#LINUX

[eightglass]

What laptop manufacturers think people want:

What people actually want:

Seriously!

Like, what happened to 4:3? Websites and word processors work with VERTICAL SCROLLING. That means we want more VERTICAL SPACE.

What happened to buttons on the trackpad? The smooth square is bullshit. Bring back buttons. Also there should be a scroll wheel beside the trackpad.

Why are laptops so thin nowadays? Where's the sturdiness? Where's the space to put things?

What happened to the io? I WANT MORE USB. I should not have to buy an adapter to have enough USB ports.

Disc drives! SD card readers! Why did they leave?? Put them back.

And easily removable batteries!! That should be common again!! If the battery stops carrying enough charge, anyone should be able to replace it easily.

Also, like, why are laptop speakers consistently so ass? Make them good!

Keyboards should have more buttons! Un-merge the function keys and the, like, volume and brightness control keys. More buttons more better.

Why is there usually only a power button? Put a sleep button next to it!!

[sisadminspb]

люди говорят: «Нет, я на Windows, потому что она работает. Она не ломается, как Linux», а потом я смотрю на ноутбук моей мамы, и он не обновляется из-за ошибки 0x800703f1, и оказывается, что решение — загрузить сомнительный exe-файл и сомнительный скрипт PowerShell, скопировать случайный файл, запустить на нем что-то, сделать резервную копию чего-то в system32 и заменить его тем, что вы получили при запуске сомнительных программ. а затем вы получаете другую ошибку. а обновление Windows говорит: «Эээ, может, переустановить ОС, я не знаю, лол»

ppl be like "no i'm on windows because it works. it doesn't break like linux does" and then i look at my mom's laptop and it won't update because of error 0x800703f1 and it turns out the solution is downloading a sketchy exe and a sketchy powershell script, copying a random file, running stuff on it, backing up stuff in system32, and replacing it with what you got from running the sketchy programs. and then you get a different error. and windows update is like "uh maybe reinstall the os idk lol"

[shadowblade8192]

likes charge reblogs cast

[sira0909]

Have you seen the new package? It's on synaptic. It's literally on flatpack. It's on pacman with extra. It's on AUR. You can watch it on AUR. You can go to AUR and watch it. Log onto AUR right now. Go to AUR. Dive into AUR. You can AUR it. It's on AUR. AUR has it for you. AUR has it for you.

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Edit: I didn't make this, it haunts me that this blew up. I screenshotted this when I was new to the website and uploaded it since I was unaware of the credit culture of the website. I cannot for the life of me find the original author. I turned off reblogs since I do not deserve the credit for this post.

[truthful-frights]

good to know for next time :(

hey, privacy concerned folks,

DON'T USE BALENA ETCHER TO USB YOUR ISOs

As @tailsos-official stated in their blog post, it displays ads which is weird for a simple disk imaging tool and more important:

It shares your IP address, the file name of the image the model of the USB stick and a bunch of other things with the Balena company and third parties.

On Windows, use Rufus instead. It's pretty neat.

On Mac, use the Raspberry Pi Imager. It does its job. Or if you don't mind the terminal, use dd. It's built-in.

On Linux you can use dd, or whatever comes with your DE. Or whatever else you prefer. We got options.

You can also use Ventoy and just chuck all your ISOs on it. No need to reformat your usb drives again just for a new boot stick. One USB to rule them all.

sources under the cut

[2ws2ls]

"you should use arch linux" yeah should I also arch my back and meow at you?? Shut up nerd.

[soapsquare]

apparently my girlfriend comes with clothes smh, and i thought linux girls didnt like bloatware

[wayfire-official]

desktop? no, sorry, i only bottom and mostly in bed

[truthful-frights]

yummy thank you!!!

User agents are funny because it's basically just a little ID card that says "hi this is who I am don't worry I would never lie to you :)" and websites will just go "ok! :3"

[fabricdragondesigns]

[btrfs-unofficial]

i was looking for discord screensharing alternatives a few weeks ago, and after trying pretty much everything out there, i settled on:

Parsec for screensharing from windows, which just works (besides excluding audio being a bit involved)

Element for screensharing from linux, which just works if you don't want audio, but sharing audio involves using qpwgraph to send the audio through your mic, and disabling all noise cancelling and ACG and stuff, which can only be done with "legacy calls"

mostly sharing this in case anyone else is looking for alternatives

[fedora-official]

new bug: my laptop apparently has insomnia

[grilledcheese-aspiration]

mini psa:

over the summer i will be preparing to rid my life of win10 and bop over to Fedora finally. i do not want to mess w/ win10 after its no longer supported and i absolutely will not be going to win11 - ew!

theres somethings that i need to know first. do we have a collection of "how-to's":

the best and most reliable method to install sims 2 ultimate collection

reshade

simpe

steam

blender

milkshape

sims4studio

RPC launcher

compressorizor

bulk rename utility

all of these things are required to make the jump with me so i MUST find a way to get them installed and be stable - i cannot bend on this.

i am already familiar w/ lutris so is it all done via lutris or are there additional steps i need to be aware of?

i think the hardest part will be the transferring of data from win10 to Fedora. i will prob need to get my hands on an external SSD so i can transfer all the things from win10 to Fedora as smoothly as possible but that'll take some time ofc. the struggle stems from:

i already win10 as my one and only desktop, obvs since im trying to jump over to fedora, ill need to carve out some space in my storage somewhere, somehow so i can bop over to win10 as needed until im done w/ the transfer. once thats done, i can prob safely get rid of win10.

[slobbered]

I had one of the grape colored eMacs back in the day. I seem to recall running Yellowdog Linux on the thing?

Apple: iMac G3 Power Computer (1998)