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bloodfart ,

Cat /proc/cpuinfo will tell you the bogomips.

If your old core processor is slow, open the laptop up, remove and clean the fan, remove the heatsink and clean it and the processor die with isopropyl alcohol and apply new thermal grease before you put it all back together.

If you have bad I/o with an ssd of some sort, do a spinrite level 2 scan of the drive. It reads and then rewrites all the blocks, which fixes the problem.

I used this exact model for years and idk what your expectation is but I found it to be right fast.

Don’t bother benchmarking a laptop unless you’ve cleaned the dust out, regreased the cpu and run a lvl2 scan on the ssd. All you’ll have is a number that tells you “yep, it’s slow.” And someone like me will say exactly what I just did.

bloodfart ,

I have been convinced.

I used to think like you, that it’s counterproductive, but if anything they’re not going far enough.

bloodfart ,

idk about the process in montenegro, but it’s pretty normal in america for bars to use a three compartment sink with a christmas tree scrub brush stuck to the bottom of the first sink, which is filled about half full with soapy water, a rinse water mixture in the next one and a sanitizer water mixture in the last one.

it’s a fast and safe way to do dishes by hand, especially glassware if you always inspect for chips afterward (which you should be doing anyway!).

bloodfart ,

Places where you only order highballs due to health concerns ftw.

bloodfart ,

retributive justice doesn’t work.

one of the main reasons people try to treat minors differently than adults is because they recognize that retributive justice is literally giving up on the person and doing the easiest thing for society to deal with them.

especially in cases that involve minors there’s a push for restorative, transformational and participatory justice models because they don’t give up and fall back on treating the person like an animal.

I was looking at the firefox flatpak on flathub. Won't this warning make a non tech-savy user anxious? This might make them think they'll get a virus or something like that. (programming.dev)

Imagine your friend that does not know anything about linux, don’t you think this would make them not install the firefox flatpak and potentially think that linux is unsafe?...

bloodfart ,

Good.

People need to view out of channel software with a hairy eyeball.

Hell, I run Debian all over and it’s absurd that the main repositories don’t do checksums on downloaded packages!

New to Linux - Some beginner questions about Bazzite

Hey guys, so I installed Bazzite on my 2nd SSD last weekend and I’ve installed some games and searched through the OS to familiarize myself with it, but I still have a few questions about Bazzite and Linux in general that I’d like some help with! I’ve used Ubuntu and Linux mint in the past (2014ish) just to mess around...

bloodfart ,

For your mouse: piper is a graphical front end for a command line package called ratbag. You need .17 of ratbag to have support for the g502x and therefore have piper “see” it.

here’s some information from a year and a half ago, don’t go making the custome device identifier file at the end of that thread unless you can’t get .17 of ratbag normally.

For plex: are you trying to install plex as a media server on this computer you just put Linux on?

bloodfart ,

You’re gonna have to learn and understand a bunch of shit. Like actually learn and understand, not cut and paste commands. If you’re not down for that then It’s best to switch to a normal distribution or set up a separate server.

The reason I say that is: you basically have to “break” or depending on how you see it, “extend” bazzite in order to be able to do what you want.

If you’re still stuck when I get back to a computer I’ll start explaining.

bloodfart ,

if you like bazzite there’s nothing wrong with sticking to it, youre gonna have to learn what youre trying to do and how to manage it pretty quick though.

bazzite doesn’t have a native package for plex media server. that’s why youre here. you can either fuck everything up by layering your install with rpm-ostree and using the rpm packages for plex or you can learn how to deal with containers and all their bullshit.

everyone chooses containers because they’re already learning linux anyway whats one more thing.

there’s two things people are suggesting in this thread at the moment when they talk about containers: Boxbuddy and Distrobox. they’re actually the same thing except one (boxbuddy) is a gui wrapper for the other (distrobox) and therefore doesn’t work. maybe it does work. I don’t know.

the basic idea is that you’ll set up a container using distrobox that has a different distributions environment running inside it, preferably one that plex supports, and install and configure plex there.

This video gives an overview of how to do it.

see if that doesn’t get you going.

bloodfart ,

Don’t worry about picking something more complicated. Eventually that will happen and you’ll get to listen to all those drum and bass records while typing into a terminal emulator.

See if you think it’s complicated enough after setting up a container in distrobox and installing and configuring plex.

bloodfart ,

Bash is fine. Zsh on Macs is fine too. I can’t stress how useful it is to learn busybox if you end up with a shell on an embedded device.

All these crazy shells people talk about are kinda like race car controls. I’m not driving a race car, I’m driving a box truck with three on the tree.

bloodfart ,

Because they keep having experiences they can’t or have no interest in explaining.

Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? (old.lemmy.world)

Disclaimer: I am not trolling, I am an autistic person who doesn’t understand so many social nuances. Also I am from New Hampshire (97% white), so I just don’t have any close African-American friends that I am willing to risk asking such a loaded question.

bloodfart , (edited )

Irish people are white.

They didn’t start out that way in America, because race is a social construct used by the state to achieve its ends and when a shit ton of Irish people were coming over to the United States to escape the manmade potato famine the terms of their acceptance into American society was that they’d be doing the shittiest work.

American society dealt with this contradiction by adopting the racial pseudoscience that put Irish people below “real whites”.

Whiteness isn’t something innate that can be measured objectively (although pseudoscientific methods claim to be able to do so!), it’s a basic subjective measure of where one stands in the white supremacist power structure.

The white supremacist power structure informs all sorts of stuff like can you get a loan, can you get insurance, do you need to be more afraid of dying to the cops than usual, how loud can you play your music, pretty much every aspect of life in America.

After Catholicism became more widely accepted in the us, and a shit ton of Irish people became cops (so that the white supremacist state could surveil their communities) Irish people were eventually considered white.

Black people in America aren’t white. That might seem like an obvious thing to say, but it’s important to be clear that the process of integration that the Irish immigrant wave went through was never really offered to black Americans.

A person could argue that we are living through that process right now and I think there is a process of integration going on but it’s not making black Americans part of the broader white American group but instead giving black Americans a seat at the table of capital. That’s a significantly different deal.

Anyway, there’s this thing called racism, which is where a society uses the completely made up category of race to discriminate against groups of people to achieve its ends.

Some examples of American racism are slavery, segregation, redlining, the treatment of agricultural workers, the treatment of rail workers, etc.

What’s important is that racism is when a society (or its members) discriminate against some group. There is power in the discrimination and it’s being used against a group.

If a bank decides not to lend to white people it doesn’t hurt white people because there’s literally all the other banks that they can go to and get loans. There is discrimination being used against a group in that example, but it has no power over them because they’ll just go to all the banks that (and I’m quoting directly from a Bank of America sign here) don’t “serve coloreds”.

Okay, so why am I saying this? We’re talking about food!

There’s an old stereotype that black people eat watermelon and fried chicken. There’s a long and storied history to the food stereotypes of black Americans but I’ll spare you the tangent and just say it’s visible in all sorts of Jim crow and segregation era media and arts and crafts stuff.

If you got one of those “antique mall” type places you can probably see some of it there.

During and before Jim Crow and segregation, those stereotypes were deployed to depict black Americans as at best ignorant country bumpkins and at worst subhuman apes.

So to serve the stereotypical food of a racist caricature on a day that is intended to remember the freeing of the last slaves is at best thoughtless reproduction of a racist stereotype and at worst malicious intentional reification of a racist stereotype!

But why isn’t it racist to serve corned beef on saint patricks day? Well for one thing, saint Patrick’s day isn’t seriously celebrated as a remembrance of Irish American culture or the experience of immigrants almost anywhere in the us. It’s one of the big four, a drinking holiday with a dress code.

It’s also not perpetuating harmful stereotype to run a homemade Reuben special on saint Patrick’s day. No one bites into a Rachel and thinks “lol, those dumb micks are only good for driving spikes, drinking and swearing allegiance to Rome” or “if only they could multiply the way they multiply, maybe they wouldn’t be so poor, sad!”

Now that’s not to say it’s racist to prepare or eat fried chicken or watermelon. As a southerner I got strong feelings about both.

But pretty much it boils down to Irish people are white.

E: I fucking made a stupid ass mistake and substituted greenwood for the freeing of the last slaves when describing the context of Juneteenth. My dumbass brain was going “tell em about how greenwood and Parrish street were about giving black Americans a seat at the table of capital, instead of equality under white supremacy” over and over again the whole time I was writing this stream of consciousness ass post and when I couldn’t find a place to shoehorn it in the ol’ brain took over and did it anyway. Thanks to fryhyde for pointing it out!

bloodfart ,

Irish people are white and therefore cannot experience racism.

bloodfart ,

Thanks for catching that. I kept trying to figure out how to frame greenwood and Parrish street as similar early attempts to bring black Americans into the fold of capital, one of which saw a violent attack by the white hegemon that was opposed to expansion of capital to black Americans but it just kept not fitting.

I guess my brain just subbed it in cause I was turning it over in my head. Edited.

bloodfart ,

No.

Serving a dish which is part of the post slavery white supremacist negative stereotype of black Americans used to reify the Jim Crow and segregationist regimes on the day set aside to mark the freeing of the last slaves would not be more or less racist weather black Americans enjoyed eating it or not.

Are people getting upset over nothing? I don’t know. Are some people not allowed to get upset? I don’t know.

bloodfart ,

i’m not.

if you want to understand why the history of racism against irish americans after the wave of immigration in response to the manmade famine doesn’t factor into racism irish americans experience today (none, zero, irish americans do not experience racism today), read my top level comment.

the defining factors are that irish americans were integrated into white supremacist power structures and black americans weren’t, that st. patricks day isn’t treated with any reverence in the united states and is instead one of the big four drinking holidays and the negative stereotypes of irish americans from the 1800s don’t survive today in word or in deed.

i chose not to touch on the lingering economic impact of racism against irish americans as opposed to racism against black americans because they’re in two different universes. one was largely dismantled before any of us were born and the other is still systemic and pervasive to this day.

bloodfart ,

The ops question is about America. I explicitly made a top level comment about America.

When someone asked for a tldr I did not specify Irish Americans, but that should be clear from the thread, my post and the op.

You’re replying to a comment where I explicitly specified America.

America is not the world but we’re talking about America here.

bloodfart ,

Oh that’s a good normal thing for it to do.

bloodfart ,

Someone else wrote that you’re overwriting straight into your device. Here’s how to figure out how to do it right:

Find out what block devices are available: lsblk

Lsblk will list the block devices on the computer. You can see from it weather or not the computer sees your usb and what filesystems are available on it. You might say “well of course the computer can see the usb, it booted from it!” But when you’re using a live environment the question isn’t did the computer see the usb, but does it currently see the usb.

Once you confirmed that the computer can see the usb, use df -h to find out if and where it’s mounted.

The df command shows disk filesystems and it’ll tell you which ones are mounted and where. If you see your disks file system, make note of where and skip ahead to output handling! The -h makes this command human readable by saying 32G instead of 32000000000B.

If you don’t have the file system you wanna put your output in mounted, make a directory with mkdir <directoryname> and mount the file system in it with mount /dev/<file system device> <directoryname>.

The spaces in the mount command separate the different arguments like <command> <source> <target>. You’ll be able to know your file system device from the lsblk command earlier. The mount command puts a block device somewhere in the running computers file system. Think of it like bolting something to a beam or hanging a picture on a wall.

Verify that you have access to the newly mounted file system by looking at it with ls <directoryname>. What do you see? What should you see? I don’t know.

Like I said, someone already told you that you shouldn’t overwrite directly to a device, but you can do it even better! Use the | character to send output to the tee command and give it a file as an argument like lspci | tee <directoryname>/output.txt

Tee sends output to a file in addition to the terminal as opposed to instead of the terminal window. It’s useful!

Hopefully that gets you going.

I have installed Linux on several of these laptops that need wl and as much as it’s nice to be able to do it without internet access, the easiest way is to plug up a wire and let the package manager figure out that it needs wl every time it upgrades the kernel.

bloodfart ,

Good. They should block the roads too.

bloodfart ,

Heck of a bluff. I don’t see how the us government can expect to sell the threat of expanding an unpopular foreign war in an election year.

Wait, is that 9/11s music I hear?

bloodfart ,

I would have gone or “manufacturing “he spent””, but whatever.

bloodfart ,

Duh.

It’s astounding to me that a second January sixth isn’t at the top of people’s minds this go round.

Not because it’ll be successful (although there’s always a chance) but because we already have elected officials who believe that trump won the 2020 election and there will only be more this time around.

What’s the long term effect of legitimizing disbelief in a functioning democracy? America never was one, but what does it mean when there’s double or triple digit numbers of elected officials who publicly say so?

The usual explanation for distrust in government has nothing to do with people recognizing reality and changing their views based on it but instead blames that change on lack of bread and circuses, no basics of life and no distraction from reality.

We certainly don’t have the basics of life, but the distraction machine is running like a champ slaps hood you could fit like seven more dissociative technologies in this sucker!

What combination of lack of basic necessities and distractions are driving people’s belief (true or false!) that the election was stolen and that our fake democracy is actually fake?

bloodfart ,

that’s not good news though.

seeing americans get blasted by either the national guard or capitol police isn’t gonna build trust in the fake american democracy.

seeing that one woman get shot in a situation where she presented no threat at all was bad enough.

bloodfart ,

the state justifies its actions. i’m not asking if the justifications are accurate or not, but what the outcomes of those actions are with regards to peoples trust and perception of the government.

regardless of weather many people were willing to approve of the state’s justification, what will happen to our trust in our government when january 6 part 2 participants are getting hosed down with m855a1 this time?

bloodfart ,

hey i’m just gonna copy and paste this into my reply to everyone else who got in after the first person: i’m not arguing about the state’s justification of its actions i’m asking what happens to americans perception of our government when we see whats her name get shot x100 during the next january 6. if you wanna talk about that i’ll reply but if not i won’t.

bloodfart ,

hey i’m just gonna copy and paste this into my reply to everyone else who got in after the first person: i’m not arguing about the state’s justification of its actions i’m asking what happens to americans perception of our government when we see whats her name get shot x100 during the next january 6. if you wanna talk about that i’ll reply but if not i won’t.

bloodfart ,

Okay, I’ll defend what I said so that it’s clear that I brought it up not to troll or engage in bad faith but as an example of the effects of state violence on public trust.

Regardless of weather or not you believe the states defense of its agents actions, you can’t deny that the woman who was shot was unarmed (I think I saw some news articles trying to call her armed because she had a pocketknife, but come on!) and that there were alternatives to deadly force available. I saw them discussed online and heard even my very vote blue no matter who style lib neighbors say them when we talked about the news.

Some of the stuff I remember hearing people say was “push her back through”, “push her back through with a stick” “let her come through and arrest her” “beat people trying to come through with a stick” and “shoot into the air/ground to disperse them”.

I’m not bringing those things up to then give you the opportunity to ask me to defend them, but to provide examples of normal everyday people’s responses to seeing the states agents kill someone who looked like them or someone they knew and only became more sympathetic as her background was reported on and pictures of her from before January 6 surfaced.

I also know that she was brought up in the news as a victim of state violence and her name was used as a kind of dogwhistle for stop the steal type right wingers and even normal republican types for little while.

I don’t remember it because I don’t run in those circles but it had a cadence like “Sharon bobbit” or something.

The effect of that one death was very polarizing and did little to build broader trust in government except for with people who took the controversial “I don’t like those people/they’re criminals so good riddance” view.

So that’s why I brought it up and specifically said that she posed no threat. Not because I wanted to defend the people who did January 6 or the ones who use her name as a shibboleth but because it’s a good example of state violence suppressing January 6 prompting a negative response.

bloodfart ,

There’s a lot of people in the replies saying something along these lines but none as succinctly put as you.

What’s the right way for the state to deal with “idiots” when it doesn’t care what they think? Certainly after this next January 6 the state can’t just kill them, what’s the response from the state you’d like to see?

bloodfart ,

I agree with you that most Americans were shocked in general or didn’t care but I think there was a significant amount of people whose perceptions were maybe changed.

Do you think the scale would change things? If this becomes a pattern, what’s the way out?

bloodfart ,

Okay so if this becomes a pattern how do we break the cycle of having to dome protesters every election cycle? Historically it hasn’t been good for the state to have constant uprisings no matter if you support their cause or not.

bloodfart ,

hey i’m just gonna copy and paste this into my reply to everyone else who got in after the first person: i’m not arguing about the state’s justification of its actions i’m asking what happens to americans perception of our government when we see whats her name get shot x100 during the next january 6. if you wanna talk about that i’ll reply but if not i won’t.

bloodfart ,

Idk, my experience talking to people who claimed to have voted democrat showed otherwise. I had a lot of older people saying they didn’t have to shoot her. Someone who lives a couple of roads over even said the “just shoot her in the leg” line.

I guess for people who are old enough to remember like maybe Kent state forwards there’s a real bad association with cops or national guard shooting anyone protesting, demonstrating or rioting or whatever and I think if it goes off bigger this time around that’s a bigger problem.

bloodfart ,

I’m so sorry for not being clearer about the meaning my words have.

In the context of a shooting by cops I’m using “no threat” to mean no threat that merits deadly force, not that it wasnt a crazy situation.

My point was never to say that the situation wasn’t unique or that fear or feeling threatened never factored in, but the situation in which that woman was shot didn’t constitute a threat to anyone that merited deadly force.

She was unarmed (again, I remember some news trying to say that her pocketknife constituted a weapon but whatever), was climbing in through a barrier that she had to be lifted up to reach and could have been restrained with several different tools or techniques at the disposal of the cop that shot her.

If there were no other options available then a person could believe otherwise and plenty of cops have gotten off for killings because they said their service weapon was their only option.

I was hoping it would be clear what I meant by “no threat” when I explained how lots of people had said all those things they thought the cop could have done, but that’s my fault.

bloodfart ,

Isn’t social media just a distillation of the interactions innate in society? If exposure to social media is damaging that’s indicative of deeply flawed and damaging society.

bloodfart ,

Even with perfect algorithms I think it’s reasonable to expect problems within society to sharpen.

I mean if there was some theoretical social media entity completely disconnected from optimization for its own benefit then the people using that system would still have been provided the tools to do all their social relations faster, more often and with more intensity.

That’s gonna, and maybe I’m giving away the game here, uh, heighten the contradictions.

bloodfart ,

We’re going through the pantry to make a shopping list of dry goods and even that stuff where you used to be able to spend $100 and have enough flour, sugar, beans etc to last a few months is through the roof.

Bring back $.50 a pound dry beans!

bloodfart ,

If you’re currently running a rpm distro, you can make it easier on yourself by using the duke nukem forever command to make a list of your installed programs: dnf list installed.

Once that’s outputting an appropriate format, dump it into a text file with | oldprogs.txt.

On your new computer, that same duke nukem forever command can be used to install from the list with something like dnf install << oldprogs.txt

I bet you can come up with a way to stuff all that into a neat little one liner that’ll provide error handling, output teeing and everything else!

bloodfart ,

Ty, it’s early yet…

bloodfart ,

There’s gentoo options for a lot of older architectures. I even got it running on a 32bit power machine.

Back in the day gentoo meant compiling everything from source, but nowadays there’s precompiled binaries.

If you’re doing the evanescence routine on older hardware, check to see if there’s cheap ram and ssds available that work with its interfaces. Usually the trick with pata is to use old cf to sata adapters because cf is pin compatible with the little pata interfaces they’d put on laptops.

Consider cleaning and reapplying thermal paste to the cpu. You won’t even need to take it out of the socket, just don’t dump isopropyl all over the board while cleaning.

If your old computer has a cool old sound card there’s never been a better time to use a tracker that takes advantage of its built in synthesizer!

bloodfart ,

Idk what that person was referring to, but the hotbeds of American activism, especially worker activism, were in Americas internal periphery for almost all of the 20th century.

Especially labor and equal rights struggles were often in the rural or suburban (this used to mean living near a factory before it meant that joni Mitchell song about the little houses!) near cities as opposed to in the cities themselves.

Heck, it’s trod ground but the government bombed mine workers in ‘21!

bloodfart ,

Shoo, it’s been a rough week for sddm over here…

bloodfart ,

It’s worth noting that gold plated connectors are not snake oil. Gold is a good conductor and doesn’t form a nonconductive oxide layer. That means it’s going to be more durable and won’t corrode together or apart like those old ass sheet metal tube sockets that all need to be cleaned.

bloodfart ,

I think you replied to the wrong comment.

In a single hour, Israeli snipers killed seven bystanders at the Jenin refugee camp (www.haaretz.com)

Jenin has endured plenty of rough days lately, but May 21 outdid them all. In the course of one hour in the morning, snipers killed seven of the city's residents, all of them innocent passersby, even though the streets were quiet and the soldiers had no cause to open fire....

bloodfart ,

Anyone remember when the idf got in hot water for the tee shirts with a pregnant woman under a set of crosshairs with the text “one shot, two kills”?

This is what Israel is. A fascist apartheid state.

bloodfart ,

If you want to go through my post history I bet you could put together where I’m at.

What would prove I’m American to you aside from doxing myself?

bloodfart ,

Soft link /home/username to /home/username/Desktop, put everything in folders with unrelated or keyboard smear names.

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