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

Usernames in the Fedivers 😫

Why can you never change your username in Mastodon, Lemmy or Peertube? Is it a condition introduced by ActivityPub or a forgotten feature?

how do I enable wlan as root from initramfs?

upgrading xubuntu 23.10 to 24.04....

What is the most unhinged conspiracy theory?

Never perfect, but good for now

https://discuss.online/pictrs/image/42adc9d9-9ec7-44db-ac6d-6a689e48964f.png...

Nothing is stopping a single individual from controlling 100 accounts on Lemmy to upvote and downvote whatever they want

Recommendations for a battery tester? I'm open to other devices that aren't limited to testing batteries

I’m slowly switching to rechargeable ones (Ikea Ladda ones), but we still have lots of other batteries around....

Tbh I am a messy person, I trained myself to be organized but I still struggle to not lose my keys and I want something like the apple tag but FOSS, I’ve thought of an ESP32 or ATTINY with a bluetooth module but I don’t think apple uses that? It has to be durable and friendly with LineageOS, samsung stock and my dad lol.

Rat medicine is much more advance than humans.

Replacement Backup Cameras

I recently got a 2017 Honda CRV and I noticed the backup camera wasn’t the best quality. Are there any replacements that have a higher resolution?

Anyone has successfully ran XDefiant?

Just curious. Also, anyone playing BR or esports TPS?

Does this error exit status 127 (libfreerdp2-2) happen because my system (xubuntu 23.10) is not writable?

broken upgrade to xubuntu 24.04 from xubuntu 23.10, can access initramfs as root in recovery mode:...

What is your country's "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear"?

What do I need to trouble shoot second hand desktop computer? And how?

[Resolved!]...

Suggestions for Linux Distribution

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16072674...

My GPU fans on the “Auto” setting

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Got a clear day on Pike’s Peak today.

14,115 feet skyward. Also some tourists puked from the altitude. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/61d8a3a7-5f3c-48c0-89c9-e1e1dba81add.jpeg

Back in the 1970s when we switched to unleaded gas, what did the vehicles that ran on leaded gas do?

Did they have to track down leaded gas? Did they just use unleaded? Did they suffer engine knock?

What free2play game are you currently hooked on?

I know older titles are usually the topic in this community but a lot of the popular f2p games are getting pretty old now too, and if you’re like me you’ve been curious about some of them and even pleasantly surprised now and again....

Do all DEs store the trash in the same place?

On Cinnamon and LxQt, the trash is in ~/.local/share/Trash. Is it the same for all desktop environments?

A new AMD vs Nvidia decision?

cross-posted from: lemmy.nowsci.com/post/7576006...

What is your country's "coals to Newcastle"?

I was talking with a friend who mentioned “taking tea to India”. It made me wonder what the equivalents are around the world. “Taking coals to Newcastle” is the UK’s.