Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today) Also Author of Future Sepsis (Also available on Amazon!) Admin of the FBXL Network including FBXL Search, FBXL Video, FBXL Social, FBXL Lotide, FBXL Translate, and FBXL Maps. Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like Adversary of Fediblock Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world. Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...
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Last Notes npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Probably closer to 90%. The other 10% would eat any fruit given to them by a naked man. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero A lot of people who make the argument from democracy don't realize that a huge geographical region doesn't want to be thrall to a tiny one by sole virtue of having fewer people living there. It's an absurd argument when you think about it, that 90% of the country has to do whatever the last 10% does because that 10% happens to have tons of people. If that's the deal, why remain part of the union in the first place? npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero The other scary thing is that just because you can afford a house doesn't mean you can afford a house. I had to replace a water line this year, dug up the entire front yard. I live under my means so I was able to swing it even though it hurts like hell. How many people can technically afford the house but if anything goes wrong with it they just have to jump in a river? npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Other than the fact that some of the actual license carrying engineers I've worked with are so immensely incompetent that they should commit sudoku lest they dishonour their entire bloodline with their continued existence, the idea of saying "no you can't just call yourself an engineer" that Canada enforces is a good one. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero My dad doesn't like going back to windows now. He's a fully-fledged evangelist. Any time he hears someone complaining about their computer being slow, he's on it like butter on toast. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I'm not even a bitcoin guy, and I still think you're right -- the only way to do it is to do it. Talk is cheap. Actions are the only thing that moves anything forward. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero If you tattoo all the key equations to an exam onto your body... Does it matter that you're cheating? I mean, you've got the cheat sheet for all time, you either tattoo it on your brain or on your skin? npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero After owning my tevo tornado for years and years, after the original textured bed came up and was effectively destroyed, then I had to deal with all the adhesive on the glass bed underneath for years, I finally got my hands on some goo gone. Removing the adhesive from the print bed has imo brought the printer to the next level. It's printing on glass. Thing is, I simply haven't had the bandwidth to print anything on the revealed glass print bed, because it meant re-levelling the print bed and all that. Today I'm doing my first print since removing the adhesive. Wish me luck -- it's still a bit dodgy, but the first layer seems to have gone down pretty well. Having a perfectly flat print surface really changed everything. https://social.fbxl.net/media/8c0d8e1dd5fa9112d0a3f41241314bdf32e99493fe902891a942056b550bf9ba.png npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I've got that former chinesium android set top box I converted to linux earning its keep today -- It thought it was going to maybe do some light streaming, and I've got it running an entire platform's compile farm. Thing barely has a heat sink. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero And? Do we stop enforcing just this law against spouses of government employees, or should we stop enforcing all laws against them, up to and including things like laws against murder? Just so we have an understanding of what is implied by this story. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero What do you mean that thing that everyone said was going to happen happened? npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Not a surprise. #nevent1q…2zg3 npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I've got a hypothesis that the enshittification era of AI is imminent. Now I hear ya going "it's already slop, it can't be made more shit", which in mind is real is a real lack of imagination. In order to produce anything using this stuff requires massive amounts of energy and hardware that have so far been fully subsidized by investor dollars, but I don't know how much longer that's going to last. Everyone's starting to get wise the fact that productivity doesn't increase as much as you would think, and so the actual ways to make money with this are going to be very limited, and so prices are going to have to rise and services are going to have to get worse in order to help these companies but you never made money get on after breaking even. Drink em if you got em, but I think last call is imminent. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero No, I'm just a retard from the sticks. Whenever I announce completion of the project I'm working on, you'll see just how retarded I am. You'll be like "Wait, you just spent all this time and effort to do *THIS*? npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero https://social.fbxl.net/media/af68d37537c7a56de09a24c3f4eabcfb74537601ad751b0a2af3357154b66037.png npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero To understand why I found openBSD annoying, you have to understand what I was using immediately beforehand. I started on ubuntu, which is something that's familiar to me. All the tools are gnu tools I'm familar with, and it took a few tries to build a package with dependencies but it was ultimately completely doable. Not only can you chroot into a base distro install easily, with linux you're basically able to chroot into different distros which is quite useful. The qemu/binfmt method is amazing -- it lets you chroot into a different CPU architecture's distribution and operate as if you're running natively. It's possible to build an entire matrix of linux distributions and platforms without what is typically considered cross-compilation, and all from one command line. Next I moved to Haiku. It also used standard gnu utils, gcc and gnu make, and the shell was bash. Package installation and creation with dependencies were both really straightforward. Honestly, working on Haiku even fully through the shell was enough to convince me it's a solid OS worth looking at. I didn't try chrooting. The options for APIs were nice, havng extensive bsd and linux shims for cross-compatibility, as well as native APIs such as the window APIs. After that I was on FreeBSD. That particular BSD has a lot in common with linux, and it's quite forgiving to compile on, to install on, and FreeBSD really wants you to be building in chroot jails. There are 3 major versions active at any one time and you really want to build and package for each with integrated dependencies, I did exactly that and it went very smoothly. There were few to no surpises. Next I was on OpenBSD, and I got pretty annoyed. It really doesn't want you using gnu utils, but I need them for what I'm doing so I felt like a second class citizen. The make you call is totally incompatible with gmake. The shell is a bsd shell incompatible with bash. You can chroot, but you can't really spin up an isolated OS for compilation and testing because of limits on the local commands. A lot of files are in unusual spots. Everything else I used so far was able to use non pie/pic libraries without problems but you couldn't even build them on openbsd. The packaging tool has command line options documented for adding dependencies but it doesn't look like you can actually do that without going through their ports system which relies heavily on bsd/make. Then when I finally decided to pull the pin and generate a package without deps, I couldn't open a file dialog box in firefox because it was locked down too much, so I had to install a file manager to drag and drop my updated file onto my nextcloud to get the file off the system. So yeah, it's just really annoying trying to do what I was trying to do on OpenBSD. I moved to netBSD afterwards and it shares some quirks with OpenBSD I've thankfully already resolved, but even then it isn't nearly as locked down so for example I checked and at least in firefox I was able to open a dialog box with no drama. But, as I said before, it's all for a reason. OpenBSD didn't make those choices to mess with some dummy from the sticks. They made them as part of their security minded design. For that reason I can find it super annoying, but I can also understand it. If I wanted a thing that would happily just do as it was told, I've got lots of options. But if I wanted something that would not have a root exploit in its base install for years and years, obviously I'm going to pick OpenBSD. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero It is my growing opinion that OpenBSD is really annoying. It's supposed to be annoying, mind you. that's what makes it secure. That's why its logo is a puffer fish, but being annoying for a reason doesn't mean it's not annoying. It's like, we all have that friend, right? They're super annoying, but you understand why so you tolerate it. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Pretty impressive for a guy who had one joke one time and has stretched it into an entire career. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero As part of an ongoing project I have been setting up various flavors of BSD. Freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, and dragonfly bsd. Nothing particularly fancy, they are all just living in virtual machines. Unix is Unix, but it's surprising how different each one is. Freebsd was The most straightforward so far, feeling the most familiar and straightforward. OpenBSD so far has been the most difficult to develop on because it has a lot of security features as mandatory that other OSes recommend set as default. Dragonfly has a lot of similarities with freebsd, but in trying to set it up feel like I was back in 1996, fumbling with manual config files only to have no keyboard or no mouse for reasons known only to God. Another big difference between them is how they manage current versions of things. Freebsd maintains 3 different version lines going back several years, but openbsd is standardized on whatever the current version is. Something that is constant between Linux distributions is the Linux kernel, so you can chroot between distributions which is convenient for compiling between distros, whereas BSDs are basically their own thing and each kernel is unique with a long individual genetic line. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero You ever been about half way through something and started to be like "am I the first person on earth to have done this? There's no way the devs intended this to be the process for making this work!" npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Rage on behalf of the machine https://social.fbxl.net/media/1d2787d9ca2318fe130855bc4f3babdde47aef42376e568de98aada5276326dc.mp3 npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero "I fought in Europe for world war II." "For the Germans or the Americans?" "Yes." npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero "Chronic deficits cause inflation that disproportionately hurt the poor and middle classes are required so the government can pay for:" npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Part of me thinks there could be a really cool vampire story about two different people, one of them taking the opportunity of living forever to become a polymath, extending the positives of humanity well beyond the capacity of us single lifespan, and the other taking the opportunity of living forever to become the ultimate entitled loser, having seen the wealth of tamberlane or the khans and resenting that they don't have a slice of the pie that big. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero It's a generic android set top box running on a p281 reference board, apparently using an s905x chip. Normally you'd press a reset button with a paperclip or toothpick to get it to try to boot off the SD card, but I ended up writing the sd card dozens of times trying to get it going so I drilled the reset button hole and printed a little button (the blue thing sticking out of the side). Two distributions generally work on these out of the box: CoreELECT which provides a basic experience with kodi, and armbian which provides Ubuntu or debian support. Neither worked out of the box for me. The armbian distribution written by the armbian app had a lot of complexity but didn't work, and the coreelect didn't either. What I eventually found was ta LibreElec-Generic-S905-9.2.8.19.img file which didn't work out of the box but did hard lock on boot up (which was progress -- the two behaviors before that were either skipping SD booting altogether and loading the android update app or boot looping). I found out that on that one you have to pull the correct .dtb file and copy it to dtb.img on the root of the card, and that one worked, which was a big deal. That dts file seems really critical. Arm isn't standardized so before you even load a kernel it describes the way stuff is laid out. Finding a working dts file ended up being a key to getting it to boot at all. Shortly afterwards I found amlogix-s9xxx-armbian by ophub on GitHub, and it didn't work directly but I was able to get an image from that repo to write and then boot using the dts file I got from the libreElect distribution. It seems to support basically all the hardware, after I got everything set up using the ethernet port I was able to get it onto my house WiFi. It all works, but the 1GB of memory, limited CPU, and the fact everything is running off an SD card means it doesn't feel very snappy. However, the fact that this tiny little box is now a functioning PC is very cool to me, and if I take the SD card out, it returns to being an android set top box. https://social.fbxl.net/media/05cc5023638ad17fc9344690dc94fe3cd20996b8daf4649cdabd4f83f9ea323a.jpg npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Successfully got this android set top box from 2018 running Ubuntu. Arm64 quad core and 1GB of memory but it's got two USB ports and lots of connectivity so it's a neat little thing to have running a desktop OS. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Once again watching so-called anti-fascists bend over and lick the boot with respect to mandatory age verification in their FOSS operating systems. Every tiem npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero People were intensely aware of all the words written on the nearby shampoo bottles. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero The oldest known banksy is from the 90s. What else was banksy going to be but old? Time doesn't stop just because you're famous. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Every time I deal with arm linux, it reminds me of why every time I see threats to move away from x86 it gives me the chills in a bad way. I could build a USB memory stick that would run on a particularly unusual Pentium 3 (since most Pentium 3s didn't have boot from USB) and would be fully capable of booting on every machine released since. Meanwhile, every memory stick that I create for arm needs to be so incredibly specific that just making bootable media is the single most difficult part. It's kind of a shame because arm has some really cool features that would potentially make it really useful, but without the surrounding ecosystem it's just not a single thing. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero If it makes you feel better, my gentoo life started on a single core 800Mhz duron so I feel your pain. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Get used to it! That's gentoo life. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero It won't be a VPN ban, because of VPN ban would immediately impact millions of people in the laptop classes which includes millions of people who work for the government. It'll be a ban on using VPNs for unapproved purposes. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Even before 2020, I did some quick calculations showing that the idea that inflation was 2% per year was absolutely absurd. Especially in my neck of the woods, every bill has gone up multiples, and groceries are the worst. Meanwhile, they need to pretend that inflation was 2% that whole time because otherwise everyone's going to point out that my country's economy has been in freefall for decades. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Unfortunately, global politics is looking a lot like bum fights at the old folks home. A lot of these people really ought to be embracing something like Buddhism in their old age: when you're almost 90, you should be starting to let go of your attachments to the physical world, because you're not going to be here much longer. Instead they're still acting like they're in their twenties. Cincinnatus was considered Noble and virtuous because after being the absolute leader of Rome during a crisis, he returned to his farm to till the soil. How many of the global politicians have been explicitly unwilling to do anything like that? A lot of Eastern contexts, there are two different types of demon: one of them is closer to a devil as we understand in the west, a malevolent existence it was only purposes to cause harm. The other one is almost more mundane: mara refers to those who stop you from reaching enlightenment in your lifetime. Through that lens, contemporary global politics is a non-anthropological embodiment of mara, leading elders into an undignified attachment to worldly affairs perhaps leaving behind ghosts who are more concerned with their imminent political power than finding spiritual completeness in the final days of their lives. In maintaining this spiritually stifling attachment to personal power until the moment that they die, they also fell in their duty to prepare future generations. The successors of long-standing political individuals instead of being vital younger individuals, become someone who is only slightly younger. In this way it is almost guaranteed that there is no future. The philosophy doesn't mean that the elders withdraw completely from life, but that they recognize their role as elders in preparing the world to no longer have them in it. Instead of continuing the fight, long ago they should have begun transitioning into roles as teachers and advisors for those who will one day take over from them. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I made a neat Discovery tonight. My Chromecast 4K came with a power supply that doubles as a network adapter. It supports high speed internet so I didn't really have a use for it. I think it was yesterday I mentioned the cell phone I was installing postmarketOS on, I basically wanted to be a fairly long-term device that I will be using for building things on arm64. Now I can and could use the Wi-Fi for that purpose, and I still might, but I decided to try out the USB micro power adapter with the ethernet port inside, and sure enough the ethernet port in the power adapter provides ethernet to the phone. I would imagine that it is USB on the go, so it's probably capped at an absolute maximum of 480 megabits, which is reason enough probably to stick with the wi-fi, but it's just a very interesting thing to discover that this unusual device is obviously standardized enough that it can provide ethernet connectivity to something else. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Not on this device. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero It's always like "wow, and yet there aren't enough government resources to go after major crimes, huh?" npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero playing with postmarketos on a Motorola G4 Play. I went with phosh, and I'm actually impressed. Compared to my first time using real linux on a phone with my pinephone, this is actually surprisingly smooth, and a lot of it seems pretty intuitive. I think the browser it ships with is a desktop browser, and I have every reason to believe it could work with other desktop browsers. Of course, the CPU is lacking, it only has 2GB of RAM (and only 8GB of flash), and I don't think it has any 3d acceleration so it's hardly a daily driver, but I only installed postmarketos on it because I wanted an aarch64 device running linux to complete a future project, but it really was shocking how snappy it was and how intuitive phosh is. I'm expecting to get my hands on something considerably more modern in the near future, I'll have to give it a shot again once I do. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero And they constantly make fun of him for not having white enough skin. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Jesus Christ, runkeeper... https://social.fbxl.net/media/4c3e13867db53b3141b06b87ce6da7ec775060815107ba3fdeb002ca58b1ff48.jpg npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero In the continuing saga of the little Dollar store RC car that could (be a riced up Honda Civic) It turns out my boy in particularly likes vehicles that light up when they're going forward and backwards, so, I looked around the garage and I have no have these little green LEDs and a red led, and so I hatched a plan. The project was going to be to mount headlights inside the chassis, and it turns out that there was room in the chassis for these headlights, and then later on I expanded to include a tail light, because that just seems more fun that way. As I was going, I realized that I had just gotten a call from the bank, and they told me that if I kept on buying double a batteries for remote control cars that I was going to go broke and we were going to have to live in the street. So, I decided to make this a rechargeable $5 RC car from the dollar store. Previously, the dollar store used to buy these little rechargeable battery banks. They don't really do much with modern phone, but they do provide 5 volts which is more than enough for a little RC car, and they have a charging port. I haven't figured out exactly how to get a charging port outside of the car yet, so for the time being the plan is to basically have to rip the car apart every time it's time to charge, but I was able to fit everything together in the chassis, and it works. It gets power, although I have to admit not very well, I think there might be a minimum load that forces it to cut out (might be a max load cutout as well). However, the way that it's wired up the lights light up when it's moving forward and the tail light lights up when it's going in reverse, and considering that even on AA batteries this thing was running for hours on end, I expect to get a pretty good battery life out of it. Now some of you might be looking at my workmanship and say that that's disgraceful and really sloppy. To you I have to say, good catch. You're absolutely right. https://social.fbxl.net/media/b0e6924b85f749aa5ee467324ed13c6e99c6e80c3904418a18e6ce20d805d82b.jpg https://social.fbxl.net/media/762904316dff04b6bc3afda3adcb6c54241174ea744368efccc29a962f5bc303.jpg https://social.fbxl.net/media/4bd97da4626703eb0ed1b9fb8cdc6b9ef71893b5b30f7a7b24b9da866f66d86f.jpg npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I'd typically be on the same page as you here, but c'mon -- it's a toy pretending to be a car pretending to be a toy pretending to be a sort of phone best known for practically not existing for generations of people. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Jean Baudrillard's simulations and simulacra describe how you start with reality, and reality is then simulated and eventually the simulation is simulated to create a simulacrum, and the original reality may in fact cease to exist. This toy really reminds me of that. There was once a thing as a rotary phone. The rotary phone was simulated in a children's toy. Then the children's toy itself is simulated in another children's toy, and meanwhile rotary phones have disappeared, and in an example of hyperreality, the reference to reality has disappeared entirely and the toy which is the simulation becomes an icon which is represented separately from its original context. https://social.fbxl.net/media/f021c6cd2104e9e639d88b0600934b9154ff05524d318ebeb810d52a11caf1d4.jpg npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero So, I began an experiment yesterday night around the same time, and I went through the motions of that experiment and now I am on the other side and I can definitively say it didn't work and I'm not going to do it again. I've been absolutely loving proxmox. I start off by running my servers on it, but lately I've been using it for small side projects, such as a big job I'm doing with respect to the haiku operating system. Running lxc containers is pretty cool, and for alternative operating systems I like being able to run everything in a virtual machine that's relatively light. My main laptop is a beast. It's about 8 years old at this point, but it's got a 2060 RTX gpu, and a decent cpu, 32 gigs of ram, and spots for three separate forms of storage, two nvme ssds and a 2.5 mm Sata hard drive. The problem is, it's fairly loud, and it's getting a little bit unstable without sufficient cooling. So I had a neat idea, I wanted to try running Windows 11 in a VM, and then give access to that VM to my GPU. The specific model of laptop I have is about as good as you're getting gas in that regard, it doesn't have too many surprises. As always getting proxmox up and running was relatively straightforward, and other than ththeact that I had just used my big computer as a server and so I didn't really have anything else to connect with besides ancient historical artifacts, I relatively painlessly got Windows 11 up and running in a VM. Immediately I could tell there were a lot of problems with this. Without immediate GPU support, even trying to surf the web was a challenge. Modern web browsers use the GPU to accelerate rendering of web pages, and so the web worked, but it looks a little bit flaky. As well, I wasn't really able to get the resolutions I was hoping for. However, I was hoping that those problems would go away once I completed the GPU pass through. I did start to notice that there were things that I was really going to miss if all my computing lived in a VM. I didn't get the impression for example that I can expect Miracast streaming to come back, and the nextcloud client was acting a little bit flaky and it never acts flaky. The final straw was doing the GPU pass through. I found a set of instructions that worked reasonably well, but success meant failure. Once I had everything up and running, the VM immediately died, and never came back. It also seized up in such a way that you couldn't make configuration changes to undo any of the things that were going on. Finally, proxmox decided that this was the final straw and hard locked, not even a kernel panic, just the cursor would stop blinking and the system would no longer respond to pings or keyboard input. It was my understanding that what I was trying to do was a long shot on laptop hardware anyway, but it was nonetheless interesting, and it's always interesting to try to drive to the edge of what is reasonably achievable. 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The French revolution represented a burgeoning middle class between the rich and the commoners successfully for a limited time knocking out the ability. However, that revolution ultimately failed and that's one of the reasons that marks was so focused on the bourgeoisie. But let's say for a second that you wanted to elevate yourself to a new nobility. 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That's almost a full year of supporting a YouTuber at a fairly high end. That's enough money to hire an artist to do a non-trivial work on fiverr. It's enough money to buy enough rice to feed yourself for months. And then for a lot of these games, they'll get mad at you if you decide early on that you don't like it, you're supposed to play it for 40, 80, 100 before you are allowed to decide that you don't like it. That's a big investment in time and money if you don't think the product ever made the initial case for investment. It might feel unfair, but your current work isn't what sells your current work. It is your last work that sells your current work, and at present mini video game companies are woefully lacking in that regard. I've put out two books now, and I would love it for people to give my books a chance. The ebook for each is very reasonably priced, just a few bucks, and even if you read the whole thing end to end a novel takes about four continuous hours of reading. But again, I'm not entitled to that time and I'm not entitled to that money. If I happen to break out as a writer, I will be praying to God for creating universe in which I can succeed, and if I never do it's just a reality that creative works are a gamble that may or may not pay off within the commercial window for a work. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero A significant proportion of children do not play outdoors regularly at all. Which makes it bizarre that many of those same children are growing up environmentalist, for an environment they never visit. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Working on building a universal debian/ubuntu repository for one of my favorite packages. Already got all the latest (and not so latest) x86-64 compiled, now I'm on my way through arm64. Planning on i386, armhf, armel, and once I dig up my raspberry pi zero w I want all the relevant packages for raspbian too. Next step for me after that will be to forward port the code changes I needed to the latest and fix up major stuff in the lintian warnings such as requiring PIE and the like. If things work out, I'll have to start looking at different distro families too, such as arch, redhat, centos, and gentoo. But given that my empire of dirt is all old x86-64 machines, the process of building all these other cpu architectures is slow and fiddly! npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Plastic shopping bags were the world's most reused bags I think. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Turns out people die in the winter in New York? I'm shocked. Shocked! npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero well, yeah. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero That's rookie numbers. You gotta get that number way up. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Just another day in Australia. Wake up and have a Fosters -- haha just kidding, mate. Aussies don't drink Fosters. Head out with my ute to get some petrol. Give the kid pumping petrol a house and tell the cunt to keep the change. Head out for breakfast, good Australian grub, McDonalds. Give the kid a house and tell the cunt to keep the change. Start my job building houses, after a bit go smoko, then after a bit longer it's time for lunch, go get some good Australian grub, McDonalds. Give the kid a house and tell the cunt to keep the change. Head back to work, after a bit go smoko again, and then it's time to go. Pay day today, paid entirely in houses, life is good. Stop by Bunnings on the way home, grab a snag. Costs 3 houses now, but that's alright, I'm not made of bloody apartments. Go have a yarn with the neighbours. Old mate's dog owns six investment properties and doesn't even have a job. Lucky bastard. Get home, check the mail. Council rates have gone up again, now I owe the government two townhouses and a duplex. Missus asks me to take the bins out. Nearly get killed by a magpie on the way. Little cunt's probably protecting his rental portfolio. Crack open a cold one, sit down to watch the footy. Ads come on: "Struggling to get into the housing market? Try our new starter home package! Only 40 houses a week!" Have dinner. Good Aussie tucker: Maccas again. Give the kid at the drive-thru a house and tell the cunt to keep the change. Go to bed early, gotta be up tomorrow. Big day. Heard Coles is doing a special on eggs. Only 12 houses a carton. That's a bobby dazzler. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero To honor NoFX putting out an album about how much they agree with the bilionaires and world leaders who tell them what to think, I present this AI slop, a 100% corporate AI approved punk song. AI is pretty good at playing the 4 cords required for this brand of punk. https://social.fbxl.net/media/1d2787d9ca2318fe130855bc4f3babdde47aef42376e568de98aada5276326dc.mp3 npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero wow amazing that this punk group released an album saying exactly what every establishment figure in a dozen countries is saying so they can get their way. Very punk. "We will do as we are told, we will speak the words we're told to speak, please daddy step on me harder" npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero https://youtu.be/bK-l1-m7L98 Fediverse Uber alles npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero When life hands you lemonade, throw a lemonade party. https://social.fbxl.net/media/52b68642b880e9a161bb1925a9166b5e6290e7532b339961a040736ee2b4f4f0.png npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I've talked a lot about it before, there are a lot of people who go to places like blue sky, and they weren't happy on X and even if they get everything that they ask for they're not happy on Blue sky. On the other hand, with a fraction of the apparent users, the fediverse is so fun and vibrant. For the most part, the people are who are here want to be here because it's not easy compared to big Tech. The fact that we are also starting to get sites like minds and protocols like nostr means the userbase is plenty robust to have fun. And never will there be a shadowban or a suspension from the entire fediverse because that's not how it's architected. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Also class is only how much money you have pay no attention to powerful people if they hide their money better or just get the state to do everything for them so their number can be artificially low. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero When I saw the Americans going to sanction India while the Europeans went to open up trade to india, it all really fits. They just want the Americans to sit down and shut up and keep sending military hardware wherever they tell them to. 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I bought an antenna and replaced the one on the remote, then drilled a hole through the body and welded the antenna in the body (Those plastic welders with the metal reinforcements are both very interesting and useful and totally useless depending on what you expect out of it), then connected the antenna to the internal connection which was basically just taped to the roof. Preliminary test showed that now I can use the remote way past the old range, which is all I'd hoped to accomplish. While I was down there I found that the body already had some cracks because it's 1/64" plastic and you'd get more material out of a coke bottle, so I welded them shut and reinforced the opposing side similarly. This should've been a Honda Civic, because the upgrades do nothing to improve the value of the thing but cost several times the car's actual worth. https://social.fbxl.net/media/702dd80f7763f77616ebecaa976cb0bf005622a67fef4c4cae0da31da436bc9b.png npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Call the suicide hotline, 15 minutes or your suicide's free. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero @nprofile…h089 welcome to the instance but be advised this is a no woodchipper enthusiast zone. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Not the turtle flu! I hear it can break through very powerful defenses! npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero The international globalist is still a sort of nationalist, because he still imagines the people can be standardized and controlled so you can bring anyone into your physical region and still maintain control. If you're wrong and to change the people is to relinquish control over them because they are a different thing you cannot standardize, then to change the people is to change your relationship to power, and ultimately to remove it. The only difference is that instead of France being controlled from Paris, the world is controlled from Brussels, or New York, or Davos, and instead of the people being the french, the people are humanity. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero And part of the reason of that is any attempt to coordinate what being good means will necessarily end up with bad actors who want to inject their little things, and suddenly what it is to be good has a bunch of little strings attached that bad actors can use to justify evil. The solution probably isn't scalable, it's that people just need to be trying to do what they think is best without letting themselves get too caught up in the hubbub of trying to standardize it all. Historically, the best that anyone could do would be coming up with a set of common standards for the people immediately around you that were the ones that mattered. Universal standardization is ultimately an invention of modern nationalism. People didn't used to have to be that standardized, even stuff that you would think of as standardized like religion would be somewhat relational, and depending on your local church. That didn't mean that those local decisions would necessarily be even better than the universalized ones, but at least people could choose where they wanted to be, whereas under the more nationalist view, everywhere has to be the same thing. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Peak music, but it seems like every decade before that had some iconic music. Not so much today. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero The founding fathers would find the west post-WWII to be an abomination. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I would not feel good after crushing a 10k at -10 so good job. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Now there is a guy who looks like his great-grand Pappy was drinking tea and eating bangers and mash on his break in Sheffield before I going off make more of the best steel in the world UK could build tanks to fight the Kaiser. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I don't think that's a you problem. I've never claimed not to have an IQ of 87. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero It took me uncomfortably long to realize you were actually talking about horses. I thought I'd share because I think that's kind of amusing. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I finally had to replace the filament holder I printed on my delta kossel (shown in gray) and replaced it with something printed on my Tevo Tornado. Took the chance to make it much wider, and after a failed print of a previous revision I took out a lot of fancy design elements which made it flimsier, and printed it on its side which made it far more robust but also easier to print on a big bed printer like the tornado. I also flipped the orientation. https://social.fbxl.net/media/5aa35a756703e231de710d96880c7b959c78661b53fe503f0c478eabcc1e1b1b.jpg https://social.fbxl.net/media/6b7b9d43ad1cf00e18a21c7a81e2323424f95e440e44e64af4b5cad5e62e5423.jpg npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I moved to Ottawa for 6 months one time, and even moving from the sticks out to ottawa, it was so much wetter in winter, it would chill you right to the Bone for no good reason, because it sure as hell wasn't cold. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero But of a shower thought: in the pilot episode of Star Trek the next generation, McCoy shows up briefly, and he wanted to take a shuttle craft because he didn't trust the transporter. Whoever he was with told him that transporters were safe, but how many transporter accidents showed up in TNG? npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Protip: If you die in Minnesota, you die in real life! npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero It's like, do they think that if you were to go to a communist country and pull a gun on a cop or try to run one over with a car that you're going to come out of it better off? Because rather than a single officer acting in self-defense and having it be a big incident that draws intense scrutiny, in a lot of these countries your entire family would face some form of punishment of some sort. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I feel like YouTube gave them a lot of good boy points recently because I don't watch rlm other than plinkett reviews but since January it's just ended up auto playing for hours. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Riceism. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Based Peter Schiff As usual tbh npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Not to mention driving into the back of another car immediately after. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Man, my shiny rocks that don't pay dividends just got a lot shinier. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Necessity is the mother of invention, and opportunity is the father. Not everyone is going to get the same opportunities. Equality of opportunity can’t truly exist, because sometimes an opportunity is simply being in the right room at the right time. Therefore, when opportunity knocks, if it’s something you want to do, open the door. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Oh... "Isekai Office Worker: The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter" appears to be very very gay. I'm sure someone likes that, but I guess I'll drop this one. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero [admin mode] power failure due to electrical repairs. Back up now. One huge win that came out of this is I created a script to handle changes to ip, and script immediately operated as designed, so DNS came up a lot faster. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero That cat doesn't even look like Hitler. That's a fu Manchu or kaiser moustache, not a charlie chaplain moustache. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero I mean, probably not that fascist free. Spain was one of the longest running fascist regimes, only liberalizing once Franco's successor decided running a fascist dictatorship didn't sound like a fun time. There could certainly be a timeline where Spain is still fascist, and I'm sure there's still living people who wouldn't have a problem with a return to 1974. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero Is the panel displayed if you don't have an account? I want to support fellow freesiders. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero It's true. Imagine an America where I'm a citizen. npub1m343wwwdmvare434daq4jpjyc4q4nv56pftgh03jej5l42azs44qwpnjzz sj_zero The market this year has made me feel like a genius, which shows it is probably broken.