Thanks for the heads up! I’ll check them out! :D

I’m starting to get nervous with this aging Netgear stuff that’s not getting updated anymore.

Saaame. There was a while there where Wayland didn’t work on the repo version so I had to go full manual, but otherwise it’s been almost perfect now, Wayland and all.

LOL isn’t that the truth. I wanted my desktop to not bother chugging watts through my 3090 and generating excess heat when barely KDE Plasma and a browser is running, but trying to set up GPU offload just left me with a blank terminal screen.

Thank God for the geniuses who implemented Snapper rollbacks in OpenSUSE! Otherwise, the Nvidia drivers in the repos work fine and I’m scared to touch them…

Actually, yeah, I edited above but it did have a little keyhole: Except the management office said it was for themselves alone.

That’s just…eegh…

LOL relevant meme attached:

Arlen TX

Weird coincidence seeing this right after finishing an episode of King of the Hill. LOL

“Yo man dang’ol smartlock open up man left my daggum phone in there tell ya what.”

“I’m sorry, can you repeat that?”

Are you sure EA or Ubisoft didn’t already beat you to it? Lol

Honestly I’m not sure, I only got a look at it when I was helping her move.

It’s tied to a wall panel on the other side that controls the whole unit’s lighting and thermostat and such though, and shows a doorbell cam.

Educated guess that it’s all tied to Amazon. Blegh.

Allegedly they’re just supposed to rely on maintenance to change the batteries so they’re not locked out of their home. Crazy.

Okay hang on…this could be a thinly valid use for “vibe coding.”

Is the only software for a particular use case proprietary, ad-ridden, and/or subscription forced, but you don’t have time to dedicate to an entirely new project?

Quickly throw together open sourced “good 'nuff” alternatives to big corporate software!

Put their own tail between their jaws and see how they like it.

My sister’s new apartment’s front door has a “smart lock”, hooked up to Ring, naturally. No keyhole, you open it with your phone. It also runs on batteries.

Do I really need to say any more? We were baffled.

EDIT: Correction - there IS a keyhole but the actual tenants don’t have access to it. Only the property management. Creepy. :|

“Routers using OpenWRT”

Every time I research this, it seems like nothing I can reasonably acquire can run it. Especially any WiFi 6 / AX devices. It’s infuriating.

Edit: Not the fault of OpenWRT, but how stupidly locked down everything is manufactured by design anymore.

This. SO many devices, especially networking stuff. It seems like they should just do their thing after plugging in and setting a few settings. “It’s so EZ!” says the box.

Nope, “scan this code to get this app, make an account, agree to all the things, register for spam…”

It’s disgusting.

The only upside to this state of things is that it keeps alive my fantasies of one day being a Watchdogs-style techno-sorcerer that can wirelessly hack anything that runs on electrons and a WiFi signal.

… Although the nightmare is that people far more evil can probably already do that.

and if it bugs all you can do is wait for the devs to fix it for you.

“Oop, sorry, we only promised 2 major updates! Your 2 year old device is abandoned now.”

–The mobile industry

We need a decently-hardwared Linux phone so badly…

People can do whatever they like, and heck I find CLI intimidating sometimes, but I’m always learning something new a little bit at a time.

I’m tired of seeing it in every field of interest that has any kind of payoff, whether art or FOSS.

“I’m [(almost always) a guy] who (maybe has kids and) has a job. I stopped learning anything after I got my job-paper / degree / highschool diploma. I shouldn’t have to learn anything anymore. I am happy to shell out disposable sad-salary-man money (and maybe my soul idk) to any mega-corp that offers me a “create desired outcome button” without me having to think too much. It’s [current year]! I shouldn’t have to think anymore! Therefore Linux is super behind and only for nerds and I desire its benefits so much that I leave this complaint anywhere these folks gather so they know what I deserve.”

Agh. I gotta go before this rant gets too long lol

It was gonna be twins but they deduplicated, so conveniently the one simply holds a reference to the existence of the other one.

Honest question: I thought this limitation was the purpose of exFAT? 🤔

I don’t use it much myself though so I’m not sure.

I can’t help but try to phonetically call it “BUTTERFURSS”. O.o

That was my thought…

“Somehow they got the Plex app installed…”

Jellyfin somehow works on freaking Roku, even, and WELL. Just give the URL to connect to, they pick a profile, and boom, “Netflix who?”.

(Also, unlike Netflix, it’s not BOMBARDING my PiHole with a gazillion telemetry requests per freaking second holy crap NF calm down. It’s a treat when I have something I want to watch on my Jellyfin drives lol.)

deleted by creator

“We hope you’re enjoying Windows Annoyance Fixer Script 17! Continue to enjoy a less-annoying Windows by pulling out your credit card and selecting a subscription option below!”