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• Its like the Gnome extension not available for your version, so you just edit the file to have your version in its list. Usually works

  on I'm gaslighting them for the greater good in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2h ago

• I prefer classifaction in descending order… Narrow down the yearx then the month then the day then the hour then the seconds. Absolutely nobody wants seconds first then minutes

  on dating tips in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 4d ago

• I mean I get you, but it does need to be totally open for editting, and that’s what the history and discussion pages are for–to add some hive mind filtering.

  It bothers me when wiki becomes seen as gospel by those that may not have history on something, and so it needs a method of alteration. Sure that will be abused, but then it gets rolled back.

  on Thats why I only smoke weed. Don't want to risk this nasty windows Programms to suddenly start working in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 5d ago

• Thanks I missed that

  on Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026

• Yeah Tumbleweed supports a lot of things. Whenever people have complained about Linux not doing something, I’m like “Uh, OpenSUSE does”

  Since I’m updating the Kernel and nVidia driver modules, the system is making its own keypair, so I guess its not a check against a known supplied key but a machine specific key pair. Enrolling the key stores it to check against the kernel on boot.

  I suppose it protects against Random malware installs changing files, or if somebody swaps a drive on you.

  on Had to do a clean install... in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026

• It matters because accounting has to ledger expenses and balance books. Its a super pain when an employee makes a non work expense and then maybe uses cash to pay off instead of the intracompany accounts, because then the outgoing and incoming doesn’t zero out…usually needs a manual books adjustment to account for the discrepancies.

  on Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026

• I assumed it was his own company

  on Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026

• Secure boot is in case the OS gets tainted. It only allows a signed OS to boot.

  For example when new nvidia drivers are autocompiled into my Tumbleweed kernel during an update, on reboot the srcureboot asks if I want to view the new key or allow it. I then have to enter a password to add the key…otherwise it won’t boot with that kernel.

  on Had to do a clean install... in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026

• GRsync is helpful so you can toggle the delete files on destination or not, based on source deletion. Other toggles also, and it shows you what the command line string would be if you did it manually

  on Software for Syncing files between storages (Linux) in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026

• It should, mine is 2017 and had options to listen for spoken commands

  on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 11 Sep 2026

• www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J8k3d9C1pw

  on Grandma finds the secret knitting app in c/lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• Maybe this is his Grandma www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J8k3d9C1pw

  on Grandma finds the secret knitting app in c/lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• And his investors family were stabbed, and another guy relates to it had is car blow up. Random or coordinated?

  on New compression technique in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 3 Sep 2026

• Ha. Corporations. TD bank did this to my kids Savings Accounts. When in one day and accounts had been archived due to lack of deposit or withdrawal activities. Like WTF they are 8,10, 14, how many transactions did you expect they’d make.

  on Gamer complained that he turned on his old PS3 for MGS 4 and found out that Sony had disabled his account - he lost his games due to prolonged inactivity in c/technology@beehaw.org · 2 Sep 2026

• I don’t change mine on most GNOME installs, but I do like that the light/dark mode toggle also flips the wallpaper to a light dark version of the same style

  on The Creator of Git and Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• Have you read the rants, he is often spot on.

  on The Creator of Git and Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• Yes they are awesome; The kind that adjusts for sitting or stnading.

  We had them at a company I worked at. You sit for a while ( like and hour or two) and then feel a bit uncomfortable so pull the level and slide to standing mode. Work an hour standing, then sit. It really helps you feel less fatigue, and is better for circulation and digestion.

  on The Creator of Git and Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• Its not a gotcha question though, is ambiguous to see if you ask for more information or just make assumptions.

  We are losing a large account at work because a team provided a solution to a customer based on their initial issues without asking for more info on what the root issue was.

  Had they just asked “why are you needing to do this particular thing?” The while solution would have been different.

  on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 1 Sep 2026

• Its not a trick question, its an ambiguous one. Ambiguity should prompt people to ask clarifying questions. Assumptions are often wrong.

  Part of ambiguity also lies in the English language. In a general conversation 35% is information and 65% is disambiguation.

  on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 1 Sep 2026

• I thinks that’s the whole point, they can’t read minds so they need to ask questions to gain information. So you can makean better response.

  When I’ve done support and customer says “This isn’t working I need this bug reported”

  The first question I ask is “Why do you need to do that?”

  Because just fixing what they asked solves their current issue, but not the underlying pain they have in their process.

  100s of techs would just solve the bug, but they you never find out the deeper issue or lack of features that push the customer to using the other thing.

  on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 1 Sep 2026

• I had this with one of my guys. He spent a week working on something and the validation at the end wasn’t jiving.

  He started showing me the complex solution and end results and so I said show me how you started and walk me through it.

  It was step 1 the origin location of data was out of position.

  I said if you start at this origin the rest of the numbers and data will work out.

  He replied that the origin wasn’t shown measured from somewhere, so how would we know location.

  So I pointed out that the data to origin wasn’t directly spelled out but if you take this measure and subtract this one that is your data origin start.

  He said OMG I worked on this for a week trying to get the formulas working. I feel so stupid because you solved it in 1 minute.

  I replied its not a question of smart or stupid (because my guy is way beyond me for formulae and programming) its just slowing down and following a process. And if you are confused, ask more questions, rather than just continuing.

  on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 1 Sep 2026

• In the last 5 years (in the west) it has gone from 1% to 5-6%. So instead of 1 out of 100 people you meet having a Linux aystem, 1 out of 20 might. That’s a significant change. Before trump in the white house it may not have eclipsed Windows use (even though their market share has been dropping for a decade), but with Trump threatening the world countries have seriously reconsidered dropping Microsoft Products for sovereign security. Without a Microsoft product there is no reason to run a bloated MS OS anymore.

  on Microsoft Paint and Photos Embed Server-Issued GUIDs as Invisible Watermarks in Locally-Generated Images in c/technology@beehaw.org · 31 Aug 2026

• It was finite, and early 90s. Calculation time is something you wanted to avoid. To put it to an analogy: you could calculate if a 3d X can be manipulated through a hole, or you can just prr evaluate and say Yes or no based on size, rather than running permutations on 6 axis of movement

  on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 30 Aug 2026

• Because he hadn’t thought of what I suggested and it was much easier than what he was trying to program. I wasn’t suggesting he write the program, solve it and table it; it was more like empirical knowledge/common sense stuff to narrow options, then fill the rest in based on what made sense. Then its just a horizontal or vertical intersection to find the outputs required instead of a complex calculation every time

  on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 30 Aug 2026

• Ha. I had a convo with a programmer in the 90s. He was explaining a complex problem and the steps to solve in the code, to adjust things based on user choices and parameters.

  And I said why wouldn’t you presolve all of them and then provide a lookup to go get the solution from a list. And he just looked stunned and walked away.

  on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 30 Aug 2026

• But changing events changes outcomes. They were poised to deploy in schools. That is the number one way to get user adoption for life.

  on Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026

• That’s a different issue, if the selling price doesn’t cover costs it gets adjusted, its meant to prenet citizens being ripped of by price gouging practices or like the bread price fixing scandal we have in Canada.

  on The FTC is cracking down on companies that charge you a "personalized price" in c/technology@beehaw.org · 24 Aug 2026

• Should adopt the Indian system where items have a government set maximum price on items and its printed on the item.

  on The FTC is cracking down on companies that charge you a "personalized price" in c/technology@beehaw.org · 24 Aug 2026

• Yep it will get used by advertisers to know how many times you get up while watching netflix, or by police to know when to conduct a raid.

  on Comcast turns your Xfinity WiFi into a home motion detector in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• SaaS sucks. Outsourced IT is only good for the vendor not the client signing up for it.

  on U.S. warns Siemens devices can be hacked amid fears Iran is breaching water plants in c/technology@beehaw.org · 23 Aug 2026

• Based on what?

  Are you assuming a threshold moment, would happen the same under different circumstances?

  on Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• No Desktop only. There were articles about the 10% recently. India has been 15% for a while. Steam Deck and SteamOS seems to have given a boost to Linux adoption in the last 2-3 years

  on Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• Had the japenese not been spooked by the sugestion it waa a threat(which was cleared up as not being one) it totally could have been adopted nationwide, as it was ready to deploy to their schools.

  And today we have BSD as the basis of Apples OS.

  Microsoft has gone from say 85% market share down to the 60s now I think.

  Maybe we will see a day MS loses to Linux since that hit 10% use last month, and has over 15% use in India.

  MS certainly is not helping themselves win lately.

  on Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• This is sort of good I guess for some enrichment, but I went to the Vancouver aquarium a decade ago and it was sad. The dolphins /whales in the tank just did the exact round trip of their environment over and over, with same twist , rollover and turn every time. I watched for half hour and it was an unbroken loop of the exact motion. Those animals were losing their minds in there. When family came to visit and insisted on going I just dropped them off and said call me when you are done and just drove around Vancouver for an hour. I couldn’t see that again.

  on She looks so happy in c/lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• Why? wireguard doesn’t respond if the keys are wrong.

  on Means to privately connect to my home server other than Tailscale? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026

• Can you port forward on the router?

  on Means to privately connect to my home server other than Tailscale? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• I have no training. Moved to Linux when W10 came out, and just organically got to self hosting

  on Do you participate in this hobby without a formal IT education or a career in a similar field? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026