I like that there are a variety of apps and services for different tastes and needs. On services, I like that Pixelfed and Loops exist to fill Instagram style niches for people even if it’s not my cup of tea. Jerboa is a no-frills Lemmy app and that’s how I want it, but I appreciate that there are many others with a plethora of features and styling choices that suit people, and are not forced to a single kind of experience.

Welcome to Lemmy, thanks for the post detailing your experience and glad to hear you’re getting your family onboard too! I think you’ll feel right at home with the Linux nerds and tech privacy wonks here.

I wanted to consume the content instead of just being fed it.

Like you, this is the basis of a lot of my motivation to try and then stick with these FOSS programs, but perhaps differently than you, it also guides the extent to which I feel comfortable continuing to use some proprietary software and algorithms. I’ve committed to interacting with technology on my terms, even if I have reduced but not fully cut myself off from big tech.

What’s the threshold for a tag?

Just add context as a top level comment or in the body text area. Someone can come in to clarify if the poster is missing it.

Even for a poster sometimes it’s not obvious if there is any AI in the project. Example: Lutris, dev said he is adding Claude commits and will be scrubbing mentions of the tool from PRs. Sometimes AI is discussed but rejected.

It’s easy to tell when a whole project has been vibecoded, but the grey zone of an existing project that may or may not have had slopcode added, is tougher for posters to discern.

The function I used most often aside from the usual sequence is Alt-SysRq-F. This runs oomkiller to SIGKILL what would appear to be the process hogging the most memory. That was usually enough to get control back from an agonizingly sluggish system caused by hitting the swapspace. I didn’t need it anymore after I upgraded to 48GB of RAM.

Another way to remember the classic mnemonic, it’s “busier” in reverse, after holding down for a second the Alt and SysRq keys (which may require a function key combo on some keyboards).

You should check ahead of time whether the value of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq is not zero to be sure the Sysrq functions are enabled. If not, then in /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf you can add the line kernel.sysrq = 1 to enable all features, or a higher number to enable select features.

https://lemmy.ca/post/7243839/4029041

I already wrote about what’s different back in Oct 2023 in response to a complaint reminiscent of yours. Most important bit:

That’s what you will have to deal with in the de-centralized model, and I think it strikes a decent balance of allowing open communication, resisting overall censorship while still allowing some groups to censor out what they consider bad vibes.

Lets you change audio input and output device and level per application on the fly.

It’s quite a magical tool, in my opinion.

Problem nearly as old as Linux itself:

My suggestion is to try pulse audio volume control (pavucontrol), you get a pretty decent number of options to look through and troubleshoot, in case it’s routing to non-existent display monitor speakers or like a separate headphone jack instead of Lineout, etc.

The part about local entropy I said precisely that in the second paragraph and is essential to my analogy. Thanks for clarifying that.

Remember (per our current scientific understanding), entropy goes in one direction from orderly to chaotic. No matter what you do, the total entropy goes up, and doing nothing does increase the total entropy less.

However, instead of letting that fact let you down, it is possible to do things that locally reduce entropy and make things more ordered in your local environment. All this to say, don’t focus solely on the inevitable, focus on that which you can control, what you can hope for, and what you can make better for yourself and your world.

Camp outside their headquarters in Bellevue? /s

Unless those features are what attracts a far wider swath of people than before, I wouldn’t be mad at it but I wouldn’t join because I worry about the technical debt that will build up over time. Bugs will get reported, some fixes will be issued but unless the lead keeps a hard thumb on it, the code will become less and less coherent over time.

“We’ll blast the wireless signals on max to ensure our heavy machinery controls don’t cause it to run into a building accidentally” doesn’t sound like the safest and most robust operating procedure to me…

Right but essentially the Anthropic Marketing team made extraordinary claims about what Mythos is, pretended like it’s too dangerous for public use, that it can find and patch vulnerabilities undiscovered by human researchers for 20 years, etc. etc. but it’s own technical team and big firm partners haven’t brought forward evidence that it’s all that much. It’s probably not useless, and it might be an improvement in some ways to its other models, but having an “additional researcher” is not really something that is too scary for public use.

It’s like if a drug company was hyping up a miracle drug, but it’s really just acetaminophen and ibuprofen in a different dosage combination. It treats pain and fever fine enough, and maybe better in some cases but not as game changing as they say.

I know of an easy way one can reset their PC…🐧

☁️✊️😠 “We didn’t need a robot’s help, we were perfectly capable of accidentally sudo rm -rf /* ing our disks on our own!”

I’ll be honest, I don’t like the way AI is pushed and speculation ruining the price of computing, but it has helped me once or twice. For example I used someone’s vibecoded driver patch to get a relatively ancient audio interface working, which was the last thing that I would have missed using Windows for.

Congrats on making the jump! Have a nice time with us on Lemmy and Piefed.

https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/164

TIL it has purposely not been implemented by the main developers in over a decade for ideological reasons. There are scripts and forks to enable it by default.

Aside from the point that Jellyfin is meant to browse your own personal collection of files usually after the fact…

Some file formats like mkv do work even if partially downloaded, so if you’re downloading a torrent for a free libre open source movie, choose the option to download chunks in sequential order, and I think there’s a way that you can watch while downloading.

There aren’t many Linux problems that cannot be fixed in one way or another.

Even with the messed up resolution on Pop, can you connect to the internet and open a browser? From your desktop, usually you can press the Super (Windows) key on your keyboard, then type firefox and press enter to get the browser. Similar with “terminal” to get the terminal. From there you have a number of options.

Option 1. Couldn’t you try booting from the same USB you used to install Pop OS again? Then avoid the Proprietary graphics option, use Nouveau graphics instead then install the last version of the Nvidia driver that supports the 1080 ti.

Option 2. Get another USB stick you don’t need for anything else on hand. Download the software Balena etcher from https://etcher.balena.io/ go into file properties to make the program executable. Then download bazzite and get the version with old nvidia drivers. Then insert the USB and use Etcher to flash the disk image to it. Boot to the USB.

Option 3. Uninstall and reinstall an older version of the nvidia drivers in the terminal to try to salvage your current Pop OS! installation.