tootbrute

tootbrute, 1 day ago to China

this is terrifying.

China shows off its robot ‘dogs of war’ in Cambodia
"Handlers kept the dogs of war on the leash, demonstrating only their walking capabilities to watching journalists and top brass — not their shooting skills."
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2024/05/17/2003818006

#china

tootbrute, 17 days ago to NixOS

ugh i don't want to use github to keep track of my #nixos configs but that seems to be the way most do it.

what are other ways?
how to keep 2 laptops in sync or sometimes sync them up (configuration.nix file etc)

tootbrute, 29 days ago to random

getting this #nextcloud error lately. anybody else getting this? googling this error message doesn't hit many pages.

Invalid cross-device link.

I delete a file on my work computer and at home I get this error. It's only started in the past few weeks.

tootbrute, 1 month ago to random

ugh. $260 CAD for a 10 year passport. this citizen thing is a racket.

tootbrute, 2 months ago to random

i'm burning through all my podcasts. searching for more interesting things to listen to... if you have any favorites? plug em here :bananadance:

my top favorite podcasts at the time which give you a taste of my interests.

Linux Unplugged
American Prestige
If Books Could Kill
Keep Canada Weird.

tootbrute, 2 months ago to random

Taiwan loves punching in to work. Nothing tells you an employee is awesome than one who punches in and punches out at the correct time. This is 'work ethic' in Taiwan. What you actually accomplish during the punch in and out time doesn't matter but sure as shit make sure you don't punch out 1 minute early or boss will be on your ass.

Feels like we are still 'factory of the world' mindset here.

tootbrute, 2 months ago to random

feeling a bit tired and anxious at work today. i should buy something.

this is how capitalism works, right?

tootbrute, 2 months ago to random

got #bazzite reinstalled. much better from fresh install.

i don't recommend rebasing from another #ublue image.

tootbrute, 2 months ago to random

Don't Use App Images
https://github.com/trytomakeyouprivate/dont-use-appimages

Appimages are an insecure and user-unfriendly packaging system with very limited use cases.

This is a list of reasons not to use them.

:blobChefKiss:

tootbrute, 2 months ago to random

@thelinuxcast listening to your distro hopping episode. if people like distrohopping, but you don't want to commit...they can try ublue.it.

i 'distro hopped' from silverblue-main to bazzite-kde, and then to bazzite-gnome-asus over the weekend. it was fun. i'll try bazzite-gnome for a while.

all you have to do to hop is 'rebase'.

rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/🚨IMAGE_NAME_HERE🚨

https://universal-blue.org/

tootbrute, 2 months ago to random

Looking at the West's complacency and hypocrisy in Palestine is just sad and makes me angry.

Maybe china and Russia are right, what right do democratic countries have in lecturing them on human rights abuses when the West is supporting this Palestinian genocide?

What's the point of a US hegemon if they can't even stop genocide?

Joe biden’s war ain't going well. Not sure how the democrats can keep backing these Israelis murderers, aka IDF.

At this point, will trump be much worse? This Biden is better than trump rhetoric loses its power every day that Biden "pretty please" asks Bibi to stop there ethnic cleansing.

Just stop this shit already. #ceasefirenow

tootbrute, 2 months ago to random

Reddit, now WordPress... :blobno: :blobno: :blobno:

Can't this AI thing fizzle out as fast as crypto and NFTs?

tootbrute, 3 months ago to random

The google CEO gets 280 million dollars a year??? FUCK. THAT. GUY.

Fix your search shit head.

tootbrute, 3 months ago to Mushrooms

#mosstodon is still a thing right?

#mushrooms

tootbrute, 4 months ago to random

Don't know how people have the spoons to keep up with friends. I'm jealous. I feel I can barely keep up with my wife and kids.

tootbrute, 4 months ago to books

Bought new #books to enjoy this winter break.

tootbrute, 4 months ago to random

Windows 11 in VM, "sorry your disk has to be 52 GB or larger to install"
WOW! Spyware takes up lots of disk space.

tootbrute, 4 months ago to random

in happy news, it is sunny today! hurray!

it was a mistake to open up the news. i should just go on a mastodon break during lunar new year i think. it's something to consider.

i can blog more, read more, bike more, take pictures. i'll post it all after the break of course :D

tootbrute, 4 months ago to random

can we just shoot this guy to fucking mars already? please Musk. do this good thing for humanity.

Zuckerberg derided for his ‘high quality beef’ ranch where cows are fed macadamia nuts and beer
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/10/zuckerberg-cattle-hawaii-beef-environment

On X, the social media platform owned by rival Elon Musk, the response to Zuckerberg’s new career as a beef farmer was largely mocking.

“Proud of you, man. You really fulfilled that dream of putting food in your mouth in the manner that causes the most climate change possible for a human being,” said Andrew Greenberg, an author and journalist.

Shalin Gala from the animal rights group Peta condemned Zuckerberg for being stuck in the “dark ages”. Another critic, coloradotravis, tweeted: “The absolute stones it must take post ‘I’m growing a macadamia orchard to feed my artisan wagyu’ during an era of rising populism.”

#FuckFacebook

tootbrute, 4 months ago to random

Interesting photo collage about "quiet quitting" in China (摆烂 bai3lan4).

https://www.wsj.com/story/chinas-youth-are-quitting-the-rat-race-to-let-it-rot-6ba97f88

tootbrute, 4 months ago to random

KDE Plasma feels so clean and modern but then you get into Discover (app store) and think, did I just go back 10 years in time. ewww....

tootbrute, 4 months ago to privacy

good progress today. i told my wife i noticed her microsoft office licence has expired. she said oh yeah, i can buy another license, or maybe you can install libre office.

installing libre office now.

i bet if windows cracked down on cracked versions of windows and office, so many people would actually consider alternatives. please microshaft enforce your shitty copyright!

#privacy

tootbrute, 4 months ago to books

The books I've read in 2023. I hope others will blog about their reading journey this year and I can discover a huge list of books I want to read!

https://blog.arkadi.one/p/reading-challenge-2023/#books-ive-read-in-2023
#arkadicloud #bookstadon

tootbrute, 5 months ago to random

VMs are awesome. one step up from Docker. the feeling of godlike power when you run virt-manager.

tootbrute, 5 months ago to random

die spammers die.