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[–] speck@kbin.social 18 points 10 months ago

Quite the meta statement of mainstream music

[–] speck@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Don't have anything to add, just appreciation for your post. A true evil playthrough would be interesting. Done well it'd uncomfortable and illuminating. But maybe too threatening for many? Maybe we stick to simplistic versions because they are safe?

Dishonored 2 did something in the right direction, the way choices start to color the world around you.

[–] speck@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago
[–] speck@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Thank you that worked, now that I understand how to use the combo. Still wished there was a way to set my own combo. But this works

[–] speck@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'll give that a shot when I'm back at my laptop, thank you

[EDIT]: That didn't work for me. Wish it did, since it's a quicker combo! The CKEY + en dash * 3 did though

[–] speck@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Ah, thank you! You helped me understand how that chart works

EDIT: Hey thank you, that worked for the immediate challenge — and now I have a use for the caps lock key

 

Is there any way to have SHIFT + CTRL + - create an em dash in Pop_OS?

I know there is the option to use CTRL + SHIFT + U followed by 2014 + ENTER. But that's way too long. And in keyboard settings it seems that I can only add a Composer Key? where I then have to, again, type in a numerical code. Any way to have the straight keyboard shortcut like in MacOS?

EDIT: Per two suggestions below, Command Key followed by 3 regular dashes works to create an em dash.

afa setting my own combo, I discovered AutoKey as a possible solution. Haven't tried that route yet, though.

[–] speck@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

This is the type of thing to keep in your back pocket for days when you need perspective. Sure you messed up today. But did you Billy Coull your day?

[–] speck@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

At first I thought you were posting your response and it came off like this wonderful troll of what a user might disingenuously post on nostupidquestions

[–] speck@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

+1 on Vinyl music player

afa music collection, I slowly shift things from folder to folder where I gradually cull tracks which I decide I no longer need to hear. I curate rather than hoard (although I see long term value in others opting to keep everything for the sake of all; so 'hoard' is not intended to judge those who do in this instance).

To find new music, I lean on Bandcamp. ofc they're trying to sell the artist on the platform; but the blogs are often quite good, steering me to stuff I would've unlikely discovered on my own. If I identify a new genre that I've gravitated towards, I read up on it, e.g. on Wikipedia, to find other artists emblematic of the style

[–] speck@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The preview gave it away, but I could sense that trap coming anyhow

[–] speck@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So, don't leave us hanging: how many?

[–] speck@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah the work to be one of the cool kids of private trackers just seems a little much

 

I recently created a HD for dual boot Win 11 and Pop Os. I created a shared partition for Data, and separate partitions for the respective OS. I used gParted to create the partitions. It looks like Win then added bitlocker to this data partition.

(It's not really encrypted, I guess, because I didn't create a microsoft account, and didn't receive a recovery key)

So now I can't access that partition when booted into Pop OS without entering a password (which I don't have).

I'm wondering a couple of things: what's the best practice in these scenarios? Have the shared data drive not be encrypted with Bitlocker? If so, is there something else that should be done for security purposes? If not, it looks like using Dislocker is a common solution to access the drive in Linux?

 

Will be installing either Mint or Pop_OS on a new laptop which has a 512gb SSD. Will keep Windows for gaming, at least for now, with the games installed on an external HD. But otherwise, this is to experiment with living in Linux.

I understand that I can unallocate HD space from Windows in order to make room for the LInux OS, leaving at least 25 or 30gb for the Linux OS itself.

Do I then extend that space further, so to speak, to allow for any other programs I might install as well as for data? Do I create a third partition for data that will be shared between the two OS?

What's a reasonable breakdown?

e.g.
Windows 100gb; Linux 400gb or
Win 100gb; Linux 30gb; Data (NTFS) 370gb?

 

I've been using NZBPlanet for years. I guess they've recently changed their model so that, unless you pay, your account is deactivated within 24h.

Any other suggestions to find files on usenet?

Alternatively, how can I go about paying them anon? Go get a gift card credit card or something?

If it helps, mostly looking a shows or movies. Not games

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