What is your choice of Download Manager? (If you use one)
I use a download manager because when I’m directly downloading large files Firefox gets mad. I also like the feature of batch downloads. What do you guys use?...
Should I mark my account as a bot?
I use this account for normal user things, but I want to auto-post social media content in a community I’m in (!taylorswift) which I own. (The content will probably just post 0-3 times a day)....
Confused - Tailscale allows me to reach the original IP Address of my nas
Is this supposed to happen? I thought it assigned a special ip and that’s the one you use. For me I’m able to access my original local ip address outside my network, and from the provided tailscale ip. luckily when I turn off tailscale I can’t access either.
What butterfly effect have you personally witnessed?
A butterfly effect is the phenomeon that a small change in initial conditions that leads to a significantly different result than if the initial conditions haven’t been changed. Have you personally witnessed such phenomeon?...
samsung background apps
I almost give up. I tried many many things but my samsung s23 is killing important apps and I miss notifications. As soon as I unlock my phone, all of them showing up instantly. I’m missing messages and important notifications. I’m constantly checking phone because of it. BTW, it’s working sometimes I don’t know how and...
i really like how lemmy.world sorting by hot is a lot better than Reddit hot algorithm
What are up votes (uplemmies?) actually for?
Obviously, most social networks have some sort of engagement button for liking/up voting/promoting a piece of content. As well as helping users feel like they’re participating, rather than just passively consuming, most networks also use the likes/ups to filter or promote content to other users....
What is the craziest thing that's ever happened in your life?
Curious to know what people have encountered in their lives.
TURNBUCKLES. THIS IS OC, let me post it ARRRGH it goes with an exquisite analogy
Gaming on Linux has come a long way
TL;DR; tried gaming on Linux again after not having done so for ~10 years and am absolutely blown away by how much improved it is...
What’s the best distro for gaming on linux? Any tips and tricks?
Admittedly, the last time I tried it was maybe 5 years ago. I used ubuntu (can’t remember which distro) but I recall having to fiddle a lot with drivers and WINE. Is the scenario still the same today?...
Where to download audio books from
Im from denmark, so danish is prefered, im mostly looking for the after series right now
Subjectively, how are modern Intel UHD or Iris Xe Graphics for mild gaming on an Ubuntu based distro?
My son is turning 9 and has been using his computer more and more. he has my old System76 wild dog from 2010, which is a great computer, but is way past the end of its life. He mostly plays minecraft and browser games, though he is doing more artistic stuff in gimp and even a bit of cad for our 3d printer or in blockbench....
Do you believe Lemmy/Mastodon can become mainstream and fully replace their centralized counterparts?
What the title says. I think there is still a long way for that to happen but i’ve been hopeful. What do you think?
Best sub-20 hour games?
I have been on a kick lately with short games. Because I’m a parent with a hectic job, it’s really nice to be able to beat a game in just a few days....
My ISP sends me letters even if I am torrenting on VPN. Is there anyway to make my traffic not look like torrenting?
Also asked them if torrenting legal stuff is allowed and they said no.
Introducing OpenLLaMA: An Open-Source Reproduction of Meta's LLaMA
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1305651...
So how do I decommission a Lemmy instance properly?
While it was an interesting and sometimes confusing experience setting up and running my own Lemmy instance (looking at you, 20 character limit on federation URL), I think it's not worth it....
Who else watched BBC News at 10 just to see who'd be presenting it?
It seems like rumours and suspicions have solidified today. So I was genuinely interested to see who was presenting the 10 o’clock news this evening – and how the current BBC-related story was covered.
Bud lite lost more in revenue partnering with a trans spokesperson, than Corona did for having the same name as a virus that caused a global pandemic.
What a time to be alive.
Eric Migicovsky is a generous man
8 months ago I prepaid an entire year subscription in order to skip the wait list for the Beeper beta testing group....
Can't remember the name of that one command line tool? Next time, add a comment!
One of my favorite command line tips: you can add ‘comments’ full of keywords to shell commands, which makes searching your command history easier....
Having a few issues setting up a Matrix instance, could use some guidance.
So I’m in the process of moving my discord server over to matrix. I rented a VPS with 2 cores/2gb of ram for this. What I’m having issues with is media store and federation. I believe I have the media_store configured corrected as I can post images in my own channels, however I get Error 500 while attempting to upload a...
Favourite RSS reader?
Looking to get back into RSS feeds, what are your favourite readers? I used to use Feedly years ago, still a good option?