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jollyrogue ,

To be fair, I think they cut out the part where a bunch of people meditate in catacombs after ingesting mushrooms caps picked from dead bodies.

jollyrogue ,

That’s what I decided.

It will be more informative, and I have lots of options for hosting.

jollyrogue ,

That’s not a bad strategy. Just gotta add some leftist politics to the mix.

jollyrogue ,

You use Linux because cuz Linux is good.

I use Linux because the BSDs are less popular. I want to get paid and have corporate applications on my desktop.

We are not the same. 😂

jollyrogue ,

I do miss the continuous form paper used with dot matrix printers.

It made banners easy, and I could make snakes out of the edges.

jollyrogue ,

It can be. It depends on the extension dev.

jollyrogue ,

“I can’t eat ice cream.”

jollyrogue ,

First off, Sonic!

Second, I found this year’s holiday gift. 😃

jollyrogue ,

You might have anger issues.

jollyrogue ,

It’s something to think about.

Gentoo will probably be better if you’re using AUR, and Gentoo recently started shipping binary packages which can be mixed and matched with compiled software. 😄

jollyrogue ,

Debian isn’t that vanilla. Debian packages are well known to carry Debian specific patches.

jollyrogue ,

There are better options then Canonical.

OpenSUSE is backed by SUSE, and Fedora is backed by Red Hat. SUSE and Red Hat are both for-profit companies, and both are better FOSS citizens.

jollyrogue ,

Flathub is enabled by default now. I want to say F37 enabled it by default.

jollyrogue ,

The Nvidia drivers from rpm fusion are one of the third party repos Software with prompt people to enable on the first time it’s opened.

jollyrogue ,

RH doesn’t allow sharing of the spec files which generate the RHEL rpm packages. The program’s code is still under whatever license it is licensed under.

Besides all the RHEL code is public and upstream in CentOS, which makes more sense anyway.

jollyrogue ,

I’d like to be a manatee. Aside from boats it’s a pretty chill life.
Amphibians are rad though, and I’d take being a frog or a toad. 🐸

jollyrogue ,

This is so cold. Savagely dumping her into the friends zone.

jollyrogue ,

The friends zone? I had no idea that was a playable stage. 😮

I imagine that one was the worst one.

jollyrogue ,

There was (is?) the yacy project which used a distributed index, and the individual nodes would contribute to the index.

A hybrid of original Yahoo! and Google is probably the best option. Sites submit themselves, they get reviewed, and an algorithm catalogs the contents. So curation and automatic indexing together.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy

jollyrogue ,

Yeah, but I’m good at my job and they aren’t.

jollyrogue ,

That ruins the brevity and wit of the joke.

That was the one good thing I did all week! I needed that. Those little points were holding up my house of cards. Only my toaster loves me!😭❤️⚡️💧

Naw, I’d be rich sitting on a beach somewhere sipping a Mai Tai if I was something above mediocre, or maybe I wouldn’t be because regardless of my skill level we live in an unfair capitalist society which rewards those who are the most willfully exploited and with the fewest morals. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Anyway, maybe we should leave the joke alone and not think that hard about it. K?

jollyrogue ,

It’s really unfortunate, and Vatican 2 was probably a mistake.

Neoliberal adaptation (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

If the Twitter/X thing teaches you one thing, let it be this: Twitter was a neoliberal place. Then Elon Musk made it into X, a fascist place. Once again, neoliberalism laid the foundations of fascism. But that’s not the (whole) lesson… Neoliberal folks are still using X, calling it Twitter to make themselves feel better, and...

jollyrogue ,

Aral is promoting the Fediverse.

He’s also saying neoliberals/centrists are largely performative, and they are fine with fascism. It’s a variation of the Nazi bar story.

There were always problems with Twitter’s moderation as it was lighter on the right than the left. The famous comment about not banning Republicans congresspeople comes to mind. It was never as right leaning as Facebook though.

jollyrogue ,

I can’t seem to find where to buy the OpenWRT One or when it’s going to ship.

jollyrogue ,

This is interesting. A few questions though.

How hackable is it? Are other distros or OSes devs going to be able to get their system ported to it? Seeing Debian, Gentoo, NetBSD, or OpenBSD on this would be pretty cool.

Armbian lists several BPi boards as supported. Has anyone run Armbian on the BPi stuff?

jollyrogue ,

Already found that. Still can’t buy it, still not shipping. 😂

Older Computer Programmers & Engineers

Lately, I was going through the blog of a math professor I took at a community college back when I was in high school. Having gone the path I did in life, I took a look at what his credentials were, and found that he completed a computer science degree back sometime in the 1970s. He had a curmudgeonly and standoffish...

jollyrogue ,

The prevalence of FOSS software is amazing.

Linux distros, BSDs, GCC, LLVM, GNU tools… The equivalent stack in the 90s was expensive, proprietary, and rare. I was getting software from magazine CDs, and none of the expensive tool chains were showing up on them.

Free DVCS in Git is also great. No manual versioning schemes anymore. git init for a new repo. There was SVN, but it required a server.

jollyrogue , (edited )

Being some weird ass space worm would be cool.

jollyrogue ,

I disagree with this. I think humans are at the bottom. Good people get reincarnated as animals, and the peak is coming back as a manatee.

jollyrogue ,

Those Vietnamese Internet sharks are getting to be a real problem. 😆

jollyrogue ,

So no to chai lattes then?

jollyrogue ,

Money mostly.

There is usually something like needing $250K in the bank to be considered for permanent residency. Then the paperwork costs money, so most Americans will have to wait until they get refugee status.

jollyrogue ,

No. Most don’t leave the US, so there isn’t a need. Plus, until recently, Canada and Mexico only needed an ID card like a drivers license.

jollyrogue ,

Are you counting the healthcare system as part of gov?

jollyrogue ,

Tell them when you’re about to leave at the end of the weekend. 🙂

jollyrogue ,

It hides user information from companies which aren’t Google. The best is not using anything Chromium based.

Extensions require APIs from the browser to work, and Google is going to nerf the APIs which allow for ad blocking. Extensions don’t have unfettered access to the DOM. FF used to be like that, but Chrome never allowed that.

jollyrogue ,

Printing bumper stickers of this now.

jollyrogue ,

Do they use the binary blobs? I figured MS, Vivaldi, the random Chromium in the distro repos stripped those out or replaced them with their own secret bins before compilation.

jollyrogue ,

What are the best hardware and OS combos for a media setup?

Nvidia Shield + Lineage OS?
Chromesomething?
Roku?
AppleTV?
X86 + Linux? (I’m not afraid of Linux, but remember some posts about video acceleration not working and services being web only.)

jollyrogue ,

How much malware is on that thing?

The firmware needs to be replaceable, so it doesn’t turn into a liability.

jollyrogue ,

How is transcoding handled? Does the Intel iGPU have the drivers/support to do transcoding on the fly?

Anyway… In this instance, I’m mainly looking for a client reccs. I have a crappy Roku streaming stick that needs to get replaced, and I’m wondering which client device is the best. An Android device or AppleTV seem to be best choices, since I could get commercial services with hardware acceleration on them if I wanted to.

jollyrogue ,

This is the front runner, but I’m not sure which device is the best though. Nvidia Shield seems to be the most logical answer.

jollyrogue ,

It might be supported by LineageOS, so that could be an option. https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/dopinder/

jollyrogue ,

Yeah, I would probably have a Shield Pro if the price was lower. It does seem to have to best support though.

jollyrogue ,

Which ones? I’m curious since I don’t follow the scene and only know of mainstream stuff.

jollyrogue ,

Have you forgotten laws don’t stop an activity? They’re just the consequences for poor citizens if they’re caught. 😆

I’m responding to the idea that it’s something employers should offer. The private market isn’t going to fix this. They’re causing the problem and selling the “cure”.

Govs will have access to that data regardless. They don’t need compromised account databases.

jollyrogue ,

The big server is all about density and convenience. The thing will run many, many VMs without having to skimp on resources, and it will be easy to admin the VMs remotely.

I have plans to pick up a big workstation to replace the little desktops I have around, and it will be more convenient since getting as console on a VM is much easier. Servers might also have a BMC, which would help admin the server.

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