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I have below average IQ, AMA
  • Have you given audiobooks a try? You can also start with books with simple words, slowly understand it over the weeks with a dictionary by the side maybe.

    Some books are fun! Try them if you can, at your own pace :)

  • Why Can't I See Certain Communities on Lemmy.ml ?
  • Yeah, things get weird and finicky when one instance defederates from another.

    Feel free to create accounts in other instances that meet your needs, and please include proper punctuation in their application forms xD

    Edit: Sorry for mocking your English, you probably aren't a native English speaker. Neither am I :P, my English used to be horrendous. It's still a bit shabby, but gets the job done when I need to convey my thoughts. Try your best to improve!

    Edit edit: You could have simply typed in a hurry, I probably embarrassed myself 🤣

  • Why Can't I See Certain Communities on Lemmy.ml ?
  • No, you will not get all Lemmy content even if lemmynsfw.com doesn't block lemmy.ml.

    See for yourself

    You can normally browse lemmy.world instances though, not sure how well you can interact with their users or post.

    Edit tip: If you're new, make 2-3 accounts in instances that match your different interests. If you use a lemmy client app on your phone, you can switch accounts between different instances easily.

  • Why Can't I See Certain Communities on Lemmy.ml ?
  • Yeah, lemmy.ml blocks most porn/nsfw/r34 instances. I personally like it that way.

    I mainly sort posts by "all" and simply blocking NSFW tags hides some posts that aren't full-blown porn but just involve mature topics. So it's better than using an instance that doesn't defederate and turning off NSFW posts, at least for me.

    mander.xyz is pretty open to most instances afaik, check it out if interested.

  • What's your favourite Youtube channel most people probably haven't heard of?

    For me it's DJ Peach Cobbler. I've been watching his videos since he had around 2,000 subscribers. Now it's nearly 450,000.

    He used to mostly make videos on games, now he does a lot of history stuff too. He also has a little satirical news show, and a few tasteful shitposts. A really diverse YouTube channel.

    What's your favorite YouTube channel that's not a mainstream big-name like pewdiepie, mrbeast, ksi, etc...?

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    I don't hate the upcoming minecraft movie.

    I'll probably watch it once, have some dumb fun watching it and move on.

    Also the opening line in the new official trailer "As a child, I yearned for the mines" is just.... chef's kiss had me rolling xD

    Who knows? I might get to extract some fun out of the cringe dialogue and uncanny CGI.

    I don't understand why it gets THAT much hate though, before it's even released. Maybe it's just the internet amplifying everything.

    May be very shit opinion, feel free to disagree / attempt to correct

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    Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Update
  • Even if it's nearly impossible to reach the light at the end of the tunnel, we can still find salvation and meaning in our lives by hoping we'll reach it someday.

    The only other choice is to accept our doomed existence, and live a life of darkness.

    Or maybe light a candle and decide to be the light yourself, no matter how small.

  • How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down?

    What if protonmail, gmail or whatever email provider you are using goes belly-up? Are all your accounts doomed?

    If so, what are some preventive measures? Adding backup emails to your registered accounts?

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    Turned my shitty Intel Atom 32-bit laptop with just 1GB of RAM into a useful lightweight workstation

    !

    This laptop was originally sold with Windows 7 32-bit edition installed. Even back then it was really unresponsive and clunky. After several years of it lying around and being useless, I decided to do a really lightweight debian install on it.

    And guess what? It can do so much more than sit idly in some landfill.

    Now I can use it to write my study notes in neovim (gives me a good excuse to learn vim, and I'm learning slowly), listen to music with gst123, learn c and c++, torrent large files with transmission-cli and qbittorrent, and the list goes on....

    I mostly just use tty. I hit "startx i3" if I absolutely need a GUI, but for everything else, tty. I use links2 for Wikipedia, online resources and browsing memes which is already a big chunk of my internet usage. I was really giddy when I saw Tor browser had a 32-bit version, it runs surprisingly well even with less than 1 gigabyte of memory (unless I visit some really bloated sites)

    I can't play videos though, that's the one major thing it can't do. The integrated GPU is unsupported so playing videos or 3d-gaming is out of the question.

    BTW is there a lemmy instance/frontend I can use via CLI or links2?

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    Internet strangely stops working after one day of installation.

    This is an Acer Aspire one laptop, with a 32 bit CPU and Debian 12.7. Whenever I install Linux on it, the Internet works for about one day. And when I boot it up the next day, it just stops working. This is the case for WiFi, Ethernet and USB tethering via Android.

    After running networkctl it gave me this:

    !

    I can ping 8.8.8.8 in this state, but not gnu.org. I can't open websites in Firefox either.

    !

    !

    Then I ran "sudo systemctl start systemd-networkd". The networkctl output changed but everything worked exactly as the above two images. Couldn't open websites still.

    !

    Yesterday everything was working perfectly

    Edit: Thanks to @nanook@friendica.eskimo.com and @MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml I finally have internet access on my 12-year old e-waste!

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    What's the strangest insult that you have ever received/given?

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    Download Navi hasn't been updated in 3 years. Will it be a security risk if I keep using it? Are there any good alternatives if it is a risk?

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    Should I be worried?

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    Finally, Inner Peace!

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    I can't delete files in my old ntfs partition from when I had windows. {EDIT: I messed up}

    This laptop has one hard disk with two partitions. One of them has a bunch of data. I can't delete the data at all, dolphin(the file manager) gives a "not enough permissions error". When I try to delete stuff with rm it displays this:

    >rm: cannot remove 'filename': Read-only file system

    What do I do?

    EDIT: I backed up the data and reformatted the partition. This completely broke my install and fedora wouldn't open at all. I popped in a live USB, backed up some other stuff and I am reinstalling fedora right now (writing this from the live installer :P)

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    What can I do with my super old laptop?

    I had installed Debian on an Acer Aspire One Laptop. It has a 32-bit Intel Atom CPU with just 1GB of RAM. I obviously can't run it like a usual desktop anymore, it's way too slow.

    I tried it to connect it to my TV with HDMI to create some sort of "Smart TV" setup, but that didn't work out because I can't even play 1080p videos on VLC with it smoothly.

    So.... What now? Can I only use it for headless stuff like pihole, nextcloud, etc. now?

    Is there any hope left for my unsuccessful "Smart TV" contraption?

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    Absolutely loving Linux btw

    Couldn't run Windows 7, and Windows 10 ran like shit. My old PC basically got a second life with Linux.

    This is Half-Life GOTY running on Wine, runs really smooth.

    The only downside is lack of directX support, OpenGL is there but the integrated graphics card only supports till OpenGL 2.1, which is not enough for many things, and also slower than directX. Still, my PC feels much faster now, and doesn't scream like a demon whenever I open up a browser :)

    (Maybe I should dual boot Win7(While never connecting it to the web), just to play some more games with DirectX?)

    Also, my local hospital has started using Ubuntu, their old PCs also couldn't handle the heavy burden of running Windows I guess 🤣

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    How do I uninstall my browser along with all its data?

    I recently installed chromium, created a new user and logged into a website. After my work was done, I removed chromium with "sudo dnf remove chromium".

    A few days later I installed chromium again through dnf. My user account was still there and I was logged into the same site.

    Is there a way to avoid this and uninstall an app along with all its user data?

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    What's a foreign movie you want to watch but you can't because it's too obscure to have any sort of translation?

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    <title with rule in it>

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    Trying to rescue a 1GB RAM laptop

    I had an Aspire One D270 laptop with a 32-bit Intel Atom CPU and 1 gigabyte of RAM, so I installed Debian with Xfce on it, but even then it's running way too slow.

    Is there anything I can do to make the laptop faster and more responsive given its limited memory?

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    Is there a way to view Facebook/Instagram feeds without logging in?

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    What is the worst experience you have ever had involving Viruses/Malware?

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    If you could create your own country, what would you name it?

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    How good is Paranoid Android?

    I have a Redmi Note 11, I am planning to install a custom ROM. This is the first time I'm about to do something like this.

    How good of a reputation does the Paranoid Android OS have? Will I get good long term support? How functional is it?

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