JustARegularNerd

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[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 3 points 16 hours ago

Broken BIOS on a PC. You can basically throw out your motherboard

Can confirm, bricked a Latitude E6420 trying to put coreboot on it and completely missing an instruction in bright red bold text. Had a parts machine thankfully, and had to swap the boards.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Tab A7 Lite

Huh, that makes two of us. Hated every second of dealing with OneUI, back when I got it, GSIs were around but there was no straight forward guide. Now one does exist and oh boy, it feels like a completely different device with LOS and no gapps.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This announcement is for Brave hosting their own repository to host the Brave browser on that's compatible with F-Droid, rather than the Brave browser being added to F-Droid's official repository.

Otherwise, perhaps you meant that you did add their repo and it's still not showing up.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 16 points 2 days ago

Both are accepted spellings, tire in the US and tyre in the UK

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tyre

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The fuck? First person I've met that objects to this. Even the sushi places usually throw in soy sauce for your spring rolls

Damn, I over thought it. I got "Imaginary cube sum of apple pi" before seeing the answers here.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well now I'll be thinking all day on the thought experiment of how one could actually prevent it, assuming they're only a US citizen.

I guess you could send in an anonymous bomb threat on the morning for both towers, but that still wouldn't prevent the tragedy of all those onboard.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Michelle-ax46b • 14 minutes ago Your content keeps me inspired, please keep going!

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope that as of 05/14/2025 that you live a happy life 😍

If you're reading this comment in 2023, I hope you have a lovely day ❤😍😘❤

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 9 points 3 months ago

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is my pick.

I've got two study laptops and apart from Tailscale giving me some grief very recently with DNS resolution, I literally haven't had any problems with either machine. Both have been going for 1.5 years.

I like the LMDE route for the DE already having pretty decent defaults and not requiring much tweaking from the get-go. Xfce (as it ships by default in Debian) absolutely works, but I end up spending an hour theming it and adding panel applets and rearranging everything so that it... ends up looking similar to Cinnamon anyway, because default Xfce looks horrible in my opinion

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

...and this is how you keep people using mainstream services instead of FOSS / privacy respecting ones.

The actual answer is convenience and not wanting to make their life more difficult, which brings ignorance into it.

Not everyone is ready to flip their whole digital life upside down based on the privacy principles you and I care about - that's why I too use the approach the parent commenter mentioned, and I'm also okay with people who just won't make any switches, because while I don't support it, I understand it.

The long and short of it is don't think of this as "us vs them" - we're all people together and understanding and gently making people aware of these privacy principles and giving them realistic private solutions is, in my opinion, way more effective than saying "fuck 'em"

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This isn't the first time they've had an ad supported Office for free. Anyone remember Office 2010 Starter, that shipped with only Word and Excel and also had a permanent ad banner.

 

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A portion of a prime number checker written in the Rust programming language, where the first few lines are written correctly including the first if statement in the program. However, the following if statements are written using Python syntax instead of Rust, as the author slipped back into his native tongue.

 

I actually intended to post this to Reddit but I thought I would contribute content to here instead to get the ball rolling here and do my part.

Anyway, this is a Windows XP-era machine I have at work for testing, and I had just this monitor plugged into it and saw the CPU fan trying to spin. I spun it a bit myself and it just kept going. I disconnected the HDMI cable and it stopped.

The monitor is actually DisplayPort, with a passive adapter to HDMI which then goes to the HDMI cable connected to this PC. The GPU is just PCI-E. The computer has some old ~2007 AMD CPU in it. The GPU actually doesn't seem to work anyway, the PC posts normally but there's no image from either the GPU or onboard, but when putting either another GPU or no GPU, there's an image from the appropriate output.

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