Software developer in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Dad to 2 kids.
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SteveDinn@lemmy.cato
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is there a word for mangled idiom that becomes commonplace
3·1 year agoYes, that’s exactly what I thought I had implied.
SteveDinn@lemmy.cato
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is there a word for mangled idiom that becomes commonplace
22·1 year ago“It’s not rocket surgery.”
This one irks me. Combination of “rocket scientist” and “brain surgery”.
I’ve got two just lying around. What image can I use for the Android auto adapter?
SteveDinn@lemmy.cato
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Ventoy source code contains some unknown BLOBs, still no word on the issue from the dev after monthsEnglish
7·1 year agoI remember this thread! Before I saw this comment, I had already gone to look it up again:
Here’s the initial post of Verionica’s video on booting from ISO files: https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/112905487325961707
And here’s the post on 'The Ventoy conspiracy": https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/112906968594601449
SteveDinn@lemmy.cato
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•The last time you were wearing a hat, what type was it?
1·1 year agoDoes a bike helmet count?
SteveDinn@lemmy.cato
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What’s your “I can’t believe other people don’t do this” hack?
31·1 year agoMy ADHD would not allow me to function without reminders.
SteveDinn@lemmy.cato
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What’s your “I can’t believe other people don’t do this” hack?
3·1 year agoBest side effect of the insulated bottles is not having to use a coaster because they don’t sweat.
SteveDinn@lemmy.cato
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What’s your “I can’t believe other people don’t do this” hack?
1·1 year agoNot sure I could get used to using transparent bags for dog poop.
SteveDinn@lemmy.cato
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What’s your “I can’t believe other people don’t do this” hack?
4·1 year agoI’m totally going to try this.
I still use Windows for work, but the last version I used on any of my personal computers was XP.
SteveDinn@lemmy.cato
Linux@lemmy.ml•Linux during the mid to late 90s (Windows 95 and 98 era)
15·1 year agoI remember running Slackware and having to recompile the kernel for just about any hardware you added. I configured a box to be used as a router before routers were something you could get commonly at Best Buy.
I was taking comp. sci. at university and all our work was done on Sparc workstations. Having a Unix-like machine at home was a great help during that time
SteveDinn@lemmy.cato
Doctor Who@lemmy.world•[SPOILERS - DISCUSSION] Season 1 (Series 14) Episode 9: Empire of DeathEnglish
7·1 year agoDid they ever explain what the hand motions the old woman was doing were all about?
SteveDinn@lemmy.cato
Doctor Who@lemmy.world•[SPOILERS - DISCUSSION] Season 1 (Series 14) Episode 9: Empire of DeathEnglish
10·1 year agoI still don’t understand WTF Ruby’s mother had to do with Sutekh. Why was knowing who she was important to the god of death?
SteveDinn@lemmy.cato
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Jellyfin wrongly identifies show and messes up metadataEnglish
1·2 years agoI have this problem for the new Doctor Who series before it split off from the old 2005 Doctor Who series and became its own thing. Jellyfin was tagging the new Doctor Who series the same as the old one.
When IMDB finally got its own entry for the new show I was able to successfully identify the new show appropriately.
SteveDinn@lemmy.cato
Linux@lemmy.ml•How often do you contribute to open source projects?
2·2 years agoIf using open source projects and sharing my experience by helping others on forums and logging detailed bugs when I find them counts as contribution, then everyday.
I’m a software dev myself, but I have enough on my plate with my day job and two kids that have to be taken to all manner of activities. I don’t know how all these people find the time to work on free software, probably for little to no compensation, but my hat is off to all of you, wherever you are.
Doesn’t it bug you that the LMDE logo in neofetch has the top line messed up? I have all my local systems patches and there is a PR up on their repo for it.
I just use Navidrome’s web client. It does everything I need. DSub on Android.
I don’t think my kids have ever used a Windows machine. I have a couple of machines at home that both run Linux Mint and they use Chromebooks at school. There is not much software that they need that is not either a web page or also available natively.