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  • What was your first Linux distribution?

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  • I dual booted Ubuntu originally, but I never used it. Had to really make the jump when I installed Arch on my desktop in ~2020 because I heard it would run games better. I've stayed 100% on Linux since! After trying quite a few distros (Fedora, Debian, EndeavourOS, Garuda, Archcraft, more I'm forgetting) I have finally settled on NixOS... it's been over a year and I still haven't switched, that's gotta be worth something :)

  • At These Grocery Stores, No One Pays: A growing number of free grocery stores offer shoppers not just free food, but choice, ambiance, and space for dignity, too.

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  • Have you had a bad experience with canned peaches? I volunteered at a food bank a while back and we each had our station and gave out what people asked from that category (types of bread, fruits, etc). I don't recall seeing canned peaches or folks' reaction to them, but I'll be on the lookout next time!

  • I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened

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  • Darn. I recall reading good articles from some of these publications in the past. Shame...

  • I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened

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  • This article reads like satire... it's sentence after sentence of "and I did it using one of the [best office chairs]" which is a link to some review by themselves. Every bit mentioned had an affiliate link and there wasn't an actual review of what the experience (software, setup, visual fidelity) is like??

  • Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

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  • Ouch, that sucks yeah. Guess I got lucky with the games my friends like to play. Only one is I guess Valorant, but I don't engage with that one anyways. Guess you're stuck on the dual boot until devs of these games start ticking the Proton support box :P

  • New Birth Control Shot Transforms Into a Long-Lasting Implant—No Clinic Required

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  • I'd like to read about this, but I don't see a URL? Is it just this image?

  • Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

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  • What games keep you on Windows? Besides a few anticheat-enabled ones which choose not to support it, basically everything works fine. I game (and work in gamedev!) 100% on Linux.

  • Are Linux Phones Ready in 2025?

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  • Never heard of FuriLabs, looks really cool. How open is the OS/hardware? Could be my next phone... though I'd love to see an immutable approach so I can't be left with a broken system after an update.

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  • I think this pinpointa what makes configuring Linux so much fun for me. It's one little problem/challenge after the next, it never prevents me from working but it does always give me something to work toward. Currenrly working on a notification display for my bar, and I hope it will be just as satisfying in the end as when I got my mouse to animate with movements or when I got my config to set my wallpapers correctly no matter the host.

  • AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality

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  • The article is good, however I'd really appreciate having fedi-style content warnings on AI-generated images. I don't interact with mainstream social mediums so I generally do not see it, however in the thumbnail and contents of the article there are some quite disturbing images and videos that I'd have chosen not to see (description is enough) given the choice...

  • Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week.

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  • Good news!

  • Linux or Landfill? End of Windows 10 Leaves PC Charities with Tough Choice

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  • Good point.. I tend to give family members Flatpak-based distros like Fedora for the nice app store experience, but I guess if you can get past the scaryness of test editing and rebuilding with a console, NixOS does come with the benefit of having waaaay more packages and much easier rollback. My poor father trying to run nvidia drivers on Fedora Kinoite, who has to rebuild the kernel for every package install...

  • Linux or Landfill? End of Windows 10 Leaves PC Charities with Tough Choice

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  • Does your wife install packages with NixOS? This is one of the few distros I tried (and now main) that I genuinely cannot recommend to anyone not willing to spend days learning the lang & concepts.

  • Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

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  • Sooo how root-able are these? My family has had one unplugged for a couple years now, we tried to use it to reach less-techy family but the French localization was abysmal, so it's stayed in the drawer of shame since. Seems like a good time to take it out and mess with it!

  • Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2503

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  • Awesome stuff :) I look forward to seeing a Wayland backend implemented, so Dolphin can join all the other emulators on the modern Linux desktop as it deserves.

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    [Help] OpenWrt wifi to ethernet repeater

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  • It's an ordinary consumer wifi 4 router (by a company named Renkforce). I was able to use WDS with it previously, but I haven't got it working since flashing openwrt, which is why I was trying relayd. A hotspot from my phone works (but is really slow obviously). I suspect something is wrong with my interface or firewall setup, given the colors of the interfaces.

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    [Help] OpenWrt wifi to ethernet repeater

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  • I've tried to match your setup, but to no avail.

    Interfaces:

    lan

    Static address (192.168.2.1) Firewall zone: lan

    wwan

    Static address (192.168.0.211) Device: phy0-sta0 (listed as the client in the dropdown) Gateway: 192.168.0.1 Use custom DNS servers: 1.1.1.1 (using root router's IP causes DNS to stop working) Firewall zone: WLAN

    repeater_bridge

    Relay bridge Relay between: lan wwan Firewall zone: unspecified

    Firewall zones: lan ⇒ WLAN accept accept accept WLAN ⇒ lan accept accept accept

    With this, I am able to ping google.com from a openwrt ssh session, but not my laptop connected w/ ethernet (and a static ip). In the interfaces list, lan is green, repeater_bridge is grey, and wwan is red. I tried running /etc/init.d/firewall stop but still no luck.

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    [Help] OpenWrt wifi to ethernet repeater

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  • When I follow this guide and get to the part where DNS server of wwan to the root router's IP, I am not able to ping anything from a ssh session into the router (I get "bad address 'google.com'". So, I set the DNS address to 1.1.1.1 which restored ping's functionality. However, with this configuration the network does not appear to be shared at all. My PC, connected to the LAN port, cannot access the internet (regardless of forcing a static IP for the pc)

  • How to minimize pain of Windows in work environment?

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  • Have you asked whether they'd be okay with a dual-boot? I recently started work as well (gamedev) and while most of the studio is on Windows I was able to set up a NixOS install for productivity (and to test the game on more configs).

  • Ghost blog adding activitypub

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  • You can't self-host Ghost? I'd like to stay on the same domain indeed, not wanting to also mess up folks subscribed to RSS.