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Dran

@ Dran_Arcana @lemmy.world

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  • They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?

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  • It was recommended to me not as a game, but like an interactive movie. As more art than game. Going into it with those expectations is probably why I loved it so much. I can definitely see how someone might get a very different experience with very different expectations.

  • Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

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  • Back in the day when our community was switching from xmpp to discord, our solution was to write a bot on either end that relayed messages from one to the other. The xmpp bot got more and more naggy over time until eventually we put the xmpp side in read-only for everyone except the relay bot. It did a good enough job at building momentum to switch that the final holdouts came over when we went r/o.

    You might consider building something similar if you want to make a genuine effort to switch to matrix or IRC. A relay bot solves the problem of the first people being punished by virtue of being first.

  • [SOLVED] Teams on Linux on old Thinkpad (Debian Stable, pulseaudio)?

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  • I use teams for work every day (calls and dm features) via Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with X11/awesomewm/pulse via Firefox and have no issues

    That suggests that as long as you're using a reasonably modern version of Debian with a sane config you should be fine

  • [JayzTwoCents] NVIDIA Drivers are aging like fine MILK!

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  • I would have thought that those people would require the most structure to get value from an informational video?

  • [JayzTwoCents] NVIDIA Drivers are aging like fine MILK!

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  • I really want to like his videos but they're so disorganized. I genuinely don't understand how he has such a large following.

  • [Solved] What are the reasons behind the “no booby-traps” laws in the US? Are there similar laws in Canada?

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  • What if the booby trap had AI though?

    (I'm joking please don't hurt me)

  • Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for good

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  • I switched to Niagara a few years back because Nova didn't have good support for foldables and tbh I haven't looked back. It's very different but once you get used to it it's much faster than a traditional launcher.

  • Looking to make the switch - Advice?

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  • I like the long-term overlapping security release that server-first focus gives me. I rely on it even. My daily driver is built from Ubuntu server headless LTS, X11, Awesomewm. My automation really only needs updates every 5 years, and I get the option to update it every 2. The same script I wrote to remove the esm motd message 10 years ago still works. I don't know what else people want from canonical.

  • Looking to make the switch - Advice?

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  • Long-time (and current) Ubuntu daily-driver here. When I first started dabbling 20 years ago, Ubuntu had unparalleled out-of-the-box driver support for things that required third-party drivers. It gave them an era of dominance that had a secondary effect of "if I have a Linux problem and Google it, Ubuntu guides are the most likely to exist" which kept me using it to this day. Is it the best? Probably not, but I have twenty years of automation built around it and it's comfortable.

    The people that still use it today are the functional tinkerers. I don't generally engage with these threads because I assume that every user making these posts isn't searching for the answers that are already out there in previous threads. The paths that lead to Ubuntu aren't the same paths that the "I use arch btw" people take. It's a case of the kinds of users that choose Ubuntu, don't go out of their way to interject that they're Linux people. We're just regular people that don't want an adversarial relationship with our operating system.

    Snap, esm, Ubuntu pro, they all get out of your way with a simple command or single line in a config file, and they respect the same signaling they've used since each product's inception. I want a product that is both open-source and financially sustainable, because it leads to stability in my life. If windows had easily togglable telemetry and functional automation I would never have switched in the first place.

  • Is a daily-driver computer built on top of a hypervisor a bad idea?

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  • My wife and I have both been using this setup for over a year and we've never looked back

  • Is a daily-driver computer built on top of a hypervisor a bad idea?

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  • My solution to this problem was to buy a $180 Dell workstation off eBay and install Ubuntu on that as my main workstation. My gaming desktop is now in the basement and runs sunshine. Moonlight over LAN is basically native, and solves the annoying reboot to switch tasks scenario.

  • Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System

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  • If you ran a raw Ubuntu/fedora/whatever, you can use qemu/libvrt to run small virtual machines as required. You start and stop them with virsh, define them with simple xml files, and can easily automate the creation/destruction of them if desired.

  • Stop Betting on Dildos Being Thrown at WNBA Games, You Fucking Creeps - Jezebel

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  • Am I allowed to find it funny at an NFL game but in poor taste at a WNBA game?

  • Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System

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  • if you're automating the creation and deployment of vms, and the downstream operating systems, and not doing some sort of HA/failover meme setup... proxmox makes things way more complicated than raw libvirt/qemu/kvm.

  • Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System

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  • Maybe for the initial setup, but nothing is more repeatable than automation. The more manual steps you have to build your infra, the harder it is to recover/rebuild/update later

  • Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System

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  • Don't get me wrong, I use libvrt where it makes sense but why would anyone go to proxmox from a full iac setup?

    I do 2 at home, and 3 at work, coming from 4 at both and haven't looked back.

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  • Any legal precedent for this has to be a win right?

  • Trump's tariff talk is all for "show," insiders admit

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  • No direct evidence for him no, but there is direct evidence that the market shifts slightly before his announcements, suggesting that somebody is getting advanced knowledge.

  • Solved: Any desktop environment or WM with configurable placing/opening of windows?

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  • I do this with awesomewm. You define window startup behavior in the main config. Applications can have static behavior to start in certain places or will default to "wherever my cursor currently is". I suspect i3 has similar functionality