unix_joe

@unix_joe@lemmy.sdf.org

SDF user since 2001. BSD user since 1998.

Just here for the tech discussion.

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unix_joe,

DX2400 crew!

Great computer. Got me my undergrad and my wife through her masters program. Later we maxed out the RAM and did like a Core2 Quad upgrade and an SSD and it was great. Radeon upgrade gave us our first dual monitors. And yes it also ran Arch, but awesomewm.

Sold it as a downsize and move overseas thing. Good to see one still in use out there.

unix_joe, (edited )

This must be authors first recession. The easy money is drying up and that means an extinction level event for some websites. Large sites are consolidating or changing, but new places always spring up like the mammals rose after the KT extinction. When Geocities was dying, we got Myspace which died and we got Facebook. Reddit is dying and we have Lemmy. AIM servers were turned off half a decade ago and people still communicate online. Something new always comes along. TikTok is now the place for Asian creators to go after they were whitewashed from YouTube.

The article reads more like a coming to terms with Twitter dying and that’s all. I am only a couple years older than the author and I missed out on Twitter completely. It was just never a thing for me. But my TikTok account is half a decade old and a place where I can experience my culture without it being whitewashed or mispronunced. And I’m the guy still checking email with alpine in tmux like it’s 1999. But one day, TikTok will also die; who would have thought it would be Rand Paul of all people who saved it from Facebook congressional lobbying?

Relax, the internet will be here.

unix_joe,

EndeavourOS.

unix_joe,

He misses the point that companies like Fairphone and Framework and system76 have proven that it’s possible to support devices for a very long time when the bigger manufacturers told us it wasn’t possible, or even if it were possible that there was no market demand for seven years of software support. In 2016, sustainability and longevity were not words associated with new tech. They showed us the way.

Nokia sells a couple of phones with a screwdriver now. Pixel 8 is going to receive updates into the next decade. Lenovo is trying to make 80% of devices repairable, a remarkable pivot from where they were trending. The demand is there and the ability is there. They also made us think about things that we had never considered before in terms of impact, educating us along the way.

If Fairphone folded tomorrow, they left the smartphone market a better place than they entered.

unix_joe,

It’s already started.

Anti-malaria measures in Africa are funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the same Bill Gates that anti-vaxxers argue are trying to poison us through the COVID vaccines and has ties to Epstein.

They are already warning about weaponized mosquitoes being used as flying syringes in California and genetically modified mosquitoes being unleashed.

www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/…/ar-AA1hMuT9

unix_joe,

Spotify Premium pays Joe Rogan.

unix_joe,

The software development is outsourced to a few people, and Fairphone is not the only project those people work on.

unix_joe,

Are flairs supported with Lemmy yet?

unix_joe,

Its a made up criticism to make it look like the author is thorough, but it doesn’t reflect a real use case. In two years using the FP4 in five countries, there has never been a single time where I wanted to swap SIM cards or eject a mounted SD card while the system is running. You do these things while the phone is powered down. It’s an argument being made by an idiot.

Criticizing bezel sizes when people put their phones in protective cases; criticizing having to remove batteries to get to components that you only swap when powered down anyway; bitching about price to performance ratio like this isnt a phone designed to last half a decade; this is what techbro marketing shills, AI output, and other brainless NPCs do. Not quite as bright screen, no LTPO, who the fuck cares, nobody is comparing two phones outside under the sun in any sort of real life situation. You generally carry one phone, two if you have a job where you’re on call, and you don’t really choose the iPhone they give you for that so why would you compare brightness for two devices outside and use that as a reason to tell people not buy a phone? That’s just not something real people do. You use one phone at a time. This review is not reflective of how people use phones. Its nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking. It’s a worthless marketing review.

Exploring Astrophysics and Gravitational Lensing with the Lemur Pro (blog.system76.com)

With the recent launch of the Nebula chassis, we thought it fitting to connect with Massimo Pascale, a fifth-year Berkeley graduate student who is hyper-passionate in astrophysics. In the ever-expanding realm of distant galaxies, black holes, and the phenomena of gravitational lensing, having the right tools is crucial. Massimo...

unix_joe,

Surprisingly, they use the Lemur Pro which is the smallest, most portable system76 machine. I would have assumed it was something huge like the Bonobo or Serval with Desktop class CPUs and workstation GPUs and fifteen minutes of battery life.

Also it hinted that the person is not using Pop!_OS, but rather instead running a Linux based distro. Now I’m curious as to what their setup looks like. I remember about six months ago, KDE was bragging about how that desktop is used by astrophysics for research and also at NASA.

unix_joe,

He’s a locker room cancer who turns 38 in a couple of months and who relied on athleticism for far too long and never developed his game. He has been out of the league for a year and is facing serious legal issues.

How very kind of Golden State to even interview the guy.

NASA aims to destroy an Empire State Building-sized asteroid (interestingengineering.com)

Astronomers have been closely monitoring Bennu, which swings close to Earth every six years. However, the real cause for concern arises from the possibility that on September 24, 2182, Bennu could collide with our planet with a force equivalent to 22 atomic bombs. While the odds of such a catastrophic strike are estimated at 1...

unix_joe,

The same kind that lists the Empire State Building in the headline, like it’s the 1930s and that’s still impressive.

unix_joe,

theclassicalstation.org/player/

Out of Chapel Hill. Funded by donations.

unix_joe,

Neither.

I tell them about the ethical supply chain that produces my Fairphone.

unix_joe,

I run to work , thanks.

Forty years of GNU and the free software movement (www.fsf.org)

On September 27, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) celebrates the 40th anniversary of the GNU operating system and the launch of the free software movement. Free software advocates, tinkerers, and hackers all over the world will celebrate this event, which was a turning point in the history of computing. Forty years later, GNU...

unix_joe,

Not just Linux; gcc was very important as well.

unix_joe,

Did he resign from the position, or from Red Hat entirely?

unix_joe,

Crab bucket Catholics gonna do what they can to keep colonialism alive. Exploit natural resources at all costs to prove that you aren’t like those savage pagan natives; you are a refined man because you cut your hair and wear a suit and do the bidding of the West. Civilized, even if that means you shoot to death a twenty something woman who is five months pregnant. After all, somebody has to drive that truck of gold to the port in Guayaquil.

8 of the 10 deadliest countries are in Latin America. The other two are the Philippines (Catholic) and Indonesia (the outlier here).

unix_joe,

Grim \m/

unix_joe,

Perfect fit for Hornets culture.

unix_joe,

LINE is the worst for spam though.

unix_joe,

Trillian was just a UI that put all your contacts in the same window. You couldn’t talk across protocols, or merge the same user contact across multiple protocols.

Think of Matrix as a unified protocol from which AIM, MSN, ICQ would have all been based. And so if someone is on AIM but you registered on MSN, you can still talk. And at the fundamental level, it looks like IRC. It is the opportunity to re-baseline everything on a standard that is open and supports end to end encryption.

So while bridges would be needed today, the idea is that some time in the future these services would re-baseline on the Matrix protocol, or be displaced for whatever market reason by a startup that chose to baseline on Matrix.

unix_joe,

CDG airport isn’t ready. Everyone will have their luggage stolen or missing.

unix_joe,

Mobile homes are disposable homes. This isn’t a socioeconomic thing, or a race or color thing. They are designed to fall apart and often have proprietary sizing and measurements so that you have to go back to the manufacturer for repair parts. Square head screws. Plumbing sizes off by a few mm so you have to buy from manufactured resellers only. Phrases like “structural siding” are a thing. Non standard window sizes held in place by clips. Any energy savings or “green” build is lost due to poor insulation and overstressing systems that are likely too small to cover the space requested.

Manufactured homes being a solution to anything is a sad state of affairs for the US. I get that it’s neat to put up dense housing quickly, but we should be looking at modular apartment buildings and modular homes, which is a completely different category of housing that is more structurally sound than many stick built homes.

The only time that you buy a mobile home is when you are getting a lot of land with it, and then immediately you plan on where the actual house is going to be built.

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