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Using ChatGPT with Linux

Last night I was nearly tearing my hair out trying to get a crappy inkjet printer installed when I turned to ChatGPT for help; 5 minutes later it was done (driver issues)....

OpenWRT on a Raspberry Pi, is this enough?

I will be located in a country where the Internet is EXTREMELY controlled and filtered. Not sure if I can even bring my current router with me(seems forbidden), so turning my RPi4 seems a good idea… Don’t you think?

99% of the people here are dumb as a box of rocks

Today I learned that the Brave Search engine has a tool that allows end users a high degree of freedom to customize the search results they're shown.

I know there’s some controversy surrounding Brave as a company, and I’m not a fan of everything they do, but the goggles feature in their search engine is a really interesting attempt to give users more control over their search results....

Considering that Pokemon are stored as computer files, tools like PKHeX probably exist in the Pokemon world too

Got a Switch today, need some recommendations.

This is my first Nintendo system since the NES. I’ve never been a big fan of their first-party properties when I’ve played on others’ consoles, although I am interested in the Switch Zelda games....

Identity politics and universal pseudonymity arose at the same time.

Reddit seem to have switched to the newer, even shittier UI by default.

What VPN should I get for Linux?

I’d prefer to get a VPN to avoid the risk of my internet getting shut down, but I’m not aware of what the options for Linux are. I figured this would be a good place to ask.

Bypassing problematic captive portals. Cafe gives a red padlock; transit svc has broken TLS captive portal, etc…

The red padlock (at a cafe)...

"MAGA Communism" potentially becoming a threat beyond the terminally online.

I was looking at an old thread about “patsocs” and I saw the following comment, which I believe to be true - I have written this in a rush so sorry for any mistakes. EDIT: I was asked what the question was, so tl;dr it would be: is the threat of patsoc, particularly the “MAGA communism” development a significant threat...

Issues with KDEnlive, can't import video

I’m trying to import video files but it won’t let me, I’ve tried both with the Flatpak version and the RPM version and I can’t get KDEnlive to let me import video files. Below I have information about my system, any ideas?...