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user224

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18M I like computers, trains, space, radio-related everything and a bunch of other tech related stuff. User of GNU+Linux.
I am also dumb and worthless.
My laptop is HP 255 G7 running Manjaro and Linux Mint.
I own RTL-SDRv3 and RSP1 clone.

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user224 , to technology in Life as a teen without social media isn't easy. These families are navigating adolescence offline

I grew up with access to social media. I got an Android 4.1 tablet when I was 8. Actually, I wish my parents had less strong opinions on it.

That’s because they went the other way around.
My dad wanted me to have a Facebook account, which I created, and then was upset at me when I deleted it when I was 12 because of the dumb hateful “jokes” floating around there.
Then later he again urged me to at least use Messenger, as if he didn’t have a plan with unlimited SMS and phone calls…

I am an adult now, but not much has changed. It only went from Facebook to TikTok.

user224 , to technology in 512MB ram is nothing now

I mean, VPSs with 512MB of RAM exist, so surely it’s still useful for something.

user224 , to asklemmy in What's the most basic thing you can't do?

Keeping my systems (laptop, smartphone,…) properly maintained and functional (software-wise).

They are always just a barely functioning mess hanging on a last thread. Getting around bugs instead of finding fixes, ignoring non-critical errors, using 50 simpler tools instead of 1 more complicated one because it feels easier at first, holding off-of updates because it absolutely will break something in my stupid setup, doing something in a simpler stupider alternative way instead of doing it properly,…

Basically a software equivalent to old beaten up laptop you got for free that has broken plastic fixed with duct tape, few broken keys, half of the screen’s backlight not working and charging connector holding on velcro.

user224 , to asklemmy in What's the hardest lesson you've learned?

Got it. I am no one, and I don’t trust myself.

user224 , to asklemmy in What are your ideal temperature and weather conditions?

15°C (59°F), cloudy, not raining.

Not sure about space weather though, but it doesn’t matter much as I live in a city meaning high RFI so I can’t catch basically anything anyway.

user224 , to asklemmy in what would a queen bee be called if queens never existed?

I’d name it “Root bee”.

user224 , to worldnews in Several killed in Czech train crash, dozens injured

Four people died and more than two dozen were injured

Some 23 people were injured in the collision, according to Interior Minister Vit Rakusan.
He said that 20 people sustained minor injuries and three were moderately injured.

My math isn’t mathing here…

user224 , to asklemmy in Do you use both a personal desktop and laptop?

Just laptop. I don’t have a space for desktop, unfortunately.

user224 , to asklemmy in Do people actually get upset if you forget their name?

Some do, some don’t.

I certainly won’t as I tend to forget names a lot. Call me as you wish.

user224 , to nostupidquestions in Why don't more websites/services offer 2FA?

It’s not like it has to be required.

user224 , to asklemmy in At what age do you consider life to be over?

I’d say it’s individual.

For anybody, I’d generally say at death. Even later in life you can still pick up at least some interesting hobbies, which will also help you find friends. I know a lot of people in ham radio and postage stamp collecting are older, already retired, yet they also attract young people.
Sure, learning may get harder, but the amount of free time will compensate for it.
You’re still a person, no matter if you’re 10, 20, 50, 80,… and you’re not the only one. So life just ends with death.

Myself? I don’t know. I can’t encourage myself. It feels like I am late to anything. I never dated, yet most people I know did so in middle school already. I didn’t yet learn any programming, yet I know people who did so since they were 13. One of my teachers was already fixing computers for others for money when he was just 10. I know someone who got CCNA certification mid high school. I know one 16 year old who seems to just know everything related to networking and self-hosting.
Meanwhile I only got my first proper computer when I was 14 and barely knew the concept of operating system. In 2 days I finally got Linux Mint installed on it, but I didn’t even know what a partition is.
It just feels like I am dumb and late to absolutely anything at this point.
Since I’ve spent like the past 1-2 years spiralling down into these thoughts, for myself I’d say 16-17 (I am 18 now). I just wish to be dead.

But if you’re asking because you feel like your life already ended, I am pretty sure you can still get back. You’re definitely not the only one feeling like that, and that alone already unites you with a bunch of people.

user224 , to linux_gaming in Linux has reached 2..32% in Steam Hardware Survey for May 2024

Yup. Boot time and loading of system apps. 8.1 was basically instant while XP and Mint had slight delay. Not a big deal though, just something interesting for being Windows. After all, it was made for tablets.

I also put Windows 11 on it despite being unsupported. That was slower, but still OK-ish with SSD. Definitely nowhere near Linux Mint though. The background processes were just killing the CPU. Thankfully, thanks to being made in 2007 the cooler could easily take 100% CPU usage. However, it would hover around just 6% with network disconnected. Hmmm…
The CPU was Core 2 Duo T7500 upgraded from T7100. I got it on AliExpress for €1. It seems some people were using them for… making keychains? Anyway, they were sold as functional.

I wish laptop CPUs and GPUs were still upgradable. The GPU was GeForce 8600M.

user224 , to asklemmy in Best way to backup files

I also just do this. However I have already found 2 photos that got randomly corrupted, and I don’t know how to prevent that.

So far my only idea was using md5sum, but checking all files like that takes a loooooooooong time.

I am paranoid about cloud. I do have my music backed up on OneDrive, encrypted with GPG using AES256, but I don’t even fully trust that. I know, it sounds stupid, but maybe in the future it will be quite easy to break.

But I don’t know much about encryption. Just reading the man page, I put these options together:


<span style="color:#323232;">--s2k-cipher-algo AES256 --s2k-digest-algo SHA512 --s2k-mode 3 --s2k-count 65011712
</span>

but whether I can consider that safe enough, I don’t know.

And since I don’t know enough about it, I prefer not to trust it.

user224 , to linux_gaming in Linux has reached 2..32% in Steam Hardware Survey for May 2024

At least chess:
https://i.imgur.com/jSJPJ1x.mp4i.imgur.com/jSJPJ1x.mp4

Source: archive.org/details/Computer1985_6

^/j^

user224 , to linux_gaming in Linux has reached 2..32% in Steam Hardware Survey for May 2024

SteamOS is Arch-based. Could be that.

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