TeaWithDani

I don’t find the ubiquity of Steam as strong as it was say 15 years ago. People are far more open to having their games on different platforms, they just don’t particularly care for the Epic Games store.

I think the argument you are making is the right one though: you need to offer something different. Serve a different segment, and have some nice features to attract people. That’s kind of it.

Is it really controversial to be pro-peace and to not want civilian deaths?

Honestly, I wish white poppies were easier to get a hold of. Finally bought a batch after wanting some for years. More appropriate now than ever.

Remembrance day since 9/11 has just been pro war on terror propaganda and was pretty sickening for me going to school during those years. Got a bunch of friends and other people my age, killed and wounded in Afghanistan for nothing. For me thats what the red poppy reminds me of… that and the embarrassing fact that we need a charity campaign to keep care of our veterans. Maybe the government owes them better care?

How many deaths have we allowed in Ukraine, Gaza/Lebanon/West Bank/Syria etc… and Iran?

XigmaNAS is a cool project. Branched off TrueNAS a long time ago and is mostly FreeBSD with extra bits. Unfortunately the update schedule is a bit slow and they aren’t keeping up with the latest versions.

I think at this point it would be best to just release the XigmaNAS web gui and tools as packages for FreeBSD.

I liked how easy it was to configure as a USB boot to RAM embedded OS. But I moved to FreeBSD 15.1 to not be using an EOL FreeBSD 14.3 system.

You’d be surprised how easy they are to use. Most are just “next” simulators when it comes to the install.

They are geared mostly to server use, so not much attention is given to spinning up a DE quickly, but even OpenBSD gets a window manager up with a few checked boxes in the install. I think there’s a package you can get on FreeBSD that is just an install script to setup a Gnome/KDE/XFCE/wtv environment in just a few prompts. I believe GhostBSD is meant to be the desktop one with the gui and easy to use installer.

I found all three BSDs Ive used easier to setup than Debian, for reference. Things make logical sense and are fundamentally really simple. Way simpler than Linux in general.

The people who work in the BSDs have genuine love and passion for software. There are different philosophies to each, but they are so focused in ways you won’t see with broader linux projects. They are a great contribution.

-I’ve used FreeBSD and XigmaNAS for my NAS. Would choose over Linux any day.

-I’m going to spin up NetBSD for my Dreamcast. Maybe some other really vintage gear.

-I run OpenBSD on an old 32 bit netbook, because it still comfortably supports 32 bit systems. Linux 32 bit support is inconsistent.

I doubt it’s even possible to fix all the loopholes. New ones will be found and there’s just a swamp of reports that maintainers can’t keep up with.

It’ll be even worse if and when people resort to Ai fixing stuff. That will introduce even more absurdly obscure bugs.

This year has just been open season on CVEs.

We are basically throwing so much compute at some of these systems, we are just brute forcing bugs at this point.

I just see no solution outside air gapping anything critical off the open internet.

We had an idea of how unsecure some government sites were for a while. Universities were some of the worst for data breaches, public and private.

That said, Ai attacking vulnerabilities is throwing a TON of compute at finding bugs no human could have ever discovered. Its essentially making most cybersecurity obsolete as we speak. No amount of good practices can protect against this.

Ai and this enormous amount of compute is just a hazard for the open internet. The US and a handful of US corporations owning all that compute is going to be a national security threat to every country.

Well it is climate change. If the spring time is volatile, warm early then cold longer than normal etc… it messes up the sap yields tremendously.

You also need hundreds and hundreds of trees to have a decent production. You cant just plant those further north and have them yielding anything before a very long time.

I didn’t say anything about the creator but more the reason the thing exists. Reactionary projects tend to just suck and be full of drama. I’m never surprised when it’s discovered its creators are jerks.

Honestly, you’d be surprised how easy it is to avoid distasteful things and people.

There’s two kinds of projects in FOSS: those made because someone hates something and wants to replace it, and those made by people who love something.

The first is often made by assholes and sociopaths. I try to fill my life with the second kind.

I think you should avoid things created out of hate.

I think the only valid use of Ai should be to solve captchas for you.

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It’s a metaphor.

It isnt even written in the same language. It won’t be a bug for bug copy. Just slop.

I don’t need to buy the Temu knockoff to know it’ll be s shitty knockoff that looks good on the storefront.

I don’t understand why anyone is interested in using these. They simply look like the real thing. There is nothing indicating they work remotely the same under the hood.

If you were to generate a bug for bug copy that would be one thing, this is just a doppelganger.

Were it made with Ai or not, its just not something that has any real value.

With the increase of cheap ebikes this is becoming more and more common. Saw a CBC Marketplace investigation recently where most Toronto stores they visited advertised those vehicles to the under 16, against the law. They also offered to remove limiters to make the bikes go considerably faster.

They interviewed a teenager who now is missing chunks of his skull and cant form memories anymore.

Or a young child who got hit and run by an ebike and looked like he was in a car accident.

I thought they were spending $10 to make every $1, so it’s less bad than I expected honestly.

Their 2 trillion dollar IPO valuation for 0.2% that in revenue is hilarious.

This jackass, who’s show is sponsored by Broadcom (lol), says the rumour is their 2026 revenue is $100 billion. lol, who believes this shit?

https://youtu.be/TkK5LlKVMcI

I plan to set one up with a little La Crosse weather station my parents gave me. Turns out it seems well supported and gives me accurate indoor and outdoor temperature as well as wind speed and other stuff like storm predictions. Gonna link my heat pump to it and have my NTFY ping me when I should start the fireplace instead.

We get a lot of small microclimates where I live so its more reliable than the forecast.

Couldnt you just make daily snapshots on baremetal? Like most configs will support a ZFS pool.

All my stuff is just configs anyway, so my backup is a Git commit. Lighter than a full snapshot. My server can be restarted with like 50mbs of information.

Docker images are images so disposable. All my files and databases are on my NAS which is a ZFS pool mirrored and with a weekly backup to a secondary NAS also mirrored. Plus I have an offsite cloud backup of everything. There isnt really anything on my server that matters other than some configs, scripts and ymls. Which by commiting to my Gitea, are all on my NAS with the rest of my data.

I still feel like Proxmox just invites you to tinker and fiddle with stuff that should be set and forget. Or overcomplexify your setup with too many moving parts.

For public stuff I just use a VPS. Better internet connection than at home, high availability and DDOS protection. Otherwise, an LXC with good firewall rules and a well configured reverse proxy should be sufficient.

Lemmy makes me use social media considerably less. That’s a plus.