thomholwerda

thomholwerda, 3 hours ago to random

It's funny how LLMs and code generator "AI" is always trained on other people's content and code.

thomholwerda, 22 hours ago to random

Citizen of Sweden with the nationality of a fascist state.

I never thought being Dutch was something I'd have to be ashamed about.

thomholwerda, 1 day ago to random

Anybody who claims Nintendo stands for quality has never:

1. Held an original Switch after it's been used for a few years.
2. Has never browsed the Switch eShop and its immense collection of paedophilia-adjacent porn games that litter the main list of games.

thomholwerda, 2 days ago to random

New Xeons are in. I really hate cleaning thermal paste.

Now I get to discover if my undocumented Chinese dual-X99 board even supports E5 V4 Xeons. Exciting! 🫠

thomholwerda, 2 days ago to random

Ah this Fedi meta is giving me flashbacks to that time several popular hachyderm.io people ganged up on me for defending the wrong kind of trans people.

Hachyderm.io cares about trans people - just not the expressive, non-conforming, lovingly weird ones.

If you're on hachyderm, consider moving to a better instance. It's shit.

thomholwerda, 3 days ago to random

Wait, someone shot the Slovakian PM?

thomholwerda, 3 days ago to random

@osnews, where Apple is just another company and not the hand that feeds me, where I treat Linux and BSD without the constant ignorant ridicule straight out of 2002 like the rest of the tech media, where I put quotation marks around "AI", and where I cover a wide variety of topics you won't find anywhere else, all with honesty and openness about my own limitations in understanding. Also sometimes with my weirdness on full display, but not too often.

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thomholwerda, 3 days ago to random

Such a dilemma.

thomholwerda, 3 days ago to random

Controversial ponderance: what are the odds there's Russian meddling in protests and counter-protests regarding the genocide in Gaza?

thomholwerda, 3 days ago to random

Guess I'm the fucking idiot for thinking I could search GitHub from their front page. ¯⁠\⁠⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠⁠/⁠¯

thomholwerda, 3 days ago to random

Lolwtf is this Debian/Canonical idiot doing with KeePassXC?

thomholwerda, 4 days ago to IBM

Do any #IBM employees follow me here on Fedi? I will do pretty much anything - anything... - to be able to use and possibly review the new IBM Power S1012 in its tower configuration. I even have two POWER9 machines to compare it to!

Please. I will do anything.

https://www.osnews.com/story/139669/ibm-introduces-entry-level-power10-server-and-tower/

thomholwerda, 5 days ago to random

I'll say this about how GTK and GNOME are perceived at the moment.

What toolkit and desktop environment did the most important, and most successful consumer Linux device of at least the last decade opt to use?

Valve chose Qt and KDE for a reason - because KDE is much more open and receptive to collaboration outside of their own circle than GNOME is.

thomholwerda, 5 days ago to random

So, my actively used computer fleet is as follows now:

1. Main desktop, for gaming and general use. Bonkers fast brand new Ryzen 9 and high end Radeon. Runs Fedora KDE.
2. Laptop - the mini Intel N100 laptop I reviewed. I love this tiny 10"-er so, so much (context, Thom!). Fedora KDE.
3. Workstation. My awesome dual-Xeon machine with a Radeon Pro w5700, 4K display, and gobs of cores. Runs #OpenBSD with Xfce now. For work, located in my office.
4. The spare parts box, built from some previous machines' parts. Runs Windows 10 now, sadly, specifically for League of Legends. Uses my previous 1440p 144Hz display.

I have a million other machines, too, but they're not in use. My wife has computers, too of course. Our house is uh, a bit of a computery place.

thomholwerda, 6 days ago to random

i just installed windows 10 and i feel so fucking disgusted by myself

luckily its just a spare parts box to play league

and keep your "just stop playing" takes to yourself pls life is bs enough as it is, and after 14 years of almost daily playing, it's a little comfort blanket for me that makes me content

thomholwerda, 6 days ago to random

HiDPI, high refresh rates, and the move to Wayland have really been a 1-2-3 punch for many desktop environments. I think only GNOME and KDE have completed all three transitions.

Everyone else is still lagging behind.

thomholwerda, 7 days ago to random

The screenshot you've all been thirsting for... #OpenBSD on my workstation - dual-Xeon , Radeon Pro w5700, 32GB of RAM.

thomholwerda, 7 days ago to random

So LXQt isn't my thing. I guess my workstation is going to be Xfce. A great fit for OpenBSD regardless.

thomholwerda, 8 days ago to random

Trying to install the work-in-progres LXQt 2.0.0 port in #OpenBSD, but I'm getting the following error:

signify: can't open /etc/signify/landry-mozilla-pkg.pub for reading: no such file or directory

1. How stupid am I
2. What do

thomholwerda, 8 days ago to random

How good is Tiny11? I'm considering it for a throwaway Windows 11 installation for League of Legends (on a dedicated spare parts box, no personal data whatsoever).

thomholwerda, 9 days ago to random

I still know what it was like before the internet.

thomholwerda, 9 days ago to random

I keep asking dumb #OpenBSD questions, because you awesome nerds keep answering them so well. It's your fault.

Anyway, someone has already made a port for LXQt 2.0.0. How does the rest of the process work, and how long does it generally take for such work to make it into ports/binary packages?

thomholwerda, 9 days ago to random

The more I write about trashfires like Windows and macOS, the more I want to run away from them as much as I can.

I'm fairly sure that's why OpenBSD is sucking me in right now. It's the antithesis to what the major players are doing. A safe space, if you will.