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I know, I know. I really shouldn’t use NTFS with Linux if I plan to write to it, especially not my only backup drive, which is my external media drive for libreELEC as well....

Now I can be a cheapskate, but I always hunt for bargain deals and sales. For me it’s with clothes or Blu Ray triple deals and charity shops....

For me, when I get books I often get the cheaper paperback option, give it a read....

YouTube does not feel appropriate since it is not my content.

So, I never visit McDonald’s. Oddly, I have managed to visit them twice this year. Once a month ago while traveling and it just worked out that it made the most sense when we stopped for fuel while traveling....

I have been not recommending Ubuntu to people because of obvious reasons (the Amazon search integration and snaps, mainly). The reason I am posting this is because someone I know mentioned that they are considering Ubuntu. They have a degree in cs and generally are competent with computers, but didn’t like mint when they tried...

Hello, any recommendations for a libre PDF with support for dual page (with the option to adjust which 2 pages are displayed)? Normally I use MuPDF, but there’s a document I would like to read which would greatly benefit from some additional features…

Owncast is a free and open source live video and web chat server for use with existing popular broadcasting software....

While I was documenting myself to create a romantic work between two women, I made a little detour and read a Manga (Love Hurts, by Kiriko Nananan) that made me wonder if the idea I initially had for my story is too idealistic to the point of bordering on childish. It’s just that the manga portrays interpersonal relationships...

Nursing Informatics Training: Bridging the Gap Between Healthcare and Technology...

Is anybody here playing cs2? The game runs natively on Linux, but its more laggy than it was on windows for me. If i run cs2 in proton it works better than natively on Linux, but I’m unable to play competitive that way....

I’m open to both online services as well as self hosting. But I’d like it to be low-maintenance.

I’m a little bit underwhelmed, I thought that based off the fact so many people seem to make using this distro their personality I expected… well, more I guess?...

Perovskite solar ist the fucking future. Green energy revolution. Cheapest energy source, will devestate fossil companies

I’ve been setting up and testing prometheus and grafana for about a week now, since that seems to be the universally accepted solution for self-hosted monitoring. But I’m starting to question why it is so accepted. On top of prometheus not seeming useful on it’s own (needing grafana to visualize and alertmanager for...

Android 14, an update released on 22 June under no more description than ‘security update’ has stopped syncthing being able to write to folders, even the few it allowed me to previously specifically grant access to. I can’t add a folder to sync, as it says ‘your android version hasn’t granted syncthing write access,...

I just messed my ankle up and am going to a conference in a couple days where I normally walk 15-25 miles/day for the next week....

Before I dabbled a bit with Docker. I wanted to dabble a bit with Podman because it seemed quite interesting. I reinstalled Pi OS Lite on my Pi 3B+ and installed Podman. Then I figured out what to run and started digging through the documentation. Apparently Docker containers work quite similar and even Docker compose can be...

TLDR: I uploaded a video to youtube but youtube’s trained AI script kept avoiding picking a thumbnail I emebeded in the video no matter all tricks and changes I made to it. prompting me to deleted the video instead of sharing my phone number for the privilege of uploading a custom thumbnail....

For example, I opt out of all emails from a website. A year later they make a new newsletter and auto subscribe all to it....

I understand that the bite test was used by frontier merchants as a low-tech way to assay gold, which worked because elemental gold was softer than some of the less valuable alloys that might otherwise be mistaken for gold....

I remember seeing a ring with extremely round edges and the colors pale copper and gray (or gold) combinations in half cylinders....