Someonelol

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[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 hour ago

The rich would never go near a municipal dump, much less climb a literal mountain of garbage... Unless it's located in the highest point in the world, then they'd happily pay for the privilege.

That's not far enough. The Republican party should be disbanded for capitulating to Trump's authoritarianism. They've basically just abandoned their post to let a king in all but name run amok.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago (29 children)

To be fair, tanks seem to be a favored tool of these oppressive regimes. I'm personally not against communism, they have some good ideas like universal child care, guaranteed jobs, and housing (even though the latter may be considered sub-par by some). The problem comes when these fucking authoritarian cheerleaders come out and say communist governments were never oppressive.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Because I've tried some of the more "beginner friendly" distros that don't offer the things I'm looking for. Proper Nvidia drivers, access to VPNs, and a few other basics I need aren't easy to install in the other distros I've tried like Mint or Bazzite compared to what Arch has to offer. Considering there are a few other things I want to do with my PC it makes sense to jump into the deep end and figure it out as I go along.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You're not alone. My family went no gifts this year and we just went out to eat and stayed home with some decent whiskey and beer.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'll try deb2arch soon. For now though what can I do with a tarball? I thought tar.gz just meant a compressed file by tar = tape archive and gz being the gzip program used to compress it. From my limited knowledge, this just looks like a compressed file with the files needed to run in either a fedora or debian environment.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

No luck for this model from what I can tell.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I just need it to print and scan some multi page documents into a PDF. As a recent install, CachyOS recognizes the printer through USB but I have no means to communicate with it to fulfill those two basic requirements. The driver program I used when I was still on Windows provided a basic GUI with that functionality.

UPDATE: I followed the CUPS terminal manual that sent me to localhost: 631. From there it was pretty straightforward until I couldn't find the MF212w model. I suspect since it's so old it's no longer supported. I'd hate to toss out such a perfectly good laser printer just so I could have less hassle setting up a way to communicate with it.

 

I'm trying to install either a .deb or .rpm driver for a Canon MF212w printer. Unfortunately since CachyOS is an Arch-based OS it lacks a straightforward way to go with the installation. I checked out a few different tutorials on Youtube but they all basically say to not do it their way since it could work but at the cost of messing up some dependencies. Is there a safe way to install either version of this program without damaging any other files or directories?

~/Downloads/linux-UFRII-drv-v620-us/x64/RPM

❯ ls -l

.rw-r--r-- 7.5M admin 4 Jun 22:56  cnrdrvcups-ufr2-us-6.20-1.01.x86_64.rpm

~/Downloads/linux-UFRII-drv-v620-us/x64/Debian

❯ ls -l

.rw-r--r-- 7.6M admin 4 Jun 22:56  cnrdrvcups-ufr2-us_6.20-1.01_amd64.deb

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

Please don't forget to extend your services to jail breaking car-based telemetry when you do.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

My original comment points out the social credit system is something that doesn't really exist but was used to scare western capitalists. I'm merely saying that non-existent Boogeyman is actually being used through a financial lens in the US instead.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 days ago (21 children)

I've had a consistent score of a little over 800 before and after purchasing my house by paying off my credit cards ahead of time. I had no major long term debt other than a mortgage either. That said, this is pretty much the equivalent to that Chinese social credit score crap but it's real in this case. It just means you're ranking high in some opaque game on your financial prospects that the banks are playing.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

They were somewhat subsidized thanks to a special STEM program that gave a small stipend for textbooks so it helped a lot. Still, I wish everyone who wants a proper education shouldn't have to worry about the cost of their books or tuition. Life is bleak enough here in the US without needing to finance our future with ever lowering odds of success.

 

Hi all. I'm trying out Cachy for the first time and was testing an old game on Steam (Anomaly Warzone Earth). The game went full screen but was stuck in a loading loop where I couldn't Alt+tab or Alt+F4 my way out of. The OS was still responsive and I could open up a terminal but as soon as I did, the game's loading screen would block my view. Is there a way to force minimize or kill a program when it's stuck in full screen? I heard xkill could work but I don't see how to use it when I can't even see the terminal.

 

I just finished a preliminary interview for a medium sized engineering company. The interviewer was impressed with my background and asked to proceed with my candidacy but wanted four additional rounds of interviews and a 30 minute technical presentation about how I solved a problem. I turned them down and said I don't work for free, the amount of time it would take to gather my notes and thoughts on a slide deck would be too much. She quickly soured and we ended the call soon after. I feel like I dodged a bullet going through a gauntlet of work for the high chance of ending up with nothing.

What are Lemmy's thoughts on preparing presentations for lengthy job interview processes? Would you have considered going through with it?

 

Just finished installing the under frame. I'm so reluctant to add on the armor and have been taking weeks having the figure sit in the back of the kitchen table while admiring the details when eating.

 

Hello, I recently bought an old Lenovo Thinkpad X130e (ca. 2012) and tried installing Linux Mint ver. 22.1 Xfce edition into the laptop's HDD and received a "Linux Mint unable to install GRUB in dev/sda" error that only let me boot into a GRUB terminal after rebooting. Is there an easily available installation guide/manual for this laptop I could take a look at? I've tried adjusting the BIOS' UEFI/boot settings but haven't had any luck. I figure there's a way to manually configure the HDD to have a bootable partition during installation but I'm not sure what I'm doing exactly.

UPDATE: Finally fixed the issue. I rebooted on the USB stick iso after the latest GRUB install error and ran the Boot Repair utility from the start menu. It automatically fixed the issue and was able to successfully boot without the USB. Hopefully this helps someone if they run into a similar issue later.

 

Back in the 80's, Atari had a monopoly of games and charged absurd amounts of money for titles that pretty much had no quality control. The cost of each cartridge would easily go over $100 in today's money and gamers began to pull back on purchasing anything. This eventually culminated in the infamous E.T. movie tie in that led to pallets of its unsold cartridges ending up in a landfill and crashing the industry.

Now that Nintendo's signaled to the rest of the industry it's okay to sell digital titles at $80 each, how soon do you see gamers collectively hold back on their purchases that will eventually collapse the AAA market? Will the current trade war play a role in the hardware side of things with the collapse? Will all major companies save Nintendo suffer the downturn?

 

I'm planning to go to a rural spot that has a Bortle class 3 night sky around Southern California. Can anyone recommend a beginner friendly telescope with decent magnification for around $200? I'm not interested in using an accompanying smart phone app to go with it either. I'd like to see nebulae and galaxies the most. Thank you.

 

There should be a kind of "sorting hat" personality test to attract the interest of prospective Lemmy joiners. People who love solarpunk stuff, for example, would easily find their home in slrpnk.net. Set a link to it on sites like join-lemmy.org to make the fediverse more approachable to casuals.

 

 

I followed the maintenance guide and applied belt lube as instructed. Friction eventually caused the motor to overheat. Support said they meant to include using all 4 ounces of lube that came with it at a time. I'll be getting a new drive board to replace the burnt out one soon. Yep.

 
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