On "world" vs. "worldnews":
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Which would you rather do, create art or summon rain?
What's up with the prices of smaller used drives?
I’m in the marked for a used 4TB for my offsite backup. As I’ve recently acquired four 12TB drives (about 10000 hours and one to two years old) for 130€ each, I was optimistic. 30 to 40€ I thought. Easy....
Do you still get the "it's Friday!" feeling?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad I don’t have to go to work for a few days. But I don’t quite get the same excitement for the weekend that I used to. I hope that you do! If so, how do you cultivate that feeling?
How do I find the Riker playing a trombone with the subtitle "sad note"?
I’m not actually a Star Trek fan but I saw that meme and now I need it to make a sick joke. How can I find it?...
Is it possible to install ubuntu or another linux distro on a 2014 macbook pro?
A friend wants to gift me an old macbook pro he no longer uses. Specs follow:...
Selfhosted photo manager kind of like Jellyfin
Ideally, there’d be a simple RPM installer compatible with Alma 9 that I can point to a samba share that holds all the photos, kind of like what I do with Jellyfin. Also nice if it uses an otherwise unused port or I can easily set what port it uses....
Hanging out with my nieces/nephews I now understand most the discipline I received as a child was most likely because I was being annoying and nothing to do with right or wrong.
How to protect Intellectual Property from new employer
Pretty sure I will be asking a lawyer, but I want to learn more words and concepts first....
On social media we have these huge conversations where nobody involved has any actual experience. They're just repeating what other people said. Isn't that literally insane?
And when you have a billion people doing this, that’s a lot of insanity. Like, world-spanning plague-level insanity.
Kids Tablet recommendations.
I need some advice, and the amount of marketing spam had made sorting the wheat from the chaff annoyingly difficult. Hopefully you can help....
virtualizing PFSense. What else works besides ESXi for virtual networking?
with the demise of ESXi, I am looking for alternatives. Currently I have PfSense virtualized on four physical NICs, a bunch of virtual ones, and it works great. Does Proxmox do this with anything like the ease of ESXi? Any other ideas?
Maintaining and making new friends when everyone seems to be having kids?
I’m in my early thirties and adamantly childfree. I’m lucky enough to be in a long-term relationship with someone who brought up her desire to be childfree on more or less our first date. But I am not having too much luck with my friends from childhood and university - they all seem to be wanting kids, and learning of their...
Best TV box for connecting to streaming services?
We currently have Roku’s on our tvs to connect to streaming services and servers but they are infested with advertisements....
I started using tiling window managers. What tips do you have? What packages do you use to make yours fully functional? Lost noob needs some guidance...
I decided to dive heads first into window managers and need your input for your guidance. I’m absolutely not a Linux-pro. I basically never use the terminal, just started using Github, and only used Gnome (+ KDE for 1/8th the time) for now....
Are you enjoying Palworld?
Sorry if this is redundant, I didn’t see another thread focused on reactions to the game itself (just the Pokemon-ripoff news cycle)....
What other languages should I learn?
Currently using Busuu for Spanish, German, French, and Russian and would like advice on other languages to take up learning whether Busuu has them or if not I’ll then use Tandem.
Why can't we spam the spammers
I have an idea. I can’t tell if it’s good or bad. Let me know what you guys think....
What seemed like a small or inconsequential decision at the time, but actually ended up having a big impact later on?
I went back in time to kill Hitler but instead we fell in love and our romance averted the war but then I was kidnapped back to the present and Hitler's broken heart made him do WW2 anyway. AMA
Questions about switching to Linux
My objective is to ditch windows & utilize my triple monitor desktop as a cockpit style dashboard for my homeserver & lan devices along with always open widgets like music, calculator, etc....
Linux tablet?
What’s the best tablet to install Linux on? I am looking for something affordable (under $200) and light just to use a PDF reader with MEGA sync.
Those who are self hosting at home, what case are you using? (Looking for recommendations)
TLDR: If you were building a NAS for 8 HDDs and 1 SSD today, what case would you use?...
Nextcloud vs Syncthing for PKM notes?
I’d like to sync my markdown notes between devices (laptop and phone), which service is better: Nextcloud or Syncthing? Any other important idea I should know?, like latency times, or maximum number of synced devices, what if I edit the same note from both places without internet and then both get connected to a network… For...
Can you please recommend an easy to use music trimmer?
I ripped a mixcloud stream using a great free MediaHuman app (Youtube to Mp3). I now need to rip the desired 6 minute song (in m4a format) from a 2 hour stream. The trouble is: I can’t seem to find a decent app to do it....