Whenever I wipe my PC, I use tar to make an archive of the whole system. This works, but having to decompress the whole archive to pull files out is very annoying. Is there another archive format that:...
I am zeroing out some old drive - some may not have secure erase. If I issue the command:...
Landfills have been around for a long time now, and some of them get quite large. I know seagulls are changing their habits and living off landfills, but are there any other interesting ecosystems forming around them? Maybe some new microorganisms we haven’t seen before?
I’m sure everyone lately has noticed there’s a tonne of hate on the privacy subreddit, with every new post/comment there getting more and more aggresive than the last...
Too many people are confusing the two. Whenever lemmy.ml or its devs do something stupid, people go “Lemmy is getting worse and worse,” or “I’m leaving Lemmy,” or worse, “I’m leaving for Beehaw.”...
It seems that posts on Lemmy cannot exceed 10000 characters. If you type in more than 10000 characters and try to submit the post, you will see that the post submission is being processed but you won’t come any further than that. The post submission will remain in status pending indefinitely....
I’ve been doing small hosting off and on for a while. Mainly for accessing files at home and the occasional Minecraft server. Not smart, as I’ve never used a specialized router. I used to use ddwrt, but now it’s impossible to flash most consumer grade routers....
By this I mean: something that can view and fully interact with multiple different services like Lemmy, Mastodon, etc....
I prefer regular foods that help with constipation, not meds....
https://sopuli.xyz/c/1984...
For example: for a particular use case , I want to go a step beyond ActivityPub, and allow a user who created an account on another server to perform full authentication on my server, effectively become a proxied registered account, granting privileges of a natively registered account....
I’ll start: for Germany, I’d go for Die Ärzte. A rock/pop/punk band from the 80s which is still active today. One of my all-time favorites because I grew up with them :)...
Board, card, or video games - what's being played this week?
I tried to like Invidious, I really did but it’s just awful. it’s basically painful to use as it is now. I’ve tried to play around with various combinations of settings and browsers and cant find any combination where the video doesnt either:...
Greetings! I am looking for an app which blocks distracting apps like NewPipe, Infinity and Facebook and unlocks them when the screen time of 1 hours and 30 minutes of a productive app like OneNote is achieved. This should also apply to distracting websites....
Anyone here got any recommendations for paid cloud storage options? Given where we are I’m looking for piracy friendly options.
It reminds me how Imgur is often discussing images that were uploaded for Reddit and OP will never know about all the comments.
Like, do we feel more pain than a fish would? More euphoria than mice could feel?
Maybe life is just an accident each time.
What’s the current landscape like for gaming with KDE Wayland? I’ve heard that recently VSync can be disabled and that Wine has better support for Wayland nowadays....