PotatoesFall

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[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I can't say I watched much of his content because anytime I did it was incredibly boring trash. I felt the same about markiplier pewdiepie etc as well though. In retrospect I'm glad

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Americans when their gas price approaches almost half of what it normally is in Europe:

We have PLENTY of average benefits per person already. Currently most benefits go to rich people in the form of public investments in private companies, subsidies for often harmful industries, and a plethora of tax breaks. Growth is not the problem.

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And if GDP wasn't keeping pace, why would that be a bad thing? It's not like growth has meaningfully improved peoples lives in the last couple decades

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Up to you but how is it not as nice though? It's usually faster so you don't have to deal with buffering, plus you can keep the content forever and watch it without internet access and after the site gets taken down.

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

True, though I've found this to frequently break after reboot

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you don't think the US is fascist at this point, you are too far right even for .world lol

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 week ago (9 children)

The following advice does not apply to piracy, it's just general torrenting advice for downloading legally available content.

  1. Install qbittorrent.
  2. Use a VPN (windscribe has a free tier) whenever qbittorrent is running, even in the background, even when you aren't downloading. Make sure qbittorrent doesn't run on startup, it's in settings. This makes sure nobody can see that your IP is torrenting perfectly legal content, for privacy.
  3. Find a torrent. If you go to the pirate bay (top result on duckduckgo), be sure not to choose any copyright protected content, as torrenting that would be illegal in most places.
  4. Search for your legally torrentable movie/show and press the magnet (or copy the magnet link) next to the torrent with the most seeders (SE)
  5. paste the link into qbittorrent, optionally select "download first and last pieces first" and "download sequentially", if you want to watch while downloading.
  6. Always check the file extension of any files before opening - mp4 etc is safe, don't run any .exe files. There is malware out there, especially in torrented games.
  7. Be nice and keep seeding torrents after downloading
  8. Enjoy your legally acquired content!

There's a piracy comm on lemmy at lemmy.dbzer0.com.

(If any mods don't want advice for legal torrenting here, apologies and feel free to delete my comment)

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

You make a good point. Maybe it's the tone that put me off. I know too many people who go off on rants that sound similar, who don't bother actually understanding what's wrong with the world and as a result have no idea what capitalism even is. But that's clearly not you

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No socialists say that though. That's just what opponents of socialism pretend socialists say.

 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/55388559

I made the mistake of believing some dumb guide online that recommended the Razer BlackShark v2 Pro for Linux. Literally the volume control is broken out of the box lol.

I just want a wireless headset. For listening to audio. And a mic. Don't care for fancy features. Apparently too much to ask for a linux user.

What are y'all using and how is it working for you?

 

I made the mistake of believing some dumb guide online that recommended the Razer BlackShark v2 Pro for Linux. Literally the volume control is broken out of the box lol.

I just want a wireless headset. For listening to audio. And a mic. Don't care for fancy features. Apparently too much to ask for a linux user.

What are y'all using and how is it working for you?

 

Apparently, importing ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc is enough for the shortcut to show up in the System Settings, but not enough to load the shortcut. Disabling, applying and re-enabling and applying again also doesn't help, and neither does re-assigning to the same shortcut, which resulted in this lovely error dialog.

 
 

My parents are looking into getting their own NAS to replace iCloud. I don't really have much experience with that, and zero experience with apple stuff. They are also not very techy, but at least enthusiastic.

Can sombody recommend easy NAS products where you basically just buy a device, do some basic setup, and then it functions as your at-home cloud? I don't want to get roped into doing too much admin for them, but they do already have DDNS for some other smart home crap. Bonus if it's non-US tech.

Personally I run a nextcloud server on a VPS that I could expand, that's not quite selfhosted, I don't know if that integrates well with apple though, are they better off if I just onboard them onto that?

Cheers in advance

 
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fine dining (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
 
 

Hi, so I usually use the US/International keyboard layout (mobile/android,heliboard) However this doesn't let me write many European languages, even those using the latin script. It's honestly terrible. How do I get the Polish L and the C and S with an upside down ^ type thing on it from slovenian? halp

 
 
 

Hey, I've been hearing a LOT about the xz backdoor. Crazy story, but rather than reading 10 different articles about it from 3 days ago when the story was quite new, does anybody know a high quality write-up that has all the juicy details and facts? I really like in-depth guides that cover every aspect of the story.

Thanks in advance guys!

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