Yeah, nevermind the literal genocide going on, lets stop and talk about cameras. . . . .

I honestly only use debian headless, and manage the server via ssh and manage docker containers via portainer’s web ui.

I’m not new to linux though, so 100% stay with a desktop environment like the one that comes with Mint, because that makes things much much simpler. It’s all debian under the hood at the end of the day, and 95% of services provide install guides for debian-based systems anyways. Is this optiplex 3050 your first homelabbing system?

I mean, when LLMs go out of style, at least we’ll have a bunch of cheap gpus and components to buy when it inevitably floods the used market after the current generation get superseded, coupled with multiple chip fabs going online, it will eventually be raining chips.

I know it’s a horrible job, but at this point I wouldn’t mind trading some sanity to pay the bills.

Crazy world.

I’ve mentally just settled with the fact this is completely out of the average pc enthusiast’s hands.

I just remember when I built my first pc back in 2012, how a pair of 8GB DDR3 sticks of kingston fury RAM costed almost $500 dollars at the time (after tax, Canada), and that’s 5 years after DDR3 was released. Feels odd to be back there price wise, but it’s not the first time prices will soar, and it certainly won’t be the last.

My plan is just to save up for anything like I did back then.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I know trump supporters that have lost faith in him. They still support him, but can’t defend his racist, repressive policies. I know there’s still a huge group that don’t care, but I don’t know, I don’t think America is that stupid. I don’t think all republicans are that blind.

thanks for this . . . .I keep worrying about security, hardening the system … etc, but forget about the essentials: power and networking. #1 priority for me is to get a UPS this year, once I find a job, that is

As for real-world consumer products, we’ve been told availability is “depending on the test results but possibly later this year”

Maybe in the meantime, we should aim to improve safety for the most vulnerable, not just pro cyclists?

No right to protest, eh?

And the republican voters who saw what happened to the truckers in Canada during lockdown got mad when the news came out that the Canadian government was freezing the assets of the protesters . . . .

Shouldn’t the republican voters be against this too? Nevermind freezing assets, this is racial discrimination, a repressive regime that’s inching closer and closer to totalitarianism!

Where are the true Americans that believe in freedom?

I was all for the guy before Trudeau left the picture.

But I’m not that smart, so I fell for his tactics.

I don’t think he’s the guy for the job,

but then again, who is?

1080p/2160p Bluray remuxes would suffice. Oh yeah, you said websites. Private trackers are the best bet, if you want well-seeded torrents in super high quality. But *public torrents, from places like limetorrents and 1337x could suffice.

For specific films? Interstellar, Inception, Redline, The Tree of Life, Dunkirk, Blade Runner 2049, Vertigo, House (1977), Ran (1985), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

There’s definitely many lists of great films to test of TVs/Projector setups, keep looking

When the update process feel so perilous that I pray every time that my system reboots to the desktop safely, because the pain of troubleshooting the issue for 4 or more hours still haunts me (Nobara linux).

And I’m not new to linux, but because it works as expected 95% of the time, that 5% where it doesn’t work stands out so much more.

I recently experienced a failed update on my laptop running arch, where the laptop lost power for some unknown reason, and bricked my system. I was so tired of this shit that I just downloaded cachy OS and wiped the disk, installed the OS and called it a day.

I know not everything is the fault of linux, but man . . . . There’s too many small problems to count . . . The fragmentation of application UI frameworks, GNOME this, QT that, GTK there, wlroots here, wxWidgets over there . . . . KWin randomly crashing, scripts that should just be a part of the WM instead of breaking with every update, lack of standardization of UI menu structures, wayland being great but still not good enough for production environments, THE UTTER LACK OF VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTS FOR AUDIO PRODUCTION ON LINUX, WHYYYYYYYYYYYY

yeah, I have one of those bluetooth earbud pairs that can pair individually, and they connect just fine but only via a low quality audio sink mode, so it sounds like shit. Works perfectly well with my android phone, so it’s definitely some linux bullshit.

damn, I didn’t even know there was an inside, ngl pretty damn cool

I definitely already knew 1 tab is not a specific quantity, but since I don’t own thousands of dollars of chemical equipment, I never had the things needed to measure said tabs. I did, at least, have reagent tests to at least verify the subtance present on the paper, but not much else.

But in my experience, I’ve never overreacted to 1 tab, so with a tab being anywhere from maybe 50 to 150 micrograms, that’s roughly how much I can handle before basically blacking out. It’s only happened twice and both times ended peacefully. It’s not a constant thing I use, in fact, I haven’t touched any drugs in many years. That’s the main thing I love about psychedelic substances, they don’t have the addictive qualities of things like MDMA or alcohol. But I may trip maybe 1 time this year, or not.

anything more than 1 tab always sends me to the dark side

not only that she had access, but someone had to make the account in the first place!

My child is now reaching the age where they can figure out things if they really want to, but as soon as I learn of any account creation shenanigans, I have to know what the app is and why, otherwise it’s uninstalled. No social media access until 16 is the right call, in my mind.

I doubt the wpm of the average physical keyboard user could ever be lower on average compared to the wpm of users of touchscreen keyboards.

That is to say, if we could somehow make a phone keyboard that was practical to use, but not so large that it defeats the portability of the device, imo, that would be the best.

We’ve collectively probably lost years, if not a decade of our human lives just trying to fix autocorrect fuck ups.

still far better than touchscreens. I used a blackberry keyone for a while, and it was amazing, until I lost it on a walk in the park years ago.