Is it legitimate to write in a #manual for a piece of equipment (that improper use of could lead to damage, injury or death):
If you find yourself asking 'should I be doing this?' the answer will always be 'No'.
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Seriously I'm running out of ways to say:
don't sit on it, swing from it, stand under it, hold onto it, put your genitals in it, lick it, fart around it, taunt it, make it watch Hayao Miyazaki movies (although it would like them), or feed it pie after dark.
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Mine is Strawberry since it has a ton of options and plays a ton of formats. It’s also (distant) fork of Amarok 1.4 and integrates well with KDE Plasma. I’m curious what other people are using these days. What’s your favorite player?
Tauon Music Box available on Flathub. You look for albums by typing on your keyboard. Once you see the result which says “Artist”, hit enter. It creates a playlist which shows all the albums of that playlist. The next time you want to listen to that artist, start typing and select “[Artist name] playlist”. This concept differs from a traditional concept of playlists, because it doesn’t actually create playlists you can use or export. I just like the UI, although the play controls are bit weird, they don’t quite work the way you’d expect them to. It’s a new project but worth keeping an eye on.
Time to start digitizing a new retro manual. I haven't seen a good pdf version of the German SimLife manual yet, so this might be worth the effort. I will upload this to archive.org as soon as it's done.
Seems the #brother FTP server is dead... which took a LOT of old manuals with it. Not sure HOW long it's been gone, but it's certainly not on archive.org...
ftp://ftp.brother.ca/
Does anyone have archives or manual downloads from there?
Looking fruitlessly for this one in particular.
ftp://ftp.brother.ca/MANUELS%20_%20MANUALS/English/PRINTER/M1109-UG.pdf
[🇮🇹it] è un manuale di disassemblaggio delle Big Tech che spiega come disintossicare il web e riportare in vita il buon vecchio internet
[🇬🇧en] it's a Big Tech disassembly manual that explains how to disenshittify the web and bring back the old good internet
My college-bound child has a frame.work laptop DIY edition coming soon. We're preparing now by installing Fedora Silverblue on the SSD we already have. I put the SSD into a USB NVMe housing, attached it to their existing Fedora system, then guided them through setting up a virtual machine and installing Silverblue inside the virtual machine.
Sadly, libvirt-manager doesn't support directly attaching a device to a VM. So we added a dummy qcow file in VM setup, chose to configure before booting, deleted the dummy device and its associated qcow file, and then booted. Waited at the boot prompt, ran virsh attach-disk silverblue38 /dev/sdb vda in a root terminal, and then let it boot into the installer.
In the installer, it was just like installing on bare metal, except that we didn't have to set up WiFi, since it was using the host system's networking.
When the new laptop arrives, we'll stop the VM, mount /var/home (because Silverblue) on the host system, copy the /home content from the host system to the new drive, and when we drop the SSD into the frame.work laptop, it should just boot up into a working system.
One #silverBlue annoyance is that if you are doing manual partitioning (in this case, reserving disk space in case the school unexpectedly creates a need to run Windows at some point), there's insufficient guidance on partitioning. The documentation points out that the installer doesn't know about Silverblue limitations, and so describes what partitions/file systems you can and can't create, but has nothing on expected sizes. Hopefully we guessed right. 🤞
Another late night scanning session for an old game's manual... it's a slow process, but it's honestly quite relaxing. About 180 pages for this one. #SimAnt#Manual
OC 180 No Comply and probably my longest manual (tube.spdns.org)
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What's your favorite music player on Linux? (lemmy.ml)
Mine is Strawberry since it has a ton of options and plays a ton of formats. It’s also (distant) fork of Amarok 1.4 and integrates well with KDE Plasma. I’m curious what other people are using these days. What’s your favorite player?