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KillingTimeItself ,

why isn’t this constitutionally protected.

Can we pass an amendment for this shit? It’s actually kind of fucked up.

KillingTimeItself ,

i mean, it is sorta silly. Not full sillyness, full sillyness would be forcing people in immediate life threatening injury to recite the ABC’s backwards before operation as protocol.

KillingTimeItself ,

i spose there would be, but at the end of the day. Silly is a rather silly word to be using in this manner.

KillingTimeItself ,

god if i had the arcane knowledge of the entire field of healthcare, i would do some unbelievably fucked up shit.

And by that i mean writing open documentation that is continually maintained and represents most healthcare providers in the US specifically to fuck up their entire existence.

KillingTimeItself ,

you know what else is crazy? That prison sentence you get after you run me over for negligent manslaughter.

KillingTimeItself ,

i mean, technically a home lab is just something you mess with. So if you’re setting up a home server to get into learning about this shit.

It would technically be a homelab.

KillingTimeItself ,

genuine advice, i recommend you get into the nitty gritty of linux someday.

Guis, especially complex guis are just hell on earth. Actually sitting down and learning about what you’re doing, and familiarizing yourself with the underlying tools, is an incredibly good way to get around that problem.

It’s really hard to fuck up a CLI, and it’s really easy with a certain level of knowledge, to navigate more complex topics and concepts. It’s very worthwhile.

KillingTimeItself ,

was this article even written when the pi5 was out? The pi4 was out, and pretty good for quite a while, but really expensive in the last four years. The pi 5 is up there, but the price almost makes sense, so.

you can do quite a bit on these machines, but they are inherently limited, running a proper nas is going to be rather goofy, and probably just justifies getting proper hardware at the end of the day.

KillingTimeItself ,

It has to have good wizards that walk you through everything including setting up a domain and email.

i disagree honestly.

Part of the point behind self hosting is to empower people with the knowledge and capability that they can do this shit, and fix any problems that result.

You aren’t really getting people into right to repair, if they aren’t at least espousing it, and trying to engage in it themselves. Sure you can always go to a third party to do something at the end of the day, but with how broad right to repair is, there is almost certainly something in your life that you can fix and repair.

Like it’d be good that people are doing that, but you also need to remember that this is literally a turn key product, that literally every cloud provider sells, and every company ever who will try to force proprietary buggy garbage on you, will pretend is good, and functional. Will try to sell you, because you don’t know any better. I think it’s just a cultural difference. Car guys that spend time working on their car simply wouldn’t understand the average persons conceptual understanding of repairing vehicles, and vice versa. It’s the same here.

What you are suggesting here, is a sold, turn key solution, except fully open source, no bugs, no issues, and wide reaching community support. I don’t think that’s reasonably possible.

I think ultimately, we need to make learning, and accessing learning materials easy (we already do a great job at it) and we just need to get people interested in this shit, some people won’t. That’s fine, they probably know someone that is though. And at the end of the day, that’s probably good enough.

KillingTimeItself ,

And here’s the reason why layman should not: they’re much more likely to make that one wrong move and suffer irrecoverable data loss than some faceless corporation selling their data.

and yet americans still drive cars.

I don’t disagree, but you just have to be aware that you can fuck shit up. And if you do, that’s not my problem, or anybody elses at the end of the day.

KillingTimeItself ,

That first leap into self-hosted is daunting.

the first leap you take into anything is daunting.

This is just called complacency. You can literally just pick up whatever the fuck you want, and start learning it.

KillingTimeItself ,

so, what do i do when my security theater is simply, not being on the internet.

Now what?

KillingTimeItself ,

im not saying they do exist, i’m saying that what you’re talking about, is something that doesn’t exist, for good reason. Because this is literally already a market place that has done it’s job.

XMPP? Discord, it’s literally discord. Storage and streaming? The cloud, netflix, etc. It’s already a thing.

There aren’t enough people with the time and curiosity to figure out the current state of self-hosting and make a dent in the three website problem.

and yet, here we are, on lemmy. Funny how that works. You simply have to be willing to put in time and effort if you want to reap the benefits. You simply can’t wish for everything to be handed to you on a silver platter.

KillingTimeItself ,

i don’t know if i really like that definition. Going by the definition of a laboratory, it doesn’t really make much sense. I mean sure they’re a sterile environment, but it’s incredibly unlikely that a lab is wiped clean and built from scratch, unless you get millions of dollars, and a lot of free time, i guess.

A lab is merely a place to do work with regard to studying, learning, or improving something.

People often refer to their “homelab” as an entire server rack, you want me to believe that people are willing to wheel out their entire server rack and discard the entire fucking thing? I doubt it. A homelab is just a collection of gear, (usually commercial networking gear) intended for providing an environment for you to mess around with things and learn about stuff.

In some capacity a homelab has to be semi permanent, if not for anything other than actually testing reliability and functionality of services and hardware, for the actual services themselves, because a part of the lab, is the service itself.

KillingTimeItself ,

you didn’t suggest that at all

KillingTimeItself ,

yeah, it’s definitely going to be one of the most important things to have ever happened in human history, if it does.

KillingTimeItself ,

technically alexandria was probably a rather modest library, but yeah, as far as the expression goes.

KillingTimeItself ,

CLEAN COAL BABY, IT’S ALL ABOUT LYING TO THE PUBLIC AND JUST PRODUCING DIRTY POWER INSTEAD, GET FUCKED STUPID VOTERS.

Is how i like to imagine most of the fossil fuel industry sounds.

KillingTimeItself ,

i’d be ok with paying those costs for nuclear. Not for coal.

Nuclear should be ran until EOL, then ideally built back up again (but that’s not happening unfortunately)

KillingTimeItself ,

go bitch about your local government fucking up your entire community, rather than pissing and shitting yourself over the fact that the one egg in your basket didn’t fucking hatch.

I get why people are so mad, but like, jesus fucking christ, try to be mad about shit at least a little bit correctly.

KillingTimeItself ,

Arguably it has in Ohio. In 2002 a football sized hole was discovered in the top of pressure vessel eaten away by the caustic cooling water:

nice.

The plant was supposed to be EOL in 2017, but was extended to 2037.

this was pretty common with 30 year EOL plants, being extended to 50 years, with extra maintenance. France has done this almost unilaterally, and skill issued pretty hard with maintenance as of recent, but that’s just a skill issue.

KillingTimeItself ,

I fully believe you (and I can’t believe I’m asking for this) but do you have a source

wait so, why would you believe someone and then ask for a source?

Why not just like, ask for a source? You can ask someone for a source while still believing them, you might just want more information for example.

KillingTimeItself ,

man, it’s almost like hyper politicized, hyper-narrative stories. Don’t actually do much, or something.

Wondering how long it’s going to take the media, and people to realize that war is just, bad. Wait until you guys find out what russia has done to their domestic population, as well as ethnic minority groups, and prisoners. Remember the sledge hammer video? Yeah, me too.

KillingTimeItself ,

1-Because I’ve had some people online get real defensive when I’ve asked for sources

i mean i get it, but that should show someone elses character more than yours.

2-Cause I was a few shots deep by that point so I just kinda say things

fair enough honestly

KillingTimeItself ,

Or if we’re shitposting, every one of those cars contains at least 10k in scrap metal.

most of those cars can just be resold as uh. Cars.

KillingTimeItself ,

why are there cameras enforcing photos? Seems like a weird thing to enforce.

KillingTimeItself ,

the best thing you can do is to spread word and knowledge.

There are likely other people out there that don’t already know of the utility of IA.

KillingTimeItself ,

this reminds of that one conversation i had with a user trying to one up me on the semantic stupidity of the english language.

Like it’s great that you’re multi-lingual, please never try to argue something for the english language, even if you only speak english. It makes you look stupid.

KillingTimeItself ,

THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS MY FRIEND

KillingTimeItself ,

somebody has out gambled the gamblers. It’s finally happened!

KillingTimeItself ,

why does he look like the body horror renditions of cartoon characters that artists would do sometimes, for comedic effect.

This dude looks like fucking spongebob.

KillingTimeItself ,

brutal

KillingTimeItself ,

duality of cat

KillingTimeItself ,

i mean even then, i think it’s still fair. It shows problems of the more privileged sure, but if the more privileged people are skill issued this hard, imagine what poor people are dealing with.

KillingTimeItself ,

All it makes you look like is someone who grew up in privilege and doesn’t understand poverty or the need to make sacrifices because of it.

but you could also flip this on its head, start eating dumpster food, and saving as much money as possible, living as frugally as possible, only to demonstrate that actually “minimum wage isn’t that bad” which would further worsen the issue, so, i guess a balance here is needed.

KillingTimeItself ,

I just don’t agree. I think people looked at that and said that it proved that it’s easy to live on minimum wage as long as you don’t insist on eating things like organic food.

i think this is more of a cope than anything, even if you presented these people with a fair and balanced take they would just start making shit up anyway “oh they probably do drugs” “oh they probably buy designer clothes” “oh they probably have a nicer car” etc. etc. etc.

KillingTimeItself ,

“several decades of experience”

skill issue central, lets’s go.

KillingTimeItself ,

im a certified GIMP amateur. I just make shitposts in GIMP from time to time.

KillingTimeItself ,

Show me how to change 1 pixel in an image. I’d actually be truthfully thankful and will consider to try to use gimp again (last time I tried the mouse didn’t position/choose the zoomed in pixels correctly).

i would assume the dropper tool, or something similar. I’ve never actually tried, as i do more image editing, rather than pixel doctoring, but i imagine it’s possible. You could probably also just set the brush size to be 1 px. That would probably work.

Show me how to open an image, make a small modification, then: (step 2) save it and close GIMP under 10 clicks.

i don’t understand why everyone is so obsessed with the mouse tbh. Keybinds are better, though less intuitive, and at the end of the day, it doesn’t really make a significant difference, because if you wanted to do something quickly, you would simply use keybinds.

As for me though, i can open GIMP without touching my mouse, make a handful of edits, probably stitch a couple images together all without touching my mouse, and then save export and close GIMP, without having touched my mouse. But i’m not a try hard, so lol.

They deliberately changed so you can’t save your modified image? I mean WTF? You have to export it with all the popups as you overwrite, hold your breath, the image that you opened and want to save!!1!.

idk what you’re even talking about here. You should absolutely just be able to hit CTRL s and have it do a project save, or probably the other bind, for the save as, and then just manually rename it.

Then trying to nag you into saving it to some unknown unused bizarre gimp extension.

you mean the XCF format? I’m pretty sure PS just works with those, if not it’s probably just an average adobe skill issue session at play. They’re fine.

It’s like they don’t want people to switch. And it’s such a shame as the soft is getting better and better all the time.

what could they do to make people want to switch? Copy photoshop? Use PSD? I don’t disagree that the UI is a bit of a mess tbh, that’s just how mouse navigated UI tends to be at the end of the day. Shitty.

KillingTimeItself ,

this is also true

KillingTimeItself ,

i’m not super intimate with GIMP, as an amateur myself, but aren’t like 90% of actions keybound? At least the commonly used ones? Seems like it would be beneficial to just learn them.

The DDS plugin isn’t a usability issue, that’s a feature issue.

KillingTimeItself ,

i switched to i3wm and picom, recently, initially had issues with tearing, but honestly, i just haven’t seen tearing recently, and i’m not sure why.

It’s fine if it works for you, but I’m getting tired of Linux conservatives projecting their own experiences on everyone else and declaring Wayland as “not ready yet” and handwaving all of X’s obvious problems away because they’re used to dealing with them.

valid opinion i guess, but i just stated the reason why i’m waiting a few years until moving to wayland, if i were a linux conservative i would refuse to move off of X lmao.

It’d be nice to use wayland, but from what i’ve heard and what i’ve seen it sounds like it’s going to be equally as annoying as X is, especially more so because i’m currently using nvidia, and wayland doesn’t seem to support nvidia as well as X does, just due to development focus. Currently i just don’t think the CBA is going to be significantly net positive enough to rip up my entire current install, transition from i3wm, to another one, and then start using/learning wayland, just yet.

Like yes major releases and distros are moving to wayland now, that just means they find it stable enough to start doing development on it. I’ll wait a bit and then later move over once things settle down. I have years of experience using X, and significant familiarity with it. I have none with wayland, i’d simply prefer to wait a bit.

KillingTimeItself ,

do you fucking hear yourself

yeah i hear myself just fine, i’m a WM user. I just don’t use GIMP that heavily.

KillingTimeItself , (edited )

Ymmv with Nvidia, but that has nothing to do with development focus and everything to do with Nvidia’s refusal to use the same interfaces Intel and AMD use. Most of the way Nvidia works or doesn’t work with X or Wayland is down to Nvidia’s driver stack. Personally I’ve not had much positive experiences with Nvidia on X.

that’s what i mean, i don’t blame wayland for it lol. I wouldn’t want to develop for nvidia on wayland either. If nvidia was open and accessible, someone somewhere, would be working on it right now, it’s just how things are.

That happened literal years ago.

it’s possible that i missed a few i’ve only been involved for about 4-5 years so far. I don’t know anything about gnome personally because i don’t use it, but it doesn’t surprise me either tbh. I know about KDE because i used it, i know about fedora because i know people who have used it. I feel like i’ve seen more talk about wayland as of recent, but that’s probably irrelevant lol.

I don’t see the distros that are only switching over now as major contributors to any development specific to Wayland.

it’s not the distros and their devs, it’s the users and their unique hardware configs. More data makes a more reliable and usable system.

I don’t take issue with your preferences. Maybe you’re better off with X for now, that’s fine, but you make it sound like Wayland is just full of issues and has barely even entered some kind of pre-release state for software masochists.

that’s not what i intended, i just said it’s the small issues that appear, and disappear with every few updates, that i don’t want to be dealing with, that’s why i no longer use KDE. I prefer my system to be a relatively consistent level of “broken” most of the time.

A lot of people don’t have significant issues with that, i believe the previous poster was rather annoyed by them, i imagine they’ll get better soon, but there will likely be hundreds, if not thousands of bugs like this, dependent on specific hardware configurations, that will crop up shortly. And then just randomly disappear, or morph into other bugs, this is the QOL hell part of development.

X is rather stable on virtue of not being updated anymore, so those aren’t really significant concerns.

KillingTimeItself ,

idk whats going on here, but i like SOAD, and i like linux, so.

Am i supposed to hate systemd right now, or are we supposed to like it? What are we doing today?

KillingTimeItself ,

systemd networking just seems to be a fucking nightmare

everytime i so much as look at it everything explodes.

KillingTimeItself ,

oh cool, so i just get to enjoy SOAD now.

KillingTimeItself ,

whats ur favorite SOAD?

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