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Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them in c/technology
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

What instructions are you following? Last time I used Rufus on Windows, it had a graphical interface with reasonable default settings and zero messing around on the command line. (I mean, I sometimes did once I was booted into Linux, but I was using distros where that's not unexpected.)

Kyle Rittenhouse’s family: We’re his collateral damage in c/politics
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How the fuck does someone who does that poorly on the ASVAB get a full ride scholarship?

This was a surprisingly high effort shitpost in c/linuxmemes
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Nah, I actually really liked bunsenlabs when I tried running it live, so I'm going to install that, at least for a bit. I might try a different DE with Debian, XFCE was fine but not amazing.

This was a surprisingly high effort shitpost in c/linuxmemes
[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago

It's Bazzite on wildly impractical hardware. I had the installer on my ventoy USB and decided to try and install it on my crapbook for shits and giggles.

No, it doesn't run well. But to be fair, I also had Firefox open on another desktop with the only open tab being Lemmy.

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This was a surprisingly high effort shitpost (sh.itjust.works)
 
Post Sponsored By Microsoft in c/linuxmemes
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I once saw a webcomic many years ago with a straight couple in kink gear in front of a computer, and the guy was saying something like "You've been a bad girl, I'm installing Windows ME on your computer."

I tried searching for it, but I can't find it. :/

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Sheriff: Bomb threat to Grand Marais Pride event came from Russia (bringmethenews.com)
Utah's bathroom snitch line hasn't found one legitimate complaint out of 12,000 in c/news
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I'm in Minnesota, we do land acknowledgements here, and the longer initialism I often see is LGBTQIA2S+, but I've never seen the 2S getting the top billing. That said, I think I can speak for all (reasonable) Minnesotans when I say that we're willing to do that when we become Canada's newest province.

How heterosexual couples met in the US in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I'm tired of being a single bi man. You anywhere near Minneapolis and want to go on a date?

Science is more like a conversation. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Trans people would still be a thing without socially defined gender roles. Even without gender, my sex was still wrong - my brain still told me, in times like trying to get comfortable to fall asleep, that my boobs weren't supposed to be there.

Porque no los Dos? in c/politicalmemes
I piss in your general direction in c/lemmyshitpost
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In the early 2000s my mother's bank got hands free headsets. She was horrified at how many of her coworkers would answer the phone in the bathroom.

I just ordered a 3ds from AliExpress - Wish me luck. in c/retrogaming
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I've seen a few YouTubers buy AliExpress 3ds consoles, and all of those have been refurbished, often with after market shells which, while often not terrible, aren't Nintendo quality. If the console shows up, it'll probably be fine, but you're still not necessarily getting an amazing deal. I got my New 3ds LL (Japanese version) in excellent condition from a seller on eBay based in Japan for about $25 less and I got one with an upper IPS screen - but mine is in black. If you really want a special 3ds and you're okay with a decent reshell, buying through AliExpress might be an alright option.

Screw you guys. I cast what I want. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Yeah, but it doesn't have trample, and my mob of 1/1 goblins can slow it down for quite a while.

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Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 85 (www.latimes.com)
 

I have mixed feelings on the pronoun use, but having read some of her autobiographical writing I don't think she would have taken much issue with it. This piece is more focused on her work in computer engineering, so I felt it was appropriate to post here.

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Website for Minnesota's $1,500 e-bike rebate crashes on first day (Launch postponed) (bringmethenews.com)
 

The MN Department of Revenue just announced the application won't be available today, BMTN hasn't updated their article as of the time I'm posting this. I've been hitting F5 for almost three hours, I'm going to go take a nap.

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Pride month rule (sh.itjust.works)
 
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Urbanist video about Rethinking I-94 (www.youtube.com)
 

This is largely fantastic, but I definitely laughed at Ham-line.

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May the 4th be with rule (sh.itjust.works)
 
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What distro should I use on my potato? (sh.itjust.works)
 

I have an HP Stream 11 that I want to use for word processing and some light web browsing - I'm a writer and it's a lightweight laptop to bring to the library or coffee shop to write on. Right now it's got Windows and it's unusable due to lack of hard drive space for updates. Someone had luck with Xubuntu, but it's been a few years and it seems like Xubuntu is no longer trying to be a lightweight distro for use cases like this.

My experience with Linux is very limited - I played around with Peppermint Linux a bit back when it was a Lubuntu fork and I used Ubuntu on the lab computers in college. I can follow instructions to make a live boot and I can do an apt-get (so something Debian-based might be best for compatibility and familiarity) but I mostly have no idea what I'm doing, lol. I used to do DOS gaming as a kid so having to do the occasional thing via command line isn't going to scare me off but I'm not going to pretend to have knowledge I don't. I'm probably going to go with Mint on my gaming laptop next year but I suspect it's not the best choice for my blue bezeled potato (although I might try it anyway).

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[1.6 Spoiler] Chairhop to the summit (sh.itjust.works)
 

Be prepared to restart your day.

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Virtual Boy Emulation Finally Arrives on 3DS (www.retrorgb.com)
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Organizers scramble to induce ‘uncommitted’ votes in Minnesota presidential primary (www.mprnews.org)
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online permissions 3ds LL - is there a better solution than region changing? (sh.itjust.works)
 

I have a modded 3ds LL, and I don't speak Japanese. I relied heavily on Google translate to get it modded but at this point I don't have many problems that locale emulation won't fix. But I am playing the US version of Animal Crossing New Leaf, and in order to play online with other people it's asking me to agree to a user agreement that I just can't find in my system settings, and if one does exist it might not set the correct flags for the US version of the game. I'd like to see the online stuff before they shut down the servers, and the AC community is trying to organize something on there in a week or two. I'm guessing region changing will let me just approve the user agreement, and it looks like for me there wouldn't be any downside because I have no intention of unmodding, and I have no purchases on the eShop nor a Japanese NNID (would making one help with this issue?) but I figured I'd try asking if someone else might have a different solution? Having it in Japanese is just kinda neat, despite the occasional headache requiring Google translate.

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