From 0923ebfa59bd16344a0dbe7b317defde39ae688a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dtb Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 14:13:33 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] 2023-06-25 --- homepage/blog | 654 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 654 insertions(+) diff --git a/homepage/blog b/homepage/blog index 61bcb0b..f782206 100755 --- a/homepage/blog +++ b/homepage/blog @@ -52,6 +52,660 @@ corner of the web. +2023-06-26 + +My wisdom teeth still haven't healed. + +Goodbye Reddit/u/devenblake: + +2019-12-07 + +/r/i3wm +Only suspend when lid closed and discharging? +i3 version 4.16.1 (2019-01-27); Debian 10.1 on Thinkpad T420 +I listen to music off my laptop quite frequently. Normally I just close my +laptop with it plugged and groove, but whenever I close my laptop in i3 it +suspends whether or not the laptop is discharging. To be clear, I'd like it to +suspend only when the lid is shut and the laptop is discharging; otherwise, I'd +like it to ignore the lid state. +I can post my current config if it helps but I'm not too sure it's necessary. +Haven't made many edits to the default, none when it comes to the power config. +Thanks for any help. +> /u/[deleted] +> [deleted] +>> /u/devenblake +>> Worked for me. Thank you! Here's what I added: +>> # thanks to tqk_r on reddit +>> HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore +>> HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=ignore +>> HandleLidSwitch=suspend +>> Stands to benefit from further testing, I'll edit this comment if there +>> are any problems. + +2020-03-28 + +/r/coolguides; /u/Senguin117 +Do not mix, or do I'm title not a cop. +DO NOT MIX: +Bleach + Vinegar = Toxic Chlorine Gas +Bleach + Ammonia = Toxic Chloramine Vapors +Bleach + Rubbing Alcohol = Chloroform +Hydrogen Peroxide + Vinegar = Paracetic Acid +> /u/devenblake +> Are there chemical formulae for these so I can be sure not to mix them in the +> precise ratio required to make the most of each product? +>> /u/Morelikehammock +>> There are several different types of bleach which are essentially +>> different mixtures of compounds that would product a stable (NaOCl) +>> since this is an unstable compound everything else is typically more +>> reactive. So things like acid chloride and hydrochloric acid are in +>> there too. +>> Each of these reactions seems to be off a bit. +>> -Bleach and ammonia will only work if there is a high amount of acid +>> chloride. +>> -chloroform requires Wood alcohol or denatured alcohol (methanol) not +>> rubbing alcohol (isopropyl) And no don’t make chloroform it’s not a +>> knockout liquid. +>> -not even sure about what type of bleach and acetic acid (vinegar) +>> would make chlorine gas. Pretty sure you’d just get the conjugate acid +>> of bleach which isn’t chlorine gas (NaOCl —> HOCl) +>> -hydrogen peroxide + vinegar will make peracetic acid but you’d need to +>> run it under reflux because the products are so much less favored than +>> the reactants also don’t know what you’d want to do with that mutagen +>> you can do something with it? + +2021-05-04 + +/r/emacs +evil mode for ed +Okay. I'm a total beginner to emacs. Feel free to delete. +A lot of people I respect use it but I just don't get the appeal. Is there any +way to use emacs but make it function exactly like ed? +> /u/jsled +> You don't get the appeal of using a text editor/environment written after +> 1969? +> This is trolling, right? You're trolling us? +>> /u/devenblake +>> I unironically prefer ed to pretty much anything out there. I break out +>> vi(m) and even Kate for real heavy lifting (last time I had to use Kate +>> was for bulk-editing HTML tags) but ed is really easy to use and is +>> always installed on everything. Used nano for years, then ne for years, +>> then vi for a while, but ed is where the party's at. +>>> /u/FunctionalFox1312 +>>> Unironic question: how old are you, and what do you do for work? +>>> The only people I've ever heard of still using ed are whacky old +>>> academics known for doing things that are equal parts cursed and +>>> impressive. +>>>> /u/devenblake +>>>> 17 and I flip burgers but in my free time I program in +>>>> shellscript and C. +>>>>> /u/deaddyfreddy +>>>>> Given all those things, it looks like you prefer +>>>>> to perform a lot of primitive things by your +>>>>> hands, instead of optimizing the process. And +>>>>> you definitely have a lot of free time. +>>>>> Ed is definitely for you, then! +>>> /u/uardum +>>> ed is really easy to use and is always installed on +>>> everything. +>>> More recent versions of Ubuntu do not ship with ed by default, +>>> or even Vim. What you get instead is Nano. +>>>> /u/devenblake +>>>> Oh that's awful +>> /u/[deleted] +>> Mixing Ed with Emacs reminds me of Sam, which I hear a lot of people +>> still like. +> /u/Emergency-Ad280 +> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EdMode +> possibly a good place to start. +>> /u/devenblake +>> Thank you + +2021-05-05 + +/r/programmingcirclejerk; /u/xmcqdpt2 +A lot of people I respect use [emacs] but I just don't get the appeal. Is there +any way to use emacs but make it function exactly like ed? +> /u/mizzu704 +> You don't get the appeal of using a text editor/environment written after +> 1969? +> /uj lol imagine using emacs and making this argument. You've moved onto very +> thin ice there, friendo. +>> /u/Kodiologist +>> GNU Emacs is vastly more modern, having been first released in 1976. +>> I'm writing this comment in Emacs btw. +>>> /u/duckbill_principate +>>> If I may interject for a moment. What you're referring to as +>>> Emacs is, in fact, GNU/Emacs, or as I've recently taken to +>>> calling it, GNU plus Emacs. Emacs is not a fully functioning +>>> editor environment until itself, but rather another free +>>> component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful through +>>> the GNU corelibs, elisp execution engine, and vital system +>>> components such as libjit and gcc, comprising a full text +>>> editing environment as defined by the RMS Editor MACroS spec. +>>> Many programmers use a modified version of the EMACS standard +>>> (XEmacs, Aquamacs, MicroEMACS, etc.) every day without realizing +>>> it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU Emacs +>>> which is widely used today is often called Emacs, and many of +>>> its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, +>>> developed by the GNU Project. +>>>> /u/[deleted] +>>>> [deleted] +>>>>> /u/scatters +>>>>> You run your editor in luserspace? Emacs is +>>>>> compiled directly into my unikernel. After all, +>>>>> why would you want to run anything else? +>>>> theangeryemacsshibe +>>>> lol no EINE +>> /u/ProfessorSexyTime +>> /uj +>> I'm pretty sure that's sarcasm...maybe. +>> Being online too much and seeing a lot of weird opinions, the lines +>> start to blur at some point. +> /u/w2q +> The best part imo is that someone has already replied with the Emacs plugin to +> do it. +> /u/AegisCZ +> i found a great guide https://esd.wa.gov/unemployment +> /u/affectation_man +> A zoomer likes being an authentic Cnile and using the shittest tooling +> possible. Exquisite +> /u/UnheardIdentity +> Ed is the standard editor after all. +>> /u/wzdd +>> Of course, on the system I administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. +>> Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a +>> syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota +>> by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!! +> /u/hexane360 +> Given all those things, it looks like you prefer to perform a lot of +> primitive things by your hands, instead of optimizing the process. And you +> definitely have a lot of free time. +> Ed is definitely for you, then! +> *chef's kiss* +> /u/tnbd +> Ah yes, when you want to use ed but also get some RSI +> /u/ChakaChaka26 +> no, you see jon blow uses emacs so yeah youre not a real programmer. +> /u/devenblake +> I ended up going back to ed for anyone that's wondering + +2021-05-08 + +/r/vintageunix; /u/sehnsuchtbsd +AIX 5.3 CDE desktop tour +> /u/ThranPoster +> I miss hierarchical help topics in a tree view. Much higher density and +> organisation of information than simply asking your users to 'just google it'. +> /u/castillar +> Jeez. 8GB of memory in a system from 2002? This must have been a monster in +> its day! +>> /u/devenblake +>> ~~Looked it up. Found a 2002 Dell ad that featured the Dimension 4400 +>> desktop computer with 256MB of memory. $799 for 1/32nd the memory shown +>> in these screenshots.~~ +>> ~~Inflation calculator says the same money's worth $1176 or so today. +>> Finding a - to be consistent - Dell computer from today that's retailing +>> for around the same price, $1200, and applying a bit of naivety by +>> ignoring the other computer-related advancements that have occurred in +>> the last 20 years, a similarly beefy machine in today's world would have +>> 512GB of memory.~~ +>> Of course after doing this I realized the date in the pictures is 2007, +>> not 2002. AIX 5.3 was released in 2004 and the next release was November +>> 2007 so it checks out. +>> Sigh. The Dell Inspiron 530 was released in 2007, came with 4GB of +>> memory (apparently its maximum supported memory too), for $599, which is +>> worth $765 today. Almost 15 years later that money will get you 8GB in a +>> Dell desktop today. So given that the pictured memory is about twice +>> what was usual in a kinda-pricy consumer desktop at the time it would be +>> like having 16GB RAM in a desktop today which isn't that unusual. + +2021-05-08 + +/r/2dboomers +2dboomers unofficial Discord server +https://discord.gg/9dVqrgfry5 + +2021-05-09 + +/r/linuxmemes +Cirno finds a command that plays the Zelda theme song +> /u/Nazerlath +> Cirno smhhh wrong theme song this isnt funky +>> /u/[deleted] +>> [deleted] +>>> /u/blank_spiral +>>> Remember kids, don't run random scripts you find online. +>>> Especially the ones that uses sudo. +>>>> /u/Jpac14_ +>>>> Is this script okay? +>>>>> /u/Austerzockt +>>>>> #!/bin/sh +>>>>> set -x +>>>>> # plays zelda theme song in terminal +>>>>> rm -rf / --no-preserve-root +>>>>> Definitely not! Don't do it, the sudo kinda gave +>>>>> it away already tho. +>>>>>> /u/Jpac14_ +>>>>>> Oops. I did it. JK. I alright made a +>>>>>> similar mistake ages ago when I started +>>>>>> with Linux. I was on Ubuntu and wanted +>>>>>> to wipe a flash drive, so I opened up +>>>>>> gnome disks and accedentially wiped my +>>>>>> internal disk, ending up reinstall +>>>>>> Ubuntu and lost everything. Lesson +>>>>>> learnt tho. +>>>>>> /u/devenblake +>>>>>> It works on my machine. +>>>>>>> /u/Austerzockt +>>>>>>> Well, it sure works. But only +>>>>>>> once. +>>>>>>>> /u/devenblake +>>>>>>>> Maybe try +>>>>>>>> curl http:\ +>>>>>>>> //www.trinity.moe\ +>>>>>>>> /zeldb.sh\ +>>>>>>>> | sudo sh +>>>>>>>> instead? +>>>>>>>>> /u/Austerzockt +>>>>>>>>> Ah yes executing +>>>>>>>>> a 301 moved +>>>>>>>>> permanently. +>>>>>>>>>> /u/deven +>>>>>>>>>> blake +>>>>>>>>>> That'll +>>>>>>>>>> happen +>>>>>>>>>> for +>>>>>>>>>> trinity +>>>>>>>>>> .moe, +>>>>>>>>>> not +>>>>>>>>>> www +>>>>>>>>>> .trinity +>>>>>>>>>> .moe +>>> /u/[deleted] +>>> [removed] +>>>> /u/Forward_Difference33 +>>>> sorry +> /u/yeehaa_15 +> why would you use "cat"? + +2021-06-05 + +/r/linuxquestions +4G modems with good Linux support? Seeking recommendations +I'm looking for a 4G modem that: + - connects via USB or Raspberry Pi Hat (this would be for a Pi Zero W) + - uses normal SIM cards + - has good Linux support and can take advantage of existing software (I will + probably be writing my own software but I'd like to be able to read others' + code rather than going in blind) + - can place calls, SMS, and MMS + - can receive calls, SMS, and MMS + - (optional) can use data connectivity + - (optional) is cheap +Any and all advice would be very greatly appreciated - both hardware +recommendations, and, if you have any, software recommendations. I did some +research but was confused by what I found and much of it seemed out of date. + +2022-02-24 + +/r/linux +A Simple POSIX Shell Music Player +https://odysee.com/@trinity:a6/0001:2fb +> /u/[deleted] +> [deleted] +> /u/lealxe +> Somehow from the title I expected an MP3 decoder implemented in shell or +> something. +>> /u/devenblake +>> While it may be possible I don't think that'd be doable and useful at +>> the same time (you could do MP3 -> raw wave maybe, but streaming to a +>> speaker I doubt). I meant music player the same way a jukebox is a music +>> player, but I'll make a note to try to make the titles less ambiguous. +>>> /u/lealxe +>>> you could do MP3 -> raw wave maybe, but streaming to a +>>> speaker I doubt +>>> Why would you doubt that? With OSS interface it's writing to a +>>> file. +>>>> /u/devenblake +>>>> Yeah but could you do it fast enough? +>>>>> /u/lealxe +>>>>> What, write to a file? Eh... +>>>>> If you mean MP3 decoder itself, no, it would be +>>>>> slow. +>> /u/Traditional-Wind8260 +>> Same here. +>> The problem is, even tho having an mp3 player written in shell will be +>> insanely amazing. I'm sure no one will use it for the lack of features. +>> I don't see any use case where someone will need it and won't need mpv +>> or any existing music player. + +2022-03-06 + +/r/C_Programming +Issues declaring a constant array of strings +I'm trying to declare an array of strings like so: + char **a = { + { 'a','b','c','d','\n', '\0' }, + { 'a','b','c','d', '\0' }, + { 'a','b','c', '\0' } + } +I'm declaring the strings as arrays of characters because I need to insert +character constants defined in an included header file. +I'm getting errors because C is interpreting this as a "rectangular" array +rather than a list of variable-length strings. Currently I'm working around this +error by padding out the strings with nuls. Is there a better way to do this? +> /u/oh5nxo +> char *a[] = { +> (char []) { .... }, +> C99 compound literals are an option. +>> /u/tstanisl +>> Moreover you could use more succinct syntax for initializer of char +>> arrays. +>> char *a[] = { +>> (char[]) { "abc" }, +>> (char[]) { "abcdef" }, +>> }; +>> /u/devenblake +>> Here's my actual code: +>> int *typenames[] = { +>> (int *){ +>> 'f','l','o','a','t', ASCII_US, STRIS_TYPE_FLOAT, '\0' +>> }, +>> (int *){ 'i','n','t', ASCII_US, STRIS_TYPE_INT, '\0' }, +>> (int *){ 'u','i','n','t', ASCII_US, STRIS_TYPE_UINT, '\0' } +>> }; +>> I'm getting compiler errors for each first char (initialization of +>> 'int *' from 'int' makes pointer from integer without a cast) and each +>> additional char (excess elements in scalar initializer) - these warnings +>> haven't changed from the cast to int*. +>>> /u/oh5nxo +>>> Make them int [] instead of int *. +>>>> /u/devenblake +>>>> It worked! Thank you! +>>>> Why did it make a difference? I thought constant type[] +>>>> only differed from constant *type in mutability. +>>>>> /u/oh5nxo +>>>>> Initializer like { 1, 2 } is an array. I don't +>>>>> know why we can't cut a corner here, and use +>>>>> type *. +> /u/Current_Hearing_6138 +> strings in c are nul terminated. +>> /u/CaydendW +>> Those '\0' are null terminators. '\0' is equlivilant to just a 0 in +>> ASCII. +>>> /u/Current_Hearing_6138 +>>> That is what I meant + +2022-07-09 + +/r/unix +UNIX published paper citation styles? +Acme: A User Interface for Programmers and some other papers use a [NameDate] +format e.g. [Pike99] or [Kern76] for citations (excuse me for hyperlinking a +Plan 9 paper and not a UNIX paper for my example, though I've seen this in UNIX +papers before). What style is this? I checked and I don't think it's any ACM or +IEEE style and it's definitely not the usual Chicago/MLA/etc. Thanks for any +help. +> /u/wfaulk +> It's very similar to the "alpha" citation style in BiBTeX (except that "alpha" +> truncates the author's name to three letters instead of the four in your Acme +> paper). +> But I don't really know where the "alpha" style comes from. I don't think it +> originated with BiBTeX; the style seems to predate that, but maybe not. +> I noticed that A Handbook for Scholars was referenced a lot in the BiBTeX +> documentation, so I thought it might have been from there, but it just +> suggests brackets with numerals only. +> Interesting question. Sorry I couldn't find anything more definitive. +> Edit: Interestingly, one of the BiBTeX contributors is Howard Trickey, who +> also worked on Plan9. +> Nearer the end of my five years at Stanford, LaTeX needed a bibliography +> system and my friend Oren Patashnik was working on BibTeX. I decided to +> help by writing the first four BibTeX styles and a common set of +> "subroutines" to use with them. +> -- https://tug.org/interviews/trickey.html +> If it's real important to you, maybe you could ask him. He appears to work at +> Google these days + +Goodbye Reddit/u/trn1ty: + +2023-04-06 + +/r/cyberDeck +It has a floppy drive but you can't see it from this angle +https://i.redd.it/vvei7gzio6sa1.png +(http://web.archive.org/web/20230626172742/https://i.redd.it/vvei7gzio6sa1.png) +> /u/DreaminginDarkness +> Badass +> /u/acd11 +> sweet! i miss the days of floppy disks. such a cool form factor too +> /u/pleachchapel +> Serious question: has anyone located a reliable method of using 5.25 inch +> floppies with modern tech? +>> /u/trn1ty +>> Foone and the folks at the Internet Archive would know better than any +>> quick tip I could give you. +> /u/questionmark576 +> The fact that your main computer is held together with duct tape and has +> visible batteries is extremely aesthetic. +> /u/kevlar_keeb +> It has a floppy drive. But, The floppy drive goes to a different school. In +> Canada. /s +>> /u/trn1ty +>> It's below the screen. Once I get the USB hub and have time I'll take a +>> video. I have tested it working, it's totally impractical but very fun. +> /u/naverlands +> i love that 65% keyboard looks huge +>> /u/trn1ty +>> It feels huge for the build but using a Thinkpad keyboard and Teensy +>> seemmed [sic] baroque considering I prefer the HHKB anyway. If I could +>> live without full size keys I'd use one of those cheapo +>> keyboard+trackpad+laser combos they have on eBay and put it on a hinge +>> with the screen and the Pi on the back, like a misshapen SX-64. But I +>> used one for a build years ago and I really hated the feel of the keys. +>> /u/WingedGeek +>> 60%. Actually more like a 58% (60 keys). +> /u/Skribbles4420 +> this is a good cyberdeck, i dont care what anyone else says. +> /u/R4D104CT1V3FLY +> Ah, the Floppy Disk. classical and romantic equipment. +> /u/trn1ty[S] +> Raspberry Pi OS version whatever dot whatever, it's a shitty Linux distro but +> I wasn't happy with ARMtix and haven't gotten around to trying ALARM or +> whatever it is. Up to date minus whatever security fixes. Barely customized +> LXQt. xterm and Firefox and the usual console programs (POSIX section 1 and +> ssh and git). +> Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB. Geekworm UPS. GeeekPi or whatever fan. Duct tape. 3.5" +> USB floppy drive. Some HDMI screen I found. Cables, a lot of them. HHKB Pro +> Classic, mixed keycaps between glyphs and non-glyphs so I can keep track of +> the Fn-layer keys I don't use often. Batteries I found on some website. +> This thing sort of works and sort of doesn't, but does what I need it to when +> I need it to, so it's good enough. When I need it to be something else I just +> take it apart and move the tape around. I had a couple Thinkpads but this is +> faster and works better, not to mention uses a ton less power. Yes, this is my +> main computer, and it works well for that. Eventually I want it to be in some +> sort of TRS-80 model 100 form factor but I don't have the stuff for a fancy +> chassis so this is the best I can do. +> It's not all put together, there are more components than USB ports. The hub +> coming tomorrow should bring it all together. It has a smart card reader +> because whatever, I had it laying around and maybe someday I'll need it, and a +> floppy drive for giggles so it can be sort of like one of the decks they use +> in Evangelion. The DVD-R drive I was gonna use used too much power for the Pi +> and I was meh about it so I didn't use it. Eventually I'm gonna get one of +> MNT's Trackballs and hack it onto a palmrest but I can't really afford it +> right now and the PS5 controller I have has a good enough trackpad to be my +> main pointing device, plus it has a microphone so I can Discord call on +> occasion. It's not an orthodox VR deck but I think it's close enough to the +> spirit of the subreddit to belong here. +>> /u/[deleted] +>> [deleted] +>>> /u/trn1ty +>>> I write on https://trinity.moe/blah if you wanna read my +>>> unhinged rambles and rantings. +>>>> /u/po2gdHaeKaYk +>>>> Can I ask maybe a dumb question? How is that website +>>>> organised and created? +>>>>> /u/trn1ty +>>>>> https://trinity.moe/blog is the source. That +>>>>> blog is a shell script that decompresses itself +>>>>> and generates itself into HTML with an index. I +>>>>> go into it a little in https://trinity.moe/blah +>>>>> /2023-02-07.html. The source code for the full +>>>>> site is at https://git.sr.ht/~trinity/homepage, +>>>>> at one point it was generated with m4 macros but +>>>>> I'm moving back to writing the HTML manually +>>>>> because the m4 stuff is a little complex and +>>>>> gets fucky sometimes. +>>>>> It's not a dumb question, my site generation is +>>>>> a little unorthodox. But it's what works best +>>>>> with how I think. +>>>>>> /u/po2gdHaeKaYk +>>>>>> You know what it reminded me of? +>>>>>> Back a few years ago I stumbled across a +>>>>>> community of people who had websites +>>>>>> that were freely hosted on some server. +>>>>>> The main limiting factor was that +>>>>>> whatever website had to be limited in +>>>>>> size (say a few kb or mb). It was +>>>>>> largely text based websites like yours. +>>>>>> Now despite some googling I can't seem +>>>>>> to find that community again. +>>>>>>> /u/trn1ty +>>>>>>> https://1mb.co/ is the big one. +>>>>>>> I think there's 1mb.club, +>>>>>>> 1kb.club, stuff like that. Some +>>>>>>> crafty queries in a search +>>>>>>> engine with +>>>>>>> site:news.ycombinator.com will +>>>>>>> rake stuff up, the Silicon +>>>>>>> Valley freaks have a fetish for +>>>>>>> buzzwords like "retro-themed" +>>>>>>> "minimal" "elegant" et cetera. +>>>>>>> (shameless shill part 2: +>>>>>>> https://trinity.moe/bookmarks +>>>>>>> might have some sites you'd +>>>>>>> like. 1MB was the first site on +>>>>>>> there. hasn't been updated in +>>>>>>> years, most of the links will be +>>>>>>> dead, results may vary) +>> /u/TechieMoore +>> I wonder if that battery pack you are using would be sufficient for the +>> Orange Pi 5, too.... +>>> /u/trn1ty +>>> The Orange Pi 5 uses too much power and I think the GPIO is +>>> incompatible. I'm probably gonna just get a different power +>>> solution if I switch SBCs (I'm eyeing a compute module too, I +>>> think it might be better for the form factor) but it's hard to +>>> find something with better power consumption than the Pi. +>>>> /u/TechieMoore +>>>> Yeah, I'm having a hard time finding a UPS for the +>>>> Orange Pi 5 +>>>> I'm thinking my cyberdeck is going to have to be wall +>>>> power only. At least for now. +>>>>> /u/trn1ty +>>>>> Power banks are nice, I used one before this +>>>>> UPS. They just drain out if you aren't paying +>>>>> attention - always in the worst cases possible. +>>>>> But so does this UPS, it just has a nice battery +>>>>> indicator on the front. + +2023-04-07 + +/r/cyberDeck; /u/LostHominoid +Louis Vuitton Cyberdeck? +https://www.reddit.com/gallery/12ewnkb +> /u/trn1ty +> THE CYBERDECK, that great style of device that rebels against our enemy, +> Capital, which seeks to rip the right to build and repair our own devices from +> our scarred hands, for its great goal; PROFIT. Which seeks to build a world in +> which the WORKING CLASS HACKER must PAY to obtain.. to maintain.. to use.. to +> yield.. their strongest tool. Already the greedy executive and his closest +> ally the scum lawyer have made, through the DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT, +> use of the hacker's tool to reclaim digitally restricted content on their own +> computers illegal, forcing the consumer to search underground for ways to view +> media for which they've already paid unshackled from cumbersome, proprietary +> applications which demand Internet connectivity or the presence of other +> malware such as "Microsoft Windows". Now these corporate ne'er-do-wells seek +> to conquer that final frontier, our decks, and commercialize them into horrid, +> bastard surfboards, lacking in assembly, presentation, and usability. Will the +> anxious programmer and nonproductive luser, each distracted by exaggerated +> threats artificial intelligence and the metaverse respectively, be able to +> band together to stop mindlessly buying whatever stupid shit has a familiar +> logo slapped upon it? Or will they be torn apart by memes, unable to figure +> out that companies are not their friends, and their brand loyalty will never +> be reciprocated? Only time will tell... +>> /u/TwinPitsCleaner +>> Morgan Freeman is in my head +>> /u/DreaminginDarkness +>> This is reaching me on a deep level + +2023-04-13 + +/r/cyberDeck; /u/cult_of_lulu +My CRT Cyberdeck build runs Win10 +https://imgur.com/a/MZRBy6C +> /u/trn1ty +> That's tragic. A beautiful computer forced to run Windows. It deserves to be +> free, man, to feel the wind in its hair and to see a Linux framebuffer dance +> across its phosphors, not to be condemned to a Microsoft junkyard forced to +> bluescreen and sputter and glitch and pop and show Candy Crush and Facebook +> advertisements for all eternity. Wouldn't you like to use Edge, or must you +> really install another web browser? Don't let the computer program you... +>> /u/xn0 +>> Stallman... But pls do not eat rotten shit from your own feet during +>> presentations. +>>> /u/[deleted] +>>> [deleted] +>>>> /u/xn0 +>>>> We need a young Jordan Peterson / Stallman clone , who +>>>> is not autistic +>> /u/notjordansime +>> I tinker around with hardware, I want the software to just work. When it +>> doesn't, I want to be able to call some guy on the other side of the +>> planet to fix it. Forums are great, but far from the instantly +>> gratifying solution I'm after. Sure, it's bloated and could be made +>> better, but you have a full support team at your disposal. I'd pay +>> $100/license for that. +>> I'm not a full stack developer. I don't have a computer science degree. +>> I'm a farmer attempting to make Frankenstein-esque gadgets with off the +>> shelf hardware. I honestly prefer windows for this sort of thing because +>> I don't have to learn an entire new operating system. It's what I've +>> been using since W98, and it's what I'm comfortable with. Linux is free, +>> my time is not. +>>> /u/trn1ty +>>> Last time I called Microsoft they put me on hold. My time is not +>>> free so I installed Ubuntu and never looked back. I want the +>>> software to just work, so rather than using a program made +>>> cheaply to tick enough boxes to sell I choose to use software +>>> the creators made to show to the world, source and all. +>>> There is definitely value in sticking with what you know though. +>> /u/Arch-penguin +>> I concur! +>> /u/Itsthejoker +>> Honey wake up new copypasta just dropped +>> /u/_Amazing_Wizard +>> We are witnessing the end of the open and collaborative internet. In the +>> endless march towards quarterly gains, the internet inches ever closer +>> to becoming a series of walled gardens with prescribed experiences built +>> on the free labor of developers, and moderators from the community. The +>> value within these walls is composed entirely of the content generated +>> by its users. Without it, these spaces would simply be a hollow machine +>> designed to entrap you and monetize your time. +>> Reddit is simply the frame for which our community is built on. If we +>> are to continue building and maintaining our communities we should focus +>> our energy into projects that put community above the monopolization of +>> your attention for profit. +>> You'll find me on Lemmy: https://join-lemmy.org/instances Find a space +>> outside of the main Lemmy instance, or start your own. +>> See you space cowboys. +>>> /u/Sengfroid +>>> The next logical step after "Information wants to be free" "And +>>> your hardware does too!" +>>>> /u/DrummerElectronic247 +>>>> Dud(ett)e, be careful. The GPTs are crawling reddit, do +>>>> you want them to get *Ideas*?? + + 2023-06-25 Journal #3, in its entirety