As the time passes more and more it seems that the popularity of Pirates is decreasing, I was a teenager in 2010s and invested a lot of my time learning Torrents, Pirated Game websites, identifying good sites, educating others about piracy, etc. But it seems with the recent crackdowns and trends I feel there might come a time...
A few year back, there was a Netflix documentary about flat earther. They’ve done a couple of experiment to prove that the earth is flat which (Spoiler alert) demonstrated that the earth is round....
I was reading about the crypto bro who was convicted of fraud recently, but his sentencing isn’t going to happen until March 2024. Why does it take so long?...
TLDR; I would like to study the Fediverse and I am looking for recommendations and connections with like minded people/researchers....
In GloriousEggroll’s wine-ge-custom builds, enabling Emulate Virtual Desktop in winecfg breaks the wine prefix, so that nothing (not even wineconfig) runs in that prefix any more. Anyone know more about this?...
With digital circus coming out recently I realised the 2000s game aesthetic can actually be kinda cool and endearing...
I’ll need to mirror print stuff regularly (flip across the vertical axis), and I’m trying to make the process convenient....
One of the best features of Lemmy is that it supports a combination of image and text. I wish including the source link of a comic would be a standard practice on the fediverse, just like alt-text already is....
Hey! So I have two spare computers, with 7th gen i5s and 16GB of ram. What would be the best way to try and monetise them? I’ve found one or two websites which allow you to rent out your servers essentially as a VPS on a fairly long term way with a decent payout. However I tried sending them an email and got no response. Are...
Another post regarding time travel got me wondering how far back in time can I hypothetically leave a modern computer where they, the most capable engineers of their time, can then somewhat reverse engineer it or even partially?
Was cleaning out my storage shed and found a bunch of vhs movies (no home movies) in questionable state. Is there anything worth doing or should I dump them (think they can be recycled)? Before it’s said, I don’t think they’re worth digitalizing imo.
Hey everyone, was just trying to get an idea of what people thought of this / is it worth making?...
Since the normies are starting to do their GotY thing....
I got an old Windows 7 laptop that was going to be thrown out and decided to put Linux on it (see previous thread here). Most people suggested I go with the latest stable version of Debian, so that’s what I installed. I’ve mostly used Windows, but I do have some experience with Ubuntu....
Since Geany 2.0 has recently been released I decided to switch back to it from Kate. I used to like Geany but it had some problems I couldn’t quite remember....
Hi everyone, looking for help with an SSD/Win problem: My Thinkpad with Win11 has been acting up lately, and I am fairly sure the problem is with the SSD (very high disk load on startup and shortly before each of the many many crashes.) I would like to avoid having to set up my system from scratch....
Has anyone done their own shadowsocks?...
I just discovered something I did so idiotic I need a stronger adjective that what is in my name....
For example, if you insist on buying Advil instead of store brand ibuprofen. I mean, you’d be wasting your money in that example, but you do you
We’re going to be in Seattle for Thanksgiving and our son and his wife are headed to Singapore, so we’re doing up an early Thanksgiving tomorrow!...