729797...
Why does America say 'merry christmas'?
while it seems everyone else says ‘happy christmas’...