Deckweiss

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Deckweiss,

I don’t think it functions at all currently.

I downloaded the app, there seems to be no way to get any real money into the wallet other than a fake currency for demo purposes.

Makes sense when the version is 0.1 seems to be far off from a production release.

Deckweiss,

Yes.

You can disable the ad popup window and you can set your start page to library. It’s all in the settings somewhere.

Deckweiss, (edited )

afaik there are two options of why that is happening

  1. per default seeds will be used for cooking. You need to toggle that off in the kitchen settings.
  2. to get new seeds from your grown crop you need to brew alcohol from the plum helmets (and not use them for meals, but that should be off by default). So you should set up a brewer with the task of making alcohol from plum helmets.

correct me if I am wrong

jcsamuelson, to browsers
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Decided to test some browser fingerprinting this morning via the Cover Your Tracks tool by @eff. @brave, @librewolf, and (no surprise) @torproject all performed (or appeard to perform) better than @mullvadnet.

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

Deckweiss, (edited )

This one is also an interesting test because it has ways around many obfuscation attempts that privacy oriented browsers utilize. Well… less of a test and more of a showcase how creepy js is.

On my setup it was able to get way more info compared to coveryourtracks. For example, creepjs always detects my actual display size, but coveryourtracks doesn’t.

abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/

Not even chameleon seems to be able to hide all your stuff from creepjs.

So the best privacy you can get is to disable js completely.

Ask: How do you handle your résumés?

Usually I rely on my network & haven’t needed this kind of document in ages, but I’ve been tasked with creating a résumé for myself. I’ve grown more privacy-conscious every year & I think it’s weird that we are expected to give out so much information about ourselves to companies that lie about their culture & don’t...

Deckweiss, (edited )

It’s good advice, but it depends on how you do it.

Since I wanted to show off my strengths in web dev and design, I’ve been working on my website for over two months hahaha.

Avoid my mistake and just pick some wordpress template if you want to do it in “a few hours”.

Deckweiss,

:D

I went to a startup bootcamp years ago and I quite liked it - I’ve learned a lot about my strenghts and weaknesses and thought about what I actually want to do in my life.

The startup methodology part was really boring though and didn’t align with my values at all, so I just ignored the instructions and did my own thing.

Deckweiss,

Well, steam deck os is from valve, a big player.

The majority of users don’t make any fuss about it.

Deckweiss, (edited )

They have live traffic data, which OSM doesn’t have.

In terms of search, there are algorithmic ways to get smarter results compared to what is built in OSM per default. So if other users say that the results are better, magicearth might be doing some magic under the hood.

Deckweiss,

VLC ?

Deckweiss, (edited )

Section looping:

  1. right click on the bottom bar (where play and pause is)
  2. view
  3. checkbox Advanced Controls
  4. Now you see more buttons in the bottom bar one of which has the tooltip "Loop from point A to point B"
  5. Click it at start and again at end of the section

Pitch:

  1. in the top bar click "Tools"
  2. Effects and Filters
  3. Audio Effects
  4. Advanced
  5. Adjust pitch
Deckweiss, (edited )

I expect it to not run a stop job for 90 seconds by default every time I want to quickly shut down my laptop. /s

Deckweiss, (edited )

I know what it is. But it literally says “A stop job is running” and since english is not my first language, I had no good idea how to better express the technicalities of it in a short sentence.

As for it having nothing to do with systemd:

I am dual booting arch and artix, because I am currently in the middle of transitioning. I have the exact same packages on both installs (+ some extra openrc packages on artix).

  • About 30% of the shutdowns on arch do the stop job thing. It happens randomly without any changes being done by me between the sessions.
  • 0% of the shutdowns on artix take more than 5 seconds.

I know that I can configure it. But why is 90 seconds a default? It is utterly unreasonable. You cite windows doing it, but compare it instead to mac, which has extremely fast powerups and shutdowns.

And back to the technicalities, openrc doesn’t say “a stop job is running”, so who runs the stop job if not systemd?

Deckweiss, (edited )

I will not debug 3rd party apps. I don’t even want to think about my OS nor ask any questions about it. I want to use a PC and do my job. That includes it shutting down asap when I need it to shut down asap.

systemd default - shutdown not always asap

openrc default - shutdown always asap

whatever the heck macs init system is - shutdown always asap

It may be not the “fault” of systemd, but neither does it do anything helpful to align itself with my needs.

Deckweiss, (edited )

If an app didn’t manage to shut down in 90seconds, it is probably hanging and there will be “DaTa LoSs” no matter if you kill it after 2 seconds or after 90.


Been running arch for over 5 years now.

I track all my hours and for arch maintenance I’ve spent a grand total of ~41 hours (desktop + laptop and including sitting there and staring at the screen while an update is running). The top three longest sessions were:

  1. btrfs data rescue after I deleted a parent snapshot of my rollback (~20h)
  2. grub update (~2h)
  3. jdk update which was fucky (~30min)

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It’s about 8.2 hours per year (or ~10minutes per week) which is less than I had to spend on windows maintenance (~22h/y afair, about half of that time was manually updating apps by going to their website and downloading a newer version).

Ubuntu also faired worse for me with two weekends of maintenance in a year (~32h), because I need the bleeding edge and some weird ass packages for work and it resulted in a frankenstein of PPAs and self built shit, which completely broke on every release upgrade.

Deckweiss,

The best solution!

Deckweiss,

Honestly, I have no idea why it went wrong or why it let me do that. Also my memory is a bit fuzzy since it’s been a while, but as best I can remember what I did step by step:

  1. fuck around with power management configs
  2. using btrfs-assistant gui app, rolled back to before that
  3. btrfs-assistant created an additional snapshot, called backup something, I didn’t really pay attention
  4. reboot, all seemed good
  5. used btrfs-list to take a look, the subvolume that was the current root / was a child of the aformentioned backup subvolume
  6. started btrfs-assistant and deleted the backup subvolume
  7. system suddenly read only
  8. reboot, still read only
  9. btrfs check said broken refs and some other errors,
  10. i tried to let btrfs check fix the errors, which made it worse, now I couldn’t even mount the drive anymore because btrfs was completely borked
  11. used btrfs rescue, which got all files out onto an external drive successfully
  12. installed arch again and rsync the rescued files over the new install, everything works as before, all files are there
Deckweiss, (edited )

It’s funny how it is the exact opposite for me.


All my WD drives died, while all my Seagate drives are in perfect working order.

Bought 2 WD hdds new, used them for about 4 years in RAID for daily borg backups, one died, the other got very slow with tons of smart errors.

Bought 2 Seagate hdds new, same usecase, same capacity, have been running for over 5 years now.


Personal anecdotes are not a reliable factor for manufacturer quality.

To quote some statistics:

In general, Seagate drives are less expensive and their failure rates are typically higher in our environment. But, their failure rates are typically not high enough to make them less cost effective over their lifetime.

Source: backblaze.com/…/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2022/

Deckweiss, (edited )

You answered it yourself in your post.

It is subjective.


I think the concept applies more to whats preinstalled and less to what you yourself install

To illustrate, personally I think:

Ubuntu is bloat, because when I used it it was a hassle to remove everythink I knew I never would use.

Archinstall without template is not bloat, because there is nothing installed that I would not use.

But archinstall with for example the KDE Plasma template is very bloated and it is a pain to uninstall what I don’t need because of the meta packages.

Deckweiss, (edited )

Despite the cores and the ram, the weekly updates on my arch are starting to compile shit for over 30 minutes and I am starting to think about what I can uninstall or whether I should set up my own arch repos that do the compiling out of sight.

Deckweiss,

Where are you wandering, forest or mountains? Have a nice hike! /s

Unless you changed it in advanced world gen, every embark will always have 3 cavern layers and magma.

Deckweiss, (edited )

Thats a very bad recommendation for a first time gamer.

The game tries to be very immersve so there are nearly no tooltips and no ingame written tutorialization.

That means you have to be very game literate (know a lot of gaming specific tropes and conventions to understans whats toing on and what to do).

Deckweiss,

I think other peoples suggestions are great already, so I want to contrast them.

I’ll suggest some of the good old free software games that got me into Linux way back before steam even ran on it:

  • Cave Story
  • Super Tux Kart
  • Battle for Wesnoth
  • 0 A.D.
qkall, (edited ) to linuxphones
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Uh, so I got a fan for my phone

@linuxphones

Deckweiss,

technically, it works, yes

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