quid_pro_joe @ quid_pro_joe @infosec.pub

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Some people take every word spoken literally - do not "slur yourself" in front of them. When you're with friends and family who "get" you, drop all the f-bomblettes you want 🗣️🪵

Slrpnk.net was my first Lemmy server! I had absolutely NO IDEA how it worked, but I was motivated by my recent departure from Facebook and Twitter.

When they went down, it kinda felt like when you go to a party with someone and it's all their friends, and then your date vanishes into thin air, and your choices are leaving the party or making awkward convo with a rodent of unusually large size by the punchbowl...

Most industrial embedded PCs I've serviced ran on Windows XP Pro but you'd never see it (under the machine control software that autoruns on boot) unless things had gone pear-shaped. It was kinda trippy how at the time you could find that OS running on everything from grandpa's old Gateway 2000 all the way up to $100K+ industrial CNC machines and million-dollar medical imaging equipment.

Same happened to the relationshipsadvice and aita subreddits, the number of posts suddenly skyrocketed with incredibly long, overly-detailed stories that smacked of LLM-generated content.

Look, normally eye don't object to ob-seen images, but it's damaging my vision...

I'm new to Linux too and testing both X11 and Wayland at home. so far I like Wayland in theory (it's the future!) but prefer X11 in practice (no weird graphical issues).

It is indeed exhausting! Warm regards, Joe(s)

You're correct! And its done such a good job that it's allowed me to forget (unintentionally) that issue even exists!

I used newpipe for a long time, currently using a fork called pipepipe. I forgot why I switched lol

https://pipepipe.dev/

Fedora 40 based distro, some apps have rendering issues when desktop DPI to is set to 125% or 150% (but work fine at 100% or 200%). I thought it was a Gnome issue but it's actually a Wayland issue displaying legacy X11 apps with fractional scaling.

So my workaround for now is to just find apps with native Wayland support, which isn't too difficult as it's growing in popularity.

Speaking of color temp, I shift my local environment's hue with blues in the morning to assist with alertness, and reds at night for improved low-light vision. I do it manually with an IR remote I have conveniently velcro-taped to the wall next to the light switch. I am interested in your automated setup, I could see it being useful for tying the lights to the security cameras (motion is detected, triggers main lights to full brightness, play doberman_barking.mp3).

VW sold the e-Golf in the US between 2015 and 2019, which was available with physical key and no-frills interior - some base models even sported an analog instrument cluster!

I recently switched to Linux after a lifetime with Windows. Last night I went to install a backup program on my media server but it couldn't see the destination drive. I downloaded a partition manager and it crashed trying to load the external drive. DDG'd the issue, but I couldn't find a clear cause/effect that applied to me. So I downloaded a different partition manager and backup program, and they worked right out of the box. Turns out the non-working apps were written for Gnome and the working apps were written for KDE, (which is my desktop environment). It was a very frustrating half hour, but it pales in comparison to the time I've spent troubleshooting (storage) driver issues in Windows. The point I'm making is, Linux isn't really that hard to learn, it's just unfamiliar and therefore scary. Getting past your fear unlocks a whole new world of wonder and possibilities! 🐧

Psst the URL is: https://alternativeto.net/ I always stop here first to research what software options there are available and also learning what other people are using. Extremely useful and trustworthy site!

If you ever figure it out I'd love to know, too. I relied entirely on Libre Office as an undergrad but missed this feature of MS Word. I currently use a combination of Scribbr and Purdue Owl but would prefer an offline and open source solution.

I do, and have used them in the past. However I've had issues with the profiles getting corrupted. Could be user error ;) Installing Waterfox was easier than trying to sort out my profiles.ini and so as you know, nothing is more permanent than a temporary fix :D

I didn't see Waterfox mentioned in the article or comments, so I'm giving it a shout out now. Firefox is still my #1 browser, which I have synced to all my critical accounts, and use very cautiously, only using a few trustwothy extensions. However, when I want to explore unfamiliar domains or experiment with lesser-known browser extensions, I've relied on the equally dependable Waterfox browser. It's fast, free, and 99% the same as Firefox except it's a completely different app so you can basically have 2 Firefoxes set up and customized for completely different roles. Between the two, I can keep Chrome frozen on my phone and off my desktop (although I have a portable Chromium on USB for emergencies).

There is a alpha client and instructions available here: https://smartdigihere.com/jellyfin-on-samsung-smart-tv/

However as stated further down the article, it's easier to just use a web browser and access your jellyfin server that way. Login, bookmark the URL (don't forget to include the port) and then hit full screen.

Note: You may need to tweak (server side) your transcoding and subtitle settings.