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wreckedcarzz , 2 days ago

They got bought by Uber tmobile though, so the prices jumped

wreckedcarzz , 4 days ago

Coming out next fall: RvB: Politics

wreckedcarzz , 4 days ago

Uh.... H-hello

(I do want to try on a skirt and few other things, but I'm large and x_x. Food, why must you be so tasty?)

wreckedcarzz , 4 days ago

It's on my list to do 'eventually'; I'm stuck at home with family (disabled) so I've been planning on trying out things when I visit my master, as he is on board with the idea and very supportive. But yeah I'm ~235lbs/106kg guy, and I don't like how I look most days in the mirror in a boring t-shirt and shorts, let alone trying to be desirable, so I'm kinda setting myself up mentally for disappointment. We shall see.

I have a friend who looks amazing in femmy clothing, and I'm absolutely positive that he feels the same as me, but he's very attractive and I'm, uh, not. (self-image is something else master is trying to work on with me... but for real the friend is cute as hell, I'm jealous ><)

wreckedcarzz , 4 days ago

Every time I go looking, there's a barren desert of male/gay content. In some lateral communities, furry porn is beating the content ratio like 10:1.

Y'all need to hold your phones or something while you browse the 5 billion straight communities, give me something that's not weeks+ old. Uncut guys to the front of the queue, thanks. 📸

wreckedcarzz , 4 days ago

Afaik the default for windows 10 is weekly via disk defragmenter, and that assumes it recognizes the drive as an ssd. I've had drives cloned to ssds that retain the hdd flag and had to setup a 3rd party tool that actually saw it properly and would trim as expected.

11 might have reigned that in... but probably not.

wreckedcarzz , 4 days ago

I don't care how

grabs your phone, throws it on the ground and blasts it with a shotgun

There you go! =)

wreckedcarzz , 4 days ago

Objective updated: shoot cloud server

wreckedcarzz , 4 days ago

Lemon squeezey

wreckedcarzz , 5 days ago

Me, enjoying a pound of frozen yogurt in a bowl-like container with spoon: 😎

wreckedcarzz , 5 days ago

Let the dogs out?

wreckedcarzz , 6 days ago

What about men that want to hear men moan? 🥺

wreckedcarzz , 5 days ago

Hello 🥵

wreckedcarzz , 6 days ago

Thanks

wreckedcarzz , 7 days ago

ati

wreckedcarzz , 7 days ago

Speak for yourself

wait no

wreckedcarzz , 8 days ago

🍑

wreckedcarzz , 9 days ago

I bought a used machine a couple weeks ago and am setting it up (1st bare metal build), prox with debian vm running docker. I found it annoying that pm doesn't support it natively but the ability to do snapshots through pm is nice, and let's me fuck around more than I would otherwise, slowly build up a machine.

But almost all of the stuff I have running on other machines is just docker containers, so it would be nice if pm just added a checkbox during install or something. (I want to poke at and learn pm, plus mess around with other vms, that's why I didn't do straight Debian)

wreckedcarzz , 10 days ago

The best NC setup, is uninstalling NC. Seriously, I spent a month getting that monstrosity to work and not bitch about configurations OUT OF THE BOX that it does NOT HAVE A UI FOR just to find out that half of the 'apps' are half-baked buggy messes and the other are out of date, half-baked buggy messes. A to-do system without repeating item availability was the last one I learned about before salting the earth of that hopeless project.

...

Actually got me pissed off, thinking about it again. Jesus.

wreckedcarzz , 9 days ago

Right now I'm using a synology nas and its 1st party programs, but trying to break away to a more foss-friendly environment. Drive, Contacts, Calendar/Tasks, just work and don't require any fiddling so until a worthy opponent shows up, I'm kinda stuck.

wreckedcarzz , 9 days ago

I've looked briefly into seafile; I'm fine, happy really, with the synology for file hosting, it's just the caldav, the photo management (I have immich but there's no easy way to move albums from syno to imm), stuff like that. And the fact that it all works together (reverse proxy, apps, web UI....) makes it illogical to move away for anything else than 'principle' or 'insufficient hardware'.

I have truenas running on a proxmox system but it appears it wants more than one drive? But I don't have matching drives for raid at the moment. That was/is something I'm looking into longer term, once I decouple the data from the services.

wreckedcarzz , 10 days ago

yelling BOOMER!!

wreckedcarzz , 11 days ago

"we created the problem of soldered-on ram! now we have the solution: a new standard, for no fucking reason!" -every memory, board, and system company

wreckedcarzz , 11 days ago

"they did it to save power!!! 111 one eleven"

there was perfectly fine memory that was upgradable before. They (system integrators/oems) saw it as a way to kill the upgrade market, boosting profits.

wreckedcarzz , 10 days ago

No, not at the cost of locking in customer choice and flexibility. I have soldered-on ram in my ThinkPad, but not in my Predator gaming laptop. There is a -157% chance that Lenovo was trying to extract a few percent of extra speed so that I can open Firefox 0.13 seconds faster. Perhaps they'd try to cry "but battery life!", in which case I'd respond with "well it's not fucking working" as that machine barely gets 2.5h on a brand-new battery, browsing the web + terminal windows doing server admin stuff. (ThinkPad X13 Gen 2, Intel, with WWAN if you're curious. Fucking 1.5k and it's just passable for basic usage on the go.)

I'm not really upset with this 'new' standard, but the fact that oems are absolutely going to use it as bullshit marketing "look, we fixed the problem! get our un-fucked ram for only $129 per stick!". That's what the fuck I'm pissed off about.

wreckedcarzz , 13 days ago

"Nope!" slams, locks door

wreckedcarzz , 18 days ago

Per Kagi's summary tool:

There has been a significant increase in GPS/GNSS jamming and spoofing attacks, particularly in the Baltic region and around Ukraine and the Middle East.

The attacks have disrupted air and maritime navigation, with thousands of planes reporting issues with their GPS systems in the Baltic region.

Russia has been increasingly blamed as the source of these GPS attacks, with signals traced back to Russian regions like Kaliningrad.

The attacks can either jam GPS signals entirely, making the systems unusable, or spoof the signals to show false locations.

The disruptions have led to flight cancellations and aborted landings, raising concerns about the potential for major accidents and environmental disasters.

Governments and aviation/maritime safety experts are increasingly sounding the alarm about the threat posed by these GPS attacks.

The attacks may be a form of "hybrid warfare" aimed at creating uncertainty and disrupting civilian and commercial activities.

The number of GPS jamming and spoofing incidents has increased significantly over the past 4 years globally.

While the disruptions have mostly impacted high-altitude planes and ships, there are concerns about the potential to impact individual GPS-reliant systems in the future.

Technical countermeasures are being explored to reduce the impact of these GPS attacks, but the threat is expected to continue growing.

wreckedcarzz , 18 days ago

Do you guys not have 3 phones?

wreckedcarzz , 18 days ago

It's the internet. Nobody has any credibility.

wreckedcarzz , 18 days ago

Tello, 100 minutes talk/unl text/a gig of data, $6. Uses the tmo network. You can also port your number to Google voice for a $20 one-time fee and have unlimited voice/msgs, as long as you have wifi service. Uses the Voice app.

Tello is my second number, few years now, had no issues. Used to have GV back when I had no money as a teenager, and would use my tablet as a phone. Worked surprisingly well.

wreckedcarzz , 19 days ago

Goat: breaks into your house, shits all over your living room

You: "oh fuck it's Steve"

wreckedcarzz , 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago)

I stopped dating normies after my first... unofficial? boyfriend. (we never called it dating but we cuddled, fucked, and cried like hell when we found out his family was moving away)

Immediately stop pretending to be normal. Dating pic? Your fursona. Your kinks? Of course, knots are a given. Future dating plans? You need a barq account. Your response to an unexpected lewd statement? "oh murr". You were made for this. Accent it, embrace it.

Seriously when I limited the dating pool to furries, the quality of the applicants skyrocketed. Being yourself, unabashed (release your inhibitions 🎶 FEEL THE RAIN ON YOUR SKIN FUR 🎶) is fucking phenomenal. Currently I'm a pet to the sweetest dragon there is, and by extension his boyfriend, but the dragon is normally a subby boy, and before this all my partners were switches that were actually subs, so my experience is as a dommy top. It was his idea to be my Master, and it's super fun to experience; and we've known each other for 15+ years, so expectations are clear with everything from the get-go, so there's no awkwardness, the cards are on the table. He craves being vored, I need orgasm denial, our kink lists are largely incompatable, but we are making it work and enjoying it. (... and fuck it, if this awoke something in you, I am an open pet, so...)

I've been a fur now for 20 years, and I implemented this policy in... 2007? Fuck the haters (no no not like that) and just be yourself, always.

wreckedcarzz , 20 days ago

I am very, very much a person who needs sex in a relationship, but both the dragon and his bf (who I have yet to meet irl but I'm going to do my damnest to make a good impression) are quite... almost asexual. Apparently the bf even more so. We have talked about it, and the dragon is well-aware of my needs (we were roommates at one point, and going on 3y of master/pet), and so it's awkward but he tries to be supportive, and that means a lot to me. And I'm demisexual anyway, so the fact that he cares about me so much is a turn-on of itself.

I also have trust issues. My ex, whom I was engaged to, broke things off in a very painful way, telling those around him lies about me, that I did this or that. I sought therapy as I wanted to kms, being in my 20s, a stroke "survivor", unable or extremely limited in the things I love to do, and then the person I love and would do actually anything for, rips my heart out with the emotions of a stone-cold killer. I was also bullied very heavily in school, people I thought were my friends were actually terrible bastards. I have few actual friends and every day I wake up is a day of suffering. But master is trying to make me feel better about myself, remind me that my ex was abusive, that I am worth something. It's hard - I want to be close with him, I like him very much, but I don't want to be hurt again. Everything I wanted, everything I loved, brutally taken from me. I can't go through that again.

... anyway ...

While I can't offer anything meaningful, I'm just a wolf-tiger-fox hybrid on the internet, don't give up. There are so many wonderful people in this community, and yeah some of us are the deviants that your mother warned you about (looks in the mirror), there are a good bit that I've bumped into that want more... meaningful activities from a relationship. You will find someone. friendly hug!

wreckedcarzz , 19 days ago

SpyHunter was a great game (the 3D ones). I still have both (?) for Playstation.

wreckedcarzz , 19 days ago

"why are the servers all fucking each other?"

wreckedcarzz , 19 days ago

I've played the 2D very briefly, but it was before my time so I lack the nostalgia and interest. Seeing the car transform was freaking awesome at the time, so futuristic. I was a kid back then and obtaining all secondary objectives was legitimately hard, but provided replay value.

I'd really like to see another, but I don't know if whoever has the IP has any interest, or is even in business anymore.

wreckedcarzz , 21 days ago

"be reminded that you forgot to get tp when you really need it with this one weird trick!"

wreckedcarzz , 21 days ago

Half of America: why am I suddenly erect?

wreckedcarzz , 21 days ago

Haha yes very good

(what does any of that mean, I'm not down with the kids these days)

wreckedcarzz , 21 days ago

All the other services, at once: "Nah nah, hold my beer, WE are the shittiest of them all"

wreckedcarzz , 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago)

last paragraph, "at the time"

(long, super recent story/rant)

I just switched to Kubuntu for my ThinkPad (not my first choice but hardware incompatabilities) over the last few days, and it still very much is a terminal-based system. It took me ~4 days to set everything up, and nearly every step aside from "change things in the settings UI" was "in a terminal, type..."

I dipped my toes into Linux... 19 years ago? As someone who likes windows up until 10, and heard all of the 'it's so amazing' gospel from Linux users, two decades later I'm like: "it's still not ready"

Shit, I wanted to install Debian 12(.5) with KDE on this TP. It has a snapdragon X55, that I need working, and previous attempts at getting it working (year+ ago) failed. I read docs, did more research, I was ready. Made a live USB, install it in the live environment, restart, and... it hangs during boot. Research, 'use the option presented at the boot menu'. Okay. "no network" errors, that's fine, it's not a net installer. Done, restart. Hangs. Research. "use rufus, it solved my problem". Rinse, repeat, hang. Isn't Debian supposed to be super reliable? And Kubuntu booted fine, like what the hell?

Then cue the 4 days of setup. This machine is a very light use box, mostly to be a hotspot. Browser, email, password manager. Btrfs for snapshots (WHY IS THERE NO SNAPSHOT UI IN ANY DISTRO I TRIED?!). I'm far from a novice, been trying to switch for two decades. This will be easy.

deep breath

WHY IS GRUB NOT TAKING MY UPDATED SETTINGS (it's a known bug in Ubuntu since 20.04?!)? WHY CAN'T I GET HOWDY TO INSTALL? WHY AM I GETTING APT ERRORS ON A FRESH INSTALL? WHY IS BITWARDEN FAILING TO SYNC? WHAT IS THE NEW-NEW-NEW METHOD OF SETTING UP NEXTDNS? WHY CAN'T I RESIZE A PARTITION (/) LIVE? WHY DOESN'T MY HOTSPOT WORK WHEN I USE WPA3 (still broken, actually, and WPA2 isn't an acceptable solution imo)? WHY DON'T I GET ANY ERROR MESSAGES WHEN THIS HAPPENS (a recurring theme)? WHY DO I HAVE TO SIFT THROUGH 3 DIFFERENT LOGS? WHY IS SEVERAL HUGELY-POPULAR PROGRAMS NOT IN THE DEFAULT REPO (omfg - Librewolf, Telegram, Element, Signal, Discord, Bitwarden...)? WHY DO THESE ALL TAKE DIFFERENT STEPS TO INSTALL ON MY SYSTEM WHAT THE FUCK WE HAVE A SYSTEM FOR THIS SCREAMS

E: WHY DOES KDE CONNECT JUST DECIDE THAT IT'S NOT GOING TO CONNECT TODAY UNTIL I TROUBLESHOOT FOR 3 HOURS, CHANGE NOTHING, THEN WORK?

And then, the 5G modem. Why in the shit doesn't the fcc unlock tool just fucking detect, and unlock, automatically. Why. WHY. This is simple, the installer is already detecting hardware. It's right there. This could be easy. Instead I had to dig through pages of solutions that didn't work, until I landed on a page for my laptop (but seemingly a different architecture?) for Debian 13 (unstable) talking about needing to edit the installer with commands (omfg what) or the screen will just show nothing on boot, that you need to change wifi and bt stuff or they don't work, etc etc... But in this heap of "I should just revert", there was one line, the line I needed, to run this stupid fucking fcc unlock tool - and how to find the hardware address. Enter both, nothing (a 'success' message would be nice...). No further instructions in the doc. Luckily, I am persistent and went into the networkmanager anyway, tell it to connect to mobile broadband. Fill in my apn. Save. It works.

There's a ton of stuff I glossed over, but it should not take FOUR DAYS with the terminal essentially living on my screen, with my browser having a dozen tabs at any given time for troubleshooting, for someone who has done all this shit before (minus the modem) many times in the past. It's done, I'm setup, but there isn't a soul alive who would switch their generic Dell machine running windows, spend several hours a day for several days, just to get their base system running. And the second they see "open the terminal", which is still very much a necessity, they'll be running to the hills.

I have a friend asking me questions about Linux since I've been harping on this the last few days, and I'm like... it's not the easy path everyone says it is. I don't want to push them away, but fuck they use many of the same programs that aren't one-click installs, and I haven't even touched gaming, multiple sound cards, gpu drivers; they use their machine for gaming, and mine is on W10 for a reason. It would be a nightmare guiding them through the minefield I just emerged from. Not to mention games that aren't handled by steam/proton and don't have guides, old games like Midtown Madness/2, Midnight Club 2, Insane/2...

It's still not ready, not anywhere near close.

wreckedcarzz , 21 days ago

computer

installs iOS

Que?

wreckedcarzz , 21 days ago

So what's the deal with vim? I spooled up a vps recently and decided to forgo the gui options, like a real Linux server admin. I have been using nano and it seems to do all I need from a basic text editor in the terminal. I get that vim/emacs meme-bantering but actually why. It accepts texts and stores them in files. What is the actual point/difference?

wreckedcarzz , 21 days ago

...mostly

wreckedcarzz , 21 days ago

dog war flashback meme

wreckedcarzz , 21 days ago

At the time (a couple of years ago), I tried a Dell... Precision? laptop, but it had a different cell modem in it (I was just starting my interest in cellular computers) and my provider AT&T locked it to an utter shit plan where I could pay like $45 for 15gb of data with overage fees per month, fuuuuuck that. I was searching for one that would be bound to their 'tablet' plans, as they got unlimited data for $20 (this is a business account, not consumer). AT&T offered the TP X13 Gen 2 Intel from them, that was guaranteed tied to the unlimited plan, with 0% financing, so I jumped. It is my first TP, but an ex has an older TP and had mostly positive things to say about it. And the modem (and antenna?) gets blazing fast speeds, like 400-500Mb/s. But that's why I have the TP, it's a "business" line for my (families) business.

I tried Fedora last year but again couldn't get the X55 modem to work, which was frustrating. Information about it in the X13 is scarce since it wasn't offered with Linux officially afaik, and you either got it early and Ubu or something 'just worked' with it out of the box, or you had to compile the driver from source for some reason (I don't remember but they yanked the driver from newer releases I think). I guess at some point it was re-added but again nobody talks about this machine and it's WWAN card so I got super lucky to find that one Debian 13 info page.

While I've played with Fedora briefly when I was distros hopping to see what worked last year (and before that), and the ex had it on his TP, I don't actually know what the difference is vs Debian-based systems, since I try to stick with that as it's what I started on and know/am comfortable with. All I know is its based (?) on RHEL. Care to give me a tl;dr major differences?

wreckedcarzz , 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago)

Second big paragraph: I usually have ethernet ports that just decide to wake the system up, almost all my machines in the last 15 years do this. Disabling the ability to wake from sleep (from the ethernet port) has always resolved this. Just something to look at.

Third: yeah, and it's fine to not be ready - I'd rather it not be and everyone accept that. Problem is (and what I was alluding to) is that many don't. I've got attacked here, reddit, and elsewhere because "er mah gerd I found the perfect build guide and didn't care about the distros so I followed everything to a T and you too should have no creativity or desire for exploration so that you can be as much of a sheep as I am" and it's like... I like the hardware I selected, I like the distro and want to see it improve because of [feature], etc but god damn some people if you step out of their mental line, they lose their shit. Tell them that X doesn't work because of Y and they want to rip you to shreds for breaking their perfect bubble they've built. Spend any time in a Linux-heavy gaming community and their holy penguin can do no harm.

I dunno if my venting above comes off as it, but I want this project to succeed. It's just, every time it's been a wall of issues, every time "oh it's better now" but 'better' is 'we fixed the old issues' and doesn't touch on 'and we added some new ones, too'. That's the catch. Two steps forward, one step back - but it's progress.

wreckedcarzz , 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

... I've been using nova for like, 14 years. It's not complex. Now if you want a lot of options, FairEmail will overload your brain. Which I also have...

Backing up config files is actually a lifesaver.