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It's even a magnetized philips driver. The Rambler is great and actually worth it's price imho!
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1y ago
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I used to use this extension a while back, seems to have been forked and Ihaven\t tried it lately but it did it\s thing back when I used it.
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/921/multi-monitors-add-on/
nlm
1y ago
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Same! I miss being able to use it for swipe actions like I could on my note 9 a few years ago too..
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1y ago
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Oh.. now this is interesting!
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1y ago
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For me it's mainly a nice backup for when the Xbox or TV is occupied by someone else. I don't think I'd use it as my prime source of gaming. It works but it's not quite as good as the actual playing on your own hardware.
nlm
1y ago
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Saw that, isn't it strange to never have seen that from any other app then?
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1y ago
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Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Everyone seemed to hype it up as the best sci fi ever so it might just have been the hype that did it.
I thought it was a decent book but nothing really special. It just wasn't all that interesting to me. It didn't make me want to read the sequels.
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I know I've ended up more of a lurker lately. That's not due to any particular ill feelings about beehaw or lemmy at large though. I think I just entered a bit more passive, consuming phase. Maybe falling back a bit to the old reddit habits? Mostly browsing for interesting new things.
Anyway.
This is probably due to me discovering Beehaw and Lemmy at the same time, but for me they're probably a lot more connected than I'm guessing they are for you old timers.
For me it's like.. the cozy corner of Lemmy you know? My home base while venturing out to other instances' communities. I'm definitely most likely to actually post or comment around here just because I like it here (though not exclusively however).
So.. now this place will most likely go dark in a while. What then?
This won't and can't be my home base by then and that's making me feel like.. should I start looking for a new home already?
Anything I produce with this account will either go go away or at least be locked down. Nor sure what happens to the federated copies of comments and posts on other communities when an instance shuts down.
So.. I don't know. It's starting to feel a bit like this account is nearing its end of life which makes it feel a bit odd to be actively using it.
A bit like chalk on the sidewalk while watching rain clouds come rolling in.
I.. don't know what my point is really.
I guess it feels a bit like it's time to start cultivating a new account, mirror my subscriptions and start using that instead, even for posting here. I don't know.
Anyone else feel something similar?
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1y ago
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I don't really know. Too many for me to bother counting them but probably in the high hundreds. In our living room we've got four or five meters worth of book shelves that are completely filled up and the overflow has started piling up in other rooms.
So at least a bunch :)
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1y ago
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Yeah, turning off images wouldn't be too bad either. If people want to post inages you can just as easily upload them somewhere else and link them.
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1y ago
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Sorry to hear that mate! That's one of the biggest reasons I've never wanted to move towards IT forensics even though I think I'd enjoy the actual work. But having to regularly sift through the absolute worst humanity has to offer sounds awful.
Hope the immediate pain of it settles as soon as possible!
This might not be what people want but since beehaw is going to leave Lemmy anyway, couldn't you just completely defederate and run as an isolated instance? Then you'd have control of what her life gets published without having to deal with federated nastiness?
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1y ago
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Really looking forward to this.. been itching for a new playthrough for quite some time now but saving it for the traverse day.
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1y ago
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I'd rather not see Beehaw split from Lemmy but if you feel you have to then I for one wouldn't mind seeing it using a phpbb board.
Glory to the old forums! /old grumpy mode
nlm
1y ago
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Some tweaks to zsh maybe?
https://gist.github.com/emmanuelnk/d7ceba1f753b3e630f66abbffac5a6ae
nlm
1y ago
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Looks pretty nice tbh! Probably going to stick to my current phone a few more years until it stops being updated but if I manage to break it this might just be the replacement.
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1y ago
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Midnight commander is a pretty nice alternative!
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1y ago
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I've spent ages on phpBB and I do kind of miss out to be honest.
It might just be nostalgia talking though because I can't really say exactly what I'm missing about it.
Might just be the old communities that used it.
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That sounded scary at first!
You guys are doing great, all of you!
And yeah, that was a risky move, a good one in hindsight, but still has to be scary?
I wish all games would just let you save whenever you want to! Why is using checkpoints and auto saves so common? At least add a quit and save option if you want to avoid save scumming. These days I just want to be able to squeeze in some gaming whenever I can even if it's just quick sessions. That's annoyingly hard in games that won't let you save. I wonder what the reason for this is?
I've been a long time Android user and have been flashing custom roms on older phones when they end of life from their manufacturer to keep them up to date. I started thinking.. how far should we trust custom roms? There's a whole other debate how much you should trust the OEM roms as well but right now I'm focusing on custom roms. Sure, they're open source but I'm not sure exactly how many eyes there are on the source code itself for a given rom. Many of them are "just" tweaks of some bigger more basic rom too, like Lineage OS for instance, then there's usually just one guy managing his particular rom. Someone could theoretically add some nasties in there without people noticing if the code isn't vetted. Sure, you could say that that's possible in all open source projects, like Linux Distros and so on, but there we have a ton of people working on the code so there's a much higher chance of bad stuff being found. I'm not necessarily saying I don't trust Lineage OS or other roms, I was just hit by a train of thought and wanted to see what you guys think. For my part I'd give more credibility to LOS than roms based on it that are managed by just one or a few persons for instance, but still. I don't know. Was I suddenly hit by the paranoia stick or are these valid concerns? Thoughts?
Beehaw has me thinking about bees.. Sim Ant was such a nice little game when it came out (yes, I'm old) and it ought to be fun to have something similar but with bees. Does anyone know if such a game exists? I looked around a bit and found [Bee Simulator](https://store.steampowered.com/app/914750/Bee_Simulator/) on steam but that's more playing a single bee, not managing the entire hive. Might still be neat though even if it's not quite what I had in mind. Anyway, just.. wanted more bees. :)
Didn you guys do something new? Posting feels a lot quicker than it used to. Could just be my imagination but something makes it feel really snappy and nice!
Any of you running D4 in Linux through Lutris? I'm currently on openSUSE Tumbleweed with Lutris installed as a flatpak from flathub. The game runs pretty decently though I had to turn down the graphics a bit compared to what I can run in Windows. After a while tho the game starts chugging and then basically freezes almost completely. I can still hear sounds in the background but the game looks like it slows down to like one frame per minute and I can't tab out or switch over to a terminal with alt ctrl F* either. Basically my entire computer slows to a halt and I end up having to do a hard pwoer off. Anyone else having this problem?
So, who's seen it and what did you think? I went to see it the other day and, not having any particular high expectations, was rather pleasantly surprised! Sure, it's not as good as the first trilogy, but better than the crystal skull (which still was decent imho). The de-aging was very well done and it had some nice fan service. Could've toned down the action scenes a bit, they were rather long at times, but I still really enjoyed it. It was a fun movie. :)
I'm sure a lot of you have already seen this but I found it neat! I was going to create a post a bout the new Indiana Jones movie and when I entered the movie title in the post Title I got a suggestion with a thread that might be related. Pretty cool way to try and avoid duplicate threads. 
Woop! :D
Do we have any other former SETI@home users here? I'm still bummed that the project stopped and for that matter that nothing really came of their analyzation phase. Nothing seems to have happened since they moth balled it.. I wasn't the most active user by by far but I had tens of thousands of classic cpu hours and some millions od current score after close to 20 years of on and off participation. Sure, there are other projects I could join but.. there was something magical about SETI to me. For those who never heard of the project: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ You could donate spare cpu cycles to help analyze data from the Arecibo radio telescope to look for signs of artificial signals. You had it running in the background and as a screensaver if you wanted to see what you were analyzing. I'm sure most of you have heard of it or similar distributed computing projects. There are plenty to choose from using BOINC (that S@h used) over at https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ https://foldingathome.org/ is one if the most known similar ones. I just wanted to vent a bit. I'm still struck now and then by the fact that they stopped the project and I get bummed out..
For a long time I've been using Windows only on my private computer even though I might've wanted to use Windows. One big part of that is that I have it set up next to my work computer when I'm working from home so I can do private stuff on it while working. Talking to people on Signal, Matrix, browsing Beehaw and so on. My work computer is pretty locked down and snooped on. I'm allowed do to stuff like that on it but it feels iffy. Until recently I've used Mouse Without Worders to share the same mouse and keyboard between the two and it's worked like a charm. I just never got around to checking for a solution that would work cross OS until today. I've tried Logitech's solution once but couldn't get it to work due to firewalls and other stuff going on on my work computer but.. Barrier! That just worked! I set up my private computer as the server and my work computer as the client and now I'm switching betwern the two machines without a glitch! :) It did complain a bout a missing SSL cert at first but this solved that issue: >Copy the path to SSL directory which you can find in your error. "ERROR: ssl certificate doesn't exist: /home/rsvay/snap/barrier-kvm/2/.local/share/barrier/SSL/Barrier.pem " In this case : "/home/rsvay/snap/barrier-kvm/2/.local/share/barrier/SSL/" Then run the following commands: ``` cd "path to your SSL" mkdir -p Fingerprints openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -subj /CN=barrier -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout Barrier.pem -out Barrier.pem openssl x509 -fingerprint -sha256 -noout -in Barrier.pem > Fingerprints/Local.txt sed -e "s/.*=/v2:sha256:/" -i Fingerprints/Local.txt ``` https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67343804/error-ssl-certificate-doesnt-exist-home-rsvay-snap-barrier-kvm-2-local-shar
I'm currently on Win11 but I'm getting that familiar Linux itch and want to dual boot a while again. I tend to gravitate towards Ubuntu simply because it's so big and well supported by most things. I've run Arch in the past but I've gotten too old and lazy for that if I'd be completely honest. I have played with manjaro and endeavour though.. and opensuse tumbleweed, rolling is kind of nice. Not sure what I'd try out first this time so I figured I'd get some inspiration from you guys!
Where do you guys host images instead of uploading them here? Imgur or something else? Bonus points for them to be able to strip exif data and generate anonymous links. Preferably not something big corpo-like. I realize that housing tons of images gets prizyb though.. Is pixelfed an option perhaps?
How come only the support community has a banner? This one:  Shouldn't it be on each community? :) Since we have one after all!
I'm a huge fan of Peter F. Hamilton myself (original username NorthernLightMountain after all) and figured there ought to be more of us around here! My absolute favorite world of his is the commonwealth universe and really want him to get back to something on that scale again. I've read both the Salvation and Arkship trilogies after that and even though they're both good I want brick sized epic space opera again! Might just have to go back an revisit his books again. I did see that he co-authored a book semi recently that managed to fly under my radar; Light Chaser (written with Gareth L. Powell). Has anyone read it? No spoilers please :)
Now that we're no longer linked to lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works we can't subscribe to their communities any more. How affected were your subscriptions? How many of your subs stopped working? My subs were mostly beehaw and lemmy.world so I'm looking for new stuff. :) Do you have some tips for interesteing communities on other instances?
I mostly bounce between local and subscribed myself with a dash of all now and then to see if there's anything new and interesting out there. Need to fill up my dub list a bit after all!
Something just struck me today when scrolling Lemmy, something that sticks out thanks to the federated aspects. I've subscribed to a bunch of communities that looked interesting, both here on Beehaw and on other instances. They're mostly (but not only) tech and gaming related since I'm a big geek after all. I tend to have ny fees listing my subscribed communities but since Beehaw's whole setup resonates with me I tend to switch over to all local communities as well to see what's going on. Here's the near part, I get to keep up to date with communities I normally might not follow. Take LGBTQ+ for instance. Can't say I'm particularly well versed as to what goes on in you guys' lives. Not from any negative feelings mind you, it just doesn't usually end up in my subscription lists. It's kind of neat, especially with the friendly good natured spirit around here it's nice to dip your toes in new areas you know? It was an unexpected upside of it all for me and makes ones chosen Lemmy instance feel more like home. It's like, my own corner (subbed) in my home (instance) in the bigger city (all). Here's to keeping this place nice and cozy! We might not be as big as reddit and we might never be but I'm not sure that's really needed either as long as we're enough people to have an active and friendly area going. Cheers guys! 🍻
I tried signing up as NorthernLightMountain but couldn't since there seems to be a limit on user name length at 20 characters. (There's a bug for that btw, you won't get an error message if the user name is too long, it just won't submit the form and stalls) Display names seems to share that limit. Wouldn't mind seeing it raised a bit if possible? No biggie if not, just hoping I could look like I had imagined :)