Rentlar

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Cake day: March 14th, 2023

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  • Edit – the removed question was roughly: “how much of your personal cash do you give away to help people?”

    original response

    My budget for charity (including donations to aid groups, charities, political groups, giving cash and food directly to the homeless, donations to FOSS projects) is between 1-2% of my take home pay. I’m not religious, but when good fortune happens to me, I obligate myself to pay it forward to others in thanks.

    What’s your point in asking this?








  • With some content appearing as “digital only”, finding dvd box sets can’t get you a full collection, and aren’t the only thing that can be done in defiance of streaming companies letting you see what they want you to see.

    Of course the New Yorker can’t publish this, but there is another de-centralized content distribution system to help preserve digital media, if you catch my drift, matey.





  • Simplest place to start for any linux program troubleshooting is to get logs, and search-fu the errors. You want to try to decipher in the logs what the critical error is within all the lines, and why that might be.

    One common example is a file not found error. Very often what file is missing is written, so you can search why that file is missing or you may be able to intuit it yourself.

    A word of caution: when asking for help from people on forums, a tech whiz yoh know, discord or Lemmy, make sure you say clearly what it is you ultimately want, and what step doesn’t go right and how, that sent you troubleshooting. When searching, boiling down the search terms is important, but when asking people, context and the ultimate goal is very important. In the example, it’s not that you’re looking for the missing file, you’re trying to get a certain game to work and it crashes at the start, or whatever.