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Black man dies, crying for help, after hotel guards pin him down, video shows: Milwaukee police are investigating the killing of Dvontaye Mitchell, whose death has drawn comparisons to George Floyd’s in c/news@lemmy.world

Before your change to Linux in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 4 points 4 months ago

Last Windows I ran full-time was XP, ran Win7 for a couple of months before switching Ubuntu 10.04; still used Win XP and Win7 in VM's for years for specific applications.

Win10 is the OS on the work machines, some of it is really nice, but so much feels backward. I don't get why there is still control panel and the settings app. Why is notepad so shit....

I used Win11 recently, it looks quite nice, more consistent than 10 at least. But everything I have read makes me want to stay away.

Ran Ubuntu LTS's finishing with 20.04, have since been running Mint. Snap's made Ubuntu a worse experience for me.

House Democrat is proposing a constitutional amendment to reverse Supreme Court's immunity decision in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 months ago

This is easy to get around.

Just start any order with "In my capacity as president, I decree that....."

Problematic computer in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 3 points 4 months ago

I was having a lot of random crashes and weird errors on my Mint install, using the logs, I tracked it down to a SSD fault.

I really didn't want to send it back, since I got it from Amazon and I'm in NZ.... So after a bit of checking I found that the FW on the SSD was not the latest. Updated the FW, went from at least 1 crash per workday, to no crashes in the last 6 months.

My SSD is a WD SN850X 4TB

Florida man sneezes his intestines out of his body at restaurant in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 7 points 4 months ago (6 children)

The guy seems fine after treatment.... Not a great experience though.

How can I easily and conveniently transfer files wirelessly between my linux computer and android phone? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 10 points 5 months ago

Oppo has very aggressive battery management.

While I was using one, had to manually turn off battery management for syncthing, and check after major updates....

But worked flawlessly once that issue was solved.

VLC Player in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 15 points 5 months ago

As a friend of mine said some years ago "VLC will play a slice of cucumber" that pretty much sums it up.

Sleight of hand in combat in c/dnd@lemmy.world

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 4 points 6 months ago

Noted

Sleight of hand in combat in c/dnd@lemmy.world

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 months ago

Agreed, it is super useful when you are trying to be sneaky.

Sleight of hand in combat in c/dnd@lemmy.world

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 5 points 6 months ago

Not all spells require material components.

Totally true; there are some massively powerful spells that don't have components. But it could make a big difference to the right encounter.

Sleight of hand in combat in c/dnd@lemmy.world

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 4 points 6 months ago

Exactly, you should be able to use disarm to remove an important item from a wizard. I see that as no different than taking the sword from a fighter.

Samba vs NFS vs SSHFS ? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 points 7 months ago

I use SSHFS when I want to quickly grab a file off my server at home.

It is not a permanent solution, but it is fast and SSH is almost never blocked so the network I'm coming from doesn't matter.

Also SSH is great, if I don't trust the network I'm on, I tunnel all of my traffic through my home server over a SSH connection (this worked whilst I was in China a few years ago, waiting for my connecting flight).