

I am assuming dialup is still a thing in parts of the country
Fun (sad?) fact: AOL will soon shut down dial up on September 30th 2025: https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued
I like computers, trains, space, radio-related everything and a bunch of other tech related stuff. User of GNU+Linux.
I am also dumb and worthless.
My laptop is ThinkPad L390y running Arch.
I own RTL-SDRv3 and RSP1 clone.
SDF Unix shell username: user224
I am assuming dialup is still a thing in parts of the country
Fun (sad?) fact: AOL will soon shut down dial up on September 30th 2025: https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued
Elites:…
Elites: “As a large language model I am unable to answer that question.”
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I am pretty sure CRTs could easily get over 100Hz depending on resolution.
How are you doing it?
I only tried X11 forwarding over SSH. It was slow and ate up a Gigabit.
And I thought otter was referring to the specie of their fursona.
Oh well.
“I donated money to them so I am going to use it.”
Although not much, just 20 EUR. Not sure how much the bundled Windows license costs, but surely Microsoft has other ways to earn from spyware.
I am not alone!
At first I installed Arch because I got an Arch sticker, and if I put it on my laptop that felt like the only appropriate solution.
Arch. After every update I check what broke. And then discover things I forgot to check.
I am still not sure if it’s already safe to upgrade VirtualBox and iio-sensor-proxy, but I am too lazy to just downgrade them yet again.
So I just…
IgnorePkg = iio-sensor-proxy # Issues in Wayland after suspend
IgnorePkg = virtualbox virtualbox-host-modules-lts virtualbox-host-dkms virtualbox-guest-iso # Segfault in 7.2.x, reverted to 7.1.8 - see sys-management-log.txt entry 2025-08-29
If you’re curious about the log entries:
2025-07-06:
downgraded iio-sensor-proxy to 3.6-1 as 3.7 caused issues after suspending
added iio-sensor-proxy to IgnorePkg in /etc/pacman.conf
2025-08-29:
downgraded virtualbox packages to 7.1.8 as 7.2.x was broken (segfault)
installed linux-lts-headers as the downgraded virtualbox suddenly wanted that
removed and reinstalled related packages a couple of times (virtualbox-host-modules-lts, virtualbox-host-modules-arch, virtualbox-host-dkms), as well as switching between linux-lts and linux. Hopefully that didn't create any brand new funny business.
I want to die
added IgnorePkg = virtualbox virtualbox-host-modules-lts virtualbox-host-dkms virtualbox-guest-iso to /etc/pacman.conf
I recommend writing some documentation about your system. My Manjaro install became a total unknown mess after a while. I know I had to create some symlinks at some point to fix something, something something custom “XDG_CONFIG_HOME” dir with separate theme to un-break Cisco Packet Tracer on dark theme, edited startup script for Packet Tracer.
On one Ubuntu VM I edited a bunch of config files that I didn’t remember so it was just don’t touch it while it works.
But hey, I feel better after knowing that during high school our internet was down for weeks because something broke on main proxy server and nobody had documentation for the 2 decades old backup server, including the password, so it just ended up running in a “don’t touch it” mode, except that it also limited download speed on unknown PCs (based on MAC) to something like 32Kbps, which after 20 years meant nearly any PC so the solution was to copy MACs from basically ewaste.
Anyway… write documentation for what you do.
I am guessing Jeblo is also an explicit way to say exploded in Polish.
Related to the Polish mines that were found at IKEA
According to the reports, soldiers failed to unload part of the train carrying over 1,000 tons of explosives in total, and the anti-tank mines continued to circulate around the country before they went missing.
Officials apparently became aware of the problem when the weapons were found sitting in the IKEA warehouse, at which point someone called the military to ask “when they would collect their mines.”
Either that or Linux, PostmarketOS seems most interesting to me. Not perfectly daily drivable yet it seems, but that’s what Android is destined to become for me as well, just likely even worse.
Honestly, I kind of even just like the idea of saying “I don’t have a supported smartphone” when someone pushes me to download some stupid app, but would you look at that, it’s not some ancient device.
Although it seems there’s no way to access SIM Toolkit on Linux, which I kinda need.
Hmmm, it does switch to 20V when something is connected to the adapters USB-A, but will keep restarting (the adapter).
If you used X11, yeah, that just emulates a mouse pointer making the experience horrible. I use KDE, works perfectly fine with Wayland, X11 barely.
One thing I haven’t seen mentioned, does Mint still use X11? I use Arch with KDE Plasma, also on a yoga, and it’s just as unusable with X11 as you say. It just emulates a mouse pointer. Wayland has proper touchscreen support which just works.
Hard water should wash soap off easily
That is what I am saying. Soap yes. shower gel and shampoo no.
And? We have an adjustable one, it cost €6 at Lidl.
Depends on water though. I find it impossible to fully wash off shampoo or shower gel with hard water, but bar soap will wash off easily and fully.
I don’t know what’s really going on there though.
Well, seems like the email may find you a well.
We need reboot of N900. Although it lost support long time ago as it was launched in 2009, you can still install latest PostmarketOS onto it: https://postmarketos.org/install/
A commercial Linux phone with backing from some larger company could succeed.
I’ll drop a knee-breaking one:
I was born in 2006.
Not that, but I just feel weird to do anything but non-stop work during work time, so I’ll drink less water to not have to use a toilet during the 6 hours till break/end (just a part-time job).
Once I was told to wait for something without being officially put on waiting time, and I just felt weird standing there doing nothing, because officially I was supposed to be working.
When I was told that I am too slow (based on statistics for the day) and once that I did something wrong I took that quite personally. And fearing a negative point basically flooded my mind, meaning I couldn’t quite concentrate, meaning I was more prone to further mistakes, which just made me fear more… positive feedback loop of fear.
I don’t know, I’ve been there for over a year. I just kind of have a dog-like “pleasing the owner” mentality. As such, getting an email saying I got a positive point feels pretty good.