What's the grimmest job you ever had?
https://lemmy.world/post/21581727
What's the grimmest job you ever had? - Lemmy.World
I’m not asking about the worst job. I’m asking about the grimmest one. For me it
was when in my teenage years I was making candles you would put on a grave. Most
of the time is was just filling the form, burn the right shape and passing it
forward. But sometimes I had to fill in for a person who was selling these
things, and that is where it gets grim. It was decades ago but I still remember
one lady who asked what would be the best candle to memorialize her late
husband. And she gave me the whole life story of her and her husband. I shit you
not, it was the most touching love story I have ever heard. I quit the next day.
What to do with extra mushrooms?
https://lemmy.world/post/21577601
What to do with extra mushrooms? - Lemmy.World
I underestimated the yield of my homegrown mushrooms. I thought I would have a
steady supply over the next few weeks, but instead, they all matured at once. As
a result, I now have 2-3 kg of mushrooms, with another batch expected in about a
week. I plan to make a pasta-mushroom casserole, pizza, capsicum-mushroom lecso,
and mushroom cream soup, but I still have a lot left. Do you have any
suggestions for how I can use them?
How paranoid you get when uploading images to publicly available websites?
https://lemmy.world/post/21325740
How paranoid you get when uploading images to publicly available websites? - Lemmy.World
What I do is to run the exiftool to strip all the metadata from the image. Next,
I check if there are any identifying details in the image like landmarks or
background details (e.g. stuff on my whiteboard). And finally I check for the
unwanted reflections or for the setup that could be recognised outside the
community I share the photo with. Last but not least, I never share a photo in
more than one place.
[Unpopular opinion] Linux is not a good choice for regular users
https://lemmy.world/post/19466050
[Unpopular opinion] Linux is not a good choice for regular users - Lemmy.World
I’ve been using all major OSes for a long time. I have the most experience with
Windows, I’ve been using it since Windows 95 and stopped at Windows 8. I’ve been
using macOS for about a decade and Linux (in total) for about 5 years. I have
started with Mandrake, moved to Mandriva, spent over a year on Ubuntu and
recently I’ve been using Fedora as my daily driver. And honestly, I’m running
out of patience. Few days ago I ran into the gpu driver issue. Long story short,
Steam games started to crash on directx issue. Games that were working few weeks
ago. I admit, I was mocking around with GPU drivers in order to make Podman
containers to access the GPU. But I did the fresh diver install and it didn’t
solved the issue (also my GPU was not found despite all commands showed it was
there). I don’t have much spare time and I would like to play a game, I used to
play before, without spending hours/days fixing issue that didn’t exist last
time I played it. But it’s not only about games. I have two laptops, both
running Fedora 40 KDE spin. Some time ago on one laptop the power widget stopped
working. It shows “no power profiles found on a device”. But when I delete the
widget and add it again, it works fine. Other issue is with the general look and
feel. There are many apps that don’t follow the OS look - lack of window
borders/shadow, random icons that don’t match the system, flatpacks having
issues accessing system configuration (e.g. vscodium not recognising zsh as a
default shell). Few more problems I had: - on GNOME, some extensions where
crashing without any reason - some apps don’t respect desktop scaling -
bluetooth randomly dropping connections - syncing files between devices is
always a struggle - you never know what’s going to break when installing updates
If you want a Linux like experience use macOS, and if you want to play games,
stick to Windows.
Why do you care about privacy? - Lemmy.World
I’m following several privacy focused communities. Mostly as lurker but in few
I’m more active. Every time I see a posts like “how to be more private”, I
wonder about the reasons behind those questions. What’s the reason you want to
remain private (don’t confuse it with being anonymous)? Could you elaborate on
your reasons? Let me start. I worked (and still working) in a highly regulated
industry as a software/devops engineer. I’ve been working with banks, insurance
companies, global online payment companies, major credit card vendors, few
global corporations. I have seen how data is gathered and (mis)used. Every time
someone tells me “I’m sorry but the system…” I know it’s the data gathered by
the “system” and my profile created based on that data was the reason for “but”.
This is why I care about the privacy, to prevent companies from taking advantage
of my current situation and charge me more.
NVIDIA GPU not detected after driver update
https://lemmy.world/post/19216954
NVIDIA GPU not detected after driver update - Lemmy.World
Few days ago I did the weekly system update which included latest NVIDIA
drivers. Everything went smoothly, no error messages, systems works as usual.
Today I wanted to play some game and I noticed that the performance was
horrible. This is what I found lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)" 00:02.0 VGA
compatible controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics]
(rev 0c) Subsystem: Dell Device 0aff Kernel driver in use: i915 -- 01:00.0 VGA
compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile /
Max-Q] (rev a1) Subsystem: Dell Device 0aff Kernel driver in use: nvidia xrandr
--listproviders Providers: number : 0 I’ve tried to reinstall drivers, and ran
some fixes I found online but still no luck. Any ideas how to fix it? update
Just remembered. After last drivers update I wasn’t able to run any Steam game.
I always got some directx error. Before I had no issues.
How can I install Alpaka, ollama client?
https://lemmy.world/post/15563689
How can I install Alpaka, ollama client? - Lemmy.World
I’ve been using open webui for some time but I wanted to test the Alpaka, a KDE
app - https://apps.kde.org/alpaka/ [https://apps.kde.org/alpaka/] When I click
on an “Install on linux” button, Discover app is opening and gives me this error
“Could not open appstream://org.kde.alpaka because it was not found in any
available software repositories.” When using dnf there’s no such package as
Aplaka. I can find and install other KDE apps. What am I missing? I’m on Fedora
40, KDE spin.
Is Proton working on AI assistant?
https://lemmy.world/post/15490804
Is Proton working on AI assistant? - Lemmy.World
Earlier today I received an email from Proton with an annual survey. Among
standard questions there was a significant amount of AI related questions, e.g.
mail assistant. Does it mean Proton is looking into AI?
How to sync Akregator across devices?
https://lemmy.world/post/15320005
How to sync Akregator across devices? - Lemmy.World
I’m a happy user of Inoreader. I like it so much I’m considering buying a
premium plan. However, I’m looking for an alternative I wouldn’t have to pay
for. I came across FreshRSS. The only thing that’s keeps me from moving is the
sync. I don’t want to expose it to the internet but I want to be able to access
it on a move. My first idea was to use Syncthing. Is there a way to use
Syncthing to sync feeds, settings (read articles, subscriptions, etc.) across
different devices? By different devices I mean Linux, macOS (optional) and
GrapheneOS (Android) phone.
VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces
https://lemmy.world/post/14683833
VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces - Lemmy.World
Single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with
precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head
movements, generated in real time.
