I use Gpoddersync to keep my phone and tablet in sync, but I have one podcast that keeps glitching out and redownloading over and over. Not sure why.

Thanks! I’ll give it a try tonight!

I’ve been fighting with it since 5.5. I was able to play in Fedora 42 using Proton Experimental this morning, but it’s been super hit and miss for me.

I did an entire math course on my BigMe Inknote Plus. It cost too much, but came with a good pen and worked really well for math.

I got an N100 SZBox for cheap a few years ago(?) That has a big USB HDD drive plugged into it. Handles 1080p in house just fine, and I think the bloody hard drive eats more power than it does!

That article had 891 “partners”. Holy hell.

I have a nice Juniper. It’s an old cast-off, but no issues.

I tried it in Lutris and in a VM, neither worked. I never tried it just in Wine. Hmm… Well, I have two weeks left of school, so I don’t know if it’s worth trying anymore.

If you plan on dual booting, remember to disable fast startup on the windows side, or you won’t be able to access the windows partition(s) as read/write in Linux. I have to dual boot for school, (God damn you, Lockdown Browser!) But as soon as I’m done, I’m dropping MS like the hot steaming pile it is.

Also, if you use a really easy to remember password… I like P@ssw0rd! Easy to remember, and nobody will ever guess it because, get this… The ‘o’ is actually a zero!

When it wouldn’t charge, I assumed I had a defective unit, so I emailed them and got no response. Posted on the kickstarter page, nothing. Straight onto the “I’m never using this but can’t bring myself to chuck it” shelf.

Be careful with disk destroyer!

So, I thought I bought this… It’s a kickstarter called the OKpad. Word of warning: it is not OK.Run screaming! The e-ink bit? No backlight, no rotation, no keyboard. The LCD bit? Meh. Takes a day and a half to charge, runs out in three or four hours. Runs out while plugged in! Four releases back on Android. So, yeah, OKpad sucks.

I pretty much agree with all of this… I have a Mint XFCE installed on a thumb drive. (Not an installER , installED.) I can boot it on basically any computer that still supports Legacy, and I’ve done so on a Dell Venue Pro tablet (Atom CPU, 2Gb Ram). Had a bastard of a time getting it to boot, but it ran better than the on board Windows 8.1. This was post-Covid. Of all the systems I’ve run it on, one didn’t have WiFi, and one had a bunch of messing around to get the audio to switch between speakers and headphones reliably. But keep in mind, this is the exact same copy of the OS, across a half dozen systems. I’ve also upgraded it over five years or so…

Canadian here. You guys don’t have UFOs? How do you make the crop circles? Next thing you know, you’ll tell me you don’t have smarties or thumblewhups, either.

I’m a month away from my IT diploma. Even the teachers are feeding us AI slop at this point.

They gave up trying to get the students to stop at the end of first year. Protip: don’t hire a new IT grad, they don’t know anything chatGPT doesn’t know.

If you try to ping 8.8.8.8 and it works, then try to ping google.com. if that doesn’t work, it’s your DNS resolver. I’m not an arch user, but on a lot of Linuxes, there’s a nameserver setting somewhere that has come unset. Try to set it to the IP address of your home router, that may fix it. P.S. The guy who posted the “It’s always DNS” shirt is right. I am buying that shirt.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cd407ae9-2199-4fc7-8a79-0c634d04510d.jpeg

This seems apt.

So, bad things happen, absolutely. Sometimes, they go in a run. I’ve had some epically shitty times in my life, and it just seems like they pile on. But… Things also change. I had an absolute nightmare job for 19 years. My Dad died. I got sick. I got laid off. I went back to school. It sucked, so bad! But then, I got an internship. It was awesome! I made friends. The reduced stress let me kick my illness. Now, I’m almost done school, and I have a really good chance of getting full time work at that internship. We’ll see. The point is, things go in cycles. It’s so cliche, but it’s true that it’s always darkest before dawn. Hang in, find your joy. It’ll change.

I’ve run yacy and searxng, and I find yacy flaky. I get really random search results, often not useful at all. I like Searxng though, although once in a while I have to hit refresh to get my result. Probably a simple fix, I’ve just never bothered to go down the rabbit hole.

I tried to start with OpenStack. Oof. Yup. Proxmox.

There are a lot of good guides. I run almost everything on proxmox these days, even virtualized my Windows, and (after a lot of messing around) got my GPU passed through for when I game.