[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 13 points 1 day ago

He talks a bit about it on this instagram video uploaded to reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/trektalk/comments/1quvssy/starfleet_academy_whats_up_with_the_voice_of/

TL;DR it's the voice he puts on for the role but might also be adjusted to some extent in post.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 days ago

This post is a millennial trap, so I'd think most people here?

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 days ago

From the thread it seems it's only a problem during setup. If you stick it out then after setup it should be fine.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

RCS might be better than SMS but it seems to only be supported by the Google Messages app so I do without. You did ask about other things, I don't recall giving anything up but then there are these two things you mentioned that I never would have thought of so maybe there are more.

I hope I can get my Dexcom working on gos.

It's apparently a struggle, but see this thread. I can't work out how to link a specific reply, but there is one on 11 August 2025 by whoiswes and then some info in the replies following it, that recommend something called xDrip. They say they recommend it over the Dexcom app and runs flawlessly once set up, but it seems there's a bit of app crashing that happens while setting it up.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Oh I was already degoogling long before I moved to GrapheneOS. I've never used RCS and gave up wallet years before moving to GrapheneOS. I only use SMS with specific people so not having RCS has never been an issue for me - but apparently it works on GrapheneOS if you don't mind the whole google thing.

And apparently it's only NFC payments that don't work on GrapheneOS, you can use other wallet features according to the people in this thread.

I never stopped carrying a card anyway so NFC payments aren't something I miss.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

Last year I bought an M-Disc drive and a bunch of M-Discs and burnt all my files in Nextcloud to them as a backup.

It's a new year, I want to take any files added or modified in 2025 to burn a new disc.

I can work out how to get all files with a modified date in 2025, the problem is that if a file was moved into Nextcloud but wasn't changed, the modified date doesn't change. So I will miss files that someone has moved into Nextcloud without changing if the modified date is before 2025.

I can't use created date as literally all the files have a created date 1 Jan 2025 or later as the created date is when they synced from the server.

Normally I'd rsync to find changes but the current copy is spread across like 10 M-Discs, and reading each of those 100GB discs at CD reading speeds is going to be painful.

Does anyone have a better idea?

Edit: In case anyone is finding this later, I didn't get a better plan other than planning ahead. I copied each disc onto my hard drive (into a folder "Old replica"), copied the current state into a different directory ("New replica"), and ran Czkawka to remove files from "New replica" that are duplicates of files in "Old replica". And also used the Czkawka setting to delete empty directories once I deleted all those files.

What was left in "New replica" I burnt to disc, then Rsynced these back into the "Old replica" which I have for now left on my hard drive. Maybe if I run out of space I'll consider saving hashes or something for comparing, but for now this is just an extra copy I am storing because I didn't find a better way 🤷

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

I recently got a new phone, and it has a quick access bar that pops up during certain actions (I think mostly when switching apps). It has a search button, the access to apps like camera, browser, phone, messages, settings.

How do I disable it?

Edit: I have worked out I can long press then I see an option to "Always show taskbar", so I haven't worked out how to hide it but I guess it's called the "taskbar", though this is different to the normal go back, go home, app switch task bar.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

If I'm on a feed, say All, then I accidentally open the communities side bar, I cannot for the life of me work out how to close it without having to choose a feed or community, triggering a refresh.

This is worse when I'm on a post. I am here reading the comments in a post and accidentally open the communities side menu, how do I close it and stay on the post? I have almost no chance of finding that same post again 🙁

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

I'm just bought an Airgradient air quality sensor (actually two, an indoor and an outdoor).

I want to mount the outdoor one but it needs a USB-C power supply. I can run a cable but power isn't exactly close. Do I somehow find a 10m USB-C cable and run it through the roof to the sensor that I mount on the side of the house? What's a normal way of getting USB-C power to an area far away from the closest power point?

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/buildapc@lemmy.world

Christmas is coming, and I'm thinking a family PC is on the cards from santa.

It would need to run minecraft and Lego city undercover and that sort of thing.

I already have a spare TUF 750W bronze rated power supply (that I bought one time I was troubleshooting).

I will also probably upgrade my RX5700XT graphics card so put that in this build (suggestions welcome for a good bang for buck replacement that's good for a server running Mint and ollama (needs high VRAM) as well as used for gaming).

Everything else would be new. Suggestions for monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers too please!

Let's aim for a ballpark of $1000USD (I'll be purchasing in New Zealand).

Thanks in advance!

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

I had a previous post about how the game and computer would freeze when using my controller. This is now resolved, the controller no longer freezes the computer, but I'm still getting weird visual artifacts in games, and one game (Assassin's Creed Rogue) is freezing, which seems to be triggered when I enable the eagle vision. I've already played 20 hours without a single crash or issue until this recent system update.

I've got an up to date Nobara installation, using the Gnome version. Nobara is based on Fedora with some gaming related things pre-installed. It's running on an OG Framework laptop, so it's Intel integrated graphics but it has been working great until now.

I'm running Assassin's Creed Rogue through Steam. I have tried running the game using the experimental proton but that didn't help.

Anyone got ideas for further troubleshooting? The best I've got is that it might be shader related, as in Hades the lighting is weird and in Assassin's Creed Rogue it's enabling eagle vision that triggers it to freeze. I have tried disabling the pre-cached shaders and it doesn't help, I've enabled it to trigger re-generation of them but it didn't help.

Any ideas?

Edit: I sort of solved this. It seems to be related to GNOME, when running the KDE Plasma desktop environment it doesn't crash. So I guess I'm using KDE until that gets resolved.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

I've been using an Xbox One controller with a dongle on my OG Framework laptop running Nobara (GNOME edition) for a number of years with no issues. After a recent system update, now connecting the controller causes freezes.

If I'm in a game (the game I'm playing is Assassin's Creed Rogue), then it freezes the game but I do seem to be able to get out of it so it doesn't seem to be a kernel panic.

If it's still connected when restarting, it will freeze at the login screen and I have to restart.

The system is up to date, and as part of trying to fix this I've updated the driver to this one, as the previous one doesn't seem to be maintained anymore.

Any tips on trouble shooting this further?

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

Possibly related:

screen shot of memory usage by app, showing Firefox using over 18GB of RAM

I also don't understand why every chat app needs 1GB of RAM to itself.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

Hi all, I have recently installed Bazzite, after previously being on Nobara.

I have been playing Dave the Diver and DOOM (2016), both through Steam, and I get pretty serious input lag. A second or more delay at times, generally when FPS is struggling.

I'm running on a laptop with integrated graphics, so the struggling integrated GPU is not a surprise, but I didn't have this input lag issue with the same games on Nobara.

Any tips on a setting or something to help this?

I have lowered graphics settings to help with FPS, but ultimately I am not going to be able to avoid occasional FPS dips. The mouse input is instant, it's just an issue with the keyboard.

Any help appreciated!

Edit with solution: it seems the problem is IBus, see this comment: https://lemmy.nz/post/23401044/15684126

Basically the solution is to add IBUS_ENABLE_SYNC_MODE=2 to /etc/environment and restart.

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submitted 9 months ago by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

This morning my kid asked the voice assistant to "Turn off the computers in this house".

I heard it, thought well that's a strange request but seems harmless because how is home assistant gonna turn off computers.

Me a little while later, "why is shit broken? What's happening!"

Turns out dumb me had adguard exposed to the voice assistant, it switched off all the adguard settings including the DNS rewriting that is the cornerstone of many of my self-hosted services.

I've since revoked that access.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

I'm not really sure where the right place to ask is, but I figure this is a good place for docker related questions.

I have recently installed Bazzite as my daily driver, previously I was on Nobara. The main difference here is that Bazzite is immutable, so you can't (or shouldn't) install stuff in the normal way as it may get overwritten by updates.

I have a bunch of docker compose YAML files. I want to run these locally. But I also don't want to tweak anything in the files to get them running because they should be able to be copied to a prod environment as is or the local test environment isn't a good test. Prod would be either my Linux Mint server or an Ubuntu Server one.

Bazzite has a ujust script available for installing docker, but this doesn't include docker compose, and I'm not sure how to add that in.

Searching online shows everyone saying just use podman, it comes pre-installed and is a drop in replacement. The problem is that it doesn't work.

Maybe that's my question, why isn't my compose.yaml working with podman?

For example, the container gives me a bunch of messages about missing environment variables, but they are set in the compose.yaml.

I also get a bunch of permissions errors. E.g. here is the mariadb trying to access a directory and then trying to change the ownership:

[db]         | find: ‘/var/lib/mysql/’: Permission denied
[db]         | chown: changing ownership of '/var/lib/mysql/': Permission denied

Volumes are all bind mounts. After the container created the local directories, I set all the permissions to 777 as a test and took the containers down then up and it still complains about permissions.

I feel like there is something specific to podman or Bazzite I'm not understanding. Any help?

I'm also happy to take suggestions on other ways to use docker compose in Bazzite.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: I have solved this by adding a Z flag to my bind mounts (./localdir:/containerdir:Z) as per this answer.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 156 points 2 years ago

The problem is that a website is generally not served from one domain.

Put a Facebook like button on your website, it's loaded directly from Facebook servers. Now they can put a cookie on your computer with an identifier.

Now every site you visit with a Facebook like button, they know it was you. They can watch you as you move around the web.

Google does this at a larger scale. Every site with Google ads on it. Every site using Google analytics. Every site that embeds a Google map. They can stick a cookie in and know you were there.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 247 points 2 years ago

Me as an instance admin sitting here reading about how Lemmy doesn't have trolls and Russian bots, while I'm in a chat with other instance admins and mods where we need to actively coordinate to fight the trolls and Russian bots 😐

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 226 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Haha I remember the days of downloading random EXEs off the internet and running them to see what they do (also the days of CD-rom drives).

My auntie somehow managed to get a virus that played Für Elise through the motherboard speaker and never stopped so long as the thing was on. I don't think they ever solved it, in the end they just got a new PC.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 194 points 2 years ago

Hey ChatGPT, how can I ...

"Locking as this is a duplicate of [unrelated question]"

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 184 points 2 years ago

Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users

Uh oh, some sort of court ruling?

film studios say

Oh right, nothing to see here.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 196 points 2 years ago

So you're telling me I get free accommodation, free food, and it's protected by a T-rex?

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 247 points 2 years ago

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