Limonene
@Limonene@lemmy.world
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 2 days ago:
I have to disagree about the idiot proof. KDE Plasma and Mate Desktop are more idiot proof and easy for newbies than Windows 10-11, yet have more features in their simple control panels.
I’ve had no bootloader problems in the last 10 years of Debian, Linux Mint, and Ubuntu (15-20 installs, plus another 20-30 if you count VMs.) However, my work computer’s bootloader was semi-bricked twice in 2019 (Windows 7).
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 week ago:
Turn signals are not optional.
- Comment on Most under-utilized consoles? 2 weeks ago:
The Nintendo 64 had no 64-bit games.
They probably would have taken more flash and RAM with no advantage in performance.
- Comment on Release the kraken 2 weeks ago:
How can you tell if this one is? The text differences within and between panels 1 and 2 are indistinguishable (to my eyes) from JPEG artifacts.
- Comment on How to get rid of Whatsapp? 2 weeks ago:
I can’t seem to upload images, but if you image-search for:
“we’ve completed our review and found this account’s activity goes against whatsapp’s terms of service”
You will find screenshots you can download and use as fake proof that you are banned.
When I had to contact Facebook to get an account unlocked, they took about a month to respond to each email, and never did unlock the account no matter how much proof I sent them. I expect WhatsApp is similar, since it’s owned by the same company. So just say that they hardly respond, and they say things they’ve already said, ask you to try things you’ve already tried, or they ask for documents you’ve already sent them.
Why were you banned? Maybe you accidentally signed in on a phishing page, and they sent spam using your account. Maybe you created an account, and your first action was to contact a person you hadn’t contacted before (obviously), and it was marked as spam. Maybe you signed up on an IP address previously used by a spam-sending datacenter (this happened a lot to me at my old house). Maybe your phone number was banned from WhatsApp before you got it, but you already gave it to too many people to be able to change it.
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 4 weeks ago:
If you’re trans: Start making plans to flee. You don’t have to carry them out right now. But do get a passport, even if it has to have your deadname. Canada or Mexico probably wouldn’t accept a US refugee just for being trans right now, but that will change in the future.
If you’re an immigrant, or even a permanent resident: It’s unsafe in the US right now. I wouldn’t fault you if you left today. However, everyone’s circumstances are different. Maybe you want to stay and support your spouse and kids who are citizens, and you’re willing to risk your life to do it. It depends on the circumstances.
Anyone else: Stay and fight.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 5 weeks ago:
Jellyfin depends on proprietary Microsoft .NET, even on Linux.
It’s still better than Plex and Emby, which are fully proprietary, and have no source code. But I will stick with sshfs with kodi, and nginx plus mpv for now.
- Comment on i’m not religious. stop trying to force me to be. 1 month ago:
If a religion doesn’t allow its members to be friends with non-members, that religion is a cult.
You probably don’t want to engage with cult members anyway, unless it is to help them leave the cult.
- Comment on Israelis mock Palestinian children in viral TikTok 'prank call' trend 1 month ago:
mossad was founded by an ss member
Who? My research shows only Reuven Shiloah.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 1 month ago:
In case anyone was thinking this applies only to inkjet printers: no, it ONLY seems to apply to laser printers – the thing that Brother used to be known for. Where the article says “ink”, they mean “toner”. There is no ink in a laser printer.
- Comment on What’s the difference between pansexuality and bisexuality? 1 month ago:
One woman told me that she identifies as bisexual, even though she is attracted to all genders including non-binary, because she has two “modes” of dating. When dating women, she prefers to be the pursuer. When dating men, she prefers to be the pursued. I’m not sure which way she usually went with enbies.
- Comment on Between Linux or Windows which do you think will be first to have a viable OS for quantum computers? 1 month ago:
I think quantum computers may be impossible. But if they are possible, they will be a USB/PCIe accessory that works alongside an ordinary processor running an ordinary operating system.
I expect Linux will have a driver for quantum computers before Windows.
- Comment on He thinks they'll just GIVE him money? 1 month ago:
$10M is ridiculous. For $100k-$500k, you can buy citizenship in several countries that are better to live in than the US is in 2025.
- Comment on Crypto exchange Bybit says a hacker took control of one of its cold Ethereum wallets, resulting in what analysts estimate was the loss of ~$1.5B worth of tokens 1 month ago:
They’ll just roll back the blockchain. Ethereum is a centrally controlled cryptocurrency, though its fans claim otherwise. It’s been rolled back before.
- Comment on "Washington Recession Begins": DC Active Home Listings Soar, Jobless Claims Spike As DOGE Drains Swamp 2 months ago:
This doesn’t seem like a reliable news source. The article claims to be “news”, and is not marked anywhere as “opinion”, yet is clearly full of opinion:
What may unfold is an economic downturn that could rip through the unaccountable federal bureaucracy in the DC Swamp that won’t get a bailout this time from taxpayers.
I would recommend not linking to zerohedge.com .
- Comment on If I’m mostly attracted to men, is it «wrong» to consider myself pan? 2 months ago:
Calling yourself bisexual/pansexual would not be inaccurate. I think “Kinsey 2” or “Kinsey 1” might be good concise descriptions to use, but only you can decide what is best.
(The Kinsey scale is a model, and therefore imperfect, but useful.)
- Comment on GPD WIN 4 handheld plans to support Valve's SteamOS in 2025 3 months ago:
Those are pretty nice specs. I would buy one right now if I didn’t have a Deck already, and if it didn’t come with a Windows tax.
- Comment on New social experiment 3 months ago:
.local
- Comment on New social experiment 3 months ago:
fstab
- Comment on Noob stuck on port-forwarding wile trying to host own raw-html website. Pls help 4 months ago:
Try going to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080 in your web browser (replacing the x’s with your public IP address), on your home connection. If it doesn’t work, it means that your port forwarding is probably not working. If the page loads correctly, it means your port forwarding is working correctly, and the problem is probably your ISP doing port blocking.
- Comment on South Korea reverts to its traditional form of government: Martial law. 4 months ago:
The title and blurb are both editorializations in support of humanspiral@lemmy.ca’s anti-South Korean opinion.
- Comment on Poll: Majority of Americans Say Sex Change Surgeries for Minors Should Be Illegal 5 months ago:
Sex change surgeries on minors aren’t happening. This is a monster under the bed.
Why do conservatives never talk about the large number of gender affirming surgeries that people do on cis minors? Cisgendered kids are getting breast implants, and it’s kind of a big problem.
- Comment on Guerrilla Women 5 months ago:
Electronic women, giant mech women, women reenactments…
Space women?
- Comment on I hate that that happens 5 months ago:
English has its flaws, but I don’t agree that that is one of them.
- Comment on Steps to repurpose old laptop as home server with Debian 6 months ago:
The easiest way to disable unnecessary services is to uninstall them with aptitude, or whichever package manager you like. Try terminating services one by one, and see if anything bad happens. If nothing bad happens, you can probably uninstall it. On the other hand, if the system does get wonky a reboot should fix it. Or, you can research the services by name and decide whether to uninstall them. (avahi-daemon for example is a good idea to uninstall.)
To make the GUI not run, uninstall your display manager (gdm, xdm, nodm, or whatever) and uninstall your xorg server or wayland server. There may be GUI programs remaining after that, but they will only be consuming disk space, not RAM or CPU.
If the battery is old and holds little charge, you may save a few watts by removing it and throwing it away, instead of letting the system keep it topped off.
Get a power meter, such as a Kill-a-watt device. Then, experiment with different settings. If it’s consuming less than 30 watts, you’re probably fine. If you live in the US, one watt-year is about one US dollar (or a little more), so for every watt it consumes, that’s about how much you will pay per year for its electricity.