nothing. this is a ‘point release’, so bug fixes.

the redlib instance i was looking at has more ‘‘stuff’’ in the way that isn’t allowing it to work on it. but using the source reddit url in yt-dlp… that still works fine here.

laptop simply no longer detects the display

it could be a loose connection or broken wires between the main board and the display panel. it might be worth the effort to open it up and examine those.

people were microwaving their phones, ffs. idiots are everywhere

it also says:

For the stable distribution (trixie), these problems have been fixed in version 6.12.111-1.

don’t wanna go back to the days of rounded crap? it can be turned off. head into about:config and search for: nova

i’ve had to deal with two bricked dell all-in-one systems due to failed automatic bios updates. to their credit, they did repair those (shipping both ways, motherboard replacements) at no cost despite being out of warranty. but it did take some time for them to reach that resolution–both users had already replaced the systems with something else by the time they got word of the repairs being covered. that was years ago (7-8? maybe). the culprit then was dell’s own update software, not windows update.

i still cringe whenever i see a bios update screen that i didn’t initiate myself. at least my own systems are mostly way too old to have bios updates pushed out for them by microsoft or lvfs.

“peee-ewwww”.

why is it that open source folks have such a difficult time naming things?

debian doesn’t do that ‘out-of-the-box’, but you can do luks and btrfs at install (default partitioning even, just go back and change partition type of root before continuing with install), then ‘adjust’ things to be ‘timeshift compatible’ after install. for some inspiration: https://mutschler.dev/linux/debian-btrfs-trixie/

i’ve used this numerous times, on debian and a couple other distributions.

don’t look surprised when someone in a hockey mask cuts your legs off at the knees with a chainsaw.

every bypass to age-gating at youtube that i’ve used, tried, or looked at no longer works, and hasn’t for awhile.

… just this week, and it’s only monday!

dos ain’t done 'til lotus won’t run.

fake it 'til you makebreak it.

that’s what trixie’s netinst defaults to when i set up new desktops using encrypted lvm… root and swap volumes inside that, unlocking together at boot. my use doesn’t hit swap much, so it’s nbd. i just leave it like it is. only where an installer doesn’t support encrypted swap partitions do i use a file or ram-based swap instead.

oh, my. that third line is horrendous. that’s what happens when the software (in this case, lemmy’s md to html engine) tries to do the rendering instead of the browser. trying to underline using unicode… and failing, instead of just using css.

they used to sell them, but it was all shit-tier hardware and didn’t sell.

i have a POS laptop here with a small ssd in it, gemini lake, originally came with 4gb and hdd. as sold, was about the slowest piece of shit available that ‘officially’ supports win11. it has 8gb and that 120gb ssd now, and it’s barely usable to look at a web page.

i just get it out when i need to show someone something online or do something online for them.

parted_magic has gui tools for this (among many other things) on a bootable image. it’s not free, but a one-off download is only like 20 bucks (use that version forever). secure erase and running smart tests are about the only things i use it for, and even just for that it is definitely worth the lunch money.

https://github.com/Containerpak/cpak/commit/92ce3d2c13860199f5e7158cb67b0775957a81de

the linked project literally changed to gpl3 five hours ago.