What item have you been using on a daily basis for the longest amount of time?
Sometimes I will use something and realize I’ve owned it forever. It’s a nice change in our throwaway reality. I think my personal record is a bicycle multi-tool I got for one of my first bikes, ~25 years ago. Still have it, still use it. When it comes to electronic devices I have a Panasonic mini Hi-Fi from ~2005. Never...
How does Anthropic compare to OpenAI?
ChatGPT is down, the new CEO is threatening to quit, and the majority of employees are doing the same… so I decided to look up some alternatives...
iPhone 15 (non pro) Screen burn in on first day
My brand new iPhone 15 appears to have a burn in issue with the status bar where it leaves behind a dark faded version of the icons there. (I just updated from IOS 17.0.2) is this normal?
Window snapping
Hey guys, I’ve been running Mint on my home computer for a little while now and I’m having a great time, however there’s one behaviour from Windows I’m missing. When you hit win + arrows to snap the currently focussed window to the left or right half of the screen, windows will present a dialogue to select a companion...
so this might be a little embarrassing, but how do I create a torrent and upload to a tracker?
I’ve been seeding the torrents that I download since the old days of Limewire, but I’ve always download and re-shared by seeding....
Another advantage of pirating
Supporting small creators that contribute to the creative commons, or free software developers using the money saved! This is like, protesting proprietary stuff, while using the saved resources to support creators that respect our right to reuse/remix instead. I hope that makes sense lol
Curious, can one DRM bought books from the Books app on a Mac M1?
Title. Just curious, before I buy a book, as certain books available only internationally on Amazon are apparently purchasable without needing to change location, so curious if I can DeDRM later.
Handwritten note taking app
I have a Lenovo Tab P12 Pro with active pen and I’m looking for an handwritten note taking app with palm rejection, any suggestion?
Clairvoyance is illegal here
Recent Research Papers Piracy
I’m looking for recently published research papers. I’m wondering what are the methods of obtaining recently published research papers apart from methods described in the megathread ?
What are some good computer literacy resources I can point someone to?
At my work, I have an employee that struggles with several aspects of the office work parts of the job. She’s got almost no basic computer literacy, and only recently was able to create new folders consistently. She also can’t really use Excel at all....
How much do I actually lose with a cutsom ROM?
I have a Pixel 7, stock Android 14. It is my only phone and I love the stock system. But I am trying to gradually ditch Google and its services, for reasons well-known in this community and Lemmy in general. How much would I gain/lose using a custom ROM with/without GApps?...
Help, boot doesn't work anymore
I have a laptop eith sata and a nvme drive. I installed a few operating systems and I decided on Mint for Sata. Installed it copied data from Nvme drive since I was using it as primary. I installed Nobara on nvme and it worked flawless until a few moments ago. Reboted and Mint is gone from boot options. Tried to add it but...
What are the best asymmetric encryption algorithms for encrypting files?
I am trying to encrypt a sensitive file and AGE won’t cut it.
would it be illegal to download Ubuntu on a Chromebook?
what if I, for example, had a job in Google and I liked Linux so much I install Ubuntu on my Chromebook, would that be illegal/send me to prison?? Or, if I had the job, would I be kicked?? I like Chromebooks because they are so smol and nice. But I don’t know if it’s legal to install a Linux distro on it. Thank you!!
EndeavourOS encrypted partition
I installed endeavourOS 2 days ago and then, the next day, there was a newnrelease of endeavourOS. It’s supposed to have better encryption. Is it possible to upgrade encryption on Linux? An unrelated question: is it possible to change the password of an encrypted partition? I’m a beginner, so please explain your magical...
How do I get rid of excessive password prompts, with the least amount of lost security?
I understand they are important and are what makes linux relatively secure compared to windows....
Site availability monitoring services
Hello fellow pirates!...
Do you think AI is more likely to end Humanity or to end Capitalism?
I feel as of CEOs worried about the dangers of AI are equating the end of Capitalism with the end of the world, what are your thoughts?
The lack of "real world complaints" and "anger" in popular music genres helps keep the masses docile
Been thinking a bit about this, popular music (the ones that hit top 100 charts or whatever) never has lyrics that point out real problems or point to culprits and how they’re fucking our shit, which is very easy to find in punk rock and some variations, as well as rap....
Did Amazon change their theme colors or did I unknowingly change them myself?
The top bar is an ugly shade of teal and swamp green for a week or so.
When Reddit was first becoming popular, were it's communities and content basically just clones of other websites like Digg?
I saw this comment on c/whitepeopletwitter, and it made me wonder if Reddit was like Lemmy in its early days as well? A lot of the communities here are more or less just Reddit but with (sometimes) different rules and mod teams. Most of the memes here are just yoinked off of Reddit (which to be fair, really is just how the...
Has anyone else noticed smartphones have got significantly more addictive recently
I’ve noticed YouTube specifically has become more addictive, I never used to be one to sit and scroll for long durations before but I often catch myself spending way too long on shorts now...