Arch on my home server, Zorin on my laptop
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Is it possible to rip audio from youtube without loss of quality or online conversions?English
5·2 years agoDoes it skip the recode completely if the format is already opus?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific dataEnglish
13·2 years agoMicrosoft’s blog adds caveats, such as that Excel avoids the conversion by saving the data as text, which means the data may not work for calculations later. There’s also a known issue where you can’t disable the conversions when running macros.
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Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•14 years after playing League Of Legends for the first time ever, I, today, played it on Linux!English
41·2 years agoProductivity in general is the only reason to still use Windows. Office is a big one (though great alternatives like LO and OnlyOffice exist), but also Adobe products, pro audio software, etc.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•ONLYOFFICE 7.5 Released with New PDF Editor + More
6·2 years agoYep, you can download their “Desktop Editors”
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Technology@lemmy.world•China gives Ehang the first industry approval for fully autonomous passenger-carrying air taxisEnglish
39·2 years agoTo be clear, I definitely agree that this is a bad idea.
However, one of the hardest things about making autonomous cars work is avoiding traffic and pedestrians. If air traffic control can be managed such that these avoid other aircraft (and things like buildings and cell towers, obviously) I could actually see this as easier to get the software working.
The commit added Ukrainian translations to the install instructions. Most were vanilla, but at the end of the file they added some statements with things like “Oh no, this is inappropriate for your sensitive religion”. I’m not quoting exactly here, for obvious reasons.
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Technology@lemmy.ml•“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story. MP3 is supported by everything, everywhere, and is now patent-free.
37·2 years agoMaybe apps will finally feel free to bundle LAME instead of forcing you to download it externally!
Yeah, I made the mistake of running Hyprland on a fresh arch install and was super confused at the lack of terminal 😅
100% in the same boat. WSL and VSCode is basically a requirement for me, and codium can’t do the WSL linking.
Just want to shout out to reviewbrah for giving us this absolute gem of a phrase
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Technology@lemmy.world•You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys; maybe last chance to activate using Windows 7 or 8 keys, for 22H2.English
22·2 years agoThis is the real blow. Truly the end of an era.
Creating a driver requires a deep understanding of some pretty low-level pieces of Linux. If you’re new to Linux, you should probably start with some “new to Linux” tutorials and get an understanding of some basic command line usage. Work your way up to being able to follow a guide on compiling the Linux kernel (without any of your own modifications). After that, you can seek out guides on creating a driver.
As a second note, fingerprint drivers are categorically difficult to work with, so this would really be jumping in on the deepest of deep ends. You can do it! But it will take a LOT of self-education.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Why You Need a Digital ‘Dead Man’s Switch’English
4·2 years agoMy strategy too. I have a piece of paper with my bitwarden credentials (password and OTP code) and a list of important items like bank accounts, utilities on autopay, etc.
I review it with my spouse every year and update anything out of date.
I completely believe that, assuming it’s one of the non-4K sticks. The older generation models are rather wimpy and slow (we had one that we replaced for exactly this reason), but any of the newer 4K-capable devices have been snappy and responsive.
Unfortunately, I think you’re unlikely to find anything besides the ones made by the big companies: Google, Apple, Samsung, and Garmin are the ones I know. They each have agreements with the banks and credit card companies to handle the secure exchange of data required for the touch payment system. In fact, there are still some issues resulting from a lack of cooperation (such as Citi Bank not working with Garmin Pay because they can’t be bothered to set up the relationship). I imagine an open source software would be unable to get the banks to pay attention to them to establish a partnership, or would otherwise be declined because the financial institutions wouldn’t trust them.
I recommend a Roku streaming stick or a Roku streambar if you need a decent sound bar too. That’s what we use on our “smart” TVs and I hate ads too. Full disclosure: they do put one ad on the homescreen off to the side, but none in the actual content apps. You’ll only see it while between apps.
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Programming@programming.dev•8 Months and Counting: The (harsh) reality of building a product from scratch.
1·2 years agoYou maybe know this but GitAhead was discontinued, and the maintained fork is called Gittyup: https://github.com/Murmele/Gittyup
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Programming@programming.dev•8 Months and Counting: The (harsh) reality of building a product from scratch.
1·2 years agoOpen source is a definite plus, but tbh not a requirement for me. Actively maintained, free, Windows and Linux, and simple. Oh, and it has to have a dark theme 😄


DOCSIS (AKA internet service over coaxial cable) deals in some number of bonded channels, meaning portions of the total available bandwidth on the wire. They asymmetrically allocate channels to download speeds to overcome the limitations of the older copper wire technology. 100Mbps symmetrical is beyond what most of their existing “Broadband” infrastructure can support in rural and underserved areas, so they complained about it being unreasonable. 100Mbps symmetrical is certainly possible over DOCSIS, but speeds are only as fast as the weakest link… And there are a helluva lot of weak links outside of high population density areas.