best foss replacement for microsoft launcher?
i’ve been trying to get rid of non-foss garbage as much as possible but i haven’t found anything to replace the microsoft launcher yet, a few good candidates but they were all either underbaked or too unstable to use. Any suggestions?
Linux on old School Machines?
Hi all, the private school I work at has a tonne of old windows 7/8 era desktops in a student library. The place really needs upgrades but they never seem to prioritise replacing these machines. Ive installed Linux on some older laptops of mine and was wondering if you all think it would be worth throwing a light Linux distro on...
Is it possible to use Linux without the command line?
We’ve all heard it before: People claiming Linux isn’t a viable alternative cause you can’t run it without using the command line....
Question about upload speeds (torrenting)
Fellow Scallywags, I’m trying to share my booty (not that one). But my average upload speed is 294,4 kiB/s, while my average download is 6.1MiB/s....
what’s your favourite Resturant?
I was thinking of making a Free Open Source Resturant, with free food and drinks made purely out of free software components. I was thinking of licensing this under the GPLv3 for a freedom living experience, and not only that. I was also thinking it all in Rust!!
how do you apply Isopropyl alcohol to clean a notebook's surface and keys?
after reading www.wikihow.com/Clean-a-Keyboard and other sources I used a 75% isopropyl alcohol solution to clean my black and grey plastic notebook’s keys and surface....
What are your favourite moments in videogames?
For me it is opening credits sequence in Nier Automata, Shadowlord’s castle in Nier Replicant and AI reveal in MGS2. All these three games are masterclass in storytelling.
Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem
I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy’s massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It’s been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let’s say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they’re what’s colloquially referred to...
Most painless way to play Old School Runescape on Linux?
I see there are several different ways to install OSRS on Linux - flatpaks, Android emulators, Steam, etc. - but can anyone recommend the best as far as ease of setup? With lack of glitches being the second priority?...
Anyone else have this happen after grabbing a coffee?
I grab a cup coffee from a shop and it’s ruined because the barista is wearing cologne or perfume that inevitably has gotten on the cup and it’s all I can smell when I take a sip. I guess 2 things, this means 1 they haven’t thoroughly washed their hands, and 2 I can’t drink the coffee because it smells so bad and I have...
Discussion topic: Why do the Borg need to assimilate entire cultures to gain the features of their biological distinctiveness and unique technologies?
The Borg have transporter technology of some sort. They could easily abduct select people from orbit and leave, but instead they invade planets and assimilate every person. It seems highly inefficient to me....
Is a peanut butter sandwich a balanced meal?
I mean carbs in the bread, proteins and fat in the peanut butter. Use wholemeal bread for fibers....
Do you use both a personal desktop and laptop?
I’m moreso curious if laptop functions have been offloaded to phones. If you have a full gaming desktop, do you see the use case for an additional laptop? or if most people here don’t see the need for the increased processing power of a desktop, do you just use your laptop and a phone?...
Unable to run TabbyML with GPU on NixOS or Docker (solved on docker!)
TabbyML is a self-hosted code assistant. I have been unsuccessful at running it using my Nvidia GPU. There’s two ways I’ve tried to deploy this....
Using disc spanning for RAID array
I’m planning on building a new home server and was thinking about the possibility to use disc spanning to create matching disk sizes for a RAID array. I have 2x2TB drives and 4x4TB drives....
If your life story was turned into a book,, what would the title be?
What are You Working on Wednesday
Weekly thread to discuss whatever you’re working on, big or small, at work or in your free time.
List of useful BTRFS tools
Hi, I want to do an “awesome things” list with BTRFS tools...
Is it possible to safely "give away" a Steam account to a stranger?
I’m pretty sure I’m done with Steam gaming, haven’t launched a game in almost a year, and generally want to move away from DRM....
Opinions and help with Misskey
Wanted to make an account on a JP/en server but I don’t think misskey will allow sign up with a protonmail email, can anyone help me with the sign up....
What's the concensus on SpaceHey?
I just learned about the Fediverse in May. I now have a Lemmy account, and a Mastadon account....
Intel 'Sierra Forest' Xeon Server CPUs
I’ve been getting back into the CPU limelight after a few years of burnout from too much info and life goals....
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Do you have your favorite Linux restoring / data craving tools for Linux?
I found these: Scalpel - but no longer maintaned. PhotoRec - but I don’t know how well it works with Btrfs....