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I use zsh and have export MANPAGER=“nvim -Rc ‘set ft=man’ -” in my .zshrc. this used to work well but since a couple of weeks ago, whenever I run man (e.g. man man) I get many weird escape characters (e.g. [4mMAN[24m(1)). when running man and manually piping the output to another program (e.g. man man | nvim -Rc ‘set...

I have a pixel 6 on Google Fi. The cell coverage at my new home is not great. If I have my preferred network type set to 5G I have no Internet connectivity. If I manually change it to LTE I get connectivity (albeit slow)....

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I’m finally starting to install local web apps that my wife/kids would be interested in, and I know it has to be super easy or they’re never going to go near it. Most everything is running on my Synology on different ports, with absolutely nothing exposed to the outside world, and I’d like to run local DNS and proxy so...

I have to pay a subscription to view a book, I can’t view without internet....

I’m a noob who thought they knew what they were doing!...

I wish I could speak Finnish. But, actually, there are tons of languages I wish I could speak. All of them, really, but Finnish is the first one I thought of just now....

Our clan, ‘Drink to the Dead’, has been in the works for a year prior to the launch of Diablo 4....

Long story short: I am absolutely inexperienced with Linux distros but made the switch from Windows a bit more than a year ago. Right now, everyone’s talking about Baldur’s Gate 3, including a lot of the podcasts and shows I follow: since I never experienced the OG games, I wanted to try them out. They were on sale on GOG,...

Has anyone hear any news from the guy? He was pretty active in the reddit alternative communities, he even had his own platform. I’m curious to know if he dig lemmy and the federation.

google play store partI remember a while back hearing about custom google play store APKs, are they still a thing? And if so, could someone explain them to me? (Or just send a link to them) I’ve tried Mobilism, but the search is locked behind a login and their activation emails aren’t reaching my inbox....

Hello people, I’ve been thinking of getting a RealDebrid account thanks to the recommendation of some folks here but people are saying that the RealDebrid is keeping logs on their users so I am trying to get an account using a VPN. The issue is that if you are using a VPN the only payment option is through Coinbase which I...

@HotTubs...

The most annoying thing about using Linux on my laptop is that the HDMI doesn’t work out of the box because by default, “hybrid graphics” means your nVidia GPU won’t be turned on until it’s told to run a single program using PRIME offloading....

In time travelers’ utopian future phone calls are a viable means of communication, so they think they can help folks in the past via calling and don’t understand why nobody answers!

Hey friends,...

If both of those aren’t possible, how viable is it to clone 1337x?

I heard it was possible, with BiglyBT bridges, but I never used BiglyBT and can’t get it to work....

I’m off on holiday tomorrow and will have basically no internet for over a week. So naturally I’m downloading all the media I can think of, just in case of downtime....

When I search up a community in, for example, lemmy.world and lemmy.ml, the subscriber counts differ from each other. Are the subscriber counts of communities viewed from a instance only valid for that instance?

People that host Fresh RSS , I dont quiet understand what its use? Does it save the RSS articles?

I’ve only seen screen shots so far, but something looks very amiss about all these rips (irrespective of the file size)...

My friends and I recently challenged each other to list our top five starship classes and were surprised by how different our opinions were despite being generally in agreement with what we like about the various series....