JustARegularNerd

joined 2 years ago

Broken BIOS on a PC. You can basically throw out your motherboard

Can confirm, bricked a Latitude E6420 trying to put coreboot on it and completely missing an instruction in bright red bold text. Had a parts machine thankfully, and had to swap the boards.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tab A7 Lite

Huh, that makes two of us. Hated every second of dealing with OneUI, back when I got it, GSIs were around but there was no straight forward guide. Now one does exist and oh boy, it feels like a completely different device with LOS and no gapps.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This announcement is for Brave hosting their own repository to host the Brave browser on that's compatible with F-Droid, rather than the Brave browser being added to F-Droid's official repository.

Otherwise, perhaps you meant that you did add their repo and it's still not showing up.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 16 points 3 days ago

Both are accepted spellings, tire in the US and tyre in the UK

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tyre

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The fuck? First person I've met that objects to this. Even the sushi places usually throw in soy sauce for your spring rolls

I've done this mistake before on a 40 character LCD, but that was over 10 years ago at this point.

If memory serves me right, you submit characters to the display sequentially, ideally in 40 character lengths that go top left to top right, wrap to bottom left to bottom right.

Looks like the software or controller running the screen gives a bad character, or having a second look (noticing the EUR gets changed to EUP occasionally) there's a bad connection to the display causing corruption.

Damn, I over thought it. I got "Imaginary cube sum of apple pi" before seeing the answers here.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well now I'll be thinking all day on the thought experiment of how one could actually prevent it, assuming they're only a US citizen.

I guess you could send in an anonymous bomb threat on the morning for both towers, but that still wouldn't prevent the tragedy of all those onboard.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Michelle-ax46b • 14 minutes ago Your content keeps me inspired, please keep going!

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope that as of 05/14/2025 that you live a happy life 😍

If you're reading this comment in 2023, I hope you have a lovely day ❤😍😘❤

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

I love taking a casual drive to nearby small towns, especially on less busy freeways at non peak hours. And I also love using my 30 year old nugget that's getting rarer to see around. I do also love a good road trip across states.

However, I really don't like driving in cities or basically when I have to. The city I'm in at the moment leaves a lot to be desired for bike lanes (unprotected bike lanes on the shoulder of a major highway is the only route into town for me) so its a toss up between do I ride there exhausted and trusting idiots in high speed boxes, or do I join said idiots.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 9 points 3 months ago

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is my pick.

I've got two study laptops and apart from Tailscale giving me some grief very recently with DNS resolution, I literally haven't had any problems with either machine. Both have been going for 1.5 years.

I like the LMDE route for the DE already having pretty decent defaults and not requiring much tweaking from the get-go. Xfce (as it ships by default in Debian) absolutely works, but I end up spending an hour theming it and adding panel applets and rearranging everything so that it... ends up looking similar to Cinnamon anyway, because default Xfce looks horrible in my opinion

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