avidamoeba

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

Linux’es diversity has never been found in the large fundamental pieces of software. Instead it’s typically been found in the nooks and crannies between them. We’ve typically had one or several of those and most have used those. It’s the kind of diversity you find between evolutionary differences between the same species, not revolutionary differences.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

I’d like to thank Haier for their transparency. ♥️

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

In short, yes, yes it’s worth it.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 1 month ago)

Got it. So being written in Rust is one of the requirements. Makes sense. Flutter is great for self-contained applications but we can definitely use another sane native toolkit besides Qt that has wider applicability.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

It doesn’t use GTK does it?

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 1 month ago)

Why develop libcosmic around iced instead of going with something else modern that’s easy to develop in such as Flutter? Iced/libcosmic is probably a bit more efficient resource-wise but that probably wasn’t a huge point.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Beautiful, so there’s a good chance for it to not be a hot mess! Looking forward to it. 😊

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

Of course.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Could be a defective library that’s used by many apps. Glibc, etc. That said, if something like this is that broken, others should be complaining about it too.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

Crashes on Arch, doesn’t crash on Debian:

Debian > Arch

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

Ubuntu Pro is free for up to 5 machines per account.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

Melts in long term support

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

This is valid for end users too. Ubuntu Pro is free for up to 5 machines. People can install 22.04 and stay on it for 10 years or 24.04 for 12 years. That’s the kind of boring stable desktop operation that only Windows XP has managed to muster and people loved it. It’s perfect for the kind of folks who hate having to do major OS upgrades, as well as people who support others for free. Cough … family IT … cough. You bet your ass the family members I support would stay on 22.04 for a looong time!

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Not a problem. Ship the component as a snap instead. 😊

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

Yup, moving away from rar would probably be best.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 1 month ago)

As a last resort you could install docker from apt, build an image from a distro has rar in its arm repos, then run containers ephemerallly, mounting your work dir into the container where rar runs. Try the suggested methods of getting a binary first. 😅

<span style="color:#323232;">docker run --rm -v /your/work/dir:/destination/in/container your_image rar ...
</span>

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

Adding to this, Tailscale’s clients are open source and there’s a community-developed open source control server component called Headscale that can replace the Tailscale’s central server if and when needed. I tested it recently and it seemed to work fine.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

Could you elaborate where can I get one of those for about three fiddy?

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

Thanks! Odd, it seems they aren’t available from other registrars for this price.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 14 days ago)

Oh yes, this looks like a winner. Thanks!

It seems like it’s written in Python too, which means I can maintain it if need be.

Oh boy I wish I had set this up many years ago. I wouldn’t have to resort to scouring !antiquememesroadshow for the top quality memes of the past when I need them…

On a far side of the moon note, I wonder if ActivityPub could be used to federate multiple archiveboxes to create a more resilient Internet Archive alternative. 🤔 Then integrate that with Lemmy to autoarchive links from posts. Aaand lemmy.world ran out of disk space. 🤣

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

Exactly. I’m already running a local wiki, but I don’t want stuff I link to in my wiki to result in 404 in a few years. Or worse, to some AI-ridden ad-infested dumpster fire.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 1 month ago)

It depends on the type of machine you’re talking about. Pet machines, bare metal or VMs, such as workstations, desktops, laptops are generally upgraded because it takes a while to re-setup everything. Cattle machines such as servers are generally recreated. With that said, creation of such machines typically involves some sort of automation that does the work for you. Setup scripts are the very basic, however configuration as code systems such as Ansible, SaltStack are much preferable. So if I had a VM that runs acme.sh, I’d write an Ansible runbook that creates it from a vanilla OS installation. I stop here for my own infrastructure. When we do this in cloud environments where we need to spin up more than one such VM and quickly, we’d have the OS install and Ansible run in a Jenkins job which builds a VM image that’s pushed to the cloud. Then we spin up ready acme.sh VMs from that image which takes seconds.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 1 month ago)

How does Kayak get my personal information via a search link from Organic Maps?

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

Hahaha, good point. At least not that autocratic.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 22 days ago)

This reluctance to tie the knot is worrying policymakers grappling with a decline in births and a rapidly aging population in a country that was once the world’s most populous, and where marriage rates are closely tied to birth rates as unmarried mothers are often denied child-raising benefits.

I heard the CCP wanted birth rates to climb. That’s not how you do it. The slowing economy doesn’t have to have this effect on young people. The Chinese government has a much stronger ability to manage these effects than democratic free market economies. I hope they would manage to use that.