maxprime

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[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

If those button combos seem strange, on an SNES controller those are opposite directions on each pad. E.g. Y is the leftmost face button.

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Go figure. I usually turn rumble off.

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

https://itsfoss.com/install-ubuntu/

The best advice I’ve heard is to not overthink the distribution. There are so many, and the differences are actually a lot smaller than people let on. Most of the differences are cosmetic, and the differences that are not cosmetic are things a beginner wouldn’t notice, like package management policies.

Ubuntu, while not perfect, probably has the most straightforward installation process and is widely used so you can get lots of help online.

Once you get a little more comfortable with Linux, check out the Arch Linux Wiki. It is filled with lots and lots of really good info that usually pertains to all Linux distributions, not just Arch.

Start following different Linux communities on Lemmy and Mastadon, there are many great communities.

Also, there will always be assholes who gate keep - this is not unique to Linux. So ignore the few haters out there, there is an overwhelming majority of super helpful and kind people out there.

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It’s actually incredible how good Linux is, and it’s entirely free. No ads, no bullshit, just a rock solid OS. It’s staggering how small a proportion of people use it.

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought Spotify gave shite royalties.

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

I ran arch on it for about a year - it’s a gen 9 i5. During that time I had a desktop that ran W10 on a gen 3 i5 and was quite a competent machine. Then with W11 and the TPM requirement that perfectly good windows box became ewaste.

The laptop is fine. Windows 11 is just garbage.

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Yeah they transferred all of our network files held on our own private servers over to Teams. I didn’t even know that teams did file storage. I guess through one drive.

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 weeks ago

I can’t even change the length of time before the screen locks.

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

No, I can’t.

 

I’m a teacher and our division just “upgraded” to W11 with a new version of outlook that is basically a web app on desktop. Several times a day my laptop comes to a complete crawl while Teams decides to open itself. Can’t open or close programs, Firefox won’t register mouse clicks, nothing. Graphical glitches appear al the time with menu bars and task bars disappearing regularly, requiring force quitting the app or logging out of the desktop.

When I first switched to Linux I assumed my experience would be like this. But now it’s the other way around.

Rant over.

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I only ever beat it with a friend in 2 player. He really carried me, it probably would have been much easier for him in 1P!

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you imagine if someone pulled this nonsense in the states???

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Depends where you live in Canada.

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I've been using Google Drive in Windows for about a decade and have a good workflow. I recently transitioned to Linux but cannot seem to reliably connect my drive to the filesystem. My work provides unlimited Drive space and since it's for work I have shared directories with coworkers that I need access to every day. Hence, I'm kind of tied to GDrive.

Is there a reliable method of doing this? Rclone seems to be what I want but it seems to disconnect regularly, and often doesn't upload the changes I make which defeats the purpose.

Do Linux users just not use Drive?

 

This is the code hosts annas-archive.org, the search engine for books, papers, comics, magazines, and more.

 

Firefox privacy, security and anti-tracking: a comprehensive user.js template for configuration and hardening.

I found the extensions section particularly useful:

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

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