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a dude that likes gaming and tech (especially Linux) aro/ace

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Looking for a good solution for a hands-free kiosk.
  • that should help, thanks!

    edit: Yup, i can use that to reset user preferences on reboot, perfect

  • Looking for a good solution for a hands-free kiosk.
  • Debian/ubuntu with cage was what i was leaning towards, given @izax@pawb.social's tips, i think i'll go with that.

  • Looking for a good solution for a hands-free kiosk.
  • i did, but i couldnt figure out how to get the full firefox ui, and not just a webpage.

    And the full docs were locked behind requesting a document as a rep from a company -_-

  • Looking for a good solution for a hands-free kiosk.
  • thank you for the long answer, but i looked at the policies.json documentation and it didnt have anything to block the core settings

  • Looking for a good solution for a hands-free kiosk.

    I want to setup a bunch of laptops to be web kiosks, I'll organize my wants into a list so that it's easier to skim:

    • Open a version of Firefox with the normal ui, tabs and all.
    • Automatically enters a session with no user input on reboot
    • Doesn't allow doing anything but interacting with Firefox (kinda obvious, kiosk and all)
    • Auto-login
    • Automatic updates, with them being applied on restart
    • Firefox settings reset on reboot

    Nice to haves:

    • nice Plymouth screen to hide the scary code on startup.
    • completely block any attempts to change configuration on Firefox
    • ad-block
    • easy deployment to a bunch of machines.

    If these sound like pretty strict requirements, they are, I'm doing this to attempt to get an internship by making my school's web kiosk laptops not suck (they currently run a janky install of Ubuntu 18.04)

    Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I'd be glad to add more information.

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    Discord now properly supports screensharing on linux
  • i think it works for you because you have xwayland video bridge installed

  • Discord now properly supports screensharing on linux
  • i think you're totally right, i just dont like people saying theyre doing it right now.

    Frankly i think we should use matrix instead, but it just isnt good enough yet

  • Discord now properly supports screensharing on linux
  • no alternative that's as user-friendly and feature-complete

  • Discord now properly supports screensharing on linux
  • ooh, you're talking about that, i see. Yeah matrix doesnt have that

  • Discord now properly supports screensharing on linux
  • it would if itd get sued by forest conservation groups if it didnt admit it

  • Discord now properly supports screensharing on linux
  • they say they dont sell any user data, although i have my doubts about that

  • Discord now properly supports screensharing on linux
  • oh, also matrix just added proper e2ee video conferencing that doesnt use jitsi, its a native feature

  • Discord now properly supports screensharing on linux
  • huh, ive used both, how is the discord implementation better? They seem the same to me.

  • Discord now properly supports screensharing on linux
  • that's a totally fair view, and the people at matrix seem to agree because it has threading, seems to be the kind you like, too

  • Discord now properly supports screensharing on linux
  • and matrix doesnt have a functional voice call across clients atm

  • Discord now properly supports screensharing on linux
  • why cut chatroom functionality? Servers are the main reason people use discord?

  • Discord now properly supports screensharing on linux
  • they also offer vencord, that patched the official client to offer those features

  • Discord now properly supports screensharing on linux
  • takes anywhere from a day or two to weeks, depends how mant bugs the feature has

  • Discord now properly supports screensharing on linux
  • It's related because it's news about discord changing something related to linux

  • Discord now properly supports screensharing on linux
  • how dare you express a liking for a proprietary platform on lemmy, smh

    /s

  • Discord now properly supports screensharing on linux

    Wayland and audio is fixed, but only on the canary branch for the moment, this isnt lazy either, they changed the whole screenshare flow to suit linux's permission prompts

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    How do i balance this (photo) into: 2000 - 300 - 300 - 277.78 - 375?

    i'm kind of at a loss, splitter calculators crash when i try to use them /:

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    How does hypixel have their website and minecraft server on their root domain? (I would like to do something similar)

    Hypixel.net is both their website and mc server adress.

    Is it just that https is on port 443 and minecraft is on port 25565?

    And if that is the case, can i do something similar by making a reverse proxy have two seperate server blocks for the one domain, with different ports?

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    9 computers per minute - suprisingly easy build

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    130 hours in, i have built a turbofuel-powered oil rig. (more pictures and details in description)

    Here are the basic photos of the rig:

    ! ! ! !

    This is the plastic and rubber manufacturing:

    ! !

    The residue from that goes into the turbofuel refineries:

    !

    some of it is packaged, the rest gets burned in 8 2x overclocked fuel generators for power:

    ! ! !

    But that's not all! I had to do quite a bit of infra to get the oil rig working, like:

    Oil pipelines:

    ! !

    A train network:

    ! ! ! ! ! ! !

    (the last picture is the view from the tower i showed off in my last post here.)

    and a compacted coal production building thing:

    !

    here are the details about the input/output:

    | inputs: | outputs: | |---------------|-----------------------| | 480 crude oil | 205.5 plastic | | 165 coal | 92 rubber | | 165 sulfur | 45 packaged turbofuel | | | 4000MW |

    All machines working at 100% with zero waste

    please ask if you have any questions.

    EDIT: here is the map

    !

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    130 hours in, i have built a turbofuel-powered oil rig. (more pictures and details in description)

    Here are the basic photos of the rig:

    ! ! ! !

    This is the plastic and rubber manufacturing:

    ! !

    The residue from that goes into the turbofuel refineries:

    !

    some of it is packaged, the rest gets burned in 8 2x overclocked fuel generators for power:

    ! ! !

    But that's not all! I had to do quite a bit of infra to get the oil rig working, like:

    Oil pipelines:

    ! !

    A train network:

    ! ! ! ! ! ! !

    (the last picture is the view from the tower i showed off in my last post here.)

    and a compacted coal production building thing:

    !

    here are the details about the input/output:

    | inputs: | outputs: | |---------------|-----------------------| | 480 crude oil | 205.5 plastic | | 165 coal | 92 rubber | | 165 sulfur | 45 packaged turbofuel | | | 4000MW |

    all machines working at 100%, with 0 waste.

    please ask if you have any questions.

    EDIT: here is the map

    !

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    Would y'all be interested in a big post about this oil rig and all the infrastructure i had to make to support it?

    Edit: yup, ill do it tommorow.

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    Yknow, when i started playing this game i didnt think id have to do this much math.

    Optimising the oil residue-creating part of my turbofuel factory. This isnt super advanced math but still.

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    66 hours in, i made a factory that makes 25 motors per minute.

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    66 hours in, i made a factory that makes 25 motors per minute.

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    Mozilla explains their recent foray into advertising - A free and open internet shouldn’t come at the expense of privacy

    blog.mozilla.org A free and open internet shouldn’t come at the expense of privacy | The Mozilla Blog

    MARK SURMAN, PRESIDENT, MOZILLA Keeping the internet, and the content that makes it a vital and vibrant part of our global society, free and accessible has

    A free and open internet shouldn’t come at the expense of privacy | The Mozilla Blog

    > MARK SURMAN, PRESIDENT, MOZILLA Keeping the internet, and the content that makes it a vital and vibrant part of our global society, free and accessible has

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    J'ai traduit l'integralité de l'application web "photon" en français.

    Vous pouvez changer de langue dans les paramètres du site.

    Ca fait un petit moment que je l'aie fini la traduction, la vraie raison que je poste cela c'est pour voir si il y a des erreurs que je vois pas.

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    Under a toot announcing that firefox now supports CHIPS (Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State)

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    seems familiar

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    Bloodborne now works on pc with the "shadps4" emulator, its still early days but the progress has been very fast.

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    Windows 11 is getting a new start menu. EDIT: this replaces the "all apps" page by default, not the home screem

    More info about it here: https://www.ghacks.net/2024/08/13/windows-11-start-menu-is-getting-a-new-layout-to-organize-your-apps/

    I love how microsoft never learns their lessons.

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    What's your favorite book that you wouldnt say is a masterpiece?

    Mine is the wings of fire series, it is a "kids" novel (think like warrior cats age range)

    But Tui T sutherland is so good at writing characters and introducing and describing worlds and characters that i reread it every so often. Like, she managed to write a book from the pov of a mind reader and it works.

    Every book is from a different character's pov and each character feels wholly unique.

    The main issue with the series is that the plot is kinda average at best, the characters really carry the story.

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    Does anyone else prefer how these buttons looked before? (rounded squares)

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    Wording change and clarification for purchasing Immich · Discussion #11313

    github.com Wording change and clarification for purchasing Immich · immich-app immich · Discussion #11313

    Hello everybody, Alex here! After the last announcement on a wording change in response to our mishap of using the words licensed and unlicensed, the team and I gave it a long hard thought over the...

    Wording change and clarification for purchasing Immich · immich-app immich · Discussion #11313

    tldr is that you can hide the button that asks for payment and it says "purchase immich" instead of "purchase liscence"

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