AlpacaChariot

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Up the chuff = good, down the chuff = bad

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Everyone loves the D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How would you portray Bombadil in a Film/TV series if it was your decision?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Sorry mate, totally forgot not everyone would have seen it yet. I'm behind the US so always assume I'm watching later than most people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

At least that Cornish accent is quite mysterious!

Although he looks quite a lot like jack black I don't think he really acts that way.

I'm not sure how I'd have done it myself, it would be very difficult to put in lots of HEY HO BOMBADIL TOM BOMBADILLO type mad singing in a serious way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

They always have done this, even before there was a wider understanding / acceptance of neurodiversity (e.g. at Bletchley Park)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Damn, I'm in the UK so no easy way to go to the same restaurant/chain!

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

To be fair, she is relatively unknown.

Especially when you consider low information voters (which I expect have similar knowledge to high information voters from other countries).

Her honeymoon period will end as soon as she sits down and does a few serious and unscripted interviews about policy, which she has managed to avoid so far. At the moment it's pure vibes, but at some point you need to get into the business of explaining what you would do and being challenged on it. That will generate lots of attack angles and media stories, both good and bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

In which country?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

People keep saying it's nice, but I've never had any good stuff. I would try it again if thought there was a reasonable chance I'd like it!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

The irony of the autistic person using a metaphor, and someone else taking it too literally. You have to laugh!

 

Does anyone else live in a safe seat that may flip during this election? Looking at the latest Survation poll, which predicts Labour will win 484 seats (vs 64 to the Tories and 61 to Lib Dems), I can't believe how tight some of the results are projected to be in what have previously been very safe Tory seats as far back as I remember.

https://www.survation.com/survation-mrp-labour-99-certain-to-win-more-seats-than-in-1997/

I've lived in some of these seats and always voted but without any real hope of flipping it. For them to turn red would be a huge change.

One seat, North East Hampshire, was the safest Tory seat in 2015 (by numbers and by %) but this election the projection is Lab: 24.2%, Con: 32.2%, Lib Dem: 29.3%.

Results night could be very interesting!

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Midge defence? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

If anyone has any good tips on beating the midges, please share them!

I got absolutely devoured this weekend up by Loch Latrine (edit: Katrine) (completely forgot it was midge season, so I was unprepared).

 

I've ordered myself some parts to build a PC for Linux gaming. In the meantime, i'm deciding on which linux distro to use.

For the desktop environment I typically use KDE.

I have used Ubuntu in the past but i'm ruling it out because of snaps and other such annoyances. This also applies to Ubuntu based distros that use the same repos (KDE Neon etc).

I see the wikis recommend Nobara, but I'm reluctant to use a Fedora based distro because I'm so used to Debian/apt (both as a desktop and server distros). I'm not ruling it out completely though.

Any reason why I shouldn't just go with Debian + KDE and install Steam? Will I be missing out on lots of performance improvements or is this easily addressed by using an additional repo for a tweaked kernel and proton version or whatever?

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I'm working on a build list for a Linux gaming rig. It's my first build so I'd welcome any comments or tips!

I'm mostly looking to run games like the Total War series. I'm not obsessed with getting peak performance, I'm angling more for a reasonable value mid-range build.

Linux support is essential, I won't buy any Nvidia products.

UK market if that makes a difference.

List below...

  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor (£139.99 @ Amazon UK)
  • Motherboard: MSI B550 GAMING GEN3 ATX AM4 Motherboard (£89.97 @ Ebuyer)
  • Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory (£64.98 @ Amazon UK)
  • Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (£84.24 @ Amazon UK)
  • Video Card: PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6650 XT 8 GB Video Card (£239.00 @ Computer Orbit)
  • Case: Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case (£74.50 @ Computer Orbit)
  • Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower GX2 600 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (£101.62 @ Amazon UK) Total: £794.30
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Krita (f-droid.org)
 

Discovered this one today when looking for an image editing app for Android. I've used Krita on Linux before but didn't know there was an Android app!

The UI is a bit clunky on a mobile but it does the job!

 
 

It's a free software firmware replacement for ereaders based on Alpine Linux.

I've not tried it myself but wonder how it compares to the stock firmware on Kobo, particularly in terms of battery life and general performance.

 

I have a box running kodi in standalone mode with X11. My TV displays "no signal" if I leave it for too long, does anyone know how to stop this from happening?

I can still ssh into the box and use the remote app Kore so the system hasn't suspended or anything like that.

Pressing up/down etc on the kore remote, which should change what is displayed on screen, doesn't wake kodi up. However, I can wake it up if I tell Kodi to play a video.

 

I'm looking for a linux kernel for Debian that is 6.4.2 or above (need it to support the AX101 WiFi module).

The Debian package linked below is "linux-image-6.4.0-2-amd64 (6.4.4-3)"

Does that mean the kernel version is 6.4.0 or 6.4.4?

https://packages.debian.org/unstable/kernel/linux-image-6.4.0-2-amd64

 

Tell me your favourite rescue USB image and why!

Also rescue tips and tricks as that's always interesting.

I have been using a Debian installer USB as I had it to hand (DVD image IIRC) but if I boot into a shell without mounting another root FS the number of utilities is quite limited (just busybox basics). For example just now I wanted gzip but it only had gunzip...

I feel like a shell started from the installer USB should have access to a lot more utilities because the files are there on the disk!

Does anyone know a way to set up a kind of USB like the debian installer where you can install packages from the installer into the live environment?

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