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Hello everybody! My brother plays Insurgency Sandstorm a lot and I wanted us to be able to play together, so I got it and after some messing about got it working on my system. One of the things I read in forum posts to do to get it to work on an Arch based system is to install glibc-eac-bin which has some patches to make certain...

Ok, this is what i call a “gourdian knot” of a problem, admittedly of my own doing. first of, my tablet is an onn 10.1" surf tablet. nothing special. and it was many many months ago i thought “yeah, i’d root it” and it worked, but braindead me thought i did it wrong and tried again and mis-clicked and deleted something...

I just messed my ankle up and am going to a conference in a couple days where I normally walk 15-25 miles/day for the next week....

While trying to find a torrent for a show, I became curious about how others are creating the torrents I know and love. Is ripping a video from a streaming service relatively easy? Are there tools y’all would recommend?

Don’t worry they were cobol programmers

I installed Pipewire a while ago to fix some audio problems. Now it’s time for the 22 upgrade. Can I just run the upgrade or will the existing Pipewire installation cause problems? Has anyone done that already?

I’m trying my best to dive back into the past and play all the gems that I missed as a kid because I was either born too late or too much of a kid to consider playing them. I found myself really disappointed going back to the old mario nes/snes titles because they felt really bad to play as I’ve become accustomed to modern...

I currently host a single-user Mastodon server for myself but it’s on a very small VPS and I’m wanting to migrate to Pleroma because it’s more lightweight. Is there any way to transfer my Mastodon account to Pleroma without doing the standard migration since I have the Mastodon database for my instance? This is so all my...

Hey Beeple and visitors to Beehaw: I think we need to have a discussion about !technology, community culture, and moderation. First, some of the reasons that I think we need to have this conversation....

I couldn’t find much information on this online, so I was wondering if anyone has any similar experience....

I have a Qnap DAS. It is set up in a raid5 configuration. The problem is that each time I reboot my machine (ubuntu 24.04 LTS), the path of the DAS will auto-increment up by one....

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, but I need some advice. Tomorrow at 16:00 I need to pee into a cup at the doctor’s office for a drug test and I am a very shy pee-er. Should I hold my morning pee from 8:00 to 16:00 to make sure I have enough of it or should I pee as soon as I wake up and drink water throughout...

I’ve recently read about it, and it seems straight forward....

Owncast is a free and open source live video and web chat server for use with existing popular broadcasting software....

Ok so I was trying to clone 512gb nvme ssd to my new 2tb drive with clonezilla and it keeps taking me to automatic repair. I unplugged the original drive and replaced it with the new one before booting. I ran a chkdsk both times before cloning....

To my understanding, nowadays, the standard way to fix a broken bone is to attach all the pieces together with a metal plate and some screws....

Edit: Many thanks to @MrGerrit for suggesting that I hold all three buttons down. That appears to have worked! 🙏...

They’re semi-famous now, but it was actually a friend of mine who originally wrote them. They’re a list of ten rules of thumb to go by when using the internet. They imply things like the potential drawbacks of assuming someone’s other identities, how to caution against archive forgery, when the best time is to complain...

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