Friendly reminder to check your car's tires today! Do not delay it until is too late!
... I got brain damage reading this
Frankly? No idea. I know taxidermy can be a touchy subject, but I do not know how it is treated. And mind you, this is eBay around early 2000's
What I mean is: usually a laptop the keyboard part stays on the table and the screen is up. Imagine you reverse this: you pit the screen down on the table and the bottom part is now vertical. This way the touchpad seems to work
No warranty at this point
Yes exactly. Got it from eBay. I cannot tell for sure is 100% new, but by the status of it, sure looks new to me (it feels new as well when using the trackpad. Clicks are good when it is actually in position)
I thought at some point the issue was exactly that, but in this case, with pop os. I had pop os, reverted to windows 10, tried windows 11, some point had bazzite, but nothing worked at all. At this point I can only say it has to be hardware failure, hence changing the track pad
Xps 9500 and trackpad replacement
Hi there,
I have been recently busy with a xps 15 9500 and the trackpad. For a while, this laptop suffered from erractic behavior that nothing could explain why the behavior. Recently I decided to get a trackpad via eBay.
Installed it, felt actually better than the previous, it looked OK. 10 minutes later, trackpad is recessed and it is in a mode like left click is constantly clicked. I've tried everything under the sun (electric tape on the back, loosen or tighten screws around the battery, apply electricat tape on the wedge where the 2 prongs of the trackpad rest inside the battery, etc). And absolutely nothing works.
At this point I am losing my marbles and just want to throw this bs into the bin. Which is a massive waste, since the machine is still in great condition. But a laptop without a functional trackpad is not a laptop.
Did anyone around here ever had a xps 9500 and managed to solve this issue?
EDIT: I forgot to mention a very important detail. When I am using the lapto
OK good to know. Thanks for letting us know! So that means they are making it "free" for a week to try to brush off the negative reviews, but probably also make more people accept the ToS.
Just another day for 2k being trash. Question: did this change happen when they made this game "free"? If so, these suckers are poisoning the well for future giveaways. One detail: you can claim this on steam, but grab a previous version from somewhere else without this trash, profit.
Octopath traveller
2 you say? That is 2 more the amount I actually have of real friends
The word you are looking for is elitism. Clearly, people who think you have to have x amount of time on anything to have an opinion belong to an elite that clearly do not understand no one can enjoy the same media the same exact way as they do. I've had so many games that I get, start, 2 minutes in I just do not want to give it more time, return it (case in point: Helldiver's 2 immediately after the tutorial I just realized was not for me). If I wanted to give a negative opinion I would be more than entitled to it. I had a game, didn't like it, returned it. That's it
That is for sure a good gap solution. It depends a lot on the space we are talking, and more critically, number of concurrent devices connected. For some use cases converting routers to APS is for sure good enough.
You can use on any computer really (with network connections of course).
I use on a minisforum PC with 2 NICs attached to it. For this solution is usually needed APs (which tends to be better in general, just more expensive). There are people that even use opnsense with proxmox (which is a VERY advanced use case) to have the machine for more things.
One interesting detail: with opnsense you can actually have on the same machine adguard for DNS installed as a service for opnsense (and use opnsense to actually force all DNS to to there, as long is not doh, but that is a bit of a different story).
I checked their page and I have now a personal license. I am going later to try to find out how it works, so we will see
That sounds like a crazy story to find out what the issue was. As I stated somewhere on the thread, ram is not the issue, and the APS are quite new (Aruba stuff that is 1 and a half year old). And the only situation I get this issues is with my phones in specific. I will probably use the smb solution stated before and see how is goes. If the thing still happens, then is hunting time
That is something I can totally do after I figure out this syncthing thing. Probably will use Borg backup but same principle applies
Finished an all nighter memtest with a total of 12 passes. All good on the ram side
That is some crazy story right there. I do know for a fact that memtest needs multiple passes. But in my case the machine only has 1 stick of ram (used to have 2, one died). I will probably do a memtest overnight and get at you tomorrow.
Syncthing alternatives
Hi,
As the title suggests: what are alternatives to syncthing that are basically fire and forget, works on multiple device types, and just focuses on file syncing?
I've had over the months the weirdest problems with syncthing, and lately I noticed some of my photos got corrupted, which is an absolute no no for me. I use syncthing currently as a easy automatic backup of documents, photos and other files, between my PCs and my phones (they all send only to the server. Folders are not shared with other devices).
What are (in your opnion) the must tweaks for steamos?
Recently had a question about a game running on the deck, and actually got me thinking since steamos settings were briefly discussed: what are the settings to change for a steam deck, or tools to add? I do not mean more fps or more performance per say only, but more battery life or just better tools for certain aspects of the deck.
Did someone here play "high on life" on the deck?
Very recently I got this on sale (around 50% or so) and it is a very fun game so far. Was playing on my tower, and out of curiosity tried on the steam deck.
For some reason, the game looks super fuzzy and weird on the deck (chiseling hair, strange textures at times, choppiness here and there). My question: is there a setting the game needs to be turned off to work better? Or is just a title that is better played on my main PC and that's it? I do find this even more strange since it's a steam deck verified title, so I would expect 0 tweaking and work ok ootb
Need some pointers/clarifications on usenet
Hi,
Lately I've been looking into Usenet, and maybe this time I was planning to try it out (I am aware of Usenet since circa 2000s, so I sort of know what it is).
Still there are some things I still didn't figure out:
- from what I see a Usenet provider and an indexer is required. And from what I gather, both are paid (indexer not exclusively paid but its better). Considering what Usenet is used for, is it sort if a requirement to pay in btc?
- what sort of content is usually Usenet more useful for?
- for what I see, Usenet tends to use SSL like the rest of the web. However, i would argue it gives to the ISP the visibility that you are in fact at least starting/ending connections to Usenet. Is this an issue? If so, does it make VPN a mandatory requirement? Or orbot for that matter
- one thing that bothers me greatly: I've checked the privacy policy for the most 3 known providers (news hosting, Usenet server and euweka) and, first of all, i find incredibly sus that these seemingly
How reliable/realistic is to use a laptop as a remote file backup server?
I have an HP pavillion 15-bc235nd that, quite frankly, I don´t really like that much (way too loud of a fan, cannot adjust the fan curve, keyboard and trackpad are terrible, etc).
I was planning to replace with laptop with something else, but in the meantime, I was thinking of something. Instead of getting this laptop in the landfill or give to someone else (no one needs an emergency laptop right now), I could potentially use this has a server machine to be used as an off site backup location.
Right now I am missing the off site backup part out of the 3-2-1 backup strategy. Since this laptop has more than enough horsepower to do the job, it could be a solution. But personally, I am not sure how reliable a laptop turned into a server can be. This laptop would be around 3000km away from me, so I have to be really sure it works at a distance without much problem.
For those who turned a laptop into a server: what is your mileage? Are there any specific considerations about this
Trying to understand what should change on my current setup
I have for a while a ubuntu server where I selfhost for my household syncthing (automatic backup of most important files on devices), baïkal, magic mirror and a few other things via docker.
I was looking at what I have now (leftovers of a computer of mine, amd 2600 with 16 gb ram with a 1660 super and a western digital blue ssd of 512GB), and regarding storage wise, at the time I decided to get several sort of cheap ssd's to have enough initial space (made a logical volume out of 3 crucial mx500 1TB, in total making 3TB). At the time I though I wanted to avoid regular hdd at all costs (knew people who had issues with it), but in hindsight, I never worked with NAS drives, so my fear over these hdd with such low usage is sort of uncalled for.
So now I am trying to understand what can I change this setup so I can expand later if needed, but also having a bit more space already (for the personal stuff I have around 1.5TB of data) and add a bit more resilience in case something happens.
What other options for good phones are out there?
I have now a pixel 8, which was working OK from the past 8 months and using grapheneos. Unfortunately, today out of nowhere got the green screen bug (searched around, this seems to be really a thing with pixel 8 and some pixel 7). This really stroke me a nerve. Previously I had a pixel 5 which at some point also got screen problems and later the speaker piece just straight up did not work properly. And now this with the pixel 8.
So my question is: what other phones could potentially be used with a custom ROM that allow bootloader relocking? Other Roms can be something like divest or calyx (I used calyx before, so I am fairly familiar with it).
It really pisses me off the only option until now are pixel phones for proper relocking (from what I know from a while back), and then they have these annoying issues. It makes my skin crawl, but if required I would change to an iPhone (and throwaway a lot of things that android is actually superior, such as proper tor browser, VPN split tunnel
entire system backups onto the server - how?
Hey there, I have a (very) small Ubuntu server and I was dabbling on the idea to do system backups (entire system, meaning, if the disk of the said pc fries, I can get another one, put the info from the backup on the new disk, works immediately afterwards). I have a couple of Linux mint machines and a windows one. I searched a lot out there and found several names, from rsync to Borg backup.But ultimately I don't really know if these solutions would fit my use case.
So the question is: is there a feasible way/service that can be self hosted to do backups of local machines, similar to an image backup? Or, if you believe there are better ways to do it, can you please mention it?
Thanks in advance