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[General question to the Android community] Have you given up on the audio jack, or do you still only buy devices that have it?

(Posting this here rather than !askandroid as it’s a quite general question)...

Question about downloading to a network drive

Hey all!...

Does YouTube Takeout work for you guys?

Youtube takeout has given me empty null files… Please help!

Clean your physical connectors!

Have some new old stock SATA drives vomiting at you?...

I'd rather be an unknown fish in my own pond

Apropos “it’s better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big pond”

Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing.

As a kid I imagined the future as being able to hold a TV in your pocket, and flying skateboards. For the latter I guess electric scooters will have to do

how to create a file and make it executable in one command?

I am tired of creating a file with nano, saving it and then making it executable. Is there a command that makes it in one step?

How to change password in Ubuntu

I’ve run passwd and sudo su; passwd to change password for root and my account. Password is set correctly when using sudo and su but whenever I get prompted by pkexec it accepts only the old password. I’ve rebooted my system to make sure it was not an issue....

Bigger test

fuck NIGGERs___...

How to de-DRM comics

I’d like to buy a French comic I can’t find online from any store that sells French Bande dessinée (Amazon, fnac or anything else) and then ask for a refund so I can keep a nice *.cbz or *.cbr file on my hard drive....

RETARDs

YSK: You might save on car rental by cancelling and re-booking over time before your rental due date

Car rental prices might decrease over time as the rental getting closer to its due date....

So, Fedora 40 is out, any guess as to when we can expect Nobara 40?

Pretty much the title. I’m not a regular on Discord and the website doesn’t have any info about a release plan.

Does color change how hot a laser can get something?

For convenience sake let’s say you have 2 identical lasers, one is blue and one is red. And you shine it on lead (so none of the light leaks through) until the lead doesn’t heat up anymore. Would the temperature change at all between the different color lasers. It doesn’t have to be red or blue, it could be microwave or x...

I'm trying to remember the name of a book....

Hopefully I’m in the right place....

With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant

…and I don’t know which possibility is the least worrying

Uranium pellets are supernova batteries

Are you ultra woke on purpose?

just wondering

Where can I find obscure cnn video?

The video is an old one about Katrina. I need it for homework. I have tried accessing it from CNN’s website but CNN in their infinite wisdom put DRM on the video that is publicly available, and I assume that is why it doesn’t work on mull, librewolf, or chromium (all show same error about neon request failed). I looked on...