Lettuceeatlettuce

Lettuceeatlettuce, 4 months ago

FaaS - Fraud as a service…

Lettuceeatlettuce, 13 days ago

Let’s use this as a catalyst to support them and similar projects. I’ll be donating a chunk of money to them and also to the Wikimedia foundation and other related FOSS projects.

If you are able to donate, please do! If we all do our small part, we can make a big difference.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 15 days ago

100% true. Capitalist firms will always be motivated to get the most people possible, to pay as much as possible, for as little as possible.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 5 months ago

Planning on testing for bugs, I’m super excited for this release!

Hopefully it will fix the few remaining Wayland bugs I’ve been experiencing and I can move 100% onto Wayland when Nobara upgrades to plasma 6.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 14 days ago

To make matters worse; lots of the trucks listed that I see on the roads have aftermarket larger “off road” tires and lift kits, making them a good 12+ inches taller than stock.

And of course, I see them hauling stuff in the bed or on a trailer about 20% of the time at most. But gawd damnit, they’re exercising their rahhts!!

Lettuceeatlettuce, 6 days ago

I hope to God that RustDesk doesn’t get corrupted or enshitified because I absolutely love it.

Been using it for remote assistance at my workplace for about a year now and it’s been almost flawless. By far the most responsive and easy to use remote access solution I’ve used, (and I’ve used a lot.)

I use it with my family across the country to do remote support for their family computer too. It is small, lightweight, fast, handles multiple screens like a charm, and I don’t think I’ve ever had connection issues, even when on really slow network connections.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 6 days ago

And to add to this, if you want another overlay network solution like Tailscale that is fully Open source, Netbird is something to check out.

Lawrence Systems has some vids on their product, fully self-hostable 1st party control plane and Foss clients. Newer, smaller, not as well supported as Tailscale, but solid enough for homelabs and small biz solutions from what I’ve seen/read.

I’ve messed with both and each has their own strengths. Both solutions are really awesome though. Unless you need really high network performance, I feel like overlay networks are the way to go. Soooo much easier to setup and maintain than traditional ipsec tunnels or even OpenVPN firewall configs and manual routes.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 5 days ago

My ghost will haunt GoG’s corporate offices until they relent and transfer my games to the person who’s name I keep creepily spelling with frost on their mirrors & windows.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 12 days ago

The concern is for value though. Like, if I’m going to use a massive amount of power and water to compute, I should be considering value to humanity as a whole.

AI is being sold as that, but so far, it’s actually harming instead of helping. Supercomputing was helping pretty much right away.

I suppose you could argue that if general supercomputing was invented now, it would be used for just as superficial uses. Maybe the context of personal computing, the internet, and corpo interests shape that.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 13 days ago

The difference is that supercomputers by and large actually help humanity. They do things like help predict severe weather, help us understand mathematical problems, understand physics, develop new drug treatments, etc.

They are also primarily owned and funded by universities, scientific institutions, and public funding.

The modern push for ubiquitous corpo cloud platforms, SaaS, and AI training has resulted in massive pollution and environmental damage. For what? Mostly to generate massive profits for a small number of mega-corps, high level shareholders and ultra wealthy individuals, devalue and layoff workers, collect insane amounts of data to aid in mass surveillance and targeted advertising, and enshitify as much of the modern web as possible.

All AI research should be open source, federated, and accountable to the public. It should also be handled mostly by educational institutions, not for-profit companies. There should be no part of it that is allowed to be closed source or proprietary. No government should honor any copyright claims or cyber law protecting companies’ rights to not have their software hacked, decompiled, and code spread across the web for all to see and use as they see fit.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 5 days ago

First few months in IT? Welcome to hell…

I’m kidding (mostly), I’m in IT also and if you’re in for even a few years, you’ll start to build a collection of horror stories like this one. We’ve all seen things you wouldn’t believe.

So you need to have full buy-in from the owners. If you’re able to talk directly to them, then it sounds like this isn’t a huge company. If you clearly explain in a professional way to the owners the situation with documentation and they don’t fully support you, leave the company asap.

As somebody who has been involved in multiple ransomware recoveries, trust me…you don’t ever want to deal with a rogue unsecured machine on the network. And owners that don’t care or take that risk seriously are absolute fools and this will only be the tip of the iceberg of stupidity.

That computer is a ticking time bomb. Please for the love of God tell me that your boss doesn’t have local admin rights on his system.

If the only thing your boss uses that system for is to connect to a web app to manage inventory, why is he mad about switching from windows 7? Does he just like how windows 7 looks visually?

I guess it doesn’t really matter. Also, windows 10 isn’t a long term solution because it also goes EoL next year in October, so you’ll be in this same position in less than 2 years.

You can either go to Windows 11, or if you wanna be a little wild, install a Linux distro like Mint on there and theme it like Windows 7. You solve the security problem and he gets to pretend he’s still in the early 2010’s.

Honestly though, start looking for another job if the owners don’t support you 100%. IT is already a stressful and intense enough job, you don’t need stubborn idiots like your boss to add flavor.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 6 months ago

Not sure I buy this argument. I’ve been using Discord for many years, and on many platforms. Linux, Windows, Android, web client, Steam Deck.

I’m troubleshooting Discord for myself and my family/friends all the time. I would say me and my friends encounter Discord problems every few weeks.

Calls dropping, cutting out, not going through, failed notifications, server freezing, sync errors, content loading errors, file transfer errors, crashing of the app, audio devices not being detected, and more.

I think the issue is comfort. Discord isn’t a super polished and stable application, I’ve had to talk lots of my friends and family through random things in the settings because the interface is so confusing and cluttered depending on the page.

These are largely young adults who are fairly tech savvy, not old boomers.

The difference I think, is that because Discord is the default chat/voice app for gamers and general chatroom needs, people just get used to the jank.

Same is true of people who claim that Windows is so much more clean and stable than Linux and that’s why people don’t want to use Linux.

As an IT admin who has spent years supporting thousands of Windows machines at many different companies, I can assure you that Windows constantly has problems. I’m fighting with it all the damn time. The users I support constantly have problems that I have to figure out, many of which have nothing to do with user error.

If you grew up using a half-broken controller on your console, you know what I am talking about. Your friends refuse to use it, but you use it just fine because it’s the controller you are used to. You had hundreds if not thousands of hours getting used to it’s quirks, so you don’t notice them anymore.

The moment you experience a new platform and encounter an issue, your brain flags it as a huge annoyance, because you’re not used to dealing with it and you don’t know the work around or fix for it yet.

Not saying Matrix doesn’t have big issues, it does, but the reason people aren’t flocking to it are not due to Discord being so stable and easy to use/navigate. It’s because it’s the standard that millions of people are used to, thus they just accept it and figure it out and eventually hardly notice the problems anymore.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 7 days ago

I was gunna say, I thought this was already canon.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 15 days ago

Not FOSS? Byeee!

Lettuceeatlettuce, 1 month ago

Now try it again but give yourself amnesia so you don’t have any prior knowledge of skills or lessons learned from before.

Give yourself a severe drug and/or alcohol addiction for several years so you develop chronic health problems and hardcore substance dependence.

Experience enough traumatic events that you develop some severe form of mental illness, preferably multiple at the same time.

Destroy all your contacts from your former life, don’t record anything or log anything because you can’t have any permanent support group. Surround yourself only with people as or more desperate than you.

Make sure your social problems have caused you to rack up a significant number of criminal charges, bonus points for felonies that stay on your record for all to see if anybody even considers hiring you.

Now you’re close to experiencing what many homeless folks’ lives are actually like. This guy’s “experiment” is asinine. Just another sigma grindset bootstrap husk social influencer who has no idea what it is actually like to have nothing.

His conclusion is that people are homeless because why? They aren’t grinding hard enough? Because they aren’t putting in the hours? Because they just don’t really want it bad enough? Miss me with that bullshit.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 5 days ago

We could do something like their face with one of those circles with a line through it.

If we didn’t want it to be of an actual person or company, we could do a picture of an old fashioned top hat with a line through it.

Idk.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 6 days ago

Tankies get spankies.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 5 days ago

All the above. Full gaming desktop for editing video, 3D modeling, and hardcore gaming. Laptop for travel needs, home lab administration, and side business use. Steam deck for portable/casual gaming.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 5 days ago

…For now…

Lettuceeatlettuce, 7 days ago

I’m pretty sure they have removed this recently.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 7 days ago

I know some folks on the SysAdmin discord mentioned it wasn’t working for them anymore. It also stopped working for me about 2 months ago. (I work in IT and set to up new computers fairly often)

But looking online real quick, several sources including Tom’s Hardware claim it still works. So I’m not sure what’s going on with it. Maybe your milage may vary?

Lettuceeatlettuce, 5 days ago

Go easy on them, they’re only a 3 trillion dollar company. It’s hard for them to get the resources to build well thought out and secure software.

Pathetic, so glad I’ve been on Linux for years. I don’t miss Micro$oft one bit.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 14 days ago

When writing on paper, I will sometimes think, “Ctrl + Z” to undo an errant pen stroke lol.

Lettuceeatlettuce, 2 months ago

Yeah, watched a few vids with this guy…not interested. He doesn’t believe in FOSS, he talks about Linux, MacOS, and Windows all being dumpster fires, but his solution is to build his own OS from scratch, using Latin…and run it on a Chinese RISC-V board that he is charging people $200 and doesn’t open source the hardware or software.

Has hardcore TempleOS vibes, the difference is that this guy seems to take himself and his idea way too seriously. And his defense of why he thinks all modern mainstream OSes are doomed is…nothing. He doesn’t give any. He literally says in his interview that, “it should be obvious, if you can’t see it, you’re just blind I guess.” Slight paraphrase, but you get the gist. He backs that statement up by talking about how Discord screen share crashes a bunch on his Linux distro.

Joined his Discord, saw a several people talking about how great Latin is and had a bunch of weird Roman empire theming, idk, just not great vibes.