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What would you do with this old PC if you had €0 to invest in it? in c/permacomputing@slrpnk.net
[–] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's a decent machine. If you haven't already, a €0 upgrade would be dusting it. For a little money you could get a tube of thermal paste and reapply it to both the CPU and GPU. If the thermal paste has never been replaced on either, then I would say it is time.

Other than that, I vote for trying out Linux on it. The system is good enough that you don't even have to aim for lightweight distros, I'd say. Try out any distro you like.

It should be good enough for a daily driver Linux PC with some mild gaming thrown in as well.

Although, If the hard drives are as old as the rest of the system, you may want to avoid storing important data on them.

Edit to add: if you have need for a smart TV, using this as a HTPC (home theater PC) could also be a good idea. The only thing you'd need to buy for this would be a wireless keyboard with a touchpad. And that's optional. (Although, I would highly recommend it since I use one with my HTPC, and it's great.)

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    People who have been on Lemmy since the very initial reddit API debacle, or before even that, how much do you think it has changed? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    People who have been on Lemmy since the very initial reddit API debacle, or before even that, how much do you think it has changed? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    [–] 14 points 5 months ago* (9 children)

    My account is 3 years and 5 months old. I joined Lemmy before it was cool, because I like open source things. In fact, when I joined, Lemmy.ml was the main/recommended instance. Now you all hate it.

    Lemmy used to be a barren wasteland of content. Now it is not. I've noticed no further changes. The tankies, the in-fighting, the debates about whether to de-federate with instances, the arguing over whether it's becoming too much like reddit - it's all been here as long as I can remember.

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    ...wasn't it supposed to be other way around? in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
    [–] 9 points 6 months ago*

    The movie "Legally Blonde." Reese Witherspoon's character gets into Harvard to be closer with the male, her ex.

    He, astonished, asks for clarification if she got into Harvard, and she responds with the bottom text.

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    • Closed apps catfishing as FOSS via Google's AI results? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
    [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    You are searching for FOSS apps. You are a minority. There is no incentive to make AI lie about whether or not an app is FOSS - it's just not a selling point to the vast majority of people.

    However, AI is incentivised to give you an answer that it "thinks" will make you happy. That's one of the reasons why it lies all the time.

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    Some questions about distro-hopping in c/linux@programming.dev
    Walmart becomes first retailer to hit $1tn market value in c/news@lemmy.world
    me n the homies not crossing streams cuz were not gay in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
    back to distrohopping. I want a reliable OS (no rando ubuntu fork with no clear release/support schedule) with something else than Plasma or Gnome. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
    Trumpcare in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
    Trumpcare in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
    Der Patient in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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    Open Suse Leap Gnome - On Screen Keyboard Will Not Stay Up? (lemmy.ml)
     

    It's a fresh install of 15.6 Leap that I downloaded and installed last night. Device is a 1st generation Surface Go. I just can't seem to get the onscreen keyboard to stay up when I swipe it up from the bottom.

    Also, the keyboard does not appear when I click a text input box.

    I thought maybe the long click of swiping up was triggering a right-click, but the problem persists when I disable the long-click option in settings.

    I'm stumped. Everything else is working great. I really like that long-click right-click is working, and this is the first Gnome distro I've tried where Firefox touch-scroll works out of the box. And, in general, the system seems faster than other gnome distros I've tried. (The device isn't exactly a powerhouse.)

    Thank you in advance for any replies.

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    Is anyone familiar with this alert? I believe it is Motorola-specific (lemmy.ml)
     

    Hello all!

    My new phone (Moto G Stylus 5G 2024 running Android 14) keeps giving me this alert that an app is giving full screen notifications. The app in question is the freaking telephone app, which I of course want full screen notifications from! There's no option to disable the alert. (The two choices are "go to options" and "not now," by the way. And "go to options" takes you to the telephone app's notification settings.) I cannot seem to find a setting related to this, and I've disabled every Motorola app (including system apps) that I can find in the app list. Although, some of them don't allow disabling.

    Anybody familiar with this by chance? I'm getting this stupid alert for every other phone call.

    Thank you!

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    Comment text boxes don't behave correctly? (lemmy.ml)
    submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
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    When I am making a post or a comment through jerboa, I am having a weird issue where if I backspace/delete, the text of the word I'm writing will combine with the word before it.

    As an example, if I type

    The quick brown foz

    And I backspace to fix the typo, I get this

    The quick brownfo

    If I keep backspacing to fix the problem, it keeps combining words like this

    Thequickbrown

    It's very annoying and sometimes I have to delete entire sentences and start over. Also, if I have a wall of text and click somewhere in the text to make an edit, sometimes it will keep typing where I was before. Also annoying.

    Does anybody else have this issue? It could be a product of my keyboard, which is Open Board from F-Droid. But I usually only have issues like this when trying to type my information into websites that aren't designed for mobile. (Fennec, if it matters.)

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