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JayLittle

@JayLittle@fosstodon.org

Software Dev, Retro Gamer, Battered Rogue Like Enthusiast and Annoying Linux Advocate. Technically obsolete but consciously unaware of it.

Header and Avatar: Khelben Blackstaff during the intro to Eye of the Beholder 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50L0LrVgkg4

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thelinuxcast, to random
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This should have been a simple operation. Shut the home lab down. Pull the cables out of the back, put in the new pcie cards with the added storage, and then put it all back together. Instead it's been one problem after another and for no reason that I can figure out.

one drive in my jbod enclusure wasn't showing up. Why? Nobody knows. A hard reset (which is just a great thing to do) seemed to have fixed it, but for how long?

JayLittle,
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@thelinuxcast It has the stench of unreliability. My advice: Don't rely on it.

popey, to windows
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The online backlash to #Windows #Recall amuses me tremendously. I started building a similar open-source (non-AI, local only) thing for #Linux a month ago.

It would take screenshots and create a timeline video of your day. It also enabled searching across your past usage of the computer.

The inspiration was an open-source macOS app called "Rem" which does the same thing.

Ah well, I guess I'll abandon that then, as it's going to be seen as toxic thanks to #Microsoft.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o

JayLittle,
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@popey @alto They are mad because Microsoft can’t be trusted, at least not when it comes to Windows. Every time they get the benefit of the doubt they bend over backwards to prove they didn’t deserve it.

See ads in Windows 11 start menu. See telemetry on Windows 10 and 11. See the forced upgrade campaign for Windows 10 (this is the one that personally broke me of Windows).

Satya and his cronies are hungry for your data. Deny them the pleasure by exercising your right to no longer trust em.

JayLittle,
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@tegbains @popey @alto Reminds of that time Canonical thought it would be a good idea to enable Amazon searches directly from the dash in Unity.

thelinuxcast, to random
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May be going to Jellyfin instead of Plex. I cannot for the life of me get it to see all of my TV show files. It seems most, but leaves whole or complete seasons out, despite there being the correct metadata for those shows attached.

JayLittle,
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@thelinuxcast When you say "it" are you talking about Jellyfin or Plex? I switched to Jellyfin a few years back and I couldn't be happier... but I use it for movies and music only.

JayLittle, to linux
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Shit like this is why you'll have to pry desktop from my cold dead hands. I won't sign on for destroying bullshit. Not now, not ever. Die in a fire

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

JayLittle,
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@thelinuxcast Yep. While the Ars comments are pretty sane, I just marvel at the level of brain damage people must have in order to cheer for shit like this.

ironicbadger, to random
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ATT rep was marking my road for fiber today!!!!!

JayLittle,
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@ironicbadger That happened to us just over two years ago. I'll never go back to non-fiber.

Ever.

ironicbadger, to random
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Put it off for quite a while but I finally migrated from the deprecated linuxserver/unifi-controller container to the new linuxserver/unifi-network-application container to my unifi control plane.

I got a new switch that required at least unifi 8.1 and i was lagging behind on 8.0.27.

the new network-application requires a mongo db container. no big deal. but i had to export a full site backup and start from a clean slate with the new 8.1 system. no in-place upgrade supported. was fairly painless tbh, just a bit of a pallavah and an exercise in yak shaving i could have done without tonight. #selfhosting

https://github.com/ironicbadger/infra/commit/4ae30bfbb03463ada65be953b0f892990cb0b979

JayLittle,
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@ironicbadger Wow. I didn't even know about this. Scrambling to migrate now. Thanks for the heads up.

Now to make it work... gulp

thelinuxcast, to random
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I wish less would tell you how many lines you still had to go

JayLittle,
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@thelinuxcast OMG yea

JayLittle, to random
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If you identify as a and you think it makes any sense for to speak at your convention, then you are clearly in denial because he is obviously a

https://apnews.com/article/trump-libertarian-rfk-jr-voters-gop-biden-659e6f19dec85344bfe1f93e0ea1c0a1

thelinuxcast, to random
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Nothing is going right today. Got 7 minutes into a video, Hyprland crashed again. So fuck hyprland.

Then Plasma won't recognize one of my monitors because that too is a piece of shit.

JayLittle,
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@thelinuxcast Rough ride, sorry dude.

thelinuxcast, to random
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The end of this video is just utter fucking gold. Absolute entertainment. Shame no one watches to the end of the videos, lol

JayLittle,
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@thelinuxcast Just finished watching it. Loved it.

qlp, to linux
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I would only consider any of the upcoming Windows on ARM laptops with the new Qualcomm processors if and only if there is first-tier support for Linux and nothing is locked-down tight re: Secure Boot or TPM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWH2rHYNj3c

JayLittle,
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@qlp Define first tier support. I figure the best case scenario is how Qualcomm supports current mobile SOCs with Linux / Android now and that situation is dismal. Each SOC gets stuck on the same major kernel version.... FOREVER. This of course is why if you look at the sys info on any Qualcomm powered Android device, the kernel lags mainline by a year or two at least.

Fuck that noise.

JayLittle,
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@qlp Oh God. Forget Nvidia. I was so happy when their attempt to buy ARM fell through because it probably would've rendered the processor architecture entirely irrelevant for me... outside of iOS devices of course.

JayLittle,
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@qlp Love it. RISC-V is the future. For now I'm willing to live with AMD x86.

But yeah I would also love more competition. I miss the days of the ye olde processor wars back in the 90s.

JayLittle,
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@qlp Oh dont be so hard on HP - they brought us...

/me rolls drums

Itanium! / Itanic!

...them and Intel. I remember the first time I heard about amd64, I just kind of laughed. "No way is that going to be a thing".

20 years later I'm typing this story into a laptop powered by one of those processors.

JayLittle, to macos
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So I need to create a password protected zip file on my work with . Every single instruction I can find for this basically has step one listed as "Open The Terminal".

Are you kidding me?

I cannot even tell you how much shit users have taken for years for daring to post instructions containing that step in response to any question ever.

Yet here we are and that's apparently how you do that in MacOS in 2024. To say I'm disappointed would be a severe understatement

ErikUden, (edited ) to random
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My relationship with StackOverflow started out bad when the auto-generated profile picture the platform assigned to me was a swastika.

Edit: I found it. These are screenshots from the 24th of August 2019 when I created my first StackOverflow account.

JayLittle,
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@ErikUden Wow. That's a bit much.

JayLittle, to darkbrandon
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I love watching troll the living hell out of these

Dimension, to linuxphones

hasn't seen much coverage lately, is it just me or does it seem like is moving at a slow pace after the failure that was the ?

There are some highlighted issues from scouring around the mobile stuff, and that is battery life due to not enough optimization and performance that would have been classed as mid 8 years Ago, the former is a software issue while the latter is purely hardware and not one that can easily be fixed.

Thoughts?

JayLittle,
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@Dimension Purism sucked out what little oxygen there was in the room called "Linux Mobile". Fucking assholes.

danirabbit, to random
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Okay look I’m just gonna say what we’re all thinking. Chicago Italian beef is a much better sandwich than French dip

JayLittle,
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@danirabbit This revelation is rocking my world. I have never had Chicago Italian beef... have I been missing out this whole time?

thelinuxcast, to random
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Do a lot of devs still do their work on Ubuntu 18.04? https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/vscode-drops-ubuntu-18-04-support-leaves-devs-screwed

I mean it seems like maybe it's time to upgrade? I can see servers still being onn 18.04, but to do actual dev work where you hace to test your code? Maybe something more modern?

JayLittle,
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@thelinuxcast Entirely too many people believe that "set it and forget it" is a thing in tech. It ain't. My employer still runs Ubuntu 18.04 and CentOS 7 on servers and I have begged them over and over again to allot us time to upgrade those machines and even offered to do the work myself.

But they just don't care enough to make the time. One day the universe will make them regret these decisions, I just hope on that day it won't be my problem if you catch my drift ;)

RockyC, to linux
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macOS Sonoma is a 13.37GB download.

That’s 15.5 times larger than Arch Linux…

Over 6.5 times larger than EndeavourOS
Over 5 times larger than Garuda, Linux Mint, Feren OS, Pop!_OS, Fedora, & Zorin
Over 3 times larger than Ubuntu, Manjaro & Debian

Over 2.4 times larger than…WINDOWS 11‽

Are you feeling okay, Tim Apple?

JayLittle,
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@RockyC But but but... stunning screen savers!

Yeah MacOS isn't doing so great nowadays. The window management is terrible. The update process is painful. Apple clearly isn't giving it much love.

Damn shame. It used to be great, but it just hasn't kept up with modern desktop computing standards.

TLDR: The world will have to pry my Fedora installs from my cold dead hands.

thelinuxcast, to eagles
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I cannot effin believe that Nick Siriani kept his job. That means the will suck next year most likely.

What an utter disappointment. Not a serious football team.

JayLittle,
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@thelinuxcast Is football serious? If so, is it more or less serious than Linux in your opinion?

JayLittle, to random
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Trump's argument of absolute presidential immunity is the final nail in the coffin for his supporters. If you support Trump, you are a full on fascist. There is no longer any daylight between y'all and that particular label.

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