Direct Downloads always lead to "check internet connection"
This is something I’m noticing in the ROM space, especially for non-retro titles like WiiU titles. The file sizes are often very massive, between 5 and 20 GB. Downloading from these places, especially the internet archive has a download speed of maybe 500 megabytes per hour. It’s quite slow compared to torrents, but when it...
What are some good magic performances I can watch online?
Close-up magic, stage magic, all that stuff. Who are you favourite magicians, and what are their best performances?...
How to check if a nandroid backup is healthy and not corrupted?
I regurlary took nandroid backups on my pc with TWRP (adb backup --twrp) of my phone, one day i needed to restore one and i found out i wasn’t able to, the restore would stop midway and i needed to completely reset my phone…...
Video Upscaling Applications
Hi, I need a video upscaling solution to enhance some old family videos. As much as I’d love to use a FOSS program, I can’t find anything that comes close to Topaz Video AI....
Is there a way to get LineageOS's Trebuchet launcher on other ROMs?
It is surprisingly hard to find open source launchers that are simply the AOSP default launcher with few UX modifications. NeoLauncher is one, but while the GitHub seems to still be active, the last update to the app on the repository is from 2022, almost a year ago....
What do you like most about North Korea?
I’ll start! I like that DPRK has low per capita carbon emissions for an industrialized nation.
How do you decide which services are worth paying for and which are not?
To what extend are you grateful for free services? I made another post roughly asking, who of you are willingly paying for the stuff you can have for free making life better for all of us. Some of your had interesting answers, some donated to wiki others to bitwarden or to some dev of FOSS software, that’s great, but now,...
Why Public Trackers always scrap?
I see people complaining about it when someone shows their tracker in reddit, and it makes sense....
Where can I watch "In the Name of the People" aka the Chinese-approved House of Cards with english subs
How rss feeds of lemmy works?
I subscribed to my accounts customised rss feed which I got from RSS icon just above feed.It is configured to give feed of my subscribed communites with sorting of new BUT when new post arrive there is no update in feed.I thought my RSS reader is malfunctioning so I checked rss file and actually that file was not UPDATING.What...
[SOLVED] How to view Download Speed and Upload Speed on Panel instead of conky?
[SOLVED] This seemed to have not worked before but on a closer look xfce package xfce4-netload-plugin 1.4.0 works well. This was pre-installed into MX Linux and does the job. None of you seem to be using xfce, any reasons?...
I just blew way too much money on MIDI adapters
Let me preface this one by saying that the blame for this is entirely on me and my carelessness when shopping online. I did not get scammed. I was just being stupid....
What's your view on Nothing?
Beyond the lights. Does the for the techies approach work?
When is it okay to reply all?
Is there a tv series that shows what things are like in China or Soviet Russia (one party system, with english subs)
Languages in the EU
I’m about to sound like the ignorant American I am, so I apologize in advance! We’re looking at a trip to Germany, and possibly Prague, and we’ve noticed that a lot of the hotel names are French and a couple hotels that aren’t named in French have replied to comments with things like “Bonjour! etc etc” What’s up...
[SOLVED] Inaccurate readings from vnstat application
[SOLVED kinda]...
[SOLVED] Where does pipewire store its properties?
For example, I set firefox to some custom sink using pavucontrol, but now I want to reset it to default. How can I do this without using pavucontrol, just cli?...
Guides / Apps for encoding
I have started encoding, but have now gotten to making videos where multiple video streams need to be combined from a bluray source, into one video file - Does anyone know any programs for this, or any in depth guides on Remuxing / etc?
Marketing is in large part what necessitates marketing to begin with.
A few genuine signals quickly become noise as everyone tries to be heard, demanding more and louder signals to stand out.
I am joining a gym, I really only want to loose weight (expressly in my belly and chin area)
I was wondering what exactly should I do there to help with that.
What's a great but uncommon comedy movie we should watch?
Craziest/most "exotic" devices able to run Linux?
Something like a thermostat or a smart fridge – have you seen any? If so, please share with a video or two.
Fun episodes
Hi there. I’ve had 3 terrible days in a row and I’m in desperate need of some good laughs. Which episodes do you recommend? I’m too tired to think straight by now. Bonus points if Neelix is in them. Thanks in advance. :)