electric_nan

@electric_nan@lemmy.ml

“I’m knittin’ like a fuckin electric nan”

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electric_nan,

Rclone. You can set it up to work with most/all commercial cloud storage providers. Basically a little bit of configuring in the terminal, and you get the storage mounted like a network drive. You can even add in a layer of encryption. For awhile I had my media server using google drive this way as storage for like 10TB of TV/movies!

electric_nan,

It’s a source of comfort. People want to be in control. If they can’t be in control, they at least want to feel like someone or something is in control. That there is some organizing force or principle to the universe. Religion, astrology, conspiracism etc all flow from that impulse.

electric_nan,

I use Parcellite on Mint. It works pretty good for me.

electric_nan,

I use Hetzner storage box, mounted with rclone and it works great.

electric_nan,

Why do you say that? I use it for my 12+ TB library and it works fine. I’m on the west coast USA, and my vps and storage box are on the east coast.

electric_nan,

Any T or P series with the minimum specs you’re lokkung for. Tons on eBay.

electric_nan,

Except that in the actual commercial, they are in separate bathtubs lol.

electric_nan,

I love LMDE. Longtime fan of Mint, and recently changed all my ‘GUI’ machines over to LMDE. I tried pure Debian with Cinnamon, but it wasn’t the same. Mint makes it nicer, and I believe Debian is going to be their main base sooner than later, the way Ubuntu is going.

Is Ubuntu deserving the hate? (lemmy.ml)

Long story short, I have a desktop with Fedora, lovely, fast, sleek and surprisingly reliable for a near rolling distro (it failed me only once back around Fedora 34 or something where it nuked Grub). Tried to install on a 2012 i7 MacBook Air… what a slog!!! Surprisingly Ubuntu runs very smooth on it. I have been bothering all...

electric_nan,

I’m quite happy with Linux Mint Debian Edition. I think it is the future of Mint. It’s on a very recent kernel, and more and more software I use nowadays is in Flatpaks anyways. I don’t feel like I’m missing out on much new stuff, but maybe I’m just not aware.

electric_nan,

I found normal Debian to be a little unpolished for my liking. Even using the Cinnamon DE, it was lacking some niceties that Mint brings. I don’t think you’ll have any trouble using Mint.

electric_nan,

Why would the US government be in charge of whether people know about aliens or not?

electric_nan,

The contradictions were too glaring by the time I turned 12. God is love but hell is eternal and full of millions of objectively good people who just practiced the ‘wrong’ religion? Those things can’t both be true.

electric_nan,

I can relate. I did some cave diving in Mexico, and it was incredible. Having said that, there are some locations I would dive again, and some I definitely would not.

Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding (kitklarenberg.substack.com)

On November 16th, Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, published a detailed breakdown of the popular encrypted messaging app’s running costs for the very first time. The unprecedented disclosure’s motivation was simple - the platform is rapidly running out of money, and in dire need of donations to stay afloat....

electric_nan,

Wait til you hear where TOR gets its funding!

electric_nan,

Imagine the 'Trolley Problem" where there is a toddler on one track, and on the other track there is a cooler containing 100 in-vitro embryos. Which would you save, and why?

electric_nan,

Oh no! There were 2 toddlers and 200 frozen embryos on the trolley. Derailing it has destroyed them all.

Time to ditch #duckduckgo (lemmy.world)

In the last couple of months I have noticed an increasing trend of supplying me search results that are completely unrelated to the current query and tie back to my location or previous searches. I can say this with a high degree of certainty this is without a doubt beyond the 100th instance this has happened....

electric_nan,

I get the same shit at work where I can’t use a VPN: like 7-8 relevant results then basically just ads for local businesses after that.

electric_nan,

It depends on you. Some people get therapeutic benefit from regular psychedelic experiences, and never stop. Other people gain life-changing insights from one or several trips. Still others use/abuse it purely for fun, with a range of consequences resulting. A minority of people have adverse reactions where latent mental illnesses like schizophrenia can be triggered.

I’m in the second camp. A couple quotes that I relate to: “Once you get the message, hang up the phone” – Alan Watts. “Never point [psychedelics] at anything you don’t want perforated with new light”-- Terence McKenna.

electric_nan,

I’m sorry that happened to you, and I hope you are doing well.

electric_nan,

Linux Mint Debian Edition. Has a lot of the comforts and niceties you got from Ubuntu compared to Debian.

electric_nan,

You don’t have to be a beginner to love Mint. I am very happy that they are putting more energy into the Debian edition. I’ve tried lots of other distros over the years, and I am just comfortable in Mint.

electric_nan,

If your budget is tight, get a used/refurb, but recent model Thinkpad (T or P series) from EBay. Install Linux Mint (I say Debian Edition, since that is Mint’s future). It comes with LibreOffice preinstalled. You may want to install standard Microsoft fonts, which aren’t included for licensing reasons. You can search for how do do this.

electric_nan,

www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

It’s a version of Mint they have been maintaining in case Ubuntu ceases to be a desirable base for the distro. With things like over reliance on Snaps, and advertising paid security updates in the terminal, it seems like it won’t be very long until that point is reached. I love Mint, but dislike those specific aspects it brings from Ubuntu, so I have found LMDE to be the perfect solution.

electric_nan,

This is exactly my experience as well. I started using Linux in 2007 with Ubuntu ‘Feisty Fawn’. I have used Arch, Fedora, Debian, Manjaro and a few others as daily drivers over the years, but have used Mint almost exclusively for the past 7-8 years. Recently also switched to the Debian edition. My servers mostly run Debian, but sometimes Ubuntu.

electric_nan,

I got tired of the advertisements for paid Ubuntu security updates in the terminal. That’s honestly the main thing. Overall, I like the idea of Mint being based on original Debian, rather than a derivitave of a derivative. I haven’t noticed any differences from the ‘normal’ Mint, other than what I mentioned about the terminal. I don’t think there’s any reason not to install the Debian edition, but the experience will be 99.9% the same either way.

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