Read to leap into Linux ( kbin.social )
Just bought a pc laptop and want to dual boot Linux. Windows will be for some games, Linux for everything else. Would this be the right place to ask for advice?
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Just bought a pc laptop and want to dual boot Linux. Windows will be for some games, Linux for everything else. Would this be the right place to ask for advice?
A lot of artists, etc. are reluctant to leave corporate social media like Twitter, due to fears over the Fediverse (usually spread by other people, that think Fediverse = Gab + some cryprobros + maybe Pawoo), or not willing to understand it....
One of the extremely useful things about reddit was that content was somewhat organized by URL. Each post was created in a subreddit. So you could do websearch like keyword site:reddit.com/r/subreddit...
Hey everyone. This magazine was on the abandoned list, so I put in to take over ownership, and here we are! I'd like to revive the sysadmin community here on kbin, and create a solid resource for all of us admins here on the fediverse....
Some thoughts about using the Microblog functionality in kbin and why, controversially, I think it might actually beat Mastodon at it's own game - browsing toots....
As I'm sure some of you noticed, very shortly after Ernest posted the update to KBin that allowed for abandoned magazine adoption, I took over this magazine....
So, Pakistan and Israel did emerge from what can be described as ‘religious nationalism’, but this nationalism was an extension of the inherently secular idea of nationalism....
performance issues on the *keys seemingly never stop
Hi everyone!...
I'm developing my own library for I/O purposes in D, and so far I managed to make my window to open up, but when I close it, I get an error like this:...
I was just accessing some files off a portable HDD and my power went out due to a storm. When it came back on, my HDD wouldn't mount anymore. I booted into my Windows partition and had it scan and repair the drive, and thankfully it works again....
Who is the admin of this instance? I've send several emails using https://kbin.social/contact with no reply. Is this instance not moderated or what?
I'm looking for a better dust extraction system than my old shopvac, ideally with a hepa filter. I'd like something that's easy to move around and gets most of the dust. Any recommendations, or warnings about what not to get?
So this is something that's rumbled around in my head for a while and I'd like to see if I can get an answer here but I'm not sure I can word it correctly. Quick disclaimer, this is all 'as I understand it' not factual or even researched by any means so it may all just be a bunch of bullshit. Essentially the questionI have is...
Hi Selfhosted,...
Somebody I’m helping has an ancient, and i mean ancient (like 3 major versions before latest or so) install of Rundeck doing stuff for them. Might help them upgrade it to the latest (more like reinstall and configure from scratch, it was built years ago with assumptions no longer true), but before i commit I’d like to know...
Hi guys just noticed that PSI exams allow linux users to take online exams , I saw a while ago there was pressure on PearsonVUE to do this and I think they just ignored it so hopefully this is another nudge for them....
Now that WordPress supports ActivityPub, anyone know of any good AP-enabled blogs worth following?
My user account on linux gets some Cron Jobs among mail from humans. I don't want to see the cron messages....
There has been a noticeable shift over the last few months on other operating systems like Android, iOS and Microsoft....
idkfa works by creating a two sided proxy. The frontside is public internet facing, and presents a single AP actor. The backside is intranet facing, communicating with a cornucopia of mastohonkoma servers. As activities pass through idkfa it rewrites them to ensure the actor and id fields are consistent. It also handles Follow...
I want fediverse iceberg, I think this will be help found out and understand about fediverse more, this can be useful for normies...
I know what most will say, I'm not supposed to be connecting to my home servers from my work computer. I get it....
Hello all. I am using zabbix to monitor my system, and the zabbix agent user is obviously not elevated in any way. I would like to give my zabbix user the ability to run some zfs commands to query information about my pools....
Looking for creative ideas, and feeling xkcd.com/910 strongly here