lurch (he/him)

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Cake day: October 4th, 2023

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  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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    tomemes@lemmy.worldNo need to reply
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    3 hours ago

    lol, ty, but I lost several earlier accounts when their instances died.

    PS: there is a text above the server list. something like it doesn’t matter what instance you choose. that was terribly misleading. if you don’t want to make a new account every coupla months, you have to choose one of the top 5 biggest instances







  • This is missing the important nuance, that the allies just didn’t want certain weapons to be used on russian homeland. AFAIK it was always okay for Ukraine to use other weapons (eg. their own drones), which they did successfully, many times.

    I suspect the allies didn’t want russia to be forced to develop better countermeasures against western weapon systems or didn’t want pics of German tanks on their way to moscow again. It could cause a lot of trouble for everyone.









  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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    toLinux@lemmy.mlPrinting on Linux
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    3 days ago

    when you buy a printer, just look that it says it’s for linux, just like you would for windows or osx. people just sometimes run into problems when they retrofit printers for other OSes to work with linux. there’s a good chance a windows printer can work with linux, but it’s not guaranteed, so do it only, if you got one for free or it originally had been bought for another PC.



  • if you still have multi boot, i would suggest using clonezilla to put images of everything onto an external HD.

    if you just have linux, the easiest way is to keep an installation medium, get a big USB stick (or external HD) and tar everything on to it. tar has a test mode, a diff mode and incremental mode, so you can make sure it has everything. you can also exclude things like snaps (they appear twice when installed, so no need to backup both). to restore, you would use the installation medium to fix partitions if necessary, then extract everything and maybe chroot into it and fix the boot loader.