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Cable or adapter?

Does it make any difference (quality-wise and input-delay-wise) if I use a DisplayPort to HDMI cable directly or a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter, followed by a regular HDMI cable?

There should be a way to give directly to the developers

I realize that, after all this time, I have never payed for my all-time favorite games I grew up playing (Fallout 3 & Skyrim). I can pay for it, but I really do not want to pay the money to the Bethesda’s marketing team, CEO, and whoever bullshit middle man who wants a cut of that. I want to give directly to the team that made...

[SOLVED] do I have to install language packages to write in languages other than English on xubuntu 24.04?

I sometimes write in German and French, which means non ASCII characters....

Why does every REST testing software want me to login?

I just want to build requests and read the responses, why the hell does everyone suddenly want me to make an account?

[Solved] Possible to lock a folder? To prevent it from being deleted.

Hi there, I’m on Bazzite KDE and recently somehow lost a my “gaming” folder…? No idea how but must gave been user faulty, e.g me. Therefore wondering if it’s possible to lock certain folders so that this cannot accidentally happen?

Anyone using wayland with $XDG_CACHE_HOME set?

I’m a i3 user that has been trying to migrate to sway....

YSK: Supercook is an amazing app for those with diet restrictions (or anyone)

Supercook is an app where you put in what ingredients you have, then it shows you recipes on other websites that only have ingredients on your required list....

Help with nginx & jellyfin

So I’m just getting started with selfhosting things, and I have a minor problem which I’m having some trouble solving, as I keep getting a connection refused error when trying to connect:...

Kicked macOS to the Curb and Installed Asahi Fedora Gnome

Most of the switching posts are from frustrated windows users making the jump. I’m already a Linux user on my server (Ubuntu for now, going Debian at some point) and a 2014 iMac for tinkering/testing (KDE Neon), and a couple of raspberry pis (raspberry pi os headless) but our main household computer is an M1 Mac mini that my...

Databases and their real world use examples

I am very curious as to how databases are used in the real world, whether you’re using MySQL and what not, how does it all come together in a real world business? Banking and gaming I know, but is it something that gets stored on data centres and then put into a VM?...

If cats could talk, would we expect them to work and contribute to society?

Bat mi ly do cong cu so sanh gia

Bật mí lý do công cụ so sánh giá lại trở thành bạn đồng hành đáng tin cậy của người dùng...

Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles

Large grocery stores around here offer cheaper gas if you shop at there store. This can be up to a dollar a gallon off.

Amongst all this AI hype of the past few years, nobody talks about that it's finally feasible to create an MS Clippy that works.

What are the things / events which had the deepest impact in your life?

People who have a disability that prevents them from moving (temporarily or permanently, chronic or one-time), how do you fair with living alone?

This question is rather specific, so I know it’s not going to get many answers, but any answer is appreciated....

Is it safe to open a forgejo git ssh port in my router?

Hello all! Yesterday I started hosting forgejo, and in order to clone repos outside my home network through ssh://, I seem to need to open a port for it in my router. Is that safe to do? I can’t use a vpn because I am sharing this with a friend. Here’s a sample docker compose file:...

How games could do collabs better

COD:BO6 was just announced and all the comments talk about how the collab skins will drop after 4 months in the game and I was thinking to myself: “You know what, I wouldn’t mind a [TSwift/Spiderman/any celeb collab] if it was well implemented” For exemple, if you want to have a Spidey skin, go for the black one, or make...

Volaris website not working for others on linux?

For a while now, I’ve been unable to actually view the Volaris website while using Ubuntu 22.04 (In a previous version I believe as well). I’ve tried Brave, Firefox, and Chrome with the same results so I don’t believe its browser specific (as most people use one of those 3 web browsers), which leads me to believe its Linux...