Hi all, I recently got into the world of ergo mech by borrowing a friend’s old Iris v2, and I really love how powerful and customizable things can be with QMK firmware....
I’m thinking of picking up a used ThinkPad on eBay for cheap to serve as my daily driver. I’ll likely run LMDE, and primarily use it for web browsing, office programs, coding, and FreeCAD. Any recommendations on which model would best hit the sweet spot of capability vs price?
Damn, we’ve let working conditions slip so bad, paid overtime was for a long time a given (thanks unions), now it’s a perk.
The top consideration around finding a role with work-life balance according to this year’s survey was getting time off work in lieu of any additional hours worked.
So normal pay, not just giving it away for free, as has become way too normal for the ‘salaryman’. Tellingly, “paid overtime” is only in the title as clickbait. Also, “fare compensation”, hire an editor SBS, or at least a grammar plugin.
This sounds like thinking I had as carer for my mother with dementia/Alzheimer’s. If so, I found introducing new things to be not useful, it will be soon forgotten, (If not, good, and ignore this, but XY-Problem indeed). What I found actually useful was remote video monitoring on my phone (using a few RasPi’s, I’m sure there are better solutions, but I was poor, and it worked) allowing me to go out in necessity. The other thing I wish I’d done earlier is reach out to any and all available support earlier rather than later, it’s a marathon and every edge you can get will allow you to do better for all concerned, not least yourself.
That said, watches with automatic fall monitoring, with SMS alert to you would be useful. Ideally, something like Alexa (but preferably not as privacy invading, still, needs must as the devil drives) or whatever allowing her to just call out “help” and get a call to you on a speaker / microphone is probably achievable now, perhaps someone can chime in, or you can go searching. Best of luck!
In what way are you not re-inventing the gluetun wheel ? Not trying to put you down, just that I’d need a good reason to consider anything less battle hardened.
I don’t route all my system’s traffic through Gluetun, my threat model doesn’t need it, I just route relevant apps, e.g. package management is in the clear but firefox, SearXNG, and nicotine go via gluetun. SSH can look after itself, or I’m in dire trouble. If my threat model did need it, I’d be considering a similar solution to yours, but it’d be heavily cribbed from the known good of gluetun, basically the docker (podman) put to bare metal.
It’s an Ubuntu downstream maintained by Linux box maker System76 which is targeted for both general usability and design/media applications. They will soon be debuting their own home-spun desktop environment, Cosmic DE, which is highly anticipated by the Linux community....
I’ve started setting up my media server and was wondering if I should put my docker containers with sonarr and radarr behind my VPN the same as my qbit?
Probably unenforceable, like so much of EULAs, but enough to deter the small guys who can’t afford the lawyers to defend themselves. Bully tactics. Shame, because an open playing field would benefit everyone but nvidia, also a shame that AMD, who probably could defend themselves, dropped financial support for ZLUDA.
Australia, the testing ground for bad privacy invading policy for the five (/thirteen/whatever we’re up to now) eyes. Also run by technical morons (“The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia”). ASSAct etc.
I do this, along with pamusb, so I don’t need a password for sudo etc. (which allows a longer more secure password than I might otherwise use). Depending on the threat model, I think it’s fine to just leave it in. One day I’ll get it to shutdown --now on ripping out the key drive without dismounting first, sort of a break glass in emergency thing. Same thing can be achieved with pulling the key and holding the power button though (even if it’s a bit rude to the filesystem)
We’re getting close to a climax of our campaign, and we needed to get to the City of Temples. The issue is that the City of Temples does not have a permanent teleportation circle, under the belief that it should be some level of a pilgrimage....
Left hand keypad with D pad and scroll wheel?
Hi all, I recently got into the world of ergo mech by borrowing a friend’s old Iris v2, and I really love how powerful and customizable things can be with QMK firmware....
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What is the best model of used ThinkPad to purchase?
I’m thinking of picking up a used ThinkPad on eBay for cheap to serve as my daily driver. I’ll likely run LMDE, and primarily use it for web browsing, office programs, coding, and FreeCAD. Any recommendations on which model would best hit the sweet spot of capability vs price?
"Do you know how many spells are just recycled incantations?"
Me whenever someone brings up futuristic dystopias. (lemmy.world)
Seriously, it doesn’t get much more dystopian than this.
Is Carbon Capture Cause for Hope? a new facility to suck carbon out of the air shows why it's more complicated than that. (newrepublic.com)
WFH, paid overtime: What Australian workers really want (www.sbs.com.au)
heresy shmeresy i wanna be a dinosaur (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
I would maybe like a smart watch, can you help me decide?
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sharing my simple wireguard kill-switch for Linux
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It’s an Ubuntu downstream maintained by Linux box maker System76 which is targeted for both general usability and design/media applications. They will soon be debuting their own home-spun desktop environment, Cosmic DE, which is highly anticipated by the Linux community....
Do i need to run sonarr and radarr behind my VPN?
I’ve started setting up my media server and was wondering if I should put my docker containers with sonarr and radarr behind my VPN the same as my qbit?
Nvidia tries to kill CUDA translation layers | Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com)
The federal government has given an online age verification pilot the green light. Here's what we know about it (www.abc.net.au)
I saw that they weren’t going to go ahead last year, but now apparently there will be a pilot.
Mildly interesting: the Framework Laptop on the Fedora homepage (lemmy.ml)
No big news, just stumbled on the website of Fedora Workstation and did a double take on the laptop pictured. Sure looks like the Framework!
Any way to autologin with LUKS encrypted boot drive?
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Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory (ttrpg.network)
We’re getting close to a climax of our campaign, and we needed to get to the City of Temples. The issue is that the City of Temples does not have a permanent teleportation circle, under the belief that it should be some level of a pilgrimage....
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