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gigatexal

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check out my blog for longer form takes on things relating to work, life, data-engineering and more: https://gigatexal.blog

I'm a tech guy trying != a tech bro

Data Engineer and Twitter refugee (not laid off or an employee just a power user), love: Unix/Linux, programming, and cool people. He/Him. #beto2022

Check out my youtube channel for all things tech, linux, career, etc: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt7yfCrEEhZt9aoolhS5S_g

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Kicked macOS to the Curb and Installed Asahi Fedora Gnome

Most of the switching posts are from frustrated windows users making the jump. I’m already a Linux user on my server (Ubuntu for now, going Debian at some point) and a 2014 iMac for tinkering/testing (KDE Neon), and a couple of raspberry pis (raspberry pi os headless) but our main household computer is an M1 Mac mini that my...

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@radix @MrSoup yeah … Apple didn’t release any specs for their stuff so the @AsahiLinux team had to reverse engineer everything.

Partial upgrade to xubuntu 24.04 from 23.10, FS only accessible in recovery mode as root + wifi may be down. Help appreciated

before the issue, wifi app was configured not to start automatically because I sometimes change the mac after logging in. I usually enable it afterwards with iftop and then systemctl start NetworkManager.service && sudo nm-applet...

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@ceciline02 in a recovery mode what is the error when you try to mount the file system?

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@gregorum @jjlinux newer packages and it wasn’t arch. Plus I like dnf.

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@exanime @boredsquirrel ehh macOS has really polished software. It can also run a lot of the open source software Linux gets. Media seems better on it. Rogue Amoeba makes some legit stuff. But it’s more or less tied to the hardware. If it were open I’d run Linux on it and im hoping Asahi gets us there. macOS also a bit more user friendly focused. 🤷🏾‍♂️

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@pukeko that’s wonderful to hear. I got an M3 max (a huge stupid purchase I agonized about for a month before convincing myself I earned it lol) coming in just 10 or so days. But M3 support is behind M2 for now. And I don’t fault them for it. I’ll wait patiently for it to work.

My dream would be a finger print reading immutable Fedora running Sway with full disk ZFS encryption.

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What kind of high-school experience did you have? Were you in a clique? Were you popular, unpopular, the coolest kid in your Homeschool? Did you have a sweet jean jacket with patches, or maybe a leather vest? Were you an evil villain or a Mary Sue?

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@RickiTarr found this thread.

I was one of only a handful of brown kids in a super wealthy, white, liberal but somehow also not suburb outside of Portland. Ostensibly religious and pious even though I had ample opportunities to experiment. I didn’t. I wish I had. Was basically friends with everyone though nobody really knew me. Skipped all of the latter half of senior year and nobody knew I wasn’t there. Was a bit sad about it. Didn’t date. Didn’t really fit in. Par for the course

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@lemmyreader @barbara it’s a bit annoying but I kinda like that I have to manually link it a bit. So I create sh scripts in the usr/local/bin that just execute the flatpak run command

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Just a reminder that nothing lasts forever, and no company—not matter how powerful and profitable—stays that way forever.

If you looked at the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) list of companies that were there 100 years ago, almost none of them are on there now.

For a a long time, the one exception was General Electric (GE) but this is no longer the case. After more than 100 years, GE lost its space on the DJIA.

In fact, the original GE no longer exists. General Electric has just split itself intro three separate companies—becoming a shadow of its former self.

GE Aerospace still trades under GE, but GE’s health and energy divisions are now separate entities entirely.

It’s the end of an era. I’m sure Thomas Edison and Jack Welch are spinning in their graves.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/international-business/article-ge-completes-three-way-split-breaking-off-from-its-storied-past/

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@atomicpoet this is why buying the index and investing over time wins.

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Y'all this is the inside of a pinecone! I don't know what I expected, but not this.

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@RickiTarr that gives me the heebie jeeebies

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shoutout to @pid_eins for creating systemd -- systemd timers are 100x better than cron. Saved me a whole lot of time futzting with cron.

RAID setup for Ubuntu media server

I recently acquired two used blade servers and a short rack to put them in. I’m planning to use one or the other as the replacement for a media server that died on me a bit ago. The old media server was just a little refurb dell workstation, with a single SSD in it, but the servers have 6 and 8 bays, respectively....

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@originalucifer @blackstampede if you can just do software raid and if possible get the disks to look like JBOD (just a bunch of disks) CPUs are so much faster these days software raid even ZFS offers so much more than hardware raid.

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@originalucifer @blackstampede I’d rather ZFS for the data integrity stuff than anything else.

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I’ve been rocking @kde in my work laptop for about a month now and it’s been amazing. Everything works. KDE Wayland screen sharing tiling it’s nice. So now I send the foundation 20 euros a month. I hope it continues for many years to come.

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Glorious XFCE

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@ActionRetro aww man back when computers were cool looking. Apple has lost their design touch. They took risks back then. The G4 cube. Multi colored iMacs. Towers that were iconic. A legit jet black laptop.

Even the PC side had those sexy ass SGI workstations with the purple and swooping design.

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@Euphoma @1111 last I checked it doesn’t work on the latest gnome

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@zhenbo_endle @tanja you can install deb software in a seamless way using toolbox https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/rhel8/toolbox and a very simple Debian container

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@gearheart @Jezebelley can you emulate that by doing a cat on whatever file the ACPI or whatever subsystem handles battery levels? Maybe a script with a sleep to not hammer the level check all the time and then piping that somehow into the status bar?

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One reason I HATE like for or for is that they create table structures that make no sense. The structures can be ridiculous, like:

purchases, purchase_items, purchase_transactions, client_purchase_transactions ?!?!

Anyways -- do yourself a favor and consult a or a and come up with a 3rd Normal Form schema that makes sense. Please.

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@changelog do y’all vet the links in the changelog newsletter? Seems to be there’s a bunch of scam/sketchy projects.

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@hiddengoat @original_reader @LastYearsPumpkin @Grangle1 @Xatolos yikes. Troll much?

Pipewire fixes a lot of issues and is a huge improvement. The best part of OSS and Linux is its the upstart, the underdog, the do-it-for-the-love, the chronically underfunded, hacker os. You’ll find things not as polished as the proprietary alternatives but that’s okay. There’s far more to enjoy: auditable code, open to contributions, infinitely customizable

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@Rustmilian @dingdongitsabear the most epic response aside haha folks that say your content is shit won’t watch are just wasting too much of their time on this earth being mad.

Really glad to see all this really nice work in the quality of life stuff happening in Wayland.

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@jollyrogue that would be ideal. I think it does. I have to install the 6.2.9 devel package to get ZFS installed on my 6.4.15 kernel which is insane that it actually works.

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@Hairyblue @Uluganda yeah I care less about a Linux native game than a game that has DRM and anti cheat that works with proton. I’ve found that all the games I play on Linux that run on proton run so well on X11 (haven’t gone to Wayland yet).

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I ❤️ .

That’s it. That’s the toot.

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The X and everything app concept is so dumb

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