just_another_person
@just_another_person@lemmy.world
- Comment on why android root causes apps to not work and needs fixing? 15 hours ago:
Rooting means you’re disabling or bypassing the hardware encryption signing for modules that are built for the device you’re on. If things aren’t signed, and something checks to ensure that they ARE signed, you’ll run into problems.
- Comment on If I was a college athlete instead of accepting money out right. If I created a charity where they could "donate", and keep all the money? Is this illegal or illegal how so? 2 days ago:
Do your initials happen to be NCAA?
- Comment on Wikipedia Banned This Photo For Being "Too Funny" 3 days ago:
This is a teenager(?) work shopping stand-up material? Maybe trying for a Last Week Tonight for at of some sort?
Can’t tell if this is link spam.
- Comment on How would I improve Wifi consistency within my house? 4 days ago:
Edited to a bit more. See my other comment.
We can’t see your house, to it’s hard to give you very many options except the simplest.
You will more than likely need more hardware though.
- Comment on How would I improve Wifi consistency within my house? 4 days ago:
Repeaters don’t work, especially on newer Wifi clients. You need a proper Mesh system to cover a larger area. Probably going to run you $300-$500USD for a 3 AP kit.
You’ll need to put that junky AP they sent you from the ISP into Passthrough Mode, hook up the new AP from the Mesh system as your new router, then just place the other new APs in mesh mode as you want them.
- Comment on What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify? 5 days ago:
Many in Urban areas will be fine for quite some time. Others with more space have already started adding EV charging, and increasing the presence of their convenience operations since EV charging customers will be at the properties a bit longer than normal gas fueling customers.
It’s just a pivot on their profit model and focus.
- Comment on Which Linux Distribution has the best Community Support? 5 days ago:
Most of the Linux support community is all handled in forums, though there are some development oriented chat spaces. If you’re looking for a place to just hang out and get live help, youre probably not going to find that.
That being said, the documentation for all distros is massive, and about as complete as you can get. That should be enough for most people, but I understand that not everyone is so technically inclined. I’ll hit some key points:
Most active: Probably Fedora or Arch Best Wiki: Arch first, Fedora second, Debian third, with others usually referring to the above Most active: Arch first, Debian second, Fedora third, with most Fedora comms happening in dev channels and issue tickets
In order to get help though, you need to get familiar with figuring out if your issue is with the actual distribution (it almost never is), the specific software you’re having an issue with, or a combo of both where the software has a configuration issue with the specific distro you’re running.
If you’re having a problem with Audacity on Fedora for instance, don’t go looking to the Fedora community for help, because it likely has nothing to do with Fedora. Go to the Audacity GitHub and search issues first, then start looking for specific information to your issue (error messages, logs…etc) next.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Well, for the exact reason I said. Google ignores reference to anything without other corroboration. Hard or anchor links are necessary.
Fediverse content requires fluidity, and the same content is available at dozens of places. If they scrape the same post at different endpoint URIs, it will be discarded as spam.
This isn’t even news, it’s a known thing, and Google themselves described this in their SEO docs. No Fediverse instance is going to be spending money with Google to get a higher ranking, so it’s just kind of not going to show up.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Fediverse content is generally not indexed by Google because it’s doesn’t have predictable landing pages or site indexes. It moves and changes.
If something is shared enough on enough places and has enough anchor/hard links backs to something, it will probably show up.
- Comment on Writing something, how would you describe his sleeping “expression”? 5 days ago:
Great episode, tho
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 6 days ago:
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Firefox should export everything about your profile including history
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When you boot your LiveUSB, you’ll be brought into a desktop just like MacOS or Windows. If you wouldn’t run around randomly deleting stuff in a normal situation, then you probably wouldn’t do it here 🤣 No CLI will even be necessary unless you choose to use it.
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- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 6 days ago:
Try and just answer in order without writing a novel:
1a: exFAT/FAT32 work just fine everywhere. NTFS works fine from Linux, but do to it sucking, may eventually lead to corruption. Ext4 works from Windows with a plugin.
1b: There are very few Windows programs that you can’t find a Linux alt for, and Wine does work on almost everything. Few exceptions would be from the developer of said software intentionally making it difficult. Adobe suite (soon to be fixed) is tricky, some kernel level anti-cheat games won’t work online, and some corpo software with crypt locks may be tough. There are emany simple Wine managers like Bottles to help make this dead simple.
1c: Firefox profiles are fully portable to any other Firefox install.
1d: No. Every media format is covered. This is not an OS thing though, this is an application thing. I can’t think of many apps that use proprietary local data formats anymore. You’d be better served asking about something specific.
1e: Nothing. It doesn’t touch any of your filesystems unless YOU touch them. Don’t delete anything, and you’re fine. It should even automount your existing identified partitions for you to browse through.
1f: “Viruses” and other malware don’t really exist on Linux or MacOS because of the permissions structure. Your regular user doesn’t have permission to alter the global system without a password. Don’t execute random code by giving it that password, and you’re fine. Your regular operates in its own sandbox, which is your user profile. Anything stupid you do as that user is just localized damage to that user.
1g: Very few things won’t work, and it’s likely to be some small production run variety of something. A cheap components by an unknown manufacturer with Windows-specific interactions is about it. Just stick to well known manufacturers, and do your research first. Even then, in time, most things get support if there is a large enough consumer base for that device.
2-3: I wouldn’t even bother trying to figure any of this out, because Microsoft constantly changes their mind about this, and they’ll soon just force you into this abomination of Windows 12 they’ve been talking about recently.
- Comment on When I retire and my dementia kicks in this is what I want to be for the rest of my life. I think wiping asses getting pissed on shat on, felt up, smacked on the ass. I deserve it. 6 days ago:
Classic
- Comment on what is this 1 week ago:
- Comment on what is this 2 weeks ago:
It’s a hash of some sort. No idea what it’s for.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hash_functions
You have a link to one?
- Comment on If America and Mexico did an all our "WAR" against the cartels look like? 2 weeks ago:
So…things have been written about this. The biggest issue in Mexico is the space between cities.
You move into one area and clear it out, anyone left leaves to join others in some other places and then you have to move the police force to wherever the new outbreak starts.
It’s Guerilla Warfare. It’s not impossible to stop with force, but it takes a long time. The fastest way to stop the Cartels is by Supply Suffocation, either by product, or by banking.
The trick here is that Cartels know this, and regularly rely on the law to prevent seizures of funds, and even recently have become money laundering operations for people wanting to traffic Chinese currency, so they are FLUSH with cash.
So in this specific case, it’s like fighting the Mafia. You can greatly reduce their operations by taking out the leaders, seizure of asset or product, and removing enforcers in their organizations, but you’ll always be left with a small contingent that will continue operating in some capacity.
The thing with Mexican Cartels is that they’ve strong armed themselves into legitimate businesses like agriculture (avocados are a big one), and it’s hard to find legal ways to prove that X business is funded by a Cartels when they are already laundering money. It could look like it comes from anywhere.
It’s a cat and mouse game until the larger population feels empowered enough to report members, or fight back themselves.
- Comment on Can people irl be as mean as some people online? 3 weeks ago:
Rarely do people have the time to be crafty in direct conversation, and don’t want to be perceived as assholes. That’s why they do it online.
- Comment on What's stopping youtube from just going full authoritarian and mandate DRM for all their videos in attempt to prevent people from downloading it or block ads? 3 weeks ago:
Nope
- Comment on How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board? 3 weeks ago:
Was it this pack of savages? They seem like a rowdy bunch, but great song.
- Comment on How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board? 3 weeks ago:
Mandolin
- Comment on David Bowie Criticizes MTV for Not Playing Videos by Black Artists | MTV News 3 weeks ago:
He was too good for the world we are currently living in, and he only died a few years back.
- Comment on What should I NOT do in front of rich people? 3 weeks ago:
First off, no.
Second, GFY: newsweek.com/john-kasich-pizza-knife-fork-donald-…
Search for Trump like you would in the Epstein docs. You’re clearly shilling here.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
This…is not true. Many women approach men. Not all, but many. Just depends on the personality.
The reason it’s tough being a young man out there right now is because you have all these dipshit right-wing machismo assholes trying to indoctrinate young men into being complete and total pricks, as if women aren’t keeping tabs.
Unless you are waving a white flag and doing your best to demonstrate you DO NOT subscribe to that bullshit, they want nothing to do with you.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Personality and the person matters. Not much else out side of the basics of physical attraction.
- Be a good person
- Be good to your partner
- Be good to others
- LISTEN
- Try to be fun to be around, meaning don’t be a dick downer all the time
- Take interest in your partner and their wants/needs
None of that stuff requires you be tall, have a big dick, or tons of money. If that’s all someone wants from you, you do not want to be with that person.
- Comment on What should I NOT do in front of rich people? 3 weeks ago:
WTF?!?! Were you hanging out Mar-a-lago or something?
PEOPLE WHO EAT PIZZA WITH A KNIFE AND FORK ARE ACTUAL ALIENS
- Comment on [meta] Wanted: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show, with English subtitles _and_ cultural refernce notes 4 weeks ago:
Check Reddit before they all get taken down.
- Comment on Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one? 4 weeks ago:
If they’re firm, they will be tart. Let them sit a few days and the sugars will develop a bit and be sweeter.
- Comment on Does display scaling not work in live boots? 4 weeks ago:
A LiveUSB is very simple. It’s built to run the basics, so it’s not weird to think something so specific doesn’t behave as you would expect.
- Comment on Does display scaling not work in live boots? 4 weeks ago:
Specs? Your hardware probably just doesn’t support it.
- Comment on Does display scaling not work in live boots? 4 weeks ago:
Do you have an Nvidia GPU? The driver probably isn’t loaded on LiveUSB due to licensing issues and is using the open Nouveau driver which I don’t think handles scaling.