Elvith Ma'for

Former Reddfugee, found a new home on feddit.de. Server errors made me switch to discuss.tchncs.de. Now finally @ home on feddit.org.

Likes music, tech, programming, board games and video games. Oh… and coffee, lots of coffee!

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  • One important tip from that community to be more successful:

    Do not use the “original” link, but link a YouTube short. Why?

    1. It’s not the known link (“XcQ”)
    2. Shorts do autoplay
    3. Shorts are ad free
    4. Shorts are optimized for mobile and usually start playing quickly

    Where as the original link will probably just dump you to 1-3 pre roll ads and the rickroll is only seeing the title and closing the tab/app…



  • There’s an app that I find useful. Many many years ago (on Android 2.3 or maybe Android 4?) I got a lifetime license for it.

    Then a few years ago they updated the app and introduced a subscription. I don’t care, because the features that I use are still accessible in the grandfathered lifetime license. BUT after every update without a subscription you now need to complete the whole “let’s personalize this app for you” thing. Afterwards it just dumps you onto a screen to select the subscription you want to pay for. You need to dismiss that screen in order to use the free features OR login and restore your old license to unlock most of the features.

    They intentionally put a white X to dismiss that screen in the top left, but also put a very bright image there directly under it, so that it’s barely recognizable.





  • I’m using Fedora. Works out of the box. You need to add a MOK if you want to use custom kernel modules (or the current Nvidia drivers). But using the nouveau driver or just a standard installation of not using Nvidia hardware works flawlessly without MOK.

    Im using Nvidia. The initial import of the MOK is a bit… strange or scary for non tech people, but afterwards, akmods makes it a breeze. You don’t have to think about it. With Fedora 42, akmods regularly failed to build the driver’s and I had to restart the build manually after a kernel upgrade, but since I upgraded to Fedora 43, it just works.



  • I usually try to iterate - read available documentation (e.g. comments in a config file, product documentation,…) and try to find stuff out. If I get stuck, an LLM answer may be confidently wrong, but it may give me some new pointers in which direction I should go next. Or maybe mention some buzzwords/techniques/concepts that I might need to investigate further.

    As it’s underlying concept is pattern recognition it might not be completely correct, but more often than not nudges me generally in the right direction. Bonus: Now I probably learned some things that will help me later on.

    So far I never had something a little more complex that an LLM gave me a correct solution for. But as I like to tinker, explore and learn for myself, I’d probably hate getting a complete working solution without any work I did myself.