that was literally going to be my first suggestion before I looked closer and looked their other posts.

It’s wild to see an IP and port with no domain in 2026. Which also screams “An I made this for me” because they may not have any idea regarding the security implications.

🎶 Hit the road, Jack, and don’t ya come back no more no more no more no more 🎶

Best advice that I forgot to include because it’s been a while since I needed VNC for anything. @akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone, please follow @ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone’s advice here!

VNC server on her computer. VNC client on your computer. Make sure password is very strong since you’re opening this to the wider internet. Open a port for VNC to pass through on your moms router (and possibly your own as well), and then connect remotely.

TigerVNC seems to be available for all platforms, including Windows and Linux. TigerVNC includes a server and client. (Client is sometimes called “viewer.”)

https://tigervnc.org/

https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc

Ah yes, Tyler Durden’s Project Mayhem induced fascist “solarpunk”:

In the world I see - you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You’ll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You’ll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you’ll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway.

All aesthetic, all hierarchy, no community.

Glad to hear!

I just updated last night to 2.7.5 ha

I dunno about an xyz domain specifically but njal.la has good privacy protection with domains starting at 15€ annually.

edit: sorry nevermind just noticed you said ten years somehow my brain skipped over that.

I’ve generally heard 26.04 isn’t doing too hot right now, and I always thought there wasn’t an officially supported upgrade path until things are more stable in the new release, but maybe that’s Ubuntu proper and not Kubuntu.

I haven’t gotten a notice to upgrade, however. Also on Kubuntu 24.04.

Did you upgrade or is it a new install?

I thought upgrades weren’t officially available until August.

It’s still $199 for me, which is the price I remember it being for a few years now but maybe I am wrong.

This is why I want one of these little motherfuckers so god damned badly.

I’m so glad that none of it’s components have been hit hard by the AI tech market disaster, price point still the same so far. (crossing fingers for it to stay the same)

I have multiple monitors from different manufacturers. The setup I have completely breaks screen blanking for energy saving. I’ve spent over two years on this issue now and I’m pretty sure it’s hardware related on the monitor side. When power saving is enabled, despite two years of research, the screens power back on almost immediately, never staying off for more than a second or two. I’m poor and can’t afford new ones, so my solution is to… use a blank screensaver instead to save my screens from burn-in.

I’m on Kubuntu 24.04 and I got xscreensaver working in Wayland.

You have to log into an X11 session first and set up xscreensaver how you want it. Once it’s set up and working, log out of the X11 session and log back into the Wayland session.

Go to the System Settings and look for Autostart. Make an autostart entry for xscreensaver here. Then check the xscreensaver.desktop file that created and make sure it looks like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=
Exec=xscreensaver --no-splash
GenericName[en_US]=
GenericName=
Icon=xscreensaver
MimeType=
Name[en_US]=XScreenSaver
Name=XScreenSaver
Path=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=xscreensaver

As long as this is set to autostart, you will have a working xscreensaver in Kubuntu, if nothing else. I cannot confirm it working on any other systems and you absolutely do need both X11 and Wayland as sign in options for this to work. If you want to change settings you will have to switch back to X11 or I use scripts to edit the .xscreensaver configuration file.

For example I wrote two small python scripts for changing the length of time before the screen saver activates, and use cron to run them in the morning and evening. This is the one for the morning:

import os
import sys
import fileinput

# Read in the file
with open('.xscreensaver', 'r') as file:
  filedata = file.read()

# Replace the target string
filedata = filedata.replace('timeout:	0:05:00', 'timeout:	1:00:00')

# Write the file out again
with open('.xscreensaver', 'w') as file:
  file.write(filedata)

The morning script changes the timeout to five minutes, and the evening script changes is to an hour, making it a simple find and replace a string for both since we’re just rotating numbers.

and this is what it would look like in your crontab:

0 7 * * * python3 /home/yourusername/screensavermorning.py

My solution was to set up xscreensaver how I wanted it in X11 and then start it via CLI as a background app on system startup for wayland.

You can’t manage screensaver settings from wayland, but you can force it into working.

I’m on Kubuntu 24.04

Mostly pretty good, but I can’t find anything in the settings that clearly mimics those scanlines from interlaced video

On reddit if a post was deleted I could still interact with the thread, even if the content of the post itself was gone.

So it was a bit more elegant, imho, as it allows continued discussion and being able to link to the thread without it being completely nuked.

I also think that set expectations for how people expected it to work here, where the post contents and author would be nuked but the thread could still be accessed by hotlink.

These would have to be added to Lemmy development, because currently I can delete a post of my own on a community on another instance and there isn’t a technical way to prevent it. Reporting and banning for behavior is tricky too unless you manage to remember the username of who posted it.

So, that’s an uphill battle at the development level and the moderation level.

How is it easier to delete a post every time than to set preferences to not be emailed just once, then you never have to again?

I think the mods/admins would have more accurate info on how often it’s happening.