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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Thanks for the suggestion, I do find this to be annoying in other communities, but as you said it doesn't seem to be a big issue here at present.

I intend to leave this post pinned for quite a while so that I can try to get a good idea of the general consensus of the community on the suggestions, so if it looks like most feel this is needed as time goes on then I would be glad to implement it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

I certainly agree and thank you, no worries.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Sounds good to me and by the looks of things I believe you are right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Really glad to see that, it hasn't been great since covid first showed up. Hopefully this trend continues.

 

Hello all,

I was recently reading through some posts here and noticed a comment in which someone was asking if this community was moderated at all.

I went to take a look, and sure enough, the only mod account here had not been active for ~2 years.

As I generally have the time to do so, I submitted a request to the instance admin to moderate the community and it was granted.

I have done this before for another community, and it seems to have gone well, so I am glad to try to help here too.

I wanted to make this post to first provide my assurances to you that I like to be responsible in moderation duties, and to let you know that I am well aware that this is no one persons community, but all of ours.

Second, and to that end, I see that this community currently has no rules set in the sidebar. I wanted to ask you all if you have any suggestions for rules for this community, or if you think it is even necessary to list any etc.

If people are generally in agreement with suggested rules, I would be glad to add them there and to try to enforce them as I have the time to do so.

Once these are in place, please remember that you can use the report feature on comments or posts that you believe break rules to get my attention to review them in regards to that.

Otherwise if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to ask or to make yourself heard.

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Your account says you joined 2 months ago so unless it's an alt account, you haven't really been here a very long time which probably plays into it. Furthermore are you actually looking for anything creative or unique? It looks like you have primarily just hopped around on technology communities. I would recommend browsing for communities that have more creativity and subjectivity to offer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Man, the business representative had so many opportunities to fix their fuck up and did nothing. Certainly a microcosm of larger issues though.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The US failed to succeed against ~100,000 Taliban in a country they could bomb and burn freely.

It cost the US 2 Trillion dollars for the war including expenses for hardware such as the 362,484 bombs they dropped.

The population of the US is ~347 Million.

If even 0.1% of the population actually decided to do something and made a coordinated effort, the US would be up against three times as many people and wouldn't be able to bomb them nearly as easily.

The US also really, really does not want anything like this happening in their borders, because it would interfere majorly with cash flow from it's citizens to itself as well as it's businesses it's in bed with. It also can't kill a lot of it's own people, because again, the money would go away. This means the more people that would oppose them, the less they could kill or capture without destroying themselves.

For this reason I think it's probably more viable than most people suspect.

The only real problem is that it's only flesh and blood that affirm freedoms gain, and people generally either feel well off enough that they don't want to do anything, or are simply too afraid to do anything.

In any event, no one ever wants to be the first one to act. They usually wait on someone else to first.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yea you need a Kananaskis pass to go over there.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Clearly not IPV4.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I switched due to the following problems with Windows and benefits with Linux:

  • Recall, the most privacy invasive software I have ever seen being spun as a "feature" which was shown to be insecure as well. It used to be that if you didn't pay for something, it meant you were the product. Now Microsoft wants you to pay them to be their product.
  • Fucking ads everywhere in the OS itself
  • It's slow as all hell
  • I would try to do something as simple in the UI such as hitting "Sleep" and Windows 11 wouldn't do anything until the 4th click
  • Windows no longer has a monopoly on games or music software - proton and DAW's like bitwig should now be forcing Microsoft to compete to make their OS better, but because capitalism doesn't work, they don't, and so I have no reason to stay with their OS
  • Linux is fast as fuck. Games like Armored Core VI and Death Stranding run better in an emulated state on Linux for me than they do natively on Windows because Linux isn't running 1500 telemetry tasks at all times.
  • Linux gives you choices of window managers. Don't like the UI in Windows? Tough luck. Don't like a UI in Linux? Change it in 2 seconds if you're using KDE Plasma, or switch to another WM like Gnome, XFCE, Cinnamon, etc so that the computer works the way you want. You want to have some WM functionality only sometimes that no one WM offers? Install 3 WM's, choose which one you want when you log in. Make the computer work for you.

On Windows 11 the final absolute last straw for me was when it stopped installing updates for me and gave me this:

So I couldn't even trust the system was secure anymore.

Windows is stagnated because all of their development focus has turned away from making a competitive OS with good and useful features for the end user, and instead focuses now on how to get more dollars out of each minor action a user could possibly take when using it. Linux just feels more modern, more powerful, more useful, more secure, faster, prettier, cleaner, and cost effective than Windows now because it is 98% of the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Depends on the bear. Black bears this can work, but if they attack you anyway you have to fight for your life or you are dead since they will keep attacking their prey until they are certain its dead.

Grizzlies... Be quiet and calm and talk in a low voice, also do not run if possible, if you run they will think you are prey. If they attack you, ball up, protect your neck and head, fight as well if you really have no other option. Making yourself seem big and scary isn't very effective with them.

Polar bear, you're just fucking dead.

For all of them, carry bear bangers and or bear spray.

 

Hey everyone,

When I was previously on windows I had a lot of fun doing music production. My workflow took place in FL studio and used a lot of software synthesizers (VST files mainly).

After my switch to Linux, I am 95% better off. Everything is great except I have to rediscover a music workflow.

It's quite painful because I had licenses to some very expensive software synth libraries (The Arturia V collection for example). I have done some reading and have found that while it is possible to get FL studio working in Linux, it still doesn't have the greatest of results.

As far as that goes, I am not terribly concerned - Reaper, Bitwig, and other Linux DAW's exist and I am fine using those instead even if it means purchasing a license for the paid ones.

But the real problem is the software centers/Licenses/installations for my software synths. It would be such a shame and a waste of money if I couldn't get these working, but I don't know much about dealing with this on Linux, so I am appealing to your collective knowledge.

I wanted to ask if anyone has successfully installed the Arturia V collection on Linux for use in a DAW, and if so, what you think I should know about it. I thought I read somewhere about some software these could be emulated/installed through (not wine), but I'm just really open to hearing about recommended options for something like this if anyone knows.

Otherwise, I wanted to ask my musical Linux friends here what they have for VST's and what their workflow is on Linux, because it's always fun to develop new work flows.

Thanks

 

Hi all,

Not too long ago I remembered that I had an old tower sitting in a garage which still had enough parts to run. Needless to say I went and bought 18 TB of surplus disks and some SATA cables, hooked them up, and configured RAID5 before installing my VPN client, my torrenting software, and Jellyfin.

This seedbox/media server setup has been completely revolutionary and I am floored by how great Jellyfin in particular works. I don't even have this tower wired - it's using an old crappy wifi dongle I bought around 2012 - and yet I can seamlessly stream all my content to the computers on my network without a hiccup.

Now in my home, there are two separate networks and two separate internet connections for reasons I wont get into. I want to make the server available to all the devices on both networks (particularly the television sets on the network the server does not reside on).

I believe I can just run an ethernet cable from the WAN port of one networks router to a LAN port on the other router, but wanted to see if anyone has had to do something similar.

Furthermore, while one television on the non-server network has the Jellyfin application available on it, the other televisions do not. As I understand it, trying to chromecast from a phone or something can be pretty painful to configure due to requiring certs and encryption. Is my best bet to get Jellyfin on the other TV's to do something like buy some Raspberry Pi/Libre Sweet Potato microcomputers or some such and hook them up to each TV to enable easy access?

Otherwise, if anyone has any ideas or has done something to get Jellyfin available for multiple TV sets which don't support the Jellyfin app, I'd be really happy to hear about your solutions and setups.

Thanks

 

Hey all,

Every Christmas Eve, my family hosts the dinner and events. For years my Mother has come up with some simple games to keep everyone entertained during the middle-later portion of the night.

She doesn't like anything too complicated. I was wondering if anyone has any simple party games which are fun with extended family around the holidays.

Thanks.

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Qwerty Keys QK101 full sized.

  • Anodized sandgold chassis
  • NicePBT Morse key caps
  • Gateron root beer float tactile switches, 58g bottom out, 62g tactile peak, 3.5 mm travel
  • Inbuilt LCD display and LED matrix
  • Per key RGB
  • Aluminum top plate
  • 3 way PCB, 1.2 mm with masking tape mod on the flex cuts/around screw holes
  • Top mounted, back foam, anti-static sheet

EDIT: Link broken for some reason - can see it here - https://files.catbox.moe/jd6mv1.jpg

 

Hey all,

As stated, I have somehow acquired an entire DL380 G9 for $150 CAD in basically never-used condition and both Xeons present (There is aesthetic marks on the chassis, but actually 0 dust inside. It's also lacking RAM).

I messed around with a couple of these things in college, but it's been a bit since I dealt with the hardware side of servers and setting one up from bottom floor, so I just had a few questions if anyone wants to offer advice.

There is only a single 8 drive bay installed on it currently, and it does not have all of its caddies. What is your go-to place to source drive caddies or additional bays if needed? I'd also be interested in hearing recommendations on suppliers of 2.5" spinning drives, RAM, and power cables.

Back in college we used to put ESXi on these things, but after looking it up I can see that there is no longer a free edition. Is Proxmox the de-facto solution for bare metal hypervisors theses days? Either way, if anyone has any videos covering the process for installation on this hardware, I would appreciate it (though I can probably sus it out with enough time as well).

Finally, server racks are absurdly expensive of course. Any suggestions on DIY's for a rack would be appreciated.

Glad to answer any additional questions if needed - thanks for your time.

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I recently installed KDE Plasma to my Debian system after using Gnome my entire life. I still quite enjoy gnome, but I think that its workflow is better suited to a mobile system like my laptop.

Using Plasma on my desktop system has been revolutionary - there is a stupid amount of functionality in here. In particular, widgets, themes, and activities are just so well implemented for the most part - I really feel like I can tailor the GUI to my needs and wants, and I think this is an enormous part of what is making Linux a truly modern OS when compared to proprietary alternatives.

The more I tweak things, the more the system feels truly like MY system - something that I don't think I could make work with proprietary software.

I was not a big fan of the splash screen until I found out that, of course, it can be disabled or customized as well - so now I find myself making vector graphics to customize that as well haha.

My only real regret is that having been on Gnome originally, some Gnome stuff can get in the way (though I do still kind of like using GDM instead of SDDM). Whenever I should do some big update/upgrade I am for sure installing plasma from the get go.

As someone who is new to KDE overall, and particularly with a system that has Gnome still partially installed, if there is anything I should know, I would appreciate it. Furthermore if anyone has any favorite widgets and whatnot, I would love to hear about them as well.

Thank you

 

Hello all,

If this is not the right community for this question, I would be happy to be redirected elsewhere, so just let me know.

I recently configured my terminal emulator to an aesthetic that I like (custom font, coloring, shell prompt, etc) and it has made me wonder about customization in gnome.

One of the biggest things that I wish I could change in gnome is the grey-ness of the application view.

In this screenshot, you can see the familiar application view. In between the organizing folders, the desktops, and the dock, there is just so much nothing.

I am wondering if it is possible to customize this relatively easily. I would much prefer an image of my own choosing in place of this, or at least a different color from time to time.

Is anyone aware if this is configurable? I can't seem to find an extension for this, or any real information on how you would do such a thing.

Thanks

 

Hey fellas, I am new to Rust! I have been following the rustlings tutorial + the rust online book, and I have just purchased the book "Rust for Rustaceans: Idiomatic Programming For Experienced Developers".

While I am NOT an experienced developer, I have worked in languages such as Java, Python, and a little bit of C before, and my schooling was in information technology for computer systems infrastructure so most of the ideas are not too foreign to me (except for ownership in rust, which from what I have been reading is super cool, though it throws a wrench into how I might usually write something while opening some other doors).

I am interested in learning, so I wanted to ask if, in addition to the resources I have selected above, is there anything else I should add to try to supplement my learning, or are those reasonably acceptable?

I am also glad to hear any tidbits, advice, or suggestions otherwise.

Thank you.

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I thought I would link this in case anyone was not aware that such a community has already existed for some time, and now will likely be more useful than ever.

If anyone has suggestions for Canadian made goods, please head over and support one another.

[email protected]

I have also added a link to this community in the sidebar.

 

Hey everyone, I hope you are well.

I recently purchased a TP-Link Archer C7 from a thrift store for 4 dollars and converted it into a pineapple router using a firmware build that someone made based on Open-WRT for testing and educational purposes, and it it has raised a few other thoughts and interests.

I have two questions.

  1. Is anyone aware of a software available through F-Droid or otherwise which can be used to turn a phone into a temporary access point serving FTP for file sharing purposes? I think it would be handy to be able to share files to several people in proximity and I would imagine turning a phone into a mobile FTP AP would be something that has been done. If anyone is aware of any such project, I would be highly interested.

  2. For running such a thing whether it be through a phone or a router, is anyone aware of a mobile power source which can fit in a backpack easily and power a 12 volt 1.5 amp router for ~10 hours?

I would love to be able to have the ability to basically have a backpack that acts as a mobile NAS that serves FTP/SFTP.

Thanks.

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