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Laptop recommendation for a cs student under $600 or in India 50,000 INR

Well i started my B tech course this year, I am looking for a laptop for my use case. I am using linux as a main os for 3 years....

What's the best piracy for music?

Title...

Why is most content on Lemmy just old memes?

I really like Lemmy so far, but sometimes my feed is just invaded by old facebook memes.

Things like this turn people off from Linux

I run Mylar on my Xubuntu server to manage my comic collection. I found out recently that there’s a tool that can convert the embedded .jpgs to .webp to save space, but it only works on cbz files and not cbr (zipped vs rar for those who don’t know). I wanted to convert all of my cbr to cbz so that I could run the tool on all...

If you could travel to any fictional world, which one would you pick and what would you do there?

What caused your last break up?

Who is yogthos and why is he all over the front page

I get past a few posts in all and then it’s just him posting in political communities....

Considerations for a homeserver thats open to the internet? (Jellyfin / Nextcloud)

Hey guys,...

Does anyone use PixelFed?

Also, is there a good app for iPhone for it? I tried out Vernissage and it’s nice in some ways and confusing in others.

Europe is doing so well regarding Linux smartphones

I have been looking at Fairphone and Volla, and it feels like the Smartphone scene for Linux is going very strong right now....

How some people afford to travel around the world for months without working?

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What is the most opinionated linux distro?

cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/550905...

Which bartender do you feel was better utilized in their show, Guinan or Quark?

I’ll start....

Advanced pirates, whats a tip others might not know?

I’ll start. Did you know you can run a headless version of JD2 on a raspberry pi? It’s not the greatest thing in the world, but sometimes its nice to throw a bunch of links in there and go to sleep.

It's raining men and let the bodies hit the floor could be about the same event from radically different points of view

discuss.

What are your favourite books, any genre!

I’ll start, for the moment mine are...

What would be the problem if Threads federated with Lemmy&co in the future?

I’ve seen a lot of comments suggesting Threads should be pre-emptively defederated by Lemmy/kbin instances if it tries to join us. I’m a bit confused what the problem would be. When Meta does its usual corporate bullshit over at Threads, how would that hurt a user or community based on Lemmy.world? If anything, wouldn’t it...

Ubuntu trying to install snap AND Firefox even though I have removed them a year back

I just tried to upgrade Ubuntu and I suddenly see that new packages want to be installed; snapd and firefox. I don’t need Firefox because I’m already using Firefox-ESR as a deb and I certainly don’t need snaps....

Do you use RSS?

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it’s is a simple, standardized content distribution method that can help you stay up-to-date with your favorite newscasts, blogs, websites, and social media channels. Instead of visiting sites to find new posts or subscribing to sites to receive notification of new posts, find the...