When is the best time to book a flight in advance?
rule of thumb would be the sooner the cheaper, but how many weeks or months in advance?...
What thing do you love that you can never get anyone else to check out?
Kind of a hard question to word, but is there anything in your life you have recommended to other people but no one’s ever gotten into?...
How to download content in FILMIN?
I noticed yesterday that now I only get a black screen when I try to screen record or screenshot the content on the service and would like to understand how I can go around this or get another way of getting the content. It’s a bummer because FILMIN has a lot of content that I’m interested in but I don’t find the movies...
Can you make Pop!_OS disk encryption use TPM?
[Question] How to correctly cleanup unknown filedescriptors received over unix socket
The context I came upon this question is dbus filedescriptor passing but the question is valid more broadly. Assume you are implementing some service that is supposed to receive some kind of filedescriptor for client processes. You get a message that is in some kind or another malformed but you have already received the...
Anyone switched to Debian?
Debian has less complexityand is very stable. It has a nice wiki and a Debian system can run for a few years on unattended upgrades....
Why do some languages use gendered nouns?
Why do some languages use gendered nouns? It seems to just add more complexity for no benefit.
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Cloud storage solution?
Hey Lemmy, what do you recommend for cloud backup? OneDrive is now locking me out due to apparently breaking their terms of service, so it’s just the push I need to find something else....
[solved] Install MicroG on rooted Galaxy S20+
If anyone could point me to some information or guide about this I’d really appreciate that....
Installing Steam from BOTH package and Flathub? Any gotchas?
As the title says, I am looking to install both the package version (on OpenSuse Tumbleweed) and Flatpak version. I’ve been running the package version for awhile and it’s been fine but I want to play with the Flatpak version to see how that compares - partially because I may eventually go for an immutable distro....
How to choose your first distro - A guide for beginners (flowchart + text post)
So, you’re new to Linux? Welcome to our community!...
What's an IT profession that is realistically possible to self-study for and become proficient enough in to get employed within a year?
By employed I mean get a job in the industry either offline or online. Ideally something that would highly likely remain in-demand in the near future.
People using 'less' when they should be using 'fewer'
EDIT: you guys have dug up some truly horrible pisstakes :D Thank you for those....
Using an nVidia Tesla p40 for rendering on Linux
I’ve seen it covered widely for Windows, but I don’t know if people have gotten it working on Linux....
Can someone recommend a good pdf reader?
I’m currently using readera but it’s not that good (text scaling is behind a paywall)...
What's your favorite song?
Least political linux distribution?
Developers do not share their views, ideas or statements in any way. Simple pure development.
Faster backup solution?
I use Beyond Compare to sync files from my laptop to my NAS which is a QNAP (my laptop is Linux Mint). It is incredibly slow, to the point that it is driving me crazy. Admittedly, I have lots of large files on my laptop that I move around frequently, so that may just be how it is. I do have my laptop setup to sync to my phone...
Self hosted NAS + Lightweight Game Streaming Solution?
I have an aging gaming desktop with a GTX 970 that I’ve previously used to let friends/family stream games. My area has a lot of fiber so it’s surprisingly usable, even got VR working. Problem is, I’d prefer to use it as a NAS most the time as it has plenty of drive bays and I need somewhere better to run jellyfin than my...
What did you see?: February 2024
Seen any good films lately? Then let us know.
All of the 90s cats are dead.
Cats can live for 20+ years. Maybe there are a few left that were born in the 90s and are just chilling.
What does "araffe" mean?
I see the word “araffe” pop up a lot when it comes to AI image generation or AI generated image descriptions. What is the context, where does it come from?
A Star Trek community where you're free to share opinions
Star_Trek is a safe harbour for Star Trek fans that may have found themselves on the receiving end of the ban hammer for daring to have an opinion that differed from the power mad mods on Reddit’s Star Trek sub and/or Lemmy’s own StarTrek.website....