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merthyr1831 ,

wonder what awful shit they’re about to be outed for doing to have randomly added this clause

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don’t.

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200 dead civilians isn’t a daring operation, it’s a massacre.

But as usual this community still allows JP bollocks.

merthyr1831 ,

registry switch that’ll mysteriously reset itself. we’ve had this shit with countless windows configurations at work that our IT guy has to battle with on the regular.

merthyr1831 ,

270GB feels insane for the source code of a single organisation. Is there media assets or backups in there too?

EDIT: yep, multiple subsidiaries and slack Comms which could inflate it by a lot. we post a whole lot of uncompressed shit on our slack

In response to the lemmy.ml moderation polemic: beware of bad faith agents!

One of the biggest topics of these days is that of mods in lemmy.ml banning and censoring people because they’re Tankies. This has had a rather sizeable discussion of people agreeing and even arguing for defederating ml. I’m sure a lot of people are arguing from good intentions, but there’s also bad faith actors among...

merthyr1831 ,

Fucking hell lmao y’all need to go back to reddit this is straight up high school drama behaviour.

Grow up, I’m serious. Of course you’re gonna get banned for brigading into a community and going “muh tiannamen square???” like that meme hasn’t been run into the fucking ground already.

Make a new community on a new instance, it really is that simple! and if people have issues with the moderation on lemmy.ml (they clearly don’t, beyond a few people who demand everyone listens to their concern trolling) then they’ll move, but otherwise you’re gonna have to accept that people really don’t give a rats ass about the united states foreign ministry and its opinions.

merthyr1831 ,

There’s also all of these communities on Reddit if you’re truly unhappy that the volunteer owned and run social media you signed up for isn’t being astroturfed with US-Israeli state press releases.

Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy’s massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It’s been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let’s say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they’re what’s colloquially referred to...

merthyr1831 ,

go back to reddit if you want to live in the bubble of “America does nothing wrong”

merthyr1831 ,

Join literally any other community if you’re upset at their moderation, which again is only upsetting y’all because it doesn’t align to Reddit and the US state department

merthyr1831 ,

Once again asking that we don’t directly link to the fucking Jerusalem Post, which is barely more reputable and progressive than if the daily mail began demanding its editors to browse stormfront forums for 8 hours a day

merthyr1831 ,

that’s true but the Jerusalem post isn’t a primary source in this case, the direct source would be a Knesset press statement.

I’d say least prefer a rule on serving these sites behind a cache link so the ads and clicks aren’t registered!

merthyr1831 ,

With what money? SpaceX is the only company with any kind of steady revenue to its name and that’s only because the US government subsidised it

merthyr1831 ,

Or they found out about his time at Epstein Island and didn’t wanna fuck w that

merthyr1831 ,

the last functional windows.

merthyr1831 ,

I don’t (never played Xbox til the end of its lifecycle) what did they do? 👀

merthyr1831 ,

we do a bit of entrapment

Biden: what would Trump have done if the Capitol riots had been led by Black Americans? (www.theguardian.com)

Joe Biden has launched one of his most scathing attacks yet on Donald Trump’s record of racism, suggesting that the former US president would have acted differently to the January 6 2021 insurrection if was led by Black people....

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The Biden government and cops would’ve crushed the riots with way more force if they’d been lead by black americans. Just look at how much more violent the cops are against students protesting peacefully compared to how they straight-up helped the trump supporters into the Capitol most of the way lmfao.

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Police across the US have been killing people at a greater rate every year under his admin, so what exactly about Biden’s glowing record on police violence is worth comparing to Trump? Not to mention he wants to hire another 100,000 more pigs.

You don’t get to gloat about how much better you are with black people when you’re no better than the guy characterising himself as some kind of American Mussolini.

The rest of you liberals can fuck off back to reddit too. You don’t get to claim victory over a fascist that your golden dementia boy is no better than. Absolutely pathetic that you act morally superior to kids dying because he’s on “your team”

EDIT:

Before you leave you “but trump!!” comment, consider reopening your Reddit account because this snark about Biden being better than Trump when they both get throbbing erections for brutalised kids won’t get you nearly as far as it did on that astroturfed shithole.

merthyr1831 ,

Oh brilliant, in which case his snark about Trump doesn’t make any sense because the cops would be racist on their own terms under either president.

I’m just pointing out the hypocrisy of this guy to snark about police violence against rioters when he’s outright encouraging the crackdown that is infinitely more peaceful.

Go back to reddit if you really want to live in the pretend world where Biden is a gentle, benevolent dictator just because you’re not bothered about the people his admin is helping repress at home and abroad.

merthyr1831 ,

that $0.01 pay rise could’ve kept someone off the streets!

merthyr1831 ,

If you want to use Linux without the terminal nowadays it’s pretty easy. But also I think the fear of the terminal is part of the culture that consumer electronics have cultivated where people don’t know (or want to know) how their systems work.

If you take the time to use it, not only can you save yourself time, but also learn a lot more about how you can fix things when they go wrong! That kind of knowledge gives you so much more ownership of your system, because you don’t have to rely on your manufacturer to solve problems for you.

Same for Mac and Windows too, the terminal is something that shouldn’t be necessary, but when it is it helps to know what you’re doing. :)

merthyr1831 ,

I don’t think it’s a theory rather than an objective fact. A lot of “traditional” computer skills have almost totally gone extinct because consumer devices are designed to hide as many system features from you as possible.

The saving grace is that even being raised without it, you end up needing these skills to become a developer of any decent calibre. That gives at least some route for these skills to transfer to new generations.

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I didn’t say you have to know everything, just like I don’t know everything in my house and how it works, but I do know how to do basic repairs so I don’t pay loads of money for a guy to come and unclog a drain. I know how to reset my circuit breakers, how to change a fuse, how to change a lightbulb.

That’s what the terminal is. No one here is telling you to write a bootloader in assembly or meticulously study kernel environment parameters. No one advocating for basic knowledge of a terminal likely has knowledge on subnet masks, compilers, or other low level systems that a modern Linux abstracts for you.

But! I know how to update my packages from a terminal. I know how to install a package outside of a repository, or one that’s not listed on my graphical package manager. I know how to export an environment variable to get my software to work how it should.

That’s what “knowing the terminal” gives you. It’s a basic skill that unlocks you from being a mere “user” of a system to an owner of a system. I don’t think everyone will ever need the terminal, but there are people who are replying to me that seem to have a genuine fear that people have knowledge of their computers in a meaningful way.

Knowledge is autonomy for whatever you do, and there’s a reason why the most profitable of systems are the very systems that are locked down abstracted and “user friendly” in all ways that harm a user’s rights and freedoms.

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Not if you call it GNU/Linux 🤓☝️

merthyr1831 ,

The trick to writing a JavaScript web app is that first you consider literally any other technology to solve your problem and only then consider using javascript.

merthyr1831 OP ,

it does 👀

Linux mint or zorin OS for layman beginners who just want everything to work and focuses on stability , privacy , security ? Also what to do if I switched to mint and WiFi stopped working ?

Hey, so I just put this part up first because this is the one I urgently and importantly need answered even tho I wrote that hideous text block first (sorry English isn’t my first language )....

merthyr1831 ,

I installed mint and zorin on virtual machines (theyre easy to set up in windows with virtualbox) and then just put them fullscreen and used em like my actual computer for a bit. Very useful for learning stuff without the commitment of a proper install.

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I use a Lenovo 14APH8 (Ideapad Pro 5) which is essentially the same system specification. Pretty brilliant laptop but the drivers have been struggling until this year, finally! Especially with high DPI, high refresh rate screens where memory corruption is easier to run into.

Brilliant post by the way. I’ve just spotted that Smokeless UMAF which might help alleviate the issue I’ve noticed on my laptop which is Lenovo giving me 28GB of RAM but only 1GB of DMA Buffer. Absolutely bullshit when my Steamdeck runs fine with 4GB and barely touches the swapfile. I wonder if this’ll let me get the true 780M performance I yearn for!

EDIT: Hell yeah UMA buffer override lets fuckin GOOOOO

merthyr1831 ,

I’ve not tried netboot yet but that might also be a cool option for people who like to install new ISOs often. Ventoy gang for life, tho

merthyr1831 ,

It’s in testing and/or sid atm but the keepass dev has argued back and forth with the debian maintainer who basically just said “suck it up buttercup” and refused to change back, so it’ll cause a lot of fun times once it lands in the next debian release lol

merthyr1831 ,

ngl this looks pretty slick. Good stuff!

Mirror all data on NAS A to NAS B

I’m duplicating my server hardware and moving the second set off site. I want to keep the data live since the whole system will be load balanced with my on site system. I’ve contemplated tools like syncthing to make a 1 to 1 copy of the data to NAS B but i know there has to be a better way. What have you used successfully?

merthyr1831 ,

Rsync over FTP. i use it for a weekly nextcloud backup to a hetzner storage box

merthyr1831 ,

trying? they succeeded

merthyr1831 ,

The opinion of what is and isnt “subjective” is up for a lot of debate even if you dont personally have a major stake in a videogame’s marketing campaign (such as the authors and enforcers of these contracts).

What's a good NAS and server system under CAD$900 (USD$658)?

I am currently using an old laptop (circa 2015) with a 250GB SSD in it, and 4GB of RAM. It runs Fedora 39 Server, and only hosts a Jellyfin instance through Docker right now (though I want to use Nextcloud later too). There is only 15GB of storage left on it, and the CPU is constantly overloaded (due to forced transcoding). I...

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idk what resolution you use for streaming but my raspberry pi 4B runs plex at 1080p just fine as long as it isnt using x265/AV1 (but on jellyfin you might be able to use the Pi’s GPU for transcoding).

I use nextcloud too but it’s a tiny bit slower than I’d like, but that’s likely a wifi issue i think.

Literally any PC on Amazon for $200 CAD, then add your own SSD. I’d say 8GB of RAM but that’s just for cache, youll rarely go over 4 in general use.

That, or a raspberry pi 4B/5 which runs you about $150 once you get a case, power supply, powered USB dock for sticking SSDs into (just for safety since technically the pi’s USB ports cant handle certain SSDs power reqs.) and then stick SSDs into that.

Use dietpi (dietpi.com) for setting up your services and it’ll run nice and smooth for anything not H265, which might be annoying but Plex and possibly jellyfin let you transcode stuff in the background which is nice.

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Shouldnt do so that bad. my raspberry pi 4b can do jellyfin and nextcloud without pushing 15W at full load.

x86 is inefficient, especially older models, but youll likely only push anything over 10W when actually streaming something that requires transcoding. Most of the time your home server is gonna sit idle or doing some tiny cron job that won’t really blast the CPU at all.

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dietpi.com can be configured for Kodi. Youll be limited to 1080p H264 for streaming, as long as your Plex server can transcode to that format you should be OK.

It’ll probs support any xinput-compatible pad, too.

Not sure about moonlight support on Pi/Linux but again you’ll be limited by the decode.

  • Assuming you have a Pi4B, by the way.
merthyr1831 ,

Idk where you assumed 4k 120hz HDR from the post?

merthyr1831 ,

they were the worst updates because it guaranteed it was installing some bullshit you didnt want

merthyr1831 ,

plasma 6 plz 🥹 maybe one day

merthyr1831 ,

I just use dietpi’s configuration lol

merthyr1831 ,

I’m running it decently on a Raspberry Pi 4B. No less latency than a commercial cloud solution like OneDrive in my experience. Could be faster, though.

merthyr1831 ,

workstation

fedora… workstation?

merthyr1831 ,

If i was stack overflow I would’ve transferred my backups to OpenAI weeks before the announcement for this very reason.

This is also assuming the LLMs weren’t already fed with scraped SO data years ago.

It’s a small act of rebellion but SO already has your data and they’ll do whatever they want with it, including mine.

merthyr1831 ,

This is very cool. Im a fan of Nix from a tech perspective but im still not sold because of its poor UX, among many other complaints. IMO it’s the future of the Linux distro, but now that might be closer than before!

merthyr1831 ,

I pretty much avoid GIMP now. It became a pity download years ago, but now I’m just not bothering to wait for them to bring the software to the current decade.

Alternatives exist like Photopea, which even with a quarter of the screen covered in ads is way more performant, let alone productive.

Not to blame the maintainers, it seems like they’ve been left with a mess of spaghetti and no one is willing to help out. I can’t say I’m surprised it’s taken so long.

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Only advice: Don’t install on the same hard drive.

I dont care how many people say “oh it works for me” it works for everyone until it doesnt, and then you spend days fucking about with utilities that you shouldnt be fucking with, and at best it works until it stops working again.

There’s likely little risk that any attack goes after a potential linux partition, but there’s much more risk that either your linux or Windows partition bricks the other.

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