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Soooo .. I broke the Linux on my PC and you'd never guess how.
I added a line to .bash_profile to run zsh instead, for login shells (i.e. terminal), because I didn't feel like using chsh or configuring my terminal. APPARENTLY FUCKING SDDM INVOKES `bash -l`

Hmmm how do you record a visual artifact that doesn't appear in screenshots?
I have a specific image that appears to trigger some kind of compression or encoding or signal integrity artifact inside my monitor or the link from the PC to it.
When I screenshot the image and zoom to anything other than 1:1 pixel resolution, it looks normal. On my other monitor it's fine. The artifact appears only when I display it at native resolution on this monitor.
I guess I'm go…

Playing Void Strangers on my Void Linux PC.

Since Feb, my PC has been having issues that have proved difficult to nail down the root cause of. Now, at least partially as an "excuse" for why it's taken me till now to finally figure it out, we bought and moved into this fixer upper manufactured home in Feb. So I've been pressed for time.. fixing it up, heh. Also around the same time I finished putting in the "final" upgrade (what with PC part prices, it might really be the final one) with a 9800X3D.
So,…

I have an Olympia P22 thermal printer, which is *perfect* for my extremely limited needs, except it requires using an app to print the labels.
Does anybody have an idea of how I could control it via PC (ideally a simple linux driver) so I can use it to print labels straight from my own (Django-based) app?
#askfedi
(Suggestion welcome, also suggestions for more targeted tags!)…

I managed to get an ARCTIC Fan Controller for €10.99 €2.99 shipping on Amazon.nl, and I happen to have a guest coming over from NL next week who can bring it, so it looks like I will have `fancontrol`-managed fan speed control in my desktop PC pretty soon!

Siri (Beta) is really interesting.
On one hand, I don't have to trust any new parties with my data. Apple already has it since they have my mobile devices, so if they were going to maliciously steal (e.g.) my email contents, they could already do that. This opens the door to a whole bunch of LLM data based interrogation that I wouldn't trust with other providers.
…on the other hand, the "on-device only" Siri falls over immediately when disabling the internet c…

With Sony not bringing PlayStation games to PC anymore, I guess I’ll fill my library with other games. I’ll play what they’ve brought, but I am not getting a PS5.

For some while my ability to play records has been somewhat theoretical, with my turntable plugged into my PC for easy ripping, but not playing. Now fixed and I have the exquisite pleasure of: rain outside, record on loud, read a book.
And yes, getting it to work did somehow involve a Games Workshop carry case, what of it?

I like my physical PC release of GTA V, btw 😁🥰

This #Dreamcast project looks super cool https://bsky.app/profile/eliasdaler.bsky.social/post/3mu6awwwmoc26

BBC Master 512 in DOS Plus; GEM, Turbo Pascal ( the 6502 Welcome panel). The video on the Master 512 is a bit odd - it's not got enough VRAM to be able to do normal PC modes, and it's not got the character gen to do hardware text (except teletext which is no use to the PC side). It was DOS Plus not MSDOS so some stuff was touchy. Hmm only thing I'm missing is the mouse, it might be in the loft somewhere.
I also need to try a PI RGB thing, my LCD doesn't like some st…

In 2024 I emailed my local MPP because I thought his hotel expenses were fishy. His office responded to me that I was "singling him out" and that all Toronto MPP were doing the same.
Today, my MPP is resigning from his Minister position
Good riddance Stan
https://www.…

Hexara (PC) Hey so if you're old enough to have any kind of fond memories of the game Hexic on the 360, this is basically an exact clone of it available on Steam. It's got the same exact gameplay without straight up stealing the assets. Also the dev responded to my (and another) review mentioning repetitive music by patching in more tracks of chillout tunes, bonus. Was an easy 1st day buy, and cheap. Even has a leaderboard (I'm currently in 2nd place woo)

I'm oddly sensitive to fan noise. A normal person's "quiet" PC to me is still unacceptably annoying. So I (foolishly) built an acoustic enclosure for my already-Noctua-laden PC.
Lots of faff for shaving off ~5dB(A).

idk why small backpacks are such a trend. look I don't care about looking "fashionable" I just want to fit all my crap on my back. once I discovered I can stick my NZXT H1 PC in my wenger bag I decided I'm never going for anything smaller. coward bags.

My friend now we are in business...
This IBM PS/2 Model 30 286 has been giving me fits. Specifically, the floppy drive.
* I broke the head off the original trying to clean it
* The replacement is for a different PS/2 model.
* The floppy adapter to allow "normal" PC drives didn't work
* I swapped the non-standard floppy cable
* It would read only 720K disks
* Found someone online with exactly the same issue. These machines need specific mod…

Forgetting to update my bleeding edge linux distro in over 2 weeks feels like a death sentence for my PC.

after only 3.5 years after purchasing the parts and 9 months after assembling the pc, i've finally installed an os on my finely aged zen5

In anticipation of #SteamNextFest , I've been going through the demos on my Steam account ... at least the ones playable on Mac (I'll have to borrow a PC for the rest).
I love the art style of Date Time❤️: Melissa❤️, Morris❤️, Anna❤️ & it's not overly scary for a #HorrorGame , but also not quite my cup of tea

In my head canon blue micro-diskettes (3.5”) are for the Amiga, Macs have white or beige disks and PC is all black

Uh, #Linux #AMDGPU folks managed it. The 7.2.2 kernel somehow manages to break saturation control on my TV. I mean, the kernel on the connected PC, not the TV. I have no clue how or why it would be able to do that, but the TV is ignoring the saturation slider and running at full saturation, making my eyes bleed.

RE: https://social.ridetrans.it/@Andres4NY/113626681357898120
Sadly I've only made 2 of them for the house (I need to buy more PC fans), but I still use these filters. Here's why.
Currently, the outside AQI in Forest Park near my house …

MrBeast is on LinkedIn, and I want to throw my PC into the sun. (I don't use it, but they keep spamming me)

My brand-new powerhouse: MSI Cubi NUC AI 3MG
Intel Core Ultra 9 386H processor, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB NVMe, and much more.
What a beast!
My first Intel-based PC in many, many years. But the new Panther Lake generation is currently superior to AMD. I couldn’t care less about the “Copilot” feature—who needs that crap? I certainly don’t. But I wanted a new, up-to-date, and powerful computer again for the next 5 or 6 years. And even though it wasn’t cheap, if I spread the purchase p…

Я почему-то была уверена, что Debian поддерживает только SystemD. Но нет, я относительно легко смогла перейти на OpenRC, и даже ничего не сломалось.
RE: https://oldbytes.space/@millihertz/116531495206492092

A Story About My Uncle (PC) Your uncle has been gone for longer than normal. Set off on a journey to a strange new world to find him.
Since much of gaming feels (IMO) like a dumpster fire of soon to fail live service open world extraction shooter clones and reboots of stuff I played when I was 25 (being the same age as old people is weird.), I decided to dig middling deep into my backlog and found this 12 year old little gem.
This is a 3D platformer Portal-ish experience.…

It blows my mind that for £7 I can have a tiny computer with 5Ghz WiFi and program it to make hardware gadgets.
This time I've made a remote controller for PC fans. It sets and measures RPM, and integrates with #HomeAssistant
http…

Sooo apparently Windows was trying to install updates while I was in the shower (with plastic wrap on btw bc yk) and my Grub defaults to booting Linux
My PC autonomously rebooted into Linux for me 😇

#TIL that if I kill #PipeWire server that's automatically started with my desktop and it is restarted, it is used for bells in xfce4-terminal rather than PC speaker.

A quick update on the MSI Cubi AI : I returned the little box to the store the next day. Reason: an obvious motherboard defect.
Out of ten attempts to turn on the mini-PC, nine were unsuccessful. And even when it did finally turn on, most of the ports didn’t work; it wasn’t until I unplugged and replugged them several times that an image appeared on the monitor. The monitor is brand new, too, and works perfectly with my other computers, so that’s not the problem.
Bottom line: gre…

Unbricked laptop after connecting a PC keyboard (since the Chromebook keyboard doesn't have native F-keys to switch VTs, and I don't keep an ssh server running for paranoia reasons). kwin (_x11 and _wayland) was trying to access a symbol in kscreenlocker that was somehow not present in the installed version of the library, causing it to bomb out, causing the entire house of cards to collapse. I shoved a decent binary into place, and the box began working. As per my personal policy of…

Power went out for a minute.
weirdly, my UPS kept my computer running but not the monitors/tv. I have my peripherals plugged into the ' follow master' outlet. (It's quite handy to just turn off/on the PC and everything else follows suit)
I assumed the UPS switching to battery would still keep those going but apparently not?

Crazy that you can simulate DCF77 by inducing a signal into the receiver's antenna by playing back [some harmonic of(?)] the 77.5kHz signal with your phone's speaker. I now have my DCF77 clock showing the correct IST for Ireland!
Here's the app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/det

And no, I’m not going to set up the new mini-PC with Linux today—I’m just too worn out and have run out of patience for that right now. I’ll do it tomorrow when I’m calm and well-rested. But I’m already looking forward to this task—then I can finally put the new MSI Cubi to work as my new workhorse.

While testing around with SteamOS off the Live Installer (on a decade old standard size SD card and similarly "ancient" USB adapter) was fun and all, and quite snappy despite the media used.. You can definitely tell it's not ready for Prime Time in the "Gaming PC" space, yet. Very much built for bespoke devices like handhelds and the new Machine/micro PCs like that.
Hence, I fresh installed a clean image of Garuda, my OS of choice the last 3 years. (I also run M…

"But Macs are bad for gaming"
Me [playing a game on my Mac that won't run on my Windows gaming PC despite that it should]: "Aha"
(The game is Fez btw. And yes it works fine on Macs despite not even saying it was released on macOS on the Wikipedia page; maybe someone knows when it was released and could update that page.)

nophenia (PC) Wander through the dreams(?) of a wolf girl.
Taking a break from the thinky pain games with nophenia, which showed up in my Steam discovery queue and I thought "well that's odd looking" and just bought it on a whim. I don't really want to say too much about this game(?) as it's another one of those things you just kinda have to experience.
Functionally, it's a low poly 3rd person walking sim in which you traverse some surreal landscape…