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  • Plan for Windows 10 EOL and discounted old laptops

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  • I have 2010s (nVidia GT330M) and 2011s (Radeon 6xxx) in various states of decay in the double digits, I get them in the sub$10 range. all of them can easily be repurposed as linux workstations, their finnicky broadcom wifi notwithstanding. all of them can have the discrete graphics turned off, whether they work or not - less heat, longer battery life, no driver complications.

    this is the first 2012 I've gotten, as they were always unreasonably expensive for their advanced age - coulda gotten ten 2011s for the price of one 2012! so now I got one and it's... meh; yeah it's better (Ivy vs Sandy, HD4000 vs HD3000, USB3.0, etc.) but nothing spectacular. still, for $20 I could do worse.

  • [RESOLVED] GDM Issues (Fedora 42)

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  • if you're savvy enough to know about gdm, you're savvy enough to know to include at least some details, like what graphics you're running, X11/Wayland, etc.

  • Self-Hosting Email Like It's 1984

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  • any way to get a free domain? I know of afraid.org, but those are subdomains and usually don't play well with gmail and friends.

  • Fedora on a 2012 Macbook Pro (Retina)

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  • disable nvidia and run it off HD4000, plenty powerful for most tasks. you lose the display out and gain a better laptop with way better battery economy. you can leave X11 behind and use wayland without any issues - libinput gestures, HiDPI scaling, etc.

    you also need the wakeup systemd scripts so it doesn't hang for a minute while waking.

    edit: I see you want to game on the thing, can't help you there.

  • How to solve wi-fi problem on Macbook Air mid 2013?

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  • on fedora (ain't got iwconfig no more) it's sudo iw wlp3s0 set power_save off or whatever your device is.

  • How to solve wi-fi problem on Macbook Air mid 2013?

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  • boot off a ubuntu usb. connect to wifi prior to install. now install. all the drivers and settings are integrated in your install. this is the easiest and "just works" option out there.

    broadcom != broadcom, there are a buncha those in different macbook models and some have lotsa issues, some minor. that's the price you pay for repurposing decade-old hardware. me, I am fine with the tradeoffs (MBP 15 2012 on Fedora ova here). good luck!

  • 1 week using a Linux Phone | Jolla C2 Community Phone with Sailfish OS

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  • I'd like to get on board but until jolla/sailfish has a free (as in beer) community version that I can put on my cheap phone, I really don't care a bit for it. available for some xperia models and in a limited version, I mean come on. let it loose and reap the fruits of enthusiastic and unpaid volunteer work, what's the holdup?

  • Plan for Windows 10 EOL and discounted old laptops

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  • I got a Macbook Pro 15" 2012 (i7 Ivy quad-core) with an excellent battery for $20. retrofitted it with 16 GB for $15 and a "damaged" 500 GB SSD for $10. runs Fedora with Plasma like a dream - that kinda deal?

    this morning scored a 15" hires 2011 for less than $5 that I'm gonna take the screen off and transplant it ova here. plan to rock this beast for many, many moons.

  • Anyone have any tips to get HDMI-CEC working on LineageOS?

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  • can't help you but want to share that I couldn't get it working on an ATV chinese crapware x96something. also got some things to work (power on always, off sometimes) but at no point did it or the logs show any activity on the remote's presses.

  • BLE mouse won't reconnect without prompt

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  • as described here adding the F42 repo, downgrading, and then blocking further updates fixes things immediately.

  • 10k Pushups and How I Got into the Best Shape of My Adult Life

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  • I fucked up my shoulder doing pushups this spring. waiting for it to heal but it still hurts.

    looked at a buncha youtube "heal thyself" crap (of course, skipping and blocking every chirobullshitter) but no progress thus far. no idea if it's something transient or if it's there for good, got no access to medical aid.

    takeaway - listen to your body. the moment there's discomfort, quit immediately, none of that "power through it you pussy". or if you're 20, go for it, I guess.

  • Anyone using a Linux Smarphone?

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  • oneplus 6T and poco F1 on mobian and postmarketOS. SDM845 devices with 8 GB RAM and fast storage, about the peak of performance you can have nowadays for about $50 apiece. I'd encourage anyone to get a cheap device, fun to play around with and prepare for the day when it becomes viable. ubuntu touch is also possible, but since it's halium (like android + linux VM) it wants me to downgrade to Android 9 which is virtually impossible for me; the former two run full linux kernels and don't have that limitation - spotty hardware support, though.

    performance is acceptable, the power to do almost anything you want, access whatever and whenever you want. I run it without broadband, just wifi. the cameras are unusable. since I keep the modem off, GPS doesn't work either. so it's a linux laptop with touch, basically. the apps are a shitshow, rarely will you find one that supports touch and adapts to the vertical zoomed-in screen.

    but it's getting better, shit's way better now than it was only a year ago and eventually it'll get there.

    as long as you're aware it's not an android alternative, you'll have a good time.

  • BLE mouse won't reconnect without prompt

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  • appreciate the attempt, went through some of those, but I think you're on the wrong track. this issue persists across different machines and installs - F42, F43, old installs and fresh ones, desktop, laptop... the only common denominators are this crappy mouse and current bluez version (bluez-5.84-2 on F43, bluez-5.83-2 on F42). the moment it's back atbluez-5.80-1 (available only on F42) everything works, no need to reboot, no prompts to reconnect, nada. tried diffing configs between them two but came up short.

    edit: same thing with this guy.

  • BLE mouse won't reconnect without prompt

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  • pastebin lemmy won't let me post the whole thing.

  • How can I optimize my jellyfin, specifically transcoding and the CPU usage involved? I'm running it off a mini pc so resources are everything

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  • I am asking the dude doing the transcoding why he's doing it. I am not waging a crusade against all dudes doing transcodings.

    to answer your question, no, I don't, all media I got is 1080p and all my devices can display it.

  • How can I optimize my jellyfin, specifically transcoding and the CPU usage involved? I'm running it off a mini pc so resources are everything

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  • not knowledgeable about them things but normal movies and shows with multiple audio streams and subtitles play just fine with directplay, selecting them from the client works fine, etc.

    the only reasons I know of for transcoding would be if you have ancient clients that can't play e.g HEVC or something, or if you're on shitty broadband and it ain't feasible to stream 4K to a phone.

  • Ubuntu Touch mobile Linux distro is now based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

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  • it bums me out I have to revert to stock android 9 in order to flash it. postmarketOS and mobian flash just fine off A15.

  • How can I optimize my jellyfin, specifically transcoding and the CPU usage involved? I'm running it off a mini pc so resources are everything

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  • why are you transcoding at all? it's the first thing I turn off on jellyfin (and previously plex) installs. negligible cpu usage on both server and client when directplaying content.

  • [SOLVED] how do I remove flatpak end-of-life runtimes without being prompted to install them again when updating?

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  • not related to the problem, but if space is an issue convert your file system to btrfs. you get on-the-fly compression and (more important) deduping, so two same files occupy space only once.