Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of February 11th
What have you all been playing!...
Jellyfin on FreeBSD
I am having issues with Jellyfin not finding ffmpeg on FreeBSD. Is there any solution to this?
self-hosted/FOSS remote-access support gateway
One of the problems with having switched over a number of relatives to Linux is that I’m “the guy” when they have issues, and I can’t always get over to help them in a timely manner. A lot of the time most stuff is working just fine and it’s just a matter of popping into the desktop and fixing a bad link or a naughty...
Have video games become expensive now?
another discussion about sleeping arrangements
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Do you use aliases?
command line aliases to make repeated processes quicker. I’ve used them in the past and on specific programs but never on command line utilities....
If one day our Fingerprint ends up Getting Stollen, Is There a Way we can Change it?
Like, anyway we could permanently change the patern on a finger?
Text editor with predefined text snippets?
I do a lot of text editing for work and there are some phrases that I have to type frequently. What’s the best way to quickly paste those phrases into a document using a shortcut or keyword? I mainly use Kwrite and Kate as i prefer plain text editors and need no formatting.
Mentorship Monday - Discussions for career and learning!
Weekly thread for any and all career, learning and general guidance questions. Thinking of taking a training or going for a cert? Wondering how to level up your career? Wondering what NOT to do? Got other questions? This is the time and place to ask!
Street Fighter Vs Mortal Kombat
Which of the two fighting franchises do you prefer most? I preferred SF likely because I liked the roster of characters from dhalsim to blanka....
Funimation setting for yt-dlp to backup your digital copies
Background: I bought a Blue-ray set that came with a code for the digital copy. This was back before Funimation was acquired. I could go through and rip my discs since Sony seems to be on the verge of nuking my digital copies, but teaching myself yt-dlp seemed more convenient....
vulkan without proprietary drivers
I’ve got an nvidia card and I don’t want to use proprietary drivers cause they are completely broken for me, but I need vulkan for dxvk. I tried to install nvidia utils but that breaks my system. Where can I get nouveau vulkan?
Recommendations on architecture for game AI tournament
I’m planning on creating an AI tournament as a project to test out some of the potential AI performance in a game, eg tic-tac-toe....
Court of Appeal: The Netherlands must stop exporting F-35 parts to Israel
The Netherlands must stop exporting F-35 parts to Israel. The court in The Hague decided this on appeal. Deliveries must be stopped within seven days of the court’s ruling....
Use yt-dlp to download your videos from Funimation!
As Funimation drama unravels, here’s a reminder for you that yt-dlp is able to download Funimation videos. Use that opportunity to preserve your collections before they’re gone! (and keep them forever and ever)...
New home server: what hypervisor/OS?
I have a couple of home server, both with Proxmox as hypervisor, one VM with Ubuntu 22.04 that does just Docker containers, one with Open Media Vault, one with Home Assistant (HA OS) and a couple of Windows VM to do some tests. Since I wanted to move from OMV, right now I see 2 options:...
LibreY vs SearXNG, which one do you suggest and why?
Hello! Today I learned about the existence of LibreY, and the project seems very interesting. I was wondering, how does it compare with SearXNG? which one is easier to self host, and which one is lighter on resource usage? I’m particolary interested in opinions of people who used both...
Is weird that I like and use both Fedora and Debian?
I never thought about it before but I use upstream and downstream without much though. For my personal devices and containers I use Fedora but when it comes to servers and VMs I use Debian for its stable nature....
Why is the caret made, and why does it blink?
It’s the vertical line that blinks in text boxes and documents when you edit. Other than that I don’t know much about it.
YSK Various Reference Sites
You should know about these sites, especially for this upcoming election season, because they are referential and nonpartisan. Each website has a line about the content....
Best website for downloading a pirated copy of Windows?
I’m looking to test out Windows, but I don’t want to download it without my VPN. I’m trying to use it in a virtual machine with GPU passthrough so I can play all my games. I also obviously don’t want to pay for a copy. TIA!
What's the point of the Processing IDE?
Hi all, as a child I spent a lot of time working in the Processing language. Does this have any transferrable use cases / what’s the point it even exists?
What is a "tax write off"?
Let’s say that I have this one movie that is finished that I spent 80 million to make. I decided to “write it off”. So when I get to pay my taxes, do I get a 80 million discount?
Thunderbird Addon for deleting mails containing old dates?
I am again deleting old mails. And I have inboxes with like 200 of them, it is hell....