[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

It's been working just fine for 4 years. Never had an issue with it as long as I configure my torrent client settings to only use NordLynx in case it drops off.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The whole purpose is to just get skilled at using a bow. I shoot at fake deer all the time but would never actually go hunting an animal. This is the same energy as those people who say violent video games make one violent in turn.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 13 hours ago

Nice grouping. What was the range?

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 19 hours ago

So did the teacher get back to them? Was a secret communist club started? They can't just leave the story thread hanging like that.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 19 hours ago

It works quite well. A lot of sites I visit can detect if a server I'm using is from a VPN and block it but it's quick and painless to hop to a different server the site doesn't recognize and passes me through. Using it in Linux is fine and all but it has the annoying habit of blocking my subnet so I can't download torrents directly to my NAS drive.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 19 hours ago

California's already suffered plenty under the dipshit's leadership of ICE. I got to see the aftermath of an ICE raid in a busy commercial Latino street. The place was dead when it should've been bustling with delivery vans, people, and opened businesses. It was devastating.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 21 hours ago

Curious. The N91790 tail designation on that sculpture doesn't quite match up with the Cessna that's still in use in Florida. I wonder if the FAA recycles their numbers.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago

There's no right answer to that question. The only winning move is not to play.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

As an American I envy Canadian's choice of beers with higher alcohol content. Most breweries around here only offer IPAs if you want anything above 6%.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago

Because they're the ones with the monopoly on violence. Might makes right for those brutes.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well crap my username announces my age.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago

3d printing, specifically FDM with PLA since I'm not down to mess with the chemicals for a resin printer. Keep printing until you're out of an opened filament roll, otherwise your filament will absorb water and degrade. I often learn filament goes bad when a tiny piece breaks off in the feeder right above the heating element, requiring some annoying disassembly to diagnose and correct the problem. If you're not sure what to build with the last bit of filament, a small square trash can/pencil holder is always useful.

Stick to a maintenance schedule. Putting off a lubrication or dusting can lead to debris getting stuck somewhere and ruining a print when you least expect it. Also learn about every component in your printer and how to get a replacement when it inevitably breaks. That way you can purchase a few of the more commonly broken parts to lower printer downtime.

Start off with a brand name printer that does auto leveling. That cheap CR10 you bought for a hundred dollars sounds like a bargain until you realize it can't print a solid first layer, causing all sorts of other minor annoyances with your print quality. Trying and failing to fix the issues might eventually turn you off on pursuing the hobby.

I was already well versed in Solidworks, but learn how to use a CAD program. You can get a lot of use from the many publicly available models out there but you might eventually have an idea or require something that requires a custom design. Being able to physically manifest your own design ideas quickly was a big drawing point for me to get into the hobby.

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I'm trying to install either a .deb or .rpm driver for a Canon MF212w printer. Unfortunately since CachyOS is an Arch-based OS it lacks a straightforward way to go with the installation. I checked out a few different tutorials on Youtube but they all basically say to not do it their way since it could work but at the cost of messing up some dependencies. Is there a safe way to install either version of this program without damaging any other files or directories?

~/Downloads/linux-UFRII-drv-v620-us/x64/RPM

❯ ls -l

.rw-r--r-- 7.5M admin 4 Jun 22:56  cnrdrvcups-ufr2-us-6.20-1.01.x86_64.rpm

~/Downloads/linux-UFRII-drv-v620-us/x64/Debian

❯ ls -l

.rw-r--r-- 7.6M admin 4 Jun 22:56  cnrdrvcups-ufr2-us_6.20-1.01_amd64.deb

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/cachyos@sopuli.xyz

Hi all. I'm trying out Cachy for the first time and was testing an old game on Steam (Anomaly Warzone Earth). The game went full screen but was stuck in a loading loop where I couldn't Alt+tab or Alt+F4 my way out of. The OS was still responsive and I could open up a terminal but as soon as I did, the game's loading screen would block my view. Is there a way to force minimize or kill a program when it's stuck in full screen? I heard xkill could work but I don't see how to use it when I can't even see the terminal.

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I just finished a preliminary interview for a medium sized engineering company. The interviewer was impressed with my background and asked to proceed with my candidacy but wanted four additional rounds of interviews and a 30 minute technical presentation about how I solved a problem. I turned them down and said I don't work for free, the amount of time it would take to gather my notes and thoughts on a slide deck would be too much. She quickly soured and we ended the call soon after. I feel like I dodged a bullet going through a gauntlet of work for the high chance of ending up with nothing.

What are Lemmy's thoughts on preparing presentations for lengthy job interview processes? Would you have considered going through with it?

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Perfect Grades are awesome (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

Just finished installing the under frame. I'm so reluctant to add on the armor and have been taking weeks having the figure sit in the back of the kitchen table while admiring the details when eating.

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My handsome boy Dio (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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What reliable bow string would you recommend for a 62 inch recurve takedown bow? The string that came with my starter kit frayed by the third session and I've heard some strings can last up to three years with regular use if properly maintained.

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The vambrace design is still a WIP though.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

Hello, I recently bought an old Lenovo Thinkpad X130e (ca. 2012) and tried installing Linux Mint ver. 22.1 Xfce edition into the laptop's HDD and received a "Linux Mint unable to install GRUB in dev/sda" error that only let me boot into a GRUB terminal after rebooting. Is there an easily available installation guide/manual for this laptop I could take a look at? I've tried adjusting the BIOS' UEFI/boot settings but haven't had any luck. I figure there's a way to manually configure the HDD to have a bootable partition during installation but I'm not sure what I'm doing exactly.

UPDATE: Finally fixed the issue. I rebooted on the USB stick iso after the latest GRUB install error and ran the Boot Repair utility from the start menu. It automatically fixed the issue and was able to successfully boot without the USB. Hopefully this helps someone if they run into a similar issue later.

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Back in the 80's, Atari had a monopoly of games and charged absurd amounts of money for titles that pretty much had no quality control. The cost of each cartridge would easily go over $100 in today's money and gamers began to pull back on purchasing anything. This eventually culminated in the infamous E.T. movie tie in that led to pallets of its unsold cartridges ending up in a landfill and crashing the industry.

Now that Nintendo's signaled to the rest of the industry it's okay to sell digital titles at $80 each, how soon do you see gamers collectively hold back on their purchases that will eventually collapse the AAA market? Will the current trade war play a role in the hardware side of things with the collapse? Will all major companies save Nintendo suffer the downturn?

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I'm planning to go to a rural spot that has a Bortle class 3 night sky around Southern California. Can anyone recommend a beginner friendly telescope with decent magnification for around $200? I'm not interested in using an accompanying smart phone app to go with it either. I'd like to see nebulae and galaxies the most. Thank you.

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There should be a kind of "sorting hat" personality test to attract the interest of prospective Lemmy joiners. People who love solarpunk stuff, for example, would easily find their home in slrpnk.net. Set a link to it on sites like join-lemmy.org to make the fediverse more approachable to casuals.

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