kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

Linux distros recommandations

Hello, I wanna know which distro could be could for productivity (not gaming). Maybe a debian based one, I don’t know and I don’t care about the desktop env. Thx!

I found a few old phones from my family. II cleaned them, installed LineageOS and rooted most of them. On one I installed postmarketOS, one is still stock Android and one is lets say bricked (after installing lineagesos it stay on boot logo for ever, before that I installed lineageos and nethunter on it). One one disk encryption...

What was your first experience using the Internet?

For me, my Dad brought home a laptop from work and we looked up pictures of pokemon and went to the Simpsons website, circa around 1999. How about you?

What’s the worst car you’ve ever driven?

Does anyone else remember when "they" broke up the anti-work movement on reddit by putting a mod on fox news then dividing the community by creating the work reform sub?

I some times think about it and how shitty people are

Fix one thing... break another

I -was- going to find a community who might help me with my problem, but then I found this place and it’s obviously much more constructive to bitch about it than to actually try to fix it. Shame on me for not seeing that right away....

Fedora + Hyprland?

Are there any issues?

We should name the moon. Most people don't call their pets "dog" or "cat".

Annotations for Star Trek: Discovery 5x01: "Red Directive" (SPOILERS)

The Star Trek Universe bumper features Discovery jumping in with her spore drive then flying off at warp....

I threatened to steal my friends identity to legally change his name to something funny. What name would you use?

My current favorite is “Phillip Mypants”

Some thoughts on the xz backdoor

While the exact details of this vulnerability are still investigated (see hereif you want to catch up on the topic), I wanted to share some of the thoughts I had regarding to what this incident means for the wider open source ecosystem....

Anyway to downvote by default?

Is there anyway to downvote your own posts by default?

Tablet Calibration on Bazzite OS

Hey, I’m trying to calibrate my Wacom Cintiq Pro 32 on Bazzite OS, but I am running into issues. My problem is that my cursor is ~10px off from my pen tip, which makes drawing quite weird. Common sense would take you to KDE Plasma’s settings app, but the “Drawing Tablet” Input Device setting does not feature a tablet...

Proxmox cluster + media streaming stack containers?

I was thinking maybe about trying a Proxmox cluster across 6 nodes, and using containers for the Jellyfin media streaming stack here: https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/04695c03-9a93-4212-befc-15c418df8eb0.png...

Learning to back up my messages

I’ve been looking around to find a good, privacy respecting way to sync my messages between phones. I decided I’m going to use SyncThing so I don’t have to mess around with a server. The only problem with this is that I haven’t been able to find any apps that work on modern Android that routinely backup and import...

How can the Oregon government make drugs illegal again with no public comment periods or voter input at all?

Their main excuse? Police were never properly trained on how to handle possession and use cases so they now want to offer immunity for a misdemeanor if you take treatment instead. If not, you get a misdemeanor and the draconian shit starts all over again. Source

Why can I sometimes not swallow if I wamt to?

Sometimes I malfunction and wamt to swallow but I cant. After a few tries it suddenly works. I usually bug when I breath heavily through my nose.

Navidrome/Subsonic client that supports smart playlists within smart playlists

We are running Navidrome to serve up our music, and I want to use smart playlists to listen to my music on “random”, but in a way that surfaces higher rated songs more often. Doing it this way requires a smart playlist that contains other smart playlists....