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BakedCatboy

@ BakedCatboy @lemmy.ml

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  • I just want to play a game...

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  • I hate when I try to load up an old game in my library only to find out that I need to log in to another launcher to which I've forgotten my password to.

  • BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove

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  • Fuck em, but also a few measurements, plastic prototypes, and 1 shapeways order and you could have a custom stainless socket wrench bit to fit these. I've printed a custom shaped utility box key in 17-4 for less than $50.

  • anywhere to get adobe photoshop for free and safe?

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  • It's the wiki hosted under the same domain that you signed up for on lemmy: https://wiki.dbzer0.com/

    It's linked to in the sidebar for this community since it has lots of resources for piracy. The sidebar of this community also has a link to the genp community.

  • Just installed Mint for my elderly in-laws

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  • I mean you're not wrong it's true to a degree, but especially in my parents case, they hardly store anything on the computer so the disk usage hardly registers on the pros and cons. If it provides convenience then it's whatever. They're still on an obsolete elementaryos but flatpak is still keeping them up to date until I can get around to visiting them again. If I understand how it works on debianland once a major version goes EOL, they'd be using backports which might not have the latest version right?

  • Just installed Mint for my elderly in-laws

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  • I did this for my parents, context: borderline elderly, late 60s, use their laptops for checking email, reading articles, and watching youtube. I visit every year or so and usually end up doing a little maintenance.

    Probably my main tips are:

    • Don't pick elementary like I did years ago, I learned there's no upgrade path between major versions and that's been a pain
    • I've found it helpful to install as much as possible as flatpak, since that decouples app updates from system updates
    • Set up some form of remote access, I've used teamviewer but in hindsight it would be nice to have WG to SSH in
    • If I were doing it again today, I would probably use a universal blue spin for the atomic updates
    • With my parents' level of computer experience, as long as there's a firefox icon in the dock then they're right at home

    Honestly there isn't much to it, especially if they're not tech savvy and aren't doing anything complex. All you have to do is make sure familiar app icons are where they expect and that they know how to use the window decorations / DE. My only pain has been having to do a bunch of updates when I visit, so next time I'll swap them to fedora and set up automatic atomic updates. Besides that, everything keeps chugging along because they're not making any changes to the system when I'm not there.

  • anywhere to get adobe photoshop for free and safe?

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  • Lots of pirated programs will get reuploaded to other places with viruses added, which is why programs and games can be one of the more risky things to pirate. That said, if you use the links in the download directory section of the db0 wiki genp guide (the one labeled latest updated version), then you should be safe. That wiki is run by the same person who runs the instance you signed up on as well as this community.

    Of course, if you don't absolutely need Photoshop then it's infinitely less risky and less complicated to just use gimp or krita.

  • anywhere to get adobe photoshop for free and safe?

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  • If you actually need Photoshop's features and can't use gimp or krita, then genp is the way to go. If you just search genp you'll find the dbzer0 wiki page which has all the information. I used it to get substance painter because I needed to open files made by other people.

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  • I'm upvoting this just so more people have to see it

  • Let's just pretend that doesn't exist

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  • I have like 1.5k tabs, I find ones I need because it suggests open tabs in the address bar. If I need to go from my first few tabs to something at the end or vice versa, I click on one of my pinned tabs which stays at the beginning and is always visible (doesn't scroll) and then use the hotkey to go to next / prev tab which wraps and immediately scrolls to the end. It's a lot faster than using the scroll wheel. That's my main tab group, I have like 6 or 7 others with around 500 tabs each

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    Zig quits GitHub, gripes about Microsoft's AI obsession

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  • Hopefully forgefed (based on activity pub) helps with this - in theory you could use your codeberg account to open issues on repos hosted on other instances. I believe forgejo is working on implementing it.

  • hairline rule

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  • Honestly that's kinda how I view it for myself. Might recreationally get bottom surgery someday too.

  • hairline rule

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  • I was already kinda considering HRT because I only just discovered that SERMs are a thing, which allows you to avoid certain changes from HRT. Remembering that receding hairlines are a thing that happens in your 30s might just be the thing to push me to start HRT.

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  • Valve is about to win the console generation

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  • I gotcha no biggie! Trying to be terse and clear is hard

  • Valve is about to win the console generation

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  • Yes that's probably what they (and I) was getting at when they said that astigmatism is a big reason why they didn't add diopters, since it would be a lot of work to only solve it for people without astigmatism.

    I assumed anyone interested in glasses or lens inserts would know what I meant when I said astigmatism is the reason they didn't do diopters 😅

    I mainly have just astigmatism so diopters don't do anything for me.

  • Valve is about to win the console generation

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  • It was I think in the tested interview with norm and the optics guy when he asked about the lack of diopters, and after explaining why they didn't add diopter adjustment (astigmatism), the engineer mentions that they've been able to make good corrective inserts and that they're working on making that available. It doesn't sound definite but it seems like it's part of the current plan.

  • Valve is about to win the console generation

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  • My eyes also suck ass but it looks like glasses fit just like in the index, and they'll have first party inserts (whereas with the index you had to find third party ones). It also supposedly has a spacer if you need more space, which is something I wish was a thing for the Index because I couldn't let some of my friends try because their glasses were too big and they couldn't see without glasses.

  • Is there a software for Linux to make windows to go external SSD like you can with Rufus on windows?

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  • If it still boots from the internal disk then you may just need to set the boot priority to prefer your external drive. That'll be mobo specific unfortunately so I can't give any tips. I've had systems set up to boot from external media when plugged in so it should work.

    Back in the day there was also an issue with running full windows installs from USB drives where you needed to prevent it from reinitializing USB devices during bootup since that would interfere with itself, but I'm not seeing anything recent about that so hopefully that's not an issue anymore.

  • Is there a software for Linux to make windows to go external SSD like you can with Rufus on windows?

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  • I don't think you need to involve Linux at all if you boot the official windows installer. I would just install the SSD as the only drive internally and install to it, then put it back in its enclosure.