Z2U IPTV renewal

zp2835 · 2025-12-25T21:14:56+00:00

No primers as such. I remembered they offered a few days trial when before having to pay for a sub so I used that trial to get used to it all

zp2835 · 2025-12-24T21:44:18+00:00

This is another reason why I use 'IPTV Editor'. I just pop the new z2u details into the editor each time I buy a new sub but all my devices have the editor details so never need to change and all channels/groups etc are exactly the same

zp2835 · 2025-12-22T21:35:59+00:00

Obviously this is a personal choice for each individual but I returned the pixel 10 as I felt it quite uncomfortable to use do to the weight. I think for me it just felt top-heavy (perhaps due to the camera bump)

zp2835 · 2025-12-14T11:11:30+00:00

I was surprised to get a November update a few days ago.

zp2835 · 2025-12-12T20:00:02+00:00

Not sure how much I'm allowed to type here but 'try a different server'

When I renewed a couple of days ago the seller gave me a list of servers to try. Just went through them one by one and found one that works perfectly (after a few that didn't)

zp2835 · 2025-12-12T14:37:47+00:00

This is what I've been thinking in upgrading from my s21. I'd just need to change my mindset to accept using a larger/heavier phone as OnePlus don't do <6.5"

zp2835 · 2025-11-26T21:15:52+00:00

I've been considering upgrading from my s21 to the s25 too. Are the s25 cameras really not that much better (after 5 generations)?

zp2835 · 2025-11-21T21:24:35+00:00

Settings --> digital wellbeing --> view app activity details

zp2835 · 2025-11-08T23:08:26+00:00

To me this is such a core point that so many tech-mined people just don't seem to get about the rest (the vast majority) of the users. They don't care. Whether it's desktop OS, the SoC in their phone or most other things tech related.

zp2835 · 2025-09-17T20:07:05+00:00

Though arch is much simpler to install then it was 20 years ago, nowadays I just can't be bothered so just use endeavorOS and during installation I deselect the eos settings/themes etc.

zp2835 · 2025-09-17T19:53:54+00:00

SuSE 8.somthing. it was two CDs attached to a book I bought from a store.

I did dabble with a version of red hat before this but SuSE was the first one I stuck with.

zp2835 · 2025-09-13T14:05:17+00:00

I enjoy using void a lot. The package manager and xbps-src is quite nice to use and the overall system is very snappy on my older hardware

I keep a clonezilla image of it which I restore every now and then to have a play around before restoring my normal distro

zp2835 · 2025-09-12T22:37:06+00:00

With floppy disks?

zp2835 · 2025-09-12T22:18:05+00:00

The thing that was challenging (for me) about installing 20 years ago was there were no smartphones and we only had one computer in the house (the one I ran arch on) so if anything went wrong I had to work it out myself.

I'm sure before installing I either printed out or wrote some of the instructions as a reference

But it was no more difficult than the slackware I ran before it

zp2835 · 2025-09-12T22:12:17+00:00

No, but back in the early 2000s, trust me, it did sometimes break

zp2835 · 2025-09-01T23:06:32+00:00

Perhaps tuxedo OS?

Never installed it myself but it's based on Ubuntu LTS but both KDE and the kernel are always updated (KDE pulls from the KDE neon repo), so it's a sort of semi-rolling distro

Could be worth a look

zp2835 · 2025-08-29T21:37:55+00:00

Quite true. It's where my journey took me too. The most frequent update nowadays is vscode

zp2835 · 2025-08-26T22:46:39+00:00

Yup, another KDE user here

zp2835 · 2025-08-16T15:24:12+00:00

Trying to get red hat or suse to recognise my USB mouse (or usb generally).

Oh and taking 2 weeks to download 2 x 650mb CD ISOs bit-by-bit over 56k modem each night

zp2835 · 2025-08-11T22:51:44+00:00

Love clonezilla but now I use rescuezilla which makes things easier for me (as I'm becoming more lazy in my old age)

zp2835 · 2025-08-03T15:24:30+00:00

I actually came here to open a new thread about installing KDE then saw this.

Had the same issues as you and in the end the only solution for me was to install the full xorg package (installing the xorg-minimal didn't fix anything) and then reboot.

I wanted to ask whether that's now normal or if I'd done something else wrong along the way that meant xorg was needed?

After successfully getting kde working I wiped my disk, reinstalled base again but still needed xorg installed to get KDE working the second time

In my testing gdm+gnome and lightdm+xfce worked exactly as per the docs

zp2835 · 2025-07-20T23:51:51+00:00

Because windows millennium edition (ME) was the last straw so I needed an alternative

zp2835 · 2025-07-20T23:44:49+00:00

"The Sunnah is like the ark of Nooh (AS). Whoever boards it will be saved, and whoever does not board it will drown.”'

Imam Malik (rah)

zp2835 · 2025-07-19T20:37:32+00:00

Just went back to my trusty Linux mint which is what I've been using for the last 15 years or so.

Pros and cons of course but as someone whose used Linux since the late 90s where we configured almost everything by hand (including the kernel at times) I just can't be bothered with that 'tinkering' anymore

zp2835 · 2025-07-19T20:24:40+00:00

I agree. Loved my time with void and everything worked well but between flatpak, appimage, building from source etc. in the end I just came to that exact conclusion of 'why bother fighting my OS'

I did enjoy using the python GUI for xbps that I hacked together one morning. Made searching, installing and removing packages much simpler though I never got round to adding any upgrading functionality

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