What would be the best way for me to recover data from my old laptop's hard drive, which seems to have a bad superblock?
I got an external hard drive enclosure for the purpose of recovering some of the files from my old laptops hard drive. The hard drive and all of it’s partitions show up in both disks and gparted but it wont mount. When I tried to mount it manually, it gave the error message stating that it can’t read the superblock. I’ve...
What can I do with a SD card?
Edit: I replaced it with a book...
Theoretically, what if I named my child with a foreign but otherwise normal names
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/1361025...
Service for letter/PDF archival
I’m looking for a service I could install to archive a huge pile of letters, preferably in PDF form, to a database. I’m living in a country where paper is still king, and digital services are either non-existent, or loathed (Germany). My current situation is that I have a mailbox with lots of PDFs all over the place, but...
are tiling WM good only for terminal?
I only tried a tiling WM for a few days several years ago. I am ok using the terminal but not everything can be done easily there. In the screenshots of people setups, there are always fancy terminals. Are tiling WM good also for other GUI a part from terminals?
Follow-up question to mounting encrypted drives
Hi everyone, I found the great question on booting encrypted drives, and since I’m somewhat paranoid I’d like to ask a follow-up:...
Moving to OrangePi Zero 3, what are my storage options?
Hi everyone! I recently moved my services from a Hetzner VPS to an OrangePi Zero 3 and I was wondering what options do I have storage-wise? How could I plug the most HDDs possible on this thing? Does anyone have a successful setup that might want to share?
what is the correct way to use the word "backorder" in English?
I know what the word means, but I’m unsure how to use it in a sentence. In my native language, Danish,“backorder” translates to “Restordre” and when something is unavailable, we say it’s"i Restordre",which translates directly into English as “in backorder”, but I’m not sure that’s correct English. Do English...
Is it considered ableism to treat someone unfairly with regard to their health condition(s) even if they're not a recognised disability?
Or what would that be called? Pretty much the same things that would usually be considered ableism, but when there’s not a recognised disability involved but just health issue/s (which could be “disabling”)....
The clothes you are wearing vanish in an instant. How does this affect you?
XMPP Server?
I’m looking to try self-hosting an XMPP server for my family to use as a secure communication platform. I realize that end2end encryption with XMPP doesn’t seem as strong as something like Matrix but my self-hosted Matrix server has been very unreliable....
Is there something that helps digest a cheese pizza?
I’m curious if consuming sodium bicarbonate or Eno fruit salt could alleviate discomfort after eating a cheese pizza....
Why are there so many (rust) GTK apps and so little Qt ones?
I always see new GTK apps popup on Flathub. I dont really care and think GTK looks fancy, although CSD suck a bit and they waste space and often functionality....
Films where a Predator dies are a failed coming of age films.
From the lore of the Predator species, a Predator who goes for a hunt is trying to prove they are worthy of adult status in their society. As each Predator dies in the film they fail to attain adult status in their society.
Best CPU and GPU monitoring app
Hey, whats the best CPU and GPU monitoring app for linux. For temperature, cpu and gpu utilization.
Remote Desktop solution that works without a monitor on host PC (Windows)
Windows user here, please don’t shoot me...
People, please, it's "ex-twitter"
I still don’t get how - with such a perfect tee-up - we settled on “X, the platform formerly known as Twitter”....
[Q] anyone having trouble getting mortons?
The past few weeks maybe even over a month, I’ve had no luck getting a box of Morton’s kosher salt. Anyone else having problems getting it? In the southeast us if that matters.
How to get into those super secret iptv services?
I have heard that there iptv services which are really private and don’t advertise openly and provide really great services. I don;t remember but i saw it here/reddit that they are available on private trackers’ forums. I am on Avistaz, bakabt, torrentleech and few others not worth mentioning. I would like to learn more...
Does alien.top do anything other than mirror reddit comments?
I have just realised that alien.top seems to be mirroring reddit accounts, posts and comments, without labelling them as such. What is the point of this one way mirroring? As soon as users realise, they are going to just leave. There is no point having a discussion with a bot that cannot respond.
Facebook marketplace alternative
Hi, I’m fairly new to the fediverse. Is there any alternatives for Facebook marketplace out there?
What ONE trick does some entrenched party HATE?
Try to keep it beneficial or applicable to most or some highly specialized audience
Gaming on Fedora Silverblue
I am freaking out on how well distrobox is working for me. I buy a lot of games on itch.io and GOG, and neither have a flatpak. However, installing an Ubuntu container (max compatibility) and launching games from there just works. Okay, I have yet to install a GOG game, but it the Itch client works then what won’t?...
Users of PiHole/AdGuard/Blocky, what blocklists are you using?
EDIT: Thanks so much guys! This was really helpful, and I didn’t imagine so many would help out!...