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  • Darn it, won't get anything from pirate santa this year 😔.

  • Boston

    Jump
  • New York as well I believe đŸ€”.

  • I repair almost everything and just love to tinker with gadgets and tech in general... repurpose/reuse old things, make beter versions of them, etc.

    Simple example, all of my old audio equipment now has Bluetooth, an MP3 player, an aux input, a USB port (for MP3 playback) and an SD card reader (also for MP3 playback)... oh and let's not forget the FM tuner that comes bundled with those thingies 😂. Don't use it, but still, it is a nice option to have at your disposal 😉.

  • What, they don't offer binaries đŸ€š?

    Well, at least there is one thing that makes building on Void easier. xbps-src works with templates, so you could just write the template or write on GitHub for help from someone in the Void community. I've asked for help many times and people are usually very helpful â˜ș. Once you have the template, updating the VST is a matter of just chaging a few things in it (version, hash, etc.) since things like UI dependencies or libraries don't change that often in releases, those are major changes and usually come with a prior warning by the developer. Meaning, you could just make the template and just change the version numbers and hashes, recompile it and most of the time, that will be just that, bam, you're up to date â˜ș. Sure, there are major updates, but let's face it, there are very rare. And, you can share the template with others on the official void xbps-src repo or your own repo, however you like 😉. Hell, you could even share the binaries so that other people don't have to go through the trouble of compiling them manually 😉.

  • and I will not ask for the meaning of 20047 or the Englishy greenish color 😉

    It's NO in ASCII and I'm not a native English speaker... and this thing doesn't have auto correct, underline or suggestions 😒 (Jerboa).

    The correct way to share a community on Lemmy (so that apps recognize it as a Lemmy community) is with an exclamation mark, as in your last example. The search in Jerboa (as is with other apps) is broken, doesn't work like it should. Use the web UI search on your instance, you'll find the community.

  • Just use nofail in the fstab.

    Really? Didn't know about this switch, thanks for the info â˜ș.

    If your fileshare is accessible to you, it is also accessible to malware running as your user. Mounting the share via a filemanager doesn't change this.

    It does, it's not mounted on boot.

    In general, mounting a netwok lication at boot is a bad idea in any OS, unless you know exactly what you're doing (all of the rigs that mount it are on a separate network, limited internet access through specific ports, none of them have users working them like daily drivers doing whatever on them - bascially, a server cluster is the only scenario that mounting a network share on boot makes sense). Why do you think that nowadays Windows users generally avoid mounting shares as network drives, but instead access them through shortcuts. The exact same reason, except in Windows, the share is mounted on logon (as far as I know, I might be wrong and the share might be mounted at boot, just reports that the share is missing when a user logs in). It's safer if the location of the share is not known at boot, period. When the user logs in and decides to copy something to the share (unknow period of time after the login), that is a different story. Sure, well written malware will find a way to replicate itself and infect other rigs even if you don't mount the share at boot, but at least you're shielding yourself from the badly written ones.

  • I would argue that now, it's as user friendly as Reddit is. But, alas, now is too late 😔. There was a wave of instances dissappearing over night (vlemmy, fmhy, etc.), mods abusing power and... well, that crowd just felt safer with commercial media. At least their data and shared images won't drown into oblivion if an instance owner decided to just close shop đŸ€·.

  • It didn't use to be like that after the first wave, with comms such as sewing, there were some gardening subs as well... the only one that kinda took off was the woodworking sub, that's it.

    I opened a few subs myself, related to tech, but not really computer related, none of them took off, only a few posts at the beginning and that was basically it, no new posts whatsoever.

  • It has to have a mount point somewhere. Just double click the desktop entry, that will mount it wherever you told it to and then you can copy to that location, easy peasy 😉.

  • Well, for one, it's network attached storage. If it's not present in the network for one reason or another, guess what, your OS doesn't boot... or it errors during boot, depending on how the kernel was compiled and what switches your bootloader sends to the kernel during boot. Second, this is an easy way for malware to spread, especially if it's set to run after user logon.

  • If you're hunting down older eqipment (5, 6 years old), no, not really... everything just works with Linux and older stuff. The newer stuff is always the problem with any OS that is not Windows (though that is changing for the better in the last few years, especially for Linux).

  • Maybe just the basic GNU tools that come with every dostro, but other than that... yeah, that is ancient.

  • And the very same reason why everyone who isn't tech savvy left Lemmy after the first wave... sorry, but that's the cold hard truth.

  • Mounting it in fstab is a bad idea... in home even worse.

    Just make some desktop entries with the shares and that should be enough.

  • Yeah, there were a lot đŸ€”... and 2 instances dedicated to porn.

  • If he lived here, there would probably never be a SpiderMan... so... I guess it's good that he lives in the US đŸ€·?

  • ... and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes...

  • I had to work around it so that it doesn't send me to (disk? network? not sure anymore) setup again and again.

    Never happened to me. How long ago was this?

  • I thought most of the FOSS ones were like libraries, just drop them in the adequate shared directory and that's it đŸ€”. You could check dependencies with ldd and look for the adequate package with xtools.