quantumantics

joined 1 year ago
[–] quantumantics@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I don't work in IT/Tech at all, but I've been an enthusiast since I was young, at first piggybacking off of my dad, then developing my own interests as I got into high school and college. I started self-hosting because I found it interesting and as time progressed I saw the benefits of operating things locally. I only host things within my own network though, because I'm not yet comfortable with how to safely set up external access.

[–] quantumantics@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

While I know you're being funny, for those unaware, the snakes being referred to with St Patrick were a euphemism for the non-Christian beliefs in Ireland.

[–] quantumantics@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

On the hardware from the early '00s in my collection I've had good results from AntiX and Q4OS.

[–] quantumantics@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

It took about 25 systems of searching to find my first one; I also found the updated ice world foliage in that same system, pretty cool stuff!

[–] quantumantics@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When our best friends were getting married and we met at the rehearsal dinner. Her best friend had been trying to get us to meet for years (our work schedules and lives in general always kept us from meeting). Within two months we were dating and have been together ever since.

[–] quantumantics@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

High school teacher (Latin)

[–] quantumantics@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

My first was SUSE followed shortly thereafter by the initial release of Fedora Core. Lots of distro hopping and tinkering later, I run LMDE these days as my daily driver and I distro hop on the other computers in my collection.

[–] quantumantics@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

It's my daily driver; the benefits of mint with the stability of a Debian base.

[–] quantumantics@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Interesting, my ear cushions are still in decent shape (I've only had them about a year now). I bought a replacement set early on just to have in storage, but I've yet to need them.

[–] quantumantics@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I've used it on Pop!_OS and Mint Debian Edition and had to do no setup, the system recognized it as a sound device out of the box. My only issue was in Pop!, where the microphone would output garbage unless I switched audio devices back and forth when I connected to a discord voice room. I'm not entirely sure that was an issue with the device or with discord on that distro, but on Mint I've yet to have issues. The software from Steelseries doesn't have a Linux version, so maybe I'm missing out on some fine tuning, but for my purposes it works great.

[–] quantumantics@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (5 children)

If you don't mind spending the extra money, I can recommend the Steelseries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless. I went with these because they can do high quality audio over 2.4GHz wireless, which was a must for me in a wireless headset.

[–] quantumantics@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Ah, what a shame, he had some good stuff.

 

This should come as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to Google, but it's a reminder to get off of their services if you're concerned about your data privacy. A Slashdot commenter wondered whether this also applies to the contents of emails on gmail. I'm going to assume it does.

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