thebardingreen

thebardingreen , 1 day ago

You want OpenWRT. They're not too limited, but they're not very powerful either. Fan controller? Probably. Pihole? You can probably hack that together, though I've never tried. Media server? Erm... not my first choice. Other stuff? Limited only by your imagination, time constraints and willingness to troubleshoot weird problems most people have never had before.

thebardingreen , 12 days ago

My Ubuntu box I use for browsing/watching videos and listening to music just barely works and was frustrating to get properly configured.

Something is wrong. Have you tried Linux Mint?
-Someone who has used Linux as a daily driver since 2001.

thebardingreen , 12 days ago

Highly disingenuous comment. I run older and newer software side by side in Linux all the time. It mostly just works.

Are you using snap or something?

thebardingreen , 12 days ago

Bro do you even alien?

thebardingreen , 12 days ago

I genuinely had an experience like this myself. I suggested Linux as a solution for something to a friend of mine who was a physicist doing a start up. This was around 2015-2016. He went on an angry rant about frustrating Linux was and nothing would work. His last experience with it was in 2002.

thebardingreen , 12 days ago

Your surround sound, I'm sure it could be done. I've set up some pretty successful visual / audio stuff with Linux. I did IT for an Indy film festival four years in a row and we used Linux for all kinds of stuff (mostly because the festival was broke and didn't want to spend money on new computers or software). We would run into hardware and configuration issues and our philosophy became "if you can't solve it in two hours, distrohop."

For the rest of it, I couldn't agree more. If you need the tools that lock you to the platform, you need the platform FOR THOSE TOOLS. I have Windows and OSX machines (although it's been like a year since I couldn't do something on Wine, even if it's glitchy). My Windows machines dual boot and I haven't booted the windows partitions in literally 6-8 months. One OSX machine gets used almost exclusively for video conferencing (just because it's in a convenient place) and for Garageband. The other OSX machine literally... just runs linux VMs that I can connect to over the network for various projects. I had other plans for it originally, but someone gave me a 6 year old Dell all in one that now runs Linux Mint and performs better than my actual Roku TV anyway. It's a bit smaller than the TV, but it doesn't matter to me. The TV disappeared into my wife's office and now she's the only one that uses it.

thebardingreen , 11 days ago

Seriously, give me some examples. I'm genuinely curious because I've run into this problem like... once, ten years ago. Twice, if you count trying to run Heroes of Might and Magic III for Linux that came out in like... 1999, and I eventually got that to work too (I needed an emulator) and I've been an almost exclusive Linux user since 2001.

I said disingenuous because my lived experience is like "wtf is this guy doing wrong?" and so you REALLY come across like you're just trashing Linux and talking out of your ass.

I'm not trying to be insulting, just giving you feedback about how you're coming across.

thebardingreen , 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

Why do you think I'm angry? You (and my buddy) are just comically wrong, don't wanna learn and get frustrated and mad when you run into trouble, like a cartoon character trying to open a can with a hammer.

I use Linux for everything, it's stable, easy, fun I'm WAAY more comfortable in it than I ever was in Windows. Your opinion doesn't change how well Linux works for me and has for decades. It's definitely NOT shit, you just don't know what you're doing.

You're like a dude talking to a professional race driver saying "Why drive manual, automatic is SO much easier, and therefor better and manual is harder and therefor shit." Like dude, you're talking to a room full of professional drivers. Like think about that for a second before you keep going the way you have been.

thebardingreen , 11 days ago

Give me an example or two of a GUI program that you'd want to run, that doesn't have a maintained version that will run fine in a modern environment, that you're actually frustrated because you can't run it.

We can bitch about how dependency systems work all day. I want to try to install something with a sane use case and see what we're on about, since this is literally a scenario I have barely run into. I gather that for me to run into it, I would have to practically go looking for it. Which to me, sounds like a very specific problem for a very specific subset of users, not a general problem worth paint brushing the entire ecosystem with.

thebardingreen , 11 days ago

Got 7yuv running on Linux Mint in under 15 minutes. If you consider using Docker to be cheating, consider me a cheater, but I stand by my statement that this is a niche problem affecting a niche group of users, there are even easy solutions.

https://lemmy.starlightkel.xyz/pictrs/image/006564e6-fdd8-417b-9717-cbe2c36c6587.png

thebardingreen , 10 days ago

I think making hay out of this problem when it's a niche case nothing burger, especially in a thread full of linux hate, is... Call it what ever you want but...

As I said earlier, I wasn't trying to be insulting, you were coming across in a certain way in the context you were posting in.

Linux has always been a DIY operating system, for very good reason. The compatibility decisions you're talking about were made for very good reasons. There's an easy solution, anyone having this problem (SUPER rare for most users) can reach out and use.

thebardingreen , 12 days ago

I read this as "40k porn" and was like...wtf mate.

thebardingreen , 19 days ago

Funny. But, as it runs on Windows, it's definitely not the most private.

I suggest Emacs or vi running in a Qube.

thebardingreen , 19 days ago

Ah. I forget that real world paper exists, my ADHD brain can't make functional use of it.

thebardingreen , 26 days ago

Thanks for the breakdown. When I read the headline, I guessed at a bunch of what the article said and you confirmed most of it.

thebardingreen , 26 days ago

I always find these breakdowns to be a little bit disingenuous. Like, you could do this same analysis on the whole email system, or on the whole world wide banking system, including ATMs, or on the energy usage of all DNS queries or even on global ActivityPub activity, not to mention shopping on Amazon or browsing Facebook. People DO do these kinds of breakdowns on generative AI, for exactly the same reasons, and reach the same kinds of conclusions.

Having a global computer network is INCREDIBLY energy intensive, with a massive carbon footprint. It's not shocking that a given application of that network is energy intensive, with a massive carbon footprint. These kinds of analysis are put together by people who already don't like cryptocurrencies (for all kinds of reasons both valid and ridiculous) who then go cherry picking MORE reasons not to like them.

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

All my machines are named after Autobots.

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

I would not be surprised if the real target market is rich preppers who want this thing to patrol their bunker.

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

Given your requirements, why not just accept Bitcoin or other crypto? It sounds like you want to self host it semi anonymously.

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

"Don't be evil."

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

Does this look like !howtodocrimes to you.

Bribe a homeless person with cash to open a PO box. Do it several cities over.

Don't worry, the homeless dude totally won't steal your drugs.

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

Easy. I have servers that are only available on my local network and lots of different devices that I MIGHT want to use to access those servers. I haven't bothered to make sure my key is on EVERY SINGLE DEVICE and some of them, I might not actually even WANT my key on as they're not terribly well secured and they might leave my house (my Windows gaming laptop I haven't used in six months comes to mind).

But for cloud accessible servers... yeah.

thebardingreen , 2 months ago

I don't always force my friends to use Discord alternatives, but when I do I force them to use Signal.

thebardingreen , 2 months ago

Any AI solution you find is probably going to be command line / python and is going to require some debugging of your python environment and dependencies to get it working. And that means yes, you will need to separate the audio and video tracks and then recombine them. For that kind of work, I'm only familiar with Linux tools. I've used a tool called Vidcutter that is buggy, but powerful and has a semi intuitive gui.

That said, the results from those AI tools can be a powerful game changer if you can figure them out.

thebardingreen , 2 months ago

He got his IPO money. He gives zero fucks what happens now.

thebardingreen OP , 2 months ago

Reach out to the job sites directly and report these as fraudulent.

We're already doing that, but it's like playing Whack-A-Mole and when we ask which job sites the calls are coming from, half the time the person calling doesn't know or won't tell us.

Then, since it sounds like you are her lawyer.

I'm her IT guy. She's in communication with her lawyers about exactly that, because it's exactly what I advised her to do. I actually have a call with them about that tomorrow, I gather they're not very familiar with cyber harassment laws.

If the perpetrator knows how to install Tor Browser, the subpoenas are likely to be a lot of trouble and expense for a lot of useless data.

thebardingreen , 2 months ago

I'm one of a whole 2 users at lemmy.starlightkel.xyz and we're seeing lemmy.world content no problem right now.

thebardingreen , 2 months ago

The rich go insane because the people around them enable them to believe their own bullshit and set no boundaries with them. This is SUPER bad for humans psychologically and causes us to lose touch with reality. Something in our brains depends on that group consensus to affirm our concepts of self and beliefs and decisions and it loses calibration when it gets crappy feedback.

thebardingreen , 2 months ago

They’re the people who never would have touched it, because it was too technical, had too high a barrier of entry, and saw it as niche.

Yep. My dad uses Facebook, Reddit and Youtube now. I remember having conversations with him where he was confused about why anyone would ever want to use Facebook and what the point of Youtube is... it just wastes time. When I first exposed him to AMAs I thought he would be interested in, in like 2012, he was like "It's really cool that you can talk to this person, but there's so much noise and joking around... how are you supposed to follow it all?"

Now he posts on reddit for help with home improvement projects and watches youtube channels about classic cars and how to fix your garage door opener and talks about stuff he saw his other Boomer friends post on Facebook. He sends me unfunny Youtube videos of AI Deepfakes of Trump and Biden talking about how they pooped their diapers. It's a weird role reversal, because now I'm like "I've left every single one of those enshittified platforms." But it took him years to get on them. It would take him even longer to get off.

thebardingreen , 2 months ago

The corporation doesn't love you, nor does it hate you. But you possess economic value, which could be made to belong to the corporation's shareholders.

thebardingreen , 3 months ago

When I go to some reddit posts on Mobile now (like from a Google search, that's the only way I end up at reddit anymore), it tells me "this content is unmoderated" and gives me a choice to either navigate away or install the Reddit app. Fuck that noise.

thebardingreen , 3 months ago

The reality though is I can train LLMs off Lemmy data all I want and I don't have to pay ANYONE a dime...

thebardingreen , 3 months ago

That's what I did. I turned all my comments into Lemmy advertisements, and also an obscene sentence telling u/spez to kill himself (I'm not proud of it at this juncture, but it felt good at the time).

thebardingreen , 3 months ago

What provider? And where did you buy the SIM?

thebardingreen , 4 months ago

I've had really good experiences with their cheaper laptops in general. I tend to immediately blast Windows off them and replace it with Linux and I generally end up with a solid, reliable little work station with a 3-4 year life span, for an affordable price.

thebardingreen , 4 months ago

Aside from the open and constant sexual harassment,

I wonder if they're still getting away with that in 2024...

thebardingreen , 9 months ago

Hilariously, unless ALL lemmy instances do this, anyone that federates with you will have to block it too or any communities they sync with you will be available on their instances...

thebardingreen , 2 months ago

This image could be altered to just label the kid "All attempts to address climate change."