[–] 42 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Ventoy? Linux live iso files aren't too big less than 5Gb each. You could toss on a handful of utilities like memcheck, clonezilla, and a hdd eraser. Then a few isos of distros you want to try. Adding and removing isos is a breeze with ventoy.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    My next tv is probably going to be a dumb tv. You can search for commercial business tvs online and find dumb tvs for displays and digital signage. Same screen, just no smarts, plays a network stream, off a usb, or hdmi input. Nothing else.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I recently began hating devices and how each distro does it slightly differently. /dev is the worst. I plug in a usb, look for it under /dev/usb, not there, oh it's /dev/serial I suppose that makes sense. Plug in a different usb, not in either, no by-path or by-id, oh, I can only find it by the bus... but that path changes each time I plug it in, and that's the only place I can find it. Permissions are black magic on devices. I've been root and can't open a cdrom, get permission denied. Other times I can give a user 777 and it seems like they have it all, but still can't open that drive. Everytime I reboot my coral usb changes bus paths and breaks my frigate docker, but I can't find any stable path to it. Fought for days trying to get proxmox to forward a cdrom drive to a container then a vm. Went through half a dozen tutorials and threads of people getting it working and I couldn't. Spin up my laptop and do it bare metal, and STILL can't get it to work. VLC can play the disk just fine, but not the docker container. Switch to ubuntu instead of my arch distro, and boom everything works.... most of the time. Other times I have to do a ritual of removing the database, logs, reboot, start the container, unplug usb, plug in usb, and then it works.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I want to see a seamless roaming standard so a grandma can buy a random brand's wifi extender, plug it in, connect it to her ISP router's wifi and have the same ssid through the house. No needing to jump to NANA-SWIFI-EXT.

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  • [–] 75 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I would happily dedicate a corner of my garage for a big sodium ion battery.

    Also, fun fact they can charge and discharge faster than lithium ion. Also, their chemistry doesn't lead to spontaneous combustion. Perfect for a house backup.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2. Terrible game honestly

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    • Slow Walk down corridor
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    • Fight 2 copies of the same sprite, once you kill one, another appears, button mash till they stop showing up
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    • Use Random New Ability once and only once
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    It plays more like a visual novel than the kind of games I typically like.

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