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mub ,

Me too. I enjoy the @myservername thing as it lets me have one file to maintain lots of servers (Minecraft in my case). I’m sure someone will say other init systems can do the same, but I learnt this one and I like it.

mub ,

My server has been on Endeavour OS (arch with a gui installer) for at least 18 months. I run updates roughly every 10 days (basically whenever I remember). Never had a problem with it. I dare say it could go horribly wrong at some point so I keep the LTS kernel installed as well just as a fall back.

My main pc is also running Endeavour OS (dual boot with windows 11). Other than having to keep Bluetooth downgraded to support the ps5 dual sense controller, it runs great.

My only gripe is that updates often contain something that forces the kernel rebuild process and so it needs a reboot afterwards.

Every other Linux I’ve run has had some sort of “rebuild to fix” type issue at some point, or had been hard to find good support information for. Endeavour OS has been the most reliable and the easiest to fix and find support for.

mub ,

I’ve watched it too many times now. I still recommend it to everyone, I just can’t watch it myself anymore. Maybe when I retire.

mub ,

Westworld (Season 1). The other seasons are good and have great moments but season 1 is special.

mub ,

Never have I ever done none of the things posted so far.

Edit; ok maybe not the animal sex ones. Who shoots a deer then fucks it?

mub ,

I’ve had the Billie Eilish’s new album on loop recently. But before that I’d usually have some Floyd or god machine on.

mub ,

I have a problem with the basic terms of political alignment. Every political view is placed on a line between far left and far right, and centrist views are in constant flux. This seems to foster devotion over unity.

We need a set of 3 dimensional terms because the 1 dimensional “left/right” terms are to simplistic. Perfectly reasonable ideas that essentially everyone would support become points of division purely because those ideas are strongly aligned to either the left or right.

I strongly believe the next evolutionary step we must take is to re-engineer politics and government. Freedom, shared resources, reasonable controls, balanced towards the needs of the public, all seem like dreams right now. Fuck knows how we get there without bloodshed, but get there we must.

mub ,

Isn’t that used for marketing ?

mub ,

Zombie apocalypse. Anyone left over is either immune from the cause or smart enough to avoid it.

Just me but I like the idea of a peaceful world.

Tech giants push to dilute Europe's AI Act (www.reuters.com)

LONDON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - The world’s biggest technology companies have embarked on a final push to persuade the European Union to take a light-touch approach to regulating artificial intelligence as they seek to fend off the risk of billions of dollars in fines....

mub ,

Just from an environmental standpoint anything that reduces the expansion of AI farms is desirable.

Giving LLMs a free pass on abusing copyright and fair use rules is such a double standard. YouTubers who use a snippet of music get the earnings from their video stolen by rights trolls.

For me, the dream is every AI result coming with a citation list showing what sources were used.

Looking to have a common disk for my Linux / Windows dual boot pc. with BTRFS the way to go?

I’m running EndeavourOS and Windows 11. Each OS is on a separate disk, but I have a data disk that is currently NTFS that mount in both OSes. NTFS causes problems for some things in Linux, and I’m worried it’ll bork the drive for windows eventually, so I’m keen to find an alternative. I’ve read about the WinBTRFS...

mub OP ,

sounds like my worries about NTFS reliability in Linux are more about historic reputation so I can probably relax on that front. The other issue with NTFS is performance in Linux is not great. FAT32 and exFat don’t like some filename characters from linux from what I read.

WinBTRFS is tempting. I have frequent backups so I might just give it a try and see what happens.

mub OP ,

Didn’t know about ntfs3 so did some reading about it. There are some reports of corruptions, they were all fixed by letting windows do a chkdsk, and making sure the windows_names parameter when mounting the disk helped prevent problems.

I’m going to live with ntfs3 for a while as see what happens.

mub OP ,

This supports my thinking that ntfs3 is the way to go, or at least worth testing for a while.

mub OP ,

I have separate disks so I’m good on the front. The main reasoning is to make Linux my daily as it covers most stuff including my main games. The reason for windows is some video editing in davinci, music stuff which means VSTs, and some games that have anti-cheat. That windows stuff is really only about 15% of my time. I have a windows VM for office when I occasionally must have office, rather than an alternative.

mub OP ,

Indeed. Steam on Linux does cause issues with filenames. I keep games I run on Linux on an ext4 drive. There isn’t any other choice unfortunately.

mub ,

This was something I developed when I first started learning the drums. I struggled with my left hand so my instructor told me to switch everyday tasks to my left hand. Simple things like putting change in your left pocket, pouring with your left hand, etc. I never stopped doing this and now, I’m not fully ambidextrous, but ambi-useful.

Meta to push on with plan to use UK Facebook and Instagram posts to train AI (www.theguardian.com)

Mark Zuckberg’s Meta is to go ahead with controversial plans to use millions of UK Facebook and Instagram posts to train its artificial intelligence (AI) technology, in a practice that is effectively outlawed under EU privacy laws....

mub ,

Essentially we just did a copy / paste. There have been some tweaks but nothing huge so far.

mub ,

Power is only part of it. Concrete production is a huge greenhouse gas source.

mub ,

This site is amazing. It needs a hug from reddit. smallsitethatwillcrashfromtheunexpectedattention.…

mub , (edited )

Giffing a Dickbutt imgur.com/a/wNs7ZCp

mub ,

Why is an HOA looking after the building and public spaces? That should be either the landlord/building owner and the local council responsibility. HOA are bullshit which ever way you look at them.

mub ,

Can I still hum their tunes to myself?

mub ,

Endeavour OS

I’ve tried all the usual distros many times over the years but never an arch based distro until last year. I gave arch a go first and it was great but then tried endeavouros and it came with the fixes I needed and was more instantly good from the first boot. The AUR and arch wiki stuff just makes the whole experience most (sry to use this term) Windows like in terms of fixes and support.

mub , (edited )

I’ve only watched the first 4 mins but it sounds insane so far. Like they were expecting this woman to have a small army hiding in her cupboards. I’ll definitely watch the rest, though I understand this is her own version of events. Maybe I’ll post a summary of some sort. Few things rock me enough to motivate me to do anything much in response, but this seems insane.

I’m aware of the claims that she made some stupid statements about the holocaust. Interestingly those are published on pro-israel sites. I’ve seen other news outlets say those claims were debunked. Either way it doesn’t matter. It is her treatment by the police that works be the focus here.

What books do you consider must reads?

So basically I was unschooled, and the amount of books I’ve read in my life is embarrassingly low. It was never emforced like in a school, and with my family’s religious hangups, I never tried getting into new things because I never knew what would be deemed “offensive”....

mub ,

It is always hard to pick just one, but I usually pick either one of the culture novels, or Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder.

mub ,

Game: To the moon

Book: The Culture novels by Iain M. Banks

TV: Star Wars Rebels

Movie: Alien

mub ,

Yeah but the anticipation of “when is the alien going to pop out” is only there on the first watch. I’ve watched it a bunch so can never recover that one.

mub ,

More GUI front ends for stuff. This takes away the need to understand command line tools and syntax, and makes the out-of-the-box experience feel more like it just works.

mub ,

Yip. I was trying to find a useful front end to manage the audio settings on my focusrite audio interface. Pipewire has the functions and capability to set the sample rate and buffet size on the fly but I failed to find a gui until for it that wasn’t part of some other complicated thing. When I suggested the Devs of pipewire should provide a GUI I was politely shot down. The reasons given were; it takes too long, and Linux users don’t mind the CMD line. I think this is a mind-set that needs to evolve.

mub ,

I like Nano. I think it is quite good. There, I said it.

mub ,

Notepad++

mub ,

My 3 kids all use iPhone and we have a bunch of chrome casts. The only practical way to avoid the ads in YTP.

mub ,

Your tight pants

mub ,

You still have to wipe though, right? Using just water to clean it off your arm would still leave a stain. You have to make contact to rub away what remains somehow.

I’ve used a few bidets and while it was fun and they did an ok job there was no soap involved and I still had to wipe. I don’t hate them, they make some sense, but a bidet is not magic.

mub ,

There are people who always have super solid movements that don’t leave a trail. Many of us have a variety of textures that smear as they exit. A bidet removes the majority of it but never all, and wiping reveals what is left behind.

mub ,

Only if you have a solid one. If your poo is sticky it leaves a smear and even high pressure water won’t shift, and that’s when you need a wipe.

mub ,

Thanks. That’s a reasonable review. I hate that people claim bidets to be magic.

mub ,

Would you only use water or would you also wipe it, use soap as well?

mub ,

I have. A bunch of times. They are in most of the hotel rooms I stay in.

mub ,

I don’t think it is less effective. I tthink it is more efficient but isn’t perfect.

mub ,

Congratulations. Tell you what, I’ll send you pictures next time I use a bidet.

mub ,

I honestly love Powershell, but haven’t tried the Linux version yet. I only use Bash on linux but it has a load of odd quirks that make it unpleasant to use imo. Can’t comment on anything else.

mub ,

You know what, I’ve stopped getting excited when I met someone claiming to be a gamer, because they inevitably say they play “Dota”. Play what you want, but why is it always Dota?

Linux Scores A Surprising Gaming Victory Against Windows 11 (www.forbes.com)

I recently spent some time with the Framework 13 laptop, evaluating it with the new Intel Core Ultra 7 processor and the AMD Ryzen 7 7480U. It felt like the perfect opportunity to test how a handful of games ran on Windows 11 and Fedora 40. I was genuinely surprised by the results!...

mub ,

Roblox not working is annoying. I play a bunch of stupid Roblox games with my kids and switching back to Windows just for that is a pain.

mub ,

I’m at the point of looking to pay for a good usenet service. I’ll definitely probably start looking next week.

What movie from your past are you completely nostalgia blind too?

I ran into an old movie I had on VHS as a kid titled “MegaForce” (1982) (RT link). I hadn’t seen the movie in decades and was worried looking at a rotten tomato score of 6% that if I watched it, I would be completely disappointed in the movie as an adult. Surprisingly, I didn’t realize as a kid that it was actually more...

mub ,

Flight of the navigator.

An entire film to make one E.T. joke.

mub ,

I can’t do it. I feel asleep too quickly.

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