For smaller binary files it's fine. I use it for my desktop wallpapers. For large binary files there are a bunch of extensions out there like git-lfs or git-annex. Vanilla git can handle binary files up to a few GB IIRC but it gets unusably slow when you throw multiple large binary files at it.

Can't stress this enough, especially if you're a server operator! Any data that doesn't exist in at least 2 different places should be considered volatile. Also keep in mind that the "cloud" is just someone else's computer and shouldn't be used for backup, since you have no control over it and it requires a working Internet connection to access it. Better to get an external USB 3 drive with enough capacity to fit all your most important files; They're relatively cheap (especially HDDs) and last a long time (my personal one that I got years ago has 48524 hours on it as I'm typing this and it's still perfectly fine).

I agree. There is literally 0 reason to buy anything from Apple when there are much better and much cheaper options that are already well supported by GNU/Linux. I will never understand people who will go out of their way to waste money on the next big thing from Apple only to get Linux on it.

Terminally online gamers like that probably only pay attention to women who fit their fantasies and ignore -- if not make fun of -- everyone else. Reminds me a lot of back when Half-Life 2 was still relevant. Some Gamers decided that Alyx Vance wasn't "good enough" and so now there are a bunch of mods out there that swap her model to something more "appealing". I remember one of the more popular ones made her look like a white woman with less clothes, big boobs, makeup and suggestive expressions.

I would love for there to be a simple way to just interface with a graphics card directly on a low level w/o any vulkan/d3d/opengl crap in between. Just have the kernel map it to a file in /dev and to set it up and make it do stuff you just fopen() that file and write commands to it.

There are 64-bit Pentium IIIs?

Completely agree! I like to limit myself to HTTP 1.1 and any website I'll ever make will just be simple handwritten HTML with some CSS. I like to use elinks and xlinks for hypertext but in some cases -- like lemmy -- I'm unfortunately forced to use a bloated browser that supports JabbaScript and black magic (which makes no sense because online forums, message boards, blogs, wikis, etc. in the past all used to work without any JS). I like Gopher/Gemini a lot but I find it hard to discover interesting holes/capsules.

For a moment I thought "Did something big happen that I missed?" and then I watched the video. I'm always amazed by the stupidity of the average yankee.

Super cringe if real.

The "sit back and relax"-strategy really does work.

The stock market is basically gambling and designed to serve the bourgeoisie. Better to read theory than books on "how to make money".

By the early 2010s, at least two tycoons had seen their net worth approach that decabillion-dollar barrier, only to land in jail on corruption charges instead. That is not to say the charges were baseless, only that the choice of targets did appear to reflect a lingering, levelling tendency among China’s leaders.

In this new era, it’s dangerous to get too rich. Stories abound of the state launching investigations against this business figure or that financier. The pressure is drying up venture capital funds, scaring the young away from lucrative professions such as investment banking. The number of millionaires leaving China has been rising and peaked last year at 15,000 — dwarfing the exodus from any other nation.

Hilarious shit. It's almost as if it's impossible to get rich through honest and ethical means.

I support this. I have a home server running 24/7 with more than enough storage and wouldn't mind seeding some prolewiki torrents.

Assuming web crawlers and Tor traffic are filtered out my guess would be in the range of 10 - 100 depending on the day.

NGL I kinda miss him. At least he was funny. Wonder when he'll try to come here again.

The only possible glowop related to lemmygrad that we know of is Wenger/Wisconcom; Some guy from the US who claims to be Hoxhaist/Stalinist and calls this site and prolewiki "revisionist" because people here support the PRC. He lurks here and other places and has been actively attempting to infiltrate/wreck lemmygrad and prolewiki for over 2 years now. So far all of his attempts have hilariously failed, but for some reason he just never gives up. He might even be reading this very thread from a different account. I recommend "The Wiscon Files" for a deep dive.

Unless suddenly strange things start happening here on lemmygrad I think there is no need for this much paranoia (unless you're somehow a big threat to the imperial state).

At this point the best thing that could happen to the PS5 is for people to find a reliable jailbreak. With Linux it would probably make a decent PC. In terms of specs the hardware is comparable to a Xeon based workstation from the early-mid 2010s.

Good point. All these streaming sites are inefficient by design. Even without the DRM the Server will have to encode the video and audio (or possibly even transcode them if the client only supports certain formats) before sending them to the client. And this happens on the fly every time anyone watches anything. If those streaming sites were all just a fancy looking file server that make you download the source video files directly (kind of like GOG does with video games) then that would greatly reduce energy consumption long-term.

QEMU is vastly superior. Supports a great amount of different architectures and KVM acceleration is painless. Plus it's not from Oracle.

It doesn't help that they keep deprecating and changing standard stuff every other version. It's like they can't make up their mind and everything may be subject to change. Updating to the most recent release can suddenly cause 10s or 100s of compiler warnings/errors and things may no longer behave the same. Then you look up the new documentation and realize that you have to refactor a large part of the codebase because the "new way" is for whatever reason vastly different.