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  • However, If I recall correctly, I think that when creating a post if you upload an image then it is immediately put into the database whether or not the post is actually made. As a result I don’t think there is a way to overwrite these, so some trace would still remain in such an instance if I am not mistaken.

    Furthermore none of this prevents or rectifies snapshots or backups of data being created by pretty much any entity - I know that’s probably not in the scope of the question, but just something tangentially related to keep in mind.






  • One time on a summer day as a teenager I went to the grocery store with my Mom.

    We parallel parked the car a ways away from other cars. We secured the car as normal and went on a short shopping trip.

    When we came back out after maybe 15 minutes, all of the cars windows were rolled down completely.

    We both know for a fact all the windows were rolled up when we left, and even if we had them down, there would have been no reason to have the back windows down.

    Nothing was stolen, no one was around, everything appeared untouched.

    This was a Nissan Murano if I recall correctly - it did have power windows, but at the time there was no fancy stuff to remote control car features outside of having a remote starter installed, which we did not have.

    There was only one set of keys.

    We still have absolutely no explanation for this to this day.


  • first a quick question, if I switch over to jellyfin, is the same thing going to happen in four or five years? I’ll be all settled into a nice ecosystem and then they’ll just shit all over my face and I’ll have to start over?

    Jellyfin is open software built by volunteers - it’s not a business like Plex. There are no subscriptions, or being forced to go along with stupid shit. If someone or a group of people fucked up Jellyfin that bad, the community would fork it and develop a working version without any dogshit.

    So I would have to say no.

    I configured Jellyfin on an old tower I had sitting in my garage for the last 10 years. It took about 15 minutes. I don’t have an ethernet drop where I wanted to put it and it doesnt have onboard wifi so I am connecting it to my network with a shitty asus wifi dongle I bought in 2012. It works flawlessy - full 4k streaming to the other computer in my home where I watch most stuff without quality degradation or any unreasonable buffering. The host and server are running Debian stable.





  • golden_zealot@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlNew user, new computer, issues with GPU
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    It’s to verify if either a configuration in Bazzite is the cause(such as your drivers), or if it is hardware related. The other comment asking if you installed the Nvidia version of Bazzite suspects driver issues as well, so a live USB would be able to rule it out or confirm it.

    Alternatively, and probably the better option is to just take backups of your files and such and then reinstall Bazzite to the system, making sure you are using a version that is compatible with your graphics card. You don’t seem as though you know a tonne about Linux, so I would probably recommend that over trying to rebase the OS, as it will generally be easier for you to do I think, and more completely insure system stability.



  • According to NASA, the length of the celestial object is 366 meters. The distance from 387746 (2003 MH4) to the planet Earth will be 6,676,580 km.

    If an asteroid approaches the Earth at a distance closer than 7.5 million kilometers and its size exceeds 150 meters, NASA considers it a “potentially hazardous object.”

    So there is basically no chance of impact as I understand it unless some suuuuuuuuper unexpected shit happens I guess.


  • Hey all, I discovered two issues with the QK101 on Linux, figured out the fixes, and I thought I would come back to explain the fixes for any other Linux users such as myself who might be looking for a solution to the same problem if they purchase this board in the future.

    As a reference point, please note that I am on the stable branch of Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86_64.

    I encountered two issues. The first was that when going to VIA to configure the board (the QK101 SPECIFICALLY uses the version of VIA found at https://cfg.qwertykeys.com/ at the time of writing), even after pairing the HID, VIA would not do anything and would not detect the board. To fix this I made two changes. First I swapped to the cable that came with the board. Second, instead of using a Chromium based browser, I found I had to use Chromium ITSELF.

    I had done some other stuff I can’t fully recall regarding permissions of the hidraw devices under /dev/ as well, but I think you only have to touch these if the device doesn’t show up as a choice when choosing a device when authorizing it in VIA. If one thinks they need to change permissions on these, note that the keyboard has multiple hidraw devices mounted, and they can be determined by opening via and chrome://device-log/ in different tabs and then trying to authenticate. Using the device log you should be able to see which hidraw devices you should be working with.

    The second issue was that even though I could remap keys, change some colors etc, I could not perform firmware updates, or make custom animations for the screen/LED matrix - trying to save would just state “Save failed” on VIA.

    The problem here is related to the permissions of the serial device as it is represented in the OS.

    To determine which interface it is on one’s system, they can run the command sudo watch -n 2 "ls /dev/ | grep tty | column" and unplug/replug the keyboard as needed to determine which tty represents the keyboard. In my case I found it to be ttyACM0. Once this is determined, you can quit out of the watch command with ctrl + C.

    If the user runs cat /dev/ttyACM0 and receives a permission denied error, it will verify that the user account does not have access to the serial interface of the device, and this is why VIA is unable to write certain data back to the board.

    The best fix here is to simply add your user to the dialout group, which will have the effect of giving the user account access to the serial ports. This is achievable with the command sudo usermod -aG dialout USERNAME where USERNAME is your username.

    Some information on the internet states that you only have to log out and back in after this to have the group addition take effect, but in my case I discovered that I had to restart the system entirely. To verify if you are in the group, you can just run the groups command by itself.

    Once this is done, you can go back into via to test adding an LED Matrix animation or some sort - for me it worked at this point.

    Thanks!


  • Lol, yea I had a similar thought when writing it.

    My Mom who plans these games takes it seriously because she wants people to have a good time, but has a really difficult time finding something which she considers accessible enough for everyone while still imparting some kind of challenge. She usually defaults to trivia, but then thinks that it should be Christmas trivia. The problem therein is that after 30 or more years of doing this, it has become wildly stale as there is only so much Christmas trivia, and it is not very engaging at all.

    Last year I came to her with about 5 different new game ideas, all but one was shot down for some reason or another. The one that did get through went really well, but I am still thinking of others things I could bring to her well in advance, as she needs to mull over the logistics of whether they would meet her criteria for an acceptable party game.




  • Even people who would buy from Nazi’s still want a functional car.

    These things randomly stop working, break if you drive it into a half a foot of water, have rear view mirror housings which bust off when you try to pull down the sun visor, have a single ethernet cable routing all the controls and devices so that if the connection breaks anywhere everything stops working suddenly, a shelf underneath the headlight which accrues dirt or snow as you drive until it is not serving its purpose, exterior panels which just fall the fuck off, and hardly get any mileage.

    The only people who buy these are those incapable of the barest reasoning.




  • The couple I have built are mostly built by myself with some outside suggestions from a friend. Usually you are safe to browse anything so long as you can find some legitimate user reviews (Video reviews preferably) - pre-orders, and especially group buys can be risky. This goes for parts as well as full boards. It’s also good to look into whether the seller has good documentation/a build guide if the keyboard does nifty things that are not very standard. I just got a QwertyKeys QK101 which I finished building last night - I can verify that they as a seller were really quite fast as far as delivery goes, and the board is working quite nicely, has some really neat magnetic connections inside that connects the battery to the PCB and the PCB to the screen which made that really easy. Also hot swappable for the switches, so I didnt have solder anything. Have also heard pretty good things about their other boards. For switches I use a seller called RNDKBD, and for caps I usually look at DeskHero or CanonKeys.

    I made a post with a picture and part list you can see on my profile.