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If you're interested in (co-)moderating any of the communities created by me, you're welcome to message me.

I also have the account @[email protected]. Furthermore, I own the account @[email protected], which I hope to make a small bot out of in the future.

  • Internal microphone not being detected pleaseee helppp

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  • It was a bit of a long shot experiment to begin with. The commands I posted can be useful when an audio device suddenly stops working after it has been working initially during a session, but since your problem is most likely about your device not being recognized at any time, it's not too surprising that they don't do much. Just worth the try.

  • Internal microphone not being detected pleaseee helppp

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  • Do any of

     
        
alsactl clean 0
alsactl clean 1
alsactl clean 2

    do anything for you? (The numbers are for sound card 0, 1, and 2. It looks like, if anything, only 0 would be relevant for you, but you can try the others just in case.)

    This command cleans the controls created by applications.

    https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/questing/man1/alsactl.1.html

  • What are your advices to cool homes without AC ?

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  • Came here to point to this.

    Also, if outside noise is preventing one from keeping the windows open over night, get custom-fitted silicone earplugs.

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    Good mini PC?

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  • What hardware do you currently use and what software do you intend to run on the new machine? And what's your budget situation?

    In any case, I would always recommend to buy used or refurbished hardware. Even if it's not necessary financially, it's better for the environment.

  • PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google

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  • That's very cool indeed – although I dread the moment he starts talking to his followers about Lemmy.

  • Accidentally wrote an ISO to an encrypted 5TB drive… Help?

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  • This is in all likelihood the way to go. These instructions from VeraCrypt might lead the way.

    Of course, OP should create an exact duplicate of the disk to another drive before making any changes to it.

    As an aside, I know that GPT partition tables likewise come with a backup header at the end of the disk. Whether LUKS encrypted devices also have backup headers, I don't know, but it doesn't seem so. So, my fellow LUKS users, perhaps you would like to run the following:

    sudo cryptsetup luksHeaderBackup /dev/LUKSDEVICE --header-backup-file ~/nas/backups/lenovo_x280.luks.bin

  • YSK that you can create keyboard shortcuts to adjust brightness and contrast of your computer monitors even on a desktop PC

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  • Thank you, that's interesting and good to know. At least it's probably a good idea to not increment/decrement properties in very small steps (like 2% at a time) on a regular basis. I suspect the 5% steps I'm using for brightness should be fine, but I'll implement some shortcuts that go in bigger steps just to be sure.

  • YSK that you can create keyboard shortcuts to adjust brightness and contrast of your computer monitors even on a desktop PC

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  • I'm curious about both things you mention. Do you have the name of the kernel module at hand? And can you point me to a source on the monitor flash memory (as I couldn't find anything on that)?

  • YSK that you can create keyboard shortcuts to adjust brightness and contrast of your computer monitors even on a desktop PC

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  • I feel you basically. I have given up trying to control the RGB on my RAM (even though it's probably decently documented somewhere).

  • YSK that you can create keyboard shortcuts to adjust brightness and contrast of your computer monitors even on a desktop PC

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  • Your comment has now motivated me to add a Windows section :)

  • YSK that you can create keyboard shortcuts to adjust brightness and contrast of your computer monitors even on a desktop PC

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  • I know nothing about this, but can OpenRGB (Linux tool) talk to your device in any way?

  • Realities of hosting a tor relay node at home

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  • Rather than running a Tor relay, running a simple Tor bridge (e.g. via the browser add-on Snowflake as suggested by @[email protected]) is probably the best thing to do with one's home hardware.

    Actual relays must suffice certain requirements, according to the Tor project:

    Requirements for Tor relays depend on the type of relay and the bandwidth they provide. ==== Bandwidth and Connections ====

    A non-exit relay should be able to handle at least 7000 concurrent connections. This can overwhelm consumer-level routers. If you run the Tor relay from a server (virtual or dedicated) in a data center you will be fine. If you run it behind a consumer-level router at home you will have to try and see if your home router can handle it or if it starts failing. Fast exit relays (>=100 Mbit/s) usually have to handle a lot more concurrent connections (>100k).

    It is recommended that a relay have at least 16 Mbit/s (Mbps) upload bandwidth and 16 Mbit/s (Mbps) download bandwidth available for Tor. More is better. The minimum requirements for a relay are 10 Mbit/s (Mbps). If you have less than 10 Mbit/s but at least 1 Mbit/s we recommend you run a [/wiki/doc/PluggableTransports/obfs4proxy bridge with obfs4 support]. If you do not know your bandwidth you can use http://beta.speedtest.net/ to measure it.

    As for exit relays aka exit nodes, the obligatory advice is of course to not run them at all unless you know exactly what you are doing both legally and technically, and probably only if you're a foundation or something.

  • url.town: a catalog of interesting and useful links

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  • Love it. Under text editors, would you like to add Helix? It's much like (n)vim, but among many other aspects it has better discoverability of features (although several key features like plugins and code folding are still missing).

  • The lifehack to enjoy lemmy fully!1!1!1!0

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  • There are word filters for Lemmy?

  • Most used encrypted messenger besides Signal, Whatsapp, iMessage, and RCS?

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  • Is it possible to live boot Linux mint with persistence on a usb drive similar to Tails OS?

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  • lmgtfy always was needlessly unfriendly, but in the age of search result enshittification, it's even lost the excuse of technically providing a good solution (at least in cases like this).

    Creating a live USB with persistence is lengthy and even the decent tutorials out there vary greatly in their suggested approach, making it perfectly legitimate (even for non-beginners) to ask for guides that others have found helpful.

  • Is it possible to live boot Linux mint with persistence on a usb drive similar to Tails OS?

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  • What a needlessly unfriendly response.

  • NAS Power Consumption

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  • Some local libraries (e.g. in Heidelberg) or ecological initiatives lend devices to measure electricity consumption at the power plug. In particular, this is useful to measure other appliances as well.

    Specifically for computers, they probably have some means to tell you their own consumption, but they may not be accurate or complete and will most certainly omit any peripherals, e.g. external hard drives.

  • If you enjoy to have music while coding and/or studying, and also would like to try something different than lofi hiphop or generic electronica, perhaps this SYNTHWAVE playlist is for you

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  • There's also SomaFM, a listener-supported, commercial-free radio project that has numerous stations with very great music selection that are suitable for coding. It's quite nice not to have to decide about individual songs, and it's free from large capitalist corporations like Spotify.

    For Linux, I have described in a comment how one can get an easy command line control over SomaFM stations: https://feddit.org/post/9775341/6942148

  • Germany weighs 10% tax on online platforms like Google

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  • Oddly enough, this guy Wolfram Weimer is a die-hard right-winger. So I was quite flabbergasted when I first read the headline, and still am doubting whether he really intends to follow through with this or rather is only floating this idea in order to introduce another bargaining chip in the trade negotiations with Trump.