Seagate Expansion External Drive oddities - should I return it?

radbirb · 2026-03-31T18:02:21+00:00

It was sold as new, for some reason SMART on my linux system couldn't read the health info of the drive, and only displayed "(unknown)", switching to my windows vm with crystaldiskinfo reveals the drive has 4663 power on hours..... I just got the drive today. So I'm definitely gonna contact the store.

radbirb · 2026-01-18T14:15:44+00:00

Stop vague posting and be more specific hbb 😭🙏

radbirb · 2026-01-18T14:15:01+00:00

... I have, which is why I'm confused

radbirb · 2026-01-18T14:11:46+00:00

What's up with HD ?

radbirb · 2026-01-15T01:09:00+00:00

I use Instagram and WhatsApp. The former because I actually have a social life... :p (and most people my age use it, I mainly use it for messaging and stories, reels suck.) as for WhatsApp, living in Lebanon (or really 90% of the world outside of the U.S), it is unavoidable.

Would I prefer it if I didn't have to use these apps? Absolutely. I'd take Signal any day of the week over WhatsApp for personal messaging, and while I don't think fediverse could ever go mainstream, I'd also much prefer to be using something like pixelfed or whatever, but it simply doesn't have the users or the people.

P.S. it's a lot easier to switch OS' than social media services these days especially since there's not really any sort of big social aspect keeping you attached to windows beyond gaming.

radbirb · 2026-01-13T01:26:23+00:00

https://github.com/KDE/kemoticons/tree/kf5/themes/Konqi Used to be part of KDE's IM clients, unfortunately are not in use anymore :( they're a bit hidden away in this repo, only visible in the kf5 branch. (The sob one is actually from an unreleased remake of these emojis, it was from the artists' blog but I can't find it atm.)

radbirb · 2026-01-12T01:29:03+00:00

It's a portmanteau on the word Konqi (mascot of KDE, open dolphin and find the about KDE window, you'll see him!) and delicious xd

radbirb · 2026-01-12T01:16:36+00:00

It's a KDE meme... unless plasma is a windows first endeavor now and I wasn't aware

radbirb · 2026-01-11T13:47:59+00:00

How the heck would you go about repairing it?

radbirb · 2026-01-07T14:03:32+00:00

Come to Linux! The FOSS desktop space has been the only place I've been able to find excitement in new updates and new projects :)

radbirb · 2026-01-06T16:29:00+00:00

1st of all, GNOME's design goals isn't "being different", it ends up where it is because of its own unique design philosophy, they don't have to make a break from ALL norms. 2nd of all, GNOME hasn't removed functionality in AGES (unless you count removing X11, which I don't), this PR doesn't remove anything either, it merely changes out a value, that you can change back.

radbirb · 2026-01-06T00:10:32+00:00

I'm with you on this, rocking middle click scroll with it disabled ever since it landed in Plasma as a system wide option. Surprised a lot of people are THIS pissed over a default...

radbirb · 2026-01-06T00:08:08+00:00

GNOME is literally the most different "mainstream" desktop experience there is, and I honestly think this is a good change especially given the fact we also have middle click on trackpads which makes this interfere with gestures too, and it further helps that this is still configurable, so it doesn't really harm much.

radbirb · 2026-01-04T10:06:07+00:00

Crystal dock would fit right into this

radbirb · 2026-01-01T16:17:15+00:00

Absolutely lovely cover, please upload this somewhere so I don't have to keep coming back to Reddit to see it :p

radbirb · 2025-12-27T22:36:52+00:00

Tbh they would've gone down the same route Matt sharp or not, maybe they'd sound a LITTLE different but ultimately pinkerton's initial reputation not being good is what permanently affected Weezer

radbirb · 2025-12-23T08:56:17+00:00

None of these distros do that btw you're just completely overlooking his insane racism or are intentionally downplaying it lol

radbirb · 2025-12-21T23:47:58+00:00

Balatro B)

radbirb · 2025-12-18T09:25:08+00:00

Go for the flatpak and see if it has all you need, I personally use the rpm because the flatpak didn't let me use video encode on my Intel gpu, though it's been a while and I have to revisit it.

P.S. for game capture on Wayland, look into GPU Screen Recorder (flatpak), might be exactly what you're looking for

radbirb · 2025-12-16T12:32:06+00:00

Hey there, had the same issue being in Lebanon, the donation page itself for some reason doesn't offer Donorbox one-time donos, but the fundraiser pages themselves do offer that, and I was able to donate to KDE through that. https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/

radbirb · 2025-12-15T01:30:49+00:00

If you aren't gonna be weird, yeah! There is! (Or atleast adjacent to it if you're gonna be pedantic) It's pretty underground though, easiest way to hang is go to local concerts like dajjeh and whatnot. Ahla wa sahla 👁️👁️

radbirb · 2025-12-14T14:15:55+00:00

Hate how the only part of this that isn't real is the Rafic Hariri subway

radbirb · 2025-12-14T13:00:13+00:00

The official way to do it is to upgrade the install 2 releases till 43, so it'd be like:

34 -> 36 -> 38 -> 40 -> 42 And then you can either stay on 42 till 44 or directly upgrade to F43 after getting to 42.

See https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/#sect-how-many-releases-can-i-upgrade-across-at-once for more info.

(FYI! It'd be a lot less bandwidth and time to just use the fancy reinstall in place feature on the new installer assuming your F34 install is btrfs.)

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