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This happens in Germany....

I saw a map of undersea internet cables the other day and it’s crazy how many branches there are. It got me wondering - if I’m (based in the UK) playing an online game from someone in Japan for example, how is the route worked out? Does my ISP know that to get to place X, the data has to be routed via cable 1, cable 2 etc....

I need to get up without waking the wife and kids, I got a smartwatch to vibrate and it woke her. The alarm is always going to wake the house....

I just tried to update all my flatpaks on my system using sudo flatpak update and got the following error:...

The literal paperwork involved with not getting paperwork is a little much these days!

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I really just need to talk about this to someone. I’m in college and I’ve always loved to learn, but now I don’t feel motivated do my school work or to study, but at the same time, when a test roles around and I don’t know how to answer the questions I get stressed and care about trying to do well. I’ve also always...

I watched a video by Chris Titus in which he encouraged everyone to install auto-cpufreq immediately since it does wonders for battery life on laptops....

12 Years ago I had a Sony Vaio. I quite liked it. Then in my next job, 2017 or so, I went for a Toshiba Portege, and absolutely loved it....

I haven’t yet learned how to replicate the bug, it keeps happening at seemingly random intervals. Right now it happened after walking away from my pc for a while, and when I got back it happened....

I’ve got two internal SSDs, of which one is smaller (128) and one is bigger (1TB). How can I tell podman (or docker) to use another folder? Currently, it sits on the smaller drive which has less and less storage.

First, I’m sorry if this is not the right place to discuss this....

I was skeptical about online gaming in India until this insightful article https://joker24hr.com/4-great-things-that-players-can-exclusively-find-in-online-casinos/ highlighted the unparalleled security and endless game options available online. Learning about these advantages, I’ve decided to leave land-based casinos behind....

So I have a uconsole r01 it’s basically a weak riscv machine...

experimenting with my 2014 macbook pro and several linux distros (xubuntu, mint, fedora)...

asklemmy is not a support channel. I haven’t found any macOS related support channel on lemmy and while Im searching the internet for macOS forums, Id like to know if you have any recommendation. Some questions I have are:...

Not sure if what I’m looking for exists, but thought I’d ask....

I’ll start with mine. yes part of this was to brag about my somewhat but not too unusual setup. But I also wanna learn from your setups!...

I put my laptop into sleep by just closing the lid and sometimes after wake up the clock shows wrong time and date which results into web sites not loading until I change it back and then I also lose logins to my previously logged in websites and have to re-enter the logins....

Which audio codec are you people using when ripping cd’s? I used wav but the size made it not really fitting on my phone (60GB) I switched to FLAC. Many people I talked to said that CD’s just use mp3 codecs in the First place.

I’m new to having Linux on my main rig. It’s been about a month now. I’m hoping someone has a better way to handle focus while gaming....