Wer hätte gedacht, dass die Kombination von SONOFF iHost und ioBroker so einfach ist? Trotz der typischen Technik-Ängste hat alles problemlos funktioniert! Wie nutzst Du smarte Geräte in Deinem Zuhause? Teilen ist das neue Schlaula! #SmartHome #ioBroker #SONOFF #TechQuestions #Vernetzung

@keyoxide

Do I need an OpenPGP key and link it to my Keyoxide profile in order to get the green verified badge on Mastodon?

Looking for some more advanced techies to help me out here. I was browsing the files of old abandonware (as one does) and came across the .zym file format in a game called Gubble 2. Does anyone have any idea what this file format is? Is it something proprietary by the gubble devs? Something that just isn't used anymore? The only thing google brought up regarding .zym was some mods for quake.

What's the best way to convert a LaTeX equation into an ASCII art image?

I tried putting the equation in a tex document and using @pandoc@fosstodon.org to convert to markdown:

pandoc -o example.md example.tex

utftex "\frac{\mathrm{This is an example equation}}{\mathrm{This is still an example equation}}"

   This is an example equation
─────────────────────────────────
This is still an example equation

Who to ask for help with Bridgy Classic?

MediaWiki question:

Is there a way to get a list of all pages using a particular interwiki prefix?

#MediaWiki #TechQuestions #Wiki

Fedi, I have more tech troubles. This time it's my laptop's built-in camera. When I join any sort of video meeting (including, at least, Zoom, Teams, and Matrix video rooms), the software detects my camera and claims my camera is on, but the camera shows only a blank black screen. It was working fine until last week and I have no idea what changed.

EDIT: SOLVED by @oblomov@sociale.network

My laptop has a small plastic "privacy shutter" which slides over the webcam. It is the same color as the case so I didn't even see it, but I must have slid it accidentally.

More details here:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=436324

#FediHelp #TechQuestions #TechHelp

Pinning all KDE packages in Debian testing to prevent the desktop environment from getting updated while upgrading other, non-related packages... Thoughts?
#debian #linux #techquestions #sysadmin

It's time to think about my mom's computer again:
So, I got her a WD Blue 1 TB SATA SSD and I wanna give her 2 OSes: Windows 10 LTSC Enterprise 2021, and a Linux distro.
Which Linux option do you think would be best for her? Feel free to elaborate in the replies!
#Linux #Distro #TechHelp #TechQuestions #Debian #Ubuntu #LinuxMint

I am trying to learn how to install NetBSD, starting with trying it in a virtual machine (Gnome Boxes).

I downloaded NetBSD-10.0-amd64.iso and I am following the guide here, using the default on most options.
https://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/part-install.html

I selected a "full installation." Which seems to work. Where I get stuck is trying to enable binary package installation.


I keep getting stuck on the screen shown in the first image.

It seems frozen on that screen indefinitely.



If I press ctrl+c, I get back to the previous page, which looks like the second attached image. I can also further return to the previous screen, as shown in the third image.


How can I enable installation of binary packages?

UPDATE: The issue was that network autoconfig didn't work correctly when running in Boxes. The same choices did work in virtualbox. So I'm going to have to write a bug report for Boxes.

#NetBSD #FediHelp #TechQuestions #GnomeBoxes #BSD #pkgsrc