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  • pigup@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldGUIs
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    2 months ago

    I set up a pi with a wide touch screen monitor, 1920 by 480. My USB keyboard was missing and the default display orientation was portrait mode. I was dreading having to go into CLI to change some fucking config. Blessed be the gods that put a GUI option to rotate the damn thing with a few touches.🙏


  • Hi John, nice to meet you! I’ve heard too many sketchy things about Brave. And what I said was true. I worked with a bunch of “country folk” let’s call them. On the rare occasions where browser choice did come up in conversations with them (two people specifically), they’d rather pompously proclaimed that they used brave as if there is no other option to be considered. They also proceeded to denigrate my choice. Both are maga gun nuts, so… I don’t know. Just smells real scammy to me. These folks are just one degree of separation away from preppers with giant five gallon mac and cheese buckets in their garage and their critical thinking skills are not visible from my perspective.
















  • Its like (actually literally) installing Linux on your router instead of its little corporate steal-your-data software. It allows your old router to have all kinds of modern features and full-blown control. My netgear orbi system was dying. I don’t know what the hell was happening to it, but everything was super slow and clunky and netgear quit supporting it a few years ago. I thought I was going to have to get a new expensive mesh router system. But instead the nerds here told me I could probably install OpenWRT on them and it turns out they were right. My router was one of an expansive list of routers that is compatible with it. It was tricky to install, but I used AI to guide me through it. And now my shit’s super snappy, fast, uses the latest security protocols. Turns out I can crank my radios up higher than normal and get really, really good coverage and really high speed all the time. It’s for real this one weird trick that tech companies don’t want you to know about.