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should I completely jumpship to linux when windows 10 ends support/am ready or dualboot ltsc and linux
  • I tried dual-booting Win10 and Arch for a few months. It was problematic.

    I had to set the clock every time I switched because one expected the hardware clock to use UTC time and the other expected local time.

    NTFS on Linux is not good. The driver works, but there are fundamental differences between NTFS and Unix-like filesystems that makes cooperation difficult (e.g. NTFS uses ACLs instead of the user/group ownership and user/group/others permissions of Unix). Windows also places additional restrictions on the filesystem (e.g. NTFS supports file names that contain :, Windows doesn't) that can completely bork the volume if violated.

    But the worst offender, and what made me nuke Windows entirely, is Windows Update. It completely fucked up the boot partition, deleted the bootloader, then died and left Windows unusable.

    These are all issues that can be solved, if you know how to solve them. My advice is to go cold turkey and delete Windows from your life.

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  • "Oh, it's not from electrocution. If you fuck with the tram, the driver will get out and break your spine in half."

    I've met some tram drivers who would absolutely chase down and beat the piss out of some pedestrians who don't understand that the rail infrastructure is the rail vehicle's domain, if given the chance.

  • The Scrombler: breaking up large tiled textures

    This is a simple shader node group that breaks up the visual repetition of tiled textures. It uses a Voronoi texture's cell colors to apply a random translation and/or rotation to an image texture's vector input to produce an irregular pattern.

    I primarily made it for landscape materials. The cells' borders are still sharp, so certain materials, like bricks, wood, or fabric, will not look good.

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    Personally I prefer NASA's pronunciation, which is "charon".

    Explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)#Name

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    Youtube's web UX team is a joke.
    • see cool video on front page
    • click
    • "Haha, fuck you, you've just clicked on the invisible button that takes up half the thumbnail like a fucking moron!"
    • redirected to the sponsorship info page
    • go back
    • video gone

    why are you completely incapable of making a functional website you wet dildo

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    Not all construction jobs are equally engaging.

    For example, drilling or enlarging a hole can be boring, but fixing two pieces of metal together is often riveting.

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    I tried sudo for Windows and was left thoroughly blue-balled.

    It's a poor imitation. A mockery of the name. A GUI addict's idea of a CLI tool.

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    Trolley Memes @lemmy.ml rtxn @lemmy.world
    There was always a choice

    Not entirely accurate, the person on the side track should be a pile of money, but I'm too lazy to change it now. Also, imagine, like, flames coming from the bottom-right corner.

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    How do you manage your headphone cables?

    I recently switched from wireless to wired headphones (Samson SR-850, probably the best for the very reasonable price) and my chair's wheels instantly started eating its cable. Right now I'm using a small plastic hook that came with a face mask to keep it off the floor, but I'd like to hear other solutions.

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    Important addition

    Some things are just universally true.

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    Small audio output switcher script
    pastebin.com select_audio_sink.py - Pastebin.com

    Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

    I use this in Hyprland to quickly switch between the headphone jack and a USB wireless dongle. Executing the script will show a dialog that lists all available audio sinks, with the active sink selected. It requires pulseaudio or pipewire-pulse for the pactl program, and kdialog for the dialog.

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    Unixporn @lemmy.ml rtxn @lemmy.world
    [eww] The physiognomy of window managers.

    I think Starfield's main menu is neat. So I made it into a desktop widget. Files (including the stylized logo) here, wallpaper here.

    I used the Chakra Petch font (AUR: ttf-chakra-petch) for the menu buttons, and Liberation Sans (with some editing in Inkscape) for the logo.

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    "Shame on you!" - DT, 2023

    I'm not trying to attack him, but this is pretty funny.

    Context: 11 days ago DT released a video where he called out the people who refer to Linux distributions as "Linux" as opposed to "GNU/Linux". Today he released a video where he did exactly that.

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    We don't talk about #3671.

    Only the OGs will remember when Steam would sometimes rm -rf /* your system. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671

    Template without text: https://img.ifunny.co/images/e31929a1a7bafa7e351e7b7cfaec531d12295fb3643ad444d75f2e979ccd657f_1.jpg

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    What happens to images that are uploaded, but never used?

    I recently discovered that you can paste image data from your clipboard to a post or comment field, and it will upload the data and generate an embed link. I assume, since the clipboard is ephemeral, that the data is uploaded and stored on the server immediately.

    What happens then if the embed link is removed and never used, but the file isn't deleted by the user? Does it just sit around in storage, collecting dust and taking up space, or is there some sort of garbage collection that detects unused files? What happens to embedded files if the post/comment where it is embedded gets deleted?

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    Unixporn @lemmy.ml rtxn @lemmy.world
    [Qtile] I spent way too much time on this.

    !

    It might not look like anything special, but I spent an embarrassing number of hours on this rice, mostly on the non-graphical user interactions. The layout is a custom master-stack implementation, the groupbox widget is an almost complete reimplementation to support a more flexible styling on multihead systems, the Nvidia GPU monitor widget is completely my own, there are popups and context menus out the ass, and there is a persistence module that saves dynamic data (like layouts and group names) between sessions.

    Tomorrow I'm moving to Wayland and I might not have the patience to get Qtile running again.

    edit: Wallpaper sauce https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/89596288

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    Advice needed for partitioning a desktop PC

    I originally meant to ask if having /home on a different partition or separate physical device was still warranted, but my ignorance in this matter slowly became apparent.

    This is my current setup:

    • sda is a 240G SATA SSD that only contains the ESP and the root partition.
    • sdb is a 1T SATA SSD entirely dedicated to games and virtual machines.
    • sdc is a 3T SATA spinning rust disk mounted on /home, with a 0.5T partition for Timeshift backups.

    I recently bought a 2T M.2 NVMe SSD. I'd like to retire sda and sdc (i.e. put them in my junk NAS/backup server), and then reinstall the OS on the new NVMe. My ideas for the new setup:

    • I use the entire NVMe drive for ESP and root, no separate /home partition, and mount the 1T SSD as before.
    • I use the entire NVMe for ESP and root, move the games and VMs to the root, and use the 1T SSD as the /home partition.
    • ESP, ~100-200G root partition, and separate /home partition on the NVMe; games stay on the separate SSD.

    The advantages of having /home on a separate device are not lost on me. My question is whether the added complexity is still worth it. I would also like to use LUKS encryption, which I understand to be partition-wide - in which case I'd like to know if there is any significant overhead if I encrypt the root partition. I'm also not opposed to using LVM, but that seems like a little too much for a desktop PC.

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    I take my shitposts very seriously.

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