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  • In the perfect world where you can convince your company to use anything other than MS Teams and that your family bothers to use anything that isn't WhatsApp or Telegram. Unfortunately I don't live on it 😭

  • Winamp is going open source
  • This is cool. I switched from Winamp to Foobar2000 at some point, I don't really remember the reason.

  • Nearly all major car companies are sabotaging EV transition, and Japan is worst, study finds
  • That isn't what I asked for but thanks. Their comment implied hydrogen is unsafe and I asked sourced for that, because I couldn't find any.

  • Nearly all major car companies are sabotaging EV transition, and Japan is worst, study finds
  • Care to share some sources regarding hytrogen safety?

  • Can electric woks produce great stir-fry?
  • I hate that all the new buildings where I live have gas stoves. I really want electric induction to take over, I don't understand how it is okay to build something that uses literal fire considering everything here in north america is built using wood. It's crazy.

  • Can electric woks produce great stir-fry?
  • I'm not a fan of Kenji López-Alt, I've visited a bunch of restaurants he recomended and they were all pretty meh.

    Not saying he's wrong or anything, but I wish they'd asked someone else lol

  • What open-source software would you like more people to know about?
  • Unfortunately that doesn't apply when you are on your work computer and need to connect to your environment which is behind a corporate VPN. Thanks for telling me about code-server though, I'll check that definitely!

  • What open-source software would you like more people to know about?
  • I agree, just need to figure out how to connect to a pod using OpenSSH.

  • What open-source software would you like more people to know about?
  • It removes the proprietary part inserted when MS builds the code. This unfortunately makes other proprietary extensions useless, such as Dev Containers. You can still use the main extension marketplace by changing a .json but some MS extensions won't work at all (tried it last week).

  • I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun
  • I completely forgot about that! I used foobar2000 a lot back in the day, but never managed how to manage my iPod through it, it was just my main music player.

    Is there a market for modified iPods? I'd love to get one already modified with the flash storage you mentioned

  • Does anyone know of a FOSS Firewall for Windows
  • I'm never said you were violating any rules, I was just expressing my opinion. If a person asks a question you can decide if you are going to be helpful and answer that question or make an statement regarding the irony of their question, which isn't helpful at all.

    You keep doing whatever you think it is best.

  • Does anyone know of a FOSS Firewall for Windows
  • Sorry you had to write this down, OP. On the internet people make a lot of assumptions. I hope you ended up getting a reply.

  • Does anyone know of a FOSS Firewall for Windows
  • This is Beehaw and we aim to be a nice place, right? So to me is kind of pointless this kind of discussions and I just meant to say that your comment sounded very judgemental and it could be written in a nicer way, that's all.

    Edit: Check OP's new comment on the post.

  • How to access files on other drives?
  • Be careful because you can make your OS not boot at all if you write something wrong there. My spouse did this today lol

  • Instagram locked my account and forced me to appeal and send a picture of my face, so I sent a picture of Shrek. They deleted my account
  • I've had this happen and did upload the selfie but I think it happened because I was blocking some extra stuff that it was flagging my account to be automated

  • Does anyone know of a FOSS Firewall for Windows
  • If you phrased your initial question differently or asked more details about OP's use case I think it would be completely fine. For example, they might be the "sys admin" where they live but their family members would be extremely annoyed if they tried to push Linux.

    Just kind tired of the "you cannot ask for FOSS alternatives if you are using something proprietary" and ended up venting because of your comment, that's all.

  • Does anyone know of a FOSS Firewall for Windows
  • I knew I was going to find a comment like this and I am disappointed that I did.

    It is hard for people to make transitions specially because they probably used Windows their own life. If they are asking for a FOSS firewall they most likely know they should transition to Linux at some point. There is actually no need to be the questioning person.

    I use arch btw

  • The easiest problem
  • I'd say because fortran is often used for calculations such as numerical analysis where you have x, y and z for example.

    I have written fortran code in the past and it was mainly for that.

  • I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun
  • The only reason I stopped using my iPod was because I lost it. 🥲

    It was my companion for many many years, I think I lost it in 2016 or something. I recently started considering getting another one, but I honestly wouldn't like having to install iTunes just for it.

  • Why people don't talk about Google Maps' privacy issues
  • I always try to keep in mind there are a lot of people that are simply unable to transition to alternative apps because they lack knowledge and time to do research on such things. What we see through videos isn't the majority of the people, it is people that make content for the majority.

    People have hard times getting into more technical stuff already. Expecting people that are struggling to survive in capitalism to spend their free time learning about underground alternatives or to turn into sys admins and host their own stuff is out of touch if reality in my opinion.

    Edit: just wanted to add, I wouldn't say the problem is on the people, but on big tech that predates on them

  • Today is Bandcamp Friday. Did you buy anything?

    Since we started to host our Navidrome server at home we are trying to get a few things every bandcamp friday.

    Today I got:

    My spouse got:

    If you're getting anything today, please share it! We'd love to get to know new stuff.

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    Last Epoch - Last Epoch 1.0 is Live! - Steam News
    store.steampowered.com Last Epoch - Last Epoch 1.0 is Live! - Steam News

    Greetings Travelers, Today is a historic day for the Last Epoch team and everyone here at Eleventh Hour Games (EHG). What started as an after-hours passion project has blossomed into one of the most anticipated releases in the ARPG genre, and we are blown away by the support we have received. Thank ...

    Last Epoch - Last Epoch 1.0 is Live! - Steam News

    Anyone playing LE release? Will be playing as a duo with my spouse as soon as we're done with work today!

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    Anyone else having constant crashes with Firefox Beta (Nightly) on Android?

    It has been ongoing for me for almost two weeks. At first I thought it could be my phone, but I got a new phone last week and it has been happening in the new one too. One crashes was system wide and caused the phone to reboot.

    I suspected it could be a custom extension that I use (Control Panel for Twitter) but happens even while the extension is disabled.

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    Proton plan as a couple (Family or Individual?)

    Does anyone that pays for proton also use it with a SO? We've been looking to pay for it but the family plan looks like an overkill for us. The viable alternative is paying for the Mail Plus plan for each of us but we are a bit worried that we won't be able to share calendars.

    Would appreciate if someone else has the same use case as us and could share their experiences. Thanks!

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    Anti Glare Screen question

    People that have the anti-glare premium screen, do you have a protector on it?

    We didn't think about it too much and ended up putting a glare protector on top of our antiglare screen but I am thinking about removing it. I saw a few pictures of antiglare screen protectors but they don't look as good. Thoughts?

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    I'm so tired of the current state of the internet

    Everywhere you browse, people have such strong opinions about everything and are so toxic or extremely negative. You start playing a game, want to check the forums or something and most of the posts are people being mean to each other. You open social media to keep in touch with people that you'd like to maintain a certain level of contact and there's always some people that are always complaining about every single thing.

    I see myself more and more closing myself into a bubble which makes me appreciate Beehaw much more. I know I am guilty of being taken away by the toxicity and sometimes replying things I wouldn't be proud of but since I joined Beehaw I see myself policing myself more and more focused on being better.

    Just a quick rant, I currently started playing Baldur's Gate 3 and I am honestly pissed off on the fact people can't give feedback without being rude or "gamers" just shitting on developers because they are stans of another game. I wanted to be active on the forum and comment on bugs and such because I want the game to be better but it is so depressing reading people being awful so often.

    Why are we so shitty to each other? I'm so tired.

    Edit: Pardon me if I used weird terms or grammar errors, english isn't my first language

    Edit2: removed specifics

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    Considering turning my Ducky One 2 Mini hot swappable

    I'm currently thinking on modding my Ducky with mill-max sockets. I know there is a lot of soldering involved but seems like a cool project. While looking for people that done the same thing I only found this reddit post. Is there anything better than the mill-max socket these days or should I just go for them?

    Thanks!

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    What do I need to do if I want to use my old 4th gen iPad in 2023?

    I recently was able to get back my 4th gen iPad that I used for university and got excited to start using it again just for basic stuff like searching stuff on the browser, reading comics and such. However I quickly realized that I was unable to download anything from the AppStore as my iOS version is 10.3.4 and apps like Firefox request at least iOS 14. This wouldn't be an issue if I still had the apps downloaded but it isn't the case.

    I was able to re download a few apps through the Purchased tab on the AppStore but some of them are not available anymore (ComicFlow for example). So yeah... What now?

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    Avoiding Toxic Productivity Advice for ADHD

    This video almost made me cry in a few points. I am so guilty of punishing myself for being unable to be productive like others. I can relate to this so much, including attempting GTD for a long time (which surprise surprise, didn't work out!).

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    How are you able to cook while working full time through the week? Do you have some kind of strategy? How do you plan your food?

    We want to break out of this cycle of ordering delivery but at the same time, cooking everyday has been a challenge. We also have been trying to develop some sort of routine where we meal prep on the weekends but we live in an apartment with a really small kitchen so cooking and storing food for 5 days doesn't seem doable. Maybe cook for 3 days and then prepare the ingredients to cook again on Wednesday?

    I'd appreciate if you could share your strategies and experience. The goal here is to eat healthy and good food.

    Edit: Thank you everyone for all your contributions! I am a little overwhelmed by the number of replies so I if I do not reply to you please do now feel bad!!

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    Could we build a Pokémon trading community on Lemmy? An alternative to /r/pokemontrades and /r/svexchange

    I started using Reddit back in 2013 because of Pokémon. During the 6th gen, trading through the subs using spreadsheets and finding people to hatch shiny eggs for you was a huge thing and the community still exists, but completely dependent on the platform (there's a feedback app called FlairHQ that you need a reddit account to use).

    I am wondering if we have people here so we could set up something. Hopefully I am not alone on this!

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    Which are your favorite games to play with only two people?

    Hello Beehaw!

    As someone that enjoy playing with my spouse a lot I wonder which games are your favorites for playing with or against someone else. Our current favorites are:

    • Dominion
    • Res Arcana
    • Wingspan (still need to try Asia expansion)
    • Terraforming Mars

    Unfortunately these listed games are competitive ones so I'm also looking to increase the list of cooperative games! We did play Aeon's End Legacy but need to play the expansions.

    edit: typo

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