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bitterseeds

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FOSS Geek, Sr. SRE, and mech keyboard snob.

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dhrystone, to Cats
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bitterseeds,
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@dhrystone caption “The fuck you say?!” “Oh? Right, you do feed me. My bad.”

thelinuxcast, to random
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I was so excited that YouTube announced AI coming to YouTube studio.

/s

bitterseeds,
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@thelinuxcast Ask them why Google is removing the dialer and other bits out of AOSP then. 🤣 Breaking what is actually open source isn't very commendable.

dhrystone, to apple
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Returned my unopened (duplicate) to Costco today and got a full refund.

My advice to everyone - don’t buy this device. Apple have the best implementation of an interface in terms of prettiness and speed, but the worst implementation of an actually efficient and useful operational environment in the entire ecosystem. They’ve shown up to someone else’s game wearing a Burger King crown and expecting everyone to play by THEIR rules. and have already given them the 🖕and are NOT integrated. It’s fucking horrible. It really is.

I’m still trying to force feed myself the koolaid with my remaining ATV but I fear that very, very soon it will be put back in its box and Craigslisted off to some gibbering goose who doesn’t know there’s far better tech out there.

I can’t wait for the new and Max. I have too many streaming devices already, but not as many as I have or . Still have to catchup.

bitterseeds,
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@dhrystone I've never nor will I ever buy something like Apple TV, I have all the clients on my TV, XboxOneX and PS5. I looked at a friend's Apple TV and couldn't understand buying something that left Apple in total gatekeeping control.

Barredo, to random
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> Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 recommends 4 GB RAM. Yet the Ubuntu Server 20.04’s minimum RAM requirement is only 512 MB. Do they fill Desktop Edition with that much bloatware or services?

TIL

https://dietpi.com/forum/t/why-do-software-nowadays-take-so-much-more-memory-and-processing-power/4514

bitterseeds,
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@Barredo servers shouldn't run Xorg/Wayland and servers won't be using FF, Chrome and other desktop apps. So comparing any requirements between a server and a desktop is kind of pointless. Not trying to be a jerk, just saying these are 2 different beasts. I do wonder how a server could get away with 512GB of ram ... it must not do much of anything.

dhrystone, to Mac
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Need to find a free app for #Mac that does this with the system tray icons (I can’t remember the official name for this section of the desktop on MacOS). Screenshot shown. Basically just shrink the padding for all of them. I don’t need ANY other functionality, no hiding icons for example. Just more compact padding.

bitterseeds,
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@dhrystone I looked for such a beast and couldn't come up with much. I ended up just using Bartender to unclutter.

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@EpiphanicSynchronicity @dhrystone Oh. I use Bartender already. I want access to those apps via the menu bar but honestly, iStat Menus is what I want to view all the time and iStat Menus takes up quite a bit of space. I do think Apple should have come up with a solution since they put that big ass notch at the top of the newer Macs. They caused the problem, so they should have had an option like Bartender to fix it.

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@dhrystone @EpiphanicSynchronicity Yeah, it's a bit much for what it does honestly. I have an X1 Thinkpad with Linux on it and a AMD desktop workstation running Linux. I've paid for exactly one app outright which is Master PDF Viewer/editor and that was mainly because I hate Okular and the rest of the PDF tools under Linux kind of suck balls.

dhrystone, to random
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Welp after less than a day I moved the new AppleTV out of the lounge room and into the game cave where I can play with it in peace. Honestly the interface just isn’t as useful/practical as GoogleTV, slick as it is. Don’t like the remote either. It’s absolute failure to support live TV in the ATV interface is annoying as hell. So many people have danced about stating how wonderful the damn thing is. Apparently this is merely another example of blind fanboyism. Again, it IS slick. Just not as useful.

I think I might write up a far longer post about it on my website once I’ve had a few more days to give it a solid chance.

Speaking of remote, I wish to hell I could just continue to use the Alexa Pro remote I got for the FireStick, but it works neither 100% with the TV nor with the AppleTV. Shame as it’s the most comfortable-to-hold remote I’ve ever used. FireStick remotes in general are super comfy. Pity the FireStick interface itself < GTV.

bitterseeds,
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@dhrystone I just use the app on my Xbox. So May services, I need them in a single place to save space.

dhrystone, to random
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Watched the Flash movie. God. 0/10 do not recommend. I’m one of them Flash fans who knows who Carmine Infantino is. Old school. This movie was pure insufferable shite.

bitterseeds,
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@dhrystone Yeah, I hated it as well. AND I have a Flash logo tattooed on my arm, it's 36 years old. SMFH
Upside ... Blue Beetle met expectations, it was fun. Predictable but fun.

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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~1919: global pandemic
~2019: global pandemic

~1920: Dr Thomas Tuttle's life is threatened for mask mandates
~2020: Dr Anthony Fauci's life is threatened for mask mandates

~1922: roaring 20s
~2022: we are so back!

~1923: Beer Putsch - attempted coup by fashy Germans
~2021: Jan 6 - attempted coup by fashy Americans

~1920s work on Autobahn begins. Fash hate the infra projects
~2020s Biden's infrastructure bill starts. Fash hate the infra projects

~1924: Hitler indicted
~2023: Trump indicted

bitterseeds,
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@mekkaokereke Hilter was also 34 not 78. Hitler spent time in jail, which would kill Trump ... he can barely speak some days let alone write a book. It's close but there will have to be a jr. Fash to take Trump's place.

thelinuxcast, to random
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So I've been talking about qtile crashing over the course of the last few months. It has happened across distros, so it wasn't :opensuse: related.

So after some investigation, I found that it was caused by a too many files open error.

Increased that from 1024 to 50000. Hopefully, that fixes it. Never seen that error before.

bitterseeds,
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@thelinuxcast Folks who work on servers see this ... more often than you'd think.

aral, to random
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It’s Lego keyboard making time!

:awesome:

Contents of the box in plastic bags and small boxes: switches, key caps (grey and white), a coil cable, Stabi JKW, and Lego base plates and some Lego pieces showing (white).
More of what’s in the box, sprawled on the desk: Core 64 gasket mount, 01001 Kit Adam instruction manual and bits of - foam plate visible.
Close up of the Lego prices, switches, and key caps.

bitterseeds,
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@aral When you have per key RGB such as you do, the switches always go south facing. It's been this way for a while. It's to bad the instructions are confusing. 🫡

j3rn, to random
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Remember when voice assistants were trendy? Wild times.

bitterseeds,
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@vwbusguy @j3rn And that was an offshoot of the SRI group's work. It wasn't Android specific.

dhrystone, to random
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WHOMP WHOMP.
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Apple rejects new name 'X' for Twitter iOS app because... rules

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/apple-rejects-new-name-x-for-twitter-ios-app-because-rules/

bitterseeds,
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@dhrystone As soon as I saw that hit my phone it was my queue to delete it finally.

thelinuxcast, to random
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Watching CTT install :debian: is just downright painful. Are we sure he knows how to use Linux?

bitterseeds,
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@thelinuxcast sheesh. Debian is not that hard to install. SMFH.

thelinuxcast, to random
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I really pissed people off with a clickbait title.

I don't get it. It's like these people have never visited YouTube before.

bitterseeds, (edited )
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@thelinuxcast Isn't fun to poke the hornet's nest. :D

Keep up the good work.

thelinuxcast, to fedora
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Is Spyware Now? - https://youtu.be/-GacO3ei__8

bitterseeds,
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@thelinuxcast It does my graybeard heart well to see that the Linux communities worst enemies are themselves and still arguing among themselves after 30 years. heh. The title and the toot are so bland and not harmful ... yet folks get triggered. SMFH. Folks need to grow the FK up.

majorlinux, to random
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I wonder how some of y'all would react if I told y'all the way y'all acting here is just giving off Twitter vibes...

bitterseeds,
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@majorlinux Well, we have been pushing folks from the birdsite to join and they bring their full-selves to it. I find it mostly Americans who feel they are owed something and want to change things to suit themselves.

majorlinux, to languagelearning
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I'm sorry?!

What the fuck and why now?!

French Assembly passes bill allowing police to remotely activate phone cameras and microphones for surveillance | Engadget https://www.engadget.com/french-assembly-passes-bill-allowing-police-to-remotely-activate-phone-cameras-and-microphones-for-surveillance-210539401.html?src=rss

bitterseeds,
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@majorlinux I would say because wiretapping landlines hasn't been effective in at least 10 years. And now they want to do the same to mobile. The U.S. will do this if they haven't already with FISA warrants. At least that's what I've been reading. It's creep AF but it makes sense. Now ... will it get abused? Hell yes it will. SMFH.

majorlinux, to random
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While on vacation in D.C., I discovered something about myself.

I'm not into politics.

I'm not into the government.

I'm into government buildings!

Me standing in front of the IRS building.

bitterseeds,
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@majorlinux Yeah, same. I've been in DC all week as well. Just didn't do it for me either. Both the African American Museum and the Holocaust Museum hit me ... the rest? 🤷‍♂️

dhrystone, to random
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🤷🏻‍♂️

bitterseeds,
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@lifehasleft @dhrystone And if he cared at all about his fellow citizens, he'd sue her and take it to SCOTUS and get that shit reversed.

bitterseeds,
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@dhrystone @lifehasleft When you are being used by the ruling classes in the U.S. ... you get a LOT of backing $$$ wise and all that. Congress could amend or pass a new law to negate it but the House won't do it until the MAGAs are out ... hopefully in '24. It also helps that SCOTUS has NO ethics or ethics rules and the MAGAs have a 6-3 majority. Honestly, the court should be expanded to 12 and evened out a bit. McConnell fucked us all by holding back Obama's pick. It's all a shit show.

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    bitterseeds,
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    @pixelatedfist @fosstodon It was in the announcement pinned to your home feed ... on 06/20/23 :D

    https://hub.fosstodon.org/facebook-fosstodon-fedi

    bitterseeds,
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    @pixelatedfist No worries. I missed that little announcement icon for the first 3 months I was on Masto. I wasn't trying to be a smartass. Just a bit tired when replied. :)

    dangillmor, to random
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    California state Senate is taking up a terrible, terrible bill -- a link tax -- that purports to save journalism but in fact rewards financial manipulators. I asked the legislator who represents me to recognize this and help hill this legislation: https://dangillmor.com/2023/06/25/california-journalism-preservation-act-rewards-looters-not-communities/

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    @dangillmor They could save journalism by breaking up the monopolies that control what sees print and coverage. A link tax is just another stupid idea.

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