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VM suggestion for gaming? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] bluestarshield@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

The problem with "de-bloat" (the one I am familiar with, the one Mental Outlaw spotlighted a few years ago) is that it's deprecated and Microsoft actively works against debloating software. If you're familiar with some script/software that works in 2024, I'd be glad to hear it.

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Calcurse export schedule to desktop background? (lemmy.ml)
 

I've realized that I need a calendar, and Calcurse seems like a good one, with easy handling of daily schedules (which is my main requirement). Is it possible to export that schedule to a Mint desktop background? That way I could see, at a glance, a graphical representation of my day whenever I boot up my PC.

Ideally, it should be a "Time-Block" type format, where it graphically shows the period of time the task is scheduled for out of the 24-hour calendar day. There obviously isn't anything in Calcurse that can do that, but are there any 3rd party applications that can do that by hooking into Calcurse's native scripting? If nothing works "out of the box" like that, maybe the raw data could be fed through a formatter, a .jpg gets generated somehow, and then automatically pasted as the desktop background? That sounds like it's a little outside my skillset, and also very specific so nobody is likely to have made it yet.

Are there any other calendar programs that would do what i want better? Sorting through dozens of different programs for the exact featureset I need can be a project in it's own right.

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VM suggestion for gaming? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by bluestarshield@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
30 comments fedilink
 

Welp, it's finally happened. Windows 10 has become so bloated, slow, and spooky that I finally have decided to bite the bullet and set up a VM on my linux Mint partition. Do you have any suggestions for a virtual machine? My PC is a relatively basic mid-range business laptop, 8gb of ram, no GPU, only a few years old. I'm a little concerned about performance impact, as I've heard that VMs take more system resources than the OS running natively. Any recommendations of software/configurations that would work best for me?

EDIT for clarity: The games i intend to run are, largely, older non-steam games. i obviously just use proton for all my steam games, but some weird older ones don't have a steam release/i don't have the steam version.

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Android diagnostic utility? (lemmy.ml)
 

I have several android devices, with problems that have been developing overtime. I am unsure what, exactly, the problems are, and am hesitant to declare it a hardware issue unless i can prove it. Some examples in particular are:

Phone 1: Charges slowly. Potential sources are: Battery is old and dying (default assumption) Wall outlet has electrical issues Charger has electrical issues Charging port has electrical issues Micro-USB charging cable has electrical issues Phone manufacturer is intentionally throttling performance to convince me to buy a new phone

Phone 2: Wi-Fi signal weak or barely functioning, youtube videos buffer and load for much too long on 720p when they shouldn't need to. potential causes: wireless receiver aging router hardware issues digital connection issues intentional throttling of device functionality by manufacturer to convince me to purchase a new phone.

As you can see, there are many potential causes of these issues, some much easier to investigate than others. Is there any software that could help me in identifying the cause, especially the phone hardware and software related ones? I wouldn't even really know where to start when it comes to this, it would take easily days for me to track this all down on google for both devices and frankly I'd really rather avoid that if at all possible.

File transfer to USB drive fails after 4.3 gb in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] bluestarshield@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Man, those guys who down voted you have no sense of humor. You made a sex joke in response to my video game piracy joke!

File transfer to USB drive fails after 4.3 gb in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] bluestarshield@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Alright, I've used your code, sudo mkfs.exfat -n LABEL /dev/sdb1

but the console returns this

exfatprogs version : 1.1.3
open failed : /dev/sdb1, Device or resource busy

exFAT format fail!

what's the problem here? I've cleared out all storage on the drive, and made sure that it isn't opened in the file explorer, and it shouldn't be reading/writing anything because it's empty.

thanks for the help btw

File transfer to USB drive fails after 4.3 gb in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] bluestarshield@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Sorry if it's a noob question, but isn't a live session something you do with a USB stick without installing? The file is currently on the Mint install I used to torrent it, along with my other daily-driver things.

File transfer to USB drive fails after 4.3 gb in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] bluestarshield@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

It was already split by a fit Latvian girl of a Yarr-harr, fiddle-dee-dee persuasion, if you catch my drift. I really am afraid of fucking something up, so I'll try other methods before splitting it further.

File transfer to USB drive fails after 4.3 gb in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] bluestarshield@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

When right-clicking the drive and selecting "properties", the filesystem type is stated to be MSdos

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File transfer to USB drive fails after 4.3 gb (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by bluestarshield@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
30 comments fedilink
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/9729797

I am needing to transfer a singular file of roughly 4.8GB from Linux Mint onto a thumb drive, so that I can transfer it to my Windows install on a separate partition on the same PC. However, it has repeatedly failed after 4.3GB, with an error message reading "Error splicing file: File too large".

How do I fix this issue, or get around it? I need that file moved.

EDIT: This issue has been resolved. It was caused by the thumb drive being formatted as MSdos, reformatting it to exfat seems to have done the trick. Just used right-click “format” on linux mint, no need for console or booting up windows.

Decent YouTube client? in c/fdroid@lemmy.ml
[–] bluestarshield@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does libretube allow/integrate YT accounts? The whole point is so that I can post comments/interact with streams without risking correlation attacks.

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Decent YouTube client? (lemmy.ml)
 

I'm looking for an app to browse YouTube using multiple accounts. It has to be convenient to switch between multiple accounts, and keep them separate. I've struggled to find a YT client that does this well, most of them seem to advertise "Use YouTube without an account". I'd look on the app store but frankly the play store sketches me the fuck out, even though google has a "moderation system" (we all know how well they keep malware off the platform)

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Versatile and convenient YT client? (lemmy.ml)
 

I'm on Linux mint, and I've been wanting to reorganize and clean out my online footprint for a while now, starting with Youtube. I realized that a very useful way to do this would be by compartmentalizing my youtube activity. This would have the additional benefit of each "compartment" having a very specific algorithmic "identity" on YT's backend, so i'd likely only get recommendations directly related to the niche of the channel, both reducing distractions and increasing gems being recommended.

So, I need a YT client with the following features:

  1. runs on Mint
  2. Convenient as a daily-driver
  3. easy and safe to switch between different accounts
  4. preferably FOSS
  5. if it had a mobile version, that'd be great. But I'm not naive enough to believe that such a convenient thing would ever happen.

I'd love to hear from you!