pastermil

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pastermil,

Nier Replicant & Nier Automata soundtracks

All in chaos language (a.k.a. pure gibberish).

pastermil,

It’s not fair to compare it to your decade-old i7

pastermil,

Now if only gccrs would mature soon!

LLVM-based is fine for most case, but I bet a lot of people would want to stick with gcc for compiling the kernel.

pastermil,

Meanwhile on Tumbleweed: “276 packages to update”

TIFU by rebooting before rebuilding my initfs

I had a super fast but small SSD and didn’t know what to do with it, so I was playing with caching slow spinning LVM drives. It worked pretty good, but I got interrupted and came back a few weeks later to upgrade the OS. I forgot about the caching LVM, updated the packages in preparation for the OS upgrade, then rebooted. The...

pastermil,

A Gentoo LiveUSB and some chroot would save your day!

pastermil, (edited )

I read that as “Distro for Piece of Shit”. I was going to say, if you dont like them, install Gentoo.

Or even better: Linux From Scratch, or busybox buildroot

pastermil,

At my company, we use ubuntu for the simple reason that our servers are running it.

pastermil,

I got engaged early last year, planned our wedding toward the end of the year. In between, I got a new job with salary more than twice of my previous job.

Now I am happily married, and after a raise my current salary is almost triple my previous job. I’m still trying to convince my former colleagues (just the cool ones) to also find new jobs.

pastermil,

I think that’s what they call Jedi Tripping.

pastermil,

No wonder Tommy Shelby got PTSD.

pastermil,

Hey, you’re forgetting Rayman!

pastermil,

Yum!

pastermil,

How would wlroots relate to the compositors such as KWin & GNOME Shell?

pastermil,

He’s not a supervillain.

He’s an antihero.

Are movie and show file sizes more efficient than they were years ago?

This may be a stupid question, but I just got back into pirating some shows and movies and realize that many of the QxR files are much smaller than what I downloaded in the past. Is it likely that I am sacrificing a noticeable amount of quality if I replace my files with the smaller QxR ones?...

pastermil,

I wonder what the implications would be for us consumers & pirates.

pastermil,

Meanwhile, Linux Mint users have it on by default.

pastermil,

Oh boy, big update coming soon to your nearest distro!

pastermil,

And the grannies!

pastermil,

Thunderbird has RSS feature AFAIK. KDE’s KMail as well.

pastermil,

What I’m trying to say is that it’s an uphill battle, arguably pointless too.

Before going with the current 30 series, I was using X200 and X60. They’re both good machines, don’t get me wrong. However, their age shows when trying to do modern tasks, even something as simple as web browsing.

The X60 doesn’t even have the hardware acceleration capability for my usual KDE setup. By the way, you’d be stuck with DDR2.

The X200 is much more capable than X60, but try to browse most modern sites and you’ll feel the machine getting hot. You could turn off javascript, but then you’ll be missing quite a bit of functionalities. I definitely wouldn’t run VSCodium on it for work. I’m currently using this one as a testbed for distrohopping.

To me, the 30 series is a sweet spot. The Ivy bridge is not too old for demanding computations of modern days. If you opt for the highest tier i7, you could beat a lot of the average ones from the following generations. If you don’t get the processor you want, you can always replace it since it’s socketed, at least for my W530, which should apply for T430 &T530 (not X230).

You might want to ask yourself: what are you trying to achieve, and more importantly, how can you measure what you’ve actually achieved? No, blindly following online articles is not a good measurement.

I found out later on that I had no way of actually verifying anything with libreboot. The build system is a pain in the neck to follow thru. I then tried doing it with coreboot upstream, and my experience building with it was much better. Even with it, I wouldn’t have the chance to look thru every line of code, I still need to just “trust” somebody.

You can definitely play around, but if that’s all you do, you’d be asking yourself why you did all that when you get bored.

pastermil,

Technology is just a tool. It’s just like blaming cars for all the carcrashes.

pastermil,

Why not Zoidberg?

pastermil,

🥹

pastermil,

Even if it is, some iron oxide wouldn’t hurt. Some cast-iron teapots even depend on it for improving taste, I’ve heard.

pastermil,

You’ll lose a hand, most likely.

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