For me, there were several dollar store trinkets that already broke, and one toy for my kids that was a huge sparkly styrofoam mess waiting to happen, so I threw it out rather than curse anyone else with it.
I think I might cancel. I’m not watching ads and I’m not going to pay the extra $3/mo to opt out. I don’t know if I’d end up paying more than the subscription cost in shipping though…...
Lol needlessly downgrading all the customers instead of increasing their price. Can we just make subscriptions track inflation metrics so I at least know how fucked I am on average?
I have been distro hopping for about 2 weeks now, there’s always something that doesn’t work. I thought I would stick with Debian and now I haven’t been able to make my printer work in it, I think I tried in another distro and it just worked out of the box, but there’s always something that’s broken in every distro....
Lol … DNS is one of the pillars upon which the internets tands, a crumbling mess of a pillar but I’m sure glad we don’t have a name system built on hosts files 😹
Does anybody know why dbus exists? I’ve been wracking my brain trying to come up with a usecase for dbus that isn’t already covered by Unix sockets....
I would recommend using a native 2fa app for Ubuntu. This answer askubuntu.com/a/1460646 recommends keepassxc, which is also a password manager that I personally use for passwords but I’ve not used its 2fa function. I also found this app gitlab.gnome.org/World/Authenticator
I’m playing with a couple of routers and comparing proprietary to open source on the same hardware. I miss my .bashrc functions and aliases… and compgen, tree, manpages, detailed help, etc; the little things that get annoying when they are missing....
Yesterday night I had a problem with a usb port and the touch pad not working, I restarted the system a few times and switched back and forth with windows (which is installed on a different drive), they didn't work even there.After a few restarts the usbport and the touch pad came back to life, but the wifi stopped working. When...
I would check for kernel logs from the iwlwifi driver. If there is nothing in dmesg about it failing, maybe see if newer firmware is available for your device?
Idk what exactly you’re asking for, but this is already an option for me on teams in chrome running under Wayland??? Like when I choose start presenting it pops up a dialog with window options including the whole desktop.
What gifts that you received for Christmas this year are already in the trash?
For me, there were several dollar store trinkets that already broke, and one toy for my kids that was a huge sparkly styrofoam mess waiting to happen, so I threw it out rather than curse anyone else with it.
Prime is adding ads to their streaming service
I think I might cancel. I’m not watching ads and I’m not going to pay the extra $3/mo to opt out. I don’t know if I’d end up paying more than the subscription cost in shipping though…...
:wq! (lemmy.world)
Terminal Utility Mega list! (sh.itjust.works)
[Browsers]...
Completely untrue nowadays... (sh.itjust.works)
They work better in Linux than Windows, not to mention backwards compatibility....
no.. just no (lemmy.ca)
I'm so frustrated rn.
I have been distro hopping for about 2 weeks now, there’s always something that doesn’t work. I thought I would stick with Debian and now I haven’t been able to make my printer work in it, I think I tried in another distro and it just worked out of the box, but there’s always something that’s broken in every distro....
Is DNS Bloat too? (lemmy.sdf.org)
Friendly reminder
This is your annual reminder to do a snapshot (timeshift or whatever you prefer) before doing relatively minor changes to your system....
What is the point of dbus? (lemmy.world)
Does anybody know why dbus exists? I’ve been wracking my brain trying to come up with a usecase for dbus that isn’t already covered by Unix sockets....
I'm Done With Windows, Are you? (youtu.be)
Happy new year of the Linux Desktop!
Remember when everything was so blocky? (startrek.website)
What are your opinions of Guix?
Reposting because it looks like federation failed....
Writing program
Besides Libre Office, what other programs/solutions exist in the Linux world for writers?...
Air quality in there isn't too good (lemmy.world)
Is there any way to emulate aegis authenticator (fdroid) on an ubuntu based computer?
ubuntu 23.10...
Do you mount an embedded Linux file system to the workstation and use your host scripts or do you SSH/SCP and deal with the limited shell commands?
I’m playing with a couple of routers and comparing proprietary to open source on the same hardware. I miss my .bashrc functions and aliases… and compgen, tree, manpages, detailed help, etc; the little things that get annoying when they are missing....
Wifi stopped showing in linux mint (kbin.social)
Yesterday night I had a problem with a usb port and the touch pad not working, I restarted the system a few times and switched back and forth with windows (which is installed on a different drive), they didn't work even there.After a few restarts the usbport and the touch pad came back to life, but the wifi stopped working. When...
Is it possible to isolate which GUI programs are seem by a screensharing program in xorg or wayland ?
Think Zoom, Teams, google meet etc...
How did we ever eat before social media? (lemmy.ca)