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bitwaba ,

Everyone is in here talking about Godzilla legs.

No one is talking about the Godzilla pizza slice.

bitwaba ,

More wheels!

bitwaba ,

Non

bitwaba ,

How often do you do updates on your home server?

bitwaba ,

L minus would be “bast off”, not blast off. Sounds like a turkey cooking competition. BASTE OFF - Round One!

bitwaba ,

From en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbal_tea :

… most dictionaries record that the word tea is also used to refer to other plants beside the tea plant and to beverages made from these other plants. In any case, the term herbal tea is very well established and much more common than tisane.

Furthermore, in the Etymology of tea, the most ancient term for tea was 荼 (pronounced tu) which originally referred to various plants such as sow thistle, chicory, or smartweed, and was later used to exclusively refer to Camellia sinensis (true “tea”)

bitwaba ,

What’s the proper steeping time for decaying oak leaves “until the flavor comes out”?

bitwaba ,

Coffee beans aren’t true beans. They are the pit seeds of the coffee cherry fruit, similar to other stone fruit such as cherries, peaches, plums, olives, and dates.

bitwaba ,

Excellent, I’ll be ready to sell my current batch this coming October.

bitwaba ,

High quality gringo tostada?

bitwaba ,

What is it you don’t like about the AUR?

I run Arch but don’t install anything from the AUR unless absolutely necessary (or if it is dead simple enough for me to understand). I find the pacman-only experience makes a great stable low effort stable PC with all the latest bells and whistles. System updates on the weekend, once a week. No problems.

bitwaba ,

Interesting. It looks like there’s a couple criteria to get something into the Extra repository, but the primary one looks to be a ready and willing package maintainer. Sounds like that hasn’t happened yet for fvwm.

bitwaba ,

You can do the same with just paru. No flags necessary.

bitwaba ,

I used to be dead.

I still am. But I used to be too.

Oh, sorry… Wrong Mitch…

bitwaba ,

Yeah, I used to run win 2000 on my desktop and had some games that I couldn’t play from the win95 era. So I resized my mom’s old windows XP machine and pulled a 2 gig partition out then installed win98 on that. I used the windows disk manager to mark the partition I wanted to boot from as active, so it was completely transparent to my mom when she would need to use the computer, including booting.

If I were going to do a system like this again today, id probably do something similar. An MBR formatted hard drive can have 4 primary partitions. FAT16 had a max partition size of 2gb, but fat32 was introduced in win98 so you could go with whatever partition size you wanted there.

So you could have a 95, 98, ME, and XP installation all on one drive and just switch between them using the drive manager to change the active bootable partition then rebooting.

bitwaba ,

Well I don’t see any damn gravy to go with those biscuits so I guess I’m gonna have to go with a $4 sausagep late plus $1 glass of milk and hope someone has some flour I can borrow.

My final order would be a double order of biscuits and gravy, and use the remaining dollar for a cup of coffee.

What's the best quality Linux Bluetooth audio experience for both me and the people I'm talking to?

My mini ITX motherboard doesn’t have as many USB ports as I’d like. I’ve also decided 2024 is the year I try to kill off all my USB micro devices and replace them with USB-C (sorry PS4 controller). So I’m going to go Bluetooth as much as it makes sense (because of the limited USB ports), and use devices that charge over...

bitwaba OP ,

I don’t want both at the same time.

I’m happy with my Bluetooth headphones doing just audio out with no mic.

I’m trying to figure out if I get a different dedicated Bluetooth mic, will it actually be decent mic quality over Bluetooth, or will it be the same garbage mic quality I get when coming from a headset+mic combo?

bitwaba OP ,

Yeah, my current wireless headset with a USB dongle has great quality for both sound and mic. But I have limited USB A ports on my motherboard, so I’m trying to move to purely Bluetooth to free up the USB port. Bluetooth sound output on a headset works fine, the only open question I have is Bluetooth sound input quality, because I can’t find any useful information after a couple of hours of searching about dedicated microphone devices and their audio quality over Bluetooth.

bitwaba OP ,

I had not heard of that before. Thanks, I’ll add that to the list for digging.

bitwaba OP ,

Thanks!

I’ll keep digging.

I’m actually not looking for a single device that does audio output and audio input at the same time. I’m happy with my existing Bluetooth headphones in A2DP. What I’m trying to sort out is if I get a standalone Bluetooth microphone will it deliver high quality audio input, or will it still sound like a cellphone call from 1999?

bitwaba ,

But being this is a 44dBA washer, the most powerful dishwasher in the world and will wash your plate clean off, you’ve gotta ask yourself a question: “Do I feel lucky?”

Well, do ya, cup?

bitwaba ,

You can buy some old thinclient lenovos on eBay for super cheap.

There’s other board manufacturers as well… basically just replace “raspberry” with some other fruit and there’s probably a Pi of it

I personally think the best thing to do is find a used Celeron laptop and disable the lid switch setting. Now you’ve got a server with a built in UPS.

Or just fire it up in a docker container because you’re already running Linux right? RIGHT?

bitwaba ,

Ubuntu (or Canonical, their parent company) has gotten more pushy with their paid service. Personally for me, I’m moving off of Ubuntu to Debian pure systems or Arch because when I ssh to my Ubuntu file server, the MOTD tells me I can pay for some kind of premium service and get 35 additional security updates. So, that’s it. That’s my line in the sand. Don’t advertise to me on my terminal

(And then there’s all the shit about Snap being installed by default, and I’m just at a point where I only want installed what I want installed, etc)

But you do you man. If Ubuntu works great for you, stick with it. You may change your mind later down the road, you may not. As long as you’re happy with it right now that all that matters.

bitwaba ,

find out and learn

But you repeat yourself

bitwaba ,

Couldn’t think of a better way to go

bitwaba ,

I beat my addiction 7 times a week!

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It’s a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

bitwaba ,

Apple is going to start cramming their AI the throat of all users in the next year or two as well.

Just… No.

bitwaba ,

There’s always a bigger power switch upstream somewhere

bitwaba ,

Cool!

bitwaba ,

You just need a large enough geomagnetic storm

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

There’s always a bigger power switch upstream somewhere.

bitwaba ,

On their deathbed, a man shows up to deliver strong pentrative action to a geriatric patient.

Ya know, send em’ out with a bang.

bitwaba ,

I do look forward to the next generation of ad free media consumption powered by a small VC startup fund that has a bunch of low cost fresh-out-of-university students paid mostly in stocks working in a garage to say “yeah fuck this I’ve seen ads all my life in gonna do make something that doesn’t make people hate life”

Each iteration of the technology eventually becomes hot garbage. But man, for like a decade there shit is pretty good while the rest of the entrenched industry is stuck trying to pay lobbyists to get law makers to write rules that neither side understands just to have them ultimately not get passed or not address the issue and those companies still disappear.

bitwaba ,

I feel the same way, but I feel it with lots of other topics in my life as well.

I daily drive Linux for both home and work. Windows is absolutely shit, yes, but when you’re using Linux as your primary system, the only interaction you have with Windows is through other people. And that interaction is only when people’s experience with Windows is noteworthy enough for them to mention anything about it. Its selection bias.

A similar thing happened with me when I visited home after having been gone for 2 years. I moved from the US to the UK over a decade ago. I’d go back every 6-12 months, but because of COVID it was over 2 years. It was during the vaccine rollouts too, and I was expecting this warzone anti mask/antivax everywhere. I saw a few people (like, over 3 weeks I saw less than a dozen) with signs protesting at intersections. And I saw one guy have an argument with his wife in the parking lot which she just eventually told him to stay in the the car if he wasn’t going to wear a mask while she went to the grocery store. Thats pretty much the opposite of what I expected based on the images I got for the previous 2 years through overseas media. You only get the lowlights.

bitwaba ,

When you ask someone “what day is it today?”, they usually have a handle on what month it is and just need the day.

You’re still allowed to exclude implied information, no matter which method of dating you want to go with. You can just say “the 15th”.

For making plans, it’s only if you make them way in advance that you need the month first, which would be sorting and scheduling, not daily use.

I can’t speak for you, but for me I am making plans, sorting, and scheduling every single day.

bitwaba ,

lettuce* switch

bitwaba ,

Because that’s it’s name

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system

But if you wanna get all specific about it we can call it SI

…m.wikipedia.org/…/International_System_of_Units

It’s certainly not the Decimal system

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal

bitwaba ,

Between the two, I think temperature is the harder one. But strangely, it also brings weight and volume back into it: Cookbooks.

So many recipes are finely tuned balances of measurements that just look plain alien when converted to metric.

bitwaba ,

Meanwhile the advantage of day first is that often you don’t need to say the rest since if you don’t it’s implied as the present one (i.e. if I tell you now “let’s have that meeting on the 10th” June and 2024 are implied) so you can convey the same infomation with less words (however in written form meant to preserve the date for future reference you have to write the whole thing anyway)

That advantage is not exclusive to the date-first system. You can still leave out implied information with month-first as well.

Personally I recognize that it’s mainly familiarity that makes me favour one format over the other and logically I don’t think one way is overall better than the other one as the advantages of each are situational.

This is the biggest part of it. No one wants to change what they know. I’m from the US and moved to the UK, and interact with continental Europeans on a daily basis. I’ve seen and used both systems day to day. But when I approach this question, my answer isn’t “this one is better because that’s the one I like or I’m most comfortable with”, my answer is “if no one knew any system right now, and we all had to choose between one of the two options, which one is the more sensible option?”

dd-mm-yyyy has no benefit over yyyy-mm-dd, while yyyy-mm-dd does have benefits over dd-mm-yyyy. The choice is easy.

bitwaba ,

Sorry, I thought you were making a general comment. I didn’t realize you we’re criticizing the “metric money” statement.

But, reading over that person’s comment again they also say “centidollars”, which also doesn’t exist, so I believe they were trying to make the point that the US was the first to make a currency that seems to adhere to the same principles as the metric system since their currently since 1 centidollars = 1 cent = 1 dollar/100.

(I’m pretty sure it was a joke though. We don’t use kilodollars, etc)

bitwaba ,

Yeah. I think if someone had a sensible method for how we could switch from one to the other with minimal impact, it might work.

What would very difficult for me would be the recalibration of my internal clock. Knowing a second is slightly shorter, and a minute is longer, and an hour is much longer, would be hell for a while.

Unfortunately I think something that’s pretty hard coded into the society at this point is that a day should be able to divide by so we end up with the 8hr work, 8 hr rest, 8 hr sleep. I’d be interested in a 30hr day over a 10 hr day. But that one doesn’t make much sense either since it misses the mark on bringing tim fully into the 10 base metric system, but still has all the same troubles you’d encounter for getting people to switch.

bitwaba ,

London, all the Italian girls break out their scarves in September.

bitwaba ,

The brake pedal in automatics is twice as wide as a brake pedal in manual cars.

No one is intentionally hitting the brake pedal. They’re moving their foot to push in a clutch pedal that doesn’t exist, and accidentally hitting the left hand side of the wide ass brake pedal.

bitwaba ,

What does the grizzly bear say when you ask him?

bitwaba ,

Old features and less? No problem. Just don’t install X, a window manager, or a desktop environment. It’ll be just like the DOS days!

bitwaba ,

Id imagine all games rely on at least the X server running to handle the display.

I know back in the day you could do some cool stuff with framebuffer, but I don’t know if you’d get 3d acceleration today even if you installed the drivers, because they probably need a bunch of libraries that are packaged as part of DEs/WMs

If you just want the experience of launching graphical stuff from the CLI, that can be done. You’d still install all the packages for your chosen display server and WM/DE, then you can write a small bash script that launches a desktop session and starts your program, then closes the desktop session after you exit the program.

bitwaba ,

You measure baking soda with a teaspoon.

You measure garlic with your heart.

bitwaba ,

I think dildo scissors handle is something I could use at my job to hit people with when they act like idiots

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