Parental Advice
What is a good piece of advice from your parents or that you’ve learned that others may not know or that you wish you were told as a child/teen?
Glad you found some good deals online. Do you do credit card churning at all?
Migrating Account
Is it possible to migrate my account or should I just link it in the new one? I’m worried about the .zip in lemmy.zip and would like to bite the bullet and change over to another instance.
Question: Creating Community in App
Is it possible to do this? From my understanding, it’s not mentioned in the README or any way to create a community in the app.
Old MC Nostalgia
I have some more classic playlists as well:
https://inv.tux.pizza/playlist?list=PLYv-Qn8ktG3XW4dO4pkCpQyywiJwj5MN6 (Yogscast)
https://inv.tux.pizza/playlist?list=PL76FE625737BE2A4C (Uberhaxornova)
Loglevel was at 7 before changing, systemd-analyze also seems to have an error with counting firmware on startup which seems to be the case with others as well. Aside from changing to a static address, I disabled a service that was waiting for eth0 which did not exist.
Changing to quiet and loglevel 3 seemed to decrease boot time slightly.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Improving_performance/Boot_process
No problem, it’s an awesome repository with a lot of uses and some old games even have a play in browser feature.
Have you tried archive.org?
If by normal people you mean the general public, my guess is just Tiktok and social media.
I didn’t think about military surplus stores. There seems to be some items that people really enjoy, like the army poncho liners or old ammo canisters for containers.
I’ve been looking for a genuine army poncho liner but can only find knock offs online and cant find a reputable surplus store online if it exists
Yes, they got rid of the lifetime warranty and I personally haven’t worn them, but people tell me their old ones work well and have a similar opinion as yours.
I got an airpod cleaning multi tool from Amazon and it actually works really well.
Also if you have the Sony xm1004, they have little foam bits in them and over the years they get soaked up with sweat and earwax, it’s really gross. So if you think your sound is super quiet and have earbuds with foam inserts, first use some tweezers and something to gently squeeze out the foam and clean with isopropyl alcohol.
Tools of the Trade
What are some lesser known items or tricks in your profession that most people don’t know about?
For me one thing would be Thrift drain cleaner. I was having issues with my drains being clogged and nothing really worked, but looking around on forums and advice from plumbers lead me to Thrift and now my drains work great.
Good “Buy for Life” Brands
Some that come to mind are:
Benchmade - knives Darn Tough - socks Carhartt - good work gear Doc martens - footwear
What are some good reputable brands that you have had for 5 years + with little to no issues or with a lifetime warranty.
I think the only reasonable way to do that would be using AI since the sponsors are placed randomly throughout usually. Unless you listen to a specific podcast and they do same length of sponsor in same time slot every video you could automate something that cuts it out.
Fair enough, I most likely broke the system due to not understanding it when using Endeavour. From my understanding now, someone can choose to not install de specific programs and additional endeavouros apps.
I’m sure there would be a way to create a script that puts the commands that you’d like in for a given url. Also haven’t used yt-dlp, it’s nice that they have sponsorblock built in.
I don’t have much experience with Plex, but if you can map the buttons in autohotkey you may be able to set it up to perform certain tasks in Plex. Also for consideration you should look into getting a small NAS setup with raid 5 in order to keep your media safe in case of a drive failure.
Being offline should not be a problem as long as devices are on the same local network.
I appreciate the big response, and definitely have to look into compiling and the build process, using git, more terminal centric applications, etc. I’ve seen that there is a distro to learn Linux that comes in stages, I don’t know what it’s called off the top of my head.
Setting flags does seem very annoying, it’s hard for me to keep track of programs and settings already.
I forgot to mention Fedora Silverblue. I’ve used it after Micro os and it was a better experience. Fedora seems to have a better out of box experience and had no issues.
I understand now, maybe give Debian a try with KDE.
Edit: or Fedora/Opensuse and their immutable versions (I believe the kde ones are in beta for immutable but work great if all you need is flatpaks)
I have heard of Gentoo, but not Funtoo. I’m still fumbling my way through Arch but I will definitely make some VMs one day to see what it’s all about. From my understanding (correct me if I’m wrong please) Gentoo is like Arch but even more customization, everything has to be compiled from source.
What is your experience with Gentoo, how would you describe it compared to Arch? Also I’ve seen FreeBSD as well and think it would be super nice for a server but not able to play games without difficulty due to fundamental differences to linux.
I love xfce, I’ve tried some WM like AwesomeWM and I see the appeal for sure, it just takes a while to get used to, like VIM, which I want to mess with as well. Asahi Linux looks super good, but I honestly don’t dislike macOS that much.
My Linux Journey
Hello everyone, I’ve been using linux on my main system for the past few years and am very happy with the results. From repurposing old family laptops to give them new life, to being able to play triple A games with little to no issues, Linux has turned into my OS of choice.
Through all of the ups and downs, learning about the different distros and desktop environments/ window managers has taught me a lot about what each distro is aiming for and how they want to achieve it.
The purpose of this post is to mainly help encourage others to make the switch. Regardless of use case, I believe that it can be done better with Linux. Don’t be discouraged by the overwhelming amount of distros out there, I can say that I have spend the first year taking Linux more seriously messing with different distros and seeing what works well.
This is a list of distros that I’ve used in chronological order and my thoughts on it:
- Ubuntu - Used as email and web machine for family members on old computers, worked fine
- Linux Mint - Looks more like Windows, seems faster than Ubuntu
- Pop OS - Used for their easy install option for my Nvidia dual gpu laptop which was a pain on anything else, worked okay
- Manjaro - Was a bit more difficult to get used to, ended up feeling buggier than Linux Mint
- Endeavouros - Slightly better than Manjaro, still had random bugs and wiki was not very helpful
- Garuda OS - Similar to last two, just reskinned
- Opensuse TW - First distro that I truly enjoy, more up to date and easy to manage
- Opensuse MicroOs - Wanted to see what the immutable distro thing was about, works fine but gets hairy if you want to install non flatpaks or give flatpaks access to system files. I definitely see the use case, just not suited for what I’m doing
- Debian - Similar to first 3 without extra customization of distro, not as up to date in some areas but the tradeoff is a much more stable less bloated environment. In my opinion its the best for a system that you want to work every time with little to no issues as long as you don’t mind missing cutting edge feature
- Arch(btw) - My current distro. Spent a whole weekend trying to install it wondering if it was worth all the time. After installation, system works great on AMD hardware and is set up for dual gpu passthrough to play nearly any game with no issues. The wiki is amazing and has helped me solve any issues that I’ve come across.
To conclude, Linux is difficult at first, but after learning more about how things interact and understanding more of what’s happening, the result is extremely stable with so much to learn and discover. I also reccomend taking the dive into more terminal based applications when possible, they have been more efficient and less buggy in my experience, although I understand not wanting to live in the terminal. In the end, it’s your system and you can customize it however you need, take the time and find out what works best for you and you will be very happy with the results.
Simulator Game Burnout
Hello everyone, I’ve seen a lot of my friends play these types of games (mainly rimworld) and saw the complexity of this game and decided to pick it up. While it is very interesting, it’s also very daunting to me.
My guess is that I’m more used to rpg and fps games with a set goal of some sort whereas this game is very open ended with what to do. I am overwhelmed by all of the options in the game and I am wondering if there are others that feel the same. If so, how have you overcome this feeling or learned to enjoy the game?
An idea I have is to just go with the in game tutorials and see what happens without worrying about the outcome, maybe I’m caught up with doing everything optimally when I should just enjoy the experience.
Any ideas are appreciated, thanks!
Favorite Builds
Hello everyone, this is my first post and I'm excited to be a part of this site. My question to you all is, what is your favorite class to play, and if you want to get in detail, what armor, weapons, attachments, etc. you like to use.
My personal favorite right now is engineer because I feel that it is underutilized, I've been looking for a good rifle that is decent against both players and enemy light armor. The weapon that I've found for this is the AUG. While not very strong against personnel and has strong recoil, I do enjoy the versatility of it.
I run a tactical barrel, acog sight with red dot on top, medium armor, and gunfighter grip with the repair tool, rpg heat explosive, and anti vehicle grenades
UPDATE: Changed out acog for strikefire scope, runs alot better and recoil is no issue.