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Remote desktop

Hello selfhosters, I’ve been using different remote desktop apps to support few friends and family members with their Windows or Linux desktop machines. Sometimes I also use phone (Android) when I’m away from home....

Plasma randomly warns that my SSD is going to die?

I’m using KDE Neon with the latest version of Plasma. Sometimes I get a warning that my SSD has poor health and may die soon. When I check the SMART stats the drive seems fairly healthy. Is this just a Plasma bug?

Holding a life without any talents.

First morning of the year I had to put the heating on

My personal test-day for the end of Summer - the first day after August I have to put the heating on first thing. Soon it’ll be setting the timer again. Fucking hate winter.

Should I replace my SSD?

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/5332699...

Do our human accomplishments have a long-term, universal significance, or when the world ends, do we all end with it, including what we’ve achieved?

D&D Apps

Some friends wanted to start a campaign and I’m trying to digitize my character sheet. Initially I was going to use d&dbeyond so I could send my DM the character sheet digitally and make it easier for them, but I can’t pick Drow without paying for the character, for whatever silly reason. I’ve been checking out all the...

Download managers

I’ve been pirating my whole life in mobile and rarely in pc. What are some the best download managers to use in windows?

How does one send attachments through neomutt

I just started using neomutt but I still can’t understand how to send files like pdfs or archives like zips

Why do some IRC servers enable unregistered chat moreso than other chat services (e.g. Discord)?

Not that I’m complaining, I just find it kinda interesting given how so much stuff demands you sign up & register to do much of anything on a service or site....

Are you interested in a (cross platform) desktop app for lemmy?

I just managed to get a absolute baseline working app in avaloniaUI using this library that someone cooked up. No idea if the library is actively maintained, but uh, we’ll figure that out when we get to it....

What is this community's opinon on the Melitta pour-over cone?

In the last year or so I’ve been getting more and more into coffee, but I’m still a student so I can’t afford all the fancy equipment and beans yet lol. After learning how to brew good coffee with my moka pot, some family members gave me a Melitta cone for pour-overs...

When we think of thunderstorm in terms of mythology we usually think of gods being angry, sad or at war. I wonder if there are cultures out there that think of thunderstorm are just Gods farting.

12 Reasons Why People Still Support and Vote for Conservatives

For context I want to make these into little flashcards. I’m thinking something a little bit like yourlogicalfallacyis.com....

I wonder what fish and sharks think of whales and dolphins that have to surface to breath. I can totally see it "get out of here air breather, go hug the surface."

A book is like a TARDIS. It's bigger on the inside than on the out.

It can also do time travel.

Chicken arms on my cat. 3D printed.

What technological mega project is practical to build today?

Has anyone had success using xdelta3 for patching gog games

So I’ve got cyberpunk phantom liberty 2.0 but to update to 2.1 heroic game launcher wants me to download the hole game again, gog galaxy through wine is not an option so I’m looking at xdelta3 and innoextract to manually patch game files. But I’m hitting a break wall and seems to fail with every attempt using xdelta3

How hard is it to get food and water to soldiers during a war?

I was browsing the internet and I found this www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WO0zSStdj8...

A community for people fed up with their landlords (aka landlord love)

/c/[email protected]

Creators of 'Loading Artist' and 'Extra Ordinary' comics have made communities on Lemmy!

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/6763331...

Migrating to new phone

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/6149417...

BSOD Kernel Security Check Fail when installing a U2 drive via an adapter

I recently bought a SSDPE2KX080T851 (NVMe U.2) drive to install in my Asus Z690-A i7 12700k PC. I bought a M.2 to U.2 adapter since my motherboard doesn’t have native U.2. When I install this into my motherboard Windows throws out BSOD for Kernel Security Check Fail....