Eyedust
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- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 1 week ago:
Sleep/hibernate has been a pretty big problem for a while. As for the gpu, have you checked out NixOS? There’s ways to enforce your integrated card to handle everything and change states for certain apps to the discreet card.
It takes a bit to learn, but nixlang is pretty simple. I’ve heard it referred to as “JSON with functions”. It also has the largest package repository of any OS and is atomic, so its hard as hell to break. You can also make separate, containerized dev environments with flakes.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 1 week ago:
I have heard about the IoT version. I’d have to look more into it, but I doubt I’m going back now that I’ve learned so much about Linux. I can troubleshoot most of Arch without touching the docs or asking online now, so it really defeats the purpose of switching back.
I also enjoy putting in a little effort to get things working. That’s the thing about Linux. Most people that daily drive it get a dopamine release from tinkering with it and fixing things, and I’m one of those people.
I know there has been a big “its for everyone” push these days, but its really not. So I’m glad the IoT version exists for those that want or need it.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 1 week ago:
Rufus is great and I still keep a copy around, but I haven’t gone back since I found Ventoy. You just run Ventoy on your stick, and then drag and drop any and all bootable ISOs into it. When you boot it, you get a list of all the ISOs to work with.
The only caveat is that you absolutely have to eject the USB, or else Ventoy probably will corrupt. That’s a small price to pay to have Arch, Mint, Fedora, NixOS, and Win11 all on one OS ISO toolkit drive, plus I always eject my drives as a rule of thumb. Then all I have to do is update them every couple months.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 1 week ago:
Takes a lot more to fully deshittify it, though. I’ve been down that road. So much registry diving, so many third party apps, strongarming uninstallations of bloatware through brute force, and just all around weeks of work.
When the screenshot shit was announced the first time, I just got tired of looking for workarounds to disable or remove Microsoft’s active attempts of policing, spying, and triple-dip profiting off it’s paying customers.
- Comment on NOOOOOOO 2 weeks ago:
I have one of the old Ripley’s Believe It or Not books by mine. It’s wild how many things in there that amazed people back in the day aren’t really that amazing or unbelievable anymore. The internet has made the world a pretty jaded place.
- Comment on The Arc Browser Is Dead 2 weeks ago:
Lol, I just mention it because I have no other experience with Ladybird. There’s an Ubuntu/Debian section and a Choco for Windows. I would assume macOS uses homebrew, but I didn’t read that far into it. I can only confirm that I got the Arch version working after a bit of compiling.
- Comment on The Arc Browser Is Dead 2 weeks ago:
You can already test it out in very early alpha, but I can tell you now that it’s just a portal with very basic browser controls. You’ll have to build it through the Python script.
I built it through Arch already and its a working browser is about all I can really say about it. The little I tried of it works.
The instructions to build the early alpha are on the github page here.
- Comment on The Arc Browser Is Dead 2 weeks ago:
It wasn’t supposed to stay Apple exclusive. In fact, when I last used Windows there was a beta build out for Arc. However, there were also multiple Firefox styles in the CSS Store that made Firefox into Arc.
Then Zen Browser came out, and I’m currently watching it get very popular. I don’t doubt that Zen Browser is one of the reasons Arc is shutting down. It’s nearly an exact copy, but now with more features (and is constantly coming out with even more faster than Arc can think of them).
I’m excited for Ladybird as well, but I’m not expecting anything crazy when it comes out of alpha and beta. I fully expect to wait a bit, maybe download to contribute some troubleshooting, but it may not be viable as a main use browser for a long time yet.
- Comment on Gives a mom a reason to live 5/5 3 weeks ago:
This is true… that might not be worth the risk at that point.
- Comment on Gives a mom a reason to live 5/5 3 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, my sister and my mother already have one of those. I was thinking that the chair would just be so overkill that it’d go right past funny straight into “a personal slight upon my honor” territory.
- Comment on Gives a mom a reason to live 5/5 3 weeks ago:
I mean, I didn’t expect to, but boy was I upset I couldn’t find this. Would have been a great gift to finally get me disowned from my mom’s side of the family.
- Comment on Gives a mom a reason to live 5/5 3 weeks ago:
Make one where you put in grapes and just sit and lay on it all day to make wine starter, aka grape juice.
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 3 weeks ago:
This is good to know. I hadn’t read the fine print, because I abandoned Telegram and never looked back. I hope its true and I agree, I also wouldn’t think they’d do this and then renege into a possible lawsuit.
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 3 weeks ago:
This. The second Premium landed I was out, and it was slipping long before that.
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 3 weeks ago:
Ah no, I mean the government backdoor. Last we knew, Telegram was threatened, then it suddenly quiet and Premium launches. Fishy. So potentially the federal government has access.
Sorry, I’m bad with context. When it comes to another user accessing your messages, you should be right. However, when it comes to the US and Russian governments, its probably getting read already. And we all know what ties and connections Elon has there. So Grok can probably read them.
- Comment on Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI to Predict Where Users Live 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, screen resolution is still used sometimes, I think. Fonts is a big one. I believe there’s software and extensions that makes it look like you have a bunch of random fonts, but I haven’t looked too hard into it.
Just never have money. You’ll almost never interest anyone. I’m broke af, so I’m boring and worthless af.
- Comment on Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI to Predict Where Users Live 3 weeks ago:
I keep them locked and change the passwords once in a while. Basically, once my address starts getting a ton of spam and scams per day, I stop using that address. Only the one I’m currently using shows notifications. The rest only show when there’s a login.
I don’t change too often. I still only have a handful.
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s true. I still use Signal as the main app to keep in contact with friends and family, though. It’s not like we ever discuss anything important, I just don’t like having my privacy openly invaded by apps like TG. Its affronting and insulting.
I can’t think of any other alternative to Matrix that has bot support, though. I guess just be careful of which instance, because I’ve read that there’s a lot of shady stuff that goes down in Matrix groups sometimes.
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 3 weeks ago:
Your secret chats are already being read. Hell, secret chats are probably the first to be read.
A secret chat is only for local privacy, meaning if someone got access to your device they can’t find them, nor will you get notifications (in case your partner is watching your screen).
Back when we just had SMS and MMS, they had secret chats, too. They were blatantly marketed as tools to cheat on your partner. GO SMS was one of the first to use them. Its not so blatant anymore, but its still the primary use for “secret” chats.
I remember reading an article that someone figured out everyone’s GO SMS images (even secret ones) were uploaded online without any security whatsoever. You could put in the url and some random numbers and get any pictures and voice clips ever sent. And they never fixed it even after it was leaked.
So yeah, not so secret. You want secure.
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 3 weeks ago:
If you want something more like the fediverse itself, then Matrix. If you want something closer to Telegram out of the box without setup, then Signal or SimpleX.
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 4 weeks ago:
Federal government threatened Telegram and demanded a backdoor a while back, iirc.
- Comment on Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI to Predict Where Users Live 4 weeks ago:
I predicted this years and years ago when the internet was still young. I’m probably already well scanned and filed away like the rest of us, but as a rule of thumb I always come up with new usernames for everything just to be safe. I’m never the same on more than two platforms max. I’ve never connected my usernames to my identity, I’ve just always been paranoid about it since dial up was a thing.
Plus, I like the change. You get infinite new starts and it really gives you time to think and build on your first impressions. I highly recommend it. Not even my MMO accounts use the same character names from any other MMO. I have many abandoned emails, and never name them anything similar.
If you’re going to be online, always keep moving. Keep changing, keep remaking yourself, and do it often. The same goes for avatars. Change them often and try not to use too many from actual hobbies you like. AI slop is out there, just generate something locally or pick something random that looks cool.
- Comment on A Presence-sensing Drive For Securely Storing Secrets 4 weeks ago:
But I like how squishy and soft they are from the microwave…
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 4 weeks ago:
Ohhhh, no no. The raids and dungeons are challenging and ridiculously hard. I get what you’re saying now. It hasn’t been like that since I started up again, which was right when Gundabad released. It’s very easy to solo, and now there’s an NPC that lets you change world difficulty if you want to opt for it, making it so that the hardcore players and the casual players both get what they want.
I hear you. I haven’t touched it in a while because I will literally lose months of my life to it. Its harder for me because its one of my gf’s favorite games and when she plays I can’t help but play.
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 4 weeks ago:
I absolutely love LOTRO, too. I understand what you mean. The endgame content is pretty advanced, but I had this conversation with someone on Reddit years ago.
It doesn’t have to be hard. There is so much content in LOTRO to last you years of playing new classes and enjoying the world. Throw out all of your max level up items, they’re going to ruin the game for you. Just go out adventuring. I’ve had a good time during anniversary helping people through old dungeons (I hate you, Saruman).
The endgame is hard, because half the community beats endgame and complains that there’s no content, and half the community just plays casually. They don’t really have the power to keep pushing out quantity in content, so they have to make ridiculously hard and rewarding content to make up for it. It’s really a lose-lose either way, and they chose to keep the community that has been faithful for years over trying to pull in new players.
It sucks, I agree, but I think I would have made the same choice. I still love playing and wandering around; leveling new classes, and you can now get new titles for playing new difficulty modes they made. You can change the world difficulty starting at level 10, I believe.
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 4 weeks ago:
I still love Lord of the Rings Online. It still has enough people to feel alive, to the point where they even upgraded their servers recently, and still keeps that old school feel. You can even earn LOTRO points through hunting monsters and quests, so if you put the work in you don’t even need to buy anything.
Do I miss the days before MTX? Yeah, but I feel like they are fairly less greedy about it than other games. Fairly. There’s still the VIP subscription while double-dipping into MTX that rubs me the wrong way a bit, but they still actively try to listen to the players. I’ll be sad when its gone…
Its mostly much older generations that play, though, but that really cuts down on a lot of the toxicity. I’ve had so many polite conversations in world chat with programmers and sysadmins offering advice. One of the most helpful players I met was a 72 year old vietnam veteran. He helped me get started and gave me a ton of gear just for having a nice talk with him.
- Comment on Palantir Started By Spying on a City Now Sells AI for War 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, but what’s more feasible? Uniting a complacent society and not knowing when or where your next meal will be, or taking a hot check home and living comfortably? Especially when kids come into the mix. Why do you think they want to push the “have kids” and anti-abortion agenda? Because you’re only going to think about the best for your family and the best is stability and peace when it comes to children.
I don’t disagree with you, but I don’t condemn the little people trying to survive, either.
- Comment on If you had to pick only one Opening for Bleach, what would it be? 1 month ago:
D-tecnoLife, but I just enjoy old school Bleach for the nostalgia. I do really like op1, though, and its a close match for me.
Speaking of, I was exploring some of my favorite animators, AC-bu, a few years ago, and found this which took me a second: Orange Range - Sushi Tabetai
I found my first AC-bu animation with Powder - New Tribe, then POLICEMAN110 - Gyaru Sengan (a must watch/listen, lmao). They did a lot of stuff for group_inou, too, who I became a fan of. I saw this vid after that and the voice was just so familiar. Then it hit me who it was, lol.
- Comment on Gig Companies Violate Workers’ Rights: Amazon Flex, DoorDash, Favor, Instacart, Lyft, Shipt, and Uber claim to offer workers flexibility but end up paying them less than state or local minimum wages. 1 month ago:
Big corp exploiting the wage workers? Who’da thunk it…
Imagine if we all stopped doing the “little jobs”.
- Comment on Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online? 1 month ago:
