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tulpa

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Long-time Linux / BSD user
DevOps / Sysadmin
Anarchist (billionaires are bad)
Asexual (will not lewd)
40s, he/him, USA
Will scare you with infosec talk
Hopes to be a nice and kind person

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

tulpa, to random
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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, to random
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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, to fedora
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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.

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Heading to Blockbuster, what should I pick up?

tulpa,
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@foo Something for busting blocks.

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

tulpa,
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I decided to try #XFCE. I didn't like it. Font rendering was harder to read than on MATE. Changing the color scheme made the desktop icon names unreadable. Settings were hard to find or didn't behave as I expected. The clock text is really hard to read because it's so small. The panel volume icon says 25% (correctly) while pavucontrol says 0%. Probably some other things I'm forgetting.

OTOH, nothing actually crashed or broke. It's usable in a pinch.

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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.

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

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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".

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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

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is experimenting with support, using to replace its WM component.

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

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Is #Flatpak the future of desktop Linux packaging? Or will it turn out to be short-lived?

tulpa, to random
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OpenBSD release day, lots of people talking about how great it is. Fedora release day, same. Debian release day, same again. I'm cool with that. (Arch and Void people don't get to have these days, I feel bad for them.)

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    tulpa,
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    @grueproof My boss does that. I can always tell, because he's never that polite when he phrases it himself.

    tulpa, to random
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    Having extensively used both, I like Spotify better than YouTube Music. Spotify's metadata is much cleaner, with bands identified properly instead of combining two bands with the same name or splitting one band into two entries. And hands down Spotify's recommendations are so much better. YT always wants to push me toward more mainstream stuff, for no reason I can find.

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    My #OpenBSD 7.5 shirt arrived today.

    tulpa, to random
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    Apparently the way to disable the write-protection on a modern Chromebook is to remove the battery and run it on AC until the firmware is replaced. Just annoying enough to deter anyone who doesn't really want to replace the OS.

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    So many password reset processes are trivially easy to abuse or defeat.

    tulpa, to random
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    If someone with a European name tells you a food is spicy, maybe you don't have to take it seriously. But if someone with an Indian name says it's spicy, you'd better believe it.

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    @grueproof The joke's on you, I don't write any!

    tulpa, to random
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    I had that dream again, where I was missing some requirement to graduate from high school, and would have to go back and do it, before anybody found out. I finished high school over 25 years ago, you would think this would stop at some point.

    tulpa, to random
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    I dreamed that I was mowing my parents' grass. But for some reason I had to do it walking backward and pulling the mower after me the whole way. I mowed the flowers.

    tulpa, to random
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    I think maybe we've collectively gone too far with the anti-AI stance here. There do seem to be a few things it's good for. But we automatically hate on it any time it appears.

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    Why is the 7.5 artwork a reference to Ozymandius? What's the story behind that?

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