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Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago

It used to be somewhat better: Corel Linux and Creative apps existed...

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Nextcloud on Ereader (Mobiscribe Origin) (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 week ago by jfx@discuss.tchncs.de to c/ereader_community@lemmy.ml

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Does the Nextcloud SyncClient (Android) work on any ereader? I'd love to use it to snc my books and notes, but the blueish interface does not display at all on my monochrome eink tablet. Does anyone use Nextcloud successfully on a b/w device?

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Nextcloud on Ereader (Mobiscribe Origin) (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 week ago by jfx@discuss.tchncs.de to c/ereader_community@lemmy.ml

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Does the Nextcloud SyncClient (Android) work on any ereader? I'd love to use it to snc my books and notes, but the blueish interface does not display at all on my monochrome eink tablet. Does anyone use Nextcloud successfully on a b/w device?

Rant: My recent experience of trying to install windows for gaming and why I'm really thankful for Linux in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 months ago

It's actually worse! Last jan Microsoft bricked the entire fleet of laptops in my company with a borked generic driver update. It overwrote the sd reader's vendor driver blocking all storage access from working whatsoever. From one week to another more or less all devices refused to boot. They basically killed our entire company for half a week, until IT could walk people through efi-disabling the sd reader in every laptop (recent industrial models mind you) just because windows had pulled in the wrong driver. So... no - it's not great at all with automatic driver installation in windows ...

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KDE with good Samba: is it possible? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 4 months ago by jfx@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@discuss.tchncs.de

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An old grudge: i actually love KDE Plasma, but rely on a plethora of remote Samba shares for work.

Gnome/gvfs makes it so easy to integrate them in the file picker/nautilus and performance is great. On KDE kio (or whatever that is called now) always caches a copy first, which takes forever and prevents many applications from writing to the files correctly.

I'd love to be using KDE again. Is there anything I can do to get better/faster/more reliable samba access?

Linux hits 4% on the desktop 🐧 📈 in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 48 points 4 months ago

How on earth can people stand using Windows full time? Everything I'm on a Microsoft product I feel claustrophobic!

Lest ihr auch nur noch blabla Migration blabla Ausländer blablabla? in c/dach@feddit.de

[-] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 9 months ago

Genau so ist es! Und was brauchen wir für eine funktionierende Infrastruktur? Genau: Arbeitskräfte! Und woher bekommen wir die? In meiner Branche gehen in den kommenden zehn Jahren 3x mehr Menschen in den Ruhestand als demografisch nachkommen. Ohne Einwanderung sind wir doch am ****$&#@

Why is firefox losing market share? Why don't more people use Firefox? in c/firefox@lemmy.ml

[-] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago

Actually in my country DuckDuckGo is the only reliable search engine left. Google started giving me a bunch of bogus results for very specific queries a couple of years ago. Sad that FF depends so much on Ma'Google.

It's not just Adobe. Now Logitech wants me to go to a random website in order to add peripherals to my computer, and I'm met with this when I go to the page they tell me to in c/firefox@lemmy.ml

[-] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 10 months ago

Soo... Bye Logitech, it was good while it lasted with you.

Why does Nvidia hate linux? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 11 months ago

If AMD was able to come to the bright side, so can Nvidia. There's still hope, ye faithful!

My Opinion: NewPipe, Piped, Invidious, etc's days are numbered. in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 11 months ago

Well there's Kodi's Netflix interface, looks pretty alternative to me: https://github.com/CastagnaIT/plugin.video.netflix

There's always a way

How do you all go about backing up your data, on Linux? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 11 months ago

Duplicity (cli) with deja-dup (gui) has saved my sorry ass many times.

People sticking with audio jack phones, why is USB-C earphones not a solution? in c/android

[-] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 11 months ago

I'm daily commuting via train. There are USB chargers everywhere in the cars, so this is pretty significant. And don't tell me to buy another wireless gadget I have to charge before I go - or some USB buds that won't work with my other devices, since USB-C is just a plug, not a Standard.

Remove it, please in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[-] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 11 months ago

You need to see the timecode somehow...

Remove it, please in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[-] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 11 months ago

They can't!

As a teacher in luddite Germany: yes our smartboards still Run Windows Media Player + I need that bar visible so I'm able to stop the movie at the correct teachable scene.

(And before anyone suggests making a custom playlist with vlc and all those newfangled contraptions from around 2005: I don't even have admin rights to change the sound volume...)