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downhomechunk
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downhomechunk@midwest.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Are you using systemd or an alternative, what do you recommend?English
3·15 days agoI’ve been daily driving Slackware since the late 90s or early 00s (don’t remember). There’s no systemd, and no drama. I run KDE plasma 6, steam with proton, flatpak, rocm for AI shenanigans and whatever else I want. Even the rolling release is solid as a rock. There are dozens of us! And we’re not all greybeards. I started going grey in high school, but I ate cookies for breakfast today because I’m both a grown ass man and a child.
My wife is my barometer for how beginner friendly any tech is. She had zero issues adapting to popOS. She had many issues when I tried to force Slackware on her.
downhomechunk@midwest.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•US farmers say Trump’s $12bn package not enough to undo damage from tariffsEnglish
2·4 months agoJust wait until all the money gets hoovered up by corporate owned farms!
downhomechunk@midwest.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•GDP 'Nowhere Near' 4.3%: Rosenberg Dismisses Q3 Report As 'Fugazi,' Pegs Real Growth At 0.8%English
2·4 months agoI didn’t know we were doing QE again. That’s neat.
downhomechunk@midwest.socialto
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•What was the last dvd/cd your burned? do you still use such media?English
2·4 months agoI’ve been on a retro kick. Recently I’ve been messing with a Pentium 233 MMX. I burned a tinycore Linux CD a couple days ago so I could make this:

downhomechunk@midwest.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Laptop optimal setup for running VM-Win11English
3·4 months agoMake sure your laptop bios allows iommu to be enabled. This is the only way I know to pass your GPU directly to a VM. And even this is still pretty fiddly.
Don’t dismiss the steam/proton rec. Or dual boot.
Preach!
Glad I’m not the only one.
How do I sign up for the left handed ideology newsletter?
downhomechunk@midwest.socialto
World News@lemmy.world•Under Trump, US cedes its share of China's beef market to AustraliaEnglish
5·7 months agoHe already rescued Azerbaijan from two brutal wars that nobody ever heard of. Hasn’t he done enough?
downhomechunk@midwest.socialto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves?English
41·7 months agoI build from ewaste and keep things deliciously trashy looking.

Requiem for a dick
downhomechunk@midwest.socialto
News@lemmy.world•Jimmy Kimmel's show returning on Tuesday, ABC announcesEnglish
1·7 months agoYou laugh, but this is how Comcast dealt with me knowing it was them or 4g wireless internet.
downhomechunk@midwest.socialto
News@lemmy.world•Jimmy Kimmel's show returning on Tuesday, ABC announcesEnglish
2·7 months agoThe odds of having more than one viable ISP option in the US are slim. I live in a major metro, and it’s only been the past couple years I’ve had a second option. I was living comcastrated for the previous decades.
downhomechunk@midwest.socialto
News@lemmy.world•Jimmy Kimmel's show returning on Tuesday, ABC announcesEnglish
231·7 months agoDon’t worry, I never subscribed in the first place. Yaaaarrrrrrr…
downhomechunk@midwest.socialto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What is the current state of Matrix?English
4·7 months agoI’ve been wanting to get matrix up for my family and friends to chat with my 6 year old on her tablet. I found nextcloud talk to do all the things I wanted with none of the hassle. My daughter is a ridiculous texter.
downhomechunk@midwest.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Recommended mini linux device for streaming to TVEnglish
1·7 months agohttps://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-m1s-with-4gbyte-ram/
I’ve been using the original m1 running a lineage OS based android TV for a couple years. It’s perfect. I added a nvme drive for a “DVR” in tivimate, but we rarely use it. I use a cheapo 2.4ghz remote from Amazon.
downhomechunk@midwest.socialto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•how to start with self-hosting?English
2·8 months agoYour approach works too. Something like CasaOS answers OP’s question directly. I was thinking about how I started on this journey. I wanted to play with enterprise level tools at home on repurposed e-waste. So I started with proxmox. But I also came to the table with a couple decades of Linux experience under my belt.
Those scripts make it so easy. You can paste a command, accept defaults, watch some text scroll by and finish with instructions on how to access the tool you just installed.
My homelab is low power as well. I’m currently running zero VMs. Everything is done with LXCs. You can run a pi hole on 512 MB RAM.












Anyone got an archive link?