Eyedust

joined 7 months ago
[–] Eyedust@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Kind of bs, seeing as how I use my friend's account (with permission) to access the free Udemy courses that his career provides him and I've never seen this. Figures they'd nail legitimate users and completely miss people who abuse the system. Typical Microsoft.

Hope an alternative comes someday; I've always disliked LinkedIn.

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I should look into Jellyfin myself. I really need to introduce myself to containers. It's something I should familiarize myself with as a Linux user, but I just barely got done learning the basics of WINE prefixes.

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

There's not much that combines these two apps together like this, but there are separate alternatives. Nova Player for hosted media (I use Plex on my Raspberry Pi), Antennapod is one of many many podcast forks (most open source podcast apps use the same layout).

For listening to android localized audio books, I absolutely love Voice. Voice does have chapters built in as long as your audio books have them. You can pick up Voice and Nova Player for free on F-Droid if you want to try them out. Plex and Pi are a little more involved.

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

IF you needed the storage and badly, then I remember Hiren's BootCD used to come with a tool to scan for and quarantine bad sectors. However, this is just a bandaid on top of an infected wound.

The wound will keep spreading, eating up precious backup files. I've only ever used quarantining once on my mother in law's laptop because she had to wait weeks to get a new drive, due to the Philippines flooding back then.

Also, this was an old copy of BootCD that ran through terminal prompt, not a built in Windows PE, and I believe the tool I used has been removed. However, it seems to be replaced with a few alternatives.

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Can confirm, I had a heck of a time figuring out Bluetooth and sound myself. The distro I was using came with Bluetooth hard disabled and PulseAudio by default. The wiki, these four packages, and setting my Bluetooth to autostart on login got everything working with minimal hassle.

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm dead set in my belief that this happens to every phone, and I'm sad to see the nothing phone is going the same way.

I had a Motorola X that was suddenly dying in less than 5 hours and one day I couldn't even connect to my service. I looked and found that an update had uninstalled the phone's modem. Not even a factory reset helped.

After rooting and finding the correct package for my modem, the phone ran flawlessly using Resurrection Remix (I miss that ROM), proving that the battery and modem were indeed fine.

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.world 57 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely. LinusTechTips had to issue a formal apology for dumb stuff someone had said about another reviewer, but in the unveiling of all their shit, it was revealed that they had mis-reviewed a gaming mouse.

The mouse was in prototype stages, and the LTT member that reviewed it did not take the plastic off the gliders and said that the mouse was horrible and dragged a lot. The company then floundered and had to sell the prototype and rights at auction at the next CES.

The worst part is that they assumed that a competent reviewer had the fucking common-ass sense to remove the plastic that... you know... comes on almost every gaming mouse, so they didn't even dispute the issue.