Willem

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[–] Willem@kutsuya.dev 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Back when starting your computer and launching programs took a good chunk of your first hour at work (this was about 10-15 years ago for me), having startup programs meant you could just

  • hit the button
  • get coffee
  • chat with colleagues
  • login
  • get coffee
  • review the incoming paperwork
  • get coffee
  • start the one program that didn't autolaunch
  • get coffee
  • actually start doing something on your pc

those people in sitcoms chilling at coffee machines were probably waiting for their PC to start. Launching corporate software took ages, having them started neatly by windows saved you from having to start the next program when the previous was finally launched after a few minutes.

[–] Willem@kutsuya.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

I've got a serverrack on the attic, what is spare solar power? ;)

I've been considering getting a battery, but until I'm actually going to any meaningful surplus in power its not really worth the investment for me.

I'm from the EU and got 6 panels for a total of about 2kW on my roof, my house isn't on a optimal angle though, so I'm not often tapping the max capacity.

[–] Willem@kutsuya.dev 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

wiggle it until it's the size of a monitor, and if you're brave, it'll take over EVERYTHING.

I love it that KDE didn't limit the growing of it :)

[–] Willem@kutsuya.dev 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

the last part is one of my biggest annoyances. People just clicking away the dialogs that almost exactly tell what is wrong and at most just say: "yeah of gave me an error but I just clicked it away and it still didn't work".

As a software developer, pretty much every error you see I made there for you to either read or screenshot and send to IT, because I had to pretty much implement each one of them. (usually with a standard library, but it's still a deliberate choice to show it to the user)

Real unexpected errors are hopefully written to logfiles, but that's not always possible (try logging an error when your system disk is no longer available).

addendum: please also include the gibberish at the end of the error, because its likely there for IT or me to find more details of this specific error in the thousands to millions of things that are logged for the software or website.

[–] Willem@kutsuya.dev 23 points 2 months ago (9 children)

the issue is that things like the DHT and PeX can leak your own home ip address, and local peer discovery can leak the torrents you're seeding to local network devices.

Mullvad is very privacy oriented, hence it giving this advice.

[–] Willem@kutsuya.dev 5 points 2 months ago

on my normal desktop I use the flavor of the day DE, gnome is only used on my 40 inch touchscreen, because its the only one I could imagine being good on a touchscreen

[–] Willem@kutsuya.dev 10 points 4 months ago

Send them a message? They are usually very helpful, you might be able to either get a model or a replacement part.

[–] Willem@kutsuya.dev 51 points 4 months ago

A lot of ram is under lifetime warranty, check the manifacturer site (usually a serial lookup is enough).

[–] Willem@kutsuya.dev 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My mom would probably be very angry if I choose to save her over my wife.

My wife can swim ten times better then me tho, so she probably ends up saving both my mom and me

[–] Willem@kutsuya.dev 19 points 7 months ago (4 children)

... And he said it might work on wsl, which is Linux on windows translation layer, including graphics support.

A lot of Linux tooling has opened up to windows users because of it, which would include darling, to run mac apps, via wsl, on windows.

[–] Willem@kutsuya.dev 12 points 10 months ago

Our cat has a craving for chocolate, milk and everything not good for her.

She's not the brightest bulb

[–] Willem@kutsuya.dev 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you run a tidy ship, you could go through the apps you might suspect, there is a "set an alarm" permission under settings -> apps -> app -> permissions -> three dots -> all permissions.

I don't think stopping / clearing app data makes it go away if it's do persistent, so you might have to resort uninstalling the apps that have this permission until it goes away.

 
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