SreudianFlip
@SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on What to do with a 10-year-old Macbook Air? 1 week ago:
Yes, I agree, I was projecting about five or six years into the future.
- Comment on What to do with a 10-year-old Macbook Air? 1 week ago:
I have a 2008 iMac running Mint just great.
By the time Apple Silicon is truly old and no longer supported, they will probably support Linux fine. It won’t be just Asahi either.
- Comment on What to do with a 10-year-old Macbook Air? 1 week ago:
Model numbers are on the bottom of the computer printed in light grey on the aluminum.
If your computer is an A1466 It’s the most common kind of air, and fairly well supported in a few distros.
- Comment on What to do with a 10-year-old Macbook Air? 1 week ago:
Put ZorinOS on it and use it as a laptop. Easy. Or Mint. Both work nicely on a 2015 Air.
I have a few and was going to use them as servers, but laptop battery management is too fussy for a server setup. Now selling them cheap with Linux.
- Comment on There's nothing stopping an 8 year old child from just taking their parent's ID to do Age Verification... 1 week ago:
I grew up in Italian-canadian households, so even as a little kid I got diluted wine at meals. As a teen I thought it was illegal so didn’t talk about it, then one day had a hotel room tossed by narcs who left empty handed yet left all the beer in the tub that we were obviously all drinking… only one of us was drinking age, and the room was in their name, so the narcs never even commented on it. In your home, in B.C. anyway, you have discretion about what the kids consume, as long as it isn’t abuse.
- Comment on AFFORDABLE selfhosted nocode relational databases? (à la Baserow/NocoDB, etc.) 1 week ago:
I have been looking at Saltcorn for this purpose, and it seems quite interesting. I can’t verify it or vouch for it, however.
If I had more time, I would love to play with it and try and build things. But I am pretty busy. So I am also looking at replacing my specialized CRM with something open source and self-hosted.
It’s not pretty, but I will probably settle on Dolibarr as it’s non-American, comprehensive, and there are docker implementations.
- Comment on Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app 1 week ago:
Best I can do is the SE/30, in peach, tangerine, and cerulean.
- Comment on Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had. 1 week ago:
OK, well, you have a lot more tolerance for tape hiss and compression artifacts and muted highs than I do, the only quiet tapes I’ve heard were big fat studio tapes when I had access to a research studio.
I spent so many years trying to get a decent field recording out of the best portable recording (cassette) decks that I may be a little traumatized. DAT recording was a revelation, even with horribly unreliable decks.
- Comment on YSK: Israel is ethnically cleansing Lebanon 2 weeks ago:
Still going on, pops!
- Comment on Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had. 2 weeks ago:
This is a rare setup. Kind of vintage audio unicorn.
You still have a noticeable noise floor and medium limitations as equalizer, though (“warmer”).
99.999% of decks and surviving tapes do sound like dogshit.
- Comment on Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had. 2 weeks ago:
I call this “road tinsel”, there used to be a lot of it strewn along highways.
- Comment on Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had. 2 weeks ago:
It’s usually not. I have one old car with a CD player and a less-old car with a USB stick loaded with media. The flash storage is better.
But if you have nice speakers and listening space, the quality of the DAC matters, and a real CD player would probably have a better DAC and sound better than compressed audio on a flash drive sticking out of your receiver. Unless you have a fancy audio server/DAC setup, in which case it’s moot.
- Comment on Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had. 2 weeks ago:
I have lots of playlist cds, same thing. Better skipping function.
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 2 weeks ago:
age old
Yeah for sure. I have to deal with a lot of tech-support and similar scam victims, and I always wind up explaining that this con is as old as civilization at least, it’s just the location and props that are new.
Lure you in with a benefit or problem solved, ensure that you get lost or disoriented, manufacture fear/uncertainty/doubt, offer a way out, trap is set.
Once upon a time I had someone try to run this same scam on me in meatspace, a big ancient city. Offer a solution to a logistics problem, get me lost in the maze, create new problem of changed conditions, intimidate with new people arriving, and pressure with intense sales tactics on a bullshit product. I wasn’t actually lost so just walked away, curiosity satisfied, but some people would have lost a lot of money.
- Comment on YSK: Israel is ethnically cleansing Lebanon 2 weeks ago:
Invading Tibet was an act of war.
- Comment on SK chairman warns global memory shortage may last through 2030 2 weeks ago:
Yep it’s more work upgrading components than people like to admit, if you want to be frugal.
- Comment on SK chairman warns global memory shortage may last through 2030 2 weeks ago:
Best way to upgrade the RAM in your old computer is to install Linux.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 3 weeks ago:
It’s 13 inches and full macOS, can edit HD video without choking. Not a netbook.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 3 weeks ago:
Tip to used laptop buyers: avoid the MacBook Pro from 2016 through early 2020. The keyboard design dies early and is expensive to replace.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 3 weeks ago:
Factory batteries are top tier and get you around 1000 charges, typically about five years. After that the battery is around 65% health and time to change out.
Apple is no different from other manufacturers in that respect, maybe better quality cells than most. They suck at making those changeable, lately. 2011-2017 Macbook Air is about a 5 minute job. MacBook Pro from certain years you just want to throw it in a lake, or scrape glue for ages.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 3 weeks ago:
It runs fine, unless you load up on chrome tabs, or try to run pro apps. Itdoes basic photo editing and admin apps and phone holiday video editing just fine for average users. I have a lot of clients with 8GB M1 machines.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 3 weeks ago:
Fukan yes
- D\L all assets locally
- proper 3-2-1 of local machines
- duty roster of other contributors with same backups
- automate and have regular checks as part of production
- also sandbox the stochastic parrot
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 4 weeks ago:
Anyone who knows what Linux actually is, isn’t buying these.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 4 weeks ago:
It will just hammer that swap file until you get down to a couple dozen chrome tabs!
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 4 weeks ago:
Nah chrome (worst case scenario) with about 80 tabs total on a M1 Air w/8gb is okay, I see it often doing IT support. This should be a bit better. A18pro is pretty efficient.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 4 weeks ago:
Used Macs carry a pretty big inflated premium for about 6 years while supported.
I have six or more 10+yr-old refurb Macs running all different distros of linux, testing for permacomputing viability then selling very cheap. They run mostly great, though the laptops all struggle with sleep and battery management compared with macOS. Some, the cameras or mics need a lot of terminal futzing around to get working adequately.
Get a lenovo 480 if you are shopping for a used laptop. A 2015 MacBook pro running Debian derivatives or Fedora is very pleasant if you’re not picky about battery life. Zorin is pretty for that mac aesthetic.
I buy new because my service requires up to date production software, and output on time-is-money schedules. Business expenses amortize quickly, due to tax, equipment turnover is expected.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 4 weeks ago:
Utter bullshit disinformation. SoC, look it up.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 4 weeks ago:
That’s odd, because it is similar in performance to the M1 Air which is still pretty banging at basic introductory media production.
If you are running a proper production lab you aren’t using $600 computers anyway, or you are economizing guerilla-film style. If you wanted to introduce 1080p NLE or basic DAW to incoming noobs, probably an okay device… but a lab should be using desktops anyway or your curriculum is badly broken. Definitely get minis if you’re doing macs.
This basic laptop in a premium case with great battery life is for folks doing lots of admin or studying and running office, with Pixelmator or Affinity or other mid range production apps. It WILL run photoshop fine if you don’t work on large files.
- Comment on How "heavy" is self-hosting matrix really? 4 weeks ago:
Mucking about with dozens of extensions instead of just installing an app seems pretty old skool, lol, brings me back to bbs life
- Comment on How "heavy" is self-hosting matrix really? 4 weeks ago:
So, Onomatopoeia there is wondering why xmpp isn’t standard, and I’m getting the sense that it is targeted at oldskool usage.
Discord is popular because it’s easy to start using, it has collaboration features like group screensharing, and it doesn’t assume an ubernerd is the target audience.
Maybe we’ll get a more unified, feature rich xmpp implementation, but until then, sounds like matrix/element is closer, despite its warts.