LunchMoneyThief 2h ago • 100%
Those suffixes in the installation images denote for which CPU architecture the image's binaries had been compiled for. In short, yes, they will only install and run on their respective hardware.
Unless you just want to fire them up in a virtual machine simulating the relevant CPU architecture.
LunchMoneyThief 2h ago • 100%
I can only speak for myself, but abandoning x86 isn't something that I could have done if I hadn't first cleaned my hands of my old gaming habit.
On the technical end, if you're already using some Linux distro, you're already half way there. Just use the installation media for ppce64el or riscv64 instead of the usual amd64.
LunchMoneyThief 4h ago • 100%
Relying on IA as the sole internet library was bound to create problems.
There need to be other entities doing this work independently of one another. Like municipal libraries.
LunchMoneyThief 4h ago • 100%
LunchMoneyThief 23h ago • 100%
Google and Meta and such don’t even need you to have an account to build accurate profiles and track you everywhere
This is true if one does nothing. It takes a lot of work but it is indeed possible to starve them of your data.
LunchMoneyThief 23h ago • 0%
Jump ship from x86 to something that isn't hostile to users.
RISC-V
OpenPOWER
LunchMoneyThief 1d ago • 0%
ffmpeg
LunchMoneyThief 2d ago • 100%
No, that would be weird.
LunchMoneyThief 2d ago • 100%
Honestly I should have a bit of respect for zeds and alphas who grow up around locked black boxes and still despite that manage to come out the other side knowing how to use something like terminal or git.
LunchMoneyThief 2d ago • 100%
Even no tech seems to be better than consumption focused devices.
It is far preferable to teach old relatives, who have never touched a computer, how to do basic things than it is to try to introduce a better or faster or freer way to those who have already been exposed to the officially ordained Microsoft or Apple way of doing things that should be simple.
LunchMoneyThief 2d ago • 100%
And you haven't turned to piracy yet?
LunchMoneyThief 2d ago • 100%
I sit facing the toilet so that I don't have to turn around to push the flush handle.
LunchMoneyThief 2d ago • 31%
The year is 2030, and you are on your way to meet a friend for a meal.
I don't eat out
You receive a message notification on WhatsApp
I don't use any of DARPA Lifelog Facebook Meta disservices.
which was sent by your friend using her Signal messaging app
I don't have friends. And DEFINITELY not girls. (I use Arch btw)
You choose an app because you like the way it looks
I think I just vomited a little bit in my mouth
You look at reviews produced by people you follow
I don't "follow" people and never will.
LunchMoneyThief 2d ago • 100%
https://www.vernoncoleman.com/
Feels very home made.
LunchMoneyThief 3d ago • 100%
Many people don't even know what continent they live on and you expect them to switch web browsers?
LunchMoneyThief 3d ago • 66%
Mintest, after only just (*inhales)
13 YEARS
finally rebranded to... something starting with "Lua". And I already forget the rest of the name because FOSS people suck at naming.
And I only even remembered the first part because I had once written mods in Lua, Mintest's scripting language of choice. Good luck for name recognition with anybody else.
LunchMoneyThief 3d ago • 100%
The same country that has mobile euthanasia vans?
LunchMoneyThief 3d ago • 100%
Is the part about being able to socialize also a mythic fantasy? Where ever do people work that they find the time to have conversations?
LunchMoneyThief 3d ago • 100%
Me: Whoops I accidentally archived it.
LunchMoneyThief 3d ago • 80%
Literally everyone that "threatens" to "switch to linux":
I would like to scale back my hosting costs and migrate one (or a few) sites over to a machine that I host at home. The bandwidth is more than enough to cover the traffic of these small sites. The simplicity of IPv6 has attracted me to the idea of exposing that server over IPv6 for hosting, while my daily machines remain on the IPv4 side of the stack. I don't care if this means that the sites are reachable by fewer visitors, as the traffic has never been huge. Am I going down a rabbit hole that I will later regret? How would you do this *right*?
How would you approach persuading a far extreme liberal toward center? What would you set as a realistic goal for a productive discourse? Would it be better attempt to do so in person rather than online?
How would you approach persuading a far extreme conservative toward center? What would you set as a realistic goal for a productive discourse? Would it be better attempt to do so in person rather than online?
### The problem: I manage computers for some loved ones from whom I now live several states away. All devices are linux environments and basically serve as home theater and light duty SOHO. They have been running for several years without incident, but do require intervention for the "hard" stuff like major release upgrades. (And perhaps I like to slip some entertainment media onto their shared drive from time to time). And I'd like to have an avenue to do this that doesn't necessarily involve planning a road trip. ### Candidate solution(s): Deploy a micro PC to sit on their network, whose sole purpose is as a headless SSH server. I would intend to SSH into that device, and from there SSH across the LAN to the necessary computers. The rationale is that I would only have one device answering the door, so to speak, at port 22, greatly simplifying port forwards and any need for static IPs. With dual stack IPv4 + IPv6 internet service, would it be better that I attempt this through IPv6? The micro PC would be scripted to retrieve the current public IP address every X hours and email it to me. Another idea is to configure the immediate SSH box behind a Tor SSH hidden service or a I2P eepsite SSH. This way it would maintain a persistent, reachable address without requiring some cobbled together script & email IP notification.
>Hello, >Sad news for everyone. YouTube/Google has patched the latest workaround that we had in order to restore the video playback functionality. >Right now we have no other solutions/fixes. You may be able to get Invidious working on residential IP addresses (like at home) but on datacenter IP addresses Invidious won't work anymore. >If you are interested to install Invidious at home, we remind you that we have a guide for that here: https://docs.invidious.io/installation/.. >This is not the death of this project. We will still try to find new solutions, but this might take time, months probably. >I have updated the public instance list in order to reflect on the working public instances: https://instances.invidious.io. Please don't abuse them since the number is really low. >Feel free to discuss this politely on [Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#invidious:matrix.org) or [IRC](https://web.libera.chat/?channel=#invidious).
Movies: I like to playback raw video files with a desktop video player. I settle for nothing less. I would gladly pay a few doubloons in exchange for a movie video file download *but nobody offers this*, (except for GOG that one time with a paltry selection of films). Games: "Hey we released this new game **buuuuut** you're going to need to purchase an entire separate computer system we call a 'console' because we refuse to compile the game binary for PC OSes, nor provide the source for you to do so yourself" I interpret distributors and publishers treating me as a second (or third) class citizen as carte blanche to acquire your content and make the necessary changes to make it work on my environment of choice.
I've seen tables flipped, tv sets punched through, furniture thrown. And that's just **in** the home. How does one get to a place mentally where burning and destroying things, *over a sportsball game* seem a reasonable thing to do?
Ever since around 2017, I have not visited (or even *seen*) the contemporary Youtube site. I had been using a combination of [Invidious](https://docs.invidious.io/instances/) and yt-dlp (youtube-dl). Just within the last year or two, Google has been making efforts to obstruct these tools. This can most clearly be seen with Invidious, [currently suffering](https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734) from a generic "This helps protect our community" error message. It has got me thinking that Google might eventually succeed in extinguishing these islands of safety that I've so enjoyed. People who still use raw, unmitigated Youtube today; how much of a hellscape has it become?
Is it good employer strategy to pay my employees just enough so that they can't save money, so that they can never walk away from the job? Like, there is a threshold where if they are able to save X per month, they will eventually use that against you and quit at an inopportune time? And if that threshold falls below state mandated minimum wage, what steps can be taken to mitigate this?
I've amassed a sizeable hoard, nearly all encoded h264 or h265. The space savings made by AV1 are attractive, but I don't want to move on it until after I've acquired hardware capable of AV1 GPU accelerated decode. Even then, the cost of reacquiring some works has to be weighed. Storage space gets freed; but how often do I actually revisit some cherished items? Anybody else having to make similar evaluations?
Ah, yes, *the Bible* on learning XYZ *the right way*. But I can only see such titles as suggesting the inner content is antithetical to communicating something clearly, concisely and in a way that doesn't leave the learner with even more questions.
Roughly ~1/3 requests yields a loading issue. In case you were wondering why Invidious instances reliability seems to have been in decline very recently. According to open issue >Additional context >This seems to be a global update, done before 22:23 UTC. (10:23 PM.) From my brief testing, this is present throughout all instances, and regardless of IPv6 address.
I was recently held up in absolute dead stop traffic. We were sitting on the tarmac with no movement for well over an hour, in the 80 degree sun, before I felt obliged to leave my car and go see if it was because of roadwork or an accident or what. I joined a small crowd of onlookers after reaching the head, spectating a row of sit-in protesters. One driver had tried to get around but a few protesters moved tactically so that he couldn't go any further without injuring somebody. I didn't wait around, although there were people phoning the police and some tempers beginning to flare. So I head back to my car. The dairy groceries that I picked up on the way back from work had begun to spoil. I was late home by nearly three hours, so no time to unwind. Just enough to pack away some old leftovers before heading off to sleep and restart cycle all over, -1 hour or so of sleep. Previously, I had no opinion whatsoever on whether cars=good or cars=bad. But after being held up in traffic, wasting money, wasting gas, losing sleep and perhaps a bit of my sanity I am now **totally** on board with the Fuck Cars movement. I couldn't imagine a more convincing strategy to bring people over to your perspective. Excellent thinking. Good job.
Especially when those 2nd, 3rd, + properties are being used as passive short term rentals. Observing the state of the housing situation "Hmm there aren't enough homes for normal families to each have a chance, I should turn this extra property of mine into a vacation rental." does this make said person a POS?