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Guy with beep boop boxes.

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2026-07-11 22:12:10 UTC

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I really don't get the pricing on them, are larger E-ink displays really that expensive? They've got to just be charging that because they know anyone buying a larger E-reader is more interested and easier to squeeze for money.
This particular one has a 6" screen and goes for like ~150€.
However if I want an 8" screen instead they want ~350€.
The only other difference is that storage goes from a paltry 16GB to a still paltry 32GB.
Everything else is the same between them, seem to have the same SoC and everything.
So larger screen models all seem to be highway robbery where they charge 150% extra for a 50-75% larger screen and no upgrade to anything else in the device.

2026-07-11 22:09:15 UTC

I finally ended up buying an e-reader for manga yesterday. Only read one volume on it so far, but it seems nice.
Would've preferred a bigger screen, but all the ones with bigger screens are overpriced af.
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2026-06-05 09:42:01 UTC

Nintendo like many companies are working on complying with EU laws, among them is the upcoming requirement for replaceable batteries.
Nintendo published their plans for compliance: https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Corporate/Consumer-Information/Compliance-with-EU-Directives-and-Regulations/Compliance-with-EU-Directives-and-Regulations-625942.html
And if I parsed this correctly it seems like they're going to make a separate version only for Europe. Almost impressive how much of an asshole Nintendo can be.
Claiming that a replaceable battery is impossible is one thing. But making a model with a replaceable battery, then only making it available in Europe is extra asshole-y
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2026-05-24 22:04:53 UTC

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maybe, i don't use ebay a lot

2026-05-24 21:54:55 UTC

the hell, when did everyone start buying motors on ebay
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2026-04-29 17:04:45 UTC

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That's nice, does it have other smart OS instead though?
My point was generally that the SoC manufacturer only provides Android TV images.
Some brands make their own smart OS instead.
If it's a genuine 4K HDR dumb TV, please tell me the exact model, I'm quite interested.

2026-04-29 16:37:33 UTC

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You can still find them if you're okay with 1080p.
It seems like if you want 4K (and especially fancy 4K with stuff like HDR) you basically can't, because all the SoCs readily available on the market to power these TVs for any reasonable price only support Android TV.
Personally I have a hisense, but the input select button on the remote doesn't actually open an input selector, it sends you to the home screen with the input list pre-selected, and honestly I find that annoying enough for me to not readily recommend hisense TVs to anyone

2026-04-16 15:15:13 UTC

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I believe this is part of the reason why our national security agency doesn't actually seem to recommend the "anti-theft" stuff, instead they seem to specifically recommend the "remote wipe" features.
Unfortunately, most services make it impossible to have the ability to remotely wipe your device, without also making it impossible to reuse.

2026-04-14 07:48:33 UTC

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Meh I dunno. I'm more worried about browser RAM usage over time rather than OS RAM usage

2026-04-14 07:38:14 UTC

The fact that Apple underestimated Neo demand so badly that they're already running low on chips.
How the hell do you underestimate the demand for a more affordable Macbook? The amount of Windows users I've met who would've switched to macOS if only it wasn't so expensive is insane.
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2026-04-13 20:32:28 UTC

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also are you actually a mac user or does it simply not include a "super" keycap?

2026-04-13 20:30:30 UTC

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Nice.

2026-04-13 20:20:18 UTC

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i like the playstation buttons over the numpad, do they do something by default or are they just for macro use?

2026-04-11 22:29:19 UTC

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Crimson desert actually does do 4K60 @ ultra with no upscaling on my regular gaming rig. The fact that any modern game does so is unfortunately very unusual, despite how overpowered my rig is.
If I even got it running I was expecting like 720p at minimum and upscaled from something even lower. would probably stutter like hell regardless due to the lack of memory.

2026-04-11 22:25:48 UTC

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i dunno what i expected tbh

2026-04-11 22:13:17 UTC

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fuck, that didn't make it very far
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2026-04-11 22:11:56 UTC

i'm sorry neo, but i can't resist seeing how badly you'll suffer
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2026-03-27 18:12:01 UTC

I finally replaced all the fans in my case. Swapped out the 3x Silent Wing 2 fans for 4x Arctic P14 Pro fans.
Not that I was having thermal issues with the be quiet fans, but they top out at 1000rpm. New fans do 3000rpm (though they basically never exceed 1500rpm as they're currently configured).
Made CPU run cooler and GPU fans run slightly slower

2026-03-26 11:50:25 UTC

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I don't get guys desperate enough to just fall for every cosplayer they see at a convention.
But I also don't get cosplayers who can dress up in one of the sluttiest outfits I've ever seen and then get surprised when guys hit on them

2026-03-16 19:02:42 UTC

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Sometimes you don't even need to go that far. If you visit a site like https://www.helsenorge.no/ (our portal for public healthcare) you'll notice that every single web request contains a header named "X-Azure-Ref" so you can find the web request in Azure.
And yes, this means all of my healthcare info is probably stolen by Microsoft whether I like it or not, cool right?
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2026-03-16 18:57:36 UTC

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It's pretty obvious, because if you were to for example block the IP ranges used by Azure Blob Storage, half the government sites break.
The ones that remain typically only do so because they're behind Cloudflare as well

2026-03-16 18:56:09 UTC

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The problem is that in Norway we spend a lot on Windows and 365 licenses as well. But our government also snorts stuff like Azure and Microsoft SQL servers like there's no tomorrow.
Even if they don't buy it directly, when they buy some custom software (from a company like Visma who makes tons of government crapware) you can bet your ass the whole platform runs on Azure.
So nevermind school, even someone like me who only runs Loonix at home, I probably grant Microsoft lots of money simply be existing, so the country can keep stuff like tax collection, payment services, public transit and and my healthcare services up and running.

2026-03-16 18:10:16 UTC

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You wouldn't believe how ingrained Microsoft is here in Norway. From what I've heard we're among the worst, to the point we don't even seem to have track of how much money we give Microsoft in total.
The best estimate I've found is here: https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Sporsmal/Skriftlige-sporsmal-og-svar/Skriftlig-sporsmal/?qnid=105081
Which states it's around 21 billion NOK for IaaS/PaaS and SaaS. In USD that would be ~$2.1 billion. For a country with only 5.5 million inhabitants.
Or put another way, Norway gives $400/year to Microsoft per citizen. Simply by existing in this country, I am giving Microsoft $400/year outside of my control, thanks to the government.

2026-03-07 15:39:17 UTC

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That's the reason I said "fuck it". They have the correct voltage, but I couldn't actually find anyone selling them. Everything I found was NiMH or NiCd, which are both 1.2V.
The only 1.5V batteries I found to be available were Li-Ion batteries with USB-C ports on them from brands like paleblue and Coast. But I'd rather not buy them unless I have to since they cost a lot more.
However I did find Ni-Zn batteries, which were something I hadn't heard of before. Apparently those are good, but they have the opposite problem, their voltage is 1.6V, so you risk damaging devices which can't handle the higher voltage (and they can't use standard battery chargers)

2026-03-07 14:29:04 UTC

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I have a few devices, most notably a radio which get pissy from the lower voltage. But maybe I'll just have to buy a set or two of paleblue batteries for those devices or something, I'll leave that problem for future quad

2026-03-07 14:27:54 UTC

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Haven't bought batteries in ages, and it seems NiMH is still just the thing everyone uses. I used to be told that eneloops were the best rechargeable batteries, but I dunno if that's true as it's 10 year old info at this point.
I don't have Ikea available, but I found out that their competitor, jysk, now also sells rechargeable batteries (and have for a long time it seems) at the same price. Since they were still open, had tons in stock, and were cheap af, they won. Hopefully I won't have to think about batteries again for years.

2026-03-07 14:25:37 UTC

after looking into my options for rechargeable batteries i have decided to say "fuck it" and simply bought a pile of new batteries from jysk, with a charger and a box to store the batteries in
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2026-03-05 13:18:09 UTC

Man I'm really excited for the Macbook Neo and for once it feels like waiting a week for the release is actually going to be rough. Haven't been this excited about an Apple announcement since they first announced they were going ARM.
Just like how apple going ARM hopefully meant others were going to copy them and make more ARM computers (although so far laptop manufacturers and windows have utterly failed on that front), I hope the Macbook Neo is going to force budget laptops to actually be decent.
I want a world where finding a cheaper laptop where productivity basics like the screen and keyboard aren't horrible isn't difficult anymore.

2026-03-04 17:52:03 UTC

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I had heard Tahoe was worse for RAM, but I didn't know it was this bad.
If the OS update is this rough on RAM and they're shipping an 8GB machine, this journey is going to be bumpy af.

2026-03-04 17:51:18 UTC

God damn. 8GB on the Macbook Neo is going to be ROUGH if it's anything like my 2019 16" Macbook Pro.
On Sequoia my 2019 MBP used about 6GB when idle on the desktop. However after updating to Tahoe it uses ~8GB just chilling on the desktop, ~10GB once I open safari.
And my MPB has a dedicated AMD GPU, so it doesn't even need to use any of the RAM as VRAM, the Neo does use shared memory.
Unless the copy of Tahoe that ships on the Neo is tweaked in some way, that thing is going to have like 25% of its memory pool in swap while doing literally nothing.

2026-03-04 16:41:32 UTC

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I suspect that's part of Apple's strategy honestly.
Hard cap the Neo to 8GB and take less of a profit than normal so they can absorb the mid-range laptop market.
Everyone hates Microsoft and Windows 11, and regular laptop prices are going wild.
I suspect Apple didn't want to let this chance slip, so they want to sell people 8GB machines to get them hooked on macOS and the rest of the Apple ecosystem, then when they want to do anything slightly demanding they'll have to buy a far more expensive machine.

2026-03-04 16:26:07 UTC

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Honestly think I will pre-order one, even if using macOS with 8GB ends up being rough, it seems like the kind of machine that's going to get amazing asahi linux support if i need to squeeze more out of it

2026-03-04 16:23:41 UTC

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Actually tempted to pre-order a macbook neo, and that's fucking wild.
I dunno how macOS' ram usage is though, because 8GB of RAM is rough. On Linux it'd be no problem, on Windows it would be a catastrophe, but I haven't used macOS actively for quite some time.

2026-03-04 16:22:19 UTC

apple announcing a macbook with a reasonable price was NOT on my bingo card in any timeline tbh

2026-02-24 15:32:02 UTC

what the fuck did i do to this poor ssd in the past
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2026-02-18 12:03:23 UTC

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2026-02-17 12:14:14 UTC

i went to the electronics store today because i needed a toslink cable for my speakers which was a bit longer than the included one.
the fuckers actually tried to upsell me on a gold-plated OPTICAL cable
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2026-02-11 19:06:17 UTC

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meh, lots of fear mongering about torrents. if you live in a country where they actually try to prosecute one can get a VPN or a seedbox instead

2026-02-11 18:58:40 UTC

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Airing stuff I just get off nyaa.si.
For higher quality stuff I use private trackers

2026-02-11 18:48:50 UTC

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oh man, that's rough. i need those blu-ray qualities for my favorite shows.
all the sites just take webrips and re-encode them to further lower the quality (usually hardsubbing them in the process). i don't like it, at least download the actual webrips before they're re-encoded

2026-02-11 18:41:15 UTC

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what high seas do you get your linux distros from if not torrents? nzb? xdcc?

2026-02-11 18:39:17 UTC

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don't tell me you stopped using torrents? they're great

2026-01-26 22:02:13 UTC

@npub1fy7…qws8 @npub1e9u…es67 honestly having a standardized place to store game data like saves and mods is far from the worst idea microsoft have tried to push

2026-01-26 21:51:09 UTC

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It's amazing how much funny stuff some games come up with.
did you know that final fantasy XVI stores saves as images? File extension and all.
The first .png attached to this post is a valid save file (assuming your instance doesn't convert it and its SHA256sum is still 54a35e85b2a822e6f3c9fc205b438b039c7fb844f48df96ae387ca3df0d1b8a2) and can be loaded by the game.
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2026-01-22 09:16:50 UTC

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no please don't, i don't even drink alcohol, i'd make for a horrible east european

2026-01-22 09:07:35 UTC

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since online translators became a thing. and i've picked up a few words throughout the years thanks to all the poles that work around me
dobre

2026-01-22 08:28:33 UTC

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"hello yes, i'd like one DNS migration please. a zonefile? yeah i've got one of those, I've attached it below! please migrate it to your system promptly, thank you"
"ext-cust.squarespace.com" można osiągnąć pod adresem "www" TTL-PRESET-4
"8.8.8.8" można osiągnąć pod adresem "(początek folderu)" TTL-PRESET-1
"fuck" można osiągnąć pod adresem "you" TTL-PRESET-14
"example" zawiera TXT "hello world" TTL-PRESET-2
KORZEŃ FOLDERU "b2vrEdoipAcxIxqtvk2D" TXT TTL-PRESET-1
KORZEŃ FOLDERU "gq8c2f3UMJX4hiNwzv83" TXT TTL-PRESET-3
KORZEŃ FOLDERU "aN07PzBgtBe8W183XFwm" TXT TTL-PRESET-1
KORZEŃ FOLDERU "lS3eb1HPQXEGC0SxCo6E" TXT TTL-PRESET-8
NIE MOŻNA ODCZYTAĆ REKORDU
KORZEŃ FOLDERU "cSTi57P7mr5teCJLpWs1" TXT TTL-PRESET-14
KORZEŃ FOLDERU "CZB1k5USKEKPC2VSnfRz" TXT TTL-PRESET-4
"penis" można osiągnąć pod adresem "your mom" TTL-PRESET-1

2026-01-22 08:16:41 UTC

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how the hell does anything IT related function like this in Norway?
why has the entire sector not just collapsed already?

2026-01-22 08:16:04 UTC

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anyways, today is just another day of "quad has to do extra menial labour because the supposed DNS "expert" at the other end has no idea what they're doing".
It's not like it was some self-taught dude who ran the IT system itself either, it's a large IT consulting firm with employee numbers in the 4-digit range. The DNS record file they sent me made references to things like "customers", "folders" and "groups" so they probably have some platform or tool where they manage hundreds, or maybe thousands of domains.
The company whose domain we helped move have probably been paying out their ass to rent these supposed "professionals" for years on end. Yet after two weeks of begging "please, i just want to talk to one DNS "expert" who knows what a zonefile is. i've been trying to get the zonefile for two weeks at this point" I just had to give up.
The number of times I find out that there's some IT consulting company with 2000 employees and they have 15 "e-mail specialists" that can help us, but when I contact them I have to argue my way through 8 of those specialists before I find the first person who knows what an SMTP is, absolutely terrifies me.

2026-01-22 08:08:10 UTC

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the file was named "example.com.dns" and the first response i gave was a screenshot of the text essentially saying "wtf is this, whatever it is, it's not a dns zone"
to which they replied "sorry, our bad, i got some help from our DNS expert" and then they sent back the exact same file byte for byte but it was named "example.com.txt" this time.
my brother in christ I'M NOT STUPID, i know it's a goddamn text file and i sent you a screenshot of the text contents in the first response, i'm trying to tell you that this text is not in any kind of known standard format. the words in-between in the subdomain and record value aren't even english, they're in fucking Norwegian, there's no way this is compliant to anything.
After waiting almost two weeks for a response to step 0 of a DNS move, I just gave up and I had to spend like 45 minutes reading their garbage DNS export and typing out my own zonefile I could import, just to get this shit over with because my boss doesn't understand DNS either so he's asking ME why moving the records is so annoying.
these bastards have to idea what they're doing, there's like twenty fucking TXT records on their root

2026-01-22 08:02:43 UTC

god, i just had to rewrite an entire zonefile to take over a domain at work.
previous host didn't even know what the fuck a zonefile was, i just got a txt file with some made up fantasy format, probably exported from whatever dns tool they use.
bouncing e-mails back and forth while waiting for a response is so slow that this shit has been waiting for like two weeks because the old MSP is too incompetent to know what a bloody zonefile is. every time i asked "please just give me an actual zonefile" or "i just want an RFC 1035 file man, i can't import this other shit" they just sent back slight variants of the same weird file.

2025-12-29 23:58:58 UTC

what it feels like to browse the internet these days tbh
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2025-12-26 11:14:19 UTC

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I've never really used a Chromebook, but how does one usually handle the lack of a super button? Do you map it to that search button on the left where caps lock would typically be?

2025-12-23 18:50:33 UTC

i like how i last updated my parents' router at the start of 2024, and during the two years since, TP-link has released exactly ONE firmware update (1.3.10 -> 1.3.11)
still 3x better than most ISP routers
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2025-12-23 18:34:31 UTC

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i actually had an ajazz ak33 lying here which was some $30 board of aliexpress i bought almost 10 years ago. but turns out someone spilled something on it during the past year, so half the keys on it were dead and i had to pick up this random gaming keyboard rom the local outlet bin
the f key on this keyboard is already fucked but it's christmas eve tomorrow and all the stores have already closed for the holidays, so i don't give a shit, all my posts will be containing ewer Fs than normal until the new year, good luck

2025-12-23 18:29:29 UTC

i am now set up in my parents attic for christmas, with my bootleg steam machine as my only computer
complete with peak gamer chair, cheap plastic bin monitor stand, inconvenient slanted roof, random cheap gaming peripherals, horrible lighting from a single light bulb 3 meters away and some bose companion 2 speakers i left behind here a number of years ago
ah yes, just like my childhood
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2025-12-09 09:45:32 UTC

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I used a credit card because the conversion fees and protection if i used my debit card online is ass.
now i just move money to Wise since they're available in Norway and use that for international shopping and transfers. unfortunately they're some fintech slop

2025-12-09 09:40:45 UTC

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personally i use some sennheiser accentum headphones because they were cheap and decent enough with ANC.
I also own some Sony wireless earbuds, but I only use them when it's raining because fitting full-size headphones under a hood is a pain, and typically the ANC goes nuts as the mics rub against fabric

2025-12-09 09:37:42 UTC

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unfortunately the younger people seem to believe anyone without airpods are poor
i don't get it either, over ears are so much more comf

2025-10-22 11:39:50 UTC

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2025-10-21 09:27:07 UTC

Can't believe work told me to throw away this cute little fucker because "it doesn't support windows 11"
bastards, this thing makes for a perfect infoscreen player if only you weren't snorting microsoft dust all day long
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2025-10-10 14:22:41 UTC

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Similar to how if you're making some sensor for vehicle speed, you might program it so that if the car is moving at 1000 km/h it assumes something is wrong and asks for recalibration instead.
If a browser gets a URL that's got 5000 characters of get parameters they go "yeah, no decent website should be doing this, something is off"

2025-10-10 14:20:32 UTC

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afaik some browsers have intentionally limited url and/or parameter length to prevent malicious things from jamming in some huge base64 payload or similar bad things.
I can't remember where i heard that though, so don't quote me

2025-09-05 18:19:46 UTC

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well i'd heard of them, i just feel like during the past year or so they started popping up as a recommendation around the fediverse
i suspect part of the reason is that many fedi admins hate hetzner. doesn't help much if they all just centralize on a different host though

2025-09-05 18:12:17 UTC

can i ask if there's some particular why netcup seems to have exploded in popularity as a server host lately?
for the past year or so i've seen people recommend them constantly. is it simply because they're one of the few hosts who can compete with hetzners price/specs ratio?

2025-08-29 19:11:55 UTC

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at least from my understanding, i haven't actually read the mailing lists much, depends on how much phoronix is blowing shit out of proportions

2025-08-29 19:11:27 UTC

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he seems entirely unwilling to actually internalize any feedback he gets

2025-08-29 19:07:05 UTC

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(Considering how ass Kent is being about collaborating with kernel development, the project seems to obviously be better off outside the kernel anyways)

2025-08-29 19:06:10 UTC

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Who knows, bcachefs is not as new as people thing, it's been in development for ages and /decently/ stable for quite some time. I've occasionally heard of people compiling and using it since like pre-pandemic.
Yet as far as I know, pretty much no distro ever bothered to ship a DKMS module.
I do hope they ship a DKMS if it gets removed from mainline though.

2025-08-29 18:55:37 UTC

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of course it is, just a pain in the ass i won't bother doing unless my package manager automates it
:^)

2025-08-29 18:48:44 UTC

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yeah.
bit sad though. having a multi-device filesystem in the kernel that won't obliterate my data like btrfs was refreshing.
can even interact with it via sysfs like a normal filesystem instead of a bunch of weird and module-specific endpoints
If it leaves, I'll miss it.
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2025-08-29 17:51:37 UTC

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i don't exactly keep up with linux mailing list drama, but afaik it's mostly that kent constantly ignores development guidelines and seems to have a severe case of main character syndrome

2025-08-29 17:37:13 UTC

considering kent is probably going to manage to get bcachefs yeeted out of the kernel, i guess i should bother moving my storage back to zfs sometime soon

2025-07-22 22:50:08 UTC

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Enterprise IT has become the opposite of why I like IT. And I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I like IT because it means I can control and understand my own systems and data. I know where they are, how they work and why they would break. If a user clicks "send E-mail" I could know the entire chain of servers and applications it passed through for tagging, spam filtering, archival, virus scans, etc. until it finally left the network directly towards the recipient's provider.
But ever since 2015 or so I'd say, the entire industry has moved away from controlled infrastructure (whether it's on-prem or a VPS) towards just renting everything as a service. I don't know how our E-mail flows anymore, I've got no clue why our cloud connected printers won't print, nor do I know why Teams refuses to display your status correctly. Yet I am expected to manage and fix all of it.
Doing IT no longer means doing IT. It means clicking around in dumbed down control panels to hopefully convince some cloud doodad to do what you need it to. It means trusting Microsoft to never be down, but still taking the blame if they do go down. My days are spent hanging on to the few things I can still manage and understand, like the physical network. But with platforms like Meraki and InstantOn this is also slowly dying.
And that's just on the sysadmin side. I can only imagine how bad it is on the development side where you're expected to crap out new features at an unsustainable rate which barely function, all while having to compete with cheap indian labour.

2025-07-22 22:25:51 UTC

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I can tell you that many helpdesk will often just ship a new password via SMS if you ask.
At our company we have policies to prevent this. But I doubt all my colleagues actually follow them properly, and I'd reckon it's a problem at almost every helpdesk out there. Because most helpdesks are structured with 1. line support first. Which means the people you first hit and who can do basic stuff like manipulate a user's password or MFA, are typically the least skilled IT workers and/or the ones who care the least about actual IT. At the very least they definitely don't bother keeping up with basic infosec best practices.

2025-07-21 22:38:03 UTC

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Yeah, saw that too.
I really wish it was Linux-based rather than Android based. I hate having Android meddling in my gaming console.
And the magnetic D-pad doodad looks like absolute ass.
If this was another $100-ish cheap chinese retro console I'd probably snag it and live with the compromises until something better came along.
But for $669, I really don't want to make massive compromises like having an absolutely trash "D-pad", needing to fiddle with Android (especially being dependent on chinese factory firmware due to the weird hardware) and what seems like pretty bad ergonomics.
I'll have to look at other reviews once it's actually available, but for now I'm leaning very heavily towards "no".
Mostly because it's not a DS emulator, it's trying to do too much weird shit.
If they had instead made it a solid block in the "3DS Configuration", and put a simpler Linux system on it instead, for a somewhat lower price, I probably would have thrown money at it.

2025-07-21 19:26:56 UTC

I've been tempted to buy MagicX Zero 40 as well. Because hardware fit for DS emulation is borderline non-existant.
But the screen is just too tiny. A single 4" screen to emulate two displays just... doesn't cut it. I've been too spoiled by my DSi XL, so I wouldn't even go back to DS Lite sized screens.
When there's a DS Emulation handheld where the effective size of each screen is at least 3.5" diagonal, then I'll throw plenty of money at it.
Would really prefer it to not be Android powered as well, but dunno how much I can trust china to do that.
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2025-06-14 14:49:43 UTC

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Yes, I run everything in lxc on Devuan.
I guess I'll just use Alpine if they have it packaged.

2025-06-14 14:46:52 UTC

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debian has the old ass 4.5.2, cool.
guess i'll be compiling qbit manually as well then

2025-06-14 14:42:08 UTC

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i am leaning towards qbit just to see how it works out.
how do you get it in dark mode though? there's no obvious setting for it, at least not that I've found yet. do i need to install a custom css file or smth

2025-06-14 14:14:19 UTC

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I just use Sonarr these days for Anime, so as long as it supports qBittorrent (it does) it should be fine.
Other stuff like music and games I'll figure out.
I'm currently weighing qBittorrent and Deluge as my main options

2025-06-14 14:11:24 UTC

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As long as it can sort completed downloads into folders based on their tag/category, that'll do

2025-06-14 14:06:38 UTC

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maybe I'll try qbittorrent. it does seem to be the most common client these days

2025-06-14 13:58:33 UTC

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I used rtorrent since around 2013 or so. I switched to Deluge in 2017 iirc. But in 2022 I switched back to rtorrent since Deluge had its own issues. rtorrent mostly works well, but it really does like to simply commit seppuku about twice a year for seemingly no reason.

2025-06-14 13:50:20 UTC

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If you didn't know, rtorrent development has picked up again.
They definitely have a lot of catch up to do though.

2025-06-14 13:43:16 UTC

but why, what do you want from me
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2025-05-24 20:28:01 UTC

if that's the case, how the hell do you think i connected to your website in the first place?
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2025-04-29 12:35:12 UTC

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2025-03-24 10:00:01 UTC

so the shutdown in 2027 is actually happening this time it seems, and soon norway will only have 4G and 5G networks left: https://www.byttnettna.no/en

2025-03-13 10:27:46 UTC

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companies were supposed to create value, not money.
unfortunately when someone invests money into a company, "value" to that person tends to mean "more money than i put in"

2025-03-13 10:21:52 UTC

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As always, public companies make things bad.
I really don't get the "line always go up" mentality. It's literally just a ponzi scheme on a global scale. Just like an MLM eventually can't get enough people, shit will collapse when we run out of capital. We're already at the point where we try to manufacture virtual capital to make the line keep going up.
Human greed truly is impressive

2025-03-13 08:39:16 UTC

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this doesn't prevent scalping. it just moves the scalping to the auction house instead

2025-02-01 16:37:02 UTC

yeah okay danganronpa, that's a pretty clever way to split your albums
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2025-01-29 18:27:19 UTC

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basically every printer accepts raw ASCII, "cal > /dev/usb/lp0" should work just fine, i have done similar things before
you can also just "cat file.pdf > /dev/usb/lp0" most of the time because PDFs are modified PostScript, so as long as the pdf is relatively simple and uses no PDF-specific options should be spat right out, no driver needed.

2025-01-29 18:22:37 UTC

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don't make me borrow the A0 plotter at work

2025-01-29 18:20:13 UTC

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yeah but my cal is bigger than yours, loser
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2025-01-29 18:12:29 UTC

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that's probably a terminal emulator thing. it might if you change the TERM variable.
it can supposedly even do colors, but i haven't bothered to figure that out

2025-01-28 19:44:56 UTC

PSA: you can just run the command "cal" in your terminal to get a properly formatted calendar. or "cal -y" for the entire year.
i recently found out that surprisingly few modern linux users seem to be aware of this, and instead keep digging around for a graphical calendar. it's an old unix command so it's typically available on even the most lightweight of systems (like alpine)
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2025-01-10 23:02:53 UTC

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i like to imagne some guy at google got fired because he was told to order 30 xboxes but accidentally ordered 300

2025-01-10 23:01:24 UTC

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Heck it wouldn't surprise me if tech companies like Google, Cloudflare and Discord buy a stupid amount of them just so they can pepper them around their employee lounges or whatever they tend to waste their cash on these days