Is it possible to unbrick an asus X00PD with an Ubuntu desktop?
Device: an ASUS X00PD, computer: Ubuntu 23.10 with ADB and fastboot installed....
What is something you're certain you would never do, yet find yourself dreaming about?
A dozen or two TB of storage for media on the cheap?
Well I’m just about fed up with streaming bullshit. I currently have a home server that’s just a raspberry pi4 with a bunch of docker containers and it served my light usage well....
Lemmy built-in translator
Do you know of any Lemmy client with a built-in translator? English is not my language and I have a lot of difficulties translating texts…...
How chatGPT works
Fastest growing app in history, 10 million users in just 2 months....
Proper HDD clear process?
Usually my process is very… hammer and drill related - but I have a family member who is interested in taking my latest batch of hard drives after I upgraded....
is the nouveau project mostly dead? how continuous is development on it?
its trello page shows no sign of life, issues that are years old with no recent activity exclusively
If the devil appeared to you and offered to answer any 3 questions, what would you ask?
Out of the phones released past 2015 you used, which one is the closest to the heart?
Many devices, one for the heart.
Best chiptune/gaming-inspired music?
I’m trying to expand my library of classic game/game-inspired music. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. I’m including some music that I particularly enjoy for reference....
How does everyone feel about Samsung phones?
Hold on tight, we are almost back…...
How do I cope with my father hating me?
My father, who convinced me (16 m) at the time to move in with him instead of my mother when they moved. All 3 of the other siblings stayed with my mother. He then kicked me out the week I turned 18, a week into my senior year. Since then he stays in touch only to speak with his grandchildren (now going on 4 kids). I have never...
Mandela Effect test: Without looking it up, what was the name of the guy who narrated The Twilight Zone?
If your instance is defederated from another instance, would it be sockpuppeting to create another account to view posts from that instance?
What's the point on hosting RSS reader's?
This is a honest question. I have two RSS services hosted on my server, and I don’t see the point. RSS is by nature distributed, and subscribing to my own server just makes the source of all news being the same. What is the advantage? What do people use it for?
Is there a community for suggestions to changes to Lemmy?
I was thinking a “random” button that links to a random community would be a useful feature, but I’m not sure where there is a community that discusses general ideas and changes to the Lemmy source.
is there a way to refederate instances just for me?
when I see that whichever instance I choose is defederated from another bunch of random instances, is it possible to have those show in my feed without making a separate profile from other instances? and can I turn them off again if I see that defederating was the right idea?
What are your favorite fonts for technical reports?
I work at a consulting engineering firm and write a lot of reports that are read by the public. I have an opportunity to recommend a different font for all of our written documents and am looking for something more modern/fresh than Times New Roman. Also open to recommendations for purpose specific communities about...
When is Cinnamon 6 expected to drop and is it an automatic download?
Trump saying he'll be a dictator only on day 1 is the strategy of normalizing it.
Just make it so normal that people accept it....
If so-called AI is basically just Large Language Models, how come predictive text on my phone is bollock-useless?
Like if I type “I have two appl…” for example, often it will suggest “apple” singular instead of plural. Just a small example, but it is really bad at predicting which variant of a word should come after the previous
Why do some YouTube videos start with a short clip from the video itself?
Not sure if I can explain this well but a lot of YouTube videos nowadays start with a small clip of the video itself. Does anyone know why this trend started? Is it an algorithm strategy?...
Do any of y'all know where I can get a retro box?
My college roommate had this little box that had 2 controllers and RCA’d into the TV that contained basically every game from the most important retro consoles. All the important consoles and games pre y2k. Including Nintendo, Atari, Sega, and maybe some arcade. I assume I can’t get it through normal channels because of some...
[Music Notation] What does "D M F# m/5+" mean?
I’m fooling around with notation software that will label chords. I input a D major chord, and it offers to also label it also as F# m/5+. F# minor but then /5+?