Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.
2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.
3. Avoid repetitive topics.
4. This is not a search engine
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions or identify objects. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
There are a number of content specific communities with subject matter experts who can help you.
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5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.
6. No hate speech, sexism, or bullying No sexism, hate speech, degrading or excessively foul language, or other harmful language. No othering or dehumanizing of anyone or negativity towards any gender identity.
7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.
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Somethings have truly been amazing like plugging in a random device and it just works without having to install drivers.
Or my obscure Ethernet only printer that had some interface to add it as an IP network printer via windows custom port that always failed to connect on Windows; on Linux (specifically openSUSE YAST printer discovery) finds my printer, suggests a model number, then gives me a list of gutenprint drivers that support it. I select the driver, it works. No stupid Canon network app that windows couldn't work with. It also adds it as a CUPS shared printer and everyone can print to it like magic.
But, then on a negative note, there was last week: the ooensource NVIDIA driver fell behind the Kernel release I'm on. So it meant booting to the advanced menu and choosing an older kernel at boottime. After a few times of that I was irritated so just uninstalled all nvidia drivers, added the proprietary repo and installed the nVidia drivers directly from Nvidia. It works now. And with switcheroo package I can right click apos and launch on the integrated GPU or the Dedicated GPU. A problem you'd probably not see too often on Windows