MajorHavoc

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MajorHavoc,

That is a terrific point!

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Weirdly, my (five year old) Microsoft Surface runs Ubuntu perfectly. (Edit to clarify, after some initial hassle.)

I’m eying a Framework 16 next.

Edit: To clarify, I would not recommend purchasing a Microsoft Surface to put Linux on it. As others have pointed out, it’s not the smoothest setup experience.

If anyone already has a Surface and wants to extend it’s life with Linux, that I recommend wholeheartedly. With the disclaimer that there was some weird nerdy deep-dive extra setup needed.

MajorHavoc,

If I was lucky enough to be in your shoes, I would hold onto the RuneScape account. Gold may go out of style at some point. /s…sort of.

MajorHavoc,

And you don’t need armed guards to keep index funds.

Lemmy, is there a treasured piece of content that you stop yourself from going back to "too often" so as to not dilute it?

I do this for a few things, movies in particular. For me most recently, I’m planning on watching Bo Burnham’s Inside this weekend, for the first time since I watched it shortly post-release. I wasn’t really intending to wait checks watch nearly 3 years on that one, but I definitely felt it needed some space before a...

MajorHavoc, (edited )

If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!

MajorHavoc,

Lyric from second songDo you think this store sells lemonade?!

MajorHavoc, (edited )

Thrawn is one of the few fiction villains who is also written as an effective leader. It makes him scarier.

And his ending is perfect.Even though most of his troops are very loyal, his downfall comes from one of the many people he abused during his rise to power.

MajorHavoc,

It would be a shame not to shamelessly plug author (and anti-DRM activist) Cory Doctorow here. He has some really fun science fiction, and sells his audio books DRM-free through various sources.

Shamelessly, because lots of his protagonists are self-hosters of various types.

MajorHavoc,

I bet Gowron gives amazing hugs.

MajorHavoc,

Yes! I too now intend to stop calling Chevrolet of Watsonville with my Python questions.

MajorHavoc,

Ahahhahhahha. Ha…ha. Ahem.

Sorry. The idea that any of the opportunities for improvement at my last “job A” code base might need “revealed” struck me as really funny.

Privacy Concerns on Lemmy: A Call for More User Control (github.com)

I’ve been grappling with a concern that I believe many of us share: the lack of privacy controls on Lemmy. As it stands, our profiles are public, and all our posts and comments are visible to anyone who cares to look. I don’t even care about privacy all that much, but this level of transparency feels to me akin to sharing my...

MajorHavoc, (edited )

It gets weird fast, because before privacy controls in the Lemmy source code mean anything, we need trusted third party verification of a server’s patch level, and security controls.

That can be done, and I think Lemmy has a shot at getting to that point, but it’ll be awhile.

In the meantime, I suspect the Lemmy developers are hesitant to add and advertise features that you can’t be sure are actually correctly enabled on your instance.

But yeah, let’s not let perfect be the enemy of moving toward better.

Edit: Assuming you completely trust your instance admin, we could start adding some basic privacy to actions taken on your home instance.

But as soon as the user starts interacting via federation, all bets are off - because the federated instance may he malicious.

I think we might see one or more “trusted fediverse” groups emerge in the next few years, with instance admins making commitments to security controls, moderation, code of conduct, etc.

So, in theory, the lemmy software could start implementing privacy controls that allow users to limit their visibility to whichever part of the fediverse their instance admin has marked as highly trusted.

But even then, there’s risks from bad actors on highly trusted instances that still allow open signups.

Anyway, I totally agree with you. It’s just a genuinely complex problem.

MajorHavoc,

Very cool.

MajorHavoc,

Thinking about it, the low literacy rate in the US might be an aggravating factor.

if those kids could read, they would be very upset

RaspberryPi becoming unresponsive at random intervals

Issue Description: I have been having this issue with my raspberry pi running dietPi where it seems to lock up and I cannot SSH / access any of the services on it. The interesting part is that the interface seems to be up and I can still ping it on the local network but shows no video output. usually I get about 3-6 days before...

MajorHavoc, (edited )

I’ve had this happen when I had too many USB devices plugged into it. It was having power underrun, and acting unresponsive while trying to compensate. I solved it with a powered USB hub.

Edit: I’ve had pairing it with an off brand power brick cause the same problem, too. Apparently the 3 and later Pi really want better power quality regulation, and some of the cheapo bricks I had lying around - while providing the right Volts and Amps, didn’t control the variation well enough for the modern Pi computer.

MajorHavoc,

That’s a bit like the investigation into whether lethal bear attacks are because of their teeth or their claws - probably really interesting, but not critical to the question of avoiding the bear.

MajorHavoc,

The “better spend resources elsewhere” part makes sense. The cost side feels a little dishonest, beacuse when large enough government bodies mandate safety rules, suppliers pick up a lot of the cost, under “the cost of doing business”.

MajorHavoc,

Is there anywhere that hat can be purchased?

Uh…I’m asking for a friend, because I definitely would not wear this just to alienate obnoxious people.

MajorHavoc,

Keep in mind that support for SMB is technically either available or not, in each so app. I don’t believe anything hides SMB from apps, on Debian derivatives, by default. (It seems inconvenient, but, anecdotally, it causes fewer headaches. Access over SMB is different enough from local storage that lying to apps about it causes issues…specifically the kind of issues we see with network shares on Windows.)

SMB is old enough that a huge number of apps support it, but it’s still extra code that each app might not include.

For apps that don’t support SMB, I sync a folder between Synology and a local drive, using the sync app that Synology provides.

kb.synology.com/…/How_to_sync_files_between_Synol…

MajorHavoc,

Segfault

MajorHavoc,

My head-canon is that the reason no one ever translates for R2 is that he’s extremely insulting in virtually every sentence, not just to 3PO, but to everyone.

MajorHavoc, (edited )

Well, except that many, many Twitter outages followed.

Yeah. As a software dev, it was pretty awkward explaining this to colleagues who rely on Twitter/X.

“It sounds like you think Twitter is a software company and that Elon is utterly unqualified to run a software company. That can’t possibly be true, right?”

…Then we end up doing the “Concerned Padme” meme…

MajorHavoc,

You would think so… And yet months of instability on a previously rock solid platform says he did not.

MajorHavoc,

… In about seventy five years when he rematerializes…

MajorHavoc,

Heck no! That sounds awful. /s

But seriously, when you read this, in your heart, you immediately knew I was bullshitting.

Everyone fails.

As Picard said “It is possible to do everything right, and still fail. That is not a tradgedy, it is life.”

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