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Is isntader a safe alternative to original instagram?

I just wonder what do you guys think about security of instander. I honestly don’t want to lose my dms. Also, have you heard about honista? It smells like scam shit. Cheers

It's weird that there isn't a US-specific Lemmy instance

A ton of countries have a decently active Lemmy instance, including the English-speaking ones (UK, AUS, NZ, ZA)....

[RANT] Why do I need an app to set up a switch?

Working on a medium sized office network which only has a single PoE switch for WAPs. About 200 users. No copper to the desk… It made sense to buy a second PoE switch to give a bit of redundancy, even if it’s for manually swapping cables in case switch A dies....

Why is it called motorboating?

I’m not a native English speaker, but I do get most of the slangs. Still, this one got me puzzled 🤔… I really can’t see any relation to motors or boats in this.

elevenlabs - no more free speech synthesis with vpn

After two months into my lip-sync animation i decided yesterday to do a voice over with elevenlabs… they won’t let me anymore. I didn’t use their service recently but i used to login with my google-account. Last week google deactivated my account too, saying i’m a bot and they wanted my phone. Maybe it’s related....

Distro hoppers, how do you manage your config files?

I am currently trying to keep track of my config files in a repo to be able to get the configa back together easily if/when I change distro, but I am not sure if that’s the best way or if I should be using some tool to help me since I some programs keep preferences in other directories other then $HOME (at least I think so)....

If you could have a superpower but no control over when it activates, what would it be?

Are there more themes that support a plethora of apps?

I know that Nord, Catppuccin and Dracula support a range of apps. There is also Solarized and Gruvbox which have been ported by the community to many other apps....

How can I bind the buttons on a Logitech joystick to steam games?

I used to be able to use my joystick buttons on a lot of games but now steam won’t detect them. Windows detects the buttons but steam won’t. Is there any way around this?

If we have such a high field of vision, why can't we focus on everything within the vision simultaneously?

Why is it that I am not able to read a book without moving my eyes if the entirety of the page is within my field of view? Why do I have to center my eyes on an object to observe it fully? And why is it that I am still able to view changes in surroundings in the edges of my field of vision despite there being supposedly no way...

What exactly is a magnetic field?

We know what causes magnetic fields and we know what their effects are, but what actually are they? What does it mean for them to be composed of “lines of force”? What is the mechanism of that force? What is actually going on in a magnetic field that the space outside of a magnetic field lacks?

Solidworks and other industry-class CAD software on linux

I am about to go to college for engineering and they require a Windows laptop because of the software we will be using (mostly solidworks I’m pretty sure) doesn’t work on other operating systems. I primarily use windows day-to-day for gaming and such anyways so it’s not a problem for me but I’m wondering if anyone had...

Anybody have a solution for dotfiles outside /home

on gentoo for example I have accrued a few files under /etc/portage that to my knowledge just have to live there…...

Moderators Wanted

If you are willing and able to help moderate this community please reach out in the comments below!...

Have you ever gotten scammed, package stolen, or been a victim of fraud in any way?

I just got my package of new earphones from Best Buy, and the box was fucking empty. I mean there is the box and instruction manuals and charging cable, but the actual earphones aren’t there. They’ve used Shipt (which is like a doordash but for packages) but the box was inside another layer of packaging which was supposedly...

How it going here? I'm looking forward to helping fuck up Reddit's IPO.

Done with Reddit’s bullshit, and happy to check this out as it seems to be popular. Any apps that people would recommend for this platform?

it's so nice to sing

Even though the sound coming from my head is totally analog.

Petals - Run large language models at home, BitTorrent‑style

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1535820...

History of CS & Programming

Hey everyone! I’m looking for some good documentaries on the history of computer science and Programming in general!...

If two children are conceived on the same day but one is born prematurely, both children are technically the same age.

Because of the date of conception and all that.

I want ease of use, polish, and the i3 workflow. Should I use fedora or nix os?

I’m currently using Manjaro with i3 and no desktop environment. The problems with Manjaro as well as the lack of cohesiveness and missing features from not having a DE are prompting me to switch distributions. This isn’t the point of the post but I want to keep the i3 workflow but achieve DE level (gnome level ideally) of...

[solved] How to set up absolute mouse movement mode on KVM

Hello! I use virt-manager as frontend for KVM, and I’d like to set the mouse movement mode to “absolute”, that should fix weird mouse problems in the VM for certains applications (games at most: minecraft mouse lock does not work with the default setting). If I go into the VM settings, under “Mouse”, I get:...