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Hi all, Liam here, your friendly neighbourhood moderator. Apologies I haven’t been around too much until recently, but I am properly back....

I’ve recently got a FreeSync monitor and am still figuring out how to get VRR (variable refresh rate, or “adaptive sync”) to work consistently....

I want to run certain applications that are Windows only, and I wanted to know if there is any sand boxing as most of the programs that are Windows only tend to be invasive. I know VMs are another option but there is usually a performance toll with that and I am running a low to mid range laptop

Make only each account’s 5 most recent upvotes effect post rank. In effect this would make vote sellers need to make many more accounts to be useful, they would need to churn upvotes....

So some 360 emulators such as Xenia allow to play games that have been installed on an external USB drive. It’s pretty easy an straightforward: install the game from a stock console and run in on your PC using the emulator. You don’t need any specific optical drive with a special firmware....

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This has been going on for a couple months at least, but not much longer than that....

I’m looking for a solution to easily keep bookmarks digitally of physical books I read. Previously I would type up the just I was wanting to save into a Google Keep note, but that is fairly disruptive to my reading time and really slows things down....

Lets say you’re dead and im the Devil, your punishment for the life you led (you know what you did) is that you live your life again but its going to be a little crappier. Your choices are....

In my childhood, during computer lessons in school, we played a game which I don’t remember the name. It was a guy with a jetpack that goes forward over different stages. Any clues?

::: spoiler It’s the best DC film since The Dark Knight!...

You can’t make Tomlette without breaking some Greggs.

My current setup is an Odroid H3+ with 2x8TB hard drives configured in raid 1 via mdadm. It is running Ubuntu server and I put in 16GB of RAM. It also has a 1TB SSD on it for system storage....

Seems to just be a marketing term nowadays.

Hey guys, For my home server I am using a Cloudflare domain name to access it, but I noticed today that my connections are secured using the Google Trust Services LLC certs, rather than the Let’s Encrypt certs Nginx Proxy Manager uses… so I’m assuming that cloudflare is having a ball sniffing all my traffic before...

There’s a billion quizzes online that say they can help you choose your first pet, and my 45 minutes of googling before posting this did turn up a single blog that suggested that owners of a class of pet share certain personality traits and lifestyles (although they frustratingly seemed to forget that people own things like...

Is anybody aware of lemmy communities similar to r/dragonage on reddit?...

I ignored this show when it first came out because the initial trailer didn’t do much for me, but I ended up enjoying the first season, and so far I’m enjoying season two even more....

What are advantages of it and also how said mailing list works? (In case of software development)

I am looking to ditch some PoE Ubiquiti hardware in favor of a DIY approach with 802.11ax cards. What card would you recommend for long-range 802.11ax? Are there gotchas when hosting with hostapd with some cards, like binary blob drivers, incomplete support, etc. that I should know about? Is there any reason I should avoid doing...

I feel like I’m losing my mind. A few days ago, all of my containers running on Docker Desktop on my Windows Server host were working nicely. I had NFS volumes set up on a few of them to reach my synology NAS on my local network, and things were working fine. I’ve done so much digging and tweaking over the last few days, so...

I’m looking to connect my PC in my home office to my living room TV. Right now I’m looking at unpowered usb over cat5/6 and powered HDMI over cat5/6. Both of the adapters say they’re good for ~150’ and I’d be doing a 40’ cable run with pre terminated cat6. Cost of about $70 for adapters and cable on amazon....

I’ve NEVER had this many problems with a docker container before, this is getting WAY past the point of being ridiculous....