What was the worst physical beating you ever took?
I got clubbed on my forehead with a hockey stick. Needed stitches and have an eyebrow scar now.
older laptop distro recommendarion
Recently I’ve gave up Windows for Linux and installed Ubuntu with KDE Plasma desktop on my pc and laptop from 2007. It’s an i7 Intel processor with 8gb ddr ram so I thought it would be fine, but it seems quite sluggish. What distro could I use that would be faster and still fully functional? Thanks for your help in advance.
How to childproof a sliding glass door that can be unlocked and locked inside and out
My house has a sliding glass door as the main entrance and I need a solution to have it secure from tiny hands. My problem is it needs to be able to unlock and lock on both sides of the door so a pin drop or cross bar won’t work.
I got a terrible night of sleep and have an interview this afternoon. What are some things I can do to help my brain?
I’m super drowsy even though I had some caffeine. I’m drinking lots of water and eating healthy foods, but is there anything else I can do in the meantime?...
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?
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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,...
If a tunnel boring machine were installed facing downward in a cemetery, you wouldn't need to expand the cemetery
Just have it drill downward, put some more dirt on the coffins, add another layer of coffins, and repeat!
If you had a drain that you knew was clogged only with hair, could you unclog the drain only using Nair?
As stupid as it says on the tin. Can you remove hair clogs with Nair?...
What is the worst experience you have ever had involving Viruses/Malware?
Sorry to intrude. There's no BSD memes community.
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This is ground control to Major Dumb...
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Your new neighbor, a genie, opens 'Temptation Mart' next door. Food, alcohol, substances, carnal pleasures, gambling - all complimentary, 24/7. How does this affect your daily life?
Why do many search engines seem to ignore operators (e.g. exact phrases, term exclusions, OR, etc.)? Is there a good reason for having a dumb 1997-level search logic that I'm not seeing?
Wouldn’t it cut down on search queries (and thus save resources) if I could search for “this is my phrase” rather than rawdogging it as an unbound series of words, each of which seems to be pulling up results unconnected to the other words in the phrase?...
How to prevent files from being displaced? This protection should (somehow) persist through disk cloning.
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How do I do a bare-metal install (Debian) without a monitor+keyboard?
I don’t have spare peripherals like a monitor and a keyboard. How do you suggest I do a bare-metal install of Debian on a computer (meant to be a server)?
What is your least favorite Marvel movie and why?
Bootloader equivalent to Rufus
I’ve been trying to find a linux programming similar to Rufus to flash images of OSes on a thumb drive....
Why we gave up on learning how to play an instrument?
I regret buying a guitar, I can’t even do the simplest shit on it according to YouTube… I dunno if it’s laziness or just being tired of sucking so much and not being able to play the music that I like… Maybe a mix of both?