bloodfart

bloodfart, 3 days ago

Okay, I think I get it:

Op has a Linux desktop with a usbc hub attached to it. The hub has all their shit plugged in so when they wanna use their laptop they just unplug the hub from the desktop and plug it into the laptop.

Op wants to get rid of the hub and just plug their laptop into their desktop (or into the hub or something) and get access to the desktops resources like keyboard, mouse, monitor and Ethernet.

Did I get that right?

If so, You Can’t Do That.

You actually can, but it’s a huge insane headache! Resource sharing that just works is a plan9 thing, not a windows or Linux thing.

Some possible workarounds:

Put the Ethernet on the hub. Get a usb network adapter with Linux and windows support and use that.

Get a little Ethernet switch and a couple of wires instead and then you have Ethernet when you put the laptop on the desk.

Get a little switch and some wires instead, and use something like barrier (the fork of synergy) for keyboard and mouse sharing.

bloodfart, 4 days ago

i tend to go with debian.

bloodfart, 4 days ago

Your computer is going into s1 and the driver for your card can’t wake it back up.

bloodfart, 4 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

Damn, I thought I had you clocked.

Getting hot maybe? Some of those baseband chips are downright tiny and can’t really dissipate the heat they build up under heavy use…

Did you look at dmesg/journalctl to to see what the kernel says when it falls over?

E: spelling/autocorrect

bloodfart, 4 days ago

It already was, compare project cybersyn to the Walmarts and amazons we have now.

Software is not a person and will serve the people in control of it.

bloodfart, 6 days ago

I’m saying this as a lifetime Linux user and decently tech competent person who knows all about the different android roms: if you’re considering it, switch to ios as soon as you can. Buy the phone outright from apple, no financing or plan.

bloodfart, 5 days ago

when you end up with someones iphone (or mac or ipad or whatever) and you want to wipe it, the computer needs you to enter the credentials of their icloud account. it tells you whose icloud credentials you need, just like having the username entered but asking for the password.

icloud usernames can be used to send imessages to the owner of the account, like you could call someone with their phone number or IM them with their screen name.

the idea is that a thief ought not be able to just wipe and repurpose a stolen device but a gifted or purchased device should provide a method to contact the person so the new owner can wipe it.

it works pretty good because if a local thief contacts you trying to get you to let them have your device you can call the cops and you already have a line of contact with the person who has the stolen goods so the police can’t even say “yeah whatever, we don’t care, its gone heres some tissues” and it’s very easy to track them down. it also works great if you buy a used device from someone and they won’t clear it to wipe because if you have a transaction record like on ebay or facebook marketplace or something you can also go to the authorities and say “hey, i bought this, here’s proof, and the person i bought it from won’t relinquish ownership of it”

what happens now is thieves ship a bunch of phones off to somewhere outside the juristiction of the victims governments and then they break em down to be sold for parts. now there’s nothing the authorities can do and the thieves accomplices can try to socially engineer the victims into giving them what they want with impunity.

that’s whats happening in the linked article, the victim is being harassed by whoever bought their phone from a thief.

bloodfart, 6 days ago

Yes.

Just go ask the 196 mods.

bloodfart, 6 days ago

Theres a lot to break down here, but that seems like bullshit.

I only post negative comments about Biden. Am I gonna get banned for never saying anything nice about the president?

bloodfart, 6 days ago

Mostly right there with you. It’s disturbing to see mods just publicly admitting their process is capricious and wack expecting to be congratulated and lauded for openness.

I never thought I’d be posting AMAB next to a lib.

bloodfart, 6 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Yes of course it’ll work fine.

I use a third gen i5 laptop as a daily driver and run mid-poly count cad and cam, host windows vms and do everything else but play games that people expect out of a computer (no time for games nowadays).

Look into installing more ram and ssds in the old desktops and they’ll skip along happily for another decade or until mainline kernels drop support for their instruction set. I’m running Debian and rhel (seriously look into this, they have programs to get cheap licenses into the hands of educational institutions and provide good support) but probably anything is fine, just figure out account security so kids don’t go around copy and pasting whatever stack exchanges llm suggests into bash.

E: I read the rest of the thread and there’s a lot of “this worked for my computers/this worked for me” advice. Not hating, I literally gave that exact advice myself.

Call red hat sales if you’re in the us, I guess suse sales if you’re in europe or india. They’ll most likely set you up with a pilot program license and if not they’ll walk you through the process of creating one or two accounts to work around the “ten free machines but then you gotta pay” limitation.

You’ll be able to sell it to administration as “this program gets students in the drivers seat of the systems used for stem research, ai and android development for minimal upgrade cost and no new units. Developing familiarity with these systems will give students who pursue those studies a tangible advantage over their peers.”

If you have coworkers in computer education or it, sell it to them as a path to get more certs at a reduced or nonexistent cost (red hat and suse have their own cert programs that they use for training like ms and cisco do).

Good luck!

bloodfart, 7 days ago

I’m not reading all that. The answer is no.

bloodfart, 6 days ago

I’m not saying this to start a fight, but as a person who used btrfs for a situation it was not suited for: there need to be some tools for migrating off btrfs here.

bloodfart, 5 days ago

Not that I was aware of a couple of years ago. I ended up copying to a different media, reformatting and copying back and accepting the loss of the snapshots.

bloodfart, 7 days ago

Okay, I’ll bite: how do they come up with that number? What in a computer is actually dissipating that much power and for how long?

bloodfart, 7 days ago

Memphis was not pixel art.

bloodfart, 7 days ago

If you hewed to the ops memes incorrect description, Memphis would have been the 80s and mid 90s. It’s interesting that the meme takes into consideration the concept of the long 70s but then just goes back to ten year distinctions. windows 3 (I assume you’re not talking about the early dos shell stuff because no one ever is and you put it squarely amongst the contemporaries of 95, but I’ll give the benefit of the doubt since we’re talking design language) went from ‘90-2003 (with ME) macos 7-9 spanned ‘91-2001 and beos was 95-2000.

It’s possible you aren’t sticking to that flawed understanding though, so let’s talk about design language and Memphis. You’re right that designs are informed by their tools and mediums. For Memphis group those tools were drafting paper and those mediums were chipboard and naugahide. Memphis group made couches and shelves, not software or digital art.

Now that’s not to say that only stuff from a specific cadre of Italian designers made during a short period is Memphis and everything else is sparkling crayon scribbles, only that the stuff we actually recognize as Memphis wasn’t pixel art by any measure.

Most of what is in the meme under Memphis isn’t even Memphis though, it’s pop art. I think the pants are a haring print…

With all that said, what about windows (were you talking about windows 3+?), macos 7-9 and beos would you say were sparkling crayon scribbles, pop art or genuinely drawing from the design language of the Memphis group?

bloodfart, 6 days ago

It would be cool to have as much information about the icon design and window decorations of those oses as we have about the windows startup sound (look the making of that up sometime if you want to know the absolute heights of decadence software development hit and what Microsoft could do when they were really trying to compete with Apple).

Reading back, I was a jerk in my response to you, getting all “well actually” over a meme about 90s kids because it used the wrong name for the language of different designs.

Mea culpa. Im sorry.

bloodfart, 7 days ago

It sounds cool to hear the low notes and it’s easier to have a good sounding stereo in a small area that’s fully upholstered. Loud music covers up the road noise.

It’s cool to listen to music loud.

bloodfart, 10 days ago

That sucks, someone should be calling to lock Hillary Clinton up…

bloodfart, 10 days ago

the most recent thing that comes to mind is her direct responsibility for libya

bloodfart, 9 days ago

Clinton was part of the command structure that paid for the forces that ultimately sodomized gaddafi to death with a knife. This stands out to me more than any of the other events during the Libyan civil war because I watched Clinton joke about it on daytime tv.

Under Clinton as Secretary of State and Obama as president, America rounded up a bunch of other western countries and knocked out Libyan airfields and air defenses, which are in retrospect the thing that caused the nation to fall and directly precipitated both the much more famous 2012 attacks on both the Red Cross and CIA building in Libya and the charnel house state of Libya even six years after the war ended.

People get hung up on the CIA building attacks when you bring up Libya and Clinton because they think you’re peddling some conspiracy theory that she wanted to reduce security at the complex so people would die, but if you zoom out just a little it becomes clear that Clinton (and Obama!) are directly responsible for aiding the groups that would ultimately end up committing war crimes during the Libyan civil war and attacking American noncombatants (not that I think it’s tragic that we lost all those CIA operatives, but one of the diplomats was just an Internet forums moderator and that crime ought to carry a sentence less than death imho).

Remember that Clinton had a lot to answer for during the 2016 elections when Libya had open air slave markets.

bloodfart, 10 days ago

No.

bloodfart, 10 days ago

The first like five minutes or something of the shows first episode has the main character explaining how he feels like he got into the mob after the good days, that it’s all downhill.

I brought it up to establish that the kind of thinking you’re doing isn’t new. The way it does that is not just by simply being 25 years old, but the context of that monologue: he’s going into therapy to address his feelings. Because therapy and the ideas that everything’s going to shit and you’re late to the party we’re already well established concepts by the 1990s.

So a 25 year old show can traffic in those ideas not as cutting edge thought, but as old well trod ground so much so that the very ways society addresses those ideas are ripe for satire.

That’s not to say that there wasn’t a winnowing down of the opportunities presented to Americans that coincided with the dot com boom and bust, just that the idea that things are going downhill isn’t anything new. The world has been ever darkening for decades now and as I said before, people don’t hate their parents for bringing them into the world.

Now you had a long response to this and I’m not going to argue that your experiences are wrong. We have different experiences though, and we have different conclusions about them.

It’s not easy to adopt. The poorer you are, the harder it is. When you look into the process of adoption closer than “I want a kid”, there are some serious systemic issues that crop up. I’m not arguing that it’s not worth adopting, just that an ethical person considering adoption might end up working within the foster system instead. If that gives you an idea of how fucked the adoption industry is, that’s kinda what I was going for.

I would also question the tactical usefulness of antinatalism when it’s a strategy embraced by the bourgeoisie to extract more out of the downhill trend. There’s no need to pay people enough to support a family when it’s a completely legitimate choice not to reproduce (never mind that people who don’t have enough money to support a family never get to exercise that choice).

If the group destroying the future is making short term money on people not having kids, who’s really being helped by not having kids?

If our goal is the emancipation of the working class, how does embracing the destruction specifically of that class by giving up on reproducing that class move us toward that emancipation?

The amount of labor involved in social reproduction is significant, but has literally never stopped people from participating in collective action in the past. I can’t help but look at your argument that people can’t work to change society if they have to do family labor as absurd and ahistorical.

I mean, look at the panthers, their most significant program was feeding children.

I gotta take a moment and respond directly to your personal attack that I lead a very privileged life. I’m not gonna get into the poverty Olympics or dox myself, but you don’t know me or anything about my life.

bloodfart, 10 days ago

so if the whole argument youre making is that people shouldn’t have children because then they have more time to devote to fulfilling the campsite rule is anyone actually doing that?

Is there any indication that the time and energy people spend on families wouldn’t just be spent doing anything else in the world?

if you want some good examples of incentives for the bourgeois classes to encourage antinatalism, look at wages by sector in any country that has a low replacement rate. businesses benefit in the long term from hiring immigrant workers and temporary workers because there are fewer native workers who tend to demand higher pay and benefits.

the word in biology for reproductive strategies where many individuals work to ensure the success of others offspring with no intention of reproducing themselves is “eusociality”. it’s what bees and ants have.