@prologic@twtxt.net oh dear! 😬😩
Made this awful mistake of not doing pre-prep work before going away on our next camper trip (now). Discovered this morning that some (idiot) person had turned off the power to the camper trailer and the battery was basically dead. I just hope it’s not “dead dead”. We plan to leave after 4hrs of Bulk Charge from the mains power and it’s internal battery charger and hope for the best. I’m also brining a spare 12.8V LifePo4 battery that is basically full to power the fridge, just in case. Fark I’m an idiot 🤦♂️
@mckinley@twtxt.net He likes it enough which is good. The painful part is some OSS software just really sucks ass 😢 He’s found it particularly hard to find a decent “document” editor/tool he likes. He’s stuck with Abiword for now, but it’s not the most polished ir easiest to use. It also saves things in a really weird non-portable? format?
@prologic@twtxt.net Nice. I hope he likes it.
@mckinley@twtxt.net Ubuntu
@prologic@twtxt.net What does he use now?
@mckinley@twtxt.net Agreed. I’m just glad my dad has finally gotten out of the Windows ecosystem 😅
@sorenpeter@darch.dk a poem about me giving Odo a free bucket:
A glint in his eye, a sly, Ferengi grin,
Quark crossed the promenade, a curious thing within.
No jeweled trinket, no weapon so grand,
But a simple pail held tight in his hand.Odo, the Constable, with a brow raised high,
“A bucket, Quark? What trickery do you try?”
The Ferengi huckster, with a salesman’s flair,
“A gift, my friend, a constable’s rare!”“For those late-night spills, a morphing mishap,
This bucket, dear Odo, will catch every scrap.
And should a suspect turn to goop and flee,
This pail’s the answer, a guarantor, you see!”Odo’s lips twitched, a hint of a smile,
At Quark’s twisted logic, his mercantile style.
“Perhaps,” he conceded, the bucket held tight,
“A useful addition, in the pursuit of right.”So Quark made his sale, with a wink and a nod,
A bucket for Odo, a Ferengi oddity, odd.
But on Deep Space Nine, where chaos takes hold,
Even a pail can be worth more than gold.
About the account, thanks, but I already have way too many. :-D
@sorenpeter@darch.dk Done
you need to send an email @quark@ferengi.one if you want an account. I know that might be very profitable. Maybe Odo can disclose it if I give him a new bucket.
@mckinley@twtxt.net I haven’t touched PHP for years. I am not about to dirty my hands now. It looks… decent. ;-)
@bender@anthony.buc.ci Check out https://darch.dk/timeline/, it’s an honest-to-goodness Yarn-like Web UI. Very impressive, @darch@neotxt.dk. Do you want it listed on groovy-twtxt?
@bender@twtxt.net ha! He goes his “poem”:
A string of letters, a forgotten name,
An email crafted, a message to claim.
We hit send with a click, a hopeful sigh,
But a bounce-back arrives, a tear in our eye.“Delivery failed,” the message reads cold,
The address it seems, is a story untold.
A ghost in the system, a memory’s trace,
Lost in the void of cyberspace.
:-D
I do see you @bender@twtxt.net and I fixed the email routing now. Please try to resubmit your poem.
He will not see this, so it seems. That twt was pretty much a telegram, without sender address. LOL.
Break a leg! Below a proof that no start goes always smooth:
poem@neotxt.dk: host route1.mx.cloudflare.net[162.159.205.11] said: 550 5.1.1
Address does not exist. 4mZ3ZDn1GNg0 (in reply to RCPT TO command)
@mckinley@twtxt.net Nice one. :-)
@prologic@twtxt.net You’re right, but they’re not going to stop until people vote with their wallets.
@bender@twtxt.net I’m not suggesting that people should use an old Windows version to avoid this. I’m saying that Windows in general should be considered a legacy operating system, and continued usage will only make you subject to more of this tracking and unnecessary garbage.
In other words, the situation will never improve. It will only get worse from here, so you might as well get out now while there are still plenty of life boats. Otherwise, when they do something that’s really over the line, you either have to go along with it or dive right into the cold ocean.
Windows is only kept alive at this point by a lack of knowledge about the alternatives, apathy, fear, and some enterprise software and games with support in Wine improving by the day.
I’m closing down neotxt.dk as a yarn pod. It will instead offer hosting of timeline or what ever other php stuff you want to run. To get started send me a poem to poem@neotxt.dk
@mckinley@twtxt.net which one would you call a legacy operating system? If referring to a previous Microsoft Windows OS, it will not be legacy for long. Granted, it might during our lifetime, but I tend to look (and often worry) a bit further.
This whole “data commodity” has gone too far.
@mckinley@twtxt.net Well yes, true, but not my primary point. Microsoft really needs to pull their head out of their ass. Toyota, BMW, Samsung and even Apple to some extent. Companies need to understand a basic economic rule: If a customer buys your product X, they really don’t expect to have to pay for (useless) service Y in order to use product X. I’m looking at you BMW and Toyota, both have attempted to do this and somewhat failed at a consumer level. I wonder why 🤦♂️
Now Microsoft?! C’mon. For fuck’s sake. If I buy a new “today” computer of some kind. I expect to be able to use it “offline” if I want. I’m not going to be forced into paying for a subscription or handing over all my personal information to some stupid tech company that has no business whatsoever treating me as “their product”.
@mckinley@twtxt.net LOL Nice 😊
@prologic@twtxt.net Only if you stick with legacy operating systems
Cutting edge server monitoring from McKinley Labs: Detect when the heavy compute task on my server is done and play a sound on my laptop
ssh server 'while true; do test $(</proc/loadavg cut -d . -f 1) -lt 10 && break; sleep 10; done' && qmpv sound.opus
If this goes ahead, it will really give new meaning to “PC ownership” 🤬
Like none whatsoever 🤦♂️
lack the words in any of the languages I know to describe the utter disdain I have for this.
How about “fuck off Microsoft” 🤣 Or even “get the fuck out”🤣
Microsoft’s new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says Intel
Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and AMD have all been pushing the idea of an “AI PC” for months now as we head toward more AI-powered features in Windows. While we’re still waiting to hear the finer details from Microsoft on its big plans for AI in Windows, Intel has started sharing Microsoft’s requirements for OEMs to build an AI PC — and one of the main ones is that an AI PC must have Microsoft’s Copilot … ⌘ Read more
Avec du retard j’écoute les #fdr de <@fredg@pouet.chapril.org>, je découvre avec plaisir HIRAE, ça soulage un truc coincé dans l’estomac: https://galusik.fr/log/2024-02-16-frm.txt
@sorenpeter@darch.dk Crazy, huh? 😅 One of the most unique bands that I know. I love it. 😅
It’s the second time, @movq@www.uninformativ.de. Not the XFS filesystem driver anymore this time, though. Luckily, with my experience from last time it was rather easy today – once we finally managed to reproduce it. cat /proc/<PID>/{syscall,stack}
were absolute key again, thank you very, very much dear Linux kernel hackers for these absolutely wonderful tools! The only tricky part left is figuring out why that actually happens.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Enjoy your thick egg slices. :-)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org You hit those often? 🤔
Hurray, yet another bug where a process is not killable and hangs forever in an uninterruptible system call…
Let’s not forget that this gem exists: Primus - Mr. Krinkle 🐷🎶 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOdo7dhvSwg #NowPlaying
wall
this morning as we were both on the same server investigating something... it's the best chat client haha
@hecanjog@hecanjog.com That is pretty cool 👌
@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Well, I see no issue with this personally 😅
I ban all forms of social media in our household 🤣
Adults and visitors included! 🤣
@shreyan@twtxt.net Good! 👌
Looking forward to the extra long weekend coming up 🤞
How about the you?
“As HANNO says, ‘My music is a universal hymn to the primitive pain and pleasure of being human’”
Hello! How is everyone?
Florida Braces For Lawsuits Over Law Banning Kids From Social Media
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, Florida became the first state to ban kids under 14 from social media without parental permission. It appears likely that the law – considered one of the most restrictive in the US – will face significant legal challenges, however, before taking effect on January 1. Under HB … ⌘ Read more
I now own a guitar again.
Switching between my upright bass and that thing is a wild ride. The difference in string gauges is so massive. 🥴 Feels like trying to play on an egg slicer.
My coworker started chatting over wall
this morning as we were both on the same server investigating something… it’s the best chat client haha
@prologic@twtxt.net yup, that is, sadly, what’s happening. It is making the “discover” worthless for my (and @mckinley@twtxt.net) use case.
Je recherche une veste zip au thème solarpunk : vous auriez des suggestions d’où en trouver? #solarpunk
John Wall didn’t own a sampler until he was 40. Life can go ways, it’s good to remember.
Sweet little squirrel skittering across the telephone lines in the snow, not slipping too much
Whenever I write O_RDWR
it makes me think of Martin Crane
Nouvel article, ‘Mon fils m’a envoyé un courrier’ : https://si3t.ch/log/2024-03-24-mon-fils-m-a-envoye-un-courrier.txt #solarpunk #fiction
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org It’s just a simple config file subscriptions.yaml
for me and the program run on a cron. This basically lets me subscribe to, download and keep in sync various channels I’m interested in and store them wherever I want. The nice thing is the output format / presets are done in such a way as to support media servers like Plex or Jellyfin out-of-the-box.