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Eyedust

@ Eyedust @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Jack of random trades at random times that randomly catch my interest for a random amount of time.

  • Linux isn't (just) better, it's also more FUN!

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  • Ahhh, I see. There should be others that have run into the same issues you have. Don't give up! I'm sure you'll run across something that works.

    Linux is a great community to be in. I will say that before it rose in gaming popularity, there was a lot of gatekeeping, though. But in the end, 99% of Linux users are just people that go, "I KNOW this can work, and I won't stop until either I break my system or I figure out how it works."

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    LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues

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  • This is very true, but iirc Obsidian has a community plugin that solves this. Just checked and its called Relay and even has offline editing. Not sure how its set up, because I know that Obsidian sync is a paid service.

    I'd love to move off of Obsidian to a MD editor that's completely open source, but I've tried them all and nothing tickles my fancy. I just love the plugin community for Obsidian. But that's why I'm working on Neovim, because the plugin community there is HUGE.

    Curious, I checked for Neovim collaboration solutions and found this.

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    LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues

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  • Its a shame, I used to love OpenOffice and used it a lot. That was years ago. Now I use LibreOffice solely for Excel or else my resumes. Book writing I use novelWriter; notes I use Obsidian. What can I say, I love my markdown editors. I'm currently setting up Neovim to handle all my MD writing needs, though. I'm happy with my MD editors, but it gives me something to do and I like the idea of having one application handle it all.

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  • Hm, well it looks like others have been putting out some good troubleshooting tips for the controller. Linux should have kernel modules to deal with every controller and it's wireless. I know my Dualsense works wirelessly out of the box with everything because of the hid_playstation module

    Sleep and hibernation is a well known common issue. I feel like its more hardware related than software, as some people have no issue and some need to do a little tinkering to get it to work. I know my PC will hibernate but not sleep. Or vice versa. I can never remember because I don't like my PC going to sleep on principle. I haven't done any troubleshooting because I don't use it anyway. I just know there are a ton of fixes floating around on the web for you to try.

    Flickering and visual glitches is something I used to have. I used to get weird diagonal lines across my screen when certain colors would be in a certain position. There's a few things that could do this. First, if you're using an Nvidia card, be sure to use proprietary drivers on Linux install rather than Nouveau. Nouveau is getting better, but still isn't quite ready for gaming imo.

    Second, you could try another video output. I fixed my diagonal lines by switching from Display Port to HDMI. My friend suggested it and I was sure it wouldn't work, but to my surprise it did. Third, if you're using Wayland you could try to switch to X11 (or vice versa if you're using X11).

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  • Hmmm... that's strange. Afaik, Xbox controllers should be very well supported out of the box in most distros.

    Ahhhh, I see. I did a bit of reading out of curiousity. You're looking to have it work wirelessly. Hmm. I see a forum post troubleshooting the same thing recommending a package called xpadneo. There's a github page for it here and it seems to have some package maintainers in a handful of distros (you can use the manual method if your distro isn't listed).

    I checked it on the AUR, the most up to date maintained package was from last December, so the app seems fairly up to date(ish). If you want to see the forum post I was talking about its this one.

    Good luck, hope you get it working.

  • It's basically a cheat code

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  • I'm poor as all hell. Like I said, my adult teeth have always been fragile. My mother was mid-class and worked a lot of OT at the local mill. I think the dentist smooshed her into getting a gold one. I vaguely remember him saying that it was the overall longest lasting, since I was so young and I'd need it all my life. I guess in his defense I'm mid 30's now and never had a problem with it, so he could be right?

    My left front tooth (the one between my actual front tooth and canine) is actually a cap that I can't even afford to get finished. It's been on for two years now. Basically covid hit and the dental office I was in went under. Then there was a 100-person waitlist to find ANY dentist in my area and I'm still waiting... Not to mention I've been laid off...

    So yeah, I'm just as broke as most of my generation, lol.

  • It's basically a cheat code

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  • Lol yeah, something like the colossus titan, but put a large underbite on him. Wish I could see what my actual physical skull looks like. I have a gold tooth in the back, too. Would be a gnarly skull.

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  • A long time ago, around 15-16. I was frequenting the dentist and they said it would be no problem.

    I actually had to have my molars removed. Soft teeth in the family and bad childhood antibiotics have made my teeth very fragile. The dentist said my wisdom might move to my molars and they did.

    Now both my bottom molars are actually my wisdom teeth. Another cool thing, because my adult teeth have been fragile all my life, their roots have grown up to my cheekbones to compensate. My x-rays are wild. I have the longest roots my dentist has ever seen.

    Edit: Also not so cool. I had a root canal and it took 4 hours.

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  • I lucked out. I never had to have my wisdom teeth removed. I had enough room for them.

  • DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub

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  • Lol, its just my manga/anime apps. You can still find some of the repositories on github, but they moved all updates to TG. They also request users to not put the app name on any social media to avoid what happened to Tachiyomi.

    There's a large sweep going on with anime piracy atm, too. Github has been obliterating apps left and right.

  • DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub

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  • A lot of my favorite open source android apps have been switching to CodeBerg. Some of my less than legal ones have moved to Telegram, unfortunately. That aside, CodeBerg is great and hopefully it will gain even more traction soon.

    It's nice that Obtainium supports CodeBerg, too. I have a few must-have apps that I like to keep up to date straight from their repositories.

  • Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks

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  • One that's worked for Microsoft many times before (docx, for example). Its their favorite loophole.

  • Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government

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  • Xitter

    My first time seeing this and I love it. I'm going to assume its pronounced 'shitter' and you can't convince me otherwise if its not.

  • Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems

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  • I keep my ventoy drive locked and loaded.

  • Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems

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  • Geminarch

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  • Government officials, via scare tactics and fabricated statistics, are sinking hooks into lazy parents and overly-protective grandparents in a wild seize for the power to rescind your rights to freedom and privacy.

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  • I got big into pens for a bit before settling on my edc one-size-fits-most pen. During my travels, I saw that the Fisher Space pens are still highly regarded as great writers even for us grounded folk. Yeah, there's better, but for the size and build quality they're great options. I went with the Ti Arto by Big Idea Design instead. Just so I could use basically any pen cartridges (except cheap bic roller ball).

    Huh, the Arto used to be 70usd. I'd say not worth anymore. I got the black one and the paint has already chipped plus the clip is not titanium unless you buy an expensive "premium" clip.

  • Framework Laptop 12 is now available for pre-order for €569 and up (but not in the US)

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  • Yeah, I'm fucking over this clown. Every tech hobby I have is not American made, nor will it ever be, because some materials need to be imported even if they want it to be American made.

    We're on a one track train to the dark ages...

  • Which Browser Should I Use In 2025? - Hackaday

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  • I was pretty happy with Zen until updates started to bring in some bugs and lag. It takes up the most resources to start and the URL bar peeks out a majority of the time in compact mode. If you prefer new tabs and are in compact mode the side tabs don't hide and cover a large part of your bookmarks bar while on a new tab page and it feels messy.

    I went back to Floorp for a bit, but inevitably ended up back on Qutebrowser. The only downside to Qute is half the greasemonkey scripts to bypass YouTube ads don't work and the python-adblock plus Brave adblock don't block first party ads.

    You can get around the first problem by adding a shortcut to bring up weblinks that open in MPV, but I haven't found a solution to the second problem yet.

  • Mocha in full battle mode

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  • I feel that. My feral stray came to me when I was living with friends. We had a falling out and they wouldn't let me take her. It was their place, so I had no say. A couple years later I was visiting my favorite local shelter to play with the cats there and I saw her.

    I was so mad. She remembered me and it broke my heart that I could not take her with me at that time, as I had maxed out my cat allowance with my landlord. They didn't even have the decency to tell me. Their cats were not there, so I know they just threw her away and I was livid. I guess they at least had the decency to take her to the shelter...