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potemkinhr

@ potemkinhr @lemmy.ml

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  • How to patch YouTube on Android with ReVanced

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  • I'a bit lazy so I just use precompiled apk's from some good soul from the internet and avoid the hassle alltogether. I roll with a release until something breaks, whick can go for quite some time and then manually just install the new build, works flawlessly. Here's the source I use

  • Once a pirate, always a pirate

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  • Just a few days ago I pulled an old Sony's NWZ player as they still have superior audio quality compared to phones. I had to throw it away after 10+ years as the battery died.

  • Turkish parliament dumps Coke, Nestle from menus over alleged Israel support

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  • General Assembly votes overwhelmingly against US Cuba embargo, guess who opposed

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  • Wait I was under the impression that some time ago they lifted the embargo as US-Cuba relations have improved a bit. A man would think raising an embargo would improve relations even more /sigh

  • New EarPods question

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  • Thank you for conforming, just ordered the earpods

  • New EarPods question

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  • Thank you for the detailed testing, that helped!

  • ThinkPad T480s – What is this port?

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  • Like some others have said, it’s a docking port of some sorts but I’ve never seen it in practice. In our company we buy the universal hybrid usb C docks and they are great. The connector has also a more useful secondary USB C port which you can use for charging if the primary port dies for some reason, saved us on numerous occasions that way so the user can work while we prepare a replacement machine.

  • Finally upgraded a €180 Thinkpad T480

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  • I flinched there for a second but I absolutely hate the s subversion of the series forgoing the RJ45 port completely. We procure them for some high management and execs. The base version is rock solid

  • Distro recommendations and Nvidia advice?

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  • Man you just nudged me to it, will definitely try it out with my Legion together with PopOS as I'm fed up lately with Windows 11 lately, saving this post for later. I do very much like and prefer KDE, didn't Mint have a KDE integrated release at some point or am I going senile? EDIT: definitely not senile, they had it as an option until 19, bummer

  • YouTube's anti-adblock rollout has finally arrived for Firefox users

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  • This one's hilarious, but that one's not gonna work for long as they will axe almost all non-government approved VPNs

  • SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tv running Android OS

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  • Thank you very much for this, finally managed to disable and rebind some remote buttons for apps that Ive already nuked off the TV. Works great with some workarounds.

  • Good news for AMD Linux users - fTPM RNG will soon be disabled

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  • Thanks for the heads up, I'm distro hopping these days and looking for options on where to settle

  • Fuck it, give me your most OVERRATED Distros

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  • Seeing a lot of Manjaro here, what's the deal? I installed it just yesterday on a test machine to check it out as I plan on steering over from windows long-term so just browsing what's out there. Don't really have issues and it ticks the boxes of a more user-friendly installation and comes out of the box with Plasma. I may try out pure Arch or the GUI fork just not to have the hassle of setting up the DE

  • Firefox is not as privacy-friendly as everyone says

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  • I blame people's shorter attention spans for it, to a degree I'm also guilty of it. Can't read a book nowadays before my focus shifts somewhere else.

  • Good news for AMD Linux users - fTPM RNG will soon be disabled

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  • Just to add a perspective from the other side of the fence, I have a gaming laptop running Windows 11 (yes I know) where this (or a very similar) issue has been plaguing Ryzen users for at least a year and a half. The issue is that TPM per se is not causing issues if turned on, but if BitLocker encryption is on it will cause occasional audio stutters and intermittent complete system halts. The only thing that reliably helps is completely turning off Bitlocker, the TPM chip can stay on and is of course needed for W11. OEMs and AMD have been digging their heads in the sand like ostritches and they have released the odd fix that does nothing to fix the underlying issue. I can't see MS doing anything to reverse course on requirements and am getting a bit fed up with their BS lately, browsing what distro might suit me best and might pull the trigger and finally switch...

  • It's so nice to see them all growing, but this is just the truth, sorry.

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  • I dont know man, I installed Liftoff as I want a consistent UI throughout iOS and Android and so far it’s great. Roll with whatever works for you 🤷‍♂️

  • Why Personal Cloud Storage is so bad on Linux?

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  • Chiming in, is there a solid OneDrive client for linux that just works? No collaboration stuff needed for it or other fluff, just simple file sync. I pay for OneDrive family and would be nice to be able to sync files with other ecosystems (Synology, Windows, Android).

  • What is your GUI of choice for yt-dlp ?

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  • I similarly made two functions depending on the use case (see comments in code) and saved them in Powershell's default profile (Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1) so I can invoke them with just one word directly in commandline, works great 👌

     
        
function Vid {
    param (
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
        [string]$link
    )
    yt-dlp -P "$env:USERPROFILE\Downloads" $link -S "res:1080,br" --embed-subs --sub-langs all,-live_chat --remux mp4
} #Downloads videos using yt-dlp limited to 1080p; usage Vid YT_URL
function VidFull {
    param (
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
        [string]$link
    )
    yt-dlp -P "$env:USERPROFILE\Downloads" $link --embed-subs --sub-langs all,-live_chat --remux mp4
} #Downloads videos using yt-dlp in maximum quality; usage VidFull YT_URL

  • Reddit has RSS feeds

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  • Man I totally forgot about RSS, it died ages ago with the death of Google's client and never really stuck afterwards. Was just meaning to ask about a good client, this one looks like a no BS one that does it's job. Thanks!