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Hello Linux community. How are you guys?
I am writing to ask if anyone has ever heard of TUXEDO Computer, since I want to buy one of their laptops.
To be specific I am interested in buying the InfinityBook Pro 15 - Gen9 - AMD at 1350€.
Following the specs:
1. Display:
- 15.3-inch IPS panel
- 2560 x 1600 resolution (16:10 aspect ratio)
- 240 Hz refresh rate
- Matte / non-glare finish
- ~500 nits brightness
- ~100% sRGB color gamut
Do you guys think it is ok for a 1350€ laptop? Here is the link to the store page if you interested having a look.
Thank you for reading.
TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 - Gen9 - AMD | 15.3'' | 1.6 kg | AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS | 99 Wh | All-Aluminum Chassis | USB4 | max 96 GB RAMwww.tuxedocomputers.com
Well I think my video card just died... So do with that information what you will ig? ^^'
Edit: video card is fine, the screen controller seems to be the issue
Because being hypnotised prophylactically can easily come across as creepy and controlling, even if it's well-meaning.
Let's give an example that is both well-meaning and at least a little overbearing: "Hey, let's hypnotise our kids to really want to try well at school."
Freedom means the freedom to be unhappy, make mistakes, and differ from others, as well as the freedom to be happy, succeed, and conform.
If you want prophylactic hypnosis, maybe try self-hypnosis? However, from everything I have read and tried myself in that field, it's still used reactively. You realise your thoughts and behaviour cause a problem (e.g. over indulging in some vice), and you try to hypnotise yourself to not.
Yeah, I can absolutely see the controlling aspect. That said, schools, parents and health institutions already provide education geared towards positive health habits, which you can argue is similarly controlling.
I’m not suggesting hypnosis should be forced on everyone at birth - it’s not something I’ve ever considered for myself. It’s more of a shower thought. I was wondering why it’s not more widespread as a preventative mechanism if, as seems to be the case through various studies, it can have a positive effect on the reduction of pain, addiction and various psychological issues.
I really don’t agree with your last sentence though. “Fixing” problems before they arise is exactly why we, particularly governments, already spend millions on the promotion of wellbeing and heathy lifestyles in order to prevent health issues in later life.
I really don’t agree with your last sentence though. “Fixing” problems before they arise is exactly why we, particularly governments, already spend millions on the promotion of wellbeing and heathy lifestyles in order to prevent health issues in later life.
I'm pretty familiar with the differences in life expectancy statistics caused by health inequality. I'm not sure that you can truly promote wellbeing in a world where people are treated like they're vastly less valuable.
KVM and virt-manager are faster than VirtualBox.
QubesOS uses a dedicated Hypervisor, Xen, which has this as its only job so I assume it is fast.
What is a "typical VM"?
Qubes uses the type-1 Xen hypervisor that runs at a similar privilege to the kernel of other OSes. KVM is a type-1 hypervisor implemented as a Linux kernel module. VirtualBox is a type-2 hypervisor that runs in userspace. Of these three, Xen is the most performant hypervisor because virtualization is all it does.
If by "typical VM" you mean a guest OS running inside a window of the host OS, then Qubes will always come out on top because the graphics pipeline is much less of a bottleneck.
Qubes uses the type-1 Xen hypervisor that runs at a similar privilege to the kernel of other OSes. KVM is a type-1 hypervisor implemented as a Linux kernel module.
What tells them apart them? When would you use one vs the other?
Perhaps Xen for having all machines, including the one that controls the hypervisor, being virtualized, as opposed to KVM/QEMU running on the control bare-metal with VMs on top?
Xen, The backbone of qubes, is One of the very few microkernels that is widely deployed. It's extremely efficient. It only does the minimum amount of work necessary to dispatch resources to different virtual machine guests
So comparing a VM running on a dedicated microcernal hypervisor like qubes, compared to QEMU or KVM which requires a monolithic kernel, it's going to be much more efficient.
But, when you start talking about the full desktop experience, with a window manager and mice and keyboards, and a guest VM, and a VM to run the desktop, and a VM to run the USB for the mice and keyboard, and a VM for the network stack, and a VM for the firewall..... It's less efficient compared to a system running a single QEMU VM with a monolithic kernel, and everything handled with a traditional monolithic operating system.
It depends on your use case, what you want to optimize for, quite frankly if you don't care about segmentation and security qubes is probably going to be too much friction for you.
for me i will likely play some games or use proprietary apps in windows or something and swap back to linux. i also develop for linux sometimes so being able to swap distros quickly and with good efficiency would be nice.
i dont know how viable qubes is for this use case. i like the concept of privacy but i dont need 100% lockdown for each app.
i hate dual booting with a passion, and i also hate how much my base OS interferes with the operation of a virtualized os.
3d acceleration in qubes is very experimental. maybe not the best for gaming
https://www.qubes-os.org/faq/#users
General & Security What is Qubes OS? Qubes OS is a security-focused operating system that allows you to organize your digital life into compartments called “qubes.Qubes OS
happen to know of any distros that dont have this limitation and operate similarly to qubes? i havent heard of anything i know its a longshot 🙃
but maybe i could work on programming and making this a bit smoother if i like the rest of what qubes offers
Qubes is unique
You could 100% play games on qubes if you have two graphics cards, or a integrated graphics on the CPU, and then have the GPU dedicated to a specific VM.
However, at that point, you might as well just use moonlight and sunshine and stream your game over the network.
Sunshine can run inside of a VM it just needs access to a GPU.
Currently, almost anyone in the Fediverse can see Lemmys votes. Lemmy admins can see votes, as well as mods. Only regular Lemmy users can't.
Should the Lemmy devs create a way to make the votes anonymous?
There is a discussion going on right now considering "making the Lemmy votes public" but I think that premisse is just wrong. The votes are public already, they're just hidden from Lemmy users. Anyone from a kbin/mbin/fedia instance can check out the votes if they are so inclined.
The users right now may fall into a false sense of privacy when voting because the votes are hidden from Lemmy users. If you want to vote something and not show up on the vote list, please create another account to support that type of content and don't tell anyone.
Everyone's fleshed out a lot of the discussions so I'll just bullet point my opinion to try to better explain the discourse I'm seeing on here
Multiple votes is not why we have secret ballots IRL. Votes during referenda where you don't vote for one candidate are also secret.
The purpose of secrecy is to protect from repercussions (ie worker vs boss, person vs family, tenant vs landlord...)
I'm not being pedantic. It matters here, because your votes can have repercussion if they're easy to see at all times. I don't want to be harassed because I downvoted an obsessive tankie.
That's just not the same at all. How many times do you get to vote on the referenda? I'm really interested to know where this mindset comes from that a social media upvote/downvote is anything like a real political "vote". It's completely different except the name, is that where the confusion is coming from? Is this an age/demographic thing?
You can vote no or yes on a referendum. The Upvote is for comments that contribute, the downvote is for off-topic not that you disagree with the policy! By continuing this logic you're exposing you want to continue "Voting" on whether you agree with a topic in "privacy". That's not how public discourse works, which this is. You guys are acting like everyone is a guest speaker and you're the X-factor judge deciding if they should continue or get off the stage.
Anyone looking at the actual voting system on here would not say it's democratic or fair/balanced. There are no protections or even logic to construct a system like that because we're not voting on policies! This is a town square, not your local council. You're want to walk into the square and vote on the flowers or people walking by, that's not how public interaction should work!
In every single thread the downvote is abused as a "I disagree" or as a reactionary "I don't like this person". It does absolutely nothing for the conversation, it's solely for others to feel better if the numbers match their own personality or to dissuade the person who's being downvoted from voicing their opinion.
This whole event is rather sad and disheartening like a depressing xkcd
I ran into an old movie I had on VHS as a kid titled "MegaForce" (1982) (RT link). I hadn't seen the movie in decades and was worried looking at a rotten tomato score of 6% that if I watched it, I would be completely disappointed in the movie as an adult. Surprisingly, I didn't realize as a kid that it was actually more of a spoof comedy action movie like a knock-off "Hot Shots" or "Naked Gun" and just completely enjoyed watching it again because it felt like a whole new experience (definitely better than the new G.I. Joe's lol).
So what's your movie from your past that you'll always enjoy no matter how cheesy or horrible it may seem?
Cute used to describe a person?
May work out in some cases, but in most it really will not for various reasons. She may feel you're infantilizing her, you don't find her appealing as a woman or appealing for the wrong reasons, you belittle her ...
As many wrote, used to describe her choices it's perfectly fine though.
If you're looking for a way to express how this person makes you feel - for example a continuous stream of "awwwww" may be expressed by calling someone cute - rather describe your feeling:
"I could fawn over you all day."
Ideally you also explain why, so it's clear where this is coming from:
"The way you dress is a perfect compliment to your outgoing personality. I really enjoy just watching you exist."
Depending on who you want to be to this person and how far along on that road you are, my examples may work or be entirely out of question.
Since attractive just refers to outer features, if you're interested only physically, that's fine. If you want a relationship, pick something that describes your person of choice better or encompasses more features.
"I think you're amazing, would you like to grab a coffee/dinner with me sometime?" would probably work.
If you choose to be this direct, make it clear you don't need an immediate response. The other party didn't have any time to prepare for this, so they may actually need to think about you in this way first of all.
This may be the hardest part, because you will not know if you'll get a reply (depends on maturity and courage). You could ask them again once, but then I'd drop it and just assume it's a no, otherwise you may come across as pushy.
The reason most people don't do this is, that they're scared to be turned down or ridiculed (teenagers are assholes). I think from 30 onwards it gets a lot clearer and easier.
Good luck!
I think from 30 onwards it gets a lot clearer and easier
It unfortunately does not, lol. The caring about being rejected does, but other problems crop up, like meeting people in the first place.
For instance, I don't use apps, I don't frequent bars, and I don't want to get HR on my ass (everyone at my job is married or like 19 anyway). So where do I meet someone? Hobbies. Ok, well my hobbies are reading, walking around in the woods looking at cool nature stuff like frogs and salamanders, and going to (music) shows. Maybe I could meet someone at a show, but mostly it's loud and not conducive to conversation, and nobody wants to talk to strangers in a book store or library, and they'd rather meet a bear in the woods than me as we all know lmao.
Basically I haven't been doing this because I don't want to be creepy, but I'm thinking about just saying fuck it and throwing out a "hey you look cool, wanna go grab some coffee sometime?" just whenever, wherever the situation arises, and then get to know if I think she's amazing over time (if we continue, yadda yadda you know how it goes). I mean what else do I have left? And by whenever, wherever I don't just mean Shakira's hit, I mean anywhere, including but not limited to common places where it is often complained about like the grocery store, book store, where she works, just anywhere.
But yeah, anyway, things change when you get older, some things get easier but some get harder. Know where I used to meet women (well, girls)? School. And after that I had a stint in the bars. Back then I was afraid of the rejection sure but never questioned where to meet people. My flip has now flopped, however.
Hi....
1) Have you looked at Mate Desktop? It's based off of an earlier version of Gnome but I find it much more familiar to the way things used to be managed on Windows.
2) That's going to come down to the specific hardware. A lot of vendors build their devices to only work under Windows but there are a lot of smart Linux techs who have been able to reverse-engineer working drives. Your best bet is to find a hardware compatibility list and see how much support your particular laptop has.
3) If you look at Debian, you can get the "net-install" image. This doesn't even install a desktop environment, it simply boots you to a command line and you can install whatever you want to use. Many other distributions probably have a similar installed available, it's just a matter of deciphering what the names mean.
4) If you install something as root, or if it's installed by the system during the initial installation, then yes you'll need root, but more likely you will use "sudo" which gives your user account the temporary access needed (if it was set up with that access). Again, going back to something like Debian's net-install, everything except the core OS would be installed by you anyway.
5) "Rooting" sounds like a term you brought from an Android phone. In desktop terms, think of the root user as being like the admin on Windows. You only use it when needed, like when you're performing a system update, otherwise you do everything under your regular user account.
6) When you install a DE like Gnome, it also adds a login to your graphical interface. If you install a second DE, then on the login screen you are presented a choice as to which one you want to use this time. If you want to switch, you just log out and select another one from the login screen. You can have as many as you want, just remember that this loads a ton of extra stuff on your system. It's ok to play with, but then I would suggest uninstalling the ones you don't like.
7) Wayland is the core of the DE. The previous system was Xorg, but both are still in common use. Docker is a container system, so like if you wanted to install a web server then Docker would contain all of the modules for that software independently of anything else you have installed. This means that a system update is less likely to break something (although that's already pretty unlikely), but it does require more storage space.
Sure. You install your DE first, and then start installing software like browsers, email, etc. The net install disk is just a barebones system to get you up and running and then you install whatever you need from there. If you're building a desktop them you might want a DE. If you're building a server then you might want web or email services. The basic installation can be expended to include everything you want for that particular machine.
The advantage of using a pre-configured full setup is that you don't need to know the name of all the packages you want to install, and typically you can still remove the ones you don't like. Even with the DE you will probably find that the package also installs a number of common tools like task bar widgets or file managers. So in making a truly custom system you will have to hit google quite a bit to find the things you want to install, but then you learn what all those various packages actually do. Even the GUI login screen has multiple choices to select from which give you different ways of managing the logins. That's one of the things most people really enjoy about linux -- almost every type of software has multiple choices (like Firefox vs Chrome) so it's easy to build up a desktop that suits your particular needs.
My answer for #2 is I have never personally had a problem with Linux on a laptop. Everything works as intended. The only funny thing was when I switched to Arch Linux took a little bit of work to get games to use my Nvidia GPU instead of the integrated one in my CPU. But that was maybe 30 minutes of googling and installing stuff off the AUR. When I ran pop_os it worked right out of the box. I believe pop has all of the Nvidia stuff installed and on Arch I just had to figure out what I needed. That problem was just from lack of experience.
My answer for #3 is I don't know but I've had fun testing different software out to find something that suits me. I want to say way back in the day Ubuntu had a bunch of stuff pre installed. But that was probably 2007 when I last used Ubuntu. On Arch you can just use the discover store to find stuff. If you can't find it there it's in the AUR.
#4 rooting on Linux isn't like rooting on Android. Android is built off Linux so to have "root" access is just like having administrator access or whatever on Windows. Android phones are more locked down so it's usually a pain to root (the manufacturer don't really want you to do it). On your own Linux computer you just use root access. For example on Arch in the terminal to do a full system update you have to use root access so you type "sudo pacman -Syu" in the terminal then it asks you for the sudo password or root password that you yourself setup on install. Sudo is the command that says hey I want to do this no questions asked.
#5 it's Linux you can do whatever you want. You can go through and destroy the entire os if you want.
I'm coming on a year being full time on Linux so that's about the best I can do answering your questions. I'm sure other people will explain stuff better. Good luck!
- Are there any distributions that come with the minimum pre-installed apps ? ... I mean not even a video or music player
You would not believe the obsession the Linux community has with minimal distros. Yes, there are many variants of "nothing" pre-installed.
Problem is, that many of the minimal distributions are more difficult to use, because they might not have a GUI, for example. Or they don't have handling for Bluetooth out of the box. Things like that.
For someone new to Linux, I would not recommend jumping straight to a minimal distro. The pre-installed apps are typically decent on Linux (like a recommendation by the folks who create the distro) and if you don't know much of the ecosystem yet, it's a good way to start learning about it.
If you do find, you really just don't need any video or music player, you can also separately uninstall them. Which, again, is easier than installing missing things that you never heard of.
1) there are things called gnome extensions that change things up.
2) it’s just that a lot of laptops are potatoes with wierd hardware and drivers aren’t always available. If you have a popular laptop you’ll have better luck. Can’t predict how it’ll go other than goggling your laptop and seeing if you can find a post saying what worked and didn’t. Can’t hurt to try either way…
3) yes. There are plenty with installed apps. Hard to believe you didn’t find any music or video players. Either way - doesn’t matter. Install VLC and it plays everything.
4) most Linux distributions will let you delete Linux itself if you’re so inclined. My vote is to just leave the default programs that install with the distro unless you’re in need of an absolute bare bones system/size (which it doesn’t sound like you are)
5) root is a user, nothing more. If you don’t know why you’re using root, then don’t. Based on your questions, I’d say you can do everything you need as a normal user with sudo privileges.
6) to be honest I’ve never actually done this. I believe you can even install multiples at once and switch between them. Most distros come with a choice of DE during install. Check them out in a vm and just install the one you want. If you’re hell bent on swapping on an existing install, best read a guide on how to do it for your distro.
7) this isn’t exactly right, but docker is kind of like virtual machines. Not quite full on VMs, but rather they are called containers. You can download a docker image, and fire up say, a pihole server. Or in my case, I run a preconfigured ubiquity WiFi controller. Don’t worry about these for now - it’s a later thing. Wayland is replacing X. Some distros use it, some don’t. X is very old - it’s stable and doesn’t get updates and just works. Until it doesn’t because it’s old and doesn’t get updates. Enter Wayland. New things of that complexity are hard to make so there’s bugs with it. Works for some people, not for others. Go watch some YouTube videos on the topic - it’s interesting.
Good luck!
1.Theres dash to dock extentions to make it have a task bar like windows or mac, aswell as wigets for the top bar.
3.if you want to go ultra bear bones, theres alpine linux thats alot like android, but doesnt run android and is usally used for network appliances.
Aswell as arch linux which installs base packages and is completely bare bones.
Then theres the manual side of linux
There gentoo which is a source distro, meaning everything is built from source code and must be manually enabled and setup. Its great for low power hardware but you need to read alot of documents on the wiki.
Then theres the F all
Linux from scratch,
It is what you think.
5.No root is the first account made on your system without root being made nothing would work its the equivalent of system 32 for windows.
Also no problem helping out other, we all gotta start somewhere!
sudo in front of a command that needs root, and enter your password if the terminal asks.sudo apt remove followed by that app's internal name, like sudo apt remove firefox!sudo apt install some things. Then on the login screen, there's a button with an icon on the top-right of where you enter your password, just click that and choose the other DE. You can now switch DE anytime you log in!
It uses A/B-root with 2 immutable system partitions, where the system apps are. That storage space can only be used by the system so uninstalling stuff there doesnt do anything useful, if you dont also install system apps there. Which is not normally possible.
On Android, a minimal system like on GrapheneOS is best. All other editions, Googles own PixelOS included, break the Android security model of sandboxing all apps, which is hillarious. Only GrapheneOS really follows it by also sandboxing the optional Google apps and services.
On traditional Linux distros, the system is just a bunch of packages slammed onto a disk, and a package manager doesnt know how the setup should look like. It only knows that package A also requires packages B, C, X, 1, 2 and there are often package groups like kde-plasma-desktop that automatically install packages D, E, F, G for example.
Uninstalling an app may remove dependencies, and if the app is not a dependency of others, it works without issues.
This is only system packages. With Flatpaks, Snaps, Appimages or binaries (like the Firefox .tar.gz archive Mozilla officially offers) you can install and uninstall whatever you want.
On "immutable" distros, that use many different variants of reducing the mess of traditional distros, this is different. On Fedora Atomic Desktops, which (maybe apart from NixOS, which is more complicated) use the best method of this composed system, you can rpm-ostree override remove a package and it is removed from the "immutable" system. But there are no immutable distros I think, all allow changes by root users.
Root on Android is different than on Linux. You can use Linux without root, but distros are not built for that. I am working on making Fedora capable of that, even though my change for flatpaks was rejected poorly.
On Linux by default you are a wheel/sudo user and can run commands with root privileges by just entering your user password. Thus, the barrier for programs to get root access is pretty low, and you should always try to make your system update on its own, and have a user not in the wheel (most distros) / sudo (debian) group.
You can create custom groups like "the flatpak group is allowed to install apps of this specific format, even though it might normally require root access".
On Fedora Atomic desktops, the system is composed into "images", more like Android. The system is separate from the user stuff (your home directory, user configurations) and you can swap to a different image by "rebasing".
This is way more stable than the oldschool package manager way. For example you can rebase from silverblue (GNOME) to kinoite (KDE Plasma).
For example, X11 allows any app, no matter if in the foreground or not even displaying a window, to log all your keyboard inputs, all the time.
Docker is a tool to use small "containers", which is a set of files that build an operating system. The files are the ones you normally find as the system stuff of an OS, but in a reduced form, and without the kernel (the main hardware interface and controller). Containers run on your system kernel, but in a different "system". If you run apps there, they run in the container and not on your system. This ensures that apps compatible with that container run on all systems, that support running the container manager (podman or docker).
Podman is an alternative to docker that is supposedly more secure.
Containers are used by lazy devs to not need to fiddle with all the different Linux system configuations anymore. They help to get new software more easily and faster updates. Flatpak also uses containers.
But they are also bigger, use more RAM (it is a small extra system!) and are outside of the control of the OS. Updates also work strange, containers are images that are never updated from inside it (like a traditional distro) but as a whole by the container manager.
This means they may be outdated or insecure. There are tools to update containers and to check for CVEs (critical vulnerabilities) in them.
As a desktop user, you should normally not need to use containers. Their UX (user experience) kinda suck and they are not a good way to get apps.
Distrobox is a small exception. It uses podman or docker under the hood, and allows to install containers of other Linux Distros on a different Distro. For example if an app only runs on Ubuntu, you can use it on Fedora anyways.
On Fedora Atomic Desktops, Distrobox helps to install some apps that are not yet flatpaks. But the user experience is still worse, for example system upgrades dont work and you need to replace the container and reinstall the apps when upgrading it.
Using a rolling distro container like Arch, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, Debian Sid, OpenSUSE Slowroll, helps here. But apart from OpenSUSE Slowroll I wouldnt use them.
I suggest reading through multiple answers despite everyone answering all your questions, this way you get the most complete answers. As such, here's my two cents:
sudo apt install <Desktop Environment> and then logging out, changing which DE you're logging into, and then logging back in. Most are going to be that wayBut, since we're all still nerds here regardless of what we're nerdy about, and since learning almost never hurts, I'll throw some vocab at you to get you started:
Wayland is a specification of how software should display things on the screen, it's the generic blueprints of how Display Servers and their Clients should behave; Wayland is seeking to replace the X Window System specification, and specifically the popular Xorg Server implementation.
Docker is a containerization platform (software ecosystem). Containers are essentially a small subset of Virtual Machines (or VMs) which are Guest operating systems that run within a separated off environment from your Host operating system. On Linux, features like namespaces, cgroups, and chroots are used to achieve this effect. Containers tend to use less hardware than Hypervisor-hosted VMs, but also tend to be single-purpose systems.
I installed WireGuard on my host and set this configuration /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf:
[Interface]
Address = 10.0.0.1/24
ListenPort = 51820
PrivateKey = [REDACTED]
PostUp = iptables -A FORWARD -i %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ens3 -j MASQUERADE
PostDown = iptables -D FORWARD -i %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -o ens3 -j MASQUERADE
[Peer]
PublicKey = [REDACTED]
PresharedKey = [REDACTED]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.2/32
[Peer]
PublicKey = [REDACTED]
PresharedKey = [REDACTED]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.3/32
[Peer]
PublicKey = [REDACTED]
PresharedKey = [REDACTED]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.4/32
[Peer]
PublicKey = [REDACTED]
PresharedKey = [REDACTED]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.5/32
[Peer]
PublicKey = [REDACTED]
PresharedKey = [REDACTED]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.6/32
[Peer]
PublicKey = [REDACTED]
PresharedKey = [REDACTED]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.7/32
[Peer]
PublicKey = [REDACTED]
PresharedKey = [REDACTED]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.8/32
[Peer]
PublicKey = [REDACTED]
PresharedKey = [REDACTED]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.9/32
[Peer]
PublicKey = [REDACTED]
PresharedKey = [REDACTED]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.10/32
[Peer]
PublicKey = [REDACTED]
PresharedKey = [REDACTED]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.11/32Starting Nmap 7.93 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2024-08-16 03:26 CDT
Host is up (0.050s latency).
Not shown: 998 closed tcp ports (conn-refused)
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
179/tcp filtered bgp
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1.93 secondsStarting Nmap 7.93 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2024-08-16 03:27 CDT
All 1000 scanned ports are in ignored states.
Not shown: 1000 filtered tcp ports (no-response)
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 201.43 secondsUpd. Fixed my changing server WireGuard IP to 10.0.1.1. 10.0.0.1 was already taken
You have ALL traffic being routed over Wireguard here.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it the other way around? All Wireguard traffic is forwarded to the local interface.
AllowdIPs defines the traffic to be routed. These are single IPs, not subnets.
Edit: discussion talking about this same problem to illustrate: https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/split-tunnel-via-vpn-policy-or-via-wireguard-allowedips-config/31318
Hi, I use a Beryl AX as client and a Brume 2 as wireguard server. Since the Beryl AX is my travel router I’d like to do split tunnel for all clients connected to Beryl AX with only traffic passing the tunnel which connects to my local lans which ar…GL.iNet
That's exactly what it does. Easy to see if OP new how to read their route tables.
Here's another: https://serverfault.com/questions/1102455/wireguard-policy-based-routing
This question is about configuring a WireGuard relay that routes all its peer's traffic to another WireGuard server, but the relay itself does not use that WireGuard server as the default gateway. ...Server Fault
Hi there,
I'm a dev and use basic mechanical keyboards (tkl corsair quick fire). For a while now I'm operating in qwerty us layout but I reversed the numbers with the special characters because I use them more often than numbers. Any of you know where I could find this? CherryMX keycaps.
I don't want to go on the more dvoraky dev layouts because I think more than I type during my day.
Thanks a lot ❤️
https://www.wasdkeyboards.com/custom-text-cherry-mx-keycaps.html
You can have WASD print whatever you want on a key cap and they have lots of colors to pick from.
https://www.wasdkeyboards.com/10-key-number-row-cherry-mx-keycap-set.html
Here is specifically the whole number row.
I just got a drawing tablet, and have been wanting some software that would allow me to work out math problems, draw architecture diagrams, etc. I've seen some tools like Excalidraw, which look handy for the sharing capabilities. I also have just used plain krita, which has great feedback for the pen sensitivity, but obviously is overkill for whiteboarding.
Are there any tools you use or recommend for handwriting or picture drawing? Pen or mouse?
Storyboarder is definitely great, although I wouldn't say it's geared towards 2D animation. You could use it like a flipbook, but I think it's more suited towards Storyboard planning.
There's 2 modes, 2D sketching and 3D modeled posing, the latter of which is far, far faster to plot out scenes than hand drawing each one. Again, that doesn't mean you couldn't use it for 2D, just that it's not inherently designed for that process. Still, it's a great program that lets you add voiceovers, has multiple text boxes for details, and has a pretty decent selection of art tools.
I've used Xournal++ and Write, both worked pretty well. Saber also looks promising.
It's going to come down to how the program handles smoothing of the pen input, which is going to differ based on how noisy your tablets data is, and on your handwriting.
She had interviewed and met both remotely and in person, this guy was merely an HR drone confirming her documentation. I was a little bent when she told me he had asked her to remove her blur filter "to have a look at her working environment, make sure it's not cluttered" (something along those lines). No one else at this company requested such. Was he way out of line?
I should note, this is my PC in our living room and not where she will be working from. And this guy wants a look around our home?! Told my wife to bring this up once she's settled in, ask HR if this is policy. She started today!
She thinks it's a racism thing. I'm not so sure, but I don't have any other explanation.
Is this the US? Because iirc there's some workplace injury stuff in some EU countries, where the company might be liable and so they might need to advise you to do certain things to prevent injury if you work remotely.
Not trying to take the wind out of your sails, just making ppl aware.
Idk, every company is different and so is every country.
But let me also make clear, I'm not arguing this isn't odd. Just some things to rule out before going mayhem.
It's actually a really nice thing to know that (a) your country makes sure you get into less accidents and (b) that your company usually pays for any workplace accidents, even if it's remote.
I work remotely at a company in the EU where they actually host seminars about posture and stuff because it's better for them than dealing with workplace injury from bad posture.
I can see this as a one time verification to help verify the video isn't being faked / you aren't working out of a remote cube farm in another country.
Clearwater firm KnowBe4 accidentally hires North Korean hacker
The remote worker stole an American identity and shipped his company device to a laptop farm in the U.S.Shauna Muckle (Tampa Bay Times)
If I hadn't seen the blatant discrimination she's faced job hunting, I'd be more skeptical. She's Filipino, but that's "Mexican" to many. When I say blatant, I mean to say heads would roll if we had some of this on camera. She's mostly unhurt by these things, just figures that's the way of the world. But damn. One lady asked if she was Asian and was visibly appalled. Another said she would have to attend their church, and barely stopped short of asking her to renounce Catholicism. There's much more I'm not remembering ATM.
What's shocking is that this employer is widely considered to be the best in the whole area. Solid pay and benefits, really cares about their people. My ex-wife worked there and loved them.
I'm guessing their HR folks would have kittens if they knew this guy had pulled this.
Also, just read your edit, now it makes much more sense. Still, I would have said, "This is not where I will be working. If you want to pick this back up in 5, I can be in my home office." (We hadn't set up proper video so I had her use my machine.)
Having said that, this is a hybrid position, so the laptop farm shouldn't be an issue. She'll be in 3 times a week.
HR can protect the company by reigning this guy in. I really feel it was a lone wolf thing, not policy.
I'd like to approach them anonymously, but it might be obvious who I was talking about.
A large percentage of people in Human Resources are absolute idiots. They often use their own perspective as what the company should be doing.
Ask them politely where that rule is because you want to understand. If they cannot provide it, immediately share all the conversation with your manager.
It may lead to nothing. Or discovery that this HR guy seems to always ask women to unblur their cameras and now they got a sexism case on their hands.
I completely believe all of that, and I'm sorry she's had to deal with so much crap. Lately a lot of employers seem to be showing their asses by being overtly racist, ableist, and transphobic. Everyone I know who isn't a white straight cis man has had employment troubles in the last six months.
I hope this is just a strange interaction with one HR person and you have a better time with everyone else!
HR can protect the company by reigning this guy in. I really feel it was a lone wolf thing, not policy.
Very true! Like I said, I'm not trying to convince you to not bring it up, just that it's something to be careful about, and to make sure you have evidence or documentation.
Long before Covid, the company I worked for started trialing work from home for some call center agents. They had a whole list of requirements for an acceptable work from home space: dedicated work area with a desk, locking file drawer (why??? I don't know), first aid kit, fire extinguisher, etc. Someone would actually go out to physically inspect the space to make sure every box was checked.
My guess is someone from legal wrote up the requirements from a workplace safety standpoint. They probably could have just had the employee sign a statement agreeing that they met all of the requirements, but someone in the middle got overzealous about their role. During Covid, everyone got sent home permanently without any regard to any of those rules, so clearly they weren't that important in the first place.
We need to provide a photo of our home work area as part of our application for work from home. It's needed as part of the employer's duty of care - managers are supposed to examine the photo and determine its a safe work area
Really all that happens is a photo is attached to the application and never looked at
I doubt American employers have any duty of care towards work from home employees.
I bet the unblurring was about being able to see the documents. AI blur is pretty aggressive at blurring anything that isn't a face
Huge, HUGE red flag. Even without it being I9 stuff.
I have worked remotely for 8+ years at this point. Sometimes I don't even turn my camera on for meetings. It depends on a lot of factors. If my employer cared about any of that, they probably wouldn't be a good employer for remote work.
...cluttered? the fuck?
has this fucker seen a cubicle? why did she allow it?
It seems like you are getting more knee jerk than actual answers here. There is no evidence of any discrimination in asking to deblur the camera by itself. It also has nothing to do with an I9 validation. The I9 validation is checking for employment eligibility and citizenship status and that's it. See below for the remote procedures. The employer's obligation is to be consistent in the procedure and not discriminatory with the procedure based on race, gender, etc. I just think that HE drone is a dumbass.
Lastly, I think based on your other response to another poster she should take the job and just be keenly aware if anyone else in HR asks other funny stuff. There can always be dumbasses in every department and that's not a reflection of their ability to be lawful or a bad company. I also think it's worth reporting the person if they keep doing funny stuff.
From USCIS:
Remote Examination of Documents Procedures:
Examine copies (front and back, if the document is two-sided) of Form I-9 documents or an acceptable receipt to ensure that the documentation presented reasonably appears to be genuine and relates to the employee;
Conduct a live video interaction with the individual presenting the document(s) to ensure that the documentation reasonably appears to be genuine and relates to the individual. The employee must first transmit a copy of the document(s) to the employer (per Step 1 above) and then present the same document(s) during the live video interaction; and
Retain a clear and legible copy of the documentation (front and back if the documentation is two-sided).
Link https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/remote-examination-of-documents
If you participate in E-Verify in good standing, you are qualified to remotely examine your employee’s documentation using a DHS-authorized alternative procedure at your E-Verify hiring sites. IfUSCIS
the HR drone could've probably explained it better, but it's possible for the background blur effect to distort a close up img on camera of a document, such as for I9. I recently went through a verification of my documents and had to do the same thing, except I made the call to unblur and immediately my docs were verifiable via camera.
Likely policy is to ask for blur effects to be disabled to remove the possibility of interference in be able to actually see/verify docs.
She's not H1B, in fact, I'm worried about her PC skills for this position! But I get your drift.
Another weird thing is checking her docs online when she's been to the office already. She's there now! You would think for something so important to the employer in-person would be required .
No one else at this company requested such. Was he way out of line?
People who experience discrimination develop a sense for when someone is othering them. It's not always correct, because it involves intuition, and you can misread people. But will still develop a sense for it.
Now, apply this to OP's wife. OP says this about her:
If I hadn't seen the blatant discrimination she's faced job hunting, I'd be more skeptical. She's Filipino, but that's "Mexican" to many. When I say blatant, I mean to say heads would roll if we had some of this on camera. She's mostly unhurt by these things, just figures that's the way of the world. But damn. One lady asked if she was Asian and was visibly appalled. Another said she would have to attend their church, and barely stopped short of asking her to renounce Catholicism. There's much more I'm not remembering ATM.
I have a birthmark that reads 'VAGINA' on my face.
Some people treat me differently from the moment I meet them.
I say, "I think that those people are reacting to my birthmark."
You say: "Why assume they react to your VAGINA birthmark in particular?"
Now, apply this to OP's wife. OP says this about her:
If I hadn't seen the blatant discrimination she's faced job hunting, I'd be more skeptical. She's Filipino, but that's "Mexican" to many. When I say blatant, I mean to say heads would roll if we had some of this on camera. She's mostly unhurt by these things, just figures that's the way of the world. But damn. One lady asked if she was Asian and was visibly appalled. Another said she would have to attend their church, and barely stopped short of asking her to renounce Catholicism. There's much more I'm not remembering ATM.
I'm heavily autistic. I've figured this all out logically, as a person who has experience discrimination myself. It wasn't easy, because I don't grasp social cues natively. I thought I'd been doing something wrong for a long long time when people initially appraised me as 'other', but it turned out they were just being judgement assholes. If you're not heavily autistic, I believe it should be easier for you to figure all this out, right?
So, a visible difference that some other people react to with prejudice is not like racism. Got it.
You ask: "Why assume they react to your VISIBLE ETHNIC DIFFERENCES in particular?"
I'm sure you can comprehend why removing the controversial topic of ethnic differences [controversial because e.g. some people want to claim racism is does not happen any longer, or is not of any importance when it does because 'it's illegal to discriminate'] to replace it with another visible difference made it a better metaphor. I'm sure that you knew this, in fact, when you called it 'dumb'. It's probably more that me saying that a woman is allowed to believe she is being target for racism reasons should be listened to, yes? I'm putting my respect in the wrong place, right?
Based on the condensation on that wall back there, I’m guessing he’s in the Port of Los Angeles right now sir.
Sorry I’m just cracking up at the idea of sensitive state secret-involving location-based jobs using people’s work surroundings as the criterion for confirming they’re not a foreign actor.
Like if that’s the level of security we’re putting on our state secrete we are fucked.
Your title suggests that you're asking whether it seems like a violation to you.
Only you can answer this question.
I do thinks it a violation, or at the least, it's a strange request, especially given the context I noted.
What I'm asking is, "What's everyone else's take on this?"
I don’t know if they’re all bastards
As it's not likely that all people who work in HR have unmarried parents, it's probably less literal language that labels them as belonging to a group of people who would harm you if it suited their interests.
All the HR people I've known who were not like that eventually left their job, because what they were asked to do went beyond their moral boundaries. Leaving HR to be the ones who were, indeed, those who didn't feel such qualms.
NK stole the identity of other Americans. They dotted i's and crossed t's to get into knowb4 via social engineering. Really fucked up.
Edit: check out the link above for full story
KnowBe4 has an article about their experience.
They also covered at least one other instance in the US.
Just when we thought we had something special with our very own North Korean hacker, it turns out this type of fraud has made it to the Volunteer State...Stu Sjouwerman (KnowBe4, Inc.)
Post pandemic, this kind of ID "verification" is SUPER bogus, but it's quite common unfortunately, and, tbh, I can't think of a better way to handle it that isn't either in person or via snail mail.
Not great for sure, but most likely not racist, or at least not purposefully so (not that that matters).
Even in a 100% work dedicated office, there is no background that looks as professional and uncluttered as a blurred one.
I only unblur if I'm showing off my bookshelf or video game posters
I'm inclined to agree, and was surprised my wife though it might be a racist thing. She's not one to pull the race card, quite the opposite in fact.
What was the reasoning for the company's request and at what part of the onboarding process was it?
No judgment here, and to be clear I don't mean to invalidate her suspicion or yours. It wouldn't surprise me if there were unethical individuals in HR who take things like this as an opportunity to call out things they don't like... But in my experience, the asking part is pretty typical, and I doubt it was targeted.
For me, I-9 verification was very early on in the onboarding process. A list of eligible I-9 documents was provided in the onboarding paperwork and HR scheduled a time in my first day or two to show them on camera. Took maybe 2 minutes once we were actually on the call.
I didn't press them on why when asked to unblur, but given I-9 is about presenting documents that verify your identity / eligibility to work, I suspect it's best practice to avoid any obvious image processing as a matter of policy. At the very least, not having to worry about the paper getting blurred just makes things easier. Ultimately, they're keeping these images on file to cover their own ass, so they want them to look as clear and legitimate as possible.
Employers have certain responsibilities under immigration law during the hiring process. The employer sanctions provisions, found in section 274A of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), wereUSCIS
Hmm, so, policy in our office is a clean desk. Before you jump to conclusions, it's because our secured area and office occasionally has people come through that should absolutely not see what information we have on our desks. This requirement is a compliance issue for our continued contracts and certifications.
Our work from home policy hasn't addressed this issue, but it sounds like it's a clear gap. Your neighbour coming around for a cup of tea absolutely should not be able to see any work related information.
My assumption is that someone has considered this kind of aspect and had a check to confirm that they've done diligence by asking you to reveal your working space. A space the companies sensitive information would be visible. Actually you too should maybe not be looking at your wife's screen nor materials on her work desk. Depending on the situation.
Either way, policy comes first so perhaps her employment agreement or employee handbook would reveal more.
I recently heard a man say, you should not focus on things that make you sad. There are certain things in life that are always gonna suck, there will always be certain things which you can't change, there is no use worrying about them or hating them.
Unfortunately, I am in a system that handicaps human growth, you don't/can't grow up to your full potential when you live in systems like these. I can't leave anytime soon, and the hyper-realization that had I been in a better system that fosters growth, I won't be as miserable (emphasis on the as here) as I am here. I am hyperaware of certain things. Small things, they steal my mental peace, it can be someone honking incessantly on the streets or loud unnecessary at any time of the day. Reddit shows me some weird stuff when I enter it and that distrubs my peace of mind! I have become very sensitive to these things.
I am sorrounded by all things negative in life, I have all the reason in the world to br resentful and ill-tempered, but resentment is a very dangerous thing, I don't want to be resentful. If I can't he happy here, I just want to be in peace! How can I do this? Venting about my situation helps but it's temporary and it seems to be doing more damage than good.
P.S.: Please don't start with how the American system is bad, it probably is, but there are worse things. I will literally be willing to lose a leg to get there. Also, might take sometime to reply, but I deeply appreciate your responses.
lose a leg to get there
and go bankrupt or die from it when you arrive
I didn't mean just get there, I meant have the problems you guys are having. I.e., your problems are better than mine.
I can "get there" even now it was want to, on a tourist visa or something, I meant more like swap places
I guess you are right. It would help.
Also need to block certain the open page and other news on reddit (I need it for other things)
The best reason to help others is because you are selfish and you like the feeling of helping someone else.
Because it means there is an endless supply of motivation to do the right thing.
might sound stupid, but sometimes (at least for me) I find joy in bringing others joy.
It doesn't trust me, but my realizations about the system I am living in, isn't helping. When I see a kid, I just become sad, they have no idea what's gonna hite them!
Haha.... you sound like an amazing guy to be with, good for you! I will try to bring joy to those around me who deserve it 😀
World's on fire, grab some marshmallows and a stick.
World wants to make you miserable, be happy out of sheer spite.
Listen to more ska: yeah we're going to hell, but I have a trumpet.
First, comparing yourself to others is a recipe for unhappiness. I guarantee unhappiness and ennui is part of every day American life as well. I'm living it. I don't know why I get out of bed each day other than to provide for my family, and I've been out of work for 5 months. Feels like waiting around to die, honestly. Maybe you think being in America would solve your problems, but it just presents a different set.
Second, accept the things you can't change. If you can't fix something, let go of worrying about it. Easier said than done and beware of telling yourself you can't change something when you can, but if there is something you can't fix, let it be. I know you said you've gotten that advice already. It's easy to hear but hard to accept.
Third, set yourself some achievable goals. If it's exercise or reading a book or painting a picture. Especially if it's a step toward fixing one of those things that's big, but not impossible to change. I've seen people build houses with their own hands over several years - one piece at a time. I have a friend who is mid-40's and getting her 4-year degree. One class per semester. She's on class three now. Eventually she will get there. I've set some goals to improve my physical health. It's a long fucking road. I lost 60 lbs. about 8 years ago. Gained it all back. Now it's time to tackle it again.
Fourth, make yourself look for good things. It's a beautiful sunny evening here after days of rain. I didn't achieve much today, but I can appreciate the warmth on my skin and the blue and white sky. My wife is out of the house taking a crafting class with a friend and I'm happy for her because that doesn't happen often. I have some interviews this week and maybe one will be the right fit. Whatever the good things are in your life, find them and spend a little time just appreciating them.
Good luck, my friend.
Maybe you think being in America would solve your problems, but it just presents a different set.
It would solve my problems, and yes, it would give me a different better set of problems. America is nowhere at the buttom when it comes to human development.
I know you said you’ve gotten that advice already. It’s easy to hear but hard to accept.
Yes! So much easier to hear!
I’ve set some goals to improve my physical health
Ohh yes, I need to do that to some extent too.
Thank you for your advice 😀
Sorry, I'm not quite sure what kind of help you are asking for. I do know one thing though:
Reddit shows me some weird stuff when I enter it and that distrubs my peace of mind!
You really should leave that place if you can. My experience is similar to yours, i also feel like crap after spending time there. Quitting that site and never looking back was a relief i hope you can share.
Unfortunately, I am in a system that handicaps human growth, you don't/can't grow up to your full potential when you live in systems like these
If you're talking about being surrounded by reminders of a system you hate, i can relate. Can you talk more about them without doxxing yourself? If that's not what you want to talk about, then maybe
I am hyperaware of certain things. Small things, they steal my mental peace, it can be someone honking incessantly on the streets or anything loud or unnecessary
Are you asking about help with anxiety and sensory overload issues? Cuz i can relate there too
Sorry, I’m not quite sure what kind of help you are asking for. I do know one thing though:
somewhat like how to cope with this, i..e, I don't want these things to get to me. My life is in shambles and it's in a good part due to the lack of opportunities in my country and I know for a fact that it ain't gonna change anytime soon.
You really should leave that place if you can
I first used to think lemmy is kinda mehh! But this thing is much more peaceful than reddit!
Can you talk more about them without doxxing yourself?
I don't actually want to talk about it, but I have lost hope. I used to think things would get better when I was younger, but they never did. I see the desperation and resentment in my people and the things they do out of it. Resentment is never a good thing! Never!
I have seen people delude themselves, live shitty lives for pennies in salary, I used to judge these people, but troubles started when I stopped judging them, I realized these were people just like you and me, if they were in a better system they would be doing some meaningful work and if not that, they would have money for their medical bills (it's much worse than US here, so no comparision)
It's not their fault, but their lives were destroyed, they don't live their lives to the fullest, they didn't reach their peak potential because of the system they are in. It's not their fault! This was my wakeup call! This made me sad beyond belief, I tbch miss the time I judged my people, but I can't go back.
sensory overload issues?
It's a part of a bigger problem, but yes, it would be amazing if I didn't fucking listen to all these machine noises 24/7
Huff.... It felt good to vent, haha... sorry, you helped by asking how you could help!
"Outlive your enemies, be happy and successful in spite of them, and listen to the laments of their women".
-Conan O'Barbarian
I think there's a few things in your response that trigger alarm bells.
First of all, it sounds like your environment is awful. Can you try to change things just a bit? Step by step? Identify what exactly it is (if it's family, try to get some distance to them (try to not hang around them if you can, etc.), if it's friends, try to go out and do your own thing for a bit and maybe try to approach new ppl, if it's school, talk to someone you trust and maybe figure out a solution where you can get some help there.
In general if you can, maybe therapy could help. If it's a permanent thing, and that's what it sounds like, a therapist can help you find solutions to deal with it.
What's kind of odd to me is that you say it's the little things that contribute a lot. Now having a bad day is not odd, but if it's one of the reasons you have a bad life rn, that's odd. I would like into why this still affects you in that magnitude. This something else you could talk with a therapist about.
I know that if you have good mental health usually these small things shouldn't throw you off, they are just a bit annoying. That's basically how usually ppl deal with it.
Now mind you I'm def not judging, I let small things get to me as well, but I'm in therapy for related issues and that's why I know I will improve.
And the thing with social media: basically, there's infinite good things and infinite bad things on social media. But the response to bad things is much stronger than it is too good things, that's why social media has a bias to display bad things (news, etc). So either limiting social media usage can be good, or you can try to curb news and stuff to get less of a skewed view. I did the same - I completely removed my reddit account (which tends to have a more pessimistic user base) and on Lemmy I started unfollowing a lot of news communities. It's just more healthy for me to see more neutral and positive things.
So yeah I hope I could help you. And always remember, as long as you believe it will get better, it will. Your brain has an amazing ability to reinforce positive thinking patterns if you concentrate on them and this in turn makes you behave more positively towards others and therefore can actively help you on your conquest to change your environment. Wish I could link you studies on this rn but I can only give you the good ole trust me bro guarantee.
Good luck on making a change, I believe if you do you can be a big positive influence for others 😀
Well, I wake up happy every day because I don't really think anyone 'deserves' anything, including physical existence. So I am happy to be physically embodied, so happy nothing hurts most days and that I can move freely and breathe freely. I just kind of think anything above constant agony is above the baseline of existence.
I do think you can deserve things like pay for work, you can earn things. But even so, so many people get so much for nothing, and so many others get nothing for giving so much.
I will wish for your success beyond your expectations.
I recommend talk therapy. I think a majority of people could benefit from it, though a smaller ratio of people genuinely need it. I need it. It helps me maintain a sense of balance. I slowly unravel without it. Sounds like it might be helpful for you.
A word of advice in this area: you might need to meet with multiple people before you find the right fit. If it feels off with a person, don't be afraid to shop around to find someone with whom you feel more comfortable. I've had a roughly 50% success rate finding the right fit in decades of therapy. One change was when I moved, one was when a therapist retired. I've had three that were right so far. And I've had three that were clearly not the right fit. Good luck!
Listen to Jordan Peterson.
I recommend starting with his course called Maps of Meaning which I believe is still available on youtube.
Oh no, my life is going fine. I’ve got no anger against those groups. I’m driven and healthy for the first time in my life.
My driving force has been desperation to figure out my mental health.
I’m referring to those who are miserable and asking for help, then downvoting the answers they get because their friends wouldn’t like it.
I haven’t met anyone who’s in that venn intersection. Can you name someone who is?
You're so far outside the box that everyone who disagrees is too small to be the big brain like you are.
Except not. So cut the crap. Downvotes are for said dishonesty.
Seeing as we don’t know the same people, I can’t. And you know that, so it’s a pretty Jordan Peterson-y way of trying to win an argument.
Hey, man. If you got something positive out of his mumbo jumbo, great. But his stuff is kinda like horoscopes in that way. You can…kinda take whatever you want from it. Because it’s mostly overly verbose, purposefully complicated nonsense. And the mindset you’re in when exposed to it can change its effect. So, when shared among right wing incels and “alpha male” circles, it very much has the effect of fostering hatred toward women and trans people.
He spouts pseudo science and fills it with buzzwords on hot button issues. He cloaks his nonsense in the favorite topics of those who do harbor hatred towards women, transgender people, etc. He gets to remain an arm’s length away from the far right while catering to them by pretending to be a “neutral” “academic.” But those people are his bread and butter. While you may or may not be a part of that, like I said, he caters to them and uses vague enough bullshit to let those kinds of people justify their hatred. You can’t deny that he’s positioned himself as “going against the status quo”—hell, you basically said so yourself. And hat is the exact type of persona that attracts the ironically “anti establishment” right wingers. A truly stupid hypocritical group of people. They claim anti establishment, while actually harboring authoritarian beliefs.
My point is, his schtick is to appear “neutral” while spouting exactly the kind of shit bigots need so they can feel justified in their hatred. You may have not fallen prey to that, but plenty of his fans do. And anyone who opens up to that stream of pseudoscientific “information” from him is flirting with the far right pipeline.
This sound a bit like depression, but I am no medical professional.
Imagine all the input you get every day both positive and negative. When we are depressed we do a worse job at filtering out the negative.
If this is how you feel all (or most) of the time for a prolonged period, I would consider talking to your doctor. Antidepressants can help a lot. They can take weeks to months to be effective, but they work.
If you are sceptical about medication, it does not hurt to read about it and how they work.
Anyways, I hope things improve for you!
Hello, I was wondering if anyone has recommendations for tools to help with digital detox / digital minimalism.
I struggle with mild impulsivity. Whenever I open my computer I almost automatically open a browser and check social media.
It used to be a problem primarily with Reddit and news sites, but since joining Lemmy my behavior has switched to regularly checking Lemmy.
I'm looking for any tools or advice, whether cognitive-behavioral or technical like browser extensions.
In the past I used the Firefox extension called Redirector to redirect myself from certain subreddits like /r/all to something more benign (I like /r/sewing or /r/books for example), and this intervention helped break up automatic behavior and was a kind of harm reduction: still feeding the impulsivity, but with healthier content.
I was wondering if there is something like Redirector that redirects randomly with some probability (like 20% of the time it redirects to the target you specify).
Finally, another web engine is being developed to compete with Chromium and Firefox (Gecko), and they're also working on a browser that will use it.
A PR fixing all those issues was merged.
They used "they" when referring to a person, and "it" when referring to a process (the author used "he" when referring to a process calling another process, when he should have used "it.")
That's never going to happen, and the reasons are twofold:
Brands want to push their own style on people, to make themselves recognizable, and to push their ideas about UX to their users (because they obviously know better than the OS/DE/compositor/whatever people).
It's easier and cheaper to build a web app, because there are so many web developers. It also usually allows you to give an "app" to people who want that, while giving a (perhaps somewhat limited) browser version to everyone else, reaching the maximum amount of users while maintaining only a single codebase and keeping everything more or less cohesive and looking the same.
AFAICT that's correct for WebBluetooth indeed, as it's only implemented by Chromium (and thus all browsers relying on it) but for but for WebUSB https://wicg.github.io/webusb/ it's still being discussed at the W3C level so even though not standards (which I don't think W3C even produce, only API specifications, e.g HTML isn't a standard whereas Bluetooth is) thus allowing others to possibly implement it.
To clarify Firefox is my main browser, but (sadly) for those very specific cases I'm relying on Chromium (WebXR on standalone XR devices, even now Wolvic switching to Chromium as a backend).
It's an important point as by doing this Google is pushing for it's own set of technologies and is pushing for it's own engine which comes with a lot of business (namely ads) related "feature" e.g Manifest v3 that aren't good for privacy.
That is also interesting to consider on "why" a browser keeps on evolving, i.e having the most "advanced" browsers does give an edge and pushes competition away.
Maybe you're unaffected so you don't give a shit. Or maybe you view gay people as scum undeserving of equal rights.
But donating money to try to reverse gay marriage is disgusting. As is donating money to a politician who said AIDS was a good thing and gay people should be cleansed of the earth by it. That's tantamount to wishing for genocide.
It's honestly tiring how many people in the tech/FOSS community just straight up don't give a shit about certain demographics, or even hate them outright, and see any inclusion of them at all as "politics".
Which means nothing honestly
I think Ladybird has way more promise
Are people writing “she” instead of “they” misogynistic and transphobic too?
There's no such thing as "reverse racism", "misandry", etc. That's not how systemic oppression works.
Brands want to push their own style on people, to make themselves recognizable, and to push their ideas about UX to their users
That’s not a universal behavior though. There’s so many utilities and simpler apps made by indie developers or smaller companies that don’t care about this.
Right, "reverse racism" and "misandry" are just plain ol' prejudice.
I guess it's up to you whether you think being prejudice is only bad if you belong to the group systemically in power, or if you think being prejudice against someone for the circumstances of their birth is bad regardless of either party's systemic stature, but we should be correct in our use of language.
We don't have anyone actively working on Windows support, and there are considerable changes required to make it work well outside a Unix-like environment.We would like to do Windows eventually, but it's not a priority at the moment.
This is how you make “critical mass” adoption that much more difficult.
As much as I love Linux, if you are creating a program to be used by everyone and anyone, you achieve adoption inertia and public consciousness penetration by focusing on the largest platform first. And at 72% market share, that would be Windows.
I hope this initiative works. I really do. But intentionally ignoring three-quarters of the market is tantamount to breaking at least one leg before the starting gate even opens. This browser is likely to be relegated to being a highly niche and special-interest-only browser with minuscule adoption numbers, which means it will be virtually ignored by web developers and web policy makers.
Linux users tend to give much better bug reports than Windows users (if they do at all). That alone is probably a good enough reason to do Linux first. There are many more good reasons when the first goal is getting it functional and not getting as many users as possible (who will probably hate it if they're not a technically skilled user because there will be bugs).
You're making an assumption their first priority is the number of users. I would suspect that isn't true, and they're aware Windows has more users.
Ladybird was originally started as a browser for SerenityOS, a POSIX operating system. Well into the project, they decided to make it cross-platform but that still meant POSIX ( Linux and macOS ). As interest ( and sponsorships ) came in from outside SerenityOS, focus moved more and more to the browser and away from SerenityOS.
Just recently, Ladybird decided to split from SerenityOS, allow more outside code, and in fact has dropped SerenityOS as a supported OS.
The project is fairly pragmatic. I am sure they will add Windows support as the core browser engine matures.
We would like to do Windows eventually, but it’s not a priority at the moment.intentionally ignoring
I think you just read what you wanted to read don't you think?
I think this is the argument that the Ladybird people have made:
Ladybird is intended to be a truly independent browser and especially independent of Google.
You couldn't care, as long as the language is good, but you care when it's Apple?
You're wrong btw. Sure, Apple engineers developed it originally. But it is now in the hands of the open source community, with over 1,000 contributors on github: https://github.com/swiftlang/swift
Edit: To be clear, unlike something like Chromium, Apple doesn't even own the repositories anymore. It's fully independent.
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I said:
I couldn't care less as long as the language is good.
Why wouldn't I care if the language is bad in my opinion?
These people started it and are doing it for fun.
Fixing few decades of technical debt is not fun and a big question would be if their code would even be considered for existing engines.
It us so much fin it already has over 1000 contributors. It got us 1k more people that understand browsers deeply. I think that's a huge win whatever happens with browser itself
It almost like a bot is posting this sentence every time SerenityOS is mentioned.
Using "he" insted of "they" is not enough to call someone transphobic or misogynistic. It's like you become fascist and are targeting people for one different opinion. Which is not even true.
There are real problems transgender people are having, ladybird browser must be low on that priority.
I fail to see how is traing AI on publicly available images hurting small artists?
You don't have to write if you don't have time, link to explanation is good for me.
I basically use generated images in places that would not have any ilustrations before. There is no budget. When I have money for an artist I hire an artist.
Maybe I made to many assumptions. All I saw was on the about page they said they started under Mozilla and moved to the Linux foundation. Maybe I'm to quick to jump to conclusions but it doesn't look like it has that much momentum. To be fair neither does Labybird. The big thing about Ladybird is that it is completely independent and already has a decent amount of funding. Maybe Servo is bigger than I realized. At the end of they day we need diversity.
I didn't mean this as a personal attack. It seems like you have some previous knowedge of Servo which is completely fine. You are welcome to block me if you so wish. At the end of the day you don't have to care about what I say. While I don't suspect this will turn into harassment I will note that I will block you if you start trying to "chase" me across the fediverse. I have had issues in the past where someone starts going though and replying to every one of my comments everywhere.
There are real problems transgender people are having, ladybird browser must be low on that priority.
Are you trying to tell me that Ladybird inadvertently referring to a computer process 'he' instead of 'it' is not a high priority problem for transgender people? What could possibly be worse? 😛
(But seriously though. I find it really weird that people are still upset at Ladybird about this. It makes me wonder if there's some social manipulation going on. Like, is anyone actually upset about this, or is it just an excuse to attack the devs?)
How could I have missed that, lol. Thanks.
Anyways, I don't think it's too weird. It might even be to simply have their name up there. We'll have to see.
It just makes too much sense... The only way to get past electron is a better electron. Or just fix electron
We've been going after this concept for decades now. That's what java swing was supposed to be, what python gtlk was supposed to be, and I'm sure there were others before that and there's been a hell of a lot since then
It's all trade-offs between flexibility, ease of use, and performance. Also between maintenance cost, portability, and existing library support
Electron is a good compromise. The execution could be better, but it's come a long way. There is no one size fits all solution, but there are some decent options that handle that compromise differently
Don't put all all Ladybird devs in the same basket, there's currently more than 1000 contributors.
Ok, Andreas Kling said some untasteful things a few years ago when it was mostly his project, but I don't think it's fair to dismiss the whole project for this reason now.
Cool. But some other people have morals, and wouldn't wish to give a chef some money if he, for example, wanted to exterminate minority groups.
Maybe you'd turn a blind eye and say "well, I'm not in danger from him, so why should I care? I just want food." but don't be surprised when people think you're a cunt because of it.
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So much for freedom when everything is done thru proprietary services under US jurisdiction.
Cool. But some other people have morals
Come on, that's a far stretch. What the person said does not imply that they don't have morals.
don’t be surprised when people think you’re a cunt because of it.
Maybe no one should be, especially on the internet 😉
you do not have money you are not hiring a 2000€/month artist
On the site I see like, one stock footage of a plant, one of a ladybird and some rando abstract graphics. What are you guys talking about here? Am I out of date? Should I ask for raise? (I'm not an artist but SW engineer, so probably not.)
Having a reflex to avoid politics, especially when you live in an environment where concepts like gender aren't discussed, is understandable
Being female is not "political".
Their policy of "no politics" was misguided, but understandable.
Being female is not "political".
Everything is political.
Being female is not "political".
at a time when much of the US-influenced west was going crazy with polarization over the use of pronouns
lmao, speak for yourself. The anti-pronoun crazies have always been fringe, and their message has always been hateful and sexist.
When someone tells me who they are, I believe them. I'm seeing no evidence that anything has changed in 3 years.
Are gender neutral pronouns "political" in Germany?
Yeah, (like in french) male pronouns ARE the gender neutral option, and using they/them would be like using xim/xer in english
Well, yeah, but in gendered languages every common noun has a gender, and gender neutral pronouns are very very new, especially 3 years ago, so even most people in those lgbtq communities use male pronouns as gender neutral.
Tldr: yeah, but its like the tiniest deal ever
Edit: wanted to add that in gendeeed languages using gender neutral instead of male pronouns when referring to the user in the app would be wierd
I had a friend tell me a few days ago that they get up an hour and a half before they're supposed to work to relax and read or shower or whatever. I can't even picture that. I get up 30m before work and rush through coffee+oatmeal because if I slow down and think about how I have to work today it'll make me depressed.
It's better to catch me unawares so I don't have time to ruminate before I'm expected to work. Then before I know it I'll be working and too busy to think about how I'd rather be floating on a cloud while beautiful people feed me grapes off the vine.
i have a morning routine that mostly revolves around listening to a few regular news podcasts as i wake up, shower, and shave. listening to thee news distracts me from how tired i am.
then, obvs, coffee at work
I look forward to skating or riding to work most days, but some days I struggle to find motivation.
Oh, also coffee.
Wake up about 15 minutes before I have to be out the door.
Just enough time to go to the loo, brush my teeth and chuck some clothes on.
If I give myself more time than I need, I just get sidetracked by something and end up making myself late.
Going to bed early enough that your actually awake before your alarm really makes mornings easy. I didn't used to be a morning person but I kinda am now!
The next question does then become - how do I make myself go to bed at a sensible time?
This is good advice. I used to really push how late I'd stay up and then get jolted awake by my alarm. Felt like trash.
Now I go to bed like 9.5 hours before I have to get up (midnight -> 930) and usually wake up before the alarm. Feels great.
I set alarms for my bedtime to train myself into it. Like, alarm goes off at 11pm and I start winding down whatever I'm doing (video games, usually). Now I just do it naturally.
But as you said, how do you actually do the thing?
I've luckily never had problems with executive function, so I can't really imagine clearly what it's like to not be able to just make a decision and execute. One of my friends swears by medication, because they got diagnosed as an adult with ADHD.
By having long term goals. If you're working toward something bigger in life each day is just progress on that journey.
If you don't have any long term goals start thinking about where you want to be in 5 or 10y and make some. Then you can think about how to get there and start making short and medium term goals to help you along the way.
discipline beats motivation. make it just something you do, not something to be considered and decided.
you don't need a pep talk for every little thing.
Not to fully disagree here, because sometimes we all need to do things we don't want, but I don't want to live a life where everyday requires unyielding discipline just to get up.
Maybe you're talking more about habits, than forcing yourself to live through another awful day.
I had a counselor once tell me that "motivation typically comes from doing" I guess most people say "motivation" when they mean "inspiration"
So what does "getting motivated in the morning" mean to you? What does that look like?
To me It looks like a nightly routine of positive self-talk while visualizing myself getting up the next morning to carry out my planned agenda
All that visualization would have me excited to get started. I'd be up all night thinking about the plan, then be too exhausted to even get out of bed when it's finally time to actually get started.
You craft and finish a plan before you walk up the mountain and then stop thinking about the mountain. You don't look up the mountain, just at your steps and the way right before you. The mountain wants you to worry, but if you worry, you loose. So don't look up the mountain and just walk, step by step.
Know that worrying about things like this is like trying to solve an algebra equasion by chewing bubble gum.
It’s not so much the motivation, but the just doing it. Shia has a great video on the subject:
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I wake up each day with an awful headache. I think there’s mold but I can’t prove it.
So what motivates me is: “today I can get a little closer to moving out of this shithole”
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How did I miss this five years ago? What an excellent idea. I think we should be able to just finish the coursework and then put it on our resume.
I love this idea so much. I'm established in my industry but I think I'll start working on it and just add to my resume. Thanks for sharing.
Tiny Core has a minimum CPU of i486DX.
antiX might also work but I couldn't find a minimum CPU requirement listed, just that it has an x86 version.
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The Linux kernel works fine. How much ram do you have? I personally would build a custom image with buildroot.
Other option is Debian
Frankly the power consumption of that thing x performance delivered will be just bad. Take for example this example, a more modern Pentium D vs a Pi:
If you don't have any kind of attachment to the machine, just trash it, get a Pi or a second hand 8th Gen i5 HP Mini for around 80$ and enjoy. If you do have an attachment to the machine you may as well run some OS from the same era. https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems
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I don't live in a place with particularly high energy prices, but I've been reading about countless complaints about home labbers changing to new hardware because of that.
The thing is that, even if the power is cheap a Pi when you're comparing a PII to a RPi 4 or a modern machine with a "T" CPU if you've the money to spend on the new thing you'll way better, faster CPU, faster RAM, less noise, less power, more modern features, less software issues... at certain point it makes no sense to run that old hardware. Did you ever try to SSH into a Core Duo machine with a Ed25519 key? The CPU doesn't have the modern crypto extensions making the login unbearably slow, similar happens with other SSL stuff.
Oh I get it. I hate to see hardware that could be useful being thrown out. Hence the reason I have stacks of 1TB hard drives with no real use.
I have a long term goal of running my home automation system on that commodore for no other reason than it’s weird. So I get it.
I mean I guess. Just in my opinion a Pentium 2 is too new to be old and too old to be new. Something like 386 or a Coco2, that’s cool.
I deal with a lot of old hardware in my lab but sometimes it’s just too much trouble. But whatever floats your boat. Last thing I’ll be is judgey about what brings you happiness. I mean I’m currently playing with Proxmox on a 2013 Mac Pro because I think it’s fun. And some people (cough ..cough.. my wife) wonder why 🤣
There was also a competition (long ago) to see who could build a computer that would successfully boot Windows 95. The goal was to boot the slowest possible time (no arbitrary delays allowed).
The winner wrote a shim that emulated a floating point unit of the i486 so it would boot on a i386 (no floating point). The result was... booting after many weeks. They won big time.
Debian still supports Pentium IIs. They axed support for the i586 architecture (original Pentium) a few years back, but Debian 12 (current stable, AKA Bookworm) still supports i686 chips like the P2.
Not sure how the rest of the hardware in that Compaq will work.
See: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.en.html
i didnt see anyone mentioning puppy linux, its an option.
you might even be able to run a twm or openbox style GUI if you have enough ram.
As others have suggested, the only option I can think of is Tinycore but you’ll need to get the Microcore version (aka Core ISO with no GUI). This should run on 32MB RAM but leaves you very little headroom with a very barebones install, and obviously no GUI of any kind.
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I looked up the Compaq Armada 1700 and saw that it came with 32MB soldered with one slot available to expand up to 160MB. It’s a long shot, but if you can find a working 32MB, 64MB or 128MB memory module for this you should be able to run TinyCore with a GUI. Adding more RAM would also open up options like Slackware.
It’s not clear to me if Debian will work or not, even with maxing out the RAM in this computer. There is a low memory install mode you could try but I think even that requires at least 256MB which is beyond the theoretical maximum this computer supports.
If all you want to do is prove to yourself that you can install Linux on this computer then Microcore might be worth a try. If you want a usable system with a GUI then you’re probably going to have to add more RAM.
This could be a long shot, but so long as you do NOT connect it to the internet, you could try sourcing a Linux distribution from back when this computer was released, I’m thinking Redhat Linux (before RHEL and Fedora was a thing) or Debian a very old version of Debian. However even if you do succeed in this it’s probably not going to be usable.
Good luck!
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I just need to gush for a minute. I am about to shutdown my server in order to move it to the basement. This off the shelf $300 desktop running Pop!_OS is my self-hosting server that has dutifully done it's job without a single complaint. It has been rebooted maybe three times since 2020 and it currently has an uptime of 840 days. That's 840 days of not ever thinking about this thing. It self updates via Cron jobs and just...works.
I am afraid to open the box up though. Those dust bunnies must be huge.
>I am afraid to open the box up though. Those dust bunnies must be huge.
Yeah probably, but it's necessary to remove them if you want your machine to stay in good conditions for the next years, even more important when it's running 24/7.
I know, that's why I'm opening it and why it is going to the basement. It's basically a concrete bunker at a constant 50°f with no windows and just a filtered radon extraction unit. There are cans sitting there since the COVID lockdown that still have no dust on them. The closet it is in now has carpet. Enough said.
EDIT: It was shockingly clean. Some dust and cobwebs, but very little.
I've read that human skin particles make up a significant portion of household dust.
.... Are you a robot?
You can update and change repos.
But I hope you use kernel livepatching, because that uptime is scary. You missed like 50 kernel updates
Oh 6.0.9 ! I thought 6.9. 6.0.x is extremely old
But as you said the machine is only with all your shady IOT devices that makes it kinda better I guess
It was 6.9.3 once I booted after the move. I assume it had been updated but waiting fir a reboot to use the new kernel. Until I rebooted, it was probably still running on the 6.0.9 image.
If uptime and having the latest kernel ever becomes something I care about for this server, I might switch to Ubuntu Pro. It is free for personal use and it includes kernel livepatching. I can't imagine why I would need it for this use case though.
Livepatching is pretty cool.
But arent your services autostarting? Why not configure apt-automatic to do a reboot on kernel updates?
uptime of 840 days
This always makes me wince. I don't think high uptimes should be celebrated. Has your kernel ever been patched or the services running restarted? Just installing the updates is not enough to secure your system you need to be running that new code as well.
Also, I get very nervous about touching those systems. You have no clue what state it is in. I have seen far too many large uptime server have their power go some day and are never able to boot again or don't boot all the services back up as someone forgot to enable the service.
Nop, rather see them rebooted regularly at a non critical time so we know they will come back up. Or even better have a HA setup.
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When people ask me why I like Linux, my go-to reason is my main personal machine. I use it for everything I do outside of work, including running my Emby server.
I built it from $500 worth of parts 13 years ago. I've kept updating the os and applications. It's starting to slow down a bit after the last os upgrade, but it's still plenty usable.
I am getting concerned about the spinning platters. As far as I am aware, Linux won't prevent an ancient hard disk drive from reaching the natural end of is life.
It's probably time to move on to a new machine. Well, new motherboard, CPU, RAM, and disks at least.
Hijack the power cable and solder it to a battery while you move it !
Hi everyone,
I'm hoping there are people here who work on FOSS and have applied for grants to support their software financially. I am applying for a grant opportunity that is asking for a software from US gov agency.
My requirements:
- I want to publish it under Open Source Licenses like GPL (not MIT) so other corps can't take this to use on their product,
- The grant agency will get the source code, they can do whatever as long as the license is held,
- I will develop the features they want, and request during the duration of grant,
- I will want to continue development independently after the grant, or apply for more grants from other organizations,
- To clarify the previous point, I do not want to give them the final product so they own it, and I can no longer do anything on the program.
So, if anyone has done similar things, please give me advice on this. Their requirement says "a web repository" should be provided at the end, so I think I can apply with the intention of giving them the software code while keeping the rights. But I don't want to make a mistake in application/contract and lost the rights to the program, I want to develop a lot further than just the features they want for their use case.
Or at least dual license to protect the Open Source Side while giving the grant organization rights to take the code for their other programs because of the money they spent.
Further points:
I also have a lot of other libraries and programs that I have developed and published with GPLv3 license, so I also want to integrate them with the new program. Since I don't want to reinvent the wheel for things I have already done. And I'll probably want to integrate this software on things I might make in the future.
I'd like to know about that too.
I imagine you're aware but GPL doesn't directly prevent corps from using your code (just often done because their code is often propriety). They can use it legally as part of their own GPL licensed code or when they are offering software as a service (they don't distribute the binary, running on their server). In that case where your code could be running on a server then the AGPL would be preferable if giving software freedom to their users is part of your goals.
I'm fine as long as it is used in other GPL projects. I just don't want them to take this, use it on some proprietary code and make money/mine data and other things and not contribute to upstream or open source in general.
I hadn't thought about the network usages, I though GPL covered it. So, is AGPL everything GPL has plus software service from network? If yes, then I will use that license. EDIT: Saw that AGPLv3 is indeed GPLv3 + the network thing.
I just don't want them to take this, use it on some proprietary code and make money/mine data
They can't make your code proprietary, but they can still steal peoples data and make money all they like with your code, GPL has no privacy clause
I want to publish it under Open Source Licenses like GPL (not MIT) so other corps can’t take this to use on their product,
Sooo, that's not what the GPL does - or any other Open Source license really. OpenSource is about the freedom of the user, including the freedom to profit from the software (see RedHat, Ubuntu, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, etc. all making money off Linux).
You'll want to research your licenses a bit more to see what fits your purpose if your goal includes "not for commercial use".
I don't mind them making money off of it, as long as they contribute to the open source community by improving it, contributing upstream, or using it in other systems and keeping those open source as well. I want other people to benefit from the effort I made and published, and if someone wants to improve it, I want others to benefit from there too.
I don't want the case like insulin in US, where the first invention is free because they wanted everyone to benefit from it. But now it's super expensive because of the incremental advances other corps did that are patented. And the free version is no longer viable to use without those incremental improvements.
It’s worth double checking this, especially if your school has a law school.
When I was in school, we could gain access to unlimited legal council for a small semester-ly fee. Usually it was used for landlord disputes, but this is a great use case, too.
Not legal advice, just an idea.
Publish early and frequently (e.g. on github with a license statement) and encourage others to clone it. Now the code is out there. You can't take it back. Even better if the funding agency explicitly approves this.
You can still dual-license, later, i.e. use a more permissive (or different) license if the agency or a research partner requires this. Just make sure the repo with your preferred licence stays available and uptodate.
The license is less important than you think. OSS projects live as long as there is at least one maintainer.
Thank you.
From my interactions with the people that'll fund this. It does look like they want me to just develop this. But my advisor has not done this kind of software development grants. And the people I talked to might also not know what their organization's legal requirements are put in contract. That's why I want to know what kind of language I should use in proposal so that it can be used as a point of discussion if someone from their organization says we can't do that. Instead of them just assuming I'll hand over everything.
Seen this in many houses, people upgrade their lighting setup and install a dimmer. Which works. But usually it also makes the lights flicker unintentionally, which is super annoying IMO.
Now, my understanding of electrical engineering is pretty rudimentary so I'd appreciate more something that explains the concept in a way that Cavewoman Mothra can understand rather than something technically accurate.
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I need an answer to this too (well maybe more of a solution, actually)... All the main areas of our home have dimmer switches. Some lights are LEDs, some are just your basic bulbs (like the ones in our ceiling fans). We like being able to dim the lights, especially in the bedrooms when the kids are getting ready to sleep (we also put down all electronics with screens), but ever so often these lights when dimmed will have a slight pulse like effect where it either goes a little darker or a little brighter (no rhyme or reason) and in my office you can slightly hear a little buzz sound when the light goes a little darker/brighter while the light is set to a certain level of dimness (for lack of better/technical terminologies).
Originally I thought it was just bad bulbs, so I did my office first as a test, but immediately after replacing the bulbs with brand new ones, it was not staying static to the dimness level I wanted, it would appear to randomly do the pulsating light effect.
Because of the differences in how incandescent bulbs work vs LED and Florescent, and thus how their dimmers have to work.
Incandescent: you just heat up a bit of metal until it's glowing hot. Literally the same effect as leaving something metal in a campfire or furnace until it glows, just super hot so super bright and white.
Florescent: have a tube of gas, and then put a super high frequency voltage across it (thousands of Hz), and enough energy will be imparted to the gas molecules that they will emit photons.
LEDs: apply a constant DC current to a bit of a custom grown semi conductor, and that will give the semi conductor atoms enough energy that they will release photons.
The main thing about those, is that for Florescent and LEDs, they require very specific types of power.
Now it comes to dimmers. If you want to reduce the brightness of an incandescent bulb, you need to reduce the power going to it, which means reducing the voltage.
The first dimmers did this by putting a variable resistor in series with the bulb. When it's resistance is zero the bulb is at full brightness, when it's resistance is way higher than the bulb's then the bulb is super dim.
This is good because it's super cheap and easy and you can precisely lower the voltage while maintaining the exact same waveform, but the problem with this is that you're feeding the same amount of power to the circuit no matter what, the resistor is just burning up the excess and turning it into heat.
So then we landed on how we built the vast majority of classical dimmers you see today: switched dimmers. Since incandescents are just hot metal, and there's a lag between when you heat metal and when it cools, you don't actually need to give it a clean wave form. Modern dimmers just switch on and off really fast to reduce the average amount of power going to the bulb. At 50% brightness, the dimmer might be switching on for 20ms then off for 20ms then on for 20ms then off for 20ms.
It's a great simple solution for incandescents, but when you try and feed the precise electronics of an LED or Florescent, that messy, choppy signal, they can't handle it and often just see it as the power coming on and off or it messes with their internal circuitry.
That's not the only way to dim an LED, just the cheapest. Variable current power regulators are the premium option.
A screw-in LED bulb combines LEDs and power regulating electronics. Some of them handle the variable input voltage a household dimmer provides gracefully, but that's more expensive.
Hi Lazaro!
That’s not always true, actually. For example, Digital Sputnik lights (and some LED tape that I have that I use my current control dimmers on) utilize current control dimming. This alternative type of dimming allows them to work even with super high speed frame-rates due to having very little or even no perceivable flicker. It’s certainly unpopular in comparison to PWM but definitely not unheard of in the film industry.
Power coming into the house is AC which means 50-60 times a second the power goes from +110/240V to -110/240v.
LED lights run off DC power, so to change the power type a capacitor is somewhere that holds enough charge to keep the item working until the AC power is back to a usable positive value.
Dimmers limit the power going to the light, so the capacitor doesn't charge enough to keep the light and circuitry on for the full negative swing of AC power.
This is ungodly rudimentary, and corrections are welcome. There is also many nuances I am missing.
I've been trying to get rid of my cellphone for awhile now. I switched to JMP.chat, I have Pidgin setup to make calls/texts, etc.
I use Trisquel GNU/Linux with my Libreboot laptop.
My strategy looks something like this:
Any suggestions?
TIA!
I'm only using hardware that allows the Intel Management Engine to be fully disabled (e.g., ThinkPad X200, T400, etc.).
The PinePhone seems nice, but its firmware cannot be freed to the same extent as that of one of the older ThinkPads.
The reason why is because I want to escape from non-free software.
How about Purism Librem 5?
PS: I do have a PinePhone and PinePhone Pro, used both with a USB-C adapter to have screen, mouse and keyboard and was a quite convenient solution but I understand that some of the firmware limitations might go against your goal. I hope they'll be fully open if they do a newer model.
I have "mained" a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Extreme running Pop!_OS for over two years now. I run a company and interact with clients all the time, so I'm not just browsing PornHub all day. My Thinkpad has not let me down yet.
I have a Mac for my music production and graphic design hobbies, but only because I own software for it that only supports Mac or Windows. That said, I rarely use it since Bitwig and Renoise run on Linux. I'll only boot the Mac if I need some plug-in or Abelton. All that's happened is that I have slowly started to gravitate towards DAW-less production.
I don't have any suggestions, but this is incredibly impressive. I haven't heard of jmp.chat before, but it sounds like you can create multiple identities using different phone numbers - is that correct?
If so, that sounds amazing. I really hate how the modern world is trying to force people into a singular identity online, and the way that they're using phone numbers to do it. This sounds like it could be a pretty decent method to avoid that.
No, not suitable at all. I would be more interested in using my phone with GrapheneOS as only device.
But:
- mail filters work fine with my provider, not in K-9mail (fair-email gives me anxiety)
- office stuff just sucks, Collabora is as big as Libreoffice but no GUI options
- MPV is very barebones and VLC very far behind on updates
- missing GIMP
- missing PDF editing
- missing video or audio editing
- missing code editing
- missing commandline stuff
- no qbittorrent, Aria2 works but only for leeching, BiglyBT works but has a weird UI and restricted features
- no browser with tab groups, containers, security, etc.
But for a ton of other stuff a phone works very well
In many areas there are way more apps for android, in many others way less.
No osm and on Linux?
Its just open street map data. Use the routing tool on their web page.
Or make your own if you want to using gis.
Or use the beta organic maps flatpak.
Or KDE Marble has OSM routing as well.
Yeah lemmie just pull out my laptop real quick outside this pub to find how to get back to my hotel.
Aaaaand its gone
Ask the barman the direction to the closest landmark? Grab a cab? Get a map from the hotel itself?
I understand that walking around with a laptop isn't for most but trying to think like OP here, I want to suggest that for their goal, habits can change. They are plenty of good solution beside a mobile phone to be able to get around.
Just pay a taxi driver LOL are you rich or something ? XD
Back to paper maps with arbitrary POIs?
With OSMand I can easily contribute to OSM too, add and edit POIs mainly.
damn a lot of nice things! Organic maps I tried, it is not at all comparable.
OSMAnd does way more than routing, but I will have a look at their website, couldnt find it in the past.
Didnt know that Marble has routing!
O wise teacher, are you able to get OTPs for services that require phone numbers with this solution?
I have a phone but no SIM, and I can't use a lot of the Internet because soooo many services require a phone number. How much do you pay for this per year?
It says this on their front-page:
"Note: While JMP does provide phone numbers and voice/SMS features, it does not provide 911, 112, 999 or other emergency services over voice or SMS."
I meant Verizon for service on my phone and then have JMP.chat number for making calls/text. I don't use the phone number that's given from Verizon, I use the JMP.chat number instead. <---- This is my setup for my phone, not my laptop. JMP.chat works just fine over WiFi. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
For getting service on my laptop though, I use a USB modem that's connected to my LibreCMC router. I travel around with the router/modem in my backpack.
Hey folks,
So, I have an old school iPod I got from someone it’s sweet and I want to put my music on it. Is there a decent app in Linux that will be able to do the sync of music? Or is it able to be just copied to like an external drive?
Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer for Linux, macOS and Windows. It is aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. With Strawberry you can play and manage your digital music collection, or stream your favorite radios.strawberrymusicplayer.org
Depending on how old the iPod is, you might have some luck installing rockbox firmware on it.
But, in any case, yes, moving your music over will functionally be as if copying it to an external drive.
That works according to rockbox's website (Apple days A1136 is 5th generation, which means it falls within the 1g through 6g "classic")
Heads up though: my primary use was through my car's stereo via USB; it does not work the same. It used to just pop up as a media device that showed the categories to sort by, now it's only treated as a storage device, meaning I have to search through the folders and select the file to open... At least, in theory. It actually just errors trying to index the disk, which it has to do everytime I start the car (which includes switching from only electricity running to turning the engine on). I think it might have issues with the iFlash adapter I installed to replace the hdd (i sprung for the quad microSD adapter, nowadays I'd probably try the SATA SSD adapter as SATA has much quicker read times than SD cards). That's not always the case, just this car, my old truck—with a non-stock stereo—could read it, but would take upwards of 10 minutes to finish indexing (once again, I think it's because of how slow SD cards are).
It took a lot of digging, but I found out the reason is because of the encryption on the Apple firmware, which locks down the hardware it uses to stream as a media adapter. Barring some act of generosity on Apple's part, we likely won't ever see Rockbox able to stream from the iPod to another device.
I've tried to switch multiple times and always found or encountered some issue that got me back to Windows (on desktop PC).
Last year it was after 2 months on Fedora 38 KDE when I had enough with the KDE Window Manager acting weird and broken unusable VRR on desktop and some other smaller but daily issues that I went back to W11 on my PC.
I like GNOME over KDE and back then there was no VRR support on GNOME so I only had to stick with KDE, now it's a different story.
I still have some minor annoyance which are probably solvable but I don't know how as I didn't put enough effort in finding solution.
Namely:
1.) Sometimes my 2nd monitor after boot remains blank and I have to unplug and plug back in the DP cable from the graphics card. Typically happens after a kernel update or restart but rarely on cold boot. I've seen others having this issue on Fedora40 but I haven't seen any solution mentioned.
2.) Steam UI hangs up sometimes for several seconds when trying to navigate fast trough it and especially if it needs to pop a different window.
3.) GPU VRAM OC is completely busted and even doing +-1MHz will result in massive artifacting even on desktop, not a big deal but I would take the extra 5% boost I can have from VRAM OC on Windows 😀
4.) After every Kernel update I have to run two commands to get my GPU overclock to work again. I haven't figured out yet how to make a scrip that can read output from 1st command and copy it into 2nd command so I just do it manually every time which is roughly once a week.
5.) Free scrolling does not work in Chromium based browsers 🙁 Luckily Vivaldi has some nice workaround with mouse gestures but I would still like free scrolling like on Windows.
And these are about the only annoyance I found worthwhile to mention.
Gaming works fine.
The apps I use typically work fine on Linux as well. Mangohud is amazing. No issues with audio unlike my last experience. Heck even Discord has no issues streaming video and audio now despite just using the web app. VRR despite being experimental works flawlessly on GNOME for me. I'm happy.
Regarding 1: if you open up dmesg after it happens and you see an error regarding "No edid read", your GPU is having a hard time automatically getting the monitor's edid over display port. My 7800xt has this issue.
If your monitor setup doesn't change much, you can manually set the edid on a per output basis. Here is a good guide.
Also, regarding 3: you may need to set your amdgpu feature mask in your kernel parameters.
Thanks!
1.) will definitely give it a try
3.) I have set the amdgpu feature mask otherwise I wouldn't even have access to the power limit, voltages, etc... but VRAM overclocking just does not work. Everything else seems to work fine.
I have my own ssh server (on raspberry pi 5, Ubuntu Server 23) but when I try to connect from my PC using key authentication (having password disabled), I get a blank screen. A blinking cursor.
However, once I enter the command eval "$(ssh-agent -s)" and try ssh again, I successfully login after entering my passphrase. I don't want to issue this command every time. Is that possible?
This does not occur when I have password enabled on the ssh server. Also, ideally, I want to enter my passphrase EVERYTIME I connect to my server, so ideally I don't want it to be stored in cache or something. I want the passphrase to be a lil' password so that other people can't accidentally connect to my server when they use my PC.
As mentioned, -v (or -vv) helps to analyze the situation.
My theory is that you already have something providing ssh agent service, but that process is somehow stuck, and when ssh tries to connect it, it doesn't respond to the connect, or it accepts the connection but doesn't actually interact with ssh. Quite possibly ssh doesn't have a timeout for interacting with ssh-agent.
Using eval $(ssh-agent -s) starts a new ssh agent and replaces the environment variables in question with the new ones, therefore avoiding the use of the stuck process.
If this is the actual problem here, then before running the eval, echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK would show the path of the existing ssh agent socket. If this is the case, then you can use lsof $SSH_AUTH_SOCK to see what that process is. Quite possibly it's provided by gnome-keyring-daemon if you're running Gnome. As to why that process would not be working I don't have ideas.
Another way to analyze the problem is strace -o logfile -f ssh .. and then check out what is at the end of the logfile. If the theory applies, then it would likely be a connect call for the ssh-agent.
I didn't really follow the former part, but I can give you this:
strace -o logfile -f ssh -p 8322 pi@192.168.2.223
of when I get blank
At the end of the log you find:
822413 connect(4, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/run/user/1000/gcr/ssh"}, 110) = 0
...
822413 read(4, Use the lsof command to figure out which program is providing the agent service and try to resolve issue that way. If it's not the OpenSSH ssh-agent, then maybe you can disable its ssh-agent functionality and use real ssh-agent in its place..
My wild guess is that the program might be trying to interactively verify the use of the key from you, but it is not succeeding in doing that for some reason.
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-agent-$USER-socket
export SSH_AUTH_SOCKI got my hands on a Lenovo ThinkSmart Hub 500 - you may have seen these in conference rooms, its a small Teams Room or Zoom Room device, based off their Tiny lineup, with a built-in touch display thats about 11" in diagonal.
https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkSmart/ThinkSmart_Hub_500/ThinkSmart_Hub_500_Spec.pdf
I left the 128gb nvme in there for now, and threw Debian 12 on it. Touch worked throughout the installation process, all I did was attach a keyboard, power, and network (along with the thumb drive with netinstall), now installed with KDE.
Considering the specs, the only part I'm surprised works well is the touchscreen, its otherwise just a generic lenovo tiny (which I have several of already, 6th-9th gen, as part of my tiny/mini/micro server stack). I could have chosen a different flavor, but I'm a long, long, loooonngggg time Debain user so its my go-to.
In terms of touch, tap, drag, and long press are all working. Video looks good with the UI set at 125% scaling, and to be candid its rather snappy and responsive.
I did this 100% for my own personal entertainment, so now for some thoughts for the community - what would be fun to use it for? A few of my thoughts....
What about you folks, what would you find fun to do with this box?
Agreed - lets be honest, Lenovo put zero thought into this. Its just a tiny with a screen basically glued to the top, and tons of poorly managed cables coming out of the back. You could technically get away with just the power cord on it since it has wifi, but its kind of nonsensical that way. I could build a battery pack, but.... meh.
Small arcade is definitely a fun idea though, something I could stick in the living room. Since it has two video outs as well, I could set it up to take over the TV or just be a standalone as the mood strikes.
How has no one mentioned Tom Waits.
He has some good songs, but his voice sounds like a alley cat with a stomach full of garbage who won't let you sleep. I know that it's the point for some ppl, but I can't stand it.
I have been fighting my way through the "1,001 albums you must listen to before you die' list, and there have been some truly terrible albums.
New York Dolls, debut album
Brian Eno, my life in the bush of ghosts
Marquee Moon, television
Slade, slayed?
Sugarcube, life's too good
Barry Adamson, Oedipus Schmoedipus
Animal collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion
Heaven 17, Penthouse And Pavement
And the worst album I have ever heard on my life, king of garbage music Lou Reed and his garbage band of notmusic and pretention:
The velvet underground, The Velvet Underground & Nico
aha a fellow 1001 albums listener. im currently doing it too. the heaven 17 album is one of my favorite discoveries. ill drop my 1 star ratings here let me know if i hate one of your favs lol
rolling stones debut
cheap thrills by big brother
gorillaz debut
young americans by bowie
untitled black is by sault
461 ocean boulevard by eric clapton
Really? Wow.
New one for me: treasure by the cocteau twins
Easy to use Arch Linux chroot environment with some functionalities to integrate it with your existing Linux installation. Mirror of https://momodev.lemniskett.moe/lemniskett/archbox - lemniskett/a...GitHub
You can use wayland in container but the easy way probably would require to give whole GPU to the container (but my knowlwdge is limited)
What I do know that this project is doing that:
https://games-on-whales.github.io/
That also came up in search results that could help:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/359244
When I used an X11 desktop, I could run graphical applications in docker containers by sharing the $DISPLAY variable and /tmp/X11-unix directory. For example: docker run -ti -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY -v...Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
Container is just a term for a set of isolation solutions bundled together.
Like file system isolation (chroot), network isolation, process isolation, device isolation...
One of them is ofc chroot, yes container use exactly the same chroot functionality.
So to answer your question, no, you don't need full isolated container. You can use only chroot.
You just need to pass all required devices ( and match the driver version running in kernel with your files in container and (avoid) more than one app having full unrestricted access to GPU as that would result in issues (but dont know the details so can't help you with that)).
Plunging U.S. revenue at X risks opening up a "massive hole" on its balance sheet that Musk needs to plug to stave off its financial collapse.Christiaan Hetzner (Fortune)
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I've been seeing more often (and others have posted the same) that some of the elements of "Reddit etiquette" seem to be taking over here. Luckily I can still find discussion comments but it seems the jokes and general "downvote because I disagree" are slowly taking over.
So the question becomes is it the size or the functionality of the site? The people or popularity? What's your thoughts?
edit: should I change it to Lemmy-hivemind? Exhibit A: the amount of downvotes without a single explanation (guessing it's anything to do with Reddit being talked about).
I see it just as extension to "cancel culture" in IRL society. Nothing complicated just same stuff pushed from media comes to the web. Much helped by algorithms that are supporting it.
It is not only reddit, whole public internet is just an echo chamber, with no critical opinion allowed.
Every topic in current society (at least Europe+North America, I don't know what's happening in the rest of the world) is either black or white and no in between. Very scary place we are in currently. And people put you in some category just based on one sentence, one though, one idea.
I don't see anything special here or on reddit that is not happening in other parts of our society.
Maybe fediverse is so clean you can see it happening live, just look at any defederation request and what they think of different opinions. Different opinion is forbidden. I never thought we will ger to this point, I believed internet will give us freedom of speech and freedom to discuss. But so many topics have become dangerous.
A few years back my sister passed away, I'm now the only child my parents have left. They live a few hours away and have for as long as I have been with my partner (7 years).
My parents are planning on moving to the place we now live to be closer to me. This has my partner worried that they will be over often or I will be over at their house more often. Her parents are very far away so can only visit once a year.
My parents are not the kind of people to show up uninvited to anyone's house. They likely will come over once a month for dinner and I will probably go over by myself once a week.
We are both pretty private people so not having anyone over is just how we are and this potential change of more visits has her concerned that our privacy will be gone.
I am also fine with them not coming over often, I like it being just me and her but I do want my parents close when they have medical emergencies.
How do I approach this as currently she is a bit annoyed but taking a more "see how this pans out" attitude?
I don't exactly want to jump the gun and talk to my parents ahead of time to make sure they don't come over often because I don't think they will and it might sour their relationship to her if they think she doesn't want them over ever, even if I also don't want them over often.
Taxes.
What are the tax benefits to getting married if you aren't having kids?
We are common lawish.
I recently watched a video about an unpolled change in old-school runescape that added the ability to change your character's pronouns, as well as have beards as female characters, and the community's reaction to it. Sadly, most of the runescape playerbase is pretty right leaning, with the expected reactions of "this is dumb why would they add this," "why add this unpolled," and "this is a medieval fantasy game not a dating simulator"
I wonder what people's thoughts on this are, as if you are a paying customer for a game, and the game has been promised to only add poll-approved changes, is this unreasonable and why? The game is "old-school runescape," the players are notoriously resistant to change, and are paying to keep the game as they like it. Can you pay to keep your uninclusive game uninclusive? I don't have a great argument against it past "this literally doesn't matter" which won't convince people who believe it does.
They're entirely right. If they paid for it to not change anything except when polled, then the company broke their promise. They should now vote with their wallet and leave.
Because while they are right that they didn't get what they were promised, the company that makes the game is also entirely right with doing whatever the fuck they want with the game. If they want to break their promise, that's entirely up to them.
I'm pretty sure the company didn't enter a contractual agreement with the playerbase to never make unpolled changes. So the only thing you can do is voice your discontent and leave. Which is exactly what seems like it's happening and what should happen.
Now what I would strongly disagree with is your assessment of "most of the playerbase is pretty right leaning" and upset with it. How do you know this? Did you personally poll/study all, or an accurately representative sample of RuneScape players, ensuring an unbiased evaluation of the data? I suspect not. I suspect what has happened, again, is the vocal minority doing what they do, being vocal and a minority. There's a loud outcry from, just guessing, 5% of the players, while the silent 95% like it or don't care and just continue on.
I just got around to reading this, I'm not even sure what my real question is and I agree they should leave if it bothers them so much.
My best analogy would be imagine you're playing your favorite game of all time, and the devs add a feature that bothers a majority of the player base including you, but 5% of the player base feels like they are finally spoken to. The majority of players are upset and want it changed back. You don't want to leave because it's still your favorite game, but it does feel unfair when the people already playing the game who are paying to keep the game as they like it, have the game changed out from under them adding parts they really dislike.
I'm not trying to say this is a reasonable complaint, or that it should "ruin the game" for them.but hypothetically if it did ruin the game for them, is it unfair to make things better for some when the majority is paying to keep the game as it was before?
I know the playerbase is right leaning because most (all that I have seen) videos on diversity and inclusion posted on OSRS YouTube will be 70% dislikes (before dislike counters were removed) with 250k views. This has been a huge controversy in the game for years
https://youtu.be/EXE8p8jTKhM pride event first suggested by jagex (almost universally disliked update, I cannot find one positive comment towards it)
https://youtu.be/u40feYnbYKU video of huge gatherings of players to protest the event
https://youtube.com/shorts/1Ad8xwv7bnU protest with a very small amount of people counter protesting
None of these are studies or statistics, and maybe most people actually don't care and just log in and play the game, I am just stating that from all the players I have seen and all the comments left on every video about inclusion, this is either a large portion of players, or the majority is nearly completely silent (which I doubt because these protests are about 35% of the total population on that runescape world)
is it unfair to make things better for some when the majority is paying to keep the game as it was before?
As I already said I think, yes it is unfair.
However, you really have to differentiate a bit here, because all the things you talk about that are changing in OSRS seem like they're entirely ignorable. If there's a gay pride event, yeah it doesn't need to be there, but you can also just not participate in it. If it's possible to change your character's gender and appearance, you can simply not do it.
There is no core game mechanic being changed or even tangentially touched. So yeah, it's unfair that they change it when the promise is to not change anything, but it's really also an incredibly small change that has a minimal if not non-existent impact to the majority, but a very huge impact to a small amount of people. At that point it becomes a bit more grey what "should" be done.
almost universally disliked update, I cannot find one positive comment towards it
In the video you added this statement to, there are maybe like 10% of YouTube comments that say they're fine with it. So you saying "I cannot find one positive comment towards it" is a little weird. This is also imo a high amount of positive comments even if it's just like 10% because the 10k views it has will probably mostly be watched by people looking for the controversy and speak their dissent.
protest with a very small amount of people counter protesting
If the red icons are protestors, and the blue hearts are the counter-protestors (which is what it looks like to me) then it looks more like 60/40, which I wouldn't call a very small amount.
But what you really have to compare is how many people participate in the pride march compared to how many protest, that is the real difference that needs to be measured. I look at this video https://youtu.be/jr1XAa2cx_M and there seems to at least be 20 times as many people as what you showed in your protest video. Which is funnily enough about the 5% minority we talked about xD
For me as an outsider looking in, this seems like exactly the kind of mindset by people opposing these changes that is problematic and they need to change, which is about 50% of the population of the US which I suspect is also reflected in OSRS playerbase. I've spoken with people before that are like this.
They think their opinions are being censored and that is a huge problem and they don't want to see this stuff because it shouldn't be political etc.
These are all completely valid arguments theoretically. Like these are not bad views to hold. But they entirely miss the point because that's what humans do, human minds work by compartmentalizing and by "explaining away" their natural behavior. Humans are an incredibly irrational species that try to, after the fact, explain the irrational behavior with rational sounding explanations.
The natural behavior here is the disgust of gay and trans and queer people. Fear/disgust of the "foreigners" or "people very different from myself" is one of the base human behaviors. The reason they can't ignore these events, even though they are entirely ignorable, is because this disgust reaction is triggered within them. Their automatic compartmentalizing brain then searches for acceptable reasons to dislike it, and comes up with "OSRS was said to never be changed" and "politics shouldn't enter the game". This process in a human mind is entirely automatic and not conscious at all. But the real motivation why they can't ignore it is the disgust/hatred of queer people. But they don't even see that this is what's happening, as I said, this process is entirely automatic.
Everyone, including people that hate queers, has this image in their mind of being good. But hating queers isn't good. So "hating queers" doesn't even consciously enter the mind, even though you can easily see it from their behavior. If they didn't have a problem with queers they'd just ignore these easily ignorable things. But they don't.
And even this mine explanation will be vehemently denied by these people. Because that would be too painful, because they would be admitting they're not the wonderful people whose image they have in their minds. Doing this would break them. So they continue consciously saying "of course we don't hate the gays" while subconsciously still hating the gays. And I completely understand this behavior because I was exactly the same at some point. I personally was mysoginistic and racist against immigrants at one point in my life and completely oblivious about it. At the time, I didn't think that I was. But I had all these little unconscious behaviors that showed my true subconscious beliefs. I know how painful it is to confront yourself being terrible. It is not possible to bear this pain for most if your life is already mostly miserable. I was lucky in that I had a relatively good life and a strong self-improvement mindset instilled from my environment, and thus was able to face and bear this pain and effect real change within me. But it was real pain, and had I been in a slightly worse situation, I might have not been able to do this.
What people are doing with pride events and these trans-inclusive changes is yes, forcing diversity down people's throats. You could say that it's wrong to do that to people, entirely true, it is authoritan of them. But the goal is to reduce hatred of queer people. There's just no way you can really argue against these motivations. A gay pride event hurts nobody. No one is forced to participate. They're forced to see it, yes, because studies have shown that exposure to different cultures and lifestyles increases acceptance of them. If they were tucked away, that wouldn't happen. And this triggers their disgust. You probably can't change these people, but maybe all the new ones that haven't been tainted to much by disgust of others behaving "differently".
So in the end, I think these changes and events are good even though they don't strictly "belong" in OSRS.
I wanted to share and highlight this video for others to see. This is such a thorough and amazing resource for the dev team at Frost Giant (the makers of Stormgate) that I hope they have seen. The breakdown and walk-through of the different elements of the game was such an amazing thing to watch.
I found myself sitting there watching for hours, this is exactly what game companies need in terms of experienced game tester leads that can articulate and explain everything going on in the game from the perspective of an average player. I think if every game company had someone of this caliber, to sit down with them and go over the basic mechanics of the games, we would all be a lot better off. I felt like I was sitting in on a company meeting while an outside contractor was going over his notes with the developers and trying to understand their vision while giving his unique and experienced position.
I'm definitely more excited about the game than I was previously after watching this video (as confusing as that might seem). It shows a clear path of how to fix and enhance the gameplay which has a chance to come into fruition with the game still in the testing phase.
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is it weird that I don't think it really looks like Starcraft (would probably be an improvement if it did though)? I've been looking at a lot of newer or undeveloped games like someone posted in one of the cross posts and all the games just have this moba-mobile look that seems like everyone is stuck on.
It's like AI generated images, they all have this same look and feel to them no matter what it is but you can't quite explain the fakeness to it. I can't even really look at older games art styles comparing to the newer without getting confused with what's happening or how it could be corrected.
You guys are blowing my mind. I had always heard of Day9 back in the day (all into the rts sceme) but didn't really follow him and probably partially why it was great to run into that video.
I did not know he was tasteless's brother (seem him broadcasting before) and his mother works with FG and he's younger than me (kinda really shocking on that one, his picture from just 10 years ago makes me think covid hit him hard lol).
With all of my AMD Ryzen 9900X and 9950X Linux benchmarking and Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X reviews as well, many have wondered if AMD Zen 5 is just really great on Linux, if Windows 11 is in particularly poor shape for these new AMD Ryzen 9000 s…www.phoronix.com
So many f****** ads I gave my cell phone cancer.
TMA:DR
When taking the geometric mean of 73 benchmarks run for this comparison, upgrading from the Ryzen 9 7950X to 9950X on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS yielded a 14% generational improvement with this set of cross-platform applications/benchmarks while under Windows 11 was a 10% generational improvement. The raw performance of Ubuntu Linux on the AMD Ryzen processors also was greater overall to the extent of the Ryzen 9 7950X to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS nearly matching the Ryzen 9 9950X on Microsoft Windows 11.
Firefox and uBlock solves your problems, mate.
edit linked it so you can install them now
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1001830
Today, we’re happy to announce the launch of the 2GB Raspberry Pi 5, built on a cost-optimised D0 stepping of the BCM2712 application processor, and priced at just $50.The new D0 stepping strips away all that unneeded functionality, leaving only the bits we need. From the perspective of a Raspberry Pi user, it is functionally identical to its predecessor: the same fast quad-core processor; the same multimedia capabilities; and the same PCI Express bus that has proven to be one of the most exciting features of the Raspberry Pi 5 platform. However, it is cheaper to make, and so is available to us at somewhat lower cost. And this, combined with the savings from halving the memory capacity, has allowed us to take $10 out of the cost of the finished product.
So, while our most demanding users — who want to drive dual 4Kp60 displays, or open a hundred browser tabs, or compile complex software from source — will probably stick with the existing higher memory-capacity variants of Raspberry Pi 5, many of you will find that this new, lower-cost variant works perfectly well for your use cases.
I don't see any reason to use a Raspi instead of an used thin client for selfhosting.
They use about the same energy, but the Mini-PC has x86, which has better software support, has more ports, and runs more stable.
I have a RPI for my 3D-printer (Octoprint), and I will soon replace it with a "proper" PC, because it always crashes.
Raspberry Pis are good for very small appliances, but for anything more, they suck imo
A small form factor PC. Think of a Mac Mini. Small, often not-high-performance, low-powered PCs that are often used in business environments.
I use one as my home server.
that is not a thin-client in the traditional sense, just a small form factor (1liter) pc. Thin clients were minimal spec machines that were made to connect to a much more powerful server somewhere on the network that did all the work. The thin client handled the display and I/O.
Mini PCs are generally a far better deal than a Pi and much more powerful for any kind general computing use.
They are what you make of them. I have three 3b+ units sitting upstairs, one of which runs my entire media stack, and the second is mostly just for Pihole, and the last is for general tinkering I might need. The pin array is awesome to have.
No one's arguing they are low performance (although a 5 is practically 5x the performance of a 3b+ unit), but they definitely don't suck
I don't even mean performance in terms of computing power.
RPIs are, imo, not meant as a server. It might (and will) work fine, but one of the main problems I have is the power supply.
As soon as I send a more advanced print job to my RPI, it crashes. Even though I have the official power cord.
If it works for you - fine! I don't want to tell badly about them. They are great.
It's just that they are very inflexible.
RPIs are, imo, not meant as a server.
That's not just your opinion, it's a fact.
We used a RPi 4 for a Plex server for a while. It was fine except it couldn't do any live transcoding or handle h265 worth beans.
I upgraded to an OrangePi 5. I'm on a sata drive for the OS and a external USB disk for media. The thing is amazing!
No, it's not a $50 computer. Yes, it works great.
I love RPi boards, but their hardware limitations are quick to be found as you move past simple hobbyist projects.
I agree, once you factor in a power supply (or PoE hat), case and storage a Raspberry Pi really isn't all that cheap anymore nowadays. Unless you have a project that specifically benefits from the GPIO pins or the form factor, just get a cheap barebones mini PC or a used one with RAM and SSD already included.
This will get you a system that's way more powerful even if it's a couple of years old (the Pi's SoC is fairly weak) and I/O throughput is no contest, normally with at least a dozen PCIe lanes to use for NVMe storage or 10 gigabit network cards, if you so desire.
It's growing too fast in requirements in the last 3-4 years.
I haven't noticed it tbh.
3 years ago XFCe needed on Debian about 450 MB of RAM (on a clean boot). It now needs 850. And that's not so much XFce's fault, it's all the other stuff underneath that have been growing too much too.
I mean, heck, Cosmic should not need more than 500 MB of RAM overall, having such a clean codebase. And yet it's the heaviest of them all, at 2.5 GB (even Gnome/KDE boots at 1.3 GB on Debian). And it's not a matter of optimization because it's an alpha. That's a cheap explanation. It's just heavy. Just as much as Windows in terms of ram usage.
A raspberry pi isn't and has never been a good choice for a server.
For an appliance like a pi hole, home assistant, or media center playing files from a real Nas it's fine.
No, you use it as a media server. A media center can also be a media server but often is not.
If your pi is just reading files from the network, it's fine. If it's serving files, you're gonna have a bad time.
Use the right tool for the job.
The Pi is do damn overpriced.
For 80$ I can get an 8th gen HP Mini with 16 GB of RAM + 256 GB M.2., case, power brick, all cables and have a much more stable and powerful system (second hand on eBay).
If you want an new SBC: Intel N100 for as low as $60 with 4GB DDR5 RAM.
The raspberry pi isn't a hobby/consumer product anymore. 2020 has shown that the Pi Foundation sees itself as an industry-first product. Also don't forget that they went public a few months ago so who knows what will come out of this step.
Let's face it: Intel driver support is great maybe even better than it is on a Raspberry Pi and proprietary is both hardware.
That's another good pick yeah. N350 stuff will also be interesting.
2020 has shown that the Pi Foundation sees itself as an industry-first product.
I think they never saw themselves as anything other than an industry-first product. The "hobbyist" market was just a way to develop, test and enter the mass market and gain critical mass in terms of FAB capacity and support / mind-share. IMHO their goal was always to go into the industry and disrupt some markets* but you can't just get there without the scale. They just played an entire generation of hobbyist making them addicted to their product to grow it and test it for them.
Now that they're public and partially owned by Broadcom it will just get worse.
The Pi Foundation kind of held the SBC market hostage to their ecosystem because software support is important and all the shinny Python libraries people are used to are typically only fully compatible, stable and tested with the Pi GPIO. With the RP2040 chip they make it so software/library compatibility is no longer a barrier to other CPU makers to enter the market - Intel or even Rockchip and Mediatek SBCs can include the RP2040 and gain instant software compatibility with any software library made for the Pi GPIO. Note that right now when RK releases an SBC it take a while for libraries to catch up with the GPIO definitions and whatnot.
I'm sure they aware of this risk, however, there's a much bigger market opportunity there - the SPI / i2C / GPIO bridge market typically held by FTDI. When you want to make low level hardware communicate with computers, usually on USB ports, you'll need some kind of hardware to handle the low level SPI / i2C / GPIO signals and convert them into something the CPU and the OS can understand, this is where FTDI has a big market share, even the Arduino uses a chip made by them for that.
The RP2040 can do this exact same task - it is what it does on the RPI 5 after all - and that’s a very big market. Almost every peripheral we connect to our computers is using one of those bridges to connect low level hardware such as microcontrollers to the computer or to simply toggle LEDs. Broadcom is now an investor of the Pi Foundation and they do a lot of hardware that does require those kinds of bridges… maybe they were the ones pushing the Pi guys into this direction because business wise it makes sense - they can test the reliability of those chips on the SBC market and once they’re sure they perform as good as FTDI ones they can use them everywhere for a fraction of the cost.
Let's see who gains more from the RP2040, the Pi guys obliterating FTDI or Intel and others taking chunks of the SBC market.
There's already a couple of examples of what I'm saying here:
- Radxa X4 SBC Intel N100 + RP2040)
- ThunderBERRY5: New single-board computer showcased with Qualcomm SoC and Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller
Where can you find an N100 for $60 with 4GB of memory?
EDIT: Nvm, found the comment replying to this mentioning Radxa boards. Just found them the other day. Very interested.
Glad I looked at this thread. The fact they're cheap and have what sound like reliable PoE hats... Tempted to replace a few old Pis lol. Maybe. But can at least say no future devices will be Pis at this point.
Note: only using them for simple things. Wireguard VPN (no I don't have a fast internet so I don't need more than the 1gb connection speed), pi hole, and a touch panel I installed that connects to home assistant on the wall.
half the time i end up using some sort of esp product that costs 2-5 dollars per unit and buy them bulk from china and daisy chain them
way better than a pi
What sort of martial arts do you practice in and why? Judo? Karate?
Educating yourself in self defence seems very useful especially if you live in parts of a country that might be rough.
I'd like to get into it myself but I can't hear well, I can lip read however. Did some boxing when I was very young but it was only practice on training bags : )
Kung Fu students and masters alike, let me know your wisdom!
Not for self defense (obviously) and due to personal reasons on hiatus currently (if all goes well I will start again next year) - but I do Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA).
It's fencing, but mainly with longsword (tried sword&buckler and a bit of rapier), techniques recreated based on historical fencing books and manuals. Really fun!
Same here, though I really have an interest in the "weirder" weapons. I love pole arms, but there are very few remaining manuals about those.
Also, "it's fencing" if you include punches and throws. But it varies hugely by country and even group. And of course by which manuals you're working from.
I am not. I was doing a year of kick-boxing when I was young but yeah that was it.
But my daughter is doing it and she just got her black belt level 1 3 weeks ago!
Jiu Jitsu, a rather traditional method. I've practiced lots of things over the last 3 decades, and have now landed on this because there's a lot of good people practicing it.
What I like:
What I don't like:
I practice Northern Long Fist KungFu and Shaolin KungFu. I have also practiced Uechi-Ryū in the past.
I chose these styles because all have practical applications in combat and have been used for combat at one point during their existence. To me, this alone proves they're useful to learn.
I also spar and have applied what I've learned to matches. So I do believe these styles are worth looking into and learning.
To bring it back to your post. Self defence is great to know wherever you live, even if you'll never use it. Most teachers are very loud and use visuals for teaching, I don't think you'll have any issues.
I have been kick boxing for 3 years and I'm about to grade for my blue belt, I'm going to pick up some muay Thai as well soon which is very similar but adding in elbows and more clinching. I also did 3 years of karate reaching second green belt around 10 or so years ago. I stopped karate because I went travelling so couldn't regularly visit the same gym to train.
I do it for a combination of reasons. It helps keep me fit although I do a lot of other sports / weight training that all play a role in overall cross training. It keeps me flexible which is more and more important as you get older and I like to fight. Coming into training and letting out some aggression on some pads whilst working up a good sweat is a great cathartic release from the stresses of day to day life. I also enjoy the sparring a lot, it helps hone your reflexes and I don't mind at all getting hit to condition yourself for that possibility. I'll hopefully be competing in some inter club / amateur fights soon which I can't wait for. You do also have some peace of mins that should you need to defend yourself in day to day life you are able to do that.
Karate was a lot more 'Zen' in that the school I trained with didn't do much sparring and was more concentrated on your technique and working through your katas. It builds up your body and technique as well as building up respect for your sensei and the other students you train with. It was a lot of fun and has given me a great basis with technique for moving onto kick boxing but I prefer kick boxing because it is a lot more aggressive. The training sessions are more intense physically and I want to spar and get hit etc, which isn't for everyone.
Every school will be different, even if they are teaching the same style of martial art, in the way they approach things. The way they teach and way they go about things but you will always find a good supportive group of people who aren't out to hurt you intentionally and are invested in you training well and hard and supporting you.
I wouldnt worry too much about your hearing, most things will be shouted at you and you can follow people around you if you get lost but I would recommend you give it a try if it is something you are interested in. If you go to a place where people aren't respecting each other, their respective levels and their well being then leave and find yourself a better gym because I know they are out there. If you find a good one you can be part of a great community whilst pursuing fitness as well as a great skill.
In terms of what you should do, that is down to personal choice. Maybe try a few different ones. Obviously some concentrate on one thing or another like judo is a lot of throwing, muay Thai a lot of striking etc, so try and figure out what you want from it and maybe try some classes to see if you like it! 😀
If you're in a rough part of town martial arts will only serve you to better run away. While disarm techniques are taught in a lot of martial arts if the teacher doesn't put emphasis on them being a last option then you shouldn't go there. As skilled as you might get a blade or a gun is not something you can engage in hand to hand fighting really and even if you manage to disarm the attacker you'll probably get stabbed or take a bullet for your troubles.
Martial arts are more useful as a good sport and for scaring away high school bullies. Life is not a movie, the rules of engagement are incapacitate and run away
Not all martial arts are unarmed. HEMA generally works around some kind of sword, long knife or spear.
Of course, that does mean you need to carry an arming sword of halberd around, which is rather frowned upon in polite company.
I got my Kendo first dan during winter, and work toward the second (and the Iaido first dan).
Obviously not for self defence because I don't carry a katana, but hitting people with swords while yelling is fun. I feel like the whole mold the body and the mind through the sword in order to build better human feels a bit like bullshit. That said, it's a great patience school both with the slow learning and the don't do anything stupid, and wait to be 100% sure before attacking
I trained Aikido for 10+ years, but that's now also 10+ years ago. Aikido used to be pretty well regarded and was hyped for some years thanks to being featured in martial arts movies and Steven Seagal in particular. Unfortunately, with MMA fights becoming popular, people realized that a lot of "traditional" martial arts where more art than actual fighting. Over time Aikido became a laughing stock among martial arts enthusiasts. This process was again helped by Steven Seagal, who -as the defacto face of Aikido to the rest of the world outside japan- just got more and more ridiculous and heinous in his statements and actions.
This is all very unfortunate, because Aikido is a really fascinating and cool looking martial art. To this day a lot of the throws in action movies (for example in the John Wick franchise) are actual Aikido techniques. (Some traditional Ju-Juitsu practitioners might argue that it's actually JJ, because Aikido has adopted a lot of techniques from JJ and Judo, but I would disagree, looking at the way they are applied. In the end that's just a nerd argument either way.)
Aikido was developed by Morihei Ueshiba, a man with a fascinating history! It grew with his physical, spiritual and philosophical development from a straight forward, practical combat system (at the time called Aiki-Jutsu) into a non-violent, spiritual martial art (then called Aikido). One of the reasons there are very different kinds of Aikido practiced today, distinct in how violent and spiritual they are, is that their masters studied at different times under Ueshiba, who continually became softer and more spiritual with his age. However, although developed decidedly after the time of the Samurai in Japan a lot of the techniques still focus on disarming people carrying swords or reversely focus on attackers trying to prevent you from drawing your sword. This means most of the attacks trained in Aikido are people grabbing your wrist and then not letting go, which looks weird if there is no sword. This also limits the practicality. Towards the end of Ueshiba's life his focus was not to teach a system to defend yourself anymore. His goal was to unite the world spiritually through Aikido, literally. He sent his top students out into the world often in countries, which languages they don't even speak, to teach and spread Aikido. Not to gain money or fame, but genuinely to make the world a better place by helping people to spiritually grow through the practice of Aikido.
What and how Aikido is practiced varies depending on the style and your teacher. It goes the extreme from what is called practical Aikido, which is still dedicated to self-defense, to styles that are practiced solo in the form of Katas, resembling what you might see from Tai-Chi or Qui-Gong practitioners in the park. Generally, it is practiced in pairs with a so-called "cooperating" opponent (as opposed to an "resisting" opponent as would be usual for Ju-Juitsu). Actually, in Aikido we don't speak of an opponent. There is only a "giving"/"throwing" and a "receiving"/"getting thrown" partner, because Aikido is supposed to be peaceful. I'll still call it opponent or attacker here, though.
The central idea of Aikido is to embrace and merge the attackers energy with yours and then redirecting it without harming anyone, breaking only the attackers balance and/or throwing them. This is of course a very high-level goal. Basically you're trying to skip all the nitty-gritty, violent, messy fighting (that Ueshiba did learn and teach extensively back in the day) and concentrate on the end goal of non-violently dissolving confrontations. Assuming that with enough training this goal can be reached, it means you will not be able to use most of what you practice in a real-life fight until you pretty much have "mastered Aikido". Then you will, supposedly, be at such a level that you can defend any attack peacefully. Most Aikido practitioners are wise enough not to test this out, mostly because they prefer peace and harmony and aren't training to prove anything. Most Aikidokas I know are training to better themselves, but there will always be exceptions. The teachers I've trained under did not make Aikido out to be about self-defense at all. When questioned by new students they usually say, that it might help you a little, but this is not what we train here.
Practicing Aikido will help you get in better shape, improve your health and especially your balance. Aikido practice will teach you how to properly roll and fall, which -at least where I live- will come in handy much more often than fighting skills. It is also a lot of fun to practice and it looks cool. Most schools will also train with wood swords (Aiki-ken) and short staffs (Aiki-bo). This all will be especially cool, if you're into Japan, because Aikido is very much a traditional Japanese martial art, even though it is rather young, so we're basically cosplaying as Samurai while training.
The best advice I can give you for selecting a martial art and gym is this:
- It is almost more important who you train with and under than what you are training. Try out every gym and see if you like the people and vibe there.
- Pick something that's fun. Otherwise you will have trouble going regularly and making progress. If you don't do it for fun, you will most likely quit the first time you encounter resistance or stop making fast progress
- Pick a gym that's easy to get to, because having to travel a long time will make it harder to stick with it
- Prepare your training bag and put it besides your door so you just have to pick it up and go. This will make it much easier to go, when your motivation is low
I did Tae kwon-do as a kid, but quit due to other hobbies and a tight schedule.
My oldest kid joined Karate around 2016, and I had to admit it looked like fun. I eventually ended up joining the adult group, and stayed there until we all moved in 2020. After the move there wasn't a club nearby that did the same style (wado ryo), so we both called it quits at green belt.
I trained in Tang Soo Do for almost 5 years in my 30s, before I hurt myself (an injury not related to martial arts training). I've been wanting to get back into it in the years since, but haven't been able to for various reasons.
I really enjoyed the training. I kept in good shape, and became very close with the people in my school.... I still talk to them occasionally today despite having moved out of the area some years back. I enjoyed practicing the various techniques, pushing myself to my limits... I would highly recommend structured martial arts training to anyone.
That being said: martial arts are a LAST defense... they are NOT the go to defense.
If you're attacked, especially by multiple assailants, RUNNING is what you're looking to do. Your self-defense skills are primarily there to CREATE an opportunity to flee, if you don't have one immediately available.
Life is not a 1960's kung-fu movie, and you risk a lot by trying to stand your ground when you don't have to, so fight is rarely the correct answer when presented with a fight-or-flight scenario. It's better to not be in that mindset.
For quite a few years now I've practiced Capoeira!
I picked it because it was unique and interesting. Is it a fighting style? A dance? A game? Yes, actually! ;)
The philosophy of using it as a means to obtain freedom and an expression of such really resonated with me. Also, culturally, there's just so much depth there.
...But also I like to tell people "It's one of the only martial arts you can really show off at dance parties." Lol
I actually teach it now. Most of my lifestyle involves a chair and glowing computer screen, so I wanted to look after my health and be able to move in really cool ways! 😀
Capoeira for self defense: I'll be the first to say, if you want the most efficient, quickest way to beat up a human being as soon as possible...this is probably not it.
BUT it's quite a challenge on your cardiovascular system and you learn to move in really tricky ways, which can be valuable to any martial artist or fighter. Over time, you almost learn to mind-read the other player, and even manipulate them into traps.
A Capoeirista with a solid grasp of the art knows when a movement is practical to defend themselves, vs. just for fun in a game. ;)
And I love how it's a game too, and there's even a music element to it. The kicks can be SCARY but we also place high value on demonstrating control to not incapacitate our training partners.
(This is why we separately practice contact work for practical scenarios outside the "roda" or circle of the game.)
It's a lot of fun, and there's so many nuanced layers to it. I am in agreement with a lot of posters here: "fighting" is a different skillset to martial arts, although martial arts helped.
I myself, thankfully, am not accustomed to violence, but I am always mentally training to spot and avoid trouble. I definitely have a leg up in a fight against the risks of a sedentary lifestyle though. 😆
I just realized I didn't respond to your hearing issues: I generally don't think that these would be a problem for learning martial arts. Of course it depends on your teachers teaching style, but generally they show you what to do and that is the most important part. They might have a metaphor or say for how long the next training sections go, but if you can read lips, you should be fine. The essential stuff you can only learn by watching and doing it yourself.
At first it's hard to follow what's being demonstrated, but you will get better at that fast. The beginning is always hard and you will feel like you're slow and clumsy and stupid, because everybody else doesn't seem to have trouble. That is completely normal and everybody there knows it, so don't worry! As soon as you've had more practical experience your mirror-neurons will help you translate what you see into what you need to make your body do.
Also if you let your teachers and training partners know you're hard of hearing, I'm sure they will be happy to accommodate. Everybody is there to improve and help others to improve as well. If they aren't, that's a huge red flag. Go find a better gym.
I was forced into taekwondo, never got past the white belt. And frankly, I was never interested to get a new belt anyway.
The only skills I still remember from that isn't even the self defense stuff, but it's counting in Korean.
Not me but my SO is a black belt judoka.
He started as a kid and kept on practicing all the way through college where he managed to train and compete as a professional. Went to one edition of panamerican games and scored a first place.
My FIL is also a black belt judoka and at one time him and my SO taught classes for beginners and advanced students alike, they even had a class for little kids with some behavioral issues. They were beloved teachers by many students.
At one point they even had a student with impared vision and a student with impared hearing and that never stopped anyone from practicing judo safely and learning techniques.
Regarding your bit about using martial arts as self defense, I think it is more of a hollywood idea. Noone is faster than a bullet so good judgement is better than any martial art.
My SO has taught me that "It is better to be a warrior who can garden, than to be a gardener who has to go to war" and he is the most level headed, peaceful individual you can imagine.
He also says that judo is the discipline that has shapen his whole life through "Jita Kyoei" and "Seiryoku zenyo": Mutual benefit and maximum efficiency.
I've done several years of grecco-roman and freestyle wrestling, a little boxing, and several years of taekwondo, hapkido, and judo.
I'm an okay striker, but I like the close-up stuff more; joint locks, submissions, take downs, etc.
Looking to transition into Chinese martial arts in a few years.
Let's be honest: I only use Java for Minecraft. So I only debugged with it. But all version, server or client, all launchers. All of them use double (or more) RAM. In the game the correctly allocated amount is used, but on my system double or more is allocated. Thus my other apps don't get enough memory, causing crashes, while the game is suffering as well.
I'm not wise enough to know what logs or versions or whatever I should post here as a cry for help, but I'll update this with anything that'll help, just tell me. I have no idea how to approach the problem. One idea I have is to run a non-Minecraft java application, but who has( or knows about) one of those?
@jrgd@lemm.ee's request:
launch arguments
[-Xms512m, -Xmx1096m, -Duser.language=en]
(it's this little, so that the difference shows clearly. I have a modpack that I give 8gb to and uses way more as well. iirc around 12)game version
1.18.2total system memory
32gbmemory used by the game
I'm using KDE's default system monitor, but here's Btop as well:this test was on max render distance, with 1gb of ram, it crashed ofc, but it crashed at almost 4gbs, what the hell! That's 4 times as much
I'm on arch (btw) (sry)
When you control the memory allocation for Minecraft, you really only are configuring the JVM's garbage collector to use that much memory. That doesn't include any shared resources outside of the JVM, such as Java itself, OpenGL resources and everywhere else that involves native code and system libraries and drivers.
If you have an integrated GPU, all the textures that normally gets sent to a GPU may also live on your regular RAM too since those use unified memory. That can inflate the amount of memory Java appears to use.
A browser for example, might not have a whole lot of JavaScript memory used, couple MBs maybe. But the tab itself uses a ton more because of the renderer and assets and CSS effects.
Depending on version and if modded with content mods, you can easily expect Minecraft to utilize a significant portion memory more than what you give for its heap. Java processes have a statically / dynamically (with bounds) allocated heap from system memory as well as memory used in the stack of the process. Additionally Minecraft might show using more memory in some process monitors due to any external shared libraries being utilized by the application.
My recommendation: don't allocate more memory to the game than you need to run it without noticeable stutters from garbage collection. If you are running modded Minecraft, one or more mods might be causing stack-related memory leaks (or just being large and complex enough to genuinely require large amounts of memory. We might be able to get a better picture if you shared your launch arguments, game version, total system memory, memory used by the game in the process monitor you are using (and modlist if applicable).
In general, it's also a good idea to setup and enable ZRAM and disable Swap if in use.
launch arguments
[-Xms512m, -Xmx1096m, -Duser.language=en]
(is this little, so that the difference shows clearly. I have a modpack that I give 8gb to and uses way more as well. iirc around 12)game version
1.18.2total system memory
32gbmemory used by the game
I'm using KDE's default system monitor, but here's Btop as well:
You could also (hard) limit the total (virtual) memory (any) process will use (but the system will hard kill it if tries to get more) with this: systemd-run --user --scope -p MemoryMax=8G -p MemorySwapMax=0 prismlauncher
You would have to experiment with how much Gs you want to specify as max so that it does not get outright killed.
If you remove MemorySwapMax the system will not kill the process but will start aggressively swapping the processes' memory, so if you do have a swap it will work (an depending on how slow the disk of the swap is, start lagging).
In my case I have a small swap partition on an m2 disk (which might not be recommended?) so I didn't notice any lagging or stutters once it overflow the max memory.
So in theory, if you are memory starved and have swap on a fast disk, you could instead use MemoryHigh flag to create a limit from where systemd will start the swapping without any of the OOM killing (or use both, Max has to be higher then High obv).
I'm running pdftoppm to convert a user-provided PDF into a 300DPI image. This works great, except if the user provides an PDF with a very large page size. pdftoppm will allocate enough memory to ...Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
Fabric is one of many mod loaders ala Forge. It's newer and less bulky then Forge (but afaik it already did have it's own drama so now we also have a fork called Quilt, the same goes for Forge and NeoForge).
The mods I've specified above can be considered as a suite replacement for the (old) OptiFine.
1.21 beta - Simple and fast open-source OptiFine alternative for modern loaders. Designed for players, content creators, and moreModrinth
I want to limit the maximum memory used by the JVM. Note, this is not just the heap, I want to limit the total memory used by this process.Stack Overflow
malloc increases the stacksize of threads depending on the number of cpu cores you have. The JVM might spawn a shitload of threads. That can increase the memory usage outside of the JVMs heap considerably. You could try to run the jvm with tcmalloc (which will replace malloc calls for the spawned process). Also different JVMs bundle different memory allocators. I think Zulu could also improve the situation out of the box. tcmalloc might still help additionally.
I'm sorry but I think that's just the way Java Edition goes mate, lol.
You see a modpack that recommends 6GB allocated and you think "oh, I'm fine, I have 16", next thing you know you're almost going OOM.
I have recently upgraded to 32GB solely because of 'All The Mods 9'
Modded Minecraft is memory hungry. Even normal Minecraft can be. I've seen people suggest alternative JVMs (open j9) because they supposedly garbage collect more aggressively before requesting more memory. I tried this once with Forge back when it had to patch everything when it began (maybe still the case, idk) and what it actually did was just make everything slow to a crawl because the JVM wanted to collect instead of allocate more and keep going.
File bug reports with mid authors and Mojang of it is using way more memory than they say it needs so they update their docs but this is pretty much par for the course.
Think about it like this. You have a table. You have papers. You're doing complicated math. You can use more and more of the table for scratch work on your papers. At some point you run out of table space. You consolidate the papers and notes you've taken on them. But that's time you could've been doing more "useful" work. Now, what if you had like 90% of the table still full once you did that? You'd honestly need more table.
Minecraft is a great game, but when you push it to the extremes it has difficulty keeping up.
I want a NAS solution to back up my PC and host media files, but prebuilt NAS solutions are incredibly expensive and underwhelming and so I'm planning to build one. Does anyone have recommendations for a NAS interface?
I'm brand new to server management and would prefer something user friendly. I have used linux mint, but currently use windows as my daily driver (planning to switch to mint soon). I'd be fine with a dedicated NAS OS or with something I could run on mint since I'm already familiar with that distro.
OpenMediaVault (OMV) is a Debian server
Maybe it's because I'm old but these words combined together depress me. Why is NAS software an operating system?
The last time I tried to install this it complained that it couldn't be installed on an OS that had a GUI. What a joke.
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