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Howard Zinn people's history of America, I'm reading it at the moment, is there any alternative?

Hello, I’m Italian and I’m reading what I understood to be a classic in American HIstory. I’m throug 100 pagesi in and I have the feeling that the author is a bit too partisan and unbalanced. Sometimes I feel that he had already decided what happened and then he tries to find facts that confirm his prejudices....

Desktop icons not loading (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

I’ve had this issue for a while now, since I thought I could fix it myself. Almost all my programs have lost their icon image, which is not fixable by applying a different icon theme unfortunately. Just installed the Reversal icon pack to test that. My settings are attached here, sorry for the german:...

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some sort of error message

Having this complete error message would help determine what is going on.

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Try:

sudo update-icon-caches /usr/share/icons/*

Is there a way to get call functionality in whatsapp in Linux

I have been finding a way to get video/audio call working on Linux for some time. however whatsapp doesn’t have an “official” client for Linux so I am kinda stuck in the web version of whatsapp but the web version doesn’t have calling functionality which is bummer since all of my friends uses whatsapp and I want to be...

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android-x86.org/…/releasenote-cm-x86-14-1-r5.html

I have made voice calls with this in VirtualBox from a Linux host. Lacking support for VBoxGuestAdditions, it is not a great general solution, as you cannot easily bridge the gap between host/guest, however.

I have not tested QEMU.

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A much better version of the gangstalking delusion, set to music:

Critters Buggin - Bill Gates

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Planting trees.

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Both 😆 . I started with guerilla gardening, noticed trees are left alone more than small plants, then eventually bought some land where I now have about a thousand trees, some were there, most I have planted. It’s a permaculture-ish food forest incorporating regenerative Ag and carbon capture in the making.

I have a little nursery area where I sprout seeds and grow seedlings of all kind of trees and bushes and give them away and plant them wherever I can.

Going by your username, you also get your hands dirty. What’s your focus?

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That is typically the only solution as far as I know. I had this issue, resolved it in the BIOS, then I remapped a couple file manager shortcuts to avoid having to use the FN+ combo altogether, for the most part anyway.

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Windows ME came out. After installing it and wasting a bunch of time trying to get it to work reliably, I wiped the HDD and installed Debian potato instead. That was 23 years ago.

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When will the Linux VPN client support automated port forwarding and wireguard?

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In general, I recommend adding Jackett to qbittorrent. It works great and is much better than the standard search add-ons.

For this specific request, AudioBook Bay has a 30 lesson Dutch section (in a large general pack) and is dated 2022 (also available via Jackett in qbittorrent).

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github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

This is the closest to the original with none of the BS.

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What about it is torture?

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extra privacy-advancing features as far as i’m aware though, and extensions don’t seem to work.

Not true at all. If you follow the instructions they provide you can install and use extensions with ease via the Chromium Web Store add-on.

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Chromium Web Store add-on makes it easy.

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There is an extension called Chromium Web Store that allows you to seamlessly use any add-on from the web store.

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new username, exact same spammy shit to that site you seem so invested in. Why don’t you just stay over there?

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Spam ≠ content.

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