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i’m wanting to get on usenet but remain compeltely anon (vpn, anon purchase, etc)....

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/26215028...

Hi everyone, I am wanting to gradually make the switch from windows to Linux on my daily use desktop. I figured the best way would be to dual boot them. I have a spare drive in my desktop that I cleaned for Linux so I can have it on a separate drive from windows. Here the process I went through which ended up being unsuccessful....

In any language, any one of us has certain words or phrases they like to say....

I’ve been using China/Xiaomi Phones for the longest time and hated the installed Android Version because all of the clutter, bloat and privacy concerns. Now I am about to buy a Google Pixel 7 Pro....

Anybody brew at work? If so, what’s your setup/process? I’m fortunate enough to have free access to a shared automatic espresso machine (beans not pods) so the drive to do this is not super strong. I wrote about my experience with the pipamoka device for travel, and I’m thinking it might make for a pretty simple at work...

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/19699854

All I wanted is to install the current yt-dlp (2024.07.16-1) on debian 12.6....

Looking for both philosophical and real world examples including situation-specific ones like one field of study that it would versus another where it wouldn’t. Idk I’m bored as shit and wanna discuss something.

Is it normal to be disgruntled after a layoff?...

I’m new to this stuff so go easy on me....

I’ve been on Tidal for years, but it’s frustrating to use for lots of reasons (they only pay their artists slightly better than Spotify, streaming services are flaky, works poorly with my DLNA home speakers). I’m looking for something I can selfhost with the following features, and I would appreciate any suggestions in...

Hi all, I’ve recently switched over to Linux Mint from Windows 10 and I’m having trouble installing a CH340 driver from Sparkfun. I’ve managed to unzip the contents and have it in this location: /home/user/Downloads/CH341SER_LINUX. I’ve tried running the files using the ./ command for both the ch34x.c and Makefile but...

I know we now know they went extinct 66 million years ago, and 64 millions is another date I’ve seen around, but how long how we known it was definitely way more than 40 millions ? I’m asking because it’s the date given in the the song “walk the dinosaurs” by Was (Not Was), and I wondered why such a number. Would it...

You’ve heard of the “Bechdel-Wallace test” and its potential value to some people in measuring various media in a given context....

I’ve been using the Firefox docker container through the gluetun docker container (runs great with proton and mullvad) and it’s been really great....

This is kind of a rant, but mostly a plea....

cross-posted from: linux.community/post/1079067...

I just learned that Nmap is almost GPL except that they revoked the license specifically for SCO group for their SCO–Linux disputes....