Will installing windows on a separate drive break my current linux install?
So, i use linux, i don’t have any windows install on my disk, but someone wants me to install windows on their HDD, so, if i plug said HDD on one of my sata ports and try to install windows 10 on it, will it mess with my linux boot? if yes, is there a way to prevent that without physically disconnecting my main drive? (my main...
Microsoft advertising Copilot on lock screens
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What's your favorite community on Lemmy that has no equivalent elsewhere?
On civil disobedience
Hi guys, I just wanted to call out an inappropriate term I’ve seen used sometimes: Civil Disobedience. It’s not just civil disobedience when you pirate something privately, you need to do it publicly and dare the authorities to do something about it....
Hardware Acceleration in Linux in Proxmox
I have a used Lenovo Thinkcenter 910 with a i5 7500T running Proxmox with Linux Mint in one VM and Adguard running in another. I’m just getting started so I am reading/searching for tons of answers still...
Is there any working app lock for Android 14 in 2024?
Can anyone tell me why such a basic feature is so hard to find or does not come by default in phones nowadays?...
When you're writing a song, how do you know it isn't just a song you've heard before but don't recognise?
I’m currently in the process of writing a song. I’ve got a tune and I’m putting the lyrics together but I’m always concerned that any tune I think of might just be another song I’ve heard somewhere randomly that I don’t remember hearing....
Backup solutions
Hands down, I’m way too late to the party with my backup-strategy, and I have no good explanation....
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Local DNS-01 wildcard certificate not renewed?
I followed this tutorial to create local certificates for my home server, but now it failed to renew automatically and I have no clue waht to do. Can anybody assist me in debugging, please? notthebe.ee/blog/easy-ssl-in-homelab-dns01/...
10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player.
there's probably someone out there that attempted to cut a lion's hair
Tip: mount Jellyfin transcode directory to hard drive!
I noticed my home servers SSD running out of space and it ended up being my Jellyfin Docker container which wasn’t clearing the directory for transcodes in /var/lib/jellyfin/transcodes correctly....
What's your opinion on using rw Blu-ray disks for storing movies, ect?
Well I thought about using them instead of buying a hdd, I looked for some comparisons and found a 50 pack of 25gb blu ray drives and a 2tb harddrive for 60, it can store 35 movies more (thinking the movie is 24 GB) than the pack of drives, and that isn’t accounting the disk drive to read the disks (Keep in mind these are just...
What media sources have you outgrown, when, and why?
Do you feel you have outgrown media sources or discontinued them for other reasons?
Besides Linux isos and piracy, what are some common uses of torrenting?
It’s kind of silly, but I still really dig the idea behind torrenting and peer to peer sharing of data. It’s cool to think about any old computer helping pass along some odd bits & bytes of data, whether a goofy drawing or strange story.
Is the snapshot, I rolled back to using Snapper, still taking space?
A few months ago, I rolled back to a previous btrfs snapshot using Snapper. Now I am constantly running out of space, no matter how many packages I delete and I’m wondering if that is the reason. The snapshot list looks like this:...
[Question] Rate my upgrade!
Per my previous post, I’m working on updating my server that’s running a J3455 Celeron with 16gigs of ram....
LibreELEC setup?
How much experience do you guys have with LibreElec? I’ve been playing with Kodi on and off for years and years, but am looking at this to replace a fleet of rokus at the house after the recent terms debacle. Anyone have recommendations for UI and usage tweaks to make it easier for the family to use?...
How do I play media from stremio in an external video player such as MPV
A couple of weeks ago I installed stremio from the AUR on my arch installation and it showed me an option to play the video in mpv player....
Bluetooth signal strength problems in Linux Mint
I’ve been having some issues with my network card on my new Minisforum UM690S. The issue is related to both WiFi and Bluetooth, but seeing as I have now a cabled connection for internet (and it will stay that way), I am really just in need of solving this for the Bluetooth-issue. I’ve been trying to figure out how to solve...
A time traveller comes back from 50 years in the future. You have 3 hours with them. What do you do?
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A post may receive a hundred replies and host a fat and exciting conversation tree, but if one moderator doesn't like it then it may be locked or deleted. Is that immoral?
Has anyone else given up on daytime Radio 2?
I’m generally ok with the music that’s on it, but the presenters man....