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Modern tech, retro tech, 80s/90s music & nostalgia. I live in northern England so most things I post about have a UK slant.
Elsewhere on Fedi:
- Mastodon - https://social.chatty.monster/@losttourist
- Bookwyrm - https://ramblingreaders.org/user/losttourist
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How to update the BIOS on a Dell laptop running Linux
How to update the BIOS on a Dell laptop running Linux...
I'm starting to see some serious downsides to being able to see who downvotes you. (kbin.social)
A few days ago I downvoted someone's comment, and the next day I happened to notice every single comment I've ever made had at least one downvote. All from the person I dared to downvote the ONE time. I straight up asked why they did it, and they seem to think I'm an "obvious" troll account that "apparently just exist to...
Am I wrong to assume that docker is perfect for single board computers that relies on low life expectancy drives (microsd)?
Title. Mostly because of two flags: --read-only and –log-driver.
The source code for Infocom's Z-machine interpreters for a large number of 8 amd 16 bit microcomputers has been posted to Github (github.com)
Historical source code for Infocom's Z-machine interpreters - GitHub
Nik Kershaw - The Riddle [1984] (www.youtube.com)
Could someone explain the networking behind transparent proxies and MiTM snooping using certificates to me?
Hi everyone, I’ve been trying to understand how MiTM setups like a transparent proxy work....
LLaMa_irl (hexbear.net)
Timeless humor (startrek.website)
[Homemade] pizza with ground beef, bacon and onions . (lemmy.world)
Featuring homemade dough and pizza sauce !
Question: is systemd-homed ready for everyday use yet?
Hi! I want to try out fedora workstation in the near future (once 39 is out) and was wondering if systemd-homed is ready for everyday use yet....
Mastodon features
I’m curious as to you guys opinions. It could be Mastodon itself or a Mastodon client. What features would you like to see that are not currently available?
Quadlets might make me finally stop using docker-compose (major.io)
I quit Windows and installed Ubuntu, When I power on this error screen is showing! (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
error: no server is specified. error: no suitable video mode found. /dev/sdc2: clean, 259918/15630336 files....
Movies vs life (lemmy.world)
I've been trying to block a magazine for over a week and keep getting an error. (kbin.social)
196 is over half my feed and I can't take it anymore.
Isn't technically everything open-source? (kbin.social)
I don't know (but wanna learn) programming, but, for example, can't you inspect the code of an app if it's installed?...
What does "Copy URL to Fediverse" do? (kbin.social)
I see that is copies a shortened version of the link to your clipboard. For example this link:...
Thank you Steve Huffman for curing my reddit addiction!
I stopped using reddit when Apollo went down, and 2-3 hours of scrolling and active posting in some niche subs turned into ~30 mins of Lemmy per day, which I find much more healthy....
Reddit claiming they weren’t recovering deleted posts (lemmy.ml)
I’m not sure if it’s a coincidence, but I raised a case with the ICO in the UK, and today they got back to me asking for all my communication with Reddit. Also today - after a month of silence - Reddit also emailed me with this...
Self hosting a Lemmy instance for just myself?
Heya, I’m trying out Lemmy and kinda like the idea of hosting a Lemmy instance just for me....
kbin Enhancement Suite: a community-curated script manager that lets you customize your kbin experience (kbin.social)
A couple of weeks ago, @shazbot made this post about a project that they were working on. Since then, @shazbot, @ori, @minnieo and I have been hard at work, and we are excited to finally announce the official release of kbin Enhancement Suite (KES)!...
Ex-Tesla engineer builds Aigen robots to eliminate weeds without pesticides (www.cnbc.com)
The Element drives itself continuously at around two miles per hour over farmland, using an advanced computer vision system to identify crops and unwanted botanical invaders. With two-axis robotic arms positioned close the ground, it can flick weeds out of the way where they’ll dry out before they can grow seeds and spread.
Uncensored nudity in the "random posts" section of the top page (kbin.social)
Straight-up genitals. This probably should not be allowed to happen even when a user isn't doing NSFW flagging properly and/or an instance is not enforcing it.
How do you pin posts, and other questions (kbin.social)
I've a few questions:...
Anyone hosting Lemmy and Mastodon on the same server?
I have Mastodon running on a VPS running Debian 11. Now I would like to add a Lemmy instance on the same server. I tried using the from scratch method from Lemmy documentation, but ran into errors that likely stemmed from minor version incompatibilities of the dependencies. I tried using the Lemmy easy deploy script but it wants...
Meet Eddy! He loves belly rubs and is celebrating his first birthday today! (media.kbin.social)
Meta will kill small instances! Please read.
I just read this point in a comment and wanted to bring it to the spotlight....
How to Favourite a magazine (kbin.social)
In the dropdown next to my username at the top right, it looks like I can filter the view of magazines by Subscribed / Moderated / Favourites / All....
[Question] Disk Space for Lemmy and Mastodon instances
Hi, I'm new with self-hosting but managed to set up my own Lemmy and Mastodon instances on a VPS recently. However, I ran into an issue with disk space quite rapidly (which I had way too few, because I started with the cheapest, smallest package for my VPS)....
Will I be banned? Looking to migrate from Reddit, but only if free speech is paramount. (kbin.social)
Looking to see if I am welcom on kbin to express the viewpoint that it is not possible to be "trans."...
I was wondering when they'd get round to the smaller subreddits (media.kbin.social)
/r/LegalAdviceUK is forced back open, vows to move the entire community off Reddit (www.reddit.com)
As with many other subreddits, /r/LegalAdviceUK (which had been dark since the start of the blackout) has been sent a thinly-veiled threat by Reddit....