amphy

joined 2 years ago
[–] amphy@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (6 children)

As long as you're running Windows 10 without an Internet connection, that's totally fine! Have a good time my dude. But if you are using an Internet connection, security updates are foundational, especially on Windows. I know XP is ancient but this was eye-opening for me: https://youtu.be/6uSVVCmOH5w?t=10m32s

[–] amphy@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Been a Windows user all my life. As Windows has been tanking over the years, I've finally started making the switch as of a few months ago. First was our home theater PC, which was shockingly easy - next was my desktop, which hasn't been as easy but it's been a joy to learn about and make it my own.

I'm happy to pay for a license for anything I use. That included Windows. But, sometimes, the free & open-source route is better - I'm no longer "locked in" to any one solution and it's a fantastic feeling.

[–] amphy@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I love the idea but not the messaging. Older folks & non-nerd people - a vast majority of the demographic of people who would benefit from this campaign, if I had to guess - aren't going to want Linux or "fresh new software". They want a computer with a web browser, an Office suite, and an OS/layout that functions exactly the way they expect it to.

If you tout so much change, they're going to lose interest. I'd argue they'd lose interest seeing technical words like "software", since all they know on phones and computers are "apps".

However, If you instead show them side-by-side how they can do the exact same tasks with nearly identical steps and also emphasize the benefits like cost effectiveness and speed... they'll just say "okay great, can you do it for me?"

[–] amphy@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

And for when switching user agents doesn't work: ungoogled chromium saves the day

[–] amphy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

5 points, not bad

[–] amphy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (7 children)

What you recommend in terms of offline open-source converters?

[–] amphy@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Worth mentioning that the bidirectional linking works for notes themselves, or even certain parts in notes. So if Note A has a list and I want to link to a certain list item from that inside Note B, I can do that. Super cool functionality imo

[–] amphy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Had no idea FLauncher existed. Thank you so much

[–] amphy@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Yep. You can just disable filtering for specific devices. Or, if you want to get more granular, you can create device groups with different levels of filtering (including none).

My partner uses Facebook, I don't. Her phone has Facebook unblocked, but it's blocked on all our other devices.

[–] amphy@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I recently de-embarrassed my hostnames. I went with names that are one step removed from being dead obvious. Feels nice having descriptive, but not uncreative, names for everything

  • Custom built desktop pc: Studio
  • Home theater PC: Theater
  • Server: Gamut (this was Nexus until I ran into bs regarding the TLD preload list in web browsers... had to go with a non-tld name)
  • Everything else: Based off the model. For example, my Asus Vivobook S 15 is just "Vivobook", etc
[–] amphy@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How well do ebooks & audiobooks work on jellyfin? I'm an emby user, and while I love it a lot, it's not great for audiobooks & there's functionally no ebook support... you can see ebooks in their library but not even open them.

I have audiobookshelf too which handles both, but I'm also always looking for ways to cut down on excess stuff to have to worry about or maintain

[–] amphy@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Felt really obsessive. He wants to impress Lumon so hard, I can't help but feel he's going to make a 180 if they keep failing to appreciate him. Reforms? Who cares, you're using paperclips wrong. Unhinged

 

hey! I love nu-disco as a genre and couldn't find it on lemmy anywhere. any help would be appreciated, thanks!

 

hey! I really enjoy citypop and wanted to find a community on lemmy for it. thanks in advance for any recommendations!

 

as much as I want to move this over to mastodon, there isn't really visibility on twitter as-is, but I'm open to the idea!

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