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Can't boot into 9front
I installed 9front on an old Dell Inspiron laptop, but I can't seem to get it to boot. I checked, and it looks like the files to allow it to boot are present on the drive, the partition is marked as active, and secure boot is off. I've also tried in both legacy and uefi boot modes. Is there something that might have gone wrong somewhere, or is it most likely related to the hardware I'm trying to run it on? Any help is appreciated, and I'm happy to answer questions :)
Edit: I figured it out. My drive wasn't formatted as MBR, and the installer wasn't asking if I wanted to format it since it wasn't an empty drive, so I formatted it correctly before installing. I also chose cwfs instead of hjfs. These changes made it so I could boot
I used to self host some stuff on an old 2011 iMac. Worked fine, actually
Anyone try Meshtastic on Raspberry Pi 2B?
I got a LoRa hat for Raspberry Pi and my Pi 3 is broken, so I'm wondering if anyone has tried it on a Pi 2. I don't see it mentioned on the site and whenever I try installing meshtasticd it fails because of dependencies (not sure if that has anything to do with the Pi, but figured I'd bring it up in case.)
Kinda, yeah! These kinda remind me of some of the icon packs I used on my jailbroken iPod Touch!
I honestly just did nix-env -i flatpak then rebooted, so I'm not sure...
Edit: Did it the configuration.nix way to make sure everything was in the path, and it works now. Thanks!
It's the XFCE one. Not Whisker Menu, but the default one.
Yes, I did restart afterwards, and unfortunately it didn't work.
Flatpaks in app menu
I believe I solved this problem before, but I can't find the solution again. I have some Flatpaks installed on my NixOS system, but they aren't showing up in the app menu. Does anyone know what might be causing this or how to fix it?
You might be able to find a super lightweight desktop distro out there (I think Damn Small Linux can run on those specs?) or you could repurpose it as a basic server of some sort like you mentioned. Unless you wanted to invest in some cheap old ram to throw in there and maybe make it a bit faster, then I think those would be your best options.
A Twitter-like app where you are the only actual user and every other "user" is an AI bot.
I've been using it on my Fedora laptop for the past week or so and it's really nice, even in alpha 1! Can't wait to see how it turns out fully finished!
I was so happy about this! Been using it on my work MacBook and have been excited to use it on my main laptop!
Windows 10 before I used Linux full-time, though I did try out Windows 11.
From my understanding the OP said it was normal water too.
Water refill stations that force you to watch ads at Philly Airport
Cute! Love the patterns! Also happy (maybe belated?) birthday!
Teenager eats a mummy, fights ghosts then a bunch of people die.
Finding info about local meetings
Not sure if this is the place to ask, I recently moved to OKC for an internship and was looking into the local 2600 meetings, since I finally live in a city that has them. I found where they meet in the latest issue, but that's about all I know. I don't know any times or days or anything. I've tried looking around on the web, but also haven't found much. Does anyone know how I could go about finding any of that info out?
Imagine being so against people using certain programs on their computer that you straight up deny them software updates.
My only major complaint is their free-tier is a bit lacking compared to what Skiff had (or I guess has, but not for much longer.) I think their platform is great, and definitely worth paying for, but given I'm a broke college student that's not much of an option. Also their support for third party clients (or lack thereof) isn't great, though I don't use those as much. Otherwise I like it quite a bit!
Generally I have when I use Gnome or KDE on Linux, though I have started to prefer MATE, which doesn't have Wayland support yet afaik. I also started using FreeBSD on one of my computers a bit more, and I believe Wayland support is still a bit wonky on that right now. But as soon as Wayland support is there I'm definitely switching to that on the daily.
I personally like Podverse.
Framework Laptop bug reporting questions
I saw that the FreeBSD Foundation announced it was working with Framework to certify their laptops to be able to run FreeBSD out of the box. I am currently running GhostBSD (FreeBSD-based for anyone who is unfamiliar) and was wondering some things about reporting bugs.
- Do I just report them to the normal Bugzilla tracker? Or is there somewhere else I should report bugs?
- Is it a problem that I'm running GhostBSD instead of normal FreeBSD? I know it is based on FreeBSD Stable, but I wanted to check in case it would be different enough that I should be reporting elsewhere.
I always thought those were really cool! I used to have the launcher they made for Android on my old Droid Turbo, and it was pretty cool! Then it stopped working when I got a new phone with a newer version of Android.
Yeah, I've had issues with it too! I installed the latest Windows 10 on my mom's laptop after replacing the hard drive with an ssd, and it took me way longer than it should have to do something as simple as move files from the old hard drive to the new one! And a week later, she calls me with issues related to the auto backup OneDrive thing, and I had to troubleshoot that from 2.5 hours away. If she didn't need Photoshop and Lightroom, I would have installed some sort of Windows-similar Linux distro for her. I also have had so many issues with Windows 11 for school that I just stopped using it on bare metal and just have a VM for the one program I need for my CS classes.
How should you handle migrating Mastodon instances?
I have been a member of my current Mastodon instance for a few years now, and I absolutely love the community there. But recently, I found a Firefish instance that I am thinking of maybe switching over to, because I like Firefish so far, and the community there is also really awesome. I figure with migrating followers, I can still be a part of both communities from the new account (especially since I mainly stay in my following feed and don't really browse the local feed.)
I'm still holding off on migrating for a bit until the honeymoon phase wears off, but if I do end up doing it, is there anything I need to/should do beyond just going through the migration process and transferring the data over? Like is there some sort of courtesy post I should make on my Mastodon instance saying I am moving over? Or am I just overthinking everything?
Microsoft Word page numbers turning sideways
My boss is trying to add page numbers to a Microsoft Word document, and for some reason the numbers are showing up sideways. I have no idea what is causing it, and if I try to copy the text to a new document with normal page number orientation, they will turn sideways. Any ideas as to why this might be happening?
No boot entry for OpenBSD after install
I am fairly new to OpenBSD, and for some reason when I install it on my laptop it doesn't show any boot option. My computer will just say there's nothing to boot, and going into the boot options menu there's nothing. Any idea why this might be happening?