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TCB13 , 6 months ago to science in I wasn't worried about climate change. Now I am.

Yes it is, you’re talking about mass producing tons of very specific plans, poisoning everything with monsanto and it required more land and for what’s worth it might not be that healthy. We should eat about everything not just plants.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to science in I wasn't worried about climate change. Now I am.

What’s your suggestion as alternative? Being vegan is even worse for the environment. Aren’t Avocados also a monoculture?

We’ve to eat something and preferably not crickets. There’s no excuse to cut on meat production, especially during the food crisis that Ukraine / Russia created for Europe.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to science in I wasn't worried about climate change. Now I am.

Because maybe people are feeling like this is all very questionable.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not denying climate change on a larger scale, I’m just saying that most of the studies that were used to say there’s climate change and to push policies such as reducing the production of meat are, most likely, made to support such policy changes that in reality aren’t driven by climate change but by some other economic / market factor.

Take a look at this: www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N2XW1LX/

Meme comparing jugs of water and ice does not prove sea level rise is a hoax The meme is not proof that melting ice sheets do not cause sea levels to rise, however, and does not accurately represent the change in volume when land-based ice melts into the oceans. “The correct analogy for land ice melting isn’t showing ice floating in a glass of ice water, it’s adding a whole bunch of new ice to the glass,”

While the meme clearly fails to take in account all that mass of ice that sits on land it still has some truth to it because people like Al Gore said “I predict all ice caps will melt by 2014” something that we now know wasn’t true.

Details, as usual, are very important and people like Al Gore carefully cherry-picked them in order to build their arguments and sell a view of the world that wasn’t close the reality of things. We’ve been on this path with governments, public figures and large companies for a while now and people are just fed up of it all - that’s why she gets downvotes on her videos.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to technology in Apple is finally allowing Firefox to use its own engine on the iPhone (but only in the EU)

Expected… and then people criticize me when I say they’ll get around the sideload requirement by simply requiring a special certificate / payment / vetting process. lol

TCB13 , 6 months ago to piracy in Any othet alternative to telegram that is more open sourced , privacy ,security focused is available in fdroid etc.

No, Matrix isn’t the best in terms of privacy. It is a metadata disaster and Telegram clients are still more performant.

Matrix’s E2EE does not, however, encrypt everything. The following information is not encrypted: Message senders, Session/device IDs, Message timestamps, Room members (join/leave/invite events), Message edit events, Message reactions, Read receipts, Nicknames, Profile pictures

TCB13 , 6 months ago to piracy in Any othet alternative to telegram that is more open sourced , privacy ,security focused is available in fdroid etc.

While I agree with your and a more open/private telegram would be great the thing is that the current alternatives, Signal, Matrix, whatever are simply subpar alternatives when it comes to the clients. We can say a lot about telegram’s privacy but the true is that all their native mobile and desktop clients outperform everything else out there. (I wonder why a native app would outperform react garbage :P).

The only think that might be private yet as performant as Telegram might be some kind of XMPP but the issue with that is that mobile clients suck.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Surface Laptop 3 running Kubuntu, such an improvement over what it was "designed" for.

No no, no justification required :). It isn’t also about working or not for me. It is just that there’s a bunch of people arguing around here that Linux (desktop) is great for every use case be it work or play under any circumstance, while it isn’t.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Surface Laptop 3 running Kubuntu, such an improvement over what it was "designed" for.

Okay that’s fair, you don’t try to do any work in your Linux box and things work out. Great.

TCB13 , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to selfhosted in So SBCs are shit now? Anything I can do with my collection of Pis and old routers?

Ahaha I don’t explain why 😂😂

I wrote dozens of posts replying to every single question people had about LXD/Incus. Gave out printscreens, explained how it works, what it does, described useful features and pointed out multiple issues of Proxmox. I can show you what roads you can take and why but you must do the work yourself.

The same applies to the MiniPC vs Raspberry discussion as my price, performance and feature breakdowns and proved countless times that for a large number of use cases a MiniPC is better. Unsurprisingly this is the first of such breakdowns that got upvotes, and do you know why? Because a known youtuber in this space recently came out with a video saying the exact same things I’ve been saying and now it became “acceptable” to criticize the Raspberry Pi money grab.

to use something they don’t know, and not explaining how that would be beneficial you’ve only explained how LXD, when setup correctly, can do what Proxmox does.

Even if that were true, what’s was the issue then? Isn’t it obvious that a true open-source solution that is available on Debian’s repos from a fresh install is better than a half proprietary solution that asks you to buy a license at any turn? Use your common sense.

Besides my comments aren’t a marketing campaign there’s no “LXD will make you rich today and solve all your family drama” as soon as you complete our three step formula:

1. apt install lxd
2. lxd init
3. lxc launch debian debian-container

The advantage of using LXD/Incus are on the details, not on a flashy and shinny feature. It’s about running a clean Debian system, a non twisted and mangled kernel that will conflict with everything and not run stuff like OVPN properly, it’s about the license, the tools, not depending on a company, not having to wait 3x the time before your cluster is online. It’s about having a decent API for once and so many others.

Most people say they don’t want to be put in the same situation they were put about the the CentOS/RedHat licensing change, but then they proceeded to replace CentOS with Ubuntu and still use Proxmox. All questionable open-source that is as likely to fuck you over as RedHat did.

So eventually there will be a video from some youtuber stating that LXD/Incus is much better than Proxmox and people will flock to it without questioning anything. :)

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Surface Laptop 3 running Kubuntu, such an improvement over what it was "designed" for.

Wrong. Autodesk, Adobe, Office (the real one, not the limited web experience), NI Circuit Design, Solidworks, want more examples? Sounds like you’re mentally stuck on a lifestyle that doesn’t include working at all.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Surface Laptop 3 running Kubuntu, such an improvement over what it was "designed" for.

Okay that’s fair. So this this the solution, fallback to a second machine running Windows? :P

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Surface Laptop 3 running Kubuntu, such an improvement over what it was "designed" for.

Unless you have to collaborate with others who use said Windows only apps and you can’t afford compatibility issues.

TCB13 , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to selfhosted in So SBCs are shit now? Anything I can do with my collection of Pis and old routers?

But idle still would run much more than 15w

This isn’t true.

• HP Prodesk 400 G5 i5 9500T > idles at 4.5W
• Optiplex Micro 3080 > idles at 7W
• Unbranded Mini Atom C3758 > idles at 3.5W

Either way, quick math, on a 7W range were talking about less than 10$/year to run the device.

TCB13 OP , 6 months ago to linux in Firewall: pvxe/nftables-geoip - filtered list of countries

Not people, it’s more about adding an extra protection step for some services like a system management-only VPN or SSH (if not behind the VPN) and it shouldn’t be the only thing deployed. Fail2ban and others should be there as well.

After all it doesn’t make sense to allow access to your VPN from China or maybe restrict it to your country if you’re not traveling. There’s another use case that is, you need to access some service from another system where you can’t have a VPN and that system doesn’t have a static IP, this increases the security a bit. It should be narrowed down to the ISP ranges level but that’s not always possible.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to selfhosted in So SBCs are shit now? Anything I can do with my collection of Pis and old routers?

I would agree to a certain point. If you get a 10th gen CPU it is power efficient and there are a lot of gamers and whatnot selling those. Also there are a lot of MiniPCs that come with mobile “T” CPU that are very decent at idle.