Looking for a Spotify replacement
By that I mean randomly generated playlists. Based on either one or multiple tags, songs or artists. Finite or infinite....
[SOLVED]Touchpad completely messed up, smooth scrolls everywhere, and isn't blocked when using keyboard
Hi, I use linux mint and recently installed a bunch of desktop environments, and I think that it might have caused this issue. How do I fix this? I want to avoid resetting, but if there isn’t a solution, I can. This does not occur in another distro, or another kernel, but occurs in other desktop environments. Solution:...
The one area where I actually prefer using my phone over Windows
When I want to type a special non-English character like Ø, on my Android phone I simply long press on “o” on the keyboard and it brings up every variation of the letter o you could think of....
Desktop Windows 11 machine turns off NIC when computer goes to sleep
Hey all,...
Steam Deck (or Linux) - Blocking a Game's Network Access
Is there a relatively simple way to block network access to a program? Avoiding the command line ideally....
What do you do with all the free time you got once you stopped using reddit?
Looking for resource-light distro to run on 2010 Macbook
Hi all, I’m dipping my toes into Linux again after almost 30 years, and I’m looking specifically for any distros that will run on a mid-2010 Macbook (Intel Penryn-3M Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM and a 1T HDD). Video is integrated Nvidia GeForce 320M....
Was it possible to get locked in a telephone booth?
So, I basically missed that transitional phase when telephone booths were more commonplace. This has left me with a number of questions about the ol’ telephone booths, but this one strikes me as one of the funnier and more unnerving ones to ask....
Is there a frontend with no login, but with local subscription
I’m looking for an interface like libreedit, but for lemmy. So that I can follow specific communities from lemmy.ml, or some other instances, but without having to login to them, and locally through cookies or something like that…
Any strategies for guessing a passphrase that I am missing one word of?
I forgot my Bitwarden password and I know most of the words, I am missing one word and I know the starting letter of of the word. Is there like a strategy to guessing passwords? Is there a program to assist in guessing passwords? I feel like guessing manually would take months.
Xmanager stopped working - logged out since yesterday, can't access
Other people are having the same issue, anyone knows if there’s any solution out yet or if this is gonna be patched?
USB-C Dock Reccomendations
Does anyone have USB-C dock recommends?...
What's with telling YEARLY salaries?
I think this is mostly a US thing. Why use yearly salary? You’re not paid once a year, are you? Most likely once a month. Referencing monthly salary makes much more sense....
Why don't I see the newer phones in the Lineage OS list?
I’m starting to see not as many newer mobiles in the Lineage OS list as I used to. The US is a lost cause with companies not allowing their bootloader to be unlocked, but even the Chinese companies like OPPO, Vivo, OnePlus etc don’t seem to have their recent devices on the Lineage OS supported list. Am I imagining this, or...
Raspberry Pi Streaming box
I want to use my raspberry pi as a “streaming stick” connected to my tv to stream my Jellyfin library and self hosted invidious instance (not hosted on the pi). Any top recommendations on the right setup? I was considering LibreElec, but was wondering if there are any other more modern solutions.
help needed with linux and torrents
Specifically torrentbytes on Linux. On Linux mint I can download from other sites no problem but if I click a torrentbytes link, it sits there with no seeders forever. I installed arch and a client as a test and it downloaded no problem. Does anyone know why.? What’s the difference between Linux mint and arch that seems to...
What job do people take way too seriously?
ELI5: a tool to check my disks while mounted?
On Windows, we’ve had the defrag tool and others, that happily works on a drive even while it is in use, even the OS disk....
What games have you played due to FOMO?
FOMO stands for Fear Of Missing Out....
WM recommendation (I know Python but not enough to take much priority)
I want the easiest to configure/theme wm and one that comes with sane defaults. Also I currently use cinnamon, and I’m not sure how to escape from that(everything in it is just so nice) but I want the speed of a wm
OEM ROM vs Custom ROM after EOL?
OEM ROM:...
Google sucks (rant)
At my org we have some legacy software that uses the google analytics api. As you may be aware, that api has been discontinued for some reason. This application is going to nearly impossible to port to the new api....
[Advice Needed] Wayland on GTR7 Pro 7940HS/Radeon 780M?
Hey, beautiful people of Linux, I need some advice. I’ve been tinkering for the past several weeks on flavours of Plasma DE on Arch and Tumbleweed on my Nvidia/Alder Lake setup. Suffice to say the experience was nothing short of getting waterboarded in Guantanamo by Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity high-fiving each other while...
WM/DE recommendation request: able to have i3-like control, but friendly enough for an ex-windows user
I’ve been using i3wm for long enough that i now can’t go back to a user interface that requires me to use a mouse to get stuff done. However, I’m setting up an old laptop that will be used by both me and my SO for mainly media purposes, but also as my general-use computer for basic tasks. He has been using windows since...