aniki

@aniki@lemm.ee

🌱🌿 Use Linux. Ride bikes. Eat plants. 🌱🌿

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(Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?

I’ve been distrohopping for a while now, and eventually I landed on Arch. Part of the reason I have stuck with it is I think I had a balanced introduction, since I was exposed to both praise and criticism. We often discuss our favorite distros, but I think it’s equally important to talk about the ones that didn’t quite hit...

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Ubuntu / snaps

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Microsoft has never, since inception, been able to ship an embedded Windows that wasn’t a festering pile of dog shit.

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Not sure what you mean – they all run Linux. The images just have the video hardware configs baked in with a preconfigured user and start script. You would be amazed at how easy that is to do, all things considered. I have a few kiosk configurations I created for the two Home Assistant panels I have in my house.

wiki.clockworkpi.com/index.php/ClockworkOS

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So let me get this straight – your defense of Microsoft, in this instance, is Japanese cabinet makers, making arcade machines, where the user doesn’t interact with the operating system in the slightest bit? A Japan that still faxes even in modernity? That’s your defense of MS? I bet they aren’t even using a special build of windows — just the desktop schlock with some shitty 3rd party app on top.

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Valve was essentially LATE to the handheld market, they just had the technical and company will to do it the best.

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Have you spoken to a therapist about getting past your own insecurities?

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Id recommend avoiding Orange anything until they can unfuck their flashing software.

Fucking windows-only chinese shitwear. Fuck Orange Pi. I’ll never buy another one.

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No one ever promised infinite compatibility forever. It’s most certainly NOT a microshit product.

Pi-Hole or something else for network ad blocking?

I’ve been aware of pi-hole for a while now, but never bothered with it because I do most web browsing on a laptop where browser extensions like uBlock origin are good enough. However, with multiple streaming services starting to insert adds into my paid subscriptions, I’m looking to upgrade to a network blocker that will...

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OOh which theme are you using? I keep forgetting to set that up. I remember looking into it and it was more involved for the time I was looking at it.

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I have the LCARs theme for my PiHole.

All other details are irrelevant.

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Thanks for the link! As long as it’s being worked on I feel comfortable spinning up an instance. I’ve been meaning to do gitea for a while so I’m glad I waited.

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did they get federation working?

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You mean programming an ingestion routine to process json, surely, right?

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It’s not at all that complicated. I’ll take kanji strokes over spelling any day. (I passed ikyuu a decade ago.)

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Well if there’s an application that the developer only releases a flatpak for, do I have a choice in being one of those million if there’s no easy way to compile it myself? What if I’m a newbie linuxer and cannot get all the dev tools installed?

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By choice or by force? I’ll take flatpaks over Appimages and literally rocks over snaps, but what is this metric actually saying?

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I’m not arguing against flatpaks I’m just calling the number suspect to meaningless as a metric.

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I would so much rather run AMD than Nvidia for AI.

Linux file transfer speed bottlenecks?

I’m currently watching the progress of a 4tB rsync file transfer, and i’m curious why the speeds are less than the theoretical read/write maximum speeds of the drives involved with the transfer. I know there’s a lot that can effect transfer speeds, so I guess i’m not asking why my transfer itself isn’t going faster....

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What is controlling the SATA drivers? A lot of times the stuff that comes on motherboards isn’t the greatest and getting a dedicated storage controller allows you to saturate the drive much more thoroughly. Specially if they have big caches.

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It’s definitely not the same but if you go small enough you can still find pockets of lads like myself that try and keep the rave atmosphere alive. It’s getting harder and harder to find landlords/property owners to let us throw illegal raves.

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in other words, it sounds like a totally meaningless metric.

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Did Boeing pay for this article?

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All the love, fam!! <3

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“Sorry, I only write vegan react…and python.”

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Ditch the Alexa.

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