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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.

SDF Unix shell username: user224

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user224 ,

Normal? What is normal in the first place?

It is generally expected to stop once you hit puberty, and since that point there’s a general expectation that sleeping ^(literal^ ^meaning^ ^of^ ^the^ ^word)^ with someone else will be reserved to your partner.
But why though? It’s not like people have need for physical contact just until they hit puberty, and obviously not all physical contact is sexual. It’s not weird to hug, and it’s also not like it has a time limit.

Take this for example. Anything sexual between siblings is unnatural and not normal. Anything sexual between humans and animals is unnatural and not normal as well. But it is generally viewed as normal to sleep with your dog or a cat. What’s the difference? Why is such contact between different species normal, yet when it’s with the same specie, we arrive at this question.

I guess it depends on what is “normal”.

user224 ,

https://i.imgur.com/8whIAxh.jpeg

user224 ,

Gen Z.
Don’t care about generations too much. It just creates (often false) stereotypes, like any groups of people.

HardBassTV , to linux Romanian

@linux

Just made da switch from Windows 10 to Linux Mint. How do i get started?

user224 ,

Sounds like you already got started.
Do you have more precise questions? Doesn’t matter if it’s something “simple”.

Why do you still hate Windows?

I realize this is a Linux community, but I was wondering why you still hate Windows. I mean, I love Linux, but I will not argue that it’s more convenient to the average person in most use cases to use Windows, I recently had to switch back to Windows and I realized how convenient it all was and how I was missing so many things...

user224 ,

Because for me Windows was not easier to use.

I only got my first proper computer in 2020, and comparing Windows 10 with Linux Mint 20, I found the latter much simpler to use not having used either one prior. Just having to bounce between Control Panel and new Settings, plus a lot of tutorials shown magic with registries…
Also, I had a lot of problems with uninstallers failing or not removing programs completely, and getting permissions to remove files directly was also pain in the ass, even as “Administrator”. That often resulted in me booting up live Linux DVD to remove crap programs from Windows.

I gave it a try, but I didn’t like it. Perhaps I’d like MacOS though. It seems similar enough. But Windows just feels like 2 decades of hotfixes glued together.

user224 ,

OK, but seriously, X, Y and Z are these:

  1. Reboot
  2. DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
  3. sfc /scannow

The only answers you’ll get.

user224 ,

Yes, but at much higher cost.

user224 ,

If everyone has their posts and comments upvoted by themselves by default, nobody can further upvote themselves (from that account), thus not getting advantage from self-upvote.

1 = 0

user224 ,

That’s what a kid pretending to be an adult would say.

When I was your age, no kids did that, 'cause we had no damn internets back then. We had to actually walk outside to talk with others.

user224 ,

Yep: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09C937K7Y

user224 ,

I know a young person will read this and think this won’t happen to them.

I rather thought “Huh, 30s is still young.”

user224 ,
  1. Slang spreads offline as well
  2. The devices were TVs for a good while not too long ago
user224 ,

Do people not check what version of software they have and what’s newest (and if the issue exists is a good idea too) before reporting a bug?

user224 ,

In case you’re serious, a video-centric social media. It focuses on short vertical videos. Naturally, they’re generally too short to have much useful information, so it’s mostly dumb addictive content, or straight up misinformation. It’s meant to feel like you’re not wasting time while you definitely are. “I am not spending 15 minutes to watch a normal video, I just watched a few (maybe 50) short (around 1 minute) videos.”

It’s like YouTube shorts.

user224 ,

Or:

Today I will answer all your most important questions. For example, the answer to eternal happiness is… more in part 2!

user224 ,

YouTube also supports longer videos outside of shorts. And they don’t even have to be in portrait mode. ^/j^

user224 ,

What happened to the previous post? If you felt like you had to remove it, why did you just post it again?

Anyway, yes I am. It’s not like I could give a single reason why, it’s a lot of things, so simply yes.

user224 ,

Generally yes. If I don’t need it, I don’t need it for free either. The price doesn’t change how much I don’t need a product.

Only made sense when some supermarkets had samples of hams and cheeses in those sections before COVID. Helped decide which one to buy.

user224 ,

I hate Billboards.

I don’t just hate them, but I’d straight up make them illegal. At least next to roads. They are specifically meant to get the attention of drivers. How can that be allowed?

user224 ,

Yes.

user224 ,

School, bus station, many other places of my city with free internet.
I also used to steal neighbor’s WiFi for years. Since I was 8 until I was 14. But for larger downloads I used public networks. By larger downloads, I meant >50MB. Yeah. Huge. Though I was watching YouTube quite a bit, usually at 144p/240p. In the end I still spent quite a bit.

Currently I just use mobile data. Still no normal internet connection at home. But hey, my school finally has symmetric gigabit. The only problem is, most classrooms are connected via Fast Ethernet.

user224 ,

Pentacock

user224 ,

+0.5 ply

user224 ,

No. Low quality multi-generation lossy re-encodes.

Soulseek or doubledouble.top

user224 ,

I have all music on my phone and host Navidrome server on LAN, also on my phone in Termux.

user224 ,

Shazam what I hear around me and like. Often it’s just bus drivers listening to music, and since I sit in the front if possible, I can discover music. Or just radio, whether it’s FM, DAB+ or internet. AM is usually limited to news and bazillion chinese stations.

user224 ,

I doubt it.

user224 ,

By the way, with some not so ancient devices you can search for the firmware here: software.cisco.com/download/home and at least get MD5 and SHA-512 hashes to verify the files you downloaded.

Not the case with this AP though.

Edit: Oh, I almost forgot. Also the exact filename. Makes it easy finding it online.

user224 OP ,

Nope.

user224 OP ,

Euclid-class SCPs are anomalies that require more resources to contain completely or where containment isn’t always reliable. Usually this is because the SCP is insufficiently understood or inherently unpredictable. Euclid is the Object Class with the greatest scope, and it’s usually a safe bet that an SCP will be this class if it doesn’t easily fall into any of the other standard Object Classes.

Source

user224 OP ,

They typically output less than a watt.

Sounds optimistic. Checking a few USB to 3.5mm dongles, they seem to be around 25mW max at 32Ohms. Not sure how much that would change with short circuit, but I guess not much more.

user224 ,

Also something to consider is that each federated instance keeps their copy of that content. If the content is some hateful propaganda, those instances may also be held legally responsible for that. Same with piracy communities.

Are offline updates going to be the future?

I use PCLinuxOS as my primary Linux OS. They are a bit conservative to adapt new updates until they are sure of stability because of rolling nature. KDE is still at 5 there. Heard about Neon and wanted to try KDE 6. I find that they have adopted Windows style approach to updates where we need to reboot to apply the updates and...

user224 ,

It does sound like a good idea.

Mid-update you can end up with broken dependencies and thus not fully working system. There may also be a problem with how programs update their config files.
This is especially true with big updates which is why Arch and Manjaro recommended to update from plain TTY during the Plasma 6 upgrade. Reboot, do not login, switch to TTY, stop the graphical login manager, just then proceed with upgrade.
A bit too much to ask for from regular users. Especially since it relies on them reading update announcements before each update.

Personally, I always close most stuff during updates. I even had terminal emulator itself die during update on Linux Mint.

SDesk OS, and frowned on open sourced? (sh.itjust.works)

I recently spent some time browsing my favorite website, Distrowatch.com, where they provide weekly news updates on the latest developments in the world of Linux distributions. This week, I noticed that a new distro had been added to their list: SDesk. Given its intriguing name, I decided to take a closer look and discovered...

user224 ,

A lot of websites do not know what wiki is supposed to be.

One Czech search engine has a wiki page which is actually just a list of repeatedly searched things, and it does include a lot of wild stuff.

user224 ,

Firefox+Plasma+Wayland+SystemD+GNU+Linux

user224 ,

Certainly better than nothing. Going to a therapist can be hard, both mentally and economically.

user224 ,

if you are willing to put work into yourself.

Is my guess.

user224 ,

There’s one LED advertisement board in my area that I see pretty often. Nowdays I’d say it shows something it’s not supposed to more often than an advertisement.

Previously I’ve seen BSOD on it a couple of times, but recently a lot. Also “Finish setting up this device” and part of the desktop showing Windows 11 wallpaper.
My guess is someone upgraded it from Windows 10 to 11, and now it works even less.

user224 ,

Google mail is extremely unlikely to get shut down.

But anyway, Proton Mail allows importing e-mails from Google.

user224 ,

Surprised?

user224 ,

I found more info here (news.com.au).
Also shows image of the pipe and:

“[It] appears right now the pump was put in there, and it was probably malfunctioning because of the open pipe that she ended up in was supposed to be pushing water out.”

user224 , (edited )

No kids.

I don’t want any more stress, and I don’t like kids anyway. Plus the idea of bringing someone else in this world… I want to die, why would I cause living to someone else?

And even if my views do change in the future, I’d rather go for adoption. Not only would I not create more life, but I could perhaps give someone a better chance.
I don’t really understand the appeal of your kids being blood-related anyway. What’s the point?

Having to score strangers on their 'empathy' and 'courtesy' and 'knowledge' (anything less than a 5 star is a 'bad grade', I am sure) (lemmy.world)

by that i mean, those are intangible, effervescent parts of a human being that should not be quantized down to a fucking amazon star system. the ‘anything less than 5 stars is actually bad’ thing is disgusting as well - all modern companies do this.

user224 ,

I only use it to order DVDs sometimes. I can’t buy them in English (original) locally, and shipping from UK is generally cheap, just slow. And we’re also region 2.

576p, yes, but I like DVDs, and physical media is the only way I plan to purchase movies.

user224 ,

I don’t have a BluRay drive.

Also DVD protection is fully compromised.
BluRay is still very much relevant, and so is its DRM. I don’t really understand the used system, something with AACS keys that can be revoked. This gets updated on the drive itself, and the list of keys to be revoked is distributed on BluRay discs itself.
All I know is the end result is that after inserting a newly released BluRay, it’s possible you won’t be able to play some older ones without updates.

Seems this can be mitigated by backing up the VUK of each disc until the keys are revoked: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Blu-ray

But anyway, to me it just sounds like an unstable system. One day you can watch all your collection, the next day after watching a new movie you just get “AACS Host Certificate Revoked” error.
The only sure way would be ripping the discs, but hey, might just pirate it at that point.

Oh, and I am not even talking about HDCP on dedicated BluRay players. Whoops, your TV doesn’t support HDCP, buy a new one!

user224 ,

attack

They just pull out of those states. How is that an attack?

user224 ,

Overthink everything.
Not that I don’t do it otherwise, but in this case it doesn’t impact anything else… maybe besides my sanity.

And stuff like doing backups and updates. I use HDD, btw. Takes plenty of time.

user224 ,

And also God apparently has so much power he could fix everything in this world with little effort. But no, he specifically creates it. God created all there is, including all the bad stuff. Murderers? Rapists? Slave owners? …? Yep. But, “Do not question God’s intentions. He works in mysterious ways.”

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