housepanther

@housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com

I am an anarcho-communist and a lover of all things free and open source. I also love cats of all kinds. You can also find me on Mastodon at @housepanther

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housepanther,

It’s honestly not because you have to watch shows (more or less) on their schedule. The true advantage of streaming is that you can easily pause and rewind.

housepanther,

I use BTRFS simply because I run a rolling distro of Linux. For the average user, I don’t think it is quite as necessary but the snapshots are nice. Of course, you could use timeshift to make snapshots as well.

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I have a Dell OptiPlex 7050 acting as a router. But I don’t do any port forwarding. Instead, I have an Oracle Always Free VM that is connected to my server via a WireGuard tunnel. The cloud VM acts as reverse proxy to all of the services that I host. The OptiPlex 7050 is running OpenBSD.

Will Corpos try to force all computing on the to cloud and make privately owned local storage illegal?

Seems like the next logical step. Most big games are always-online Games as a Service where your local storage is useless if the company server doesn’t handshake. A lot of business and productivity software already requires subscriptions and is partially online. Every single fucking company wants to have an app on your phone...

housepanther,

I’m no Nostradamus but I don’t see this happening because the companies that make their revenue on storage would be crying foul. I don’t see any successful pushes to make local storage illegal. Put it this way: I hope I’m right.

housepanther,

I’m not a doctor but I suffer from major depressive disorder, a type of mental illness. If you think you might need help please reach out to 988 if you are in the states. You’re worth it!

housepanther,

Self-harm and major depressive disorder are mutually exclusive. While they certainly can be comorbidities, it’s not common. But if you do feel down the road that you want help, there’s no shame in it. Mental illness is a no fault condition.

housepanther,

LOL! Not necessarily. I got three of my friends converted to Linux. They’re running Linux Mint

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6 months now and they love it.

housepanther,

I like Nemo as well!

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Well, then we are facing two bubbles at the same time: AI and cyber currencies. Once both those bubbles burst, the fallout is going to make the dot-com era bubble look like small suds by comparison.

How can I prove that a downloadable executable is built from the published source?

I have forked a project’s source code on GitHub. The program takes a private key as an input and that key must never leave the client. If I want to share a pre-built executable as a release it is essential that I can prove beyond reasonable doubt that it is built from the published source....

housepanther,

You might be able to adapt OpenBSD’s signify software for your purpose.

housepanther,

Yes, there is no avoiding that. But it’s a way of saying that the executable was built by you.

You're lying down, trying to sleep. Some part of your body is itchy, scratching will wake you up, not scratching will remain itchy. Do you scratch or wait for the itch to go away?

I have this issue often. I know if I scratch, it will wake me up and take longer to sleep because of my body movement. If I don’t scratch, my mind only focuses on the itch. Sometimes I’ll wait 5 minutes for the scratch to go away and then I just cave and start scratching any minor itch I have on my body. Has anyone just not...

housepanther,

I scratch and be done with it.

housepanther,

And that is perfectly okay. Remember you’re not broken, just neurodivergent and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. I am also on the spectrum and am awkward too.

What's the most common misconception others have about your minimalist lifestyle?

We’ve all heard the labels – vegan, city dwelling, young affluent, anti-capitalist hippies… the list goes on. But beyond the rage-baiting media’s depictions, what’s the funniest, most surprising, or common misconception someone has had about your minimalist lifestyle?

housepanther,

People think I am a cheapskate when nothing could be further from the truth. I buy 2nd hand whenever possible to keep stuff from going into a landfill. I also don’t feel like helping to make corporations richer so whenever possible, I buy from individuals and small businesses; especially if it’s a 2nd hand shop.

housepanther,

You warmed it up for him!

housepanther,

AppArmor is quite a bit easier than SELinux. I still don’t understand SELinux.

housepanther,

Well, imagine someone opening the door if the water hasn’t fully drained out and the ensuing mess. If you’re wondering if someone is stupid enough to do that, then the answer is unequivocally yes. There is a reason the door locks for that amount of time - so somebody doesn’t brain fart, open the door, and flood the laundry room.

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Hell yeah I wanna sin! 😆

housepanther,

Have you tried Inkscape?

housepanther,

It’s shenanigans like this that make me never want to buy a Canon or HP product. If I need a high end inkjet for printing photographs, it’s Epson all day. For anything else, I swear by a good used bulletproof Brother.

housepanther,

Hmmmm … that’s definitely disappointing!

housepanther,

I am fine with people being less traditionally intelligent than myself. I know intelligence has many forms. What really annoys me is when people try to sound intelligent by misusing big words. That makes people sound stupid.

housepanther,

That’s a really good word! I had to look it up and I consider to be learned myself. I am filing this one under, “Today I learned …” 😸

Old PC as Server

I have an early 2000s PC (pre-SATA) with 512MB RAM (I’d love to tell you about the CPU, but its under a cooler that isn’t going anywhere) that’s been sitting in closets for about 15 years. Assuming I’m willing to buy into it, can something like that reasonably host the following simultaneously on a 40GB boot drive:...

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You could simply gut it, keep the case and power supply, and put modern components in it.

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