bdonvr
@bdonvr@thelemmy.club
Administrator of thelemmy.club
Nerd, truck driver, and kinda creeped that you're reading this.
- Comment on Driving a manual: is it difficult? 8 hours ago:
With the Geneva convention on Road Traffic they must recognize it, at least for visitors. However you are probably right if OP tried to move there and get a local license, they’d need to retest.
- Comment on Driving a manual: is it difficult? 8 hours ago:
It’s not toooooo hard. But you will need a good little bit to get the feel for it.
And I don’t know how hilly Romania is but the first time your stall out on an incline you will feel embarrassed and likely honked at. And it will be all the harder to recover cause now you’re stressed about it.
- Comment on Life is unfair to landlords 5 days ago:
This is so obvious I don’t understand why it needs highlighting. Nobody here is suggesting you cannot have stuff.
- Comment on Medal of honor on the PS1 6 days ago:
The Steam Deck is basically a laptop in the shape of a gaming handheld. You can install any PC software you want right out of the box.
- Comment on Or a shrimp 1 week ago:
Korean short animated film.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 1 week ago:
Prolly is. But I haven’t found much better at the stores around me.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 1 week ago:
Regular butter for cooking
Kerrygold salted for spreading
'tis the only way
- Comment on Prices are out of control 1 week ago:
Coke zero is decent
Diet coke is disgusting
Ditto Pepsi
- Comment on How do I build up a lemmy instance right from the scratch ? 1 week ago:
First question is - are you familiar with Linux command line at all? If not get familiar with it first.
Second you’ll need to own or buy a domain and point it to the server’s IP.
Then install either Ubuntu Server or Debian on the server, setup SSH and run this Ansible project - github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible
If that’s not comprehensible to you, I’d really recommend getting more familiar with Linux command line and servers before I’d recommend starting a Lemmy instance.
- Comment on More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says 2 weeks ago:
I once had my electricity bill bounce, and they forced me to pay a deposit of $250. So the amount I owed went from $100 to $350. And they never return the deposit until I had paid on time for 2 years.
That was a bad time.
- Comment on More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says 2 weeks ago:
Whoops some bill auto-drafted unexpectedly
Your account is negative now, oh and throw a $25 fee on top.
Looks like you’re scrounging for dinner tonight. And the rest of the week. Maybe skip some meals because you have no choice.
Shit sucks ass.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 weeks ago:
Hope that I don’t start the early spread of New World diseases to indigenous Americans
And I’d be dead by the end of the week
- Comment on Overclocked Nintendo Switch Modded With 8 GB RAM Is Capable Of Running PlayStation 3 Games via RPCS3 Emulator Surprisingly Well 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but it’s way easier and less tinkery than what’s described in the OP
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 3 weeks ago:
It was always shit. IIRC wasn’t it started by some guy who was mad Something Awful didn’t allow loli?
Gross
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Well for some items it’s definitely easy. Laptop for example just say it’s your laptop. No box or receipt you brought it with you. But it has to be like 1. And it’s still illegal.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yes. But only one or two things at a time. It’s illegal but like you said if you just say you had it when you entered Canada you’ll probably get away with it.
If you come over with 100 laptops in your trunk you will almost certainly be forced to pay import duties on them.
- Comment on Has anyone told MAGA they are free to shut themselves off from the rest of the world all on their own. Honestly they do a pretty good job of it already. 4 weeks ago:
That is definitely not Austin
- Comment on Is 4chan dead forever? Where are the refugees going? 4 weeks ago:
Hopefully not here
- Comment on Which Lemmy instances have signups without registration? 4 weeks ago:
I do occasionally turn it on when there’s waves of spam sign ups.
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 4 weeks ago:
It’s pretty open hardware I’m sure it would be very easy to flash it to Fairphone’s OS
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 4 weeks ago:
You can compile iOS apps other ways… But IIRC to publish them on the app store you’re supposed to use XCode
- Comment on How do I request an inactive community on Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
You can be moderator of a remote community
- Comment on Every non US market could impose their will, simply by banning imports of products that use, or reference SAE instead of metric. 5 weeks ago:
If we could get the who world to team up and do anything we’d be in a better place
- Comment on Don't ever hassle a dog when on a plane 5 weeks ago:
Jeez dude who shat in your cheerios?
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 1 month ago:
Sure. Looks like on Ubuntu Touch the only thing not working is the fingerprint reader
devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/fp3/
The OS in general isn’t ready for daily use though. It’s maybe doable if all you need is text, calls, camera, and a browser. And the calls only work in some countries. But it’s fun to play with.
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 1 month ago:
Do you in the US or Europe? There are some possibilities out there, but it’s kinda region dependent.
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 1 month ago:
It seems like Linux-compatible handsets stopped around 2021. Except a few bespoke models that are hard to get your hands on outside of Europe.
I have a OnePlus Nord N10 flashed with Ubuntu Touch as a tinker device, unfortunately in the US it’s not daily-able because we shut down 3g and 2g networks and they still haven’t managed to get VoLTE working on Ubuntu Touch yet (though it may be coming in the next year!) so phone calls don’t work.
There’s also the Pixel 3a/3a XL which are plentiful and cheap but I like the N10 a bit more because of the additional RAM. Makes it feel a little less old compared to the Pixel.
- Comment on Horses ARE Forever 1 month ago:
At least that’s biodegradable
- Comment on Horses ARE Forever 1 month ago:
At least that’s biodegradable
- Comment on China property giant Vanke reports annual loss of $6.8 bn 1 month ago:
TL;DR housing prices are going down 👍