GrappleHat

GrappleHat, 6 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

If you’re nervous about the switch consider dual-booting. Then you’re not fully committed to the switch & you can have your old Windows system back whenever you want it.

Main steps are:

• Run a defrag on your Windows machine to physically consolidate all your Windows data to one area.
• Break that partition into two (Linux will go one the new empty side)
• Install Linux from a USB as normal, but don’t choose to wipe your drive completely. Choose a manual option instead where you specifically indicate your intended Linux partition from above.
• Optional: Once installation is complete you can set up another partition to hold files which can be available to both OSs.
  • Boot into Linux & define the remaining unused space in the Linux partition as a new NTFS partition & give it a name which makes it obvious what it is (i.e. “sharedspace”)
  • Then boot into Windows and move the existing data you’d like to share between OSs here (work documents, movies, music, etc.)

Some useful links:

• Video on setting up a dual boot
• Howtogeek used to have a great walkthrough for doing this but I’m getting a 404 error when I try to follow the link now :(
• Optional: Setting up Linux symlinks to point to the shared space partition

GrappleHat, 10 days ago

I much preferred their old CLI app over the GUI. Hoping they bring it back.

GrappleHat, 14 days ago

What’s a “gang input”?

GrappleHat, 27 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

Trying to prevent bacteria from developing antimicrobial resistance. At these rates in 30 years antimicrobial resistant bacteria are projected to kill more people than cancer.

GrappleHat, 27 days ago

Lol!!! Yes!!!

GrappleHat, 26 days ago

I saw numbers on this recently. It was something like 80-90% of all antibiotics are given to livestock. So this is a huge contributor.

GrappleHat, 27 days ago

Do you have any network drives mounted? I’ve had experiences where a program fails to save or download and sometimes hangs if (1) I save to a mounted network drive, (2) I lose the mount for whatever reason, and (3) I try to download or save again and the program presumably attempts to access the last place it wrote to (the lost network mount).

GrappleHat, 1 month ago

When you grow up everything you write will need to be in cursive.

GrappleHat, 1 month ago

You’re being a wet blanket.

GrappleHat, 1 month ago

The Empire Strikes Back

GrappleHat, 1 month ago

Could switching your user agent help? Try setting yourself to Windows+Chrome.

GrappleHat, 1 month ago

What’s Google?

GrappleHat, 30 days ago

Yes! I think it’s a good idea.

GrappleHat, 1 month ago

VoxeLibre (formerly Mineclone 2) supports this. The server has the option for “Peaceful mode” which does what you describe within the VoxeLibre options.

Note that the setting is within the VoxeLibre options (and not the Minetest options). :)

GrappleHat, 1 month ago

Minetest has no native gamepad support, but even on Android there will be keyboard & mouse support. To use a controller you’d map your controller buttons to the appropriate keyboard/mouse keys (not to the touch screen). I’ve done this on a Linux handheld with a touchscreen & it works great. I wind up using “hybrid controls”, where for some crafting-related things I use the touch screen & everything else I use the gamepad.

If you go this route you’ll a keymapping software for Android. I don’t know of one unfortunately, but here’s a thread discussing options.

GrappleHat, 1 month ago

If you’re trying to run a keymapper to use a gamepad for Minetest then no, I don’t think you’d need to make any Minetest settings changes. On a similar Linux setup I didn’t need to make Minetest settings adjustments for this.

I’d expect that you’d need to start your keymapper program first, map the keyboard to your gamepad appropriately (i.e. wasd would go to the left analog stick, etc), check that it’s working in a simple app like a text editor. Finally, if all of that works then try loading up Minetest.

GrappleHat, 1 month ago

Sometimes the info to get to your router’s settings is written on the bottom of the physical router itself.

For example, you might find a sticker saying it’s default local IP is 192.168.0.1, it’s default username is “Admin”, & it’s default password is “Admin123”. In that case on a computer connected to your WiFi you could navigate to 192.168.0.1 in a browser and provide those credentials when prompted. Afterward you can access router settings including port forwarding.

If you don’t find that info on the bottom of the router you can check its user manual (if you have it). Or you can often look up those defaults by searching for your router’s model number on the internet.

GrappleHat, 1 month ago

I’m very skeptical that this “model poisoning” approach will work in practice. To pull it off would require a very high level of coordination among disparate people generating the training data (the images/text). I just can’t imagine it happening. Add to that: big tech has A LOT of resources to play this cat & mouse game.

I hope I’m wrong, but I predict big tech wins here.

GrappleHat, 1 month ago

I like that. How about leaning into the “sandbox” gameplay? “Sandbox engine”? Or " SandEngine"? Or “OpenSand”?

GrappleHat, 2 months ago

This drives me nuts too. Who the hell decided to do this? I avoid the stations with ads.

GrappleHat, 2 months ago

Google has way too much power & influence. BREAK THEM UP!!! This status quo is ridiculous.

GrappleHat, 2 months ago

I hear what you’re saying and it makes sense. But I do not believe that my particular case was one of priming/manipulation/freq bias. The topic of conversation was too uncharacteristic, too random, and there were too many similar ads within moments. It was either a colossal coincidence or a breach in privacy.

I suppose it doesn’t matter. My phone is much more locked down now.

GrappleHat, 2 months ago

This is the way