tulpa

tulpa, 16 days ago to random

I'm starting to feel like Fedi has become just another place for people to talk online. Which is to say, we talk at each other instead of to each other. Lots of politics, announcements, and complaining. I guess that happened when we finally achieved critical mass.

tulpa, 17 days ago to random

Quite often, the primary reason for wanting something is that someone tells you that you should. I hate it.

tulpa, 23 days ago to random

It would be interesting if MS "Recall" was finally the straw that breaks the camel's back. That mainstream users would finally rebel against continuing to use Windows. But in reality, I don't think anything can reach the average Windows PS user. They won't even be aware of it, let alone be moved to care. And the enterprise customers will probably just ask for, and get, a version that doesn't include Recall.

tulpa, 25 days ago to debian

if you install #Debian with #XFCE, you get the xfce4-goodies package, which means you get xfburn. LOL, CD burning. I don't even have an optical drive in this machine.

"What year is it?"

tulpa, 26 days ago to infosec

In #infosec people like to talk about "defense in depth". In other kinds of (non-computer) security, I never hear about that philosophy.

tulpa, 26 days ago to debian

I think maybe #Debian 12 with #XFCE is literally perfect for me. And that's without doing anything in terminals, only clicking around in GUI settings. I didn't even have to install any additional packages.

tulpa, 1 month ago to Pittsburgh

People who are in #Pittsburgh for #PyConUS: There are some nice places to visit while you're here.

National Aviary is my favorite: https://www.aviary.org/

Phipps Conservatory is nice too: https://www.phipps.conservatory.org/

The convention center is in the cultural district, so walk around nearby.

If you like to shop at fun places, especially food, check out the Strip District. Just outside of downtown.

There are also the Carnegie Museums: https://carnegiemuseums.org/

#pycon

tulpa, 1 month ago to random

8am, sweatpants and a sweater. 2pm, shorts and a t-shirt.

tulpa, 1 month ago to random

The valuable computer experiences are the ones where you learn something. The really valuable ones are where you learn something about yourself instead of the computer. Like, you don't actually like a feature that you thought you did.

tulpa, 1 month ago to random

A parody of the famous Sphinx riddle: What runs on OpenBSD in the morning, Debian at noon, and Fedora in the evening? (My desktop, yesterday.)

tulpa, 1 month ago to random

It seems to me that most musicians do their most compelling work in their early to mid careers. After many years, things tend to go flat.

tulpa, 1 month ago to random

The advantage of a relatively simple system like #OpenBSD is that you have a good chance to understand it.

The advantage of a turnkey system like Fedora, Ubuntu, or Debian, is that you can get away without understanding it.

tulpa, 1 month ago to random

There are some people on here who I like, but can't stand to follow, because they post too many hot takes that turn out to not be accurate.

tulpa, 1 month ago to random

There's not really any way to do no-nonsense computing, because there's just too much nonsense to avoid.

tulpa, 1 month ago to random

Waiting for the plumber to call me is sort of like being on call. Except that I'm the user and not the sysadmin.

tulpa, 1 month ago to random

The igniter on my tankless water heater just died. I have no hot water for a shower. That's my day ruined.

tulpa, 1 month ago to random

Even though we were all taught the value of the scientific method as kids in school, it seems to me that people mostly prefer to have hunches and opinions, just as they always have, rather than data and evidence.

This is about epistemology, not politics. When I ask a factual question, I want to get a justified answer. If you give me ungrounded thoughts about it, I hope you qualify them as such.

tulpa, 1 month ago to random

Name your least favorite things about something you love.

#OpenBSD:

• no TRIM or journaling FS
• no Widevine CDM (bad Google)
• hard to print
• small project, not enough ports committers to do stable security for ports really well
• sound quality is odd? not sure?
• no ext4 or LUKS support (Linux stuff, ok)

tulpa, 1 month ago to fedora

The fact that #UniversalBlue exists and provides a valuable service just proves that #Fedora Atomic makes it too hard for sysadmins to customize their installs. Because what they are doing is mostly just changing which packages get installed in the base image.

tulpa, 1 month ago to xfce

I've noticed that #XFCE seems to be more popular than #MATE. Why might that be? I've always chosen MATE.

tulpa, 1 month ago to random

I was looking at buying a couple of books, and saw they're cheaper new in paperback than they are on Kindle. That's silly, so I bought the paperbacks.

tulpa, 1 month ago to random

Is #Kagi actually any good? Because at this point, I find "general knowledge" questions impossible to answer with DDG.

tulpa, 1 month ago to random

I now have no books to read. But for now, I'm happy about it. I was tired of that one I just finished being on my todo list for so long.

When I want to read again, I think it'll be the history book "1491".

tulpa, 1 month ago to music

This is some interesting "cosmic" black metal that I'm just discovering: https://labyrinthusstellarum.bandcamp.com/album/vortex-of-the-worlds

@array This would probably appeal to the part of you that likes Khonsu.

#music

tulpa, 1 month ago to random

#MATE is experimenting with #Wayland support, using #Wayfire to replace its WM component.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-wayland-session