wreckedcarzz
@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 days ago:
Am a wolf (that uses LW), can confirm
- Comment on If you were born after 1990, you've never had this experience 3 days ago:
furiously pressing button
- Comment on Proxmox 9 released 4 days ago:
Oof. I have my VMs getting backed up to another machine so theoretically (untested) I should be able to recover with less than a day of data loss (very minimal for this box). The annoying part would be getting it hooked up to a monitor and keyboard, since it’s under an end-table in the living room.
This is the first issue on like… 15 months? Hopefully it stays rather uneventful.
- Comment on Proxmox 9 released 5 days ago:
I’m always up late (it’s 5:19a), though a good bit more than usual lately. But I did the upgrade because I was anxious, had nothing to do, and there were no users utilizing the machine.
- Comment on Proxmox 9 released 6 days ago:
Yay, it only took 2 hours and the help of an llm since the upgrade corrupted my lvm! Little bit of post cleanup and verifying everything works. Now I can go to sleep (it’s 5am).
Wasn’t that bad, but not exactly relaxing. And when my VMs threw a useless error (‘can’t start need manual fix’) I might have slightly panicked…
- Comment on Funny 6 days ago:
😏
- Comment on Funny 6 days ago:
Although if you want someone to talk your ear off about the church of cocks… Never in the morning though, early birds are the work of the devil. Or something like that. Beds are comfy.
We have by-weekly lunch meet-ups at Liz’s Diner over on main too.
- Comment on Pro tip 1 week ago:
RED
- Comment on Microsoft is killing off Windows 11 SE, its Chrome OS competitor 1 week ago:
“you can’t run that! why don’t you find something nice on the store?”
grabbing the axe
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah, for chat I’ve tried a few systems but honestly I already had signal, they understand that signal chats aren’t texting, the privacy is important to me, and most of all… why rock the boat?
It’s not self-hosted yeah yeah but not everything needs to be. Password management, todo lists, calendar and contacts, grocery lists… sure yeah. But nothing for chat really struck me. And I don’t want to teach everyone how it works just to test a ‘maybe’ alternative.
- Comment on Good thing this horrible storm is almost over! 1 week ago:
Quiet with your logic!
- Comment on The Substack app sent a push notification promoting a Nazi newsletter to several users. 1 week ago:
Well you see, it’s like, this whole “solar” “energy”, I done did tried to run my double-wide on two of those things with that U-B-S cable they come with, whole thing cost me around 30 dang-o smackaroos, and the little light was on saying it was “charging” all afternoon, but as soon as the sun went away, the light went away! Now how does a light know if it’s daytime or not? Damn cia alien shit, just you wait. Then after a little while, it stopped charging my air compressor I use for my lady doll. Worst 30 bucks ever, all I got was blue balled and confused. Harbor Freight won’t take en back either, feller was giving me a weird look when I tried to explain with my doll. Poor bastard ain’t seen a pair of tits before or somethin.
I started a petition on truth social to bring back the sun at all times, so that myself and others don’t get scammed by this “energy”. Has over 64,000 signatures, mmmhm. It’s all the damn libs fault, stealing our sun. Who’s idea was it to have it go away anyway? Buncha dumbasses.
(fuck I think I lost brain cells but hopefully I created a character that everyone can see clearly in their mind. and yes I know geothermal [or whatever they think it is] isn’t solar, that’s part of the joke.)
- Comment on What were the original antiperspirants before modern day ones? 1 week ago:
As per my dreaded days in the high school locker room, before there was axe body spray (1 can per day), there was nothing. And both were fucking awful.
- Comment on Are the research projects for long-term storage already deployed? 2 weeks ago:
nothing that can stick around 1 million years
Universe: ehem
- Comment on Are the research projects for long-term storage already deployed? 2 weeks ago:
iPad 200 BC
- Comment on The Emmet Bar in Toronto, Ontario introduced coasters made from the scrap metal of cars that were involved in DUIs as a reminder to the effects of impaired and drunk driving 2 weeks ago:
I mean, if the bar owner actually cared, they wouldn’t be the owner of a bar. But it’s great for fake internet points so ya know.
It’s like Nestlé saying “we care, truly” while stealing from water sources. Like, sure, you keep telling yourself that.
- Comment on Laptop dreams 2 weeks ago:
no no, I’m almost there
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 weeks ago:
Life360?
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 weeks ago:
Might I suggest this: www.zood.xyz
- Comment on bank circuit water 2 weeks ago:
Is it just me or does that display show the taskbar from XP?
- Comment on What are your VPN recommendations for accessing self-hosted applications from the outside? 2 weeks ago:
Ha, I use both wg and zt, for different situations. ZT for multi-player for old games with friends via ‘LAN’ across the WAN, wg for ‘actual’ VPN through my vps.
Though with zt I’m grandfathered on the old free tier, and they try pretty hard to get me to switch. Last time I logged in they had a full-page ‘you should upgrade to our new plans and features’. But I’m happy on the free level, just gaming.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
2deep5me
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 2 weeks ago:
(venting frustration)
I’d argue with the installer point - if it’s in the repo, and it almost always is for anything a newbie would be using, it’s actually easier. Search, click, done. BUT…
Drivers though, specifically companies not supporting Linux drivers, is shit. I’m helping a friend transition to Linux and am dual-booting myself so I can help with the actual os available for troubleshooting. And fuck me, sound drivers fucking suck ass on Linux. It’s because Creative is a bitch and won’t make Linux drivers, but also apparently literally nobody is both running a creative card and anything above 2.0 speaker setup. I have two creative cards, a decade apart, neither works with my 5.1 speaker setup. FL and FR work, the rest are some sort of fucked and come from an incorrect speaker(s). One of these cards is like 15 years old now, and nobody has noticed or rectified it. And if I reboot straight from windows to Linux, the sound is mangled. I need to shut the system down and boot it cold. Then FL and FR work. Hours of troubleshooting last week got me absolutely no progress.
Then I need software for my Logitech g903 (there is 3rd party software available) that does profiles and switches on the fly based on the application in the foreground (crickets).
Then there is an issue where if my monitor goes to sleep, when I wake it up I get patches of graphical artifacts. On the 2D desktop. Every few seconds, for about a quarter of a second. Random location each time. Random size. I’m on a Radeon 7900 XTX, which isn’t terribly new now. But the friend I’m helping, no issues at all with drivers or hardware. An older 6700 XT. But come the fuck on.
Both of us are on bazzite (I suggested it so they wouldn’t nuke the system as they learn) so it’s just Fedora silverblue with a few tweaks, not some out-there distro.
And, shit. If you need cellular connectivity on Linux, as far as I can tell you’re fucked if you don’t go the Ubuntu route. Debian doesn’t work, Fedora doesn’t work, Mint doesn’t work, I went down a rabbit-hole and tried a dozen distros. I ended up with kubuntu, since I wanted kde, but I tried anything just to see what would work. This is on a modern ThinkPad, still under (extended) warranty. I thought ThinkPads and Linux were supposed to be like this holy-grail of free-as-in-freedom computing? Ugh.
So yeah if you have a basic system, aged a bit, nothing special, it works well. Take one step outside of that perfect-scenario bubble, and paaaaaain.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 2 weeks ago:
You might say that they are being so very… Brave.
🎤 tap tap … is this thing on?
- Comment on Anyone have one of these? 3 weeks ago:
Shh, you’re ruining the joke
- Comment on Anyone have one of these? 3 weeks ago:
wireless
power cable
I have been lied to
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
No cardboard. No cardboard derivatives…
- Comment on Reads top to bottom 3 weeks ago:
Fucking high-vis jackets, the culprit strikes again
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 3 weeks ago:
Their Ring camera that points directly at the desk they keep this notebook on: “it’s showtime”
- Comment on I just realized some people LIKE talking to each other. 3 weeks ago:
Robots.