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OpenComputeDesign

@OpenComputeDesign@linuxrocks.online

Linux and *BSD user, hardware and software tinkerer, A bit inept.
I wanna make non-violent videogames, but despite programming for years, I have basically zero programming skills, and refuse to use a premade engine.

...I also like photography and music.

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OpenComputeDesign, to random
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That terrifying moment when you find out that all the memes about how bad parents in the 2010s were at naming their kids were totally true

OpenComputeDesign, to random
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I realize I'm a Luddite, pessimist, and idealist. But good god, listening to people who think AI is gonna fix everything by automating pointless paperwork and turning cars into the world's least efficient trains, is fucking exhausting.

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My elbow can confirm, Sony PVMs are tough. ...And pointy...

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Me: "I think I'll watch some youtube to relax"

Youtube: "Horrible stuff is happening to good people"

Me: "damn, uhm, I'll watch old stuff on archive.org then"

Archive.org: "Horrible stuff has always been happening to good people"

Me: "well fuck"

OpenComputeDesign, to random
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What the hell ever happened to being allowed to ignore my computer's advice?

What if I trust the website, and I know the cert has expired, or TLS is just being an ass? What if I want to use a "weak" or no password? Etc.

It's my computer, and I have my reasons.

OpenComputeDesign, to random
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Looking at old pagers and cassette players and stuff; Man things used to be so designed for purpose.

Like, there was no "get a message, struggle your phone out, wait for it to wake up, accidentally put it back to sleep, wake it up again, unlock it, open notifications, accidentally clear notifications, look through apps to see which one gave the notification, find it, close it and reopen it because it's frozen, "an error occurred".

Just, "get a notification, look down at your belt, done"

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New hobby:
Sending reports to google that I'm not using an ad-blocker even though I totally am

RL_Dane, to Blog
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New post: "The Toxicity Dance"
https://rldane.space/the-toxicity-dance.html

This one may trigger some, but I tried to make it very impartial.

Shout out to the excellent @joel for tone-checking it for me before I published it.

cc: the rest of my : @amin @dm @ivan @libreivan @sotolf @thedoctor @theDoctor

OpenComputeDesign,
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@RL_Dane ...Is my thought process this time. If I read it again and feel like replying, I'll probably have a different line of reasoning every time. I've got the consistency of of a true RNG :P

It's a serious flaw I have that genuinely leads me to just debating myself and the things I've said moments earlier on and on ad-nausium.
But I digress, and this was absolutely not the time and place to have an existential crisis...

OpenComputeDesign,
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@RL_Dane I have had people yell at me trying to convince me of the very opinion I shared, simply because I implied it was possible they might be offended by my sharing of my opinion :P

OpenComputeDesign,
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@RL_Dane I think this is a problem every "community" has, as I hear the same thing about every interest I have. I tend to avoid considering interests as "communities" because of it

I'm just a weirdo who likes to listen to the music I like to listen to, I fiddle with computer stuff that intrigues me, watch children's media, etc. I'll probably blabber on about it, and anyone who likes can sure listen. If I offend I'll probably apologize profusely if I know you get reflexively defensive if I don't

OpenComputeDesign,
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@RL_Dane The majority of people I meet here are quite decent. Even many of the people I get into arguments are decent except when we both happen to collide at just the wrong mood it seems

OpenComputeDesign, to random
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Great thing about owning an old vehicle is you never have to change the oil.

...You just have to keep adding it. Frequently.

OpenComputeDesign, to random
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Hey fediversians, what are your recommendations for an easy to use peer to peer messenger?

Linux_in_a_Bit, to random
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According to Merriam Webster, "ain't" is now a word.
Just be glad we ain't all using "an't."
:ablobcatcoffee:

OpenComputeDesign,
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@Linux_in_a_Bit Only took them like a hundred years to catch up :P

Linux_in_a_Bit, to random
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:blobcatgooglytrash: Congratulations USA, instead of actually enacting comprehensive privacy regulations, you've banned TikTok, setting a dangerous precident of censorship and infringement of our rights. :blobcat_thisisfine:

OpenComputeDesign,
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@Linux_in_a_Bit Welllll fuckadooda, isn't that brilliant

RL_Dane, (edited ) to random
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What in the world is wrong with this machine?

Something as simple as syncthing running, an apt upgrade, or even just doing a dd of a gigabyte from /dev/zero to a junk file can cause the system load to scream up to 10 (quad-core system), and it starts freezing.

Do I have a dodgy SSD???

Update 1: I am using full disk encryption (LUKS)

Update 2: gsmartcontrol output https://bin.benjaminhollon.com/fersimebia

Update 3: I'm going to try copying everything over to a spare SSD later.

OpenComputeDesign,
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@RL_Dane I'm not saying it's definitely related to the encryption. On account of I'm a know nothing moron with no right to say anything for sure.

But I've had no end of problems with disk encryption. But then, I'm a know nothing moron, so that is the expected thing to happen with anything I touch.

OpenComputeDesign,
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@RL_Dane Are you using disk encryption or software raid?

I've used both, and I do not recommend either for this and other reasons. Especially not both at once.

Also make sure you've got plenty of free space. Modern file systems absolutely freak the hell out if you don't have plenty of free space.

RL_Dane, to KDE
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Ok, the way the search/launcher menu on highlights an item in random as you're typing a search query (instead of highlighting the top item) so that it often opens a random file instead of the most likely match drives me NUTS.

I should just use more often, as it doesn't seem to have that quirk.

I wonder if fixes that.

OpenComputeDesign,
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@RL_Dane Plasma is the absolutely most incredible mind blowing awesome amazing advanced piece of software to ever have such prevalent and bizarre bugs imo XD
And thus, it is my daily driver DE

dgar, to random
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I remember when AIWA was a stereotype.

OpenComputeDesign,
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@dgar Had this guy in my pocket when I read your joke ;)

OpenComputeDesign, to random
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Ok, as broken as youtube is on a low res screen, it's even more unusable on a high res screen, as the "includes payed promotion" banner that only appears once your cursor is hovering over the video thumbnail, is nearly as big as the video thumbnail, and takes you to a useless help page instead of the video

OpenComputeDesign,
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@falken @frameworkcomputer dunno then, but on my laptop with a 13" 1080P screen, that message takes up half the thumbnail

dgar, to random
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I like to put in at least a hour a day on the treadmill.

OpenComputeDesign,
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@RL_Dane @dgar I put some stuff in boxes this time last year, and both myself and the rest of my family have been cursing me out ever since as it's such a pain to go digging through boxes :P

OpenComputeDesign,
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@RL_Dane @dgar Oh, well, no, it's not a system that works very well at all, no. But it works better than any other system, so :P

Linux_in_a_Bit, to random
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:blobwizard: You don't need a $1000 camera or an hour of traveling to take a good Aurora photo.
:ablobcatbongo: You need a tripod, patience, and a decent point and shoot that with a manual mode and RAW output.
:ablobcatwave: Set the exposure time to "forever", the ISO to "grainy" and the F-stop to "eyes dilated at optometrist."
:blobcatsanta: This one was taken in the Chicago suburbs with a tripod and a Canon PowerShot S100 at ISO 80, F2.0, and 15 second exposure, then processed in RawTherapee.

OpenComputeDesign,
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@Linux_in_a_Bit Not a bad camera that. I bought a used one for my little sister a couple years back, and I picked up a used S95 for myself as well. They're really impressive for the size, price, and age

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Concept:
We need to make homebrew computers the norm again.

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