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It’s far closer to a pc than a console.

Ehhh, you have to spend money on a decent dock to be able to use it with any consistency as a desktop. Sure, software-wise, it’s not a console, it plays PC games.

However, it’s physical form factor is a console. It looks and functions out of the box far more like a Nintendo Switch than a IBM ThinkPad.

It’s literally a gamepad with a screen and no keyboard or mouse. So despite being a PC platform, I would still consider this a “console,” based on outward-facing form factor alone, personally.

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gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology

Considering their methodology, I wonder how many of these are Steam Decks registering as “desktops” when they visit a website in the web broweser?

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I agree, but it’s definitely marketed as a gaming console of a sort, and not really marketed as a full-fledged PC.

So, imho, that technically skewers the numbers a bit, as it’s not a “desktop” in the traditional sense.

I mean, I’m still not calling 2023 the “Year of the Linux Desktop.” I’m calling it the “Year of the Portable Linux Gaming Console.”

The growth in percentage in Linux in Steam metrics is almost entirely because the Steam Deck.

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current copyright laws make zero sense if you actually stop and think about it for any amount of time.

So true.

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

This might be funnier than all those Facebook accounts with warnings about “I do not authorize anyone to use my photos!”

Because they’re trying to copyright an internet comment that they posted on a service hosted by someone else, with a creative commons license attached. It’s like a step up in knowing how shit works, but still not knowing enough.

If you really want ownership over what you say… don’t post it on the fucking internet.

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I use pigeons and let the wind tell me where to send them.

So is other guy gonna sue me now and win because I just copy and pasted what they said? This is a joke.

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deep seated*

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pine64.com/…/pinetab2-10-1-4gb-64gb-linux-tablet-…

It’s still very much a beta in a lot of ways, but PineTab could maybe handle PDFs

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I agree, but I was trying to fit their budget.

PineTab 4GB RAM / 64GB eMMC is $159 and PineNote is $399

I'm new to networking and self-hosting and have no idea where to start.

I’ve been slowly working my way though a list of skills to learn, both to put on my resume and as personal growth. Networking is the next thing on this list. I am not sure what I am looking for, but I want to start another project. I have built many a personal computer, but the world of networking is a pretty foreign concept...

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I mean, isn’t it important to understand the fundamentals so you can understand VLSM better?

Like math, a lot of this knowledge works better when you know the fundamentals and basics, which help you conceptualize the bigger ideas.

On a personal level, I would have had a lot harder time understanding VLSM if I hadn’t had the basic fundamentals of traditional subnetting and classful networking under my belt.

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Not necessarily in this order:

  1. Learn the OSI and TCP/IP layer models.
  2. Learn the fundamentals of IPv4 and IPv6. (Absolutely learn to count bits for IPv4)
  3. Learn and understand the use-cases for routers, switches, and firewalls.
  4. Learn about DNS. (Domain Name System)
  5. Learn about DHCP. (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
  6. Learn important Port Numbers for important Services. (SSH is Port 22, for example. The range of port numbers from 1024 to 49151 are “registered ports” that are generally always the same)
  7. Learn about address classes. (A, B, C are the main ones)
  8. Learn about hardware addresses (MAC address) and how to use ARP to find them.

And more! This is just off the top of my head. Until you’ve studied a lot more, please, for your own sake, don’t open your selfhosted ervices to the wider internet and just keep them local.

And just for fun, a poem:

The inventor of the spanning tree protocol, Radia Perlman, wrote a poem to describe how it works. When reading the poem it helps to know that in math terms, a network can be represented as a type of graph called a mesh, and that the goal of the spanning tree protocol is to turn any given network mesh into a tree structure with no loops that spans the entire set of network segments.

I think that I shall never see

A graph more lovely than a tree.

A tree whose crucial property

Is loop-free connectivity.

A tree that must be sure to span

So packets can reach every LAN.

First, the root must be selected.

By ID, it is elected.

Least cost paths from root are traced.

In the tree, these paths are placed.

A mesh is made by folks like me,

Then bridges find a spanning tree.

— Radia Perlman Algorhyme

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Despite being very grateful for what this job has done for me and my family, I’m simply not strong enough to keep doing this if it means having to just accept this kind and amount of distress. Perhaps that makes me weak, but I’ve rarely ever really thought otherwise.

I agree with Jocat, this isn’t a sign of weakness.

Can we drop this “gotta be strong” shit when people are literally dealing with thousands of random abusive asshats never leaving them be?

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That’s a fair take, thanks for the clarification.

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That’s fair, I was just being cheeky and trying to be funny. I don’t have any deets on software piracy sadly, my friend.

My best suggestion would be soulseek, it seems to have stuff I have trouble finding elsewhere, although you might need to make an exception for it to search for msi/exe files.

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can secure a free ethically sourced version of X?

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Are the Bell Riots before or after the Climate Change induced Water Wars?

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Better start buying weapons and building traps! That is valuable stuff! /S

Insight on how the ADs network is built?

Does any of you know firsthand how the ad industry works? I hate them with all my heart and I already go out of my way to block them but maybe you have been on the other side of the fence and can share some internal insight on what to focus on to really disrupt the data collection. I.e. even if I use uBlock can the ad network...

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The benefit is generally only cosmetic at your end.

As backwards as it sounds, the more you do to try to “anonymize” yourself on the internet, the more you actually stand out… because so few people go out of their way to use anonymization tools, which are easily spotted.

So what happens is your profile goes into the “People Who Like Privacy” bucket, and you get ads related to the fact that you want privacy.

Bill Hicks really summed this up nearly 40 years ago, ad execs will use any and every psychological tool and path to get you to buy.

They may not be able to create a profile on “you” speficially with your name, address, email, et cetera, but they will be able to create a general profile for “you” about your preferences, web browser, screen size, geolocation, et cetera.

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What a millennium, huh?

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OP right about now:

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Linux Hijinks (reddthat.com)

So, like I needed any more projects or any more computers, but I bought a receipt printer and two POS terminals. Both are Celeron J1900 I think at 3Ghz, 128G hard drive and I’m not sure of the memory. All that cost me a whopping $45, so how could I resist? Right now we’ve got the POSBANK unit working, you can see me updating...

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Lastly the printer… Not sure what to do with this, any suggestions?

Try to build an equivalent to the GameBoy Camera? It used receipt paper.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Camera#Functionali…

You might have to search for a low-resolution black & white camera, though, to really make it work.

Anyway, that would be my dumb project for a receipt printer.

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Barbossa: The code Prime Directive is more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules.

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Roxanne, you don’t have to put on your customer service voice.

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I make 'em cry with BO.

What smells like onions?

That’s me, baybay.

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