Just an ordinary myopic internet enjoyer.

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Cake day: August 15th, 2023
  • megane-kun@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoTechnology@lemmy.world•You probably don't remember these but I have a questionEnglish
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    12 days ago

    I’ve had one of those (battery died, unfortunately) and if you’d look at its files, you’d notice that they are organized in a different structure than what an MP3 player might expect.

    iPod_Control\Music’s sudirectories might contain some songs, but the filenames are hashes (corresponding to the entry in the iPod db). The metadata and the contents are perfectly fine, and you can play the file yourself via a different player (you can probably test it in your computer).

    I suggest you just connect the iPod through the 3.5mm output audio jack or find a 3.5mm audio output to Bluetooth transmitter adapter.

    EDIT:

    WTF. I triple posted. My bad. I deleted the two others, also corrected some minor typos and mistakes.

  • megane-kun@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•Linux is now the best gaming system.English
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    2 months ago

    The author lost me when they showed the terminal command to install Nvidia drivers on Debian. Yes, it’s one sentence. That’s still extremely daunting to the vast majority of computer users. It undermines the author’s own thesis.

    I think it’s just a consequence of the variety of ways a Linux distro can present its options and settings. It’s far easier—and arguably, safer—to share a command than to anticipate how to get to a certain option or setting.

    Just as an aside, I had this exact same problem when a friend asked me to do something on my system. I ended up having to send them screenshots of what I’m looking at in order to direct me to where I need to be. All that trouble could have been avoided had they sent me a command to run on my terminal.

    Is it better to have a utility that a user can just click? Yeah! Someone can write a utility program that can do just that, I guess. But then again, the problem now becomes how the user can make sure this utility program is in their system.

    I guess it can be a bash script? The user can download the script and then make it usable. It’s a few clicks in Dolphin and (Gnome) Files, probably the same in Thunar, but we’re back to the same problem: the variety of ways a GUI can take to the same end.

    I highly doubt that Linux users, at least the ones who value customization, will want to lose that customizability in order to make things easier for Windows refugees and pull more of them in.