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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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GottaLaff, to random
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Judge rules John Eastman should be disbarred over efforts to overturn 2020 election

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4560409-judge-rules-john-eastman-should-be-disbarred-over-efforts-to-overturn-2020-election/

gigatexal,
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@GottaLaff good. Everyone in Trump’s orbit gets burned. It’s as if he’s the ring from LOTR: he just corrupts you and uses you and should be thrown into a volcano.

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.

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

gigatexal,
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@mjpc13 @cyclohexane that’s impressive. Would mean the laptops should also be supported ? Was it hard to do?

nixCraft, to linux
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BASH Shell: For Loop File Names With Spaces https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/handling-filenames-with-spaces-in-bash.html

gigatexal,
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@nixCraft at this point I’m just using a Python to script the work. Anyone or system that saves things with spaces in an enemy to unix and to my sanity ;-)

stux, to apple
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Our signature is needed!

"Open Letter to Tim Cook, Sabotaging Web Apps Is Indefensible

We write to express our concern at Apple’s decision to remove Web Apps (PWAs) from iOS and Safari in the European Union (EU), and to avail ourselves of our rights under the Digital Markets Act (DMA)."

#Apple #PWA #iOS #DMA

@owa

Info & sign:
https://letter.open-web-advocacy.org/

gigatexal,
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@stux @owa ooh a letter of signatories. Won’t move the needle one iota though.

gigatexal,
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@Tedgarrison3 @stux @owa turns out we were wrong and Apple caved

gigatexal, to random
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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.

gigatexal,
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@stfn @ChemicalTribe @gigatexal @kde you might like the KDE Ubuntu based? Distro https://neon.kde.org/faq

ryanhoulihan, to random
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People are still posting on Twitter. It’s nuts. We will never end smoking.

gigatexal,
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@ryanhoulihan I wish they wouldn’t. I’m hoping Twitter goes bankrupt. It was fine before Elon now it’s a dumpster fire.

nixCraft, to random
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What is the most overhyped technology of all time?

gigatexal,
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@nixCraft the mouse. Tiling window managers for the win!

ActionRetro, to random
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Glorious XFCE

gigatexal,
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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.

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

gigatexal,
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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

gigatexal, to ruby
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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.

gigatexal,
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@tshirtman yeah … I mean I guess if you start with a schema from the DB and then have the models work around that I think you get simpler models.

gigatexal,
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@tshirtman meh. I’ve seen ORMs used badly and lead to shit table structures. Specially the polymorphic tables which make no sense.

gigatexal,
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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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@Jezebelley this is the one I’d get: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ryzen-7000-zen-4-linux-laptop

QasimRashid, to random
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Help me sign and submit this petition to protect credit card reward points (and block a really bad bill sponsored by Big Box retailers to cancel credit card rewards).

Takes 5 seconds: https://bit.ly/46Qydbw

gigatexal,
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@QasimRashid nah. I’m good. Credit card rewards are paid for by the poor or those with bad credit choices paying fees and penalties.

gigatexal, to random
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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.

gigatexal,
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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

gigatexal,
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@hiddengoat @original_reader @LastYearsPumpkin @Grangle1 @Xatolos but the thing is if you think the platform is so shit why do you insist on running it? Alternatives are there. There’s literally no one forcing you to use Linux. Get a Mac and run MacOS. Or buy any x86 Windows compatible machine and run Windows. Why do you insist on throwing shit at people and projects you don’t improve but complain about?

gigatexal,
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@hiddengoat @original_reader @LastYearsPumpkin @Grangle1 @Xatolos as always for all open source projects:

“[Code] Contributions are welcome” ;-)

gigatexal,
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@hiddengoat I’m not your honey … but anyways this whole “discussion” isnt going anywhere.

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