reallyzen

reallyzen, 4 hours ago

I’d argue that it may come to that, given the poor availability of (steam) games for the macos platform. And when it is available, you may end up with a disclaimer that it may not run anyway.

reallyzen, 16 hours ago

An AUR package has been done for Arch by (supposedly) someone who knows what they are doing and needs it on their Arch Machine

A Flatpak is something done by someone, to (supposedly) work everywhere, untested on Arch, that may or may not work. And crash (Ardour on Asahi). Or waste hours or you life to render files incorrectly (kdenlive on arch and asahi).

Native versions work perfectly.

I thought I was clever in using arch/aur for everything, but pull KDE or QT apps from Flatpak to keep my gnome install a bit more tidy… For this, you’d have to have those Flataks to work, and sometimes they don’t.

reallyzen, 16 hours ago

I’ll add one today: past week our doctor said my cholesterol is shit, and told my wife she’s fat, put us both on a diet.

Years ago I quit smoking

Months ago I quit drinking

Days ago I …quit eating lol

At the end of the day, it’s not the smokes, it’s not the booze, it’s not the burgers: there’s only you there, the same you but without the crap. I guess.

reallyzen, 2 days ago

I assumed OP plugged himself in some hidden serial port (like cars’ obd2) and the washing machine had indeed a tpm to prevent bootleg/non original spare parts.

The human mind can be the deepest well of imagination sometimes. I’m a bit too good at that o.Ô

reallyzen, 2 days ago

My reaction when reading the post’s title: nothing.

I am not tired.

reallyzen, 2 days ago

Don’t ask me what I do not look forward to.

reallyzen, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

My wife has a T480s on standard 2022 LTS Ubuntu, it is a machine old enough to not need the latest edgy mint ; a friend of mine has had to install it on his 2023 X1 tho.

Standard Mint will do fine. Default DE is boring as hell, be sure to look at others like Gnome. I love Gnome.

Also, using “live” USB keys OP can try several distros and check what they find more attractive in the default state of a distro.

PopOS, Elementary, Fedora, Tumbleweed… So many of them.

I say Tumbleweed is best because of the perfect, seamless integration of BTRFS / Snapshotting / Rollback system. It is truly the best way to dip your feet into Linux and get it back working in a single click when you (inevitably) fuck up.

reallyzen, 2 days ago

T410? Woah! I still mourn the death of my 420 with it’s Dome Light and rugged looks

I hope yours stay on, and on, and on!

reallyzen, 11 days ago

I got it in my proton mailbox.

form.typeform.com/to/L0UNpRar

The mail even says “Limited submissions. Respond now to ensure your voice is heard.”

Go for it!

reallyzen, 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

I answered “I want safeguards in place towards the purpose and final use of LLM’s output”.

reallyzen, 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

I got it in my proton mailbox

form.typeform.com/to/L0UNpRar

The mail says “Limited submissions. Respond now to ensure your voice is heard.”

Go for it!

reallyzen, 11 days ago

So slow and cumbersome. Sorry my benchmark is dropbox

reallyzen, 11 days ago

Done, you’re right

reallyzen, 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

Try the link!

form.typeform.com/to/L0UNpRar

reallyzen, 10 days ago

I never had the VPN app to work, I use the config file generator then set it up in NetworkMamager - which at least work all the time.

reallyzen, 10 days ago

Up/Down speed is my feeling, but “negotiations” between client and server too.

reallyzen, 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

Reconcile these two axioms:

1. Every Lemmy out there is using (arch) linux exclusively, both at home and at work
2. Every post on c/linux is about ditching windows very soon and choosing the best linux distribution

That’s a Nobel Prize in (creative) mathematics right here!

reallyzen, 9 days ago

That Boss guy says it there, Linux customership is negligible. I was happy to switch to an ethical ecosystem, but at the end of the day Proton is a company that runs for profit.

Nevermind that this specific Linux customership is exponentially sensitive to privacy and security next to the average windows user, our money still doesn’t matter.

It’s… annoying. Drive is relegated to weekly Dead Stupid Backups while Dropbox gives me real filesharing, VPN is highly unstable next to my former… dare I mention it? Yes: next to NkrdVPN which was ultra reliable anywhere I went, and Mail is only used for the passmail obfuscation since I don’t think I’ll stay with proton and didn’t switch my main mail to it.

I’d be curious to know if the userbase of proton products reflects that of general statistics of OS’es repartition.

reallyzen, 9 days ago

I am a full Proton paying customer too. At the time of signup, a Drive Linux client was supposedly next in line… There’s zero mention of it now. I need a VPN IRL and wasn’t keen on relying on a free plan where I was used to pay for one anyway. Aaaand I planned to move my emails of course since it’s in the bundle.

I’d gladly uplift people and advocate for progress on the privacy and security fronts, invite world+dog to join but I can’t do it now in this situation. Linux users being underserved is how I feel.

Mandatory “I use Arch BTW” mention.

reallyzen, 9 days ago

If you use the config file generator from the Proton website, you can have a Wiregard config tailor-made to load in NetworkManager for instance. Or several with or without NAT, different exits and so on.

I don’t know how this isn’t widely known, it’s been there for a while.

reallyzen, 12 days ago

Funny story the other way around: the year is 2002 and I live in Laos. Bootlegs Everything Galore, all movies games music cost $1 or about. I discover a game, and then begins a quest to buy The Real Version because it’s a small studio and I really like it all, the storytelling, the modding tools, the community… A quest that would end up in Bangkok looking like the proverbial insane foreigner looking for the most stupid way to spend his money.

I found it eventually, in a shop that didn’t look any different among all its brothers in Pantip Plaza. Took me a while lol.

reallyzen, 14 days ago

You can also ask it when is the cutoff date of their database - there is a gentleman’s agreement between providers not to have ai involved in news / current politics in it’s public chats.

I tried them on a topic I’m pretty proficient on, (a spaghetti recipe lol) and the answer was the most bland imaginable.

The way it is setup by DDG, the restrictions and blandness, shallowness of the replies give me peace of.mind when a ‘natural language’ query is the easiest one. And Claude wouldn’t give me the DOB of that queen because it is Personal Info!