TomAwezome

@TomAwezome@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve used Devuan before with decent success, I run it as a server on an ancient netbook with 1Ghz and 2GB RAM. Works pretty well, but bear in mind so much has become entangled with the expectations of systemd that as more packages get installed you may find things that break. As an example, apt gets an error every time it does anything because Mullvad VPN software has a configuration step that expects systemd functionality, and obviously that won’t work on Devuan. The program itself works fine, just have to start it a little differently, but it means that apt functionality always returns an error, which itself breaks any other scripts you may run that have steps that use apt. I had to do a lot of manual patching for PiHole scripting to get that installed because every time it would run anything with apt it thought there was a showstopping error simply because Mullvad complained during apt configurations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the “incoherent rant”, I’m setting some stuff up with Anubis and Caddy so hearing your story was very welcome :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reminder that you do not own digital games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The second-hand videogame market will always exist, even if the license when you bought the game doesn’t give you explicit permission to sell your copy. This probably isn’t going to change any time soon either

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there softwares to simulate enough electronics and microcontrollers to learn?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Give CRUMB a try, I’ve used it for learning basic circuit designs, and it does a pretty good job! I think a great start is trying to get a basic 555 timer going in it, based on publicly available electrical diagrams and descriptions. The analog oscilloscope feature is super fun to play with.

  …steampowered.com/…/CRUMB_Circuit_Simulator/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any truth to this?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tested it with “cat” and it blocks me from seeing things I’ve reposted with the word “cat” in it, so yeah it might! :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any truth to this?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A quick scroll of his account on Bluesky ( bsky.app/…/urlyman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy ) makes it pretty clear why his Discover sucks. The algorithm on Bluesky sorta works like a mirror, you get out what you put in. My feed is all art posts and wholesome memes because I follow artists, creators, and comic pages, so it sounds like he’s trained his algorithm to be full of political complaining and toxic people like him. He should probably look into the Mute Words feature and start blocking stuff he thinks is toxic!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can run your own relays, the obstacle is that each relay takes up many terabytes. But it’s fully open.

  github.com/bluesky-social/pds whtwnd.com/…/Notes on Running a Full-Network atpr…

  news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42086596 docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/firehose docs.bsky.app/docs/…/federation-architecture#rela…